White, Liberal Tool Jason Collins Marches In Boston's Gay Pride Parade

Since most black Americans can't or don't want to think for themselves (which is why they vote overwhelmingly Democratic), they make for fine pickings for the anti-God, white, liberal agenda that serves one purpose: destroy Christianity by all means--a dogma well-suited for the ignorant, naive or just plain stupid. And that includes Jason Collins, an unknown bench player who toiled for years in the NBA who suddenly became famous after he announced to the world that he has sex with men in his private life. Once engaged to a woman for 9 years, Collins has righted himself as the "first active" openly gay NBA player and is now enjoying all the acclaim and notoriety that comes with publicly serving the devil. But hey being a tool for the Godless sure beats living a life in relative obscurity:

NBA veteran Jason Collins has marched in Boston's gay pride parade with Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy III, his onetime roommate at Stanford University.

Collins wore a T-shirt that read #BeTrue when he joined thousands of marchers Saturday.

In April, Collins became the first active player in one of the four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay. He wrote in an article for Sports Illustrated that the decision to go public came when Kennedy marched in last year's parade and Collins didn't feel that he could join him.

Collins also said the Boston Marathon bombing reinforced the notion that things can change in an instant, so he might as well live truthfully.

Collins played for six teams in 12 seasons and becomes a free agent next month.

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White Privilege And First Lady Michelle Obama’s White, Liberal, Lesbian Heckler

A point that I've been trying to make for years: how white liberals seem to think that they aren't held by the same bounds of white privilege (something black people in this country esp. need to be hip to) as their white, conservative (i.e. "RACIST!!!" counterparts. Leave it to someone I never agree with, far-Left writer (and noted Obama apologist) Tommy Christopher over at Mediaite, to point this out in regards to the recent Michelle Obama heckling incident:

The mainstream media’s narrative about First Lady Michelle Obama‘s handling of a heckler has largely been positive, but has also ignored the role of race in the incident, and its aftermath. Online, however, protester Ellen Sturtz and her supporters have been taking criticism over their perceived sense that interrupting Michelle Obama is not only something they’re entitled to do, but that Mrs. Obama somehow should have welcomed. The source of that sense of entitlement, the theory goes, is white privilege.

It’s no wonder that this facet of the heckling incident has been ignored by the mainstream media. White privilege is even more elusive to them than barely-coded racism, because the mainstream media’s point of view is overwhelmingly white. White privilege is like Palmolive; most white people don’t even know they’re soaking in it until Madge tells them they are, and even then, they don’t believe it. That denial is only strengthened when the person is, themselves, part of a persecuted minority.

In this case, Ellen Sturtz exercised her First Amendment right to interrupt Michelle Obama during a speech, and her right to do so is not in question. Whether it was a good idea is a separate question. She was agitating for an executive order banning discrimination by federal contractors, which can arguably be seen as an incremental step in the direction of the Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA). As a beneficiary of straight white privilege, I can only offer my opinion, of limited value, that President Obama seems to have demonstrated that in his case, executive action tends to energize opposition. Patiently pursuing a durable solution instead has tended to work out better. Once again, that’s easy for me to say, since I already have the right to marry, and not be fired over my sexual identity, with the added bonus of ready access to taxicabs.
Also separate from this equation is the wisdom of targeting one of the most well-liked women in the country (despite years of vicious, unquestionably racial attacks by detractors), who is married to the president who has accomplished more for gay rights than any other in history. Throwing glitter on Michele Bachmann may not be all that effective, but at least it makes sense. On the other hand, we’re talking about the issue (although we should be pressing for ENDA, not an executive order), and even allies need to be pressed. From a PR standpoint, though, Mrs. Obama was the wrong choice.

What’s rankling many is Ellen Sturtz’s reaction to Michelle Obama’s kinda badass handling of her heckling. Unlike President Obama, who has a tendency to humor hecklers, sometimes to an absurd degree (Medea Benjamin‘s extended rant reminded me of nothing so much as Will Ferrell‘s Austin Powers character complaining at length about how badly burned he was), the First Lady enacted an instant referendum. Here’s how PolicyMic’s Lauren Rankin described Sturtz’s reaction:

The crowd responded with support for the First Lady while Sturtz was escorted out. And that’s where, if the First Lady was a white woman, the incident would have likely ended. But of course, Michelle Obama is not a white woman.

