The situation in California in which the politics of the state are now dominated by the influx of a race of people is a subject for legitimate discussion. That the Democrats frustrated Governor Pete Wilson's attempt to stanch this inflow was a political event. The Democrats have played the race card in California just as they played the race card in the election of Barak Obama. This has real significance for Americans. When they played the race card to derail efforts by the Bush administration to regulate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae who were cooking the books on subprime loans, every American has ultimately suffered. The price of submitting to this kind of intimidation is real political and financial pain.
There are abundant electoral, legislative and regulatory actions conditioned by race in America, so to ignore the matter is to ignore reality. Therefore the question becomes, how obsequious must we be to the unspoken conventions of political correctness which have been created by liberals, partly for the purpose of shutting down debate, when we discuss these matters which simply must be discussed if we are to live in reality?
As you are aware from my about page, I have elected, consciously, to address the matter head on, unapologetically. You are quite correct to point out the down side of this approach. Liberals will certainly exploit any comment but they will, if necessary, also wrench plainly inoffensive comments out of context to prove their main justification for the vacuousness of their philosophy: conservatives are racists and they are not-or so they believe. I do not believe that we can successfully tiptoe through the minefield and still live out our franchise which is our birthright as Americans. So, concededly, the use of the name and avatar gives the left some ammunition. But I do not believe that we can appease our way to public acceptance. I believe that we must confront the problem of racism in politics especially as it is pursued by the left and that we should do so explicitly and without embarrassment. I have made a value judgment that this approach in the long run offers a better hope for persuading those who are persuadable than obscuring our being by confusing euphemism for honesty.
That is a judgment that says the Brand will ultimately prosper better this way.
For readers of this thread who are interested in this matter, I invite you to take a look at my about page for a fuller explanation.
Thank you, gray whiskers, for what I regard to be constructive criticism.
