Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time? [Victor Davis Hanson]

NRO Corner ^ | June 04, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[surely_you_jest]

Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?

Of course it is. Why deviate from a winning formula?

[fleagle]

Absolutely. It’s a shame, but I don’t talk to my brother anymore...once a year at Christmas is all. And my racial-card-playing sis-in-law never spoke to me so that is no loss.

[sheik yerbouty]

24/7 until we have regime change..

[the invisib1e hand]

Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?

As long as it's politically expedient, at least.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That was really a great vignette in that South Park episode.

[CitizenM]

Thanks. Isn’t this all a shame? I think race relations are being set back 50 years by the Obamas and their snide remarks and their obvious prejudices. Just goes to prove that you can take the person out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of the person. What a sorry situation that could have been so much better with someone above being spiteful and hateful in the WH.

[FBD]

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[fleagle]

Once a person is invested in all things racial, there is so little (read: none) chance for them to ever get out of that mindset. The Obamas quite obviously have that negative, victim mentality. We’ve seen it from the very beginning and it’s excused; mostly by those harboring liberal white guilt.

[CitizenM]

You are exactly right. Which is why the Obamas keep pushing that victim mentality down the throats of African/Americans and any Whites that are burdened by guilt. That is their strategy, so that they can maintain control. I refuse to feel guilty...I have never been racist, my family never owned slaves or was even here during the Civil War period. How can we be at fault for something that we had no part of or in, and to this day have never been prejudiced?

What I am angry about is that Obama and others like him who have grabbed that "make Americans feel guilty," cause are letting their own race become more frowned upon than ever.

Remember when Obama spoke to a crowd of blacks during the election and told them their brains were not as good as the brains of the white people because they did not have the same skill to handle information (or something like that)? He made fools of all of them, and they still never even realized it. He does the same when he claims how much help they need, how dependent they are on the govt. etc. He is belittling them, in essence saying they cannot do for themselves. It is an Obamanation!

If I were a Black person I would feel so insulted by him and his wife and those who use the Black people for their own political careers and egos.

[fleagle]

When the individual succeeds it does not serve the Democrat platform, which is built on sloth, bad choices, and dependency. What if every individual succeeded? The Dems would lose everything. How anyone could be a member of a party so invested in defeat; in war, in initiative, in decision-making...it boggles the mind.

[cradle of freedom]

About the Michele Obama thesis —is it legal to print someone’s thesis and sell it as a book? I guess she would have to give her approval.