Here are some questions I have about Obama:

Q. When are we going to leave Iraq and Aghanistan?

A. Racist!

Q. When are we going to rescind all the Patriot Acts and terrorism laws, which are unconstitutional?

A. Racist!

Q. Why are so many members of Obama’s cabinet from the banking industry?

A. Racist!

As for Tucker, here are some questions:

Q. Why didn’t Tucker publish editorials asking for a new investigation of 9-11?

A. Racist!

Q. Why did Tucker throw mud at McKinney for asking questions about 9-11?

A. Racist!

Q. What did she write in the policy paper on Iraq for the CFR as part of a group effort?

A. Racist!

It is so easy when you can jerk a muscle instead of thinking.

I stopped reading the AJC years ago because of this woman (and others). Even though she’s gone, I have no plans to start again.

ps..it isn’t that I disagree with her views, and I do (all of them), it’s that she was, has been, and will always be….imcompetent.

I cancelled my subscription 2 years ago after reading one of Tucker’s rants. Voting with your money is the way all business are judged.

You ask an important question. I offer this column to you as an example of Tucker’s racism.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2008/10/29/tucked_1029.html

Tucker riffs on this quote that she attributes to Sadie Fields, Georgia Conservative crackpot: “The country I grew up in will be no more.”

The rest of the column is about how Fields grew up in the 1950s Jim Crow South, and Tucker makes a false connection between a contemporary conservative political leader and white segregationist racists long dead from 50 years ago.

This is what Tucker does all the time.

I hold no brief for Fields’ positions. However, I recognize that Fields is concerned about gay marriage, abortion, public religious displays and other issues that animate Fields’ political cohort. These ARE legitimate issues to be considered in the public square and at the ballot box. As Georgia’s leading political columnist, Tucker should encourage rigorous debate on these issues. But rather than attacking these issues one by one, and offering a spirited defense of why Tucker defends them, Tucker instead writes a column that says, “Shut Up Fields, you’re a 1950s Southern Conservative Racist!” The implication here is that anyone like Fields — ANY white conservative — is also a racist.

That, my friends, is racism, plain and simple. Tucker explicitly says here that Fields has NO RIGHT to voice an opinion on these issues because 1) she is white 2) she is a public conservative and 3) she was born before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Granted, Fields has a choice about what political views she holds but she cannot control her race or age. So for Tucker to discriminate against her political opinions solely on that basis of race and age is de facto discrimination. I think it’s racist, in the sense that her argumentation is based solely on race/age/historical factors rather than addressing Fields’ contemporary political concerns that are by no means settled even though Tucker thinks they are.

This is what drives the animus against Tucker. No, she’s not out there screaming, “Black Power” or “Kill Whitey.” But she sure as shit is out there writing columns like this that make emotional arguments to incite rage against white conservatives rather than foment rigorous political discussion on fundamental issues that we may never resolve.

To read this tripe again over and over is tiresome. I’m tired of it anyway and don’t want to read another word. I know racism hasn’t been stamped out in this country, nevertheless, these 60s-era “Jim Crow!” arguments seem somewhat anachronistic today. It ain’t 1956 any more. We have black leaders everywhere, even president. If you’re the state’s leading political columnist and cannot offer an original interpretation of contemporary political issues, well, you should be put out to pasture. If the AJC thinks putting her out to pasture in DC is the way to go — well, the joke’s on them. They’re footing the bill. Meanwhile I’ll be sure not to read.

Andi, I’d be interested in reading your thoughts on this.