We’ve Figured Him Out
by Ben Stein

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Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

I wish I had had the talent and clarity of mind to write that. I think that’s spot-on. And this…

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The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

And this…

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These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.

There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.

I think that all is extremely well said.

Mankind has a long history of following two-bit tin-pot dictators, and would-be two-bit tin-pot dictators such as B. Hussein Obama. And the little mental game these modern-day two-bit tin-pot dictators play inside their head to justify their crass and coarse actions is that they are needed. But it all comes down to a lust for power and, in the case of Obama, a lust for a kind of primitive tribal third-world vengeance. There is a reason that Obama's friends are always angry men and America-bashers. This is our crank president's religion of sorts. It is one of his deepest motivations…anger and vengeance. That is how petty third-world tribal dictatorships are built, but not a noble country founded on the grand principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The nation our mischievous and ill-meaning president wants to build is based on Saul Alinsky's "Rule for Radicals." Obama reveres not Thomas Jefferson but angry, hateful, and even racist fiends such as Pastor Wright. And as we have seen, he is far more comfortable mixing with America's enemies than with the rank-and-file which our arrogant and idiotic president dismisses as the kind of people who "cling to guns and religion." Apparently it's okay for him to cling to the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the anti-Semitic and white-hating Pastor Wright, and angry racists such as Professor Gates.

Western man or woman (of any color), on the other hand, has to have a different basic orientation to reality other than living through two-bit tin-pot wanna be (or real) dictators. There is a reason our Constitution speaks so much about what government cannot do. It's a protection against ancient, primitive, tribal man who lusted only for power and still does to this day. And what our idiot president calls "negative rights" in regards to the Constitution is only negative to those who hate limits on their power which, in practical terms, is limits on government. But those so-called "negative rights" (as seen through the twisted eyes of Marxists, socialists, and Progressives) is actually the boldest statement of positive rights for the individual. There is no clearer glimpse at the authoritarian and power-hungry nature of Obama and his ink than his terming of the Constitution as mere "negative rights." Imagine that. Basic protections such as the Bill of Rights are mere "negative" rights. And the "rights" that our idiot Marxist-socialist president wants are the supposed "positive" rights of giving government the power to shape your life in any way it (which equates to a bunch of arrogant ivory tower know-it-all elites) sees fit. We see this in the dishonest, dastardly, and quite daring in-your-face attempt to wreck the finest healthcare system in the world and replace it with a state-controlled one. What fiends would ever want to do this?

Obama and his ilk at heart have a lust for power and a hostility to freedom and individual rights and freedom. He's also has a tin-pot third-world tribal mentality which is ready made for division, to pit one group against another. The true Orwellian nature of Obama and these Democrats is staggering when you consider how they have sold themselves as the people who would bring us together, who were beyond race, who were tolerant, who were looking out for the little guy, etc. They are liars. But they are not the only liars who have been attracted to the power inherent in government. Republicans can be just as stupid. That's why the Constitution limits the power of these power-hungry politicians. They, by and large, mean us no good. And what good they can do is only after there has been a vigorous non-Scientologist open debate which is not what these Scientologist-like fiendish Democrats and idiot president have in mind for the issues of global warming, energy production, health care, or anything else. They want to dictate to us because, not only are they power-mad, they are so arrogant as to think they know best. And this kind of top-down governing of people is as old as time. But it is paramount that we Americans (and our other Western brothers and sisters) come to understand that this top-down approach is a backward approach and that individual freedom and liberty (as well as responsibility) is the modern, humane, and decent approach to living. It barely strikes me as ironic anymore that these authoritarian frauds, who wish primarily to seize power over us in a style as old as Alexander the Great, call themselves "liberal" or "Progressive." But it is our job as citizens of a free country and a free and noble West to see this irony, to sniff out these fiends and put limits on what these frauds want to do.

It truly is incredible the state of affairs this government is in right now. This whole fiasco with the spot light turned onto the bigot Professor Gates defines it quit nicely. The more President Hussein goes on about it the clearer it becomes just who he is and what his agenda is all about.

Yesterday in his impromptu press conference to try to clarify just what he meant only cemented what a bigot and racist the President himself is. For Christ sake he actually tried to say he didn't mean the officer was stupid by saying the police acted stupidly. Huh? Um that explanation sounds well stupid. The most telling part was when he tried to affirm that maybe this has been a good thing that it highlights the state of affairs of racism in the United States that it is a "teachable moment".

Well yes it is a teachable moment one that highlights the African-American class elites today such as "esteemed" Harvard Professor Gates who shape the mind set of the African-American community are racists and bigots. It is the single biggest problem and obstacle to bigotry and racism in the United States today.

President Hussein through out the entire campaign was a facilitator to this same bigotry and racism. From the onset every speech he gave he had an entire section were he said "they" are going to try to scare you by saying "did we mention that he is black". He was giving this same speech for 9 months at least when one Sunday morning talk show highlighted. It was on the McCloughlin Group or what ever it is called. The moderator played then Senator Hussein giving the divisive speech. He was aghast quite shocked that Senator Hussein would be speaking like that. As though he had no clue this was part of every stump speech Senator Hussein had been giving the last 9 months. This is how blind the media was to what was going on. How complacent they were in facilitating a race baiter bigot like Senator Hussein into the White House.

Here are President Husseins words yesterday:

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"I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home to the station," the president added. "I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Professor Gates probably overreacted as well. My sense is you've got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve the incident in the way that it should have been resolved and the way they would have liked it to be resolved."

