You only notice I'm white because you're a racist.

In the comments to a long, inaccurate attack on those who consider Palin evidence that the conservative movement is trending stupid, Darleen Click claims that those who point out the extreme whiteness of Palin supporters "reveal a great more about [themselves] than Palin." Because such people notice race at all, they're insufficiently colorblind and therefore more racist than Click, who merely advocates creating and maintaining structural inequalities that disproportionately affect people who just happen to not be white.

Set aside for a moment the fact that Click labors under the delusion that noticing people of color is more racist than harming them and remember that 1) the figure she defends, Sarah Palin, is using her publicity tour as a prelude to a 2012 presidential bid launch, and 2) candidate Palin is posting photographs of the people she meets on her Facebook page, meaning that these are not images produced by a liberal media elite out to make her look like her appeal is limited to white people but images she and her people have decided should represent her mass-appeal on a mock-presidential bid launch. Time to play "Count the Non-White People"!

1. Image #1: 0
2. Image #2: 0
3. Image #3: 0
4. Image #4: 0
5. Image #5: 0
6. Image #6: 0
7. Image #7: 0
8. Image #8: 1 (a mall security guard)
9. Image #9: 0
10. Image #10: 0
11. Image #11: 0
12. Image #12: 2 (but only one identifiably of her own volition)

In all those photographs, there is one non-white person who can be positively identified as having come of their own accord. To Click, pointing out that Palin's own handlers consider her appeal limited to white people makes me a racist. Over in the increasingly diverse place known as the United States, this is why people like Click should hunker down for a long run of political disappointment.

Update. One of Darleen's flock attempts to prove me wrong by being racist.

Comments

[Whitey Mc Lilly]

Good job pointing out the fact that black people don't go to book signings. What's your next trick? Are you going to blow the lid off Amish bathing habits?

[SEK]

Good job pointing out the fact that black people don't go to book signings.

I absolutely love that you're using your racism to call me a racist. (And yet, your stupid makes me a little sad.)

[happyfeet]

Hi Mr. SEK. Happy Thanksgiving! I don't think it's a Truth that the Sarah one is using her book tour "as a prelude to a 2012 presidential bid launch" and all. Nobody in her situation would explicitly close that door until after the book tour. There's just certain ways you do this sort of book tour thing I think. But there's no reason to think she's gonna run for president. I think running for president would show a startling lack of imagination on her part, actually, and plus also it's simply not a good idea.

Also I really don't think Darleen is all about the creating and the maintaining of the structural blah blah blah. I think mostly she just likes the Sarah Palin and thinks the Sarah hasn't gotten a fair shake. There's a lot of truth to that, really, but I don't really expect better in this little country anymore. It's a good thing though that there are Darleens what do. It's hopeful.

[kth]

I especially liked the last paragraph where Darleen says that, if you use the word "teabagger", you don't believe in "American Constitutional principles".

[happyfeet]

Also I don't think there are just a heck of a lot of the minority peoples what really like the Sarah one just a whole lot, so it's not really surprising that they're not in the pictures, if you really think about it. You probably have to sort of zoom around with your camera to make sure you get minority ones in the shot at a Hannah Montana concert too, and Hannah Montana isn't particularly political really. Hannah M. invited the little president man's kids to be on her show, and they've been to her concert several times I think and had a good time even if it wasn't really a very down with the struggle thing to do.

I think it's better not to racialize these sort of celebrity run-in situations unless you have some really compelling point to make.

[aleks]

Hannah Montana, of course, having also built her career by distinguishing between Real Americans and Black People?

[happyfeet]

That's sort of a bringing of your own biases to the situation I think. I can't really think of how it is one could say that the Sarah Palin one built her career like that, distinguishing people like how you say. Whatever the Sarah one might be I don't at all think she's motivated by racisms. There's just a whole lot more to things than racism. I think people forget that.

[MikeJ]

I can think of two African American kids who are Hannah Montana fans, but their mean parents wouldn't let them visit the set when invited. Had to settle for the Jonas bros stopping by.

[happyfeet]

or Mika. Mika is too cool for school. This is the Mika song Carin likes and it's been growing on me. Cause of him being too cool for school and all.

[aleks]

Palin tells lilly-white crowdes in North Carolina that they're their the real, pro-America Americans and that whoever they have in mind when they think of Obama supporters aren't, because of my biases.

[happyfeet]

That's not racist though that's just a point of view, really. John Kerry got the same treatment, remember - he was painted as a rather french sort of homo person. A ponce what was out of step with Real America. Honestly you can read way too much into this sort of thing I think. Sometimes it seems like liberals are just offended by the dynamics of a campaign where there's inescapably two sides to an issue. It really seems to unnerve them kind of. Remember that ABC memo?

[aleks]

Palin's behavior is unobjectionable because it is hallowed by precedent from Bush.

[Less Isbetter]

It doesn't matter who is supporting Palin and who isn't. The supreme court is composed of 6 catholics out of 9 justices. Whomever runs, the court will see that a catholic is President. All of you protestants and jews and mormons are just wasting you time.

Notice how some bishop told the Kennedy representative to toe the catholic line on abortion or be cut off from the symbols of catholicism.

Got a feeling a lot of non Catholic churches are soon going to find themselves taxable. The cost of medical care will continue to go up with the 600 plus catholic hospitals operating totally tax free.

You all are wasting your time even dreaming that anyone but a catholic will be a president. Hell, they'll probably drag poor old Clarance Thomas out to be vice president since he is a catholic.

[N.C.]

Well, you know, it's like that old Blues Brothers quote: the Palin campaign has both kinds of people, both country and western.

[Malacylpse]

The supreme court is composed of 6 catholics out of 9 justices. Whomever runs, the court will see that a catholic is President.

Luckily, the nefarious Vatican instructions arrived 10 minutes too late last November, thwarting their scheme.

You all are wasting your time even dreaming that anyone but a catholic will be a president.

Well, the Catholics have had a near lock on the Presidency since the founding of the Republic.

[Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain]

Shouldn't Happyfeet be subjected to some greater scorn now that the thread in question contains HIS racist musings on Obama? I mean, I can't forget "skeeza," but on that thread....dear lord. His racism is evident

[Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain]

Oh, and don't lose sight of the point of this post. It's not about Palin's feelings on race. Hell, has she ever expressed any?

It's about the right wing teabaggers like Darleen and Happyfeet, who are hypocrites and racists. Does Goldstein know what that simpleton's doing to his site?

[N.C.]

It doesn't matter who is supporting Palin and who isn't. The supreme court is composed of 6 catholics out of 9 justices. Whomever runs, the court will see that a catholic is President. All of you protestants and jews and mormons are just wasting you time.

Accusations of insidious Papism? What next, a return of the Anti-Masonic Party?

[Malaclypse]

What next, a return of the Anti-Masonic Party?

The Know-Nothings? I think they returned a while ago...

[Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain]

You know, Lincoln was asked to join the Know Nothings and he refused. 150 years later, his party took the plunge