Posted on 07/27/2009 7:56:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a "post-racial" era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us.
That is quite understandable. But it takes two to tango. Those of us who want to see racism on its way out need to realize that others benefit greatly from crying racism. They benefit politically, financially, and socially. Barack Obama has been allied with such people for decades. He found it expedient to appeal to a wider electorate as a post-racial candidate, just as he has found it expedient to say a lot of other popular things — about campaign finance, about transparency in government, about not rushing legislation through Congress without having it first posted on the Internet long enough to be studied — all of which turned to be the direct opposite of what he actually did after getting elected.
Those who were shocked at President Obama's cheap shot at the Cambridge police for being "stupid" in arresting Henry Louis Gates must have been among those who let their wishes prevail over the obvious implications of Obama's 20 years of association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Anyone who can believe that Obama did not understand what the racist rants of Jeremiah Wright meant can believe anything.
With race — as with campaign finance, transparency and the rest — Barack Obama knows what the public wants to hear and that is what he has said. But his policies as president have been the opposite of his rhetoric, with race as with other issues.
As a state senator in Illinois, Obama pushed the "racial profiling" issue, so it is hardly surprising that he jumped to the conclusion that a policeman was racial profiling...
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The MSM would do everything to destroy a conservative black candidate. Sarah Palin ain't seen nothing compared to what they would do to a black conservative.
I saw them perform on America’s Got Talent — amazing and original! Thanks for your post!
Of course, were I a liberal, I would expect a handout from the government or my employer to send me to writing classes. Failing that, I'd expect rules/procedures that would pull Mr. Sowell's discourse down to my level. ;-)
I wish they had let the music speak for itself. Skip the vocal part.
I agree, it is practically impossible to add anything of substance to his writing, even in his short columns.
I feel that Zero has been a closet racist most of his adult life. His radical connections & associations with racist friends (ie Gates), pastors (ie Wright), and associates (too many to list), have proven this outright.
He is creating more division in this country & I believe he is doing it intentionally.
And that would include blacks en masse.
Which would totally expose the true nature of these Dems - they’re gimme-gimme all-for-nothing communists.
I don’t doubt that at all, the list of his racist acquaintances and mentors are too long.
Gates is a racial bully. Sowell is a gentleman. And Sowell is so much more intelligent than Gates that it's painful to mention the two names in the same sentence.
Thomas Sowell for POTUS!
Seriously, why are the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton driving our national discussion on racial relations? As everyone knows, there are many in the political and academic world who have made a cottage industry out of the “American Racial Divide” for their own gain.
I’d say: isn’t it time for a real change?? Guess what? That’s not what we have in the White House.
Absolutely! Good post, they are definitely polar opposites.
To watch Dr. Sowell’s rare interviews is a pleasure, he is a gentleman in every respect.
I could write for a long time and never find better words.
I hear you. I guess for me it boils down to self respect and integrity, the Jackson’s and Sharpton’s don’t have it.
Dr. Sowell was the product of the genuine pre-civil rights racism of the 1950's and 1960's. He has become, arguably, the most brilliant economist alive today by rising above that experience.
BO is the product of special rights handed to him by the affirmative action movement of the 1980's and 1990's. He has become, arguably, the least qualified person to ever hold the president's office. IMHO, he has not yet surpassed James Buchanan as the worst president ever, but he has come remarkably close in only six months to Buchanan's four years.
Thomas Sowell just makes good common sense. That is what really pisses off the left. Especially since his skin is black. Who is the racist now?
Booker T. Washington saw the same thing about a hundred years ago:
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.
AMAZING, just amazing! Thanks for sharing,.
Absolutely spot on.
Then that begs the question - why are people who do not exhibit self respect and integrity being held up as the poster children by our MSM in this national drama? It makes no sense - Jackson and Sharpton are an embarrassment, perpetuating hate and divisiveness to line their pockets. How long will our country continue along with this charade? They do every African American a grave disservice.
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