Double Standard: It’s OK For Charlie Rangle To Call Tea Party “White Crackers”
Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) made some colorful remarks in a Daily Beast interview released Friday. Most notably, he called Tea Partiers and other Republicans “white crackers.”
House Republicans? Have done more damage to American competitiveness than al Qaeda ever could. “What is happening is sabotage. Terrorists couldn’t do a better job than the Republicans are doing.”
The Tea Party? Defeat them the same way segregation was beaten. “It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police.
This begs the question — why is it deemed acceptable for a sitting congressman to use the word? No one in the mainstream media seems to care as Rangel says it nonchalantly in an on-the-record interview.
If racial slurs against minorities are taboo, why do anti-white slurs escape scrutiny? The media ruined Paula Deen’s career for admitting that she used the N-word decades ago in private, but it couldn’t care less about an elected official’s public bigotry against whites.
