By Derek Hunter
Sunday, August 18, 2013
To anyone who has been following the really big stories
in the news – and by big, I don’t mean the silliness surrounding IRS, EPA, NSA,
ObamaCare or Benghazi – it has become obvious. This is a racist country.
Indeed, it is a horribly racist place.
It’s not like it used to be, with Klan rallies, Jim Crow
and governors standing in schoolhouse doors. It’s much more subtle and
insidious now, and it permeates every aspect of American life.
I’ve avoided saying it for a while now, but I can’t be
silent anymore.
I’m talking, of course, about the really big story of the
last week – the scourge of racism exposed by a simple rodeo clown at the
Missouri State Fair. The aftermath of what happened there should disturb every
American interested in equality.
The racist act was not some unnamed guy wearing a Barack
Obama mask and lampooning the president. Nor was it Tuffy Gessling, the now
“banned for life” rodeo performer who was on the microphone. No, the racist act
isn’t a single act; it’s a constant series of acts committed by progressives,
Democrats and their allies. It’s the insistence President Obama not be held to
the same standards, not be treated the same way as other presidents and other
politicians simply because of race.
It’s not breaking news the president is black. Most
people, especially those of us born after the babyboomers, couldn’t care less.
It was indeed a much bigger deal 40 years ago, but we are not our grandparents’
generation. The world has changed. Peoples have stopped caring about race.
We’ve stopped caring about a lot of things the people in charge still obsess
over, but none more than race.
This burgeoning revolution has left some people adrift in
a world that soon no longer will exist. Their mind still resides in a place
with separate water fountains, George Wallace ruling Alabama and the KKK
marching in the streets. These people can’t let go. It is the basis of their
power, their politics, their wallets. It’s sickening, and it’s un-American.
Merriam-Webster defines racism as “a belief that race is
the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial
differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” That can be
boiled down to treating people differently, having different expectations,
different standards for someone because of race. And this is how progressives
treat President Obama.
There was a time when criticism, satire, downright
mockery and any number of things considered “attacks” were not only accepted
but cheered. From the moment of our founding, the freedom to criticize
political leaders was one of the things that set us apart from the rest of the
world. Now, thanks to the progressive movement, criticism, even mockery, of the
president of the United States is called racism. Essentially, progressives
demand a whole new standard for criticizing this president – all because of his
race.
Disagreeing with Barack Obama on policy is racist.
Disapproval of his handling of the economy is a Klan rally. Speaking against
his feckless foreign policy is the back of the bus. To withhold consent to his
every whim is to burn a cross. The substance of the critiques doesn’t matter
and rarely, if ever, is even addressed.
Instead, we get analysis about the deeply racist motives
that drive the opposition to the president. Why? Because the majority of these
race-relics are in the media.
But these self-appointed gatekeepers, these racists
holding a black man to a different standard than any of the white men who’ve
held the office, are not alone. They have a powerful ally. The chief enabler of
this double standard is the Enabler-In-Chief, the beneficiary of it all –
President Obama.
That President Obama is held to a lower standard for
honesty, effectiveness, expectation and accomplishment benefits him
immeasurably. He knows this and embraces it. Were he not interested in this
perversion of what is right, he could have had his official spokesman release a
statement this week telling his minions, those who created this lower standard,
to lighten up, that he can take a joke, and to leave the clown alone. But he
didn’t.
An American man has been under a sustained attack for a
week now for simply treating this president like any other president. And the
only words we’ve heard from the president’s spokesman is that this was not one
of Missouri’s “finer moments.” Gessling has lost his job, been accused of
committing a “hate crime,” seen his life basically ruined because the president
of the United States couldn’t be bothered to tell a staffer to pass along that
he said “knock it off.”
That’s because he doesn’t want it “knocked off.”
Maintaining the “Obama standard” for critique of a president is far more useful
to him than a clown in Missouri, a cop in Cambridge, Mass., an Hispanic
neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida or anyone else who may stand in his
way.
Progressives in the media, in non-profits and elected
office are happy to help because they benefit too. They get another day off the
hook for their sins and those of their progressive forefathers who donned Klan
hoods, mandated “whites only” signs and blocked school doorways. Another day of
people not realizing those overt racist impediments to liberty have been
replaced by the covert racism of the “helping” bureaucracy.
The methods have changed, but not the goal. That the
president is black doesn’t matter; the agenda matters – and the power that goes
with it.
The progressive agenda is advanced, its power obtained,
by dividing people. That’s why so many have embraced the lower standard for
this current president.
Luckily, fewer and fewer people are falling for this
“equal-but-separate” deception. With each new day, there is more indifference
to the politics of race. The president is sinking in the polls not because he’s
black but because America does not accept his radical progressive agenda.
Calling opponents racist will fall on deaf ears increasingly as time goes by
because those ears aren’t deaf, they just know they’re being lied to.
Ruining the life of a rodeo clown won’t be the Berlin
Wall moment for the politics of division. But that moment is coming. We see it
in the polls, in the continued ratings drops for MSNBC. Before long, we will
see it at the voting polls.
And it can’t come a day too soon.
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