Limbaugh predicted that racial grievance wouldn't end with the election of President Barack Obama, but would get worse. And the professional racial grievance-mongers, including Henry Gates, Jessie Jackson, and Al Sharpton, do seem to be getting more shrill.
So the claims that we have a post-racial president diminish in credibility as the "race card" is repeatedly played by the White House and its allies in an effort to squelch the opposition.
"You're a racist if you oppose health care reform" is the most recent manifestation of this. It's not smart of Obama to personalize controversial public policy issues like this. It actually drives racial polarization, and highlights racial grievance as a claim, not merely of legitimacy, but of supremacy. That's dangerous.
As an election security lawyer for the McCain campaign in North Philadelphia, I personally witnessed the two New Black Panthers, dressed in paramilitary fatigues and berets, one wielding a billy club, standing in the door of the polling place at 1212 Fairmont Avenue, intimidating black voters. They were chanting, over and over again, "The black man will rule the white man! The black man will rule the white man!"
The Obama Justice Department refused to pursue federal voter intimidation charges brought by the Bush Administration against the two men, even though they had defaulted. My question is: Why would the Obama Justice Department protect two black extremists, not Democrats, in this fashion? Is it possible that President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sympathize with them?
Reverse discrimination would mean that President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are now treating blacks better than whites in the federal justice system. What's bizarre about the New Black Panther situation in North Philadelphia is that the New Black Panthers were victimizing black voters, not white voters. So Obama and Holder were failing to protect black victims of black extremist thuggery and intimidation. That suggests that Obama and Holder are treating black extremists, racists, and thugs better than white extremists, racists and thugs, while the black community goes unprotected.
Is this the "change" black Americans were hoping for with the election of Barack Obama?
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written by Jay Golub , September 01, 2009
"Is this the "change" black Americans were hoping for with the election of Barack Obama?"
That's a good question, QJ, but it really was the non-Black American population that put Obama in office.
So the real question is: Is this the "change" Americans were hoping for with the election of Barack Obama?
From what I've read in the Blogosphere and I've heard from voters here in New York, like you said above, they all thought that with the election of an African-American to the highest office in the nation, the days of a race-based view of the world would come to an end.
Sadly, this has not been the case and, contrary to predictions by the Left, it is not the political right playing the race card. It's the Administration and his supporters using race as an issue.
i think that this, along with many other reasons, will enable the GOP to have an opportunity to gain in the upcoming midterms...if we can get our act together...
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