The Genteel Faces of Racism

Vanity | 6/24/2003 | Moneyrunner

[johnb838]

Slap the DUNKEY all the way to Washington!

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

We are now going to face another generation of black people whose credentials will now be suspect because it will be impossible to tell if they achieved their positions as the result of merit or of “affirmative action” racism

Sometimes one sentence says it all.

[dagnabbit]

No big deal. Just check the boxes and claim your preferences.

[Bogolyubski]

I would add only one correction to this otherwise excellent article: Today's incarnation of the abolitionists are not the liberals and leftists who have now permanently enshrined "affirmative action" (a typical Orwellian phrase that completely obscures the truth of what is going on). These people are in fact the incarnation of the slave-masters of olden days. The abolitionists were honorable people who stood up and fought the injustice of chattel slavery in their day - it dishonors them to label a snake pit of poisonous liberals and leftists as their spiritual heirs.

[moneyrunner]

I struggled with this characterization, because I agree with you from an objective perspective. But I put it in the perspective that Douglass would understand. While a great many politicos on the Left are totally cynical about their use and abuse of black people (I am thinking of going back to the old Douglass term: negro) most of today’s white liberals – the new faces of racism – believe they are helping. But it’s the same sort of help you give to Special Olympics contestants, knowing that they will never, ever be able to compete in the main games because they are crippled.

[moneyrunner]

FYI