Liberals Are Stuck in the Hypocritical Past on Racism
CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | NOVEMBER 25, 2004 | BLACK SHADOW

Did you ever think you would read these words in a San Francisco
Chronicle column?

A Latino attorney general? A black woman as secretary of state?

Who would have imagined it 50 years ago--or even, more recently, say,
during the Clinton administration? Give President Bush credit for
breaking barriers that his Democratic predecessor never got around to.

Just don't tell that to white liberals thrilled with the idea of
minorities doing well--as long as liberals can claim credit. If they
can't, or if the minorities happen to be conservative, things can get
messy.

The American people are about to get a sense of just how messy, now
that Bush has nominated Alberto Gonzales to head the Justice
Department and Condoleezza Rice to run the State Department.

Senate Democrats don't have the votes to thwart the nominations, but
that won't stop them from trying to bloody the nominees before they
take office. Witness what happened 13 years ago during the
confirmation process for Clarence Thomas, who went from Pin Point,
Ga., to Yale Law School to a seat on the Supreme Court--but not before
being subjected to what Thomas called a ''high-tech lynching'' for
challenging liberal orthodoxy on affirmative action, abortion, and
other issues close to the hearts of Democratic constituencies.

Those words appeared in a Chron column written by Ruben Navarette of
the Dallas Morning News. Somehow our ''rogue editor'' slipped this one
past the Chron's PC only-Republicans-can-be-racists ''editorial
board.'' It was probably a stroke of luck that Phil Bronstein and Mrs.
Scheer were out in the parking lot of the Mission Whole Foods store
loading up the Volvo with tofu, turkeys, and organically grown sweet
potatoes. But seriously, Naverette's column hits the Volvo-driving
liberals where it hurts most. It strikes right into their precious,
romanticized, attachment to the civil rights era. Somehow they can do
this even though many of them live in less-than integrated
neighborhoods like Tiburon and Rockridge. And they like to label
themselves as ''progressives.''

Most denizens of the Chronicle newsroom, like many liberals and
Democrats, still live in a 1960's world where conservatives and
Republicans wear white sheets and do everything they can to keep
minorities down.

Yes, Virginia, Mississippi is still burning. And why not? Stirring the
embers of racism still (but not for much longer) gets votes for
Democrats. Even in October 2004, Democrat presidential nominee John
Kerry waved the bloody shirt of racism claiming in Florida ''we
remember the one-million black votes disenfranchised in the last
election,'' knowing full well that it was a bald faced lie. Even worse
was the infamous leaflet of the liberal 527 group America Coming
Together (led by Clintonista Harold Ickes) which showed firefighters
using hoses against blacks in the 1950s saying ''this is how they kept
us from voting then; don't let THEM do it again.'' And the media tell
us that Bush is a divider.

Of course, Ickes tries to change history by ignoring that it was
Southern Democrats like Senators Ernest Hollings and Robert Byrd, who
were members of the Ku Klux Klan, but the media overlooks this detail
of the South. When confronted with this hateful ad on the Hannity and
Colmes Show last week, even leftist black studies professor Cornell
West was forced to condemn the ad.

The so-called mainstream media are little better, while this election
season was an absolute rout for Democrats, that didn't stop CNN from
going ''All-Obama, All the Time'' on election day, celebrating the
election of Barack Obama, a black Democrat as senator, while ignoring
the election in Louisiana of Republican Bobby Jindal, the son of
Indian immigrants, to Congress. Of course, prior to election day the
media played up all rumors of disenfranchised black voters, refusing
to call liberal groups on their despicable tactics of crying ''voter
fraud'' even when none existed. Veterans of campus culture wars will
recognize that liberal left tactic of claiming ''hate crime'' or
''rape'' or even faking the same to ''bring attention to the issue''
while liberal administrators nod approvingly.

