So Much for the Post-Racial America

National Review ^ | October 14, 2009 | Andy McCarthy

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

So Much for the Post-Racial America   [Andy McCarthy]

I'm hunkered down on some projects and just heard about the phony attacks on Rush by the race-hustlers extraordinaire, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. I know Rush has big shoulders and he'll handle it just fine. But everytime one of these stories comes up, which is all too often, I can't help but think it says a lot more about us than whoever happens to be in the cross-hairs. Why do Sharpton and Jackson have careers? Why aren't they shown the door for serial racism and dishonesty? Why does anyone give a damn what they say? Why does the press treat them like they matter when they're a walking, talking parodies?

In the 1970s, I went to a highly integrated, all-boys high school (Cardinal Hayes) in the Bronx. It was one of the best experiences in my life, and I had great friendships with all manner of guys, because from the first day they treated us like we were all "Hayesmen" — not white guys, black guys, Spanish guys, Chinese guys, etc. We were encouraged to see each other as peers, not tribesmen. Of course there was intra-group affinity along ethnic and racial lines — there always is. But there wasn't a lot of tension. There was some — again, there always is — but there was no special treatment and no pressure for enforced separateness. We laughed at each other's expense (ethnic and racial jokes were not cause for banishment from society back then) and competed on a level playing field of merit. Everyone was treated like he belonged, if you did something good it was yours, and if you screwed up it was on you, not your heritage.

That's how Rush treats people — in the Martin Luther King aspiration that the content of one's character is what matters, not the color of one's skin. Yet, in the media narrative, he's somehow the one who's got a race issue — and the guys who trade on race, live and breathe it 24/7, are held up as our public conscience. The Left calls this "progress." I call it perversion. 

There's only one way this nonsense ever goes away: When we say "enough!" and tell the race-baiters their time is up. It's too much of an industry, so it probably won't happen tomorrow. But the Sixties ideal is crashing and burning before our very eyes, and I think it'll take a lot of its warped obsessions down with it.

10/14 04:09 PMShare

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Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources.

Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams, realizes he must remove the controversial conservative radio host from his potential role as a minority member in the group in order to get approval from other NFL owners, the sources said.

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Ping

[the invisib1e hand]

tih said, “in post racial america, race is everything.”

[skeeter]

Rush being dropped was bound to result - don’t know what he was thinking, unless perhaps this was his way of forcing the subject.

[Buck W.]

“...unless perhaps this was his way of forcing the subject.”

Bingo.

[EyeGuy]

Checketts is not the deep pocket money guy in this, and wealthy as he is, I doubt Rush is either.

There is a LOT of old, silent money in St. Louis (think the polar opposite of pathologically extroverted egomaniacs like Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban).

I wonder how much of a gravitational pull this quiet money is exerting on this purchase.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

...and competed on a level playing field of merit

But that's not the world of Obama, Sharpton, and Jackson.

Personal responsibility is not an easy sell because is hard and mature and requires understanding. It requires the buyer to reach and try...to earn by merit.

Blame and grievance on the other hand are such an easy sell. They require nothing of the buyer...no maturity, no understanding, no growth...just emotion directed at some convenient external party.

Martin Luther King was great because he took the hard way out and convinced a lot of other brave people from all races to join him.

Obama, Sharpton, Jackson and the LIBERALS in American have chosen the easy way out...they have chosen to sell THE LIE.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Racial matters are one of the most important issues facing the American people today.

[mulligan]

Rush is better off. He does not need friends like this. They may be wealthy, but they are ignorant, hypocritical bigots.

[FrankR]

"So Much for the Post-Racial America"

Anyone who bought in to that obamaidea, is permanently stuck on stupid and has been in a coma for the past 50 years.

The best predictor of future behavior, is past behavior...and the race baiters and poverty pimps - like Jackson, Sharpton, obama, etc - won't be going away any time soon...there is too much money in it.

Basically, racism comes down to "group-think"...you are not allowed to accept any person - no matter what race - based on the merits of their character, it must be their color.

If you like one person of color, you must like them all; if you dislike any person of color, then you must hate them all...you are a racist.

This doesn't measure well with people who are individuals and uses that individualism to decide who to befriend and support.

The likes of Jackson, Sharpton, and obama make no accounting for personality - and while they won't associate with a wino, gangbanger, thief, murderer, or whatever on the street that happens to be black, YOU - as a white person - must embrace that person based only on his color..or, you're a racist.

In the grand scheme of right and wrong - Biblical or otherwise, if you condemn a black person for any one of those wrongs, you are a racist.

It is an unwinnable argument - so I don't argue the point. I'm going to live my life for me and my family and screw those who think I should support the whole world because someone in 1849 engaged in slavery. The furtherest back I can go in my lineage is great-great grandfather, and that was way after slavery had been abolished...so I don't have a dog in that fight (sorry mr. vick).

Don't react - it empowers those trying to get a rise from you.

[Mac from Cleveland]

AMEN—anyone who sincerely believed in a post racial America should stay away from the Brooklyn Bridge-someone might sell it to them.....

Maybe it’s better this way—there are some boils that need to be lanced and some lines that need to be drawn.

As far as one of the other posters talking about MLK—he was a smooth-talking fraud. He said some “nice” things, I guess-but so did Clinton, and so does Obama—they don’t mean them, and consequently, they are empty.

[kabar]

This has less to do with ownership in a football team and more to do with destroying and demonizing a conservative voice.

[greyfoxx39]

Racial matters are one of the most important issues facing the American people today.

We are seeing the attempt by the Obama administration to hand over control of the country and its wealth to about 15% of the population, selected by race, most of whom have contributed little or nothing to the country or its citizens. They are the sons and daughters who have grown up at the government teat, or who have entered this country illegally and like Obama are a product of "Affirmative Action"..affirmative ONLY to this protected class. See my tagline.