[RangerM]

I thought this an excellent column worth reading.

[Paul Ross]

Because the GOP hasn't the cajones to openly declare this is the reality...and confront minority delusions head-on:

[Altura Ct.]

How about we repeal the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. Disband ALL race based political and lobbying groups starting with the Black Caucus & The Hispanic Caucus & go from there?

[stevie_d_64]

...something bothers me about this, bump...

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[Yardstick]

*Bumping* this OUTSTANDING column.

[Cacique]

btt

[JWinNC]

Steele makes some good points, but I think his basic premise, that conservatism offers only discipline and the “invisible hand” is wrong.

True American conservatism offers more than this; read Russell Kirk for example. The whole idea of “Ordered Liberty” has to be vigorously maintained by the people, the law, and a limited but effective government.

There is more “hope and change” in an ounce of conservatism than there is in a pound of liberal/progressive/socialist hash.

jw

[Altura Ct.]

So does this mean that the “hip-hop makeover” isn’t working?

[stevio]

Until my encounter with conservatism I had only known the racial determinism of segregation on the one hand and of white liberalism on the other -- two varieties of white supremacy in which I could only be dependent and inferior

Ain't that the truth, the latter being more true than the former.

[NITESHADE]

America is not a melting pot. This is 2009 not 1965. In Silicon Valley more tha 50% of the high tech professionals are none White - they are from China, Latin America, and IndoAsia. My medical doctor is from China. When I speak to my local banker or drug store staff for drugs they all hail from India. When I was shopping for a car last year the gent was born in the USA but his parents are from the Pacific Islands. More and more boys I see on the streets like more like Tiger Woods than Justin Timberlake. They are not just biracial but quads or transracial. Do you know what color is most likely to replace you with most major employers, it’s not Black but Yellow or Brown. Do you know who picks up the phone for technical services it’s not Bob but Ravi? Generation X or Y are not like their mama or of their dad’s party. They know that the major bail outs are not going to Blacks and none White people people but other White people that need the bonus money the least.

[hinckley buzzard]

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

Steele has been at this a long time, and perhaps he can take us to the next step: activism, (praxis), is moral authority in Marxism. Marxism is the foundation of "redemptive liberalism."

[Darren McCarty]

If I ran for office, I'd say this to minorities. Detroit has been run by democrats for fifty years. White democrats ran Detroit during the time of the riots. What has it gotten you? White Democrats have run Chicago for just as long. What's happened to the South and West sides during that period? Los Angeles. How have the white democrats helped Watts? Baltimore.

I'd then go through my plan, which would be the same plan I had for "white" Americans. No pandering. No BS. No trotting out celebs like Don King. It would be the message that was important.

I'd end the message with this. Many of you don't trust me because of that R next to my name. That's fine. If you want change, we'll still be here. If you want the same, keep voting for who you've been voting for since the 1960's.