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Posted on 09/17/2009 6:13:53 PM PDT by FreeKeys
.... Would you please sit down and shut up you old fool!
Yup. Think about this one for a moment. You're a young black man or woman, you're finishing up your education and hope to have a career in politics. Along comes Barack Obama and you're just elated! The barrier has been broken and a black man is now President of the United States! Your path is clear!
But wait! In the early months of Obama's presidency his inexperience starts to show. He fails on several big fronts: Health care, cap-and-trade and the union card-check bill. He tries to convince the American people that he can provide health care to 30+ million Americans who are now uninsured ... and that he can do it with fewer doctors and nurses while spending less than we're spending right now ... and all this without every denying anyone the health care they may need. The American people don't buy it.
Let's see .. what else. Where do we start? He negotiates an automobile bailout plan that favors unions at the expense of secured investors. He appoints a serial tax cheat to run the Treasury Department. He starts a trade war with China. He tells our European allies that they're on their own when it comes to defense against incoming ballistic missiles .. and on and on and on.
So .. as Obama's incompetence becomes more evident; as his anti-capitalistic philosophy fleshes out before our eyes; and his lies see the light of day ... the criticisms start coming in. How do the liberals respond! Predictably, that's how. Everyone who criticizes the president is simply a racist! They just don't like a black man in the white house!
Now .. just how does this hurt future political aspirants? How does it hurt you? You already understand, don't you? The majority of voters out there are still white ... and unless you're going to be content being a mayor or city councilman in a city or district with a majority black voting base, you're going to need some votes from the white side. You know that many white voters are feeling a little shell shocked right now. Many of them voted for Obama. They thought the time had come when our country was going to move beyond race! Wouldn't that have been wonderful? But in light of recent events they think that they might have made a mistake. They did what they thought was right and certainly politically correct, and suddenly they're racists because they have voiced some disagreements with Obama policies?
So .. what happens when you try to run for office? The voters out there looking at you may have no personal problem with you at all. But there's this lingering fear ... a fear born of the likes of Jimmy Carter, James Clyburn, Maureen Dowd, Howard Dean, Newsweek Magazine, The New York Times and others ... the fear that if these voters ever find it necessary to question or to object to something you do in office, they're going to be branded racists. Who, after all, is going to want to put you in office if your skin color makes you politically bulletproof? So .. they plan to play it safe from now on. Vote for whites. At least when they screw up you can go after them without putting on a white robe and cone hat.
The race baiters aren't doing you any favors. But you knew that, didn't you?
I knew this would happen. I really did. I think we all knew.
However, I will never consider Clarence Thomas incompetent, or Walter Williams, or Thomas Sowell, or Condi Rice (although I have my differences there) or Herman Caine or Shelby Steele and on and on.
But they are not racists. Obama is. So all this damage is being done because he has a good baritone and people are not smart or careful and are too easily manipulated.
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Surprise, surprise.
Great advocate for conservatism, incredibly capable of explaining economics in terms anyone can understand (except maybe liberals), smart, but doesn't have the intellectual firepower of:
Thomas Sowell
One of the smartest Americans alive today, perhaps in any generation, of any color. One of my personal heroes.
Herman Caine
Smart, tough, cool - why doesn't this guy run for office???
Michael Steele has acquitted himself pretty well in this whole Jimmy Carter flap, IMHO. We all had our doubts about him at first, because of his POLITICS, not his race, for all you DU lurkers.
One final thought, just for the record. If JC Watts, Ken Blackwell, or Herman Caine WERE to be elected President, does anyone on this forum doubt they'd be called "n&&&ers" on DU and DailyKos, openly and without repercusson?
My daughter is a freshman at Georgia Southern. She saw Condi give a speech there. She absolutely loved her. This is the same young lady who still has a Sarah Palin button on her purse!
We could do worse than Condi.
As the examples you cite prove, it’s not about race - it’s about values.
Everyone knows that it was the white vote that elected the first black president, and the first black republican party leader - even the senile and despicable peanut farmer.
Let’s not bite on their bait - the best we can do is laugh at their stupid charges.... and ignore it. Giving it any respectability by defending ourselves against it, is just playing their game.
I completely agree. I always thought well of him, thought he stumbled a bit with his role at the RNC, but like the smart guy he is, he figured it out and righted the boat. He's a good man and I'm glad he is where he is.
SOMEONE FINALLY GETS IT! by Neal Boortz
@ September 18, 2009 8:20 AM
... Other than me, of course.
Here’s your link to an article by Jesse Washington. Washington covers race and ethnicity for The Associated Press. Washington says that all of these claims of racism out there are taking a word that once had some power and turning it into nothing more than a spitball. He quotes one John McWhorter, who studies race and language at the Manhattan Institute: “It gets to the point where we don’t have a word to use to call people racist who actually are.”
Now isn’t this just exactly what I’ve been saying for about ten years here on the show? How many times have I gone over the differences between prejudice, bigotry and racism? Enough to make my listeners scream in agony, that’s for sure.
Washington goes to Webster’s Dictionary for the current definition: “Someone who believes in the inherent superiority of a particular race or is prejudiced against others.”
Now while I’m thrilled that someone has actually spoken up about the overuse of the “R” word, I want to address this “prejudiced against others” thing. As I said, this is the current definition. Go back a few decades and the “or is prejudiced against others” bit is not there. Why? That would be because prejudice against other is ... well ... it’s prejudice. The word means “pre-judging.” People do that all the time, and it doesn’t make one racist.
Now my little example here is sure to cause the more ignorant among my Nuze readers to call me a “racist.” Like that really matters any more. OK ... you’re standing at an ATM withdrawing a few hundred bucks because there’s a shoe sale down the street. While you’re waiting for the machine to give you your card back a young black male walks purposely towards you. His pants are bunched up around his ankles, he’s wearing a hoodie. One hand is grabbing his crotch and the other is in a pocket. You are immediately concerned for your safety. You have pre-judged this situation and your considered judgment is that this young stud is not coming up to you to compliment your hair. There ... you pre-judged a young black male. Does that make you racist? Well; what if this young black male was wearing a business suit? What if he had a briefcase instead of his crotch in one hand, and an ATM card in the other? You’re not alarmed, are you? But wait! I thought you were a racist because you showed prejudice against a young black male? But now here you are confronted by another young black male .. and suddenly you’re not a racist any more? The explanation, of course, is the young black male in the hoodie was representative of one culture, the black male in the business suit was representative of another. Your prejudice is based on culture, not skin color. Hardly something to support a charge of racism, is it?
Anyway ... we’re making progress here. At least some members of the MSM are starting to look at the overuse of this word and trying to set the record straight.
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http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/09/someone-finally-gets-it.html
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