Posted on 02/10/2016 10:32:32 AM PST by EveningStar
White liberals and black careerists vigorously reject the MLK ideal of a color-blind society.
The racial spoils industry survives on several requisites.
One, Americans must be readily identifiable as being non-white or white. Two, once non-white claimants pass the racial litmus test, they must think and speak in a particular progressive manner, in dutiful obeisance to those who set up and perpetuate the racial spoils system. And three, racialism must remain defined as a one-way bias...
Much of the liberal press has ridiculed Rubio and Cruz, either because their appearances and Cuban ancestry do not quite make them authentic "Latinos" or "Hispanics," or because their conservative politics disqualify them as deserving minorities and instead make them seem ungrateful to their liberal benefactors. In this unhinged way of thinking, a quite dark Clarence Thomas, who grew up destitute in the old Jim Crow South, is not as authentic an African-American as Barack Obama, who is of half-Kenyan ancestry and was raised by his upper-middle-class white grandparents and schooled at Honolulu's most exclusive prep school. Make Obama right-wing and Thomas left-wing, and journalists would question Obama about everything from his prep school to his name change at age ten...
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While I’m not a direct Trump supporter, he has the advantage of being able to completely blow up such Political Correctness.
I’d like to see Trump take on The African American Cabal, starting with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Heard the Bern say black youth unemployment is 51% (under obama not said though) so that may help Trump even more!
Bern's speaking the truth... a truth the Democrat party does NOT want blacks to hear.
Well if the Bern keeps repeating that and how bad things are for blacks under obama I think there is a NSA file on him somewhere:-)
Bern doesn’t seem afraid of the Clinton’s or the Obama’s... which is kind of interesting ...
Trump is how Affirmative Action gets blown up.
Enforce a colorblind government. No racial data on government forms that is tied to any individual.
Without some well-defined external enemy, don't multi-ethnic societies tend to fragment?
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