Karl Rove, Racist-at-Large
Narrow-mindedness is the lazy person's way of cutting corners. It enables people to avoid getting to know someone new, or another culture, or to stretch their minds and hearts to experience empathy. Those things require thoughtful consideration. The GOP has shown they really lack that capacity and their racist tendencies are a reflection of that. Karl Rove is our latest hero of mediocrity and thoughtlessness for the GOP. Maybe DickDay has an award for Karl, a crown perhaps, or maybe just a simple asshat. People are struggling to comprehend his latest pronouncement that Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor would NOT be the first Hispanic to be named to the Supreme Court. But it's really very simple, if you are thoughtless and stubbornly retain a narrow mind.
Mr. Rove referenced one Benjamin N. Cardozo, who sat on the Supreme Court during the glory years of laissez-faire capitalism, 1932 - 1938, about the time of the Great Depression. Rove announced Justice Cardozo preceded Ms. Sotomayor, the presumed successor of Justice Souter, who recently announced he would retire from the bench. What Rove failed to acknowledge was that the ethnic heritage of Justice Cardozo was Portugese, with a good helping of Sephardi Jew as well.. Frankly, I find it disturbing to label someone Portugese who was born in New York City, but it helps people stereotype others and assists in avoiding those awkward introductions. For Rove, however, those Iberians all look alike. Sure, they have their own culture, language, nation, and etc., but really, they all look alike. They're not white, you see, so parsing them into any other categories is truly meaningless. To Karl, and his racist friends, there are only whites and then there is everyone else. (And you thought he only saw things in black and white, didn't ya? Also.)
Is anyone surprised KKKarl could be so insensitive to the Portugese, lumping them in with the Hispanics despite their clear separation from Spain? Are the Hispanics upset to have the Portugese getting this free ride with La Raza? Is anyone going to call for Karl to make a clarification of his assinine comments? Will Karl actually step up and admit he made a omistake? Nah, didn't think so. What would Cheney say? "So! Go f%ck yourself!"
People may be upset I'm calling KKKarl a racist, but it fits with the earlier assumptions about people in the Middle East. After all these guys from Saudi Arabia and other environs flew passenger jets into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and those other guys that had that fourth plane en route somewhere else were defeated by the passengers, those non-white guys from the Middle East, how did we respond to these predominantly Saudi terrorists? We attacked Afghanistan ... and then Iraq. Hey, they all look alike. They're not white so why are you parsing this into anything more distinctive. There are white, distinctive, and non-whites, not distinctive. Is America getting how these people think? I hope so.
What I would really like to see and hear is Karl Rove apologize for making a mistake, for assuming Cardozo was Hispanic because his name kind of sounds Hispanic to the indiscriminate ear. I would like him to acknowledge the Portugese as their own people, which they rightly deserve. I wish people would demand that he do so. But I would also like him to refer to the Democratic Party as The Democratic Party, not Democrat Party, but that ain't going to happen. So, turdblossom, I see why you earned your name. Racists treat you as though you are some sort of flower, with a pleasant aroma emanating from our mouth, but really, all your doing is laying a turd on America and its people. Why DO we tolerate this level of incompetence in the media? Why do we give this has-been from the shriveling minority party a national platform any more? He's so last Administration and there is no sign of life in their party. If racism is all they have left, if Karl is all they have left ... they got nuthin'!