There was an overreaction by the police but bigot Professor Gates probably overreacted. It is clear just were the President of the United States stands. He supports bigotry and racism in the African-American community. For him it is hard not to after being a member of a bigoted, racist, Anti-Semitic church for 20 years.

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Well yes it is a teachable moment one that highlights the African-American class elites today such as "esteemed" Harvard Professor Gates who shape the mind set of the African-American community are racists and bigots. It is the single biggest problem and obstacle to bigotry and racism in the United States today.

Ditto.

One can somewhat sympathize with Mr. Obama because his narrow racial views are somewhat the product of his culture, just as the narrow racial views of, say, a white Southern plantation owner in the Old South were formed very much by his environment. These people aren’t responsible for having petty prejudices and blind spots. They just don’t know any better. And Obama’s Harvard education isn’t necessarily a corrective, any more than that old Southern plantation owner gets put right by going to church every Sunday. It’s not really their fault.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five….

Okay, I doubt thalo even got up to three before calling the above an obvious load of shit. But what can I say? It really is possible for people to have quite narrow views of race. I’m not completely without prejudice. No one is. But I think I do understand the Jeffersonian ideal of "all men being created equal." And I do understand that racism exists in any society and is something we all have to work to correct. But racism has many ways of showing its ugly head, and Obama spending nearly 20 years in the rotgut, racial grievance, Marxist, anti-Semitic, and anti-white church of Pastor Wright is one of those ways. The way people such as Professor Gates go around with an extreme chip on their shoulders and an air of superiority is another way racism shows its ugly head. Hey, nobody’s perfect. And, indeed, its is indeed possible for racism to be underneath the surface in various ways. But it’s also easy to just ignore it when it’s right out there in the open in the form of Pastor Wright, the Attorney General, and Obama himself. Keeping a tripwire hair-trigger angry chip on your shoulder is not doing anything but making people fearful of "people of color." This kind of fear-mongering and trip-wiring sows the seeds of anger. 99% of people in this country are not racist, and they’re getting more than a little tired of being constantly disparaged by the race-mongers, race-baiters, and outright racists among the "people of color" community. I know I am.

With a guy such as Obama, it’s difficult sometimes to tell whether he is being self-consciously deceptive or really is as ignorant as the views he seems to hold. But either way, this is not the man who is taking us beyond race. He’s merely helping to mire us in the same old race-baiting stuff. Ideally we want to join hands in America under the ideal of "all men are created equal." That is the goal to work toward. But there is absolutely no healing, no end game, and no end in sight to the rotgut racial grievance and racist approach of many of these black leaders. Unfortunately, although this race-baiting may be good for some people’s political careers, it’s very bad for people of any color because it just heightens tension and undervalues (if not outright ignores) the huge progress made in this country in regards to race. We have a black president, and yet our idiot attorney general must remind us that we whiteys are all racial cowards. And if you remember that racist minister at Obama’s immaculation, he said how all the other races had done their part but "white must make right." That’s racist. White people have done enormous good in terms of overcoming prejudism in this country, and to paint all white people as being part of the problem is racist.

And this is exactly the attitude of our racist president. And this attitude toward white people merely because of the color of their skin should be called for what it is. Obama’s first reaction regarding the Gates incident was to fixate on the color of the cop’s skin. He even saw his own white grandmother in terms of race. Face it, if you’re white, you’re somehow guilty or lacking in the eyes of our president. You’re suspect. And that’s a racist attitude.

Indulging Craziness
by James Lewis

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I'll bet this has happened to you. Some friend or relative is a little bit nuts -- maybe they just are, or maybe they have been burned by painful experiences. So they get very anxious about imaginary threats and outraged by imagined injustices. Maybe they're paranoid because they're smoking dope, or they drive drunk because they're young and stupid and think it's cool. Or maybe they're just jealous of people who look happier, or prettier, or have better toys. It's just ordinary human folly.

And to keep the peace, we indulge their craziness.

That's our biggest mistake. That's why we are in such trouble as a people and a culture.

We have been taught to indulge craziness. It's supposed to show that we're "compassionate". Psychiatrists know this: If you let crazy folks set the rules, you have to get crazy right along with them. It doesn't matter if your client is crazy for good reasons. The cause doesn't matter one little bit. Good therapists are taught never to indulge craziness, because that just makes everything worse. Alcoholics Anonymous has long understood exactly the same thing. Real compassion doesn't mean joining people in the pits. That just means that you get two crazy people instead of just one. And then you get more and more, as the phony compassion spreads.

Our culture is now actively teaching racial paranoia to blacks, gender paranoia to women, and abuse paranoia to everybody with a beef. All those exaggerated fears and phony fits of rage have been cynically whipped up by the Left to grab more power. That's their Compassion Fascism. The rest of us go along, because we don't want to be bothered to stand up against it. But in the aggregate, over time, we have become a culture driven loopy by race, gender, and group paranoia. We have adopted the madness of the most race-obsessed people, and made them rich. Over time, they have worn down our sanity, so that our culture has literally gotten crazy.

The rest of that article is amazingly spot-on as well. At times, you feel crazy looking out into the crazy culture and wonder if you are crazy. Thanks, James Lewis, for showing us what sanity feels like. We’re not crazy.

