RSSOutrages and Something Else
Gene Lalor | January 28, 2011
There are outrages and then there are outrages.
If you want outrage, more specifically cause for outrage, then take former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin who has been the subject of incessant attacks ever since Sen. John McCain chose her for his VP running mate in 2008.
Demonstrating its gut fear of Palin and what she represents, decency and Christian values, America’s left has been on a media-supported vendetta against her from Day One with charges of ineptitude, stupidity, and worse. Those charges have been led by such proven inept and stupid MSM commentators as Keith Olbermann, Katie Couric, and Chris Matthews and have been supplemented by snide comments from White House operatives.
Eager to let the Left know they’re in the fold, Leno and Letterman also rarely let a night go by without Palin jabs which titillate their audiences into paroxysms of laughter.
Still, sometimes, indeed often, liberals go beyond the pale in their attempts to derogate and demean Sarah Palin.
“30 Rock” actor Tracy Morgan went there on national television. With Alec Baldwin as a co-star on that show, it’s almost understandable that Morgan would be repulsive but he even exceeded that low standard when he said Sarah Palin was “good masturbation material:” http://tiny.cc/8r39f
I wonder how the MSM and the White House would have reacted to that line had it referred to Michelle Obama instead of to Sarah Palin.
On a different note which relates to Tracy Morgan, the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding segregation under the separate but equal premise was overturned by the another landmark decision fifty eight years later, Brown v. Board of Education. “Brown” ruled that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the ruling which launched the civil rights movement in America.
Fifty seven years down the line, McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, PA effectively threw out “Brown” and reinstituted a limited form of racial segregation.
McCaskey East didn’t exactly begin wholesale segregation. It merely “separates black students from the rest of the school pupils, and then further breaks it down into black females and black males. The separation is only for a short period–six minutes each day and 20 minutes twice a month,” which was sufficient to arouse voices of outrage over segregation.
McCaskey’s Hispanic principal, Bill Jimenez, while admitting that only blacks were being divided by race, defended the plan saying, after reviewing academic data, that ”the school noticed that black students were not performing as well as other students, and that research had shown that same-race classes with strong same-race role models led to better academic results,” mandating “a different approach” in the interests of the school’s black students.
Foul, cried unidentified race-baiters according to a Daily Mail article. They criticized the plan on the basis of “the spectre of racial segregation.” No mention was made and no solutions were offered by the critics of the McCaskey data that showed a third of blacks were proficient or advanced in reading versus 60% of whites, that 27% of blacks were proficient or advanced in math, and that many were failing gym: http://tiny.cc/n5yco
Evidently, there are more important issues to race-baiters than black academic success, issues such as race-baiting. Maybe Tracy Morgan could also get off by thinking about black ”material” in McCaskey East High School? Maybe outrage should be confined to personal, outrageous attacks?
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