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A Post-Racial President? (Thomas Sowell)
Jewish World Review ^ | July 28, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 07/27/2009 7:56:40 PM PDT by jazusamo

Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a "post-racial" era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us.

That is quite understandable. But it takes two to tango. Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism. They benefit politically, financially, and socially. Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades. He found it expedient to appeal to a wider electorate as a post-racial candidate, just as he has found it expedient to say a lot of other popular things — about campaign finance, about transparency in government, about not rushing legislation through Congress without having it first posted on the Internet long enough to be studied — all of which turned to be the direct opposite of what he actually did after getting elected.

Those who were shocked at President Obama's cheap shot at the Cambridge police for being "stupid" in arresting Henry Louis Gates must have been among those who let their wishes prevail over the obvious implications of Obama's 20 years of association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything.

With race — as with campaign finance, transparency and the rest — Barack Obama knows what the public wants to hear and that is what he has said. But his policies as president have been the opposite of his rhetoric, with race as with other issues.

As a state senator in Illinois, Obama pushed the "racial profiling" issue, so it is hardly surprising that he jumped to the conclusion that a policeman was racial profiling...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: blackkk; crowley; gates; henrygates; henrylouisgatesjr; mrskippy; obama; racialprofiling; skipgates; sowell; stupidly; thomassowell; tsbo
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To: Richard Kimball
I’d rather imagine Sowell in the Oval Office.

The MSM would do everything to destroy a conservative black candidate. Sarah Palin ain't seen nothing compared to what they would do to a black conservative.

21 posted on 07/27/2009 8:12:35 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: rdb3

I saw them perform on America’s Got Talent — amazing and original! Thanks for your post!


22 posted on 07/27/2009 8:13:29 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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To: Richard Kimball
I'm with you. I wish I could be as clear, concise, and insightful. At work I produce technical documentation of various forms, lead meetings for my team, then there are always emails, briefings, and heck, just posts here. Oh to be as well-spoken as Mr. Sowell.

Of course, were I a liberal, I would expect a handout from the government or my employer to send me to writing classes. Failing that, I'd expect rules/procedures that would pull Mr. Sowell's discourse down to my level. ;-)

23 posted on 07/27/2009 8:19:25 PM PDT by CodeMasterPhilzar (I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom. You can keep the "change.")
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To: rdb3

I wish they had let the music speak for itself. Skip the vocal part.


24 posted on 07/27/2009 8:20:07 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: Richard Kimball

I agree, it is practically impossible to add anything of substance to his writing, even in his short columns.


25 posted on 07/27/2009 8:22:52 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: buccaneer81
Imagine Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes in the Oval Office.

No need to imagine, we all see how leftists treat Mr. Thomas as a member of the US Supreme Court.
26 posted on 07/27/2009 8:23:29 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: jazusamo

I feel that Zero has been a closet racist most of his adult life. His radical connections & associations with racist friends (ie Gates), pastors (ie Wright), and associates (too many to list), have proven this outright.

He is creating more division in this country & I believe he is doing it intentionally.


27 posted on 07/27/2009 8:24:55 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: buccaneer81

And that would include blacks en masse.

Which would totally expose the true nature of these Dems - they’re gimme-gimme all-for-nothing communists.


28 posted on 07/27/2009 8:24:56 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Atom Smasher

I don’t doubt that at all, the list of his racist acquaintances and mentors are too long.


29 posted on 07/27/2009 8:27:50 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
It is amusing to contrast Gates with Sowell. The former is a professional bigot who has leveraged hatred into a lucrative business. The latter is a legitimate scholar, a legitimate intellectual, a legitimate man who has earned everything he has ever received and more.

Gates is a racial bully. Sowell is a gentleman. And Sowell is so much more intelligent than Gates that it's painful to mention the two names in the same sentence.

30 posted on 07/27/2009 8:29:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: jazusamo

Thomas Sowell for POTUS!

Seriously, why are the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton driving our national discussion on racial relations? As everyone knows, there are many in the political and academic world who have made a cottage industry out of the “American Racial Divide” for their own gain.
I’d say: isn’t it time for a real change?? Guess what? That’s not what we have in the White House.


31 posted on 07/27/2009 8:31:45 PM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: Billthedrill

Absolutely! Good post, they are definitely polar opposites.

To watch Dr. Sowell’s rare interviews is a pleasure, he is a gentleman in every respect.


32 posted on 07/27/2009 8:33:14 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything.

I could write for a long time and never find better words.

33 posted on 07/27/2009 8:33:29 PM PDT by fso301
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To: khnyny

I hear you. I guess for me it boils down to self respect and integrity, the Jackson’s and Sharpton’s don’t have it.


34 posted on 07/27/2009 8:36:40 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Richard Kimball
Dr. Sowell to too polite to point out that he is a real black American. Obama is a fake black man in much the same way that Ward Churchill is a fake Indian.

Dr. Sowell was the product of the genuine pre-civil rights racism of the 1950's and 1960's. He has become, arguably, the most brilliant economist alive today by rising above that experience.

BO is the product of special rights handed to him by the affirmative action movement of the 1980's and 1990's. He has become, arguably, the least qualified person to ever hold the president's office. IMHO, he has not yet surpassed James Buchanan as the worst president ever, but he has come remarkably close in only six months to Buchanan's four years.

35 posted on 07/27/2009 8:37:49 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: fso301

Thomas Sowell just makes good common sense. That is what really pisses off the left. Especially since his skin is black. Who is the racist now?


36 posted on 07/27/2009 8:38:53 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: jazusamo
What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

Booker T. Washington saw the same thing about a hundred years ago:

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.

37 posted on 07/27/2009 8:42:34 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (As a child Obama was rejected from Little League because of lack of a birth certificate.)
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To: rdb3

AMAZING, just amazing! Thanks for sharing,.


38 posted on 07/27/2009 8:44:01 PM PDT by FemmePatriot
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To: Billthedrill

Absolutely spot on.


39 posted on 07/27/2009 8:45:03 PM PDT by greatplains
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To: jazusamo

Then that begs the question - why are people who do not exhibit self respect and integrity being held up as the poster children by our MSM in this national drama? It makes no sense - Jackson and Sharpton are an embarrassment, perpetuating hate and divisiveness to line their pockets. How long will our country continue along with this charade? They do every African American a grave disservice.


40 posted on 07/27/2009 8:48:46 PM PDT by khnyny ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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