by Jack Lee
Imagine for a moment a well educated, articulate junior Senator with very little legislative history. Is he Presidential material? Some would he has that potential, but hes not ready, not just yet. He needs more experience so we can fairly evaluate his ideas and his leadership. Lets see how he can gather support when needed and where he places his priorities on the kind of bills he endorses or creates. And most of us would think this is right and reasonable.
Now let’s view him as a black Senator. Suddenly everything changes. People are more likely to be proud of him because he is black and think warm and fuzzy thoughts of what he must have overcome to be a Senator and assume many wonderful things about his character and ability. Of course this is a form of racism, but it’s an acceptable form racism, especially among the affirmative action types.
A white guy under the same circumstances won’t get that level of instant and unearned adoration unless it comes from the Klan.
The black Senator can belong to the black caucus, but the white counterpart wouldn’t dare belong to a white caucus because, well, isn’t it obvious? It’s just plain wrong; a caucus membership should not be about race!
Now when it comes to running for election the black candidate is almost assuredly going to get the black vote and he also gets the white liberal, democrat, vote too. Will the white candidate get the same mileage off his race? Not likely, because that would be… evil and bigoted.
There are enormous numbers of whites who are absolutely desperate to elect a black person to anything, but most especially to the Presidency because they are trying to expunge that original sin, the sin of slavery in early America. They are tormented by this fact of our history and they have carried this guilt and shame for generations and they want relief! That relief can only come by promoting black people. They have their agenda fixed on a persons race first and a distant second on them being capable and qualified.
In todays politics, marginally capable black people stand a far better chance of being elected than a more qualified white, Asian or Hispanic person because a vast number of liberal Americans embrace another form of racism due to white guilt.
The issue of race has kept the GOP from going after Obama like they would any other candidate. So many areas in Obamas background are off limits because of this and for good reason. Nobody, including Republicans, want to be called racist. They have held back attacking Obama on many levels, from his limited experience to his associations with shall we say, some very odd people that if it were anybody else the GOP would have had a field day exploiting!
In todays world most people would rather be called a rapist than a racist and this is one of main reasons how Obama has climbed to power as a marginally qualified candidate. It’s not right, but that’s just the way it is and you know it. (Now I guess I have to expect to be called a racist because I just told the truth)