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.