It's a Black Thing

Our political landscape has been hijacked by race. And we all know the hijackers. One can clearly identify racialists like Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones and Barack Obama through their thread-bare ski-masks of social justice. But it's all a lie—a carefully crafted lie designed to re-enslave generations of voters to a political party more interested in accumulating power than serving God, justice, or our Constitution.

Let's start with perception. Here's a very short list of prominent Republicans who just happen to be black: Martin Luther King.

That's right. You probably never learned that in school. This article from Human Events is chock full of facts most people probably don't know about the civil rights era, facts most teachers will never teach. And this article on Black & Right provides a fantastic timeline of Republican leadership and Democratic resistance to civil rights.

My nephew is a senior at St. Louis' most highly regarded public school. He'll graduate as an A student this Spring. He had never heard that MLK was a Republican. It's an "inconvenient truth" that's a little too hard for the teacher union liberals to tell. Explaining to a bunch of doe-eyed school kids that Democrats were the ones in favor of slavery, segregation and maintaining "the purity of the races" is not likely to help turn school kids into the desired army of Democratic college student activists.

Generations (my own included — as a child of the 70s) have been snowed into thinking that liberals are the party of racial inclusion. They've worked really hard for that brand identity, so any threat to that brand must be personalized, frozen and polarized. So conservatives are branded racists and Nazis. Never mind that Hitler was a socialist.

From the 60s civil rights era, flash forward to the present. The black "community" hasn't been in worse shape since the civil war. The fabric of the black family, once the core of its strength, has been reduced to a cancerous, self-perpetuating cycle of single-parent families with dead, jailed or otherwise absent fathers. Re-enslaved to government social programs, the low expectations of affirmative action, and the lure of easy money in drugs and criminality. They blame white society, and the mainstream media peddles the Democratic Party as the only cure.

The American voters were finally presented with an opportunity to prove to the world that we are not racists as portrayed. Unfortunately, the first chance we were given was a half-black candidate with no executive experience, Marxist leanings, and a history of association with racist and terrorist America haters. And we elected him anyway, making Obama our first affirmative action president. A man hired primarily because of the color of his skin instead of the content of his character.

And now instead of the "post racialism" Obama promised, we find ourselves in a period where everything is about race. Every news item has a racial angle, no matter how tortured. And any criticism of the president's policies are met with screams of racism.

Given the liberal's strangle hold on the racial brand, white conservatives have a hard time making their point. It is all too easy to bring any issue back to race and invalidate honest criticism. Under Obama, everything from health care to energy policy becomes about America's racist social structure. It's a black thing, we just don't understand. But black conservatives do. And there's the key to the solution.

The time has come for the conservative movement to lift-up, support and provide leadership roles to black conservatives — people like Walter E. Williams, Ward Connerly, Shelby Steele, J.C. Watts, Star Parker, Kevin Jackson, Joseph C. Phillips, and Alfonzo Rachel. And many, many others.

Conservatives tend to ignore race: MLK's vision of a color blind society being one of our most important ideals. But ignoring race entirely eliminates an important marketing tool. If you want to sell makeup to teenagers, you hire a teenager to sell your message. If we want to sell conservatism to the black community, we need black conservatives to deliver the pitch. Their very existence exposes the lie of racial politics in America. And every time a black conservative gets called an Uncle Tom, it's a blow against the liberal "race brand." As the public is exposed to more free-thinking black citizens speaking conservative values, they will begin to question the wisdom of the black community's single party allegiance.

The germ of this idea came while listening to Rush Limbaugh's Bo Snerdly do his "official Obama criticizer" bit. Snerdly, who is black, will re-read Rush's criticism of Obama in a hip-hop dialect that is hilarious satire, but rings so true it's sobering. Snerdly is holding up a mirror to the liberal orthodoxy that feels it owns the black community.

Black conservatives are true anti-establishement activists. Unlike left-wing activists whose free expression is championed by the mainstream, the free expression of black conservatives costs them dearly. Many are rejected by family and peers for holding opinions that go against the community group-think. They're targets of bullying, verbal abuse, racial epithets, and violence. They deserve our support and a more prominent role in leading the conservative movement.

And before you complain that this is nothing but conservative affirmative action — let me point out that I'm not talking about pandering to black folks — the drippy me-too sentimentality that hoisted Michael Steele to the chairmanship of the RNC. Steele's conservative credentials are weaker than his leadership ability. Placing him at the helm of the Republican Party did nothing to help the conservative brand.

Solid conservatives — who happen to be black, and can speak with authority about their experience — will make a real difference. These excellent people can be catalysts for a radical change in the conservative brand. They can help conservatives reach a new target audience not by pandering, but by really communicating. And as more open-minded black people hear their message, more will question the status quo of politics in their community. And as more question, more will join — imagine what real change conservative values will make in the black community after 10 or 15 years. It's an exciting prospect for America and the conservative movement.

So what can you do? Read the blogs, buy the books, follow the Twitter feeds and watch the Youtube videos of as many black conservatives as you can find. Share it with your friends and family.

Dude, I can totally see your wiener.

As the press sits around marveling at Obama's fantastic new suit of clothes, the rest of us are left gaping at the spectacle of our naked emperor, fooling no one but himself. So I thought I'd do the gent a favor and point him out a few things — speak truth to power, as they say:

1. We know you picked Hillary for Secretary of State just to get her out of your way, but she's really bad at her job. Bring it up at her next performance review.
2. Your wife has horrible fashion sense. I'm just saying.
3. When you start a sentence "Let me be clear," we know you're about to lie. It's like a poker tell.
4. Without your tele-prompter, you're starting to sound erratic and gaff-prone, but...
5. ...good news, not as erratic and gaffe-prone as Joe Biden. Bring him around more.
6. It's possible that Robert Gibbs may be functionally illiterate — probably had someone else fill out the job application for him. You might look into that.
7. If your lefty base finds out Rahm Emanuel is Jewish, they're going to be really pissed.
8. The Supreme Court is not a Gap ad. You don't have to get one of each ethnicity in the photo.
9. Every time you point the finger at Bush, there are three more pointing back at you. They represent the deficit you tripled.
10. Afghanistan's a mess. You may have to soldier-up over there. Don't tell Code Pink.
11. You know that neighbor who's always giving you their unwanted cold remedies? You're kind of like that old lady. Keep your healthcare ideas to yourself.