Mark Steyn slices and dices professor Gates:

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I hasten to add I have nothing against the great man. He's always struck me as one of those faintly absurd figures in which the American academy appears to specialize, but relatively harmless by overall standards. And I certainly sympathize with the general proposition that not all encounters with the constabulary go as agreeably as one might wish. Last year I had a minor interaction with a Vermont state trooper, and, 60 seconds into the conversation, he called me a "liar." I considered my options:

Option a): I could get hot under the collar, yell at him, get tasered into submission and possibly shot while "resisting arrest";

Option b): I could politely tell the trooper I object to his characterization, and then write a letter to the commander of his barracks the following morning suggesting that such language is not appropriate to routine encounters with members of the public and betrays a profoundly defective understanding of the relationship between law enforcement officials and the citizenry in civilized societies.

I chose the latter course, and received a letter back offering partial satisfaction and explaining that the trooper would be receiving "supervisory performance-related issue-counseling," which, with any luck, is even more ghastly than it sounds and hopefully is still ongoing.

Professor Gates chose option a), which is just plain stupid. For one thing, these days they have dash-cams and two-way radios and a GPS gizmo in the sharp end of the billy club, so an awful lot of this stuff winds up being preserved on tape, and, if you're the one a-hootin' an' a-hollerin', it's not going to help. In the Sixties, the great English satirist Peter Simple invented the Prejudometer, which simply by being pointed at any individual could calculate degrees of racism to the nearest prejudon, "the internationally recognized scientific unit of racial prejudice." Professor Gates seems to go around with his Prejudometer permanently cranked up to 11: When Sgt. Crowley announced through the glass-paneled front door that he was here to investigate a break-in, Gates opened it up and roared back: "Why? Because I'm a black man in America?"

Gates then told him, "I'll speak with your mama outside." Outside, Sgt. Crowley's mama failed to show. But among his colleagues were a black officer and a Hispanic officer. Which is an odd kind of posse for what the Rev. Al Sharpton calls, inevitably, "the highest example of racial profiling I have seen." But what of our post-racial president? After noting that "'Skip' Gates is a friend" of his, President Obama said that "there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately." But, if they're being "disproportionately" stopped by African American and Latino cops, does that really fall under the category of systemic racism? Short of dispatching one of those Uighur Muslims from China recently liberated from Gitmo by Obama to frolic and gambol on the beaches of Bermuda, the assembled officers were a veritable rainbow coalition. The photograph of the arrest shows a bullet-headed black cop – Sgt. Leon Lashley, I believe – standing in front of the porch while behind him a handcuffed Gates yells accusations of racism. This is the pitiful state the Bull Connors of the 21st century are reduced to, forced to take along a squad recruited from the nearest Benetton ad when they go out to whup some uppity Negro boy.

Another article that suggests Gates academically is a fraud. His biggest credential seems to be being an angry black man willing to re-write history. No wonder he's Obama's friend.

The buffoon Professor Gates keeps repeating that this is not about him. Huh? What isn't about him his arrest? His arrest was clearly a result of his personal hatred of white people. Just watch his PBS specials "African American Lives". His personal narrative slant for the shows is hating whitey. It is rather disgusting to watch.

The only comic relief in the show is when he is doing DNA testing of a litany of black celebrities from Oprah to Whoopi to himself to pinpoint were their genealogy is from. It is very funny after listening to him rail on whitey for a couple of hours to find out for himself his most direct and nearest ancestors and subsequent modern day relatives can be found in the Netherlands.

What I think happened when the police showed up at his house was this pent up rage against himself for being white the same whitey he has loathed and hated and maligned his entire life came to the surface.

What does this bigot Professor Gates think is going to happen by saying this is not about him? That from now on when the Police are called to investigate a breakin in progress that when the police show up if they find a black man inside the place allegedly being broken into the police no longer can ask a black person for identification. Better yet maybe he wants the police to not only not ask for identification but if the police come across any black people and of course Latinos as President Hussein politically kept stressing that the police should just get back in their patrol cars and drive away. It is simply and utterly absurd what Gates and President Hussein are trying to angle from Gates' arrest. That the police should have no right to question people of "color" while investigating a possible crime in progress.

I don't know the statistical data but it struck me as odd when President Hussein went on about African-Americans and Latinos being disproportionately stopped by Law enforcement. Don't the numbers also show that African-Americans and Latinos commit crime disproportionately also. So it would only make sense in the eyes of Law Enforcement that African-Americans and Latinos would end up being stopped in such disproportionate numbers not because of "racial profiling" but because the majority of crime is being committed by African-Americans and Latinos hence the police are going to be stopping those people who are committing the majority of crime. Which is not the fault of the Police but the fault of the African-American and Latino communities as a whole. If those communities don't like being stopped they have no further to look than the members in their communities who are committing the majority of crimes.

When the New Jersey State Troopers opened fire on the minivan during a routine stop on the New Jersey Turnpike that started the whole "racial profiling" catch phrase one thing in the reports compiled in the investigation on the incident that the media never highlighted was the fact that this mythical "racial profiling" was extremely effective in removing guns, drugs and criminals from the streets of you guessed it African-American and Latino communities. So basically the Reverend Al Sharpton who speared headed the crusade and the "racial profiling" catch phrase was to say to Law Enforcement fuck you stop seizing guns and drugs and leave the criminals in our communities the hell alone.

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What I think happened when the police showed up at his house was this pent up rage against himself for being white the same whitey he has loathed and hated and maligned his entire life came to the surface.

