Posted on 10/17/2008 7:01:54 PM PDT by Chet 99
If Obama Loses, Don't Assume Racism
Oct. 17, 2008(The New Republic)
This column was written by John McWhorter.
In the increasingly unlikely event that Barack Obama does not become president, Martin Luther King's dream would reveal itself as tragically unrealized 40 years after his death. Not, however, because whites were standing in that dream's way, but because of the black people standing alongside them.
Yes, black people. I find myself unable to trust that more than a sliver of black America would be able, if Obama lost, to assess that outcome according to--of all things--the content of his character.
For 40 years, black America has been misled by a claim that we can only be our best with the total eclipse of racist bias. Few put it in so many words, but the obsession with things like tabulating ever-finer shades of racism and calling for a "national conversation" on race in which whites would listen to blacks talk about racism are based on an assumption: that the descendants of African slaves in the United States are the only group of humans in history whose problems will vanish with a "level playing field," something no other group has ever supposed could be a reality.
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WHEN to boywonder looses, consider it JUSTICE
“If Obama Loses, Don’t Assume Racism”, but be prepared for riots...:|
SEE IT ON YOUTUBE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgeM1tDXqGE
Well... you have a point.
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