RACE

Well folks, told you so. (Don’t you hate that?) Recall our earlier comment - The Big Gun - that if things went poorly for the president or other prominent blacks he/they, his handlers, his party, the media, academics and sophisticates everywhere would retreat to race? Presto! Carter and Clinton were just the latest to pull that trick. But right here in Marin (surprise!), in an email from the left we are instructed that the Republican party, "...is being hijacked by small minded racists who are terrified by the concept of a black man calling the shots." Naturally. Who are these racists? And terrified of what? And why from an otherwise reasonable individual, this blatant profiling (the same individual, profiling like no other, marveled that the guy in the ACORN sting was white and the staff fell for it - oh, all pimps are black?)?

Suddenly our society is polarized over race (meaning blacks). Witness the following from one Gerald Ensley, writing for a Tallahassee paper, "So know that when you call Barack Obama a ‘socialist,’ the rest of us are thinking: ‘There goes a racist.’ Because that's what all this is about. There is a segment of the population that simply can't accept a black man was elected president of the United States. So they express their contempt by calling him a socialist because they know they can't say the N-word in public. And they think the rest of us don't know the difference.’" This is laughable; Ensley has the makings of a moron.

We don’t personally know any racists. For folks we know, including blacks, race is incidental. It’s not a big deal. Who cares? That’s true for most Americans, most of whom are sick and tired of this topic, who simply want to get on with key issues in their lives. Quit the whining. We’re all created just about the same, no better nor worse than the other guy. You’re a black, Latino, Indian or white, have a problem? Fine, look within, then get your butt in gear. You’re capable. You think you need special treatment? You think folks are picking on you cause of your color? Come on. Take a look at the color of our president. Get a life.

There is an element however which by its very need to survive must convince a segment of our society that it in fact does need help, that it is handicapped, persecuted and that only this element can provide succor. This element has just kicked its operation into high gear. This element is the Democratic Party. Our view is that Democratic party policy is key to understanding this "problem" of race.

DNC policy is racist. Not of course the in-your-face variety but in a sickly-sweet, obsequious, pandering sort of way. In singling out the black community as one in constant need of protection and dumbed-down standards, as a community which gets a pass on bad behavior for something that happened 150 +/- years ago, the DNC is practicing the most insipid, the most nefarious form of racism imaginable. They are using blacks as pawns. The "problem" is manufactured by the DNC. They lose blacks as a constituency and they’re out of luck. Unfortunately - many blacks fall for it.

Some moderate Democrats see through this nonsense, but adherents from the far left (Marin County for example) simply parrot what’s fed them by a party owned by extremists.

Naturally the left will deny such a thesis, that it is absurd and a lie on its face, that it is the Democrats which have husbanded the black population all along. How dare we? Well, let’s take a look at this good ‘ol party.

The truth can be difficult. The Democratic party’s racism through the 19th century was not abstract at all - slavery was literally part of the platform (The Republican party was formed as the anti-slavery party.). These slavers were up front, not phonies as they are now. One of these was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slaver but also the most brilliant cavalryman of all time. He was a Democrat; he got rich trading slaves; and, he darn near saved it for the South (he would have if Jeff Davis had listened). Then slavery would continue to be part of their platform.

To distinguish Forrest from modern day Democrats - he was honest. Forest has been replaced in the party structure by the likes of Pelosi, Bates, Carville, Rangell, Wright and now - Carter and Clinton. These clowns know that race provides a great backstop in case all else goes wrong - our Big Gun. And these types also know that they enable, and then fetch a good portion of the black population by taking this stand. Thus, in the fine style of J. Jackson, they proceed.

Forrest and Calhoun are gone now, only to have been replaced with race baiters. For them, blacks provide the vehicle. They have a higher purpose. And, they’re disgusting.

Robert Craven