Rico, that reminds me that I read a rather complete biography of Hitler one time. One of the theories for why Hitler may have hated Jews was because he was part Jew and/or because a Jewish doctor attended to his mother and could not save her, although it is said at the time that Adolph showed absolutely no resentment to this doctor or to Jews. Usually these things are bids for power and the props (whitey, Jews) are dredged up because they are marketable commodities. And hating whitey *is* a marketable commodity thanks to stupid liberals who equate feeling guilty with actually improving things. It's a cheap out. Much harder is to look past skin color and to confront obvious racists such as Gates, Pastor Wright, and others and tell them they aren't helping and are instead fanning the flames of racial intolerance. But because these guys scream so loud, and because many stupid liberal white people are spineless (as are legions of right-of-center Bobby Jindals), we give power to these race-baiters. They need to be faced down.

Hey, I'm not for sweeping the past under the carpet, but that is exactly what the left does as they attempt to re-write history, exaggerate differences, and pretty much fan the flames of resentment. Who will go first? Who will face down these raging lunatics like Professor Gates? It's not easy. It's much easier to just condescendingly indulge them and think such anger, racism, and lying is justified because of past slavery. They're just venting, etc. But that's a lie and that's really just cowardice talking. And none of this hot hate talk is at all constructive. When people have been radicalized by this nonsense, you basically turn people into an al Qaeda-like mindset. That's sort of what the Bill Ayers, Obamas, Pastor Wright, and Professor Gateses are. They are like Mullahs doing their best to indoctrinate people into hardened attitudes along lines of race, color, creed, ethnicity, or religion. And it's not right but it is a very direct way to wield power and influence. And because there is indeed racism in this country (or any country, at any time or place), it gives these fiends (especially in the eyes of weak-spined liberals) just enough cover. And the craziness, as James Lewis said in his article above, just spreads when we indulge it.

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What does this bigot Professor Gates think is going to happen by saying this is not about him? That from now on when the Police are called to investigate a breakin in progress that when the police show up if they find a black man inside the place allegedly being broken into the police no longer can ask a black person for identification. Better yet maybe he wants the police to not only not ask for identification but if the police come across any black people and of course Latinos as President Hussein politically kept stressing that the police should just get back in their patrol cars and drive away. It is simply and utterly absurd what Gates and President Hussein are trying to angle from Gates' arrest. That the police should have no right to question people of "color" while investigating a possible crime in progress.

If you actually get into the lunatic racist mindset of "Black Liberation Theology" (and I have little doubt that Professor Gates subscribes to this theology in one form or another), it's about separating the black race from the white race. At heart, it's about demonizing white people and blaming them for all your problems. These people mean to be separate. Smoothing over racial differences is not what they want. They want the power so that THEY can do a little oppressing...although they would, of course, call it "freeing" just as our idiot president, even as he works to destroy the economy and destroy jobs, thinks he is "freeing" poor people from the grips of rich people. People have indulged this stuff for far too long, just as they have indulged Marxism (in various guises) for far too long.

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I don't know the statistical data but it struck me as odd when President Hussein went on about African-Americans and Latinos being disproportionately stopped by Law enforcement. Don't the numbers also show that African-Americans and Latinos commit crime disproportionately also.

Yes, the numbers show that. And instead of facing the true causes, or at least all the causes, the mythology of "white oppression" is singled out, trumped up, and made the explanation for everything. This is why the racist Professor Gates was so hair-trigger. The sad fact is that wherever Democrats go and predominate over "people of color" (Detroit, Washington DC, New Orleans, etc.) they end up turning the place into a crime-ridden sewer precisely because this rotgut dishonest mythology of White Oppression is deemed the cause of all misfortune. And so it's hard for things to ever change if you keep pointing the finger at everyone but yourself. It's good politics in a country full of cowardly white liberals (and milquetoast Bobby Jindals), but that's the way things are right now. Do YOU want to face down a raging lunatic like Professor Gates? Hell no. And the point of his loud screaming is that, like the temper tantrum of a 3-year-old, it works. It works, but only if you give into it and feed it. And we've been feeding it for far too long. It's time to point out how it is a racist orientation. If you think evil of all white people, that is no different than thinking ill of all black people. And yet the former form of racism is not deemed racism. But it should be because it is.

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When the New Jersey State Troopers opened fire on the minivan during a routine stop on the New Jersey Turnpike that started the whole "racial profiling" catch phrase one thing in the reports compiled in the investigation on the incident that the media never highlighted was the fact that this mythical "racial profiling" was extremely effective in removing guns, drugs and criminals from the streets of you guessed it African-American and Latino communities. So basically the Reverend Al Sharpton who speared headed the crusade and the "racial profiling" catch phrase was to say to Law Enforcement fuck you stop seizing guns and drugs and leave the criminals in our communities the hell alone.

Exactly. Well said.

Here's a good part from that article about Black Liberation Theology:

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Black Liberation Theology as Marxist Victimology

Black Liberation Theology actually encourages a victim mentality among blacks. John McWhorters' book Losing the Race, will be helpful here. Victimology, says McWhorter, is the adoption of victimhood as the core of one's identity -- for example, like one who suffers through living in "a country and who lived in a culture controlled by rich white people." It is a subconscious, culturally inherited affirmation that life for blacks in America has been in the past and will be in the future a life of being victimized by the oppression of whites. In today's terms, it is the conviction that, 40 years after the Civil Rights Act, conditions for blacks have not substantially changed. As Wright intimates, for example, scores of black men regularly get passed over by cab drivers.

