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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Chris Charles: Race(ing) For Votes Part V
Part V: A Wise Latino
Liberals love minorities in power, (as long
as the minority in power is a liberal). Conventional wisdom says President Obama chose Justice Sotomayor because she is
a Latina woman. According to liberals, that makes her a great choice for the High Court, not because of
her record as a judge! If race should be a determining factor in judicial appointments, why did the Dems reject President
Bush’s appellate court nominee Miguel Estrada? Republican George W Bush nominated a wise Latino in
2001, and he was rejected! Why? According to Congressional memos, the DNC did not want a strong Latino Supreme Court candidate
for Bush to nominate in the coming years because it would hurt the DNC’s monopoly on minority voters. To be fair, Estrada
was not rejected by the Senate; the Democrats simply refused to give Estrada an up or down vote. Just to be clear, conservatives
oppose Sotomayor because there was some question as to her objectivity on race and gender issues. Liberals refused to vote
on Miguel Estrada because of his race, and its conservatives who are racist? Come on!
Liberals don’t really want to promote minorities; they want to appear as
if they promote minorities in high office. The reality is liberals promote liberalism. Judge Sotomayor was chosen first and
foremost because she is a liberal that will advance the liberal agenda from the bench. The fact that she is a Latina is just
icing on the cake. Liberals do not support minorities in power, they support liberals in power. If diversity on the Supreme
Court was so important to liberals, why did they fight so hard to block Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the High Court?
Not only do liberals oppose conservative and ‘originalist’ judges, they strenuously object to any minority that
does not carry water for the DNC. Non-liberal minorities are bad for the Dems ‘race baiting’ business. When Republicans
or conservatives appoint minorities to high office, it proves they are in fact not racists, a fact that liberals don’t
want people to know.
An added bonus for
liberals in choosing a minority is that anyone that is critical of the nominee can be hit with the racist label, obviously
a favorite of the liberal. The only good minority is a liberal minority. The liberal hatred of non liberal minorities is not
exclusive to judicial nominees; just ask Bush Administration minorities Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Alberto Gonzales,
Carlos Gutierrez, Elaine Chao,
Mel Martinez, Alphonso Jackson, and Norman Mineta. Condi Rice
served throughout the Bush Presidency and was attacked more than most. Rice, among other racial slurs, was called Aunt Jemima
(as in the feminine form of Uncle Tom). Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took a great deal of liberal heat because it was
believed he was in line for a Supreme Court appointment. In 2007 Democratic Senators and Congressmen called for a vote of
no confidence in AG Gonzales. Even the moderate to liberal Colin Powell had to endure vile attacks because
of his race. In 2002, Harry Bellefonte called Colin Powell a ‘house slave’, a derogatory term that means a person
is not ‘authentically black’. Is this what liberals call diversity and inclusiveness? Conservative minorities
need not apply?
This is very confusing
and it may be a little hard for non liberals to comprehend this liberal insanity. To make things easier see chart below:
Liberal Non-Minority = Good
Liberal
Minority = Better
Conservative Minority
= Uncle Tom
Conservative Non-Minority
= Racist
Got it? Good.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Chris Charles: Race(ing) For Votes: Part IV
Part IV: Sense and Sensitivity
Liberals, particularly white liberals,
are hypersensitive when it comes to race. In a nation that elected a black president, liberals see racism everywhere.
Any misstatement by a conservative politician will result in that person’s political death. The same cannot be
said for liberals; the left never turns their super sensing ‘RACEDAR’ on themselves.
The comments made by soon to be Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor are a glaring example of the double standard that currently exists in America. Her statement that a wise Latina
could make better decisions than could a white male is at best misguided and at worst racist. Lindsey Graham made the point
during the confirmation hearings that, if he (a white male) had made similar comments, his career would be over. Sotomayor
even admitted as much; why is it acceptable for minorities to make reckless, insensitive, stupid, or racist comments?
When former Senate majority leader Trent Lott praised former
segregationist Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday, he was labeled a racist and was forced to resign his leadership
role in the Senate. Saying something nice about an old man on his 100th birthday is a far cry from saying that
a particular race or gender is better or wiser than another!
Other examples of a double standard include…
NAACP- What if there was a NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People)?
Congressional Black Caucus- Why is there no Congressional
White Caucus?
LA Raza- Would there
be any objection to a white group calling themselves “The Race”?
What would happen if John McCain had won the election with 90% of the “white
vote”?
To be fair, not all
white males are held to this double standard, Democrats also get a pass if they say or do racist or racially insensitive things.
