Progressives and the Social Justice Brothas are ok with racism if the racists are paying them off. Bundy’s problem is that he refused to pay. ‘Justice’ was swift and harsh in that case. He was quickly bullied and labeled. Sterling’s case is altogether different. As long as he contributed to the cause, all was well.
The ruling progressive Democrats have a long history of excusing and being excused for saying wretched, racist things as long as they support the NAACP and its causes. Observe: Joe Biden’s 2007 quote about Barack Obama, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” And Harry Reid, who in 2008 said that Obama was a “light skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
No roundup of Democrat racism would be complete without Bill Clinton’s 2010 approbation of Senator Robert Byrd’s affiliation with the KKK. “They mention that he once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, and what does that mean? I’ll tell you what it means,” said Bill Clinton. “He was a country boy from the hills and hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected.” This is from a white Arkansas boy who was hailed as the “first black president.”
