[Vision2020] Parker Column a Racist Tract

[Andreas Schou]

Sunil --

Though I'm not generally one to tout Wikipedia's accuracy, her entry
reads, in total:

"Mrs. Parker grew up in Florida, is the mother of three sons, and
currently resides in Camden, South Carolina with her husband and one
son.[1] Her mother died when she was young, and she has had 4
stepmothers, and has been a stepmother herself.[1]. She is also an
idiot."

And I didn't even write it!

-- ACS

P.S. My particular favorite genre of Kathleen Parker column is the
"women, stop whining about date rape" column, a theme that she's
returned to three or four different times.

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Sunil Ramalingam
<sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:
> She's a peach, Kathleen Parker.  In '01 or '02, she wrote a column
> announcing her gratitude that the adults (Bush and Cheney) were in charge.
> In '03, after the memorable 'Mission Accomplished' moment, she described
> Bush as a 'stud muffin' after the carrier landing.
>
> This last week we saw the column below, followed by a column in which she
> seems to endorse Clinton while essentially calling Obama and Edwards gay.
> It ended with this:
>
> 'Clinton, who got a little face time as reporters took her temperature, was
> (as always) smooth and cool as a cucumber martini.
>
> Which puts new thoughts in motion as voters project down the road. Obama and
> Edwards look and talk pretty, but Clinton exudes pure brawn, unflinching and
> steely. When the time comes to sit across from the likes of Iran's Mahmoud
> Ahmadinejad, a chill in the heart may beat a thrill up the leg.'
>
> Sunil
>
>
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>> From: thansen at moscow.com
>> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 16:30:13 +0000
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Parker Column a Racist Tract
>>
>> >From today's (May 18, 2008) Spokesman Review with thanks to Duncan
>> Palmatier of Moscow.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Parker column a racist tract
>>
>> Kathleen Parker tells us ("The value of American-made," May 15) that
>> "full-
>> blooded Americans," such as "white ... Southerners" (her capitalization)
>> who "trace their bloodlines back through generations of sacrifice," can
>> sniff out the snootiness of Barack Obama, because his "forefathers" did
>> not fight and die for "an America that has worked pretty well for more
>> than 200 years" – referring to the "heritage" of the South's treasonous
>> confederacy that started our bloodiest war in their effort to perpetuate
>> the slavery of African-Americans – but, she assures us, this brand of not-
>> so-subtle bigotry "isn't about racial or ethnic differences."
>>
>> Instead, she explains, it is about fearing immigrants, diversity and
>> multiculturalism. What a relief! For a minute there I thought I was
>> reading one of the most appalling calls to racial prejudice and ethnic
>> hatred I have seen in a nationally syndicated column since the 1960s. Ms.
>> Parker tells me that, since I am white and have a long American ancestry,
>> I will "get" her farcical collection of coded phrases and euphemisms to
>> judge Sen. Obama based on his ancestry and skin color.
>>
>> What I get is that Ms. Parker wrote a racist tract and should be ashamed
>> of herself.
>>
>> Duncan Palmatier
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Thank you, Mr. Palmatier, for reminding us of what America was and what it
>> will hopefully become.
>>
>> "We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some
>> are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they
>> all exist very nicely in the same box."
>>
>> - Author
>> Unknown
>>
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