Thursday, August 27, 2009
"A Deck Stacked with Race Cards"
These points seem to have merit.
Apparently, transcendancy AND transparency were empty campaign promises...
Apparently, transcendancy AND transparency were empty campaign promises...
At NationalReview.com, AUTHOR writes:
"After all, it was not Obama’s detractors who immediately fell into the comfortable groove of racial grievance and familiar 'narratives' when Henry Louis Gates insisted that a police instructor in racial sensitivity had to be a racist. That was Obama and his choir of heralds.
From Day 1, Obama’s supporters have tirelessly cultivated the idea that anything inconvenient for the first black president just might be terribly, terribly racist.
This was always the nasty side of Obama’s implied hope for unity. Obama gave oxygen to the idea that disagreement with him amounted to obstructing his mission to 'transcend race.' During the campaign, that meant anyone who got in his way was wittingly or unwittingly abetting racism (just ask Bill Clinton). A writer for Slate insisted journalists must not call attention to the fact that Obama is 'skinny.' Such observations fuel racism by highlighting his physical appearance, and that in turn might suddenly alert racist American voters to the fact that Obama is . . . wait for it . . . black.
Now that he’s president, if you question his tax policies, energy plans, or health-care ambitions, you are 'hoping he will fail' — and that, with the help of roundabout reasoning, is tantamount to hoping we cannot transcend race."
