[Sosfbay-discuss] Meet Nachum Shifren, Republican Candidate for SD 26 in Los Angeles

[alexcathy at aol.com]

 In response to my post, Gerry Gras wrote: 

 

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From: Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
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Hmm is this any worse than the original George Wallace, 
Strom thurmond, Jesse Helms, etcetera? 
 
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I am glad you asked that question, Gerry.  As a matter of fact, I think he is worse.  

I grew up in the South, and I'm afraid some well-meaning people are... prejudiced against Southerners.  For a half century, even on the Far Left, we've operated as if there is nothing worst than an old Southern White "Kraka" in hoods and sheets.  Truth is, even in the "Bad Old days" the whole South was not Alabama or Mississippi.  This wild rhetoric we've heard in California for more than a decade about "illegal aliens invading our country" is every bit as ugly as anything I ever heard back in 1950s Virginia. 

Strom Thurmond and George Wallace never insinuated that "minorities" were actually running the country.  They viewed the civil rights movement as "Communist inspired" and supported by hypocritical Yankee politicians courting black votes in cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

One of the weird things about political extremists is their tendency to imitate their worst extremist enemies.  Thus, "Rabbi" Shifren's "rap" about multiculturalism wrecking America and Obama as "apresident whose disdain for America is not lost on our students" is eerily similar to Dolchstoss im Rücken -- the myth that the German military had not been defeated in World War I, but that Germany had been "stabbed in the back" by a conspiracy of powerful Jews, socialists, and other traitorous liberals.  So-called non-Hispanic "White" are no longer a majority in California.  Nevertheless, all  mainstream politicians and pundits even in cities like Los Angeles and San Jose routinely refer to anyone not "White" as "minority" and all mainstream politicians and pundits routinely enable the rantings of demagogues like Shifren solely because he enjoys the "respectable" imprimatur of the Republican half of our sainted 2-party system.  Now, you can read what I've written on any good "liberal" web site.  The thing that makes me seem "crazy" to some folks is that I am one of the few African-American activists who also thinks the utterly immoral and cynical race-based politics of the Democrats in the cities shares half the blame for this disaster and that "liberal" Democrats half-assed clichés about racism, "white privilege" and such from the Democrat-loving "Left"  are not part of the solution but part of the problem. 

Alex Walker
Los Angeles Greens
 

 
 
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