Thank God for Barack Obama. Until his “More Perfect Union” speech last Tuesday, it seems it never occurred to anyone that America needed to talk about race.
“Maybe this’ll be the beginning of a conversation,” Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan proclaimed on Meet the Press. The Chicago Tribune reported that “many voters, black and white, say they were moved by Obama’s speech ... which they see as a long-awaited invitation to begin an honest, calm national dialogue about race.” Newspaper editorial boards agree. In the words of the San Diego Union-Tribune: “Prodding Americans to confront their racial differences is, by itself, an accomplishment of historical proportions.”
Because so many agree on this brilliant new strategy to heal our national wounds, I can only assume that I’m the one missing something. But when one luminary after another smacks his forehead like someone who forgot to have a V8 in epiphanic awe over the genius of Obama’s call for a national conversation on race, all I can do is wonder: “What on Earth are you people talking about?”
“Universities were moving to incorporate the issues Mr. Obama raised into classroom discussions and course work,” the New York Times reported within 48 hours of the speech.
Oh, thank goodness Obama fired the starter’s pistol in the race to discuss race. Here I’d been under the impression that every major university in the country already had boatloads of courses dedicated to race in America. I’d even read somewhere that professors had incorporated racial themes into classes on everything from Shakespeare to the mating habits of snail darters. I also had some vague memory that these universities recruited black students and other racial minorities, on the grounds that interracial conversations on campus are as important as talking about math, science, and literature. A ghost of an image in my mind’s eye seemed to reveal African-American studies centers, banners for Black History Month, and copies of books like Race Matters and The Future of the Race lining shelves at college bookstores.
Were all the corporate diversity consultants and racial sensitivity seminars mere apparitions in a dream? Also disappearing down the memory hole, apparently, were the debates that followed Hurricane Katrina, Trent Lott’s remarks about Strom Thurmond, the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the publication of The Bell Curve, and O.J. Simpson’s murder trial. Not to mention the ongoing national chatter about affirmative action, racial disparities in prison sentences and racial profiling by law enforcement.
And the thousands of hours of newscasts, television dramas, and movies — remember films such as 2004’s Oscar-winning Crash? — dedicated to racial issues? It’s as if they never existed.
But here's the truth:
...when they say we need more conversation, they really mean their version of reality should win the day. Replace “conversation” with “instruction” and you’ll have a better sense of where these people are coming from and where they want their “dialogue” to take us
The Liberal editorial writers no more want a conversation on race that they want to see their newspapers go out of business. They want the opportunity to once again lecture and hector. They want to be the ones to outlast everyone else in the meeting and by so doing, win the argument. They want to be the Brownshirts in the streets who intimidate everyone else into submission. They want the solidarity of Fascism with their ideas the only ones permitted.
Dialog on race? Don't be an ass! The country has been immersed in a discussion of race since the first Arab and African slavers sold their countrymen (a long standing and time honored tradition) to the first Europeans who brought them to these shores. We fought a long and bloody war over race. And today the biggest, baddest race baiters are no longer white men with KKK hoods but Black preachers whose right to preach racial hatred is being defended by the chi-chi white wine and brie crowd typified by the editorail writers of rags like the Virginian Pilot.
In their defense of Wright, they don't address the truth or falsity of Wrights racist, anti-semitic and moonbat conspiracy pronouncements. They address the issue by infantalizing Black people:
Most may wish that Wright wasn’t speaking for anyone else, but he was.And do they join in denouncing this? Come one, this is the Virginina Pilot!
Is this how they treat racist remarks by the KKK? No! This is how people treat children who are not really responsible for their actions. This is the racism of White Liberals who treat Blacks as less than human.
They state that the denunciation of Wright's rants is an attempt to dvide the country.
They suggest that there should be a common understanding, some middle ground, between people who believe that the American government invented AIDS to wipe out Black people and the rest of us.
And this is the kind of people who have been facilitating the dialog on race that we have had for the last 100 years. It's little wonder that the Wrights, Jacksons, Farrakhans and Sharptons of this world have prospered and have radicalized large segments of Black culture. People like those who write for the Pilot are at fault. They have been the excusers, the enablers, the facilitators of the race hustlers and race baiters. And the rewards? Here is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's new $1.6 million house under construction.
As Liberal Fascist Mark Rudd liked to say "Up against the wall, motherfucker."
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