Reducing black identity to "victimhood" distorts the reality of true progress. For example, was Obama a victim of widespread racial oppression at the hand of "rich white people" before graduating from Columbia University, Harvard Law School magna cum laude, or after he acquired his estimated net worth of $1.3 million? How did "rich white people" keep Obama from succeeding? If Obama is the model of an oppressed black man, I want to be oppressed next! With my graduate school debt my net worth is literally negative $52,659.

The overall result, says McWhorter, is that "the remnants of discrimination hold an obsessive indignant fascination that allows only passing acknowledgement of any signs of progress." Jeremiah Wright, infused with victimology, wielded self-righteous indignation in the service of exposing the inadequacies Hilary Clinton's world of "rich white people." The perpetual creation of a racial identity born out of self-loathing and anxiety often spends more time inventing reasons to cry racism than working toward changing social mores, and often inhibits movement toward reconciliation and positive mobility.

McWhorter articulates three main objections to victimology: First, victimology condones weakness in failure. Victimology tacitly stamps approval on failure, lack of effort, and criminality. Behaviors and patterns that are self-destructive are often approved of as cultural or presented as unpreventable consequences from previous systemic patterns. Black Liberation theologians are clear on this point: "People are poor because they are victims of others," says Dr. Dwight Hopkins, a Black Liberation theologian teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Second, victimology hampers progress because, from the outset, it focuses attention on obstacles. For example, in Black liberation Theology, the focus is on the impediment of black freedom in light of the Goliath of white racism.

Third, victimology keeps racism alive because many whites are constantly painted as racist with no evidence provided. Racism charges create a context for backlash and resentment fueling new attitudes among whites not previously held or articulated, and creates "separatism" -- a suspension of moral judgment in the name of racial solidarity. Does Jeremiah Wright foster separatism or racial unity and reconciliation?

...Is Black Liberation Theology helping? Wright's liberation theology has stirred up resentment, backlash, Obama defections, separatism, white guilt, caricature, and offense. Preaching to a congregation of middle-class blacks about their victim identity invites a distorted view of reality, fosters nihilism, and divides rather than unites.

Speaking of accidents, brothel is thinking of starting a new grievance group: M.A.I.D. (Mothers Against Inattentive Drivers). Logo anyone? And, really, it *is* mostly women I see on cell phones who ought to be driving instead of talking.

Community-Organized Crime

By Matthew Vadum

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The election fraud factory known as ACORN should be stripped of its jealously guarded tax-exempt status because it illegally spends taxpayer dollars on partisan activities, commits "systemic fraud," and violates racketeering and election laws, according to a congressional report unveiled yesterday.

Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found that by "intentionally blurring the legal distinctions between 361 tax-exempt and non-exempt entities, ACORN diverts taxpayer and tax-exempt monies into partisan political activities."

"Operationally, ACORN is a shell game played in 120 cities, 43 states and the District of Columbia through a complex structure designed to conceal illegal activities, to use taxpayer and tax-exempt dollars for partisan political purposes, and to distract investigators," the report says. Structurally, it is "a chess game in which senior management is shielded from accountability by multiple layers of volunteers and compensated employees who serve as pawns to take the fall for every bad act."

The report examines the ACORN network's abusive interlocking directorates, and claims that the group deliberately organized itself to escape legal and public scrutiny. "ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate."

One of Obama’s claims to fame is to have been a “community organizer” for this corrupt group.

Here's a good article by VDH:

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From time to time, a voice of near-antipathy in Obama erupted, as in his infamous “clingers” speech about the lower-middle-class supposed know-nothings of Pennsylvania, or in his dismissal of the grandmother who raised him as a “typical white person.” Before Michelle Obama grew silent, she managed to tell America that it was a “downright mean” country, where the bar was raised serially even on those as wealthy and privileged as the Obamas, and that, prior to her husband’s presidential campaign, she had not been especially proud of the United States — amplification of long-held views that can be seen as early as her Princeton undergraduate thesis.



No matter. The media and the liberal elite ignored these telltale signs, and instead were eager to accept the implicit pact that the soothing racial healer Barack Obama offered them. It was an unspoken understanding that might be paraphrased as something along the following lines: “Vote for me and I will offer you instant exemption from all prior racial guilt — and yet allow you to live your rather secluded lives as usual.”



In other words, the endowed professor, the corporate attorney, the green CEO, the endowment officer, and the high-school teacher could all continue to live in safe and separate neighborhoods, ensure their children went to mostly white and Asian schools (whether elite public or private), and through taxes for entitlements and abstract support for affirmative action still feel they were doing a great deal for race relations. As they saw it, they elected one comfortable and hip Barack Obama as their president — without living among, going to school with, or working alongside the Other.

But nemesis is not so understanding; it demands more of us than such cheap bromides. And Barack Obama’s prior racialism, as evidenced by two decades of attendance in, and subsidies to, the Reverend Wright’s racist church, leaves indelible scars. And so to paraphrase the reverend, the chickens are now coming home to roost for America.

The president’s apologies abroad focused on supposed American felonies, from slavery to the conquest of Native America to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Since there were many such lamentations, and they were not balanced by citing the gallantry of Shiloh or Gettysburg in ending slavery, or Guadalcanal to stop Japanese brutality, or Chosin to save South Korea, the impression was left that Barack Obama sees America quite differently from many, if not most, of its citizens — who understand our own sins as those shared with mankind, but our singular efforts at correcting them as unmatched abroad.