So despite the changing times, it no surprise that the liberal
race-baiters are silent when the black and brown ones step off the
reservation and--gasp--become conservative? As we've seen in the past
week, Rice, Powell, and Gonzalez are all ostracized by white liberals
like Ted Rall or Pat Oliphant as ''not being a true black'' or an
''authentic Latino.'' See, to the patronizing white liberals only
race-grievance liberal black dinosaurs like the Reverends Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Mary
Frances Berry are ''true''' representatives of their race. To them,
Colin Powell, Condi Rice, and Clarence Thomas are ''traitors'' who
dare to ''act white.''

Remember New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's sneering ''How dare
he, after all we've done for him'' column last year directed at
Justice Clarence Thomas for having the nerve to object to the left's
racial bean-counting schemes at the University of Michigan? Hell hath
no fury like a white liberal scorned.

Republicans under Karl Rove understand that this lashing out on the
part of Democrats is a realization that their old tired race-based
politics no longer holds sway. As evidenced by President Bush's
garnering of 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in the general election,
Republicans will pursue an optimistic, futuristic pro-growth,
pro-family, patriotic, ownership-society message to Hispanics, who
value family, faith, and country. Democrats, still tied to victimhood
groups like the NAACP, offer nothing but pessimistic grievance
politics tied to government-based affirmative action. President Bush's
snub of the NAACP was a not-so-subtle message that the organization's
race-baiting politics will not be welcome in the 21st Century.

Republican appointments of blackx to high profile cabinet spots such
as secretary of state and national security advisor will beat the
Democrats ''traditional'' black appointments to Housing and Urban
Development and resonate with black voters. And Democrats know it.
Bush polled as much as 16 percent among black voters earlier this
year, prompting Democrats to panic and again revert to hysterical
race-baiting as we saw from Kerry and ACT and two years ago when
Maryland gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Kennedy Townsend desperately
played the race card to Baltimore blacks before losing to Republican
candidate Robert Erlich.

Karl Rove, who with his aid in defeating conservative ''Blue Dog'''
Democrats such as Charles Stenholm of Texas, has nearly succeeded in
his efforts to make the Democrats the minority party of angry
minorities. His efforts might even succeed further if the Democrats
nominate Donna Brazile, the former chief of staff to D.C. Rep. Eleanor
Holmes Norton and a liberal civil-rights era black dinosaur, as head
of the Democratic National Committee to replace disgraced Clintonista
Terry McAuliffe. While Donna Brazile is well respected in both parties
and ran a shrewd campaign for Al Gore, she is a creature of the
hard-left grievance, pity party. She is not above her own
race-baiting, calling the GOP a party of ''white boys'' and suggesting
famously in 2000 that ''Republicans would rather take pictures with
black children than feed them.''

The racist outbursts on the part of white liberals like Ted Rall and
Pat Oliphant are the last gasps of a dying party, and that is
something to be thankful for this holiday season.

About the Writer: The Black Shadow is a Bay Area native and UC
Berkeley grad, now transplanted to the East Coast. He remains a
die-hard Raider and A's fan, and yearns for Brennan's corned beef and
Golden Bear lager

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Liberals Are Stuck in the Hypocritical Past on Racism
CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | NOVEMBER 25, 2004 | BLACK SHADOW

Did you ever think you would read these words in a San Francisco
Chronicle column?

A Latino attorney general? A black woman as secretary of state?

Who would have imagined it 50 years ago--or even, more recently, say,
during the Clinton administration? Give President Bush credit for
breaking barriers that his Democratic predecessor never got around to.

Just don't tell that to white liberals thrilled with the idea of
minorities doing well--as long as liberals can claim credit. If they
can't, or if the minorities happen to be conservative, things can get
messy.

The American people are about to get a sense of just how messy, now
that Bush has nominated Alberto Gonzales to head the Justice
Department and Condoleezza Rice to run the State Department.

Senate Democrats don't have the votes to thwart the nominations, but
that won't stop them from trying to bloody the nominees before they
take office. Witness what happened 13 years ago during the
confirmation process for Clarence Thomas, who went from Pin Point,
Ga., to Yale Law School to a seat on the Supreme Court--but not before
being subjected to what Thomas called a ''high-tech lynching'' for
challenging liberal orthodoxy on affirmative action, abortion, and
other issues close to the hearts of Democratic constituencies.