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Nikki's Macacca Moment -- Perspective from Skeptical Brotha

by BlogSurrogate57, Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 12:54:04 PM EST

Okay, we'll make this short and sweet. I'm recommending you leave
myDD for just a few minutes, to read someone else's diary. He puts it better than me, anyhow.
Skeptical Brotha on Nikki Tinker

Just a sample:

As [Trojan Horse] implies, Aunt Nikki is a stealth weapon of the right-wing that optimally would be used to destroy progressive black representation and the social, political, and economic viability of Black Memphis. Unfortunately for our corporate enemies on the right, Aunt Nikki's campaign exploded today like an IED in a war zone when it released an ad which strikes a note of false religiosity and implies that Steve Cohen is an Jewish interloper unwelcome in black churches and alludes to a bill to protect "religious freedom" and the unfettered right of religious organizations to discriminate against gay and lesbian people. This is the culmination of her clumsy attempts to make inroads with the black ministerial community by pandering to the homophobia of a select group of black pastors.

A more Faith based perspective from a commenter.

Nikki got herself caught with her hand in the macacca jar. Caught race-bating, and doing other things no sane democrat should do. She is a walking embarrassment to her city, her state, and our country. But don't take my word on it... ;-)

So, I guess you're wondering why I CARE. I don't live there. It's not just that it's an insult to our party, our country and our entire world. It's not just because it's a stain on our honor.

It's because I know people from Tennessee -- the kind of folk you would call good Republicans. Decent people, alcoholic teetollers, you get the picture. I've been talking to them, and trying to get them to turn Democratic, before they make that journey home to Tennessee.

I've heard their stories, fighting for racial integration -- genteely, but still doing their part. Same people who volunteered to help out with the black church, even in Jim Crow days. People who made sure their kids were brought up right, without the preconceived misconceptions of everyone else.

It's kinda hard to tell them with a straight face that the Democratic party is all kinds of shiny and jangly, when we have such a cowbell in the party.

Tags: Tennessee, Steve Cohen, Nikki Tinker, Racism, Anti-semitism (all tags)

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Re: Nikki's Macacca Moment -- Perspective from Ske (2.00 / 1)

For anyone who missed it, this is the money quote from Tinker's latest ad:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/ 0808/Tinker_attacks_Cohen_over_religion. html

"Who is the real Steve Cohen, anyway?" a narrator says as a child is heard praying in the background . "While he's in our churches clapping his hands and tapping his feet, he's the only senator who thought our kids shouldn't be allowed to pray in school. Congressman, sometimes apologies just aren't enough."

Of course, using "our churches" in an ad against a Jewish representative is totally coincidental is not at all meant to remind the black, Christian voters about Cohen's religion. (Oh, and it's also a false claim against him on the school-prayer issue.)

Tinker is an odious piece of crap. I just hope voters there won't fall for her pathetic act.

by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 01:04:03 PM EST

Re: Nikki's Macacca Moment -- Perspective from Ske (none / 0)

The video has been taken down.

Now let's hope she goes down in the primary. What an insufferable piece of dirt!

by Radiowalla on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 01:24:05 PM EST
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I think its a slam against jews (none / 0)

plus race baits.

"Our churches" not Christian churches, Our Churches means "black churches" and "christian churches"

Slimeball either way

vote blue in 2008

by sepulvedaj3 on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 02:01:01 PM EST
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Re: Nikki's Macacca Moment -- Perspective from Ske (2.00 / 1)

I agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates:

TPM knocks Nikki Turner's ad in which claims, "While he's in our churches, clapping his hands and tapping his feet ... he's the only senator who thought our kids shouldn't be allowed to pray in school." Turner's opponent Steve Cohen is Jewish, which leads TPM to claim that Turner is Jew-baiting. Maybe. It's clear Turner is invoking bigotry--but I don't think it's that kind. It seems that the more salient fact is that Cohen is the only white person in Congress representing a majority black district. The "our" in question likely refers to the church--a bastion of voluntary segregation.

Frankly, I've always doubted the power of Jew-baiting as a method of scaring up votes in any black community outside of Gotham. That's not because blacks aren't antisemetic, it's because--in the words of the great Jimmy Baldwin--they're antiwhite. Jew-baiting against a white Jewish guy in a majority black district, is like attempting a 360 dunk. Why go through all that when the the plain-old race-baiting layup will suffice?

The subtext of "OUR churches" is black churches, not so much Christian churches. I guess the anti-semitism is like a bonus, but I think she would run the same exact ad against a white Christian candidate.

"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman

by Steve M on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 03:00:32 PM EST
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Re: Nikki's Macacca Moment -- Perspective from Ske (none / 0)

Very good point.

And notice the other language...isn't the image of a white guy "clapping his hands and tapping his feet" in a black church completely ridiculous? It's written to make him look like the typical "goofy white guy," an interloper who may physically mimic their form of worship, but who is insincere and obviously doesn't belong.

Disgusting.

by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 03:24:52 PM EST
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Re: Nikki's Macacca Moment -- Perspective from Ske (none / 0)

This kind of stuff used to work, for both white and black politicians.

When it fails, ultimately that ends up sending the right message about how things have changed.

"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman

by Steve M on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 01:05:18 PM EST

Re: Nikki's Macacca Moment -- Perspective from Ske (none / 0)

recc'd very direct and concise and right on target.

by swissffun on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 01:16:52 PM EST

thanks. (none / 0)

I posted this basically everywhere I blog.