/Standard Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr.:
As an American who happens to be black, I say to those who are playing the race card in the healthcare debate: Stop it! The very people who do all the hand ringing about racism are the first to use it to divide us, and we are tired of it. The racial denigration of those who show up at town meetings as "angry white folks" is disgusting. If anything is "un-American," as Nancy Pelosi has alleged, it is her describing citizens as Nazis because they do not agree with President Obama. Americans are angrily rejecting the democrat effort to jam government health care down their
throats, and it has nothing to do with race.
Liberals have a propensity toward intellectual arrogance. As such they view the American people as too stupid or disengaged to understand the complexities of health care reform. Because most of us are busy earning a living, we sometimes allow government to go awry for a while, but when it goes too far, the people awaken with a fury. That point has been reached. It may not be pretty or pleasant, but it is real and politicians dismiss it at their political peril.
The more Democrats attempt to marginalize the opposition, the more it grows and the angrier people get. The polls show that as the debate proceeds, notwithstanding some yelling, more people agree with the citizens expressing opposition to Obama-care. They are listening and deciding that something is very wrong. Its makes us angrier when the very people we pay with our hard earned tax dollars have the hubris to call us names because we do not agree with them.
To add insult to injury, the President who promised to unite us asks people to email the White House if they hear anything "fishy" about the health care plan. The President and the Democrats who control both Houses of Congress had better take a deep breath and stop overreaching. There are some things the American people are not going to take, and some lines that politicians dare not cross. Every time they accuse people of being racists and nazis they cross that line. If they force on the American people a health care program which they vehemently oppose, they will have crossed the point of no return.
King George imposed taxes on the American colonists for the benefit of England. Those who
opposed him were called traitors, and it sparked a revolution. If an imperious President and Democrat party attack those who oppose the new healthcare plan instead of listening and heeding them, there may well be a second -- albeit peaceful -- revolution. The effort to divide us along racial lines is a despicable tactic which will only bring a harsher backlash.
We have had enough of balkanizing us into enclaves of hyphenated Americans. This is what happens when we are led by those who believe in one nation under government, instead of one nation under God. The unity of our country lies in rejecting race as our primary identifier. We are Americans, and right now, we are angry. Our elected officials need to deal with it instead of trying to demonize those who dare question them. When they start categorizing citizens by skin color, they do so to de-legitimize those who disagree with them.
For fifty years now we have been told that we need an honest dialogue on race. The Attorney General condescendingly informed us that we are "cowards" when it comes to matters of race. When Jeremiah Wright's racist demagoguery was exposed, Candidate Obama lectured us about "typical white people" like his grandmother being inherently racist. Recently the President advised us that we had a "teachable moment" when in so many words he accused the Cambridge police of racism in the treatment of Professor Henry Gates. Of course, he did the teaching when he should have been apologizing and taking responsibility for his own gaffe.
The American people are tired of being called racist. We have had it with ivory tower liberals telling us we need to have a "dialogue" about race. We don't need any more sensitivity training. Here is my racial dialogue with the American people. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Dialogue over. Let's drop the race bating and get on with debating the matter of keeping our country prosperous and free.
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Opinion: Liberals Are the True Racists
/Standard Newswire/ -- E.W. Jackson Sr. submits the following and is available for comment:
Columnist Maureen Dowd attacked George Bush for appointing white men to the Supreme Court, calling it a "disgrace." Barbara Boxer trotted out the NAACP to oppose the National Black Chamber of Commerce opposition to Cap & Trade. Something very insidious is behind these liberal racial jabs, and it is more than resentment of supposed white male privilege or
seeking justice for minorities.
Liberals are not against white men and they are not for minority people. They are for liberals and against non-liberals. If Barack Obama had nominated a liberal white male for the Supreme Court, the left would have been silent. Their real motives lie neither in attacking whites, nor supporting minorities. The objective is control and power over people.
Paternalism is essential to liberalism. On some level they have the need and feel they have a right to control how people behave and think, especially members of the victim groups they champion. Like parents, they feel betrayed when their children fail to embrace their values, and it sends them into paroxysms of rage. That is why they hate Sarah Palin. She is a daughter
who dared rebel against pro-abortion feminism. She has blasphemed their goddess, and this calls for her symbolic "honor killing." That is why Barbara Boxer brought up the NAACP with Black Chamber President Harry Alford. It was her way of saying, "The rest of my black children think like me. What happened to you?"
The liberal attitude toward racial minorities is cloaked in compassion, but it is the intellectual equivalent of a master to slave relationship. Subconsciously, they believe they own the souls of black folk, bought and paid for by their civil rights credentials. As a result, they only like the "good" blacks who stay in their place. Those who dare escape the left-wing plantation find
themselves the target of a "high tech lynching" reserved for minorities who get "uppity." Ask Justice Clarence Thomas.
When any black person makes progress, they must remember they owe it to their liberal benefactors. When liberals defend affirmative action, they do so in the paternalistic belief that blacks cannot compete on the same level with whites. As intellectual superiors, it is their duty to take care of them. They glibly advocate lowering test standards and giving government set
asides and handouts. Woe to the "racist" who questions the fairness or effectiveness of such
policies.
