The New Racial Mess

Townhall.com ^ | July 22, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Glad somebody other than I sees the Jim Jones parallels. Most people have probably forgotten about him, but I lived in SF during his rise and saw all the fools who flocked to him. Sadly, this latest Jim Jones iteration will probably have a similar tragic ending”

I was not paying attention during the actual Jim Jones climax period but became interested in it a few years later ~ 1980 with Powers Booth's drama (playing him ) telling the poor blacks that he is their only Savior from the white government that wants them killed. He wanted their SS checks too. I remember JJ pressuring the poor, terrifying them into thinking he was God the only one that can save them.

Last night MSNBC peaked that theme they been running since Obama got the nomination.

[Buckeye McFrog]

This is what Obama wants. He can have a lifetime career representing blacks at the Racial Grievance Table long after his term in office is up.

[bk1000]

Obama was elected based on the color of his skin, not the content of his character

[qrstuv]

“Those talking about racial confrontation while members of an easily identified small minority are on a path which history indicates leads to a very bad place.”

Wow...what a perfect distillation of my thoughts as well. I just wish I could have expressed it so succinctly.

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH ping. VDH skewers and unmasks the most-racial pres__ent ever.

In turn, a number of Americans want to know why -- nearly a half-century after the Civil Rights Act, affirmative action and Great Society programs -- some national lobbying organizations still identify themselves by archaic tribal terms such as "colored people" or "La Raza" ("the race") when it would be taboo for other groups to adopt such racial nomenclature.

Indeed, race seems to be the subtext of almost every contemporary issue, from the soaring deficit and government spending to recent presidential appointments and the enforcement of existing immigration law. In times of growing deficits, white people are stereotyped as being angry over supposedly paying higher taxes to subsidize minorities, while minorities are stereotyped as being mostly on the receiving end of entitlements.

Why the escalation of racial tension in the supposed postracial age of Obama?

America has largely moved beyond race. Tragically, our president and a host of his supportive special interests have not.

[Deb]

If the Left was ever honest about race being the non-issue it really is, they'd lose the ears of the Black and hispanic victim class they've created and nurtured all these years. Those black/brown ears would start listening to other voices and the Democrat party would equal the Russian Beer & Pretzel Party.

My future husband hits another one outta the park.

[neverdem]

The rats are playing with fire. The results could be interesting. Thanks for the ping.