By Crystal Wright
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Paul Ryan had a black girlfriend in college? The Root’s
Kelli Goff suggests in an article that blacks should be suspicious of this,
implying Ryan could be a racist. Maybe a call to the Guinness Book of World
Records is in order. Ryan isn’t the first white man to date a black person and
certainly won’t be the last. Ryan dating a black woman in college shows me he’s
just as audacious in his personal life (evolved and open-minded) as he is in
his approach to governance.
But apparently, interracial dating is a story only when a
white Republican does it. President Obama dated white women in college and law
school and that never became a significant story during the 2008 campaign. In
fact, discussion by the mainstream media of the President Obama dating white
women in college and law school often implied that he was more tolerant,
complicated and interesting. Instead, the Root’s political writer Keli Goff
speculates just the opposite of Ryan that because Ryan dated a black woman in
college, doesn’t mean he’s NOT a racist.
When it comes to a white conservative politicians
interracial dating, the Liberal media portrays it as something negative. “Is
the fact that Ryan has dated interracially a noteworthy detail to consider when
analyzing his politics and policies?” wrote Goff.
Referencing no examples of behavior by Ryan that could be
viewed racist, Goff only suggests that one day Ryan may be faced with racist
allegations and use the fact that he dated a black woman in college as his
defense. She writes: “Here's a well-known phrase that has virtually become a
punch line: When someone finds himself on the ropes facing an allegation of
racism, the go-to reflex defense is usually something along the lines of
"But some of my best friends are black!" Translation: "I can't
possibly be racist or racially insensitive because there are black people I
like and they like me. So there."
Ryan doesn’t have a record of pushing legislation harmful
to blacks, he authored a budget plan to help all Americans by reducing
America’s debt, reforming our tax code and fixing entitlement programs to keep
them from going bankrupt. But instead of pointing to specific legislation or
actions by the congressman that might be construed as racist, Goff eagerly
pushes a racist smearing of Ryan when there is ZERO evidence to suggest such a
charge.
Goff like liberal journalist Toure Neblett is engaging in
race baiting journalism because she knows black support for Obama is slipping
and wants to either discourage blacks from voting for Mitt Romney or voting at
all. A recent AP poll found black support for Obama has dropped from 95% to 82%
due to Obama’s support of gay marriage and abysmal unemployment rate plaguing
blacks, which is almost twice the national average.
By putting Ryan in the same company as Strom Thurmond, a
professed segregationist who fathered a baby with his “black servant,” Goff is
asking readers to believe Ryan may be a racist. She also points out that cable
news pundit Lou Dobbs been married to a “Mexican-American woman” even though
for years he “was the face of the anti-illegal-immigration crusade.”
While Goff professes at the end of her piece she’s “not
calling Ryan a racist,” the question arises why she wrote this story to begin
with? I agree with Goff “if you want to know where a politician's heart lies
when it comes to a particular community, it may be best to look at that
person's policies . . . rather than personal relationships” or the color of his
skin. After three and half years, I’d like to see black journalists like Goff
start to critically evaluate Obama’s policies and not continue to give him a
free pass because he’s the country’s first black president.
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