Obama’s Racial Crisis
Our post-racial president has set race relations back decades.In the current racial circus, the president of the United States, in addressing an assembly of upscale black professionals and political leaders, adopts the style of a Southern Baptist preacher of the 1960s. He alters his cadences and delivery to both berate and gin up the large audience — posing as a messianic figure who will “march” them out to speak truth to power. In response, the omnipresent Rep. Maxine Waters goes public yet again, to object that the president has no right to rally blacks in this way, when he does not adopt similar tones of admonishment with Jews and gays. (Should Obama try to emulate the way he thinks gays and Jews talk in his next address to them?)
Hope-and-change has now sunk into little more than a tawdry spectacle of racial spoils, as the president of the United States desperately cobbles together squabbling special-interest racial, ethnic, and gender groups in lieu of restoring the nation’s prosperity. Before the age of Obama, I don’t recall that some members of the Black Caucus was so ready to invite political opponents to “go straight to hell,” or to allege that they were veritable murderers eager to lynch blacks and restore slavery.
This is the sterotype of the Tea Partier. This is a false narrative, and we need to confront this. The fact that Herman Cain is a favorite of the Tea Party should not be discounted. He is the real deal. I am very impressed with Herman Cain. I have some reservations on him because of his stance on the Second Amendment. He is not as strong a candidate on that issue as Rick Perry is. He needs to address this. The lack of support for the Second Amendment coming from the GOP in light of recent court cases (to say nothing of the Fast and Furious scandal) is disappointing. The GOP has nothing to lose and tons to gain by full-bore support of the Second Amendment. It is a Civil Rights issue, after all. It is time we too k the Civil Rights movement back from the Democrats, who co-opted it only after Republicans did the heavy lifting.
In any event, VDH tackles the overwhelming charges of racism that are predictibly coming from the Left, and he does it in his inimitable manner. The capstone:
Who, then, in the Tea Party, cares that the businessman Cain does not sound like a Yale academic, or that the crease in his pants might be not so straight, or that he cannot excite tics in cable anchormen’s legs? For tea-partiers, race is irrelevant: Being a Godfather’s Pizza CEO apparently is proof of greater accomplishment than a long political career, an Ivy League degree, or a distinguished tenure on Wall Street.
In short, Obama’s economic agenda has hurt blacks most of all. And his desperate efforts to deal with that fact have set race relations back decades.
I absolutely agree with that. Our first Affirmative Action President is the worst thing that could have happened to race relations. He brings nothing of benefit to any side. As his loyal followers in the Black Community are learning to their regret. Read the whole thing. VDH is almost always worth the read.
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