Posted by
Patrick Henry on Monday, October 20, 2008 10:59:15 PM
The other day on a misguided foray into the morass of the leftist blogosphere, I ran across
yet another surpassing piece of left-wing illogic. This one had to do with the role of race in
voting preference. The writer, apparently operating several bricks short of a full load, argued
that while it IS racist to vote against a candidate because of his skin color, it is NOT racist to
vote FOR him or her for the same reason. The purpose of the argument was to decry white voters
who do not support Obama, while at the same time justifying black voters (e.g., in South
Carolina) for voting FOR him simply because he is black. The point seems to be that only
non-blacks can be racists.
This leftist looney-tune, without knowing it, just dropped a neutron bomb on the liberal
shibboleth of affirmative action. The basic premise of affirmative action is that to overcome
a built-in prejudice against minorities, it is necessary to impose quota systems to be sure that
jobs are not awarded on the basis of racial preference. Such racial preference would be, in
the liberal view, discrimination, i.e., racism.
Now in a two-party system like ours, there are only two people in serious contention for
the presidency. One is white, the other black. When you choose one -- whichever one that is --
because of the color of his skin, then it is aximoatic that you have excluded the other because
he did not share the same pigmentation. So either affirmative action is a load of horse hockey.
or African Americans voting for Obama simply because he is black are every bit as racist in
their motivation as the white knights of the Ku Klux Klan. And both are dead wrong and betray,
by the idiocy of their preference, the principles of the constitution.
Quite apart from the obvious truism that a candidate's character and qualifications ought to be
the sole determinants in an election, it is quite obvious that the racial divide is just as prevalent
in our republic as ever. But this liberal bit of nonsense proves beyond a doubt that racists
come in all sizes, shapes AND COLORS.