When it comes to race we Americans are, for the most part, a nation of cowards. This cowardice was on full display during the most recent presidential election and continues today.As they are in so many other areas of life, chief among our American cowards are the representatives of the national political media. During the presidential campaign, there was a maniacal effort on the part of the national media to find whites who would not vote for Barack Obama, never mind the reasoning for choosing so. Whites who were not for Mr. Obama were automatically racist in outlook and action, you see.No major media network or national newspaper attempted to investigate the associations of Barack Obama with William Ayres and the Annenberg Project in Chicago. No major media network or national newspaper launched an investigation as to the release of Barack Obama's grades in college, the lack of legal scholarship that somehow landed him as president of the Harvard Law Review, or any other aspect of his mysterious academic record. Think back to how resolute and determined that same media were in smoking out the academic record of George W. Bush to prove he is a dolt.What is the difference? It is the difference between the incurious or deliberate ignoring of the seemingly endless and disturbing associations and utterances of Barack Obama and the deliberate attempts at smashing anything and everything associated with Sarah Palin. Because Palin is white, she was fair game. Because Barack Obama is sort of black, anything said against him or an honest inquiry into his past was automatically deemed racist - literally no questions asked.
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All Salient points yet,
Too many of us are unwilling to respond to real racism perpetrated by the likes of Eric Holder, Barack Obama, and Jeremiah Wright by repudiating their bigotry in loud, bold language.
Racism is just a modern word for tribalism. And tribalism is a natural, healthy, expression of in-group developmental strategy in competition with other tribes.
What writers such as those at the American Thinker won't admit is that the sentiments expressed by Holder, Obama and the Rev. Wright are all good, healthy and normal expressions of tribal solidarity.
All tribes (save one) express this tribal solidarity, day-in-day-out across the globe. Blacks, hispanics, jews, Asians etc....all express, in the clearest terms possible, that they are in direct competition with each other and in particular with Whites. Unfortunately Whites are the sole tribe who actively work to suppress every healthy tribal tendency among themselves and pro-actively work to dissolve their own tribe at the feet of the others.
Whites assume their own tribal disloyalty to be a "moral good" and thus assume all other tribes will naturally, in time, follow suit. Whites then project their own personalities onto non-Whites, who share none of the White tribal suicidal tendencies, and are thus inevitably "shocked" and "suprised" when blacks, hispanics, jews, asians and others openly and overtly work against all White interests.
This is the reality that "conservatives" (aka White people) continue to hide from. And as long as they do they will see each and every one of their issues and platforms (abortion, gay marriage, the Constitution, democracy, Capitalism etc...) take a continuously leftist turn.
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