Clay Waters (NewsBusters co-worker) has observed this week. The New York Times has spent front page space playing the race card, showcasing the paper’s systemic racism.
It has, of course.
The Supreme Court nominee for Judge Ketanji Jackson Brown Jackson is proceeding. Times instinctively reacting to what has been a decidedly civilized hearing with what can only be called the paper’s decided systemic racism. You Times headlined:
G.O.P. Judges Race and Crime Judging a Judge on Race and Crime, G.O.P.
Grilling Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, conservative senators painted her as a jurist who had coddled criminals and embraced “woke” education.
Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican senator had the nerve to do it! – to question Brown Jackson on her views of the decidedly racist “Critical Race Theory” and “insinuate that she was soft on child sexual abuse” the TimesContinue reading:
Texas Republican was clear in his message: Black women vying to be a judge on the supreme court of the land will, according to Mr. Cruz, enable criminals to get away with it, and pedophiles can continue their abuse. White people would then view them as oppressors.
Cruz’s “message” had zero to do with Brown Jackson being, as the Times described her “A Black woman.” Cruz’s point had everything to do with left-wing jurisprudence. This is a very long-standing issue between right and left that has nothing to do with race. It has been brought up in Court nominations involving white nominees as well as the question of crime.
Remember Ted Kennedy, then-Massachusetts Democrat and famously infamous? 1987 speech denouncing the conservative, white Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, with Kennedy saying “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which….rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids.”
Which is to say, the liberal complaint was that the conservative Bork was so tough on crime that he would enthusiastically support “rogue police (who) could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids.” The Cruz concern – the conservative concern about the liberal Judge Brown Jackson and any other liberal Court nominee of any color – is the reverse. The concern being that, in this case, Brown Jackson is, as the long-ago phrase from the 1960’s Nixon-era had it about liberals of the day, “soft on crime.”
It has nothing to with race. Crime comes in every color and race. Woven into American cultural legend is Mario Puzo’s 1969 bestselling classic The GodfatherThe story centers on Vito Corleone, a fictional Mafia leader. The Corleone family was, of course, lily white – as, in reality, were the real Italian Mafioso’s of the day. (And by the way, this past week- March 24th – marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the iconic movie version. It was a classic, both then and today.
Only last December of 2020, Fox News featured a story about the famous and decidedly white Mafioso Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, described by Fox as “the underboss of the Gambino crime family, the No. 2 to John Gotti.”
Race is not an issue in the slightest. This is because the Left, and the Democratic Party specifically, has been constructed on racism as a culture. This is systemic racism at its best. According to history, the Democratic Party was started by slave owners. Read the first six Democrat presidential platforms (1840-1860) and there, plain as day, is the party’s open endorsement of slavery. A majority of its members in the House and Senate voted against Republican Abraham Lincoln’s Thirteenth Amendment that abolished slavery, not to mention voting against the Fourteenth – which gave the freed slaves due process – and the Fifteenth, which gave blacks the right to vote. After the Civil War it was the Democrats who instituted segregation, building the entire racist framework of “Jim Crow Laws.” In today’s 21st century America, it is Democrats insisting on support for the son-of-segregation known as “identity politics” – in which all Americans are to be judged by race.
Joe Biden is a notorious practitioner of systemic racism among Democrats. Who can forget that in the 2020 campaign it was Democrat Biden telling the African American radio host Charlamagne tha God that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Which is to say, Biden is the epitome of the white liberal belief that if you are black you must stay on the liberal plantation – or you “ain’t black.”
That, in sum, is exactly why the Left hated Clarence Thomas’s nomination for the Supreme Court, and ditto the Bush 43 nomination of the black Judge Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit Court. These were black people, not liberals. They were evicted from the liberal plantation and wanted to be defeated. Joe Biden filibustered Brown, twice.
This exactly is the main message in that headline story on the Times. The centrality of race and systemic racism was and is still central to our society. TimesIt is the exact opposite of what you see in this video. Timescolumn about Ted Cruz and how the GOP handled the nomination for Brown Jackson.
There are also The New York PostIn July 2020, Michael Goodwin (ex-Timesman and Post columnist) recalled in great detail how important racism was to his life. Times culture. Goodwin’s headline:
Why New York Times praises ‘cancel culture’ but skips over its own racist history
Goodwin started by telling the Times that American presidents are carved into stone on Mt. Rushmore were racists, including the slave owning Washington and Jefferson, and labeling Lincoln as “ ‘reluctant and late’ to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and (Theodore) Roosevelt ‘actively sought to Christianize and uproot Native Americans.’”
Goodwin then lays out TimesA long and proud history of systematic racism.
The Times, however has not applied its historical standards to its own history. If it did, reporters there would learn that the Ochs-Sulzberger family that has owned and run the paper for 125 years has a “complicated legacy” of its own.
That legacy includes Confederates in the closet — men and at least one woman who supported the South and slavery during the Civil War. Adolph S. Ochs, Times patriarch, contributed money to Stone Mountain and other Confederate monuments that the Times finds offensive.
…Ten years after he (Times founding publisher Adolph Ochs) took over The New York Times, it ran a glowing profile of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. The 1906 article was billed as a “Celebration of the Davis Centenary” and was published on “the anniversary of the great Southern leader’s death.
There’s more there – oh so much more.
However, the core of the space is the reason The New York TimesThe reason why the Brown Jackson nominating process is a racist story is that it is racist for the both of them. Times itself, not to mention the Democratic Party and, in this case, the Democrat president Biden who nominated her, race and systemic racism is now and always has been at the very core of both the paper’s culture and the party’s culture.
When they point fingers at Republicans, when the paper plays with the race card, they automatically admit who they really were and what their true motivations are: systemic racism.
It’s not good.
However, it is not unusual.
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