Instapundit points to Ann Althouse who, investigating The New York Times on the West Virginia primary, comes to this melancholy conclusion.
“White. White. White. Race. Race. Race. Oh, you Democrats. You’ve really made a nice place for yourselves.”
That about sums it up. Who was it who pointed out that in the 19th century the Democrats were the party of slavery, in the 20th century they were the party of segregation, and in the 21st century they are the party of neo-segregation (aka, racial quotas, spurious multiculturalism, and the mendacious imperatives of political correctness)? I don’t recall, but whoever it was, he was correct. The interesting rhetorical issue is why many people (which might, now that I think of it, mean just “many democrats,” i.e., professors, media types, etc.) believe that Republicans, who champion freedom and individual responsibility, are as a party more racist than Democrats. A question that deserves more study.
Several years ago I watched a c-span interview where Newt Gingrich was talking about affirmative-action and suggested that it ought to be poverty-based rather than race-based.(!) It’s just the sort of idea that most Democrats would never consider since the power structure of identity politics would be bypassed. A focus on need rather than fostering competition and strife between representatives of divisions within the community. These representatives (Al Sharpton and Rev. Wrong) rely on discriminatory fielties and organizations for their livelyhood. Who really expects that the Democratic party can encourage improved race relations? What is happening now is endemic to their politic. -Their chickens are coming home to roost.
Hosea 8:7; ’nuff said.
I like what Walter Williams wrote a few decades ago: that the Klan could not have come up with a better set of laws to keep African-Americans poor than have the Democrats with their welfare state and support of affirmative action. Of course, the collectivist mentality and the racist mentality are one and the same, so what do you expect from Democrats?