Obama was helped into office by a wave of racial goodwill. Even many critics and skeptics, including your humble columnist, celebrated his election as the surest sign ever that racism in America was still dead. But if racism is dead--or, to be less hyperbolic, completely marginalized--we're still hearing an awful lot about it, in large part because the liberal left in America is obsessed with race. Even during the campaign, liberals found racism in the unlikeliest places, such as the observation that Obama is skinny. Then the Tea Party arose in opposition to Obama's fiscal recklessness, and phony charges of racism were central to the effort against it.
With the president limping toward 2012, it's safe to assume he and his supporters will try to guilt-trip voters into giving him a second term, arguing that the failure to re-elect him would amount to a betrayal of black America. One who states that case explicitly is Melissa Harris-Perry, a racially oriented political scientist from Tulane University."Electoral racism in its most naked, egregious and aggressive form is the unwillingness of white Americans to vote for a black candidate regardless of the candidate's qualifications, ideology or party," she begins an essay in The Nation:
This form of racism was a standard feature of American politics for much of the twentieth century. So far, Barack Obama has been involved in two elections that suggest that such racism is no longer operative. His re-election bid, however, may indicate that a more insidious form of racism has come to replace it.
This is a familiar refrain. The left's view of racism has taken on a central trait of a conspiracy theory: unfalsifiability. The absence of "overt" racism is taken as evidence of "insidious" or "subtle" or "unconscious" racism, the presence of which can always be asserted and never disproved.
Click the link and see how much funnier Melissa gets as she combines illiteracy and lack of a triple-digit IQ to prove how some people get jobs at Tulane which are even dirtier than a janitor's....!!!!
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