Score one for the WSJ this morning:
The United States of America has a black President whose chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder, is also black. They have a lot of political power. So how are they using it? Well, one way is to assert to black audiences that voter ID laws are really attempts to disenfranchise black Americans. And liberals think Donald Trump’s birther fantasies are offensive?
“In my travels across this country, I’ve heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens, who—often for the first time in their lives—now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to one of our nation’s most noble ideals,” Mr. Holder said Wednesday in a speech to the Council of Black Churches. Voter ID laws and white discrimination, he added, mean that “some of the achievements that defined the civil rights movement now hang in the balance.”
That’s right. The two most powerful men in America are black, two of the last three Secretaries of State were black, numerous corporate CEOs and other executives are black, and minorities of many races now win state-wide elections in states that belonged to the Confederacy, but the AG implies that Jim Crow is on the cusp of a comeback.
As the say – read the whole thing.
This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. You know black people thought that when they saw these two black men of power win the election that we all would be brought together and all the talk of racism would be over. We have our first black president and all they can do is spread the flames of racism. How can a black president and a black U S attorney general call racism? Who put them in their positions? Yep that’s right, America did. ALl we wanted was for them to do the right thing under God and the best job they could do for everyone. I am thoroughly disappointed.
I’ll come out and say what everybody on both sides of this argument knows, but don’t want to say:
This never was about race. It always about enabling cheating.