I was thinking about the idea of racist-leftist indoctrination in university courses the other day. It struck me that the very IDEA of "black studies" or "african american history" or "african american literature" is racially biased and slanted. In that way, college courses can and do become indoctrination for the kind of racism we're seeing in this whole Gates debacle.

The same of course is true of women's studies, or gay and lesbian studies, or any topic for study that has as its theme, racial or gender or other politically based subdivisions. That's ALWAYS gonna give you a skewed, slanted, and unfortunate outcome in academia.

Now, the greatest thing about Gates' work, was that science reared up and bit his ass when he actually got to the bottom of race, and showed itself to be a much more variegated and complicated issue than tracing a black man's genetic "roots" to the home continent. In a way, his whole rap was a religion just like the global warming religion. Race being a kind of expression of a 19th century idea of the noble savage, let's trace our bloodlines back to that.

Well, not only can the whitest white guy trace his roots back to Africa, but the majority of African Americans, if they really are INTERESTED in race (as opposed to being interested in being victims and blaming their victimhood on race), end up finding out crap like Gates did. Uh, that he's more white than black, and his ancestors are just as European as big bad evil whitey. Not only does it turn out that "the man" doesn't exist, but he is just as much "the man" as the white men who he blames for the oppression of his supposed race.

The idea of being interested in race and bloodlines goes back to the dawn of man. The old testament is full of it, and maybe that's the problem. There's elitism in the idea of being a pure bred anything. Egyptian Pharoahs banged their sisters not to pollute their bloodlines.

And yet again, science can step in and give us unfortunate truths like, uhm, yeah, there is such a thing as trying to keep a race pure, but it ends up resulting in all sorts of problems. A healthy human population with genetic diversity keeps it more survivable and dynamic. We're like poodles in that way. Pure-breeds are dumb as shit, full of birth defects, retards, and health problems. But throw in some mutt genes, start rolling the dice a bit more, and you start getting some characteristics that are actually worth having.

Dog breeders are finally discovering this, after changing the emphasis from keeping bloodlines pure, to animal husbandry, which is breeding for attributes. So you may get gay dog names like dachs-a-doodle or labra-pug-a-triever, but you get dogs that are smarter, faster, work harder, and socialize better, whose eyes don't leak, and whose hips don't click out of joint when they walk.

Nothing fucks up a human population faster than inbreeding. And inbreeding is a kind of racially restrictive jam. We learn the hard way that keeping it all in the family is kind of a stupid ass idea. Hitler had part of it right, he was trying to breed supermen, but they had to have blond hair and blue eyes.

If he didn't RESTRICT his gene pool to nordic fair-skinned types, he may have actually got somewhere. Turns out, like a dog breeder, he was breeding for beauty rather than physical performance.

But like animal husbandry, we can truly select for almost anything. Big and strong, intelligence, endurance, immunity to disease or cold... whatever. That's the reality of genes and race. The fact is, it's WAY more than skin color, or hair texture, or shape of eyes or lips or cheekbones.

Right now, we're breeding women. Yes we are. Are too. We're selecting for big boobs, narrow waist, symmetry of face, wide-set eyes, thick lips, and unfortunately complete lack of intelligence. Culturally, those physical characteristics are what makes women most attractive to the most powerful males. Skin color has little to do with it. I mean there is some tendency toward fairer skin... but a lighter skinned black woman with the other characteristics, will still be irresistible.

Anyway, this is the can of worms you open up with race. You may find racial shit unbelievably interesting, and worth study. But basically then what you're saying is that you view humanity pretty much the same as cattlemen view cows or sheep herders view sheep. I'm sure they study bloodlines and the history of the Angus, or the Jersey Cow, or the angora goat.

They may major in "Longhorn studies" or whatever. They pick a favorite breed, and learn about it. But they'd probably learn more by studying COWS in a more macro way.

The reason we have black studies now, is that it's POLITICALLY advantageous to do so. The left has dominated enough of society that being versed in those racial things is ECONOMICALLY advantageous. You can score points at your ACORN cocktail parties, socially climb in liberal circles. Become part of the elite faster. Why? Because the elites are racist.

They're the superior-attitude animal husbandry experts of the world. They believe the religion that the Jersey cow or whatever is more valuable than other cow breeds who aren't as fashionable. Their prejudices and preferences are completely subjective, but are a means to nothing more than seizing power for themselves. As long as they control the cows, they probably don't care if they are black and white spotted, or reddish in color.

But if they can convince enough other people that, say, one particular breed is of extraordinary value, or has been given the short shrift, or victimized or oppressed or suppressed, then maybe they can market their flavor of animal husbandry to the world at large.

The great thing, in theory, about America, is that we value the individual first. And when we DO value the group, it's a big MELTING POT group who share a core set of values and IDEAS. It's more of an advanced ethic than valuing bloodlines. In fact, the valuing of bloodlines seems very Old Testament next to the valuing of freedom and liberty.

Old Testament guys did animal SACRIFICE. They put the best, most genetically superior CATTLE up on big braziers and slit their throats and burnt their flesh. That's what racial bloodline animal husbandry thinking got THOSE racially perfect specimens.

So maybe it was kind of better that Gates found out that he shares more in common racially with brother yabor than he does with kunta kinte.

