The silver lining in this election is a perspective end to the long standing anti-white male affirmative action program, which is hypocritical and immoral at best. One could see Jesse Jackson crying in a photo at the Obama election.
One might consider that Jackson is crying for joy. I believe that he is crying for grief, that the basis for a once needed affirmative action program has long outlived any validity for existence. It has been left in place, as another ill-advised racist US Government policy which benefits not financially deprived members of our society; but it has long benefited the racist elite, such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others.
No, most likely Jackson was crying for his days of scamming businesses and industry, of shaking down communities and of riding on the backs of financially disenfranchised black community members for his own benefit....is at an end.
Now, the Democratic Party, whose leaders are beholding to the black community's overwhelming support, cannot back away from this racist anti-white male policy, nor can or will the American public continue to condone it. 53% of American voters, about 64 million Americans voted for a black man for president; while 47% of American voters or 57 million Americans voted for a woman for vice president.
As it stands, the children of our Black multi-millionaire president would gain the benefit of affirmative action hiring, promotion and contracting under federal law, over the children of a third generation, economically disenfranchised white family.
Affirmative action racism means that the children of any ethnicity that can prove they are not wholly white should be given certain benefits of being 'economically disadvantaged'. So perhaps we should have Obama explain in the deep South West Virginia mining towns, how their white children's historical economic advantage needs to be evened by the federal government, when competing with his multi-millionaire children for defense contracts, for employment as police officers, as clerks? Yes this is his albatross, it is his hypocrisy that he must defend: and it is up to the Republican Party to call the racist left of the Democratic Party on continuing Affirmative Action and demand that the rights of white Americans be restored.
Stopping affirmative action is about protecting the civil rights of our children, of their cousins and of their children's children: to paraphrase Reagan, 'Mr. Obama tear down this wall!". It is about assuring that the children of indigent white families have the same hope and support of the children of any other racial family. Obama's election proves that one cannot judge economic status in America based on the color of our skin.
In fairness to Obama, neither George Walker nor George Herbert Bush did anything to end this. Their grandchildren or nieces and nephews, children of Jeb Bush of Hispanic decent, also bear those benefits over the white coal miners children- and yes that is hypocritical.
It will be a great irony that Obama, who hails from Illinois as did Lincoln, will have ridden in on continuing a racist Affirmative action policy against a large minority of white male Americans and claim that his win was a victory for civil rights. This is a special mockery as he stands in for inauguration on the day before Martin Luther King's Birthday.
On this day we might hear Obama say that we Americans no longer judge people by the color of their skin, but the content of their character, yet he will have entrenched in his victory the promise of taking the civil rights from that large white minority. He will not represent change at all, but instead represent the will of the Democratic Party to embrace racism as a political tool, dating back to the post-civil war embodiment of the KKK.
The truth is that the Republican Party has always fought racism. It was the leadership of the Republican Party that sent troops into the South to stop Nathan Bedford Forest. It was the Republican Party which forced the Emancipation Proclamation and forced ratification of the 14th Amendment at gunpoint throughout the South in 1868.
On the other side of racism is always the Democratic Party. Harry S. Truman (D) was reportedly a member of the KKK in Jackson County, Missouri. Other politicians include Woodrow Wilson (D) justified the KKK as the History of the American People explained the Ku Klux Klan of the late 1860s as the natural outgrowth of Reconstruction.
It is here that the racist albatross of the Obama presidency has little escape. John McCain did not use this hypocritical, tremendously unpopular and immoral affirmative action issue in the 2008 election, however, Obama's commitment to continue this racist policy to his left wing NAACP base cannot be hidden by the 2012 election.
We have seen in state after state, that when put to the vote, Affirmative Action is outlawed. In Nebraska the numbers were 58% to 42% this week to end their racist policy.
Americans are a fair people and that is why Obama was elected. In 2012, it is that fairness which will be Obama's demise. He will either break his promise to his NAACP base to end affirmative action: or he will be seen as the latest hypocritical supporter of hopefully our last government sanctioned racist policy and there will be an increasingly vocal reaction from the blue collar support of the large white minority which Obama enjoyed in this election.
However, the Republican Party needs to stand, regroup and take on issues that matter to our country. We need to 'tear down that wall'.
Posted by geraldfranklin1891 at November 06, 2008 06:15 PM | Email ThisWe've been talking about a constitutional ammendment like the old I-200 intiative. This was put forward when the Washington State Republican Party was still relevant. They have no backbone today and they have no support.
Posted by: Katie on November 7, 2008 03:47 AM