Posted on 07/26/2012 4:53:29 PM PDT by upchuck
It isn't socialism that explains Obama's dismissive "you didn't build that" remark toward people of talent and individual initiative; it's the culture of affirmative action. As I listened to Obama's silly, if not pathetic, comments, I was reminded of nothing so much as the comments and attitudes of people like him: the so-called "multicultural" affirmative-action students one encounters in colleges and universities.
Obama became president of the Harvard Law Review (HLR) without ever having an article published in it, a status that separated him from every other HLR president who preceded him. In fact, while Obama was the HLR's first black president, few people know that 70 years earlier, Charles Houston had become the HLR's first black editor, contradicting the myth that black people cannot succeed without affirmative action. Obama didn't possess the skills to be on the HLR, let alone to be the review's president.
Racial nationalists have simply supplanted economics with race. With race as the base, the superstructure -- the culture of society -- is simply the legitimizing instrument of race. According to this mindset, blacks and other minorities can't succeed because the system is designed intrinsically to cause them to fail.
With Obama, we have entered a new cultural era, one where the very foundations of individual initiative, creativity, and achievement are called into question. Obama didn't build it -- and it only appears that others did, because their skin color enabled them to achieve.
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OUCH!!! That’s gonna leave a mark. LOL! Brilliant!
“According to this mindset, blacks and other minorities can’t succeed because the system is designed intrinsically to cause them to fail.”
A very trite excuse for sloth.
Obama's psychosis in a nutshell:"If you come of age in an environment where nearly everyone around you competed and worked hard to get where they are
and you didn't, the way you defend against the inevitable ensuing feelings of inadequacy is to create a psychological rationale
that no one, absolutely no one, got anywhere except with a leg up and a helping hand from others. Their "affirmative action"
is just less conspicuous than yours, but the bottom line is that you are no different from them."
This is the best explanation of TEH ONE’s remarks that I have seen.
BUMP! Excellent graphic.
Thanks for posting this article. It covers something that I had only thought about on the surface, but this made me think more deeply about it.
You’re very welcome.
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