When one stops to think about all that could have
been with the election of our first black president, it makes all the more
disappointing everything that has transpired since Barack Hussein Obama first
set foot into the Oval Office. Not once
over the course of the last eight years has our current president made any sort
of an attempt to bring this country together but what’s truly sad is the reason
why. Because, you see, the reason is politics. It simply wasn’t politically expedient for
him to do so. It wasn’t beneficial for
his party to do so. Because what’s best
for his party, again politically speaking, is to keep the country divided, to
pit blacks against whites, women against men, gays against straights and on and
on. Unity doesn’t play well for the
Democrats. Conflict works much better,
because when Americans can be made to fight with one another we are less apt to
see what it is that the Democrats are actually up to.
Which brings me to Barry’s recent appearance, earlier
this week, on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”. It was then that Barry described America as a
place still struggling to overcome its "legacies of slavery, Jim Crow,
colonialism, and racism." Of course
Barry failed to mention that such events were also very much part of the
history of his party. Appearing on
"The Daily Show," Barry was asked by host Trevor Noah about race,
naturally, because the left is obsessed with it, not getting beyond it, but with
keeping racial grievances alive and keeping that tension in the forefront of
everyone's consciousness. Noah asked
Barry how it is that he is able to "skirt that line between speaking your
mind and sharing your true opinions on race whilst, at the same time, not being
seen to alienate some of the people you are talking to." Where else but on a ‘fake news’ program such
as this could one expect to hear such an idiotic question asked of the man who
is one the most racist individuals to ever hold his office?
Asked how he managed to deliver his “true opinions”
on race while avoiding alienating people, Barry responded, You know, my general
theory is that, if I was clear in my own mind about who I was, comfortable in
my own skin and had clarity about the way in which race continues to be this
powerful factor in so many elements of our lives. But, that it is not the only
factor in so many aspects of our lives, that we have, by no means overcome the
legacies of slavery and Jim Crow and colonialism and racism, but that the
progress we’ve made has been real and extraordinary — if I’m communicating my
genuine belief that those who are not subject to racism can sometimes have
blind spots or lack of appreciation of what it feels to be on the receiving end
of that, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not open to learning and caring
about equality and justice and that I can win them over because there is
goodness in the majority of people.”
Barry said he has never had to bite his tongue as
President, but he has pondered how to deliver certain messages
"diplomatically" and "in a way that it’s received”. Barry said, “So there have been very few
instances where I’ve said, “Well, that was racist, you are racist.” There have
been times where I’ve said, “You know, you might not have taken into account
the ongoing legacy of racism in why we have so many black men incarcerated. And
since I know that you believe in the Constitution and believe in justice and believe
in liberty, how about if we try this?”
The notion that Barry believes in the Constitution, which he has
described as a flawed, living document, is laughable -- as is the notion that
"so many black men" are incarcerated because they are victims of racism.
How about if we try this, Barry, acknowledging that those men are in prison
because they were convicted of crimes?
Barry went on to say, “Now, some might say, well, you’re not speaking
fully truth to power because of that diplomacy. But I don’t think that trying
to appeal to the better angels of our nature, as Lincoln put it, is somehow
compromised. There may be times where you just have to call things out and name
names.”
You mean like when Barry accused the Cambridge
police of "acting stupidly" for arresting his friend, black academic
Henry Louis Gates? Barry went on to
tell Noah, “But the challenge we face today, when it comes to race, is rarely
the overt Klansman-style racism and typically has more to do with the fact
that, you know, people got other stuff they want to talk about and it’s sort of
uncomfortable.” The fact that overt
Klansman-style racism is rare would seem to be an indication that this country
has overcome its legacy of slavery. And perhaps people don't want to talk about
racism all the time because that's not how you solve it. And he added, “It’s somebody not getting
called back for an interview, although it’s never explicit. Or it’s, you know,
who gets the TV acting job, the actress who doesn’t quite look the part, and
what does that mean? And in that environment, where you’re not talking
necessarily about cut and dried racist behavior, but rather about the complex
ways in which society is working these issues through, you know — trying to
reach folks in ways that they can hear, I think, is important.”
Look, what's happening across our once-great
republic is contrived and well-orchestrated state sponsored mayhem the purpose
of which is to divide people by race, class and any other means. It's dishonesty. To actually deal honestly
with issues of race will require blacks to confront their own racial bigotry
and hate. It will also require them to
discard the demagoguery of their community organizers, men like Jackson,
Sharpton, Farrakhan and, yes, even Barry himself, who are no more than
grievance peddlers with a vested financial interest in keeping things exactly
as they are. It will require them to
turn toward self-reliance and away from the opiate of government entitlements. And it will require a return to family values
that are so lacking within their communities. It will require them to focus on their own
solutions and turn away from the same old tired excuses. And, it will require them to stop their own
self-destructive tendencies.
It will require a realization that only they can
pull themselves from the abyss in order to enjoy the opportunities that the
nation offers to everyone. And what it
the likelihood and any of these things will take place let alone all of them? The fact of the matter is, if you can't make
it in the U.S.A., you can't make it anywhere.
The race hucksters don't want people to be judged on the content of
their character because they profit from identity politics. They don't want
people being oblivious to skin color. They want such divisions on people's
minds all the time. Barry has done more to fan the flames of racial division in
this country than even Democrat Robert Byrd in his hay day as a Klansmen. I base my assessment of an individual on
their actions and attitudes. Race is not even a factor. Because if you're an asshole, you're an
asshole. Plain and simple. The color of
your skin really has nothing to do with it.
We get into problems once we start to look at data.
Crime rates, income rates incarceration rates, rates
of children born to unwed mothers, the list goes one. When these are proportionally higher among a
certain ethnic group others tend to prejudge based on ethnicity. When members of the ethnic group fail to take
responsibility for their actions and poor choices, and attempt to blame others
for their own mistakes or bad decisions, the prejudice increases exponentially. For decades Blacks in this country have been
conditioned to view themselves as being society’s victims, when in fact what
they are actually the victims of their own ignorance. For the last 50 years they have allowed themselves
to be convinced to vote against what was in their own best interest. It’s really quite amazing that they and
continued to vote for those whose only interest is to keep them in
poverty. And yet it remains those of us
the right who are routinely referred to as being the racists responsible for
blacks inability to escape poverty.
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