The New Klan
Sunday, October 18th, 2009More recently, when Democrat Warren Ballentine told Juan Williams to go back to the porch, people hardly noticed the blatant racial attack. But if we consider Ballentine’s unwavering support for the political party that opposed the end of slavery and empowered the Ku Klux Klan to enforce Jim Crow and opposed passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (and 16 other Republican-sponsored civil rights bills for more than 100 years), Ballentine shapes up as something less than the civil rights advocate he claims to be. If we consider his defense of the political party that continues to cripple and kill black children in Democrat-controlled ghettos and multi-billion dollar school districts throughout the US, Ballentine’s epithet becomes as perverse as Cooper’s tea-bag joke. To give legitimacy to both, androgynies like Janeane Garofalo and Richard Belzer shape the epithets into crosses that the media burns on websites, newspapers and television sets throughout America.
As members of the New Klan, Cooper, Ballentine, Garofalo, Belzer and their cohorts have replaced their white sheets and pointy hats with a crazy quilt of racial, sexual and social alchemy. Anonymized by their new hoods, these Klansmen defend their pathologies by attacking legitimate questions as examples of intolerance toward larger populations of responsible Americans, which the pro-Klan media claims they represent. In this way, shrews like Garofalo evoke suffrage and heterophobes conjure bigotry, while Ballentine attacks Juan Williams from the comfort of the Democrat Party’s front porch.
As America’s most unrepentant Republican, Rush Limbaugh has become the Klan’s most hated enemy. When he declared his hope to buy a football team this week, the Klansmen mobilized for Limbaugh’s lynching. Like Bob Ewell’s charges against Tom Robinson, the Klansmen assumed that their riot could force a hanging regardless of Limbaugh’s innocence. If Limbaugh was the racist they claim, the evidence would be as easy to find as Jeremiah Wright and the Klan would not have needed to fake their evidence. Despite the thousands of recorded radio broadcasts and speeches, the New Klan produced nothing more than unproven lies and an opinion that was a dangerous as Mayella’s kiss.
When NFL Players Association Director DeMaurice Smith learned of Limbaugh’s intent, the former Obama advisor joined the lynch mob that attacked Limbaugh as an unapologetic racist while other Klansmen cheered them on. As the cross burned on Limbaugh’s front lawn, Juan Williams stepped forward to douse the flames.
Like Republicans and ex-slaves who dared to defend themselves from the old Klan, Limbaugh and Williams were lynched as a warning to those who expose the Party for what it has always been. On this 150th anniversary of John Brown’s attack at Harper’s Ferry, America is witness to a Democrat Party that has transformed itself from the bigoted and segregationist organization it once was into a political party that no longer prohibits house Negroes, tea-baggers and deranged women from joining their Klan.
As the New Klan celebrates their androgynous multi-colored tea-baggers, it will be hard to forget how the content of Dr. Williams’ character outshined them all.