Race Baiting

Back in March, Barack Obama gave, what I admit, was an excellent (but imperfect) speech on race relations, declaring that "working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds." The media then annointed him as the "post-racial" candidate. (By the way, I still have no working definition of "post-racial".) Then came this a few days ago from the Democrat's nominee at a Florida fundraiser:

Obama on GOP: "And did I mention he's black?"

This is disturbing on two levels: first, not surprisingly, Obama is trying to saddle both sides of this issue. While trying to speak to the heartland about moving beyond race, he attempts to take sole ownership of "the race factor" to a different audience.

Furthermore, it shows how the Republican Party of the past decade has failed to tailor a message of "equal opportunity" tethered to long-term prosperity to attract voters aged 18-30. Obama's elitist/futuristic rhetoric has attracted educated youth yearning for someone, or something, to look up to. I believe that most people of my generation have moved beyond, or have been ready to move beyond, the issue of race. Any thoughts on how the next conservative movement can attract and galvanize this generation, and the next generation, of young voters?

BOTTOM LINE: Obama's straddling of "race" shows more than his hypocrisy; it shows that those who are right-of-center need a brainstorming session on using "equal opportunity" to broaden our base.

You know, although I think what Fox News did to Michelle Obama was distasteful, wrong and just downright mean. When I read stuff like this, I just want to vomit.

How much more hate mongering can you get? I will not bother quoting none of that idiotic bile over here.

I mean, why cannot people just accept a damn apology and get the hell over it already? I mean, some of these people act like we have revoked the amendment to the constitution outlawing slavery or something.

…In addition, Please, do not hand none of that idiot baloney about their people still being in bondage, because you know what? I am not buying it. It just so happens that the black people in this country have been free for over 300 years. Yet they act like they are in some sort of bondage, the truth is the only damn bondage that the black community is in, is of their own damn making. 

It is, in fact our own fault. Our Congress, at the behest of the Democratic President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, signed into law, one of the worst bills that ever passed across the senate floor, and that was the civil rights act of 1964. One of my favorite and most respected senators, Senator Barry Goldwater voted against it, saying that one could not legislate morality.   

Did he do this because was a racist bigot and hated blacks? No. He did it because he knew that there would be people within the black community that would exploit the civil rights movement that would try to turn the peaceful civil rights movement, started by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. into a Black Nationalist Movement, which would seek to destroy the very equality that Martin Luther King Jr. stood for.

Yet, the Democrats and their foolish agenda of identity politics and entitlement passed this bill and opened the future floodgates of Anti-White Race Hatred in this country. The blog posting that I linked to is a perfect example of that.  

Now before anyone castigates me, as some sort of a racist bigot, let me say that I do not think that what happened in Alabama was acceptable. What happened in Selma, Alabama was a scar on the history of America. However, the way that it was corrected, was flawed, and has now set the stage for some of grossest violations of the constitution ever.

However, when I sit and read a posting by someone, who is apparently black and I read the hate and vitriol being spewed like this, I often wonder aloud, did we royally screw it up in 1964?

It really makes me wonder.

Cross Posted @ Political Byline