Al Sharpton?
I was planning on panning Al Sharpton’s slam on Mitt Romney (Mormon)– which he assured everyone that he will be beaten by someone who believes in God.
Mitt Romney is many things, but an atheist he is not. Congressman Pete Stark is the only open “non-theist” elected to federal government. I want to elect an atheist to the presidency, but I recognize that is not happening. I doubt very much we’ll be electing a Mormon to the White House any time soon, which is to say that we’re probably not electing the Mormon that is being offered to us for the presidency right now.
But it would seem to put me in the company of the two commenters to the thread entitled something to the effect of “Barack Obama: Now Officially Killable” — which dovetailed to the Rush Limbaugh smirky adaption for “Barack — the Magic Negro”. (My only real point for Rush is that he is going to mine the psycho-racial-politics to pick up and flog anything like that LA Times article for those phrases.) Which is the specter of people foaming at the mouth wanting and demanding to say “negro” like the good old days.
Al Sharpton not mentioned in that blog post, and yet… the commenter brings him up. Why? I suppose there’s a tangeantal quality that rounds him into anything about political incorrectness. I am surprised neither anonymous commenters hit at the anachronism found in the name “NAACP”. (As an aside, I once sat while a barber was clipping my hair, the tv flashing some item concerning the NAACP. The barber actually asked the question “Why isn’t there a National Association for the Advancement of White People?” Awkward silence from me for the rest of the clipping. Actually there is a NAAWP — founded by David Duke. Maybe the barber can create the National Association for the Advancement of Non-Colored People?)
Al Sharpton? Huh? In one way the comment about him comes from nowhere, in another way it comes from a generic bullet point list.
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Small update: actually I probably should dredge up the transcript to find out Al Sharpton’s context in what was a debate with the now “crusading” Atheist Christopher Hitchens. Which is to find the answer to the question Why Romney and not, say, more aligned with the Christian Right (I would be assuming in terms of Sharpton’s defense that he’s claiming it’s a “It’s time for the Christian Right to meet the right Christian” statement Brownback???