When interviewed after being escorted out of the fundraiser, Sturtz said of the First Lady, “She came right down in my face. I was taken aback.” Interesting. Sturtz assumed that because the First Lady is supposed to be the embodiment of grace and cool, that she should stand at her lectern and silently endure what she felt was blatant disrespect. Instead, Michelle Obama decided that she had had enough and instead of shouting from across the room, spoke to Sturtz face-to-face and demanded respect. I can’t help but think that if Hillary Clinton or Laura Bush had done the same, that we would all be nodding our heads in support of the First Lady defining how she wishes to be treated.

Rankin went on to point out the reactions of other liberals to the First Lady’s response:

The response has revealed the troubling reality that if you’re a strong, independent, educated, empowered black woman, you are held to a different standard. Everyone from New York Timescolumnist Nicholas Kristof to recent heckler of President Barack Obama and co-founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin tweeted their disapproval at Michelle Obama’s response, criticizing the First Lady for her “lack of “diplomacy” and snidely labeling it as “not her finest moment.” These comments criticize both Michelle Obama’s intelligence and rationality.

Ellen Sturtz has the excuse of being an apparently inexperienced activist, who perhaps misjudged the intimacy of a private event, and who also had a bad example set for her. Barely a week earlier, Medea Benjamin had let fly at the President, and received praise in response. That experience apparently emboldened her to whitesplain the whole thing to Michelle Obama. Via Twitter:

.@MichelleObama should not have snapped at Ellen Sturtz, who was speaking up re Obama’s unfulfilled promise to LGBT folks re #ENDA Go Ellen!

@cindynorth1 Ellen didn’t scream, she talked gently. Mrs. Obama should have said “Thank you for expressing your concerns so passionately”

@cultofpolitics @MichelleObama By getting “in her face” and threatening to leave. Not very gracious. PS Ellen was happy to pay take mic.

It needs to be pointed out here that the news media reported Mrs. Obama “moving towards” or “approaching” Sturtz, which the video bears out, and not the more aggressive “in her face” framing. In case Benjamin’s lecture on manners didn’t quite deliver the message, her next tweet did (emphasis mine):

. @MichelleObama should have been coached, long ago, on how to deal diplomatically w people who stand up to protest govt policies.

Yeah, let’s get Professor Henry Higgins on that right away.

Now, my initial privileged white make reaction was that Michelle Obama could have won bigger had she looked Sturtz in the eye, and said “Excuse me, but have you met my husband? People hate him way more than they hate gay people. If he signed an executive order, it would make ENDA harder to get passed, not easier.”

However, Sturtz’s reaction made me realize that Mrs. Obama faced a different choice in that moment. Because he needs to avoid being seen as the Angry Black Man at all costs, President Obama has had to take a soft, Aikido-like approach to hecklers. The result has been that white people now feel like they can holler during his speeches like they’re at a Mystery Science Theater watch party. Faced with that prospect, Michelle Obama, who doesn’t have policy-making authority in her toolbelt, had to decide if this is how she wants all of her speeches to go, to have well-intentioned white people roll over her with what’s really important. Her decision was no.

This incident appears to have exposed a rift between communities that have become key allies to each other, and that’s unfortunate. Ellen Sturtz took her misguided stand by paying her way into a megabucks private fundraiser, which is emblematic of the privilege associated with gay rights. Rosa Parks couldn’t have done something like that. Coverage of LGBT rights issues centers around things like big gay weddings, and so I think the stakes involved have become diminished.

Being able to marry the person you love, and being free from the fear that you’ll be fired for who you are, are very important, but there’s even more at stake. What animates me to fight for marriage equality, and against employment discrimination, is the elimination of a second-class citizenship that directly contributes to a suicide rate, among gay teenagers, that is three times greater than average, and to violence against them. No imperfect messenger should obscure that, and hopefully, will not.

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Martin Bashir: When Republicans say “IRS,” They’re Really Dropping the N-bomb on Obama

Well, you had to know it was coming, never a question of 'if', just 'when'. As is any and every criticism of the 1st half-black President, this IRS scandal must be "RACIST!!!" Any wonder MSNBC has been suffering so bad in ratings of late? It's really because of race-card idiots/liars like Martin Bashir:

On Wednesday, MSNBC host Martin Bashir accused President Barack Obama’s critics, who are focusing on the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups, of using the IRS scandal in place of attacks on the president’s race. 

Bashir scolded a variety of Republican commentators who he said “laid the groundwork” for Mitt Romney to make a “racist comment” in 2012 when he joked that no one ever needed to ask for his birth certificate.

