Indeed, there is something curious in the liberal argument that Obama, once deified as the ideal megaphone for progressive agendas, is now to be faulted for the current unpopularity of liberalism, given that he remains a far more effective advocate than Jimmy Carter and a far more doctrinaire leftist than Bill Clinton. It is almost as if liberal scapegoating of Obama is an attempt to shift responsibility for progressive failure from the message onto the hapless messenger — an unfairness that a Freeman would never discuss.
At almost the same time as Freeman made his divisive charges, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll, largely because of the presence of tea-partiers, who felt the entrepreneurial Cain was more conservative than either Perry or Romney, and perhaps more authentic as well. Cain, remember, unlike Obama, is a product of the Southern black experience. His accent and cadences are real and not the studied product of self-described tutorials from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He knew racism in an era and place that were a world away from the 1970s Honolulu of Obama’s middle-class white upbringing. How can Herman Cain’s broad white support substantiate Freeman’s charges of a widely racist America, other than by resorting to some strange condescending notion of false consciousness: i.e., that a hapless Cain is being used by white capitalists in a way Barack Obama — the largest recipient of Wall Street cash in the history of presidential campaigns and the first general-election candidate since public campaign financing was instituted to renounce it — most surely is not?
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278526/obama-s-racial-crisis-victor-davis-hanson
Charges of racism don't stick when they fall on the ears of those that know better. I don't know anyone that is racist, I've never believed in racism, and I don't fear those who are racist because even to reveal themselves renders them impotent. There is no soil upon which racism could grow in this country, and the fact that the desperate continue to try and use that spectre is proof that they are desperate. And pathetic. Morgan Freeman should get back to wrecking his car late at night or acting, he has proven skills in these arenas, his political insight is at best questionable.
I passed a man in the hall yesterday who was commissioned to the rank of O-1 in our armed forces. I was delighted to see him with his new rank! How much diminished my life would be were I unable to enjoy the success of a good man simply because his skin was different than mine. Racism, above all else, is its own punishment.
At almost the same time as Freeman made his divisive charges, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll, largely because of the presence of tea-partiers, who felt the entrepreneurial Cain was more conservative than either Perry or Romney, and perhaps more authentic as well. Cain, remember, unlike Obama, is a product of the Southern black experience. His accent and cadences are real and not the studied product of self-described tutorials from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He knew racism in an era and place that were a world away from the 1970s Honolulu of Obama’s middle-class white upbringing. How can Herman Cain’s broad white support substantiate Freeman’s charges of a widely racist America, other than by resorting to some strange condescending notion of false consciousness: i.e., that a hapless Cain is being used by white capitalists in a way Barack Obama — the largest recipient of Wall Street cash in the history of presidential campaigns and the first general-election candidate since public campaign financing was instituted to renounce it — most surely is not?
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278526/obama-s-racial-crisis-victor-davis-hanson
Charges of racism don't stick when they fall on the ears of those that know better. I don't know anyone that is racist, I've never believed in racism, and I don't fear those who are racist because even to reveal themselves renders them impotent. There is no soil upon which racism could grow in this country, and the fact that the desperate continue to try and use that spectre is proof that they are desperate. And pathetic. Morgan Freeman should get back to wrecking his car late at night or acting, he has proven skills in these arenas, his political insight is at best questionable.
I passed a man in the hall yesterday who was commissioned to the rank of O-1 in our armed forces. I was delighted to see him with his new rank! How much diminished my life would be were I unable to enjoy the success of a good man simply because his skin was different than mine. Racism, above all else, is its own punishment.
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