By Michael Schaus
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
During MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show on Sunday,
Republican strategist Ron Christie erupted at a fellow panelist when the issue
of race surfaced. The discussion (originally on the power and influence of the
tea party) quickly became heated as the African-American Republican strongly
objected to the notion that racism has been an “influencing factor” in the
conservative movement.
Proving that the Liberal charge of “racism” is generally
an ideological-crutch to facilitate a speedy end to debate, the point was made
on the racially-obsessed MSNBC show that racism has been an influencing factor
in the tea-party’s opposition to President Barack Obama. The video, if you can
watch it without breaking your computer screen, is worth the few minutes you
can bear.
It is hard to decide what is more difficult to
comprehend: The panelist’s apostolic faith that the Conservative movement is
full of racism, or Harris Perry’s insistence that only liberalism can acquiesce
the inequalities between races in America. Even when Ron Christie presented an
eye-witness account that debunked a “racist” anecdote, the panel dismissed his
testimony as misinformed and inaccurate.
But the most audacious moment of liberal race-baiting
came near the end of the segment, when Melissa Harris-Perry began to wax poetic
about “disparate impact.” The concept of disparate impact epitomizes the Left’s
desire to illustrate racist policies where there are none, and paint colorblind
policies as promulgating tools of racist intentions.
According to the business dictionary (yeah… I have one of
those) disparate impact is the adverse effect of a practice or standard that is
neutral and non-discriminatory in its intention but, nonetheless,
disproportionately affects individuals having a disability or belonging to a
particular group based on their age, ethnicity, race, or sex.
The concept behind disparate impact is what lead to
Liberals pursuing government regulations that encouraged sub-prime mortgages,
predatory lending, and crippling banking standards. It is a concept that
defines any intentional effort to discard racial consequence, as racist in
nature. It is the bane of business, banking and Conservatives everywhere;
because (apparently) only Liberals are immune from the “disparate impact” of
their actions.
For example: The Bush tax rates disproportionately
impacted minorities, if only because they are disproportionately represented in
the lower classes. The Bush tax rate cuts, much to the dismay of libertarians
and conservatives, actually made the tax code more “progressive.” Lower incomes
were, therefore, granted a larger break, and benefited from the rate cuts’
enactment more than the upper classes.
But this is nothing new. Lower income earners always
benefit more from across-the-board tax rate cuts, as their level of disposable
income is generally benefited by a greater percentage when they are allowed to
keep more of their money. In fact, it was this individualistic notion (or as
Kennedy referred to it: civilian economics) that caused many minorities, black
leaders, and suffrage movement members to support the Republican Party.
And thus, using the theory of disparate impact,
Conservative economic theory is far less racist than liberal’s concept of
dividing the populace into races, classes, and any other myriad of divisive
sects. After all, the disparate impact of Liberalism has done far more to
damage minority communities than the impact of conservative values, Republican
policy, or tea-party agendas. If we, as a voting public, are to take the Liberal’s
advice and judge policy on its consequential impact rather than its intention,
President Barack Obama’s Democrat party would be rated as the most racist party
since the conclusion of the Civil War.
Unemployment under President Barack Obama has just recently
returned to the levels we saw during the recession. To put that another way,
under the “best” years of President Barack Obama, we are just now seeing the
same levels of unemployment we saw under the worst years of President Bush.
And, more to the point, minority groups have largely been the most adversely
impacted by the stagnant Democratic economy.
Blacks, under Bush, saw their unemployment rates drop in
comparison to historic trends, when juxtaposed against white unemployment. And
yet, after dropping well below the historic trend near the end of Bush’s second
term, the unemployment rates of African Americans have again climbed to twice
the rate of whites. If judged by the metrics we use to evaluate disparate
impact in private business, President Obama is the worst President for Black
America in recent memory.
By almost every measure, Democrat policies serve to
disparately impact blacks and minorities more than whites. In large cities run
by Democrats (New York, Chicago, LA, Detroit, DC) it is largely minorities that
suffer chronic unemployment. Gun violence in Democrat jurisdictions adversely
impact minorities – despite being regulated by Democrat gun control
initiatives. Even when it comes to education, the American left fails to
produce policies that disparately impact minorities in a positive fashion. It
was the Democrats in Congress that sought to end school vouchers, and it is the
Obama Administration’s Department of Justice that is actively suing to shut
down a Louisiana school choice program aimed at inner-city youth.
Conservatives are for all individuals; regardless of
class, race, or gender. Collectivists, by their very nature, are pre-disposed
to break society into different sects. Liberals view the world as a collection
of separate groups: the rich, the poor, the middle class, the homosexual,
women, men, blacks, Latinos, Asians, etc. And, maybe it is this obsession with
race and class, that make the liberal MSNBC panelists feel that their good
intentions are more powerful than the impact of their policies.
On MSNBC this Sunday we saw a black Conservative berated,
ignored, and ridiculed by a lady so obsessed with charging racism, that even
his eye-witness testimony was not enough to give her pause. We had a Liberal
blast the disparate impact of the Conservative movement, without a shred of
evidence reinforcing her racially-oriented perception of the movement.
For many of the same reasons that Liberals first adopted
the concept of disparate impact, they cling to their notions that all opposition
to their initiatives are rooted in racism. Charges of racism are their lifeline
in a losing argument. And this Sunday we saw their ignorance, as well as their
racially obsessed prejudice toward Conservatives, on full display.
After all, Melissa Harris-Perry is living proof that
anyone, even an African American with little ability to grasp political truths,
can succeed in America. Clearly we live in a world where even the least
effectual or intellectual among the black community can find success… After all,
both she and Obama have jobs.
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