“And now, the IRS is being used in exactly the same way as they tried to use the president’s birth certificate,” Bashir said. “For Republicans like Darrell Issa, who knows something about arson, those three letters now stand for something inflammatory.”

“Republicans are using it as their latest weapon in the war against the black man in the White House,” he insisted.

Bashir then referenced a portion of an interview by the late Republican political consultant Lee Atwater from 1981:

Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N***er, n***er.”

“So, this afternoon, we welcome the latest phrase in the lexicon of Republican attacks on this president – the IRS,” Bashir said. “Three letters that sound so innocent, but we know what you mean.”

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Michelle Obama Clashes With White, Liberal, Lesbian Heckler

Funny how white, liberal hecklers, who seem to always have no problem interrupting one of half-black, President Obama speeches, never catch any flack (or charges of "RACISM!!!") from the leftwing press. Funny too when you consider how much love POTUS and FLOTUS have shown for overwhelmingly white, anti-God, secular Left. Well, at least this, when it comes to getting heckled, one of them picked on the wrong Obama:

First lady Michelle Obama experienced a rare face-to-face encounter with a protester late Tuesday – approaching the activist and threatening to leave a fundraiser if the person did not stop interrupting her speech.

Obama was addressing a Democratic Party fundraiser in a private Kalorama home in Northwest Washington when Ellen Sturtz, 56, a lesbian activist, interrupted her remarks to demand that President Obama sign an anti-discrimination executive order.


Obama showed her displeasure – pausing to confront Sturtz eye to eye, according to witnesses.
“One of the things that I don’t do well is this,” she said to applause from most of the guests, according to a White House transcript. “Do you understand?”

A pool report from a reporter in the room said Obama “left the lectern and moved over to the protester.”

The pool report quoted Obama as saying: “Listen to me or you can take the mic, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.”

Obama’s suggestion that she would leave was not included in the official White House transcript.

The audience responded by asking Obama to remain, according to the pool report, which quoted a woman nearby telling Sturtz, “You need to go.”

Sturtz was escorted out of the room. She said in an interview later she was stunned by Obama’s response.

“She came right down in my face,” Sturtz said. “I was taken aback.”

Sturtz said she told Obama she was happy to take the microphone to plead her case, which, Sturtz said, appeared to fluster the first lady.

“I said I want your husband to sign the executive order,” Sturtz said. “Her husband could sign this order tonight and protect 22 percent of the work force in this country.”

Sturtz said she paid $500 to attend the fundraiser, part of a protest cooked up by the gay rights group GetEqual, which gained notice in Obama’s first term for hectoring him during speeches and demanding more action on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Sturtz, who gave $5,000 to the Democratic Party and Obama’s campaign in 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, said she was devoting herself to full-time activism now pressing the White House on the employment discrimination issue.

Tom Brokaw on Eric Holder: If It Was John Ashcroft, ‘The Left Would Be Going Very Hard After Them’

Conservatives can surely recall too how the hypocrites on the Left went hard calling for former Bush AG Alberto Gonzales for having the gall to fire some attorneys. But with repeated liar Eric Holder now involved in numerous scandals, it's a whole different story:

News veteran Tom Brokaw, in an appearance said if Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft were dealing with the same scandals that Attorney General Eric Holder has been embroiled in as part of the Obama administration, “the left would be going very hard after them.”

“From a political point of view, one of the ways that you can measure the impact of all of this and the fairness of it, think if this had happened in the Bush administration with John Ashcroft as the attorney general. You know full well the Democrats and the left would be going very hard after them with these issues that are in play,” Brokaw said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.

Host David Gregory asked Brokaw whether Holder would resign given the number of scandals DOJ is caught up in, most recently investigating the phone records of AP reporters and editors as well as Fox News.
“Do you think – you’ve seen these kind of investigations before, meaning the Judiciary investigation, committee investigation of the attorney general. This could be elongated. You have this morning on ‘The New York Times’ government officials talking off the record or on background about his effectiveness. Does he stay in the job?” Gregory asked.

“Boy, I think it’s tough to see how he does at this case. It’s up to the president. What we’re seeing in the ‘New York Times’ today is that familiar Washington two-step - officially getting the endorsement of people like David Axelrod and the spokesman for the president, but at the same time, there’s another part of that two-step that is going on in which people think it would better if he left,” Brokaw said.

“It would be better for the president to get this cleaned up. He has become obviously the lightning rod for a lot of the criticism just on this panel and certainly in Republican circles,” Brokaw added.

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