[Peace-discuss] Rich says its mostly racism...

[C. G. Estabrook]

The most emailed article from the Sunday NYT:

Frank Rich, "The Rage Is Not About Health Care"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html


This column is like Rich's from a month ago ("Axis of the Obsessed and 
Deranged") that Alex Cockburn rightly characterized as "vibrant with class hatred."

Cockburn wrote, "To match the virulence of Rich's language you'd have to go back 
to the tirades flung at David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, some eighty of 
whom were burned alive outside Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993, on orders from 
Attorney General Janet Reno."

Rich is at it again, using the tiresome charge that liberals use against their 
enemies: they're racists. They do so because they can't admit that real 
grievances come from class as much as race.

Most of those who oppose Obama's administration do so not because he's black but 
because they think (correctly) that he's not working for them. And they have 
real grievances: an honest count of unemployment would show over 20%; real wages 
haven't risen in 30 years.

Rich et al. think that real social protest can be smeared as racism.



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