I mean the Kunta Kinte STORY is great, sure. Hey, I want to be genetically related to Tarzan but I ain't. Wouldn't it be better to read the Kunta Kinte myth as a myth, which teaches us about being brave and strong and overcoming adversity? Maybe it's not just about bloodlines. We don't have to HIDE bloodlines, but we can certainly put them in perspective better than we do.

Slaves weren't slaves because of their skin color. Slaves were slaves because human life was cheap in Africa. It was also cheap in Ireland and China. There is such a thing as cultural oppression, yes. And many times there's a racial component. But let's study that crap openly and honestly. It's certainly fine to feel empathy for poor slaves or immigrants who were beaten and worked to death or who worked for shockingly low wages.

If we learn about the times when cultures were cruel and exploited people, we learn about humanity. But racial or gender based studies is the equivalent of having "children's studies" BECAUSE in the past children were exploited and victimized in sweatshops or wherever.

It's taking victimhood, and instead of looking at it full in the face, we try to ATONE for the behavior of past human society by slanting what we learn toward the elevation of a particular subset of society. That kind of pariah-izes it.
And not only that, but it has the unfortunate effect of breeding a kind of me-too victim mentality. Well, you think BLACKS had it tough? MY racial group had it tough too... and people lobby to teach everyone about the suffering of people with THEIR genetic profile.

The upshot of that is that EVERY FRIGGIN' ONE has pain and suffering in their genetic past. Ug and Shugla your great great great great great great, etc. cave grandparents did not live an easy life. We can try to feel their pain, try to make others feel sorry for us by somehow trying to align any victimization with their skin or eye color, or we can figure out what it is about humanity that makes us treat our fellow humans the way we do. Race may indeed be a part of THAT... and I think we understand that intuitively. But the answer is not to keep going with that kind of tenuous animal-husbandry kind of mindset.

Because as long as we keep giving societal payoffs to racially-based thinking, we'll continue to get racism. And yet racism could really be one of the EASIEST things to "cure." I'd argue we don't WANT to cure it. Maybe we're wired to try and spread our genes and keep making tougher and stronger and have our bloodline one-up the next guy's. But understanding THAT would also put racism into a cultural perspective.

What's happening with the Obama Gates thing is nothing more than jockeying for power and position by PLAYING race. Gaming it. Using it for advantage. It's just that the American people are starting to get wiser to it, and so the really overt tricks don't much work anymore. We're becoming too sophisticated. The victimization of a particular racial group would have to be truly extreme for us to actually make cultural concessions toward it. It backfires now mostly because a black man is the most powerful leader in the free world. It rings hollow when he starts pouting and playing poor pitiful pearl.

Bravo. Well said. America’s universities are much the worse for this kind of opinion being like Kryptonite to these fascist little liberal twerps who are controlling the place now. I do indeed think you were channeling Mark Steyn at his best.

Fixating on race is a primitive trait. I don’t care if whites are doing it or blacks are doing it. When you go to some kind of "gender studies" or "black studies" class and you learn about the accomplishment of some woman or some black person (and there are indeed many accomplishments among blacks and women), you have to ask yourself, "Did that person accomplish what they did primarily because of their skin color or gender or because they were first and foremost human beings?"

It would be sort of stupid to ignore that a person is a woman and has differences or that a person is black and has differences. (And yet the left does just that, but that’s another story, but the same story, really.) But we have to ask ourselves why we are exploring those differences. If it is because there really are some differences (both good and bad), then fine. That’s life. That’s truth. And that’s going to be damn interesting to study as well. It’s called "science." But if (and this is where Cultural Marxism comes in) we do so based on the assumption that the monolithic "white man" is the oppressor and everyone now finally must connect with their "authentic" selves in order to re-learn what they could not learn before and must learn to become "authentic," then that’s inherently bigoted. There is no monolithic "white man." There are Italians, Poles, English, Dutch, Germans, French, Russians, Ukrainians and dozens of other "white" groups, all of whom fought each other at one time or another as the latest immigrant to America.

Gates, Pastor Wright, Obama, and damn near the entire university culture believes this Cultural Marxist rotgut stuff. At heart, it pits people against one another. But as you said, what makes America great is appreciation for the mutt (the individual), not superior bloodlines. And too much of this "black studies" type of stuff is about cultural imperialism, about trying to think yourself better than others based merely on gender, race, whatever, and this is done under that all-forgiving umbrella that somewhere, someone is a racist, sexist, or homophobe. This is basic class envy/class warfare stuff wrapped up deceptively in the guise of "tolerance." And point this out to them and see just how tolerant many people actually are who have been taught this rotgut bullshit.

I think “lying sack of shit” is an apt description of our decidedly dishonest president. Rich Lowry uses slightly more flowery words, but basically comes to the same conclusion:

Obama Leaves the ‘Reality-Based Community’

And Mona Charen rips our dishonest, prejudiced president a new one:

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The final moments of President Obama’s press conference last week have gotten the most attention, and some of the president’s supporters have wondered whether his big-footed interference in the Harvard professor’s melodrama has overshadowed his push for health-care reform.

But the president’s response to Gatesgate actually sheds a lot of light on his approach to health care and other issues, for this reason: Obama adopts his positions before knowing what he is talking about. To be fair, Obama admitted as much, at least as far as Gates was concerned. “I don’t know all the facts,” he acknowledged, before launching into a lecture (later retracted) about the “stupidity” of the Cambridge police (while misrepresenting what had happened).

