***UPDATE***
Sounds silly I know, but this sort of thing is important…
Santa Clarita councilman says he is a `proud racist’
In a heated speech at an anti-illegal-immigration rally, a Santa Clarita city councilman called himself a “proud racist” — a comment that has outraged some residents and political opponents.
Bob Kellar, who has served on the Santa Clarita council for 10 years, made the remarks at a Jan. 16 rally in Santa Clarita, attended by anti-illegal immigration groups and posted on YouTube.
Kellar stood by his remarks in an interview, saying they reflected his frustration with illegal immigration, but weren’t intended to express animosity against nonwhites.
“It doesn’t mean I’m going to saddle up the horses at midnight,” he said.
At the rally, Kellar first referred to a statement from President Theodore Roosevelt that says the United States only has room for one flag and one language. He said he had quoted it at a past City Council meeting. “The only thing I heard back from a couple of people was `Bob, you sound like a racist.’
“I said, `That’s good. If that’s what you think I am because I happen to believe in America, then I’m a proud racist. You’re darn right I am.”
One of the things the Left — Progressives — Commies, or whatever these slippery bastards all calling themselves these days, is the power of language or as they would put it ‘controlling the discourse.’
One of the singularly most important steps is rendering the epithet ‘racist’ non-nuclear. If you can stop a debate you are losing by merely invoking this word or get someone fired, keep a public speaker from visiting a college campus utilizing it you get a sense of its power.
We have to start by making it perfectly clear how ridiculous this word has become in its new use as a weapon.
We need more people like Bob Kellar in America. Instead of spending all their time denying that they’re racists, and never getting anything accomplished, conservatives need to start embracing the word. Like I said, it doesn’t matter what policy you’re talking about, from lower taxes to stopping illegal immigration, liberals and non-whites are going call you a racist anyway.
So, conservatives, take a lesson from Bob Kellar. Next time someone calls you a racist, don’t play their game by insisting that you’re not, and then bending over backward to prove it, or hiring an unqualified black clown like Michael Steele to run your party, or babbling about Bull Connor being a Democrat, etc. You’re just wasting your time. Embrace the term.