Trent Lott was nearly tarred and feathered for what is said; meantime Democratic Senator Robert Byrd was a decorated member
of the Ku Klux Klan, rising to the ranks of ‘Exalted Cyclopes’ (whatever that is). Byrd as a young man wrote that
he would rather die than fight side by side with a “negro”. As a US Senator he tried to filibuster the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, he also opposed the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. In recent
years, Byrd has tried to back away from his racist past. In an interview with the late Tony Snow in 2001 Byrd said,
“…My old mom told me, 'Robert,
you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white n******. I've seen a lot of white n****** in
my time, if you want to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as
soon quit talking about it so much”.
Yes, Robert Byrd is still a Democratic member of the United States Senate. Too bad for Trent Lott that he wasn’t a
Democrat!
The irony is that liberals
are so race sensitive most of the time. If you are a liberal feel free to join the Klan, but if you are a conservative expect
to be labeled a racist for just about everything. If a conservative opposes affirmative action, they are called racist. If
a conservative does not support the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, it is because she is a Latina. Any
condemnation of rappers or other hip-hop figures by a conservative will undoubtedly lead to accusations of racial prejudice.
A friend of mine, who is a standup comic, did not want to drive through a bad neighborhood at night. His friends said
that he was racist because that neighborhood was predominantly black. He replied, “I’m not scared of black people,
I’m scared of criminals with guns. I don’t care if their hot pink, if they gotta hot pink gun tucked into their
waist band, I’m outta there!”
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Chris Charles: Race(ing) For Votes: Part III
Part III: From
Content of Character To Content of Melanin
In his famous “I have a dream”
speech, Dr Martin Luther King Jr did not say that he had a dream of a day when minorities would receive special treatment,
where standards would be lower for people of color. In fact, he said the opposite; he said he dreamed of a day when people
would be judged by the content of their character. We have done a 360 in this country vis-a-vis racial politics; instead of
fulfilling Dr King’s dream of equality, we have substituted the target of discrimination.
Conservatives opposition to affirmative action and race based
preferences is one of the biggest reasons why conservatives are branded as ‘racists’ by liberals.
Conservatives are only trying to realize the dream of Dr King. Equality can never exist when there are different rules
for different races. Conservatives opposed discrimination of minorities throughout history, and we oppose discrimination of
non minorities in the present. This is not about black or white; it is about fair or unfair, right or wrong, and equality
or inequality.
Affirmative action
is not only unfair, it can be dangerous! Look no further than the New Haven Firefighter case that Supreme Court nominee Sonia
Sotomayor ruled on. Qualified white and Hispanic firefighters were denied promotion because no blacks would be promoted as
well. Do we really want less qualified firefighters protecting us from an inferno? How comfortable would you feel on a plane
if the pilot was hired because of his or her skin color, not his or her flying ability? Most Americans want a police force
that protects them, not one that is ‘representative of the community’. How would that conversation go?
Captain: “OK Chief, we’ve got a position to fill
on the anti-gang unit. Who should we fill the position with? What about Lt Jones? He has the top scores in the department
in almost every category.”
Chief:
“No let’s go with Lt Smith”
Captain: “Smith sir? But Smith doesn’t run very well, and his test scores are subpar.”
Chief: “Yeah but he will help the department’s
diversity image”.
Conservatives believe in merit based preferences, not race based preferences. There are no differences between
the races other than skin color. Skin color should not be a reason to deny nor accept someone. Conservatives want to get past
the lefts obsession with race. Everything is seen through race colored glasses, a far cry from a color blind society. There
will always be some bigots in the world that hate people of other races, but those people continue to be more and more rare.
The world is not and will never be perfect, the government should not legislate inequality to try to heal the scares of our
sad past. This will only succeed in deepening the wound.
Affirmative action is not only unfair to non minorities; it does not do minorities any favors either. It is an insult
to minorities to say they need extra help, or lower standards. That is just a more subtle form of bigotry. Conservatives know
that minorities can be just as successful in life without demeaning them with ‘preferential treatment’. Why do
people of color need lower standards? This implies minorities are somehow not as capable as non minorities. Minorities do
not need special treatment, only equal treatment, something we will never have as long as affirmative action is practiced.
Affirmative action hurts the very
people it tries to help. Unfortunately, the accomplishments of minorities are tarnished by affirmative action. Minorities
in high positions will always be under a cloud of suspicion that their achievements came as a result of their skin color.
Most minorities do not need affirmative action to be successful and the fact that minorities are given preferential treatment
waters down their success. Another unintended consequence of lowered standards for minorities is that unqualified minorities
are put in positions that they are unprepared for, which can be counterproductive to the original goal. If a person gains
admission to Harvard with inferior test scores but cannot pass classes and is unable to graduate, is the person better off?
Conservatives seek a ‘color
blind’ society; affirmative action supporters see everything through the prism of race. Because we refuse to buy into
the idea that minorities need extra help in life we are considered racist by some. Merit based preferences are not racist,
they are fair. They treat all people, all races, equally based on the individual’s qualifications.
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