How could he not have known all the facts? Press secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned on Fox News Sunday that the Gates matter was one of the issues the White House press operation had briefed the president on before the press conference. Numerous accounts of the imbroglio were available online — though the president need only pick up the phone to get all the information he wants.

He didn’t want information. He preferred his comfortable, prejudiced view.

Finally, Thomas Sowell rips our idiot president a new one as well:

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As a state senator in Illinois, Obama pushed the “racial profiling” issue, so it is hardly surprising that he jumped to the conclusion that a policeman was engaging in racial profiling, when in fact the cop was investigating a report received from a neighbor that someone seemed to be breaking into the house that Professor Gates was renting in Cambridge.

For those who are interested in facts — and these obviously do not include President Obama — there has been a serious study of racial profiling in a book titled Are Cops Racist? by Heather Mac Donald. Her analysis of the data shows how this issue has long been distorted beyond recognition by politics.

The racial-profiling issue is a great vote-getter. And if it polarizes the society, that is a price that politicians are willing to pay in order to get votes. Academics who run black-studies departments, as Prof. Henry Louis Gates does, likewise have a vested interest in racial paranoia.

For “community organizers” as well, racial resentments are a stock in trade. President Obama’s background as a community organizer has received far too little attention, though it should have been a high-alert warning that this was no post-racial figure.

What does a community organizer do? What he does not do is organize a community. What he organizes are the resentments and paranoia within a community, directing those feelings against other communities, from whom either benefits or revenge are to be gotten, using whatever rhetoric or tactics will accomplish that purpose.

To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.

Barack Obama’s past and his present tell the same story. His appointment of an attorney general who called America “a nation of cowards” for not dialoguing about race was a foretaste of what to expect from Eric Holder.

The way Attorney General Holder has refused to prosecute young black thugs who gathered at a voting site with menacing clubs, in blatant violation of federal laws against intimidating voters, speaks louder than any words from him or his president.

President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court is, like Obama himself, someone with a background of years of affiliation with an organization dedicated to promoting racial resentments and a sense of racial entitlement.

An 18th-century philosopher said, “When I speak I put on a mask. When I act I am forced to take it off.” Barack Obama’s mask slipped for a moment last week but he quickly recovered, with the help of the media. But we should never forget what we saw.

The Sowell piece, in particular, was right on the money. It was quite the true-color showing moment. The mask slippage was definitely there.

I absolutely loved the definition of "community organizer"... the first time I've ever really heard it described honestly, which is more like the brown shirts in prewar Germany than anything else.

I was searching through some old Zip disks for stuff and ran across this quote by Reagan. You would have thought he had B. Hussein Obama in mind. In a way, he did. He knew these people better than most:

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It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. . . . But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

Here’s a great philosophical piece by Michael Prell. This one quote sums it up nicely:

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That is what public health care will do to you. It won't just make you a prisoner of the system. It won't just destroy the great American spirit of self-reliance. It will weaken you to the point where you look upon those who enslave you as your heroes.

As I look around the culture, I not only see people who think like cows, they’re starting to resemble them. Fat. Fat, fat, and more fat. And I’ll admit I’m fighting my own wasteline right now. I don’t want to be a cow, either philosophically or physically. And in America right now, that’s saying something.

I thought something Sowell said in that above-quoted article was key:

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The racial-profiling issue is a great vote-getter. And if it polarizes the society, that is a price that politicians are willing to pay in order to get votes.

I don’t know if a politician has been born who wasn’t prepared to twist the truth or exploit people if it helped them stay in office. I’m sure there have been a few. But these Marxist-socialist Democrats have taken it to a whole new level. And while the various commentators all mostly beat about the bush and probe around the edges, I’m free to get to the point: These Democrat Marxist-socialists want to disassemble, destroy, reconfigure – whatever word you want to use – this country into something that is more of an authoritarian prison than a country where individual liberty is prized. These people can’t be trusted, nor do they have your best interest at heart. When you get that, you will have regained at least part of your manhood, womanhood, or whatever.

One thing Sowell didn’t get into explicitly is what ethic or vision supersedes the vicious, dishonest, manipulative, power-hungry ethic of the left. Why shouldn’t a politician say or do anything if it means they can stay in office, even if it weakens the very fabric of liberty? Is the higher or better ethic that does not exploit but instead honors truth and freedom flow from a respect for people? Does it flow from a respect for the founding ideals of this country? Is it about a respect for (fear of, really) human nature and the limits that must be placed on governmental power because of this? Whatever it is, we know from history the ugly morality that ensues from Marxism.

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But if the worst that Barack Obama does is ruin the economy, I will breathe a sigh of relief.

If there is one person more pessimistic about B. Hussein Obama than me, it would be Thomas Sowell. But just barely, I think.

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This is a president on a mission to remake American society in every aspect, by whatever means are necessary and available. That requires taking all kinds of decisions out of the hands of ordinary Americans and transferring them to Washington elites — and ultimately the number one elite, Barack Obama himself.

Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and of what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power. Often this has been accompanied by an ignorance of history, including the history of how many people before him have tried similar things with disastrous results.

I really do hope I’m Thomas Sowell’s bastard son. I love this guy.

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While the mainstream media in America will never call him on this, these repeated demonstrations of his amateurism and immaturity will not go unnoticed by this country’s enemies around the world. And it is the American people who will pay the price.