They resent the very suggestion that any minority can succeed without liberal promotion and protection. Through liberal government largess they have clothed, fed and housed poor minority victims. They are personally insulted to think that any would want to escape. Blacks have the most exalted position in the liberal hierarchy of adopted groups. Any black person who disregards such beneficence must be punished to be taught a lesson and to keep others in line.
Judges Janet Rogers Brown and Miguel Estrada were denied confirmation of their judicial appointments because they went off the ideological plantation. It is ugly, but it is liberal realpolitik.
The messianic hysteria over Obama is an extension of this mindset. Leftists have one of their own as President of the United States, and he is black. He is the product of a long history of training and strategizing to take full control. He is the poster boy for liberal doctrine. They can declare any attack on him racism. He's perfect. They will continue to love him, as long as he stays in his place on abortion, gay rights, global warming and other liberal marching orders.
However, were he ever to flee the plantation, the liberal infatuation with his being the first black
president would be replaced by a hateful determination to destroy him.
Maureen Dowd, Barbara Boxer and their liberal friends do not hate white guys, and they do not love blacks and other minorities. They love liberalism and the governmental power it gives them. They have a unique antipathy for any minority who fails to adhere to accepted liberal doctrine. Their disdain for nonconforming minorities may be more virulent than their distaste for conservative white men because minorities, as they see it, owe them. How dare they think for themselves? Therefore, left-wing zealots will seek to destroy any prominent Hispanic, black, white or woman who refuses to bow to liberal orthodoxy.
It is time for minorities in America to stand up like Harry Alford and say, "We take offense at the idea that we must think like liberals say minorities are supposed to think. We will think for ourselves as individual Americans, not as members of a designated victim group. We will not stay in our place."
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Columnist Maureen Dowd attacked George Bush for appointing white men to the Supreme Court, calling it a "disgrace." Barbara Boxer trotted out the NAACP to oppose the National Black Chamber of Commerce opposition to Cap & Trade. Something very insidious is behind these liberal racial jabs, and it is more than resentment of supposed white male privilege or
seeking justice for minorities.
Liberals are not against white men and they are not for minority people. They are for liberals and against non-liberals. If Barack Obama had nominated a liberal white male for the Supreme Court, the left would have been silent. Their real motives lie neither in attacking whites, nor supporting minorities. The objective is control and power over people.
Paternalism is essential to liberalism. On some level they have the need and feel they have a right to control how people behave and think, especially members of the victim groups they champion. Like parents, they feel betrayed when their children fail to embrace their values, and it sends them into paroxysms of rage. That is why they hate Sarah Palin. She is a daughter
who dared rebel against pro-abortion feminism. She has blasphemed their goddess, and this calls for her symbolic "honor killing." That is why Barbara Boxer brought up the NAACP with Black Chamber President Harry Alford. It was her way of saying, "The rest of my black children think like me. What happened to you?"
The liberal attitude toward racial minorities is cloaked in compassion, but it is the intellectual equivalent of a master to slave relationship. Subconsciously, they believe they own the souls of black folk, bought and paid for by their civil rights credentials. As a result, they only like the "good" blacks who stay in their place. Those who dare escape the left-wing plantation find
themselves the target of a "high tech lynching" reserved for minorities who get "uppity." Ask Justice Clarence Thomas.
When any black person makes progress, they must remember they owe it to their liberal benefactors. When liberals defend affirmative action, they do so in the paternalistic belief that blacks cannot compete on the same level with whites. As intellectual superiors, it is their duty to take care of them. They glibly advocate lowering test standards and giving government set
asides and handouts. Woe to the "racist" who questions the fairness or effectiveness of such
policies.
They resent the very suggestion that any minority can succeed without liberal promotion and protection. Through liberal government largess they have clothed, fed and housed poor minority victims. They are personally insulted to think that any would want to escape. Blacks have the most exalted position in the liberal hierarchy of adopted groups. Any black person who disregards such beneficence must be punished to be taught a lesson and to keep others in line.
Judges Janet Rogers Brown and Miguel Estrada were denied confirmation of their judicial appointments because they went off the ideological plantation. It is ugly, but it is liberal realpolitik.
The messianic hysteria over Obama is an extension of this mindset. Leftists have one of their own as President of the United States, and he is black. He is the product of a long history of training and strategizing to take full control. He is the poster boy for liberal doctrine. They can declare any attack on him racism. He's perfect. They will continue to love him, as long as he stays in his place on abortion, gay rights, global warming and other liberal marching orders.
However, were he ever to flee the plantation, the liberal infatuation with his being the first black
president would be replaced by a hateful determination to destroy him.
Maureen Dowd, Barbara Boxer and their liberal friends do not hate white guys, and they do not love blacks and other minorities. They love liberalism and the governmental power it gives them. They have a unique antipathy for any minority who fails to adhere to accepted liberal doctrine. Their disdain for nonconforming minorities may be more virulent than their distaste for conservative white men because minorities, as they see it, owe them. How dare they think for themselves? Therefore, left-wing zealots will seek to destroy any prominent Hispanic, black, white or woman who refuses to bow to liberal orthodoxy.
It is time for minorities in America to stand up like Harry Alford and say, "We take offense at the idea that we must think like liberals say minorities are supposed to think. We will think for ourselves as individual Americans, not as members of a designated victim group. We will not stay in our place."
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