Posted on 07/02/2007 6:50:29 AM PDT by John Galt 72
Democrats Demagogue Race Rather Than Being Honest About People’s Choices
by Matt Carrothers
July 2, 2007
On Wednesday, June 28, 2007, the confluence of three events in the political arena once again focused the nation’s attention on the still-contentious issues related to race. Reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 et al, the failed U.S. Senate cloture motion on the immigration bill and a Democratic presidential candidates’ debate on racial issues showcased the leftist elite’s desire to shun proven solutions to the issues of education, immigration, poverty and disease. The left’s predictable response was to demagogue the issues, label their opponents as racist and absolve both liberal programs and individuals from fault.
In the Parents decision, the Supreme Court severely restricted public school districts from manipulating their schools’ racial compositions to achieve a racially diverse student body. Liberals who obviously value the holy grail of diversity over educational achievement promptly excoriated the court’s majority ruling, claiming that it will gut the ban on forced segregation mandated by the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) issued a statement that read, “Ever since Brown v. Board of Education, it has been settled law that the Constitution requires racially mixed schools.”
Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, stated, “This decision is a terrible blow for school districts trying to overcome our nation’s long legacy of segregation and take seriously the importance of diversity.”
Liberal criticism of the majority’s ruling rings typically hollow and erroneous. In Brown, the Court ruled that forced racial segregation in public schools did not offer black students equal educational opportunities. Referring to the Brown ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts noted, “It was not the inequality of the facilities but the fact of legally separating children based on race on which the Court relied to find a constitutional violation in that case.” The school districts affected by the Parents ruling clearly used race as a factor when deciding which schools their students would attend.
Roberts added this refreshingly penumbra- and emanation-free justification for his majority opinion: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Also on Wednesday, proponents of amnesty for the tens of millions of illegal aliens within our borders suffered a likely final defeat on their “comprehensive” immigration reform scheme. Ralph Neas framed opposition to the plan as race-based and invoked the latest acceptable term for racis, which is nativist. Neas stated, “Unfortunately, the bill died under merciless fire from nativist right-wing talk radio and ultraconservative pressure groups who refuse to offer any reasonable solutions.” Again, Neas is sorely mistaken. Fifteen Democratic Senators and one admitted Socialist joined 37 Republicans to defeat the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill.
Last Wednesday also provided an opportunity for the Democratic presidential candidates to troll for the black vote. At a Howard University debate, sponsored by PBS, the candidates blamed insufficient spending, the free market and Republicans for poverty, disease and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One moderator, National Public Radio host Michel Martin, stated, “African-Americans are 17 percent of all American teenagers, (and) they are 69 percent of the population of teenagers diagnosed most with HIV-AIDS.”
She then asked the candidates, “What is the plan to stop and to protect these young people from this scourge?”
With the exception of Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), who claimed that he spent last summer in the “black sections of my town” urging black men to wear condoms, all the candidates merely recited a litany of racial statistics on AIDS. They then argued that protection from AIDS will come from increased funding for Medicare and an AIDS cure.
Contrary to current liberal pedagogy, math, spelling, hurricanes and AIDS do not discriminate based on race. School districts more concerned with establishing racial diversity than exceptional scholars, and parents who place little value in education and achievement, produce students who view the schoolhouse and most other American institutions with contempt.
Poverty is usually the result of poor individual choices concerning childbirth, marital status, education and substance abuse. Related, AIDS is one of the most easily preventable diseases. If you were not born infected with the HIV virus, your chance of becoming infected with HIV is essentially zero if you abstain from sex and do not shoot drugs into your veins with shared needles.
Advocating prevention of educational failure, poverty and disease necessarily involves judging the same people the Democratic candidates want to vote for them. The essence of liberal politics is that man is without fault and, therefore, cannot be blamed for his current station. Instead, liberals blame outcomes on outside forces instead of individual choices.
In our land of limitless opportunity, it is unfortunate that representatives of a major political party so consistently seek to capitalize on misery, instead of encouraging individual success. Equally unfortunate is that the targets of their base and banal rhetoric believe their lies, and vote nearly en masse for those who look upon them with such disdain.
© 2007 North Star Writers Group. May not be republished without permission.
Has Howard been desegregated yet?
Democrat/socialist, same thing.
Those rats who voted the right way must have been under as much pressure as the Republicans who had to be shown the light from a pissed off electorate.
Let’s see, just in my area there is:
Alcorn State University
Jackson State University
Tougaloo College
Rust College
Mississippi Valley State University
Mary Holmes College
Grambling State University
Southern University
Xavier University
Stillmann College
Talladega College
Again with the projection from liberals.
“diversity” IS more important to these asses than a good education. Proof positive that indoctrination trumps education.
Simply abstaining from homosex and I.V. drug use would cut the rate to near zero.
The ONLY “disease” that is 99.9% preventable which recieves the most $ per patient for research and help for those infected.
AIDS is not spread by casual contact. Therefore, those who are infected, are infecting others.(stating the obvious)
I understand that there are "rights" issues involving freedom, privacy and so forth, but how does one eliminate a disease like this? It's not like passing around a cold or chicken pox. Nor does it become an acute condition in the short term. One can have HIV for years before developing symptoms. Since this is the case, carriers need to be identified and segregated from the non-carriers. This has always been the case with communicable disease carriers, and HIV should be no different.
Anyone who knowingly passes HIV to another person should be executed ASAP as they have shown their contempt for the rest of us.
the candidates blamed insufficient spending, the free market and failure to accept personal responsibility for poverty, disease and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There, fixed it.< p> insufficient spending? Please.
I wish we had conservative spokes(people) who could actually question these clowns and their stupid double standards (or their irreducible ignorance).
Is there video? That would be Reality TV that I'd watch!
“Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), who claimed that he spent last summer in the “black sections of my town” urging black men to wear condoms”
Thats like axing them to stop selling crack!
My neighborhood has about 1/3 black residents (some locals, some immigrants). I can just see Senator Biden (or even our actual senator, Elizabeth Dole) showing up and telling the guys lifting weights in their garages, or working on cars in the driveway, that they should wear condoms.
Sometimes I think all the Senators are drunk.
The only saving grace about the reports that the dems will take over the WH in 2009, is that Reid and Pelosi keep making them looks so ridiculous.
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