The "kiss my butt" comment is getting all the press, but the Governor asserts that the NAACP wanted him to meet just black prisoners in prison.
This may be a watershed moment. The NAACP and the rest of the Black community have been an integral part of the Democrat party for nearly a century. They have been active in support of Democrats in every election. No single group votes more solidly Democrat than Blacks. Yet politicians of both parties have been expected to attend their events and act as if they were politically neutral. We may just have seen the first public acknowledgement by a Republican governor that the spell of racial guilt has broken. Impatience with victimology has crested and become a flood tide. It’s evident in the Tea Party movement who supported LePage in his recent election and it's evident in Sarah Palin who will not bow down to liberal shibboleths.
In a way it’s healthy and in a way it’s a shame. Healthy in the respect that people will no longer be shamed or victimized because of the color of their skin. A shame because an organization that did a lot in the past to right racial wrongs is now so much a part of a political machine that it has lost its leverage with the other party.
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