Despite being the number 1 monster for the Left (actually W. can now challenge him for that position), Richard E. Nixon (yes know-it-alls I know it is Richard M. Nixon – Richard E. Nixon is what Archie Bunker used to refer to him as, didn’t you ever watch All In The Family?) like the rest of the elite Republican Establishment was never a conservative. Wage and Price Controls, the EPA, the Clean Air Act, taking the U.S. dollar off the gold standard, Endangered Species Act – all were initiated under his administration. The most pernicious thing we can thank Richard E. Nixon for was the Philadelphia Plan which institutionalized Affirmative Action (i.e. reverse discrimination). From the seeds of Affirmative Action (1973) was sprouted Barack Obama in 2008 and the rest is history. Nixon, who had very little interest in domestic policy, was more then happy to let the Democrats in the Senate and House run things at home as long as he could concentrate on his greatest passion – foreign affairs.
by James Lewis
As Matt Patterson pointed out in these pages, Obama is the Affirmative Action President. He was elected to make up for America’s never-ending guilt about black folks. That obsessional guilt trip works so well that it’s landed us in racial socialism, also called affirmative action. Marxism whips up resentments of the poor against the rich — but in fact it empowers only the left. Well, racial socialism does the same thing. It whips up “people of color” against evil palefaces in order to empower the left. It’s the Ku Klux Klan in new sheets.
In the “historic” election of 2008, a white kid told me he voted for The Savior “because Hillary looks too white.” It was his little contribution to affirmative action. He will now be victimized for life for the color of his skin.
Well, who started affirmative action?
AA as compensatory racial favoritism was first announced by Lyndon Baines Johnson. But it was implemented by the Nixon Labor Department as the Revised Philadelpha Plan, with strict racial quotas and timetables. The Philadelphia Plan was supposed to make up for genuine discrimination against blacks in the Philadelphia buildings trades. But it quickly triggered an avalanche of racial compensation claims, legal decisions, and executive orders that flipped the burden of proof.
Today, instead of having to prove a history of group discrimination, AA simply presumes a proven history of discrimination and compels employers to prove it ain’t so. Nixon ordered the Commerce Department to start its first racial compensation plan. In 1973 he “required all United States Federal Agencies to implement affirmative employment opportunity programs for all federal employees.”
Once AA applied to all federal agencies, it quickly spread to all institutions that took money from the feds, including the states and local governments, universities, colleges, general education systems, federal contractors, and on and on. AA became the presumption of universal white guilt in America.
Now there is legitimate compensation law, going back to the Bible and the Code of Hammurabi. If I harm you from malice or neglect, I owe you compensation. The trouble with AA is that it no longer requires proof. If you’re white, male, and heterosexual, you are presumed guilty. If racial discrimination harmed someone centuries ago, AA creates the presumption of guilt by race. AA has universalized group guilt, and has driven a stake through the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution.
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Watergate was a third-rate burglary, but Nixon’s affirmative action order may topple America as a nation. Americans are no longer equal. We are color-coded M&M candies. The left can play any color against the others for generations to come.
The Nazis were just another racial socialist movement. Ethnic scapegoating was their road to power. Racial socialism has a fearful historical track record.
I saw the AA mafia rising in academia when I was serving my sentence there. In English, education, communication, and ethnic studies, AA brought in the radical left — not by merit, but by race, gender, and militancy. If you’re gay you get preferential hiring in some colleges today. Agitators like Bill Ayers get life tenure as “education” professors because education became Marxified. That’s how the left took over the colleges. That’s why your kids can’t read today — but they are brainwashed to feel guilt because of African-American slavery that ended in 1865. That’s also why the left will never talk about twelve centuries of Muslim slavers. Like poverty, slavery is just an excuse for the left. They don’t care about slavery. They care about power.
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In 2008 Obama bamboozled the nice liberals who fell for the Racial Revenge narrative. But back in reality it’s black people who now have a 35% unemployment rate. Anne Coulter points out:
When blacks were only four generations out of slavery, their illegitimacy rate was about 23 percent (lower than the white illegitimacy rate is now). Then Democrats decided to help them! Barely two generations since LBJ’s Great Society programs began, the black illegitimacy rate has tripled to 72 percent.
That’s the best predictor of school dropouts, gang warfare, crime, drug abuse, and yes, more unmarried pregnancies for more kids growing up in pathological conditions. It’s an epidemic.
Socialism destroys families, as you just saw in London, and then the media beat home the message that more socialism is the answer. HIV works the same way.
Our fantabulous hero Obama should be called Barack bin Nixon, because his spiritual father is truly Richard Milhous Nixon.
Read the rest here: How Nixon Created Obama
