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Alfonzo Rachel strikes back

Posted 22 Apr 2010 in humor, media bias, teaparty

If you’ve been reading my blog, you saw that I attended the Lone Star Tea Party here in Dallas last week. And my favorite speaker of the event was Alfonzo Rachel. Well, someone did a fine job of capturing a portion of Rachel’s speech, which I’d like to share. It’s well worth your time.

Not everyone enjoyed Rachel’s speech as much as I did. A New York Times op-ed writer Charles Blow attended the Tea Party rally in hopes of finding racism and ignorance. When he couldn’t find evidence to support his bias (in fact finding evidence to the contrary), he dismissed the entire event out of hand, calling it a “mistrel show.”

They saved the best for last, however: Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel. According to his Web site, Zo, who is black and performs skits as “Zo-bama,” allowed drugs to cost him “his graduation.” Before ripping into the president for unconstitutional behavior, he cautioned, “I don’t have the education that our president has, so if I misinterpret some things in the founding documents I kind of have an excuse.” That was the understatement of the evening.

I found the imagery surreal and a bit sad: the minorities trying desperately to prove that they were “one of the good ones”; the organizers trying desperately to resolve any racial guilt among the crowd. The message was clear: How could we be intolerant if these multicolored faces feel the same way we do?

Clearly, Blow is suffering from a sense of humor deficit and has no grasp of sarcasm. Allahpundit, however, cuts right through Blow’s malarkey.

Nowhere in [Blow's] piece are Zo’s alleged misinterpretations of the founding documents described, natch. An excellent point raised in the clip by the man himself: Does anyone not think Blow set off on his Dallas adventure thinking/hoping he’d find a bunch of racist signs at the rally, only to fall back on the “minstrel show” narrative when he didn’t? Surely if he’d found any he would have mentioned them as part of his unified field theory of minority conservatives cozying up to people who despise them. The silence on that point is deafening.

As much as I enjoy Allahpundit’s perspective, I was glad to see that Mr. Rachel wasn’t going to sit back and let others fight his battles for him. He did a fine job taking Blow to task.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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