What Can Only Be Said About White People

Time Magazine reports that Obama adviser David Axelrod said the following about Newt Gingrich: “The higher a monkey climbs on the pole the more you can see his butt.” A funny line, but in any other context, it would have been labeled “racist.”
Not to be outdone, he Arab League condemned Newt Gingrich for calling Palestinians “terrorists” and an “invented” people. White guys never get a break.
If a Republican had said this about President Obama, he or she would have been labeled a racist, forced to resign, take sensitivity training, and do political penance for the rest of his life.
Do you think I’m kidding? It nearly happened to Trent Lott who was a Senator from Mississippi. Lott spoke on December 5, 2002 at the 100th birthday party of Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a long time conservative leader. Thurmond had run for President of the United States in 1948 on the Dixiecrat (or States’ Rights) ticket. Here’s what Lott said: