With his usual brilliance, Victor Davis Hanson has spoken the cold hard truth in his most recent article, “Obama’s Racial Crisis: Our post-racial president has set race relations back decades.”
It undeniably is the case that cries of “racism”– once a deadly serious charge — no longer register to the vast majority of our countrymen. And for good reason. One of the saddest examples was listening to the recent CNN interview where the ‘generally beloved’ and respected actor Morgan Freeman leveled an objectively false claim of “racism” against millions of decent ‘Tea Party’ Americans who simply object to the destructive political policies — as opposed to the skin color — of this president. Like Mr. Freeman’s uncharitable words, the multitudinous cries of “racism” emanating from the left are now falling on more discerning (and by now quite properly deaf) ears. Sadly, that is a dangerous thing because real racism is a terrible scourge whenever and wherever it raises its ugly head. It is something all good men should fight against. But to Obama and his ilk, “racism” and “racist” have become nothing more than empty (though once-explosive) perjoratives that are now being wildly and cynically employed to slander his political opponents. For all his supposed brilliance, Obama apparently never learned the simple lesson from “Peter and the Wolf” (the latter probably being forbidden reading these days due to objections raised from the PETA crowd).
I predicted this before the election.
Yes, you did.
Yep. It is becoming so much static or background noise. Pretty soon, all the drivel from the Left will be background noise. They are going to lose so badly, that they will all be rendered background noise to be filtered out.
P.S. It is pejorative, not perjorative.
I’m not so sure Obama isn’t the best thing we’ll ever have to improve race relations. I hope enough Americans of every stripe will finally begin to realize the current paradigm regarding affirmative action and double standards is fatally, morally flawed–for all parties.
I’m hoping people will finally say they’ve had enough of this BS, that Obama’s presidency is the very kind of disaster which proves this racially based choice is a complete disaster. And, that we as a society will stop the con game and treat people, however bluntly, the same. It is extremely degrading to “people of color” to treat them with kid gloves, when they can be accurately described as con men or degenerates. Obama’s disaster of a presidency may be the greatest thing to stop us from lying to ourselves that we’ve got to stay on this pathetic road of political correctness that we’ve chained ourselves to, particularly by law and institution.
Well, Obama is gonna be the president who finally killed “racism” but not in the way most people thought in 2008. Instead of invalidating it or putting it behind us, he simply wore it out. If his term also manages to destroy the culture of corruption known as the Democrat party and finally sticks the stake in the vampire we call socialism, he won’t be a total loss when all is said and done.
The term “racism” applied to America lost most of its power when Barack Obama was elected. With our economy in a shambles after three years of his administration, and our reputation abroad a worse laughingstock than it ever was under Bush (who at least could scare our enemies), Obama can’t plausibly claim racism as the source of all opposition to him. He will, of course, as will his die-hard supporters, but the charge just won’t stick, especially not when we have state governors of Asian, Hispanic, and black descent, and a black Republican candidate for president who has lately shown himself to be a contender. “Racism”, or as I like to call it, “raaaaacism”, has become mere proglodyte (sic) whistling past the graveyard.
I believe that Americans have generally put themselves past racism. There are two groups that have not and probably will never get past it.
Group One has the people who have figured out how to get power or benefits from racism.
Group Two is what I call Race-anoids (like paranoids), or persons that are convinced that everything, and I mean Everything, has a racial content.
It may be very unfortunate that the overuse, and unjust use, of the word will produce a callousness to the term “racist”.
So, we must strive to work very hard to disregard those who CALL us racist, and work very hard to indeed not BE racist.
Reputation is subjective and what others say; character is objective and what truly exists.
The left/”liberal”/Democrats overuse the term like a kid who just learned a new word.
They remind me of when my daughter was six and came home from school having learned the word “superior”. For the next couple days, “That dinner was superior”, and “That TV show is superior”, and “That song is superior”.
At least she had the “excuse” of being six years-old.