The Never-Ending Race Card

Jonah Goldberg discusses the Democrats and their frequent use of the race card to fight off every bit of opposition to Obama:

From my column:

What if America transcended race, and Barack Obama wasn’t invited?

The question comes to mind as cries of racism grow ever louder among