Waiting for Godot

The resignation of Sarah Palin leaves her potential for future office in question. Romney's prospects may have suffered a fatal wound due to the failure of his Massachusetts socialized medicine scheme. Jindal's first big national appearance went over like a lead balloon. Sanford self-destructed (bullet dodged there). Gingrich sold out to the "climate change" fascists. Where's that perfect ONE GREAT VOICE who will lead conservatives to victory — in 2012 to be sure — but more importantly in 2010?

The wait could be a long one. Much like the characters in Beckett's famous play, we may not have even met this great leader. And we may not even recognize him when we see him.

Conservatives struggle under a couple of competing priorities: 1) the need to win, and 2) the need to advance conservative ideology. In McCain, we thought we had #1, and were prepared to sell out #2 in order to get it. We ended up with zero. In Palin, Jindal, et al, we are pretty sure we have #2 covered, but #1 is highly suspect. To be sure, the recent tantalizing weakness of Obama is heartening, but then we thought the same thing about Clinton before he won his second election to Dole (the pre-McCain McCain).

And then there's that pesky problem bedeviling the GOP — a tendency to nominate the "next person in line." Democrats don't often do this. It's been said (by Will Rogers, most famously) that the Democratic Party is disorganized. And perhaps that's what protects it from that patrician instinct that gave us candidate Bob Dole.

But the Tea Party movement is unexpected. Something very untraditional for conservatives. The Tea Parties began as a true grass-roots movement and continues as same. Each city has a few organizers, but there is no single conservative version of NOW or ANSWER fanning the flames of the Tea Parties. They were seemingly formed from a loose group of outraged citizens tired of ceding the political discourse to politicians who ultimately let us down. And for the first time that I can remember, they are showing up in force to let politicians of both parties have a piece of their mind. At many of the early Tea Parties, organizers refused to allow politicians to even take the stage. Now that's CHANGE.

We are the ones we've been waiting for. Famous words. But unlike when Obama said it (he was being disingenuous. What he really meant was "I am the one you've been waiting for. Lucky you.") I mean it in its truest sense. If conservatism is to flourish, WE THE PEOPLE have to finally take the lead in voicing our ideology, deciding what issues we stand for, and really choosing who we allow to speak for us. The time of letting career politicians and political parties set our course has past. The search for the NEXT GREAT VOICE is over. We're not waiting any longer.

EPILOGUE: Here's Kevin Jackson's (theblacksphere.net) take on the Tea Parties, with credit due to St. Louis organizers Bill Hennessey and Dana Loesch, plus Americans for Prosperity, iheardthepeoplesay, and Americans for Fair Taxation.

McCaskill Hosts Liberal Racists

The St. Louis Tea Party organized a counter protest outside Claire McCaskill's office this week. ACORN was out in force - no doubt at some rate above minimum wage, with or without insurance benefits.

Unlike the previous week when the Tea Party held a protest outside the very same office (McCaskill's staff called the police forced the protestors across the street) the ACORN demonstrators were given full access to the front of the office and could be seen going in and out of the front door. I guess McCaskill "respects their right to free speech" more than the Tea Party's. ACORN's reception was so friendly, one was left to wonder if they were not invited by McCaskill to mitigate the damage from the previous week - and shore up her untenable position on the healthcare issue with which Missouri voters strongly disagree.

As I stood in the median with the Tea Party group, liberal protestors began yelling at a black man standing next to me for "being on the wrong side." Kevin Jackson, local author and conservative activist, was positively accosted by several women from ACORN, called an "Uncle Tom", and "token" (despite the fact that he's a leader in the local Tea Party). I was appalled. Not as much that they would have those feelings, but more so that they would feel comfortable shouting their racism out loud within ear-shot of the office of a U.S. Senator who supports them.

Mind you, there were many more white people protesting with ACORN than black - but it never occurred to me to think of them as traitors to their race. I recognize that white people have many different political views. Being a liberal is crazy no matter what color your skin is. So why can't a black man have a different political opinion than the prevailing black sentiment without being subjected to hate speech?

Read more about this on Kevin's blog: http://www.theblacksphere.net. And purchase his book The Big Black Lie

Obama: The Grudge President?

It's not likely that Obama's stupid comment about the Cambridge Police acting "stupidly" was based in racial bias on his part. If there were anything racial about it, it was more probably racial blindness -- Obama being blinded to any perspective beyond the racial grievance politics he's milked on the street and absorbed from the pew.

But there's another theory. We all know that his friends live on a knife's edge, fodder to be thrown under the bus to cushion the bumps of his presidency. Would a man who treats his friends so shabbily hold even more contempt for his enemies? Could he be a serial grudge-holder? That would explain a lot about his Cambridge fiasco.

Of course, the two could be related. The racial grievance mindset is largely built on an inability or unwillingness to let go of the past -- holding on to injuries and perceived slights until every incident becomes a thread in a warped tapestry of hate and mistrust.

Could it be that the same syndrome bedeviling liberal pie-in-the-sky solutions to the Arab/Israeli conflict is alive and well in the White House over something as trivial as a parking ticket? Maybe so. After all, it took months for Obama to call on a reporter from Fox News.