I entirely missed a left wing childhood. My father spent his early life under Communism and inspired a healthy contempt of the left in his children. A European rabbi, the old man was especially contemptuous of secular, left leaning American Jews whom he thought willfully blind and determinedly ignorant. Absent loyalty to their religious traditions no less than the democratic nation that gave them refuge.
I am Roger’s age and I don’t recall SDS or the Weathermen ever being popular on campus or off. I knew at least three or four SDS “leaders” and they were all jerks. And not only in my opinion.
Late for a ride to a to an anti-war rally in Washington,my brother and I once found ourselves on an SDS chartered bus. On board and rolling south on the Jersey turnpike, we realized that the other passengers were ordinary latecomers like us. The only SDS people on the bus were the couple who collected our ten or fifteen dollar fare.
After a short while, the male half of the SDS couple stood up and launched into an anti-Nixon, anti-Kissinger anti-war tirade. His harangue lasted about three minutes before the first request to sit down and give it a rest. He kept at it resolutely but the protests from the passengers–none of us over twenty-two or twenty-three– continued and grew more aggressive.
“Sitdown and shaddap” someone finally hollered and the SDS rep did as he was told. The silence hung for a moment after he sat down before relieved laughter and applause broke out up and down the bus.
Sitting on the mall enjoying the sunshine along with thousands of others I watched a provocative troublemaker raise a folding metal chair over his head and heave it into the well containing the floodlights surrounding a monument. His action was met with shouts of annoyance and anger by everyone within earshot. Even at an anti-war rally, Americans have no taste for radicalism and crude political manipulation.
If Ayers and Dohrn hobnob with State Senators and host presidential candidates, its fair to assume that life in what Ayers calls “the belly of the beast” aint too shabby. Like Obama’s carping wife,these prominent radicals are living far better than most Americans.
Likewise the fat and sleek African American political and religious parasites feeding on the misery of their poorer African American bretheren. These whores are part and parcel of a long tradition of Black on Black exploitation.
The Revs. Wright, Sharpton, Jackson and their like are a modern incarnation of the Africans who were raiding neighboring tribes and selling captives to Muslim slave-traders on the coast long before cotton became king in the American South. Today’s version of the pre-Civil War mullatoes who owned slaves and treated them no less cruelly than did white planters. A contemporary manifestation of the Black overseers who were essential to the slave economy.
If Obama and his pastor want an honest national discussion about race, let it begin with the fact that the Old Testament account of the Exodus that kept hope alive during slavery is Jewish, not African history. The African American Moses was a White man named Abe Lincoln. The Lord’s Host consisted of young white men in blue uniforms who suffered and died by the thousands in the cause of setting Black men, women and children free. The African American Song of the Sea is the Emancipation Proclamation.
As long as African Americans continue to fantasize about a glorious African past and superior African culture and imagine their freedom was accomplished without debt to noble European Americans willing to take up arms in support of the Constitution and its guarantees to all Americans, they will remain children. And in their vast majority, not comfortable and spoiled children like their religious and political leaders and their chic white friends on the radical left.
