Posted on 05/20/2014 5:13:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
I am at a loss to understand what constructive purpose first lady Michelle Obama (and Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others) hopes to achieve by constantly talking about the race issue.
Last Friday, Michelle Obama chose to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling -- in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -- by reminding graduating high-school seniors in Topeka, Kansas, that racism is still alive and well in America today.
Mrs. Obama said: "No matter what you do, the point is to never be afraid to talk about ... the issue of race, because even today, we still struggle to do that. ... This issue is so sensitive. It's so complicated, so bound up with a painful history."
To whom was she directing her comments? There are no doubt plenty of white people who won't touch the race issue with a 10-foot poll, because they fear that anything they say might be twisted and lead to the accusation that they are racially insensitive or racist. But I doubt that too many minorities are afraid to talk about racism for fear of reprisals of any kind.
In fact, people can't even raise legitimate questions about Barack Obama's racialist comments in his books or the overt racism of his longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright without having the questions turned around on them as some sort of evidence of their own racism.
Barack Obama has frequently invoked the race issue, in rallying supporters to vote for him on the basis of race and in his racially contoured comments in the Henry Gates and Trayvon Martin cases, to name two. Attorney General Eric Holder, with Obama's full blessing, on one occasion scolded the country for being afraid to talk about race and, on another, suggested that people were attacking him as a way to get at President Obama, because they are both African-Americans.
Mrs. Obama also said, "We know that today in America, too many folks are still stopped on the street because of the color of their skin, or they're made to feel unwelcome because of where they come from, or they're bullied because of who they love." I don't know how much bullying of homosexuals is still going on, but I do know there's a lot of bullying of people who don't share the liberal view on same-sex marriage, and I don't hear Mrs. Obama speaking up on their behalf.
I honestly hope fewer innocent people each day are being stopped on the streets because of the color of their skin, but I also hope that fewer innocent people are being ambushed and savagely knocked out on the streets without provocation and solely because of the color of their skin. Again, I don't hear Michelle Obama decrying such incidents and advocating bringing those responsible to justice.
Mrs. Obama lamented that Brown v. Board of Education is still being "decided every single day" and that all schools aren't equal because of their "crumbling classrooms and less experienced teachers." Perhaps not, but it sure isn't for lack of federal taxpayer money being allocated toward public education.
If Michelle Obama is truly worried about black children being trapped in inner-city schools, then why won't she and her husband support promising solutions involving school choice and vouchers? If they were less beholden to labor groups and to the politics of race and dependency, then maybe they would push real answers rather than inflammatory rhetoric that stirs up people against one another and does nothing to solve problems in education.
Undeniably, some racism persists in all directions, but constant liberal hectoring is not the way to eliminate it. Instead of forever reminding us of past wrongs and encouraging us to harbor resentment, why can't liberals urge all of us to move past those things, love one another and live in harmony?
But they simply won't do that. Though it's doubtlessly controversial to say this, we probably won't see Democrats stop stoking the race issue as long as they can hold on to the support of some 90 percent of the black vote, in great part because they disgracefully imply that conservatives and Republicans are racist.
From the bottom of my heart, I believe that conservative policies are far likelier to lift up all people, including minorities, than liberal policies and that many liberal policies perpetuating dependency on government are devastating to minority communities.
Rather than obsess about race, Mrs. Obama, why can't we quit using it to embitter people and hold them back and begin talking about solutions that can work toward restoring the American dream for all people? Instead of rhetoric calculated to keep our attention focused on the pigment of our skin, why can't we begin promoting Christian principles that teach us that we are all equal in God's eyes because we were made in his image and strive to move toward a genuinely colorblind society?
I can help David there.
Its all about getting Democrat Demographic groups outraged at whites , as represented by Republicans, so they don't stay home on an off year election day 2014.
Minimum wage, inequality, equal pay,....all about getting them to vote.
But that is the whole point, isn't it?
“I am at a loss to understand what constructive purpose first lady Michelle Obama (and Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others) hopes to achieve by constantly talking about the race issue.”
A “celebration” of diversity and multiculturalism in the American population was introduced in the 1960s and 70s as a deliberate divisive revolutionary tool wielded by Marxists like Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and other radicals. It became dogma taught by Marxists in our universities, then spread by our leftist controlled news media and leftist controlled Hollywood. The intent was, and is, to split American culture along race and class lines and set off a “proletarian” revolution to destroy capitalism. The Left has now managed to elect a half-Black radical as President and their revolution is proceeding along very predictable lines, with him using every opportunity to stir up more division and discontent. A reading of the Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA at this link should make clear their goals and methods: http://revcom.us/Constitution/constitution.html
Yup.
Why do they have less experienced teachers in the inner cities? Because who in their right mind but inexperienced naive recent college grads would want to teach kids who do not want to learn?
This needs to be asked over and over again to any black in power, why do middle class black people send their children to private schools or move to suburbs?
They aren't focused on constructive purposes, they are focused on fomenting hate and divisiveness.
Pushing racism keeps their hate filled racist base riled up so they don't pay attention to Obama's corruption, scandals and his wars against America and the Constitution.
If they didn’t have racism, what would they blame their failures on?
Pray America wakes up
You think they want to do something... CONSTRUCTIVE... ha! ha! ha! Roffle.
What gutter heads.
by reminding graduating high-school seniors in Topeka, Kansas, that racism is still alive and well in America today.
Of course they keep playing the race card. It is all about money. Everything with these people (libs/progs) is all about taking money from those that have and using it to buy power with those that do not have. Always been that way never will change..
Paging Captain Obvious, Captain Obvious to the WHITE courtesy phone in the lobby...
or...
“Just pick up da dang off-white, non-committal colored phone in da big room downstairs!!!”
FMCDH(BITS)
The flag that his article seems to largely--not entirely, but largely--overlook, is that everything Mrs. Obama has to say, implies that people have a grievance against anyone who does not accept the premises of collectivist/egalitarianism (something we once understood to be Communism).
The manufactured grievance--the leading people to imagine that they are victims; that they have been denied something to which they are entitled, simply because they cannot have everything they might wish;--has been the standard method for leading people astray, since the technique worked so well with Eve in Paradise. (See Variations On A Demonic Theme.)
Limbaugh mentions Rev. Wright, a mean-spirited Pastor, to be sure, who hates White Americans. But Wright, as bad as he was--and probably still is--at least advocated personal responsibility for his flock. When Obama decided he had to distance himself from Wright in the 2008 campaign, he criticized Wright for that one saving grace. If you do not like Rev. Wright's philosophy, you should like Obama's even less. (See Ethnic Politics, 2008.)
Nothing has set the social progress of American minorities back more severely than their exploitation by Leftist politicians, seeking to benefit from social chaos in America. It is a hideous story, ignored by most of the mass media, but a major cause for seemingly insoluable contemporary problems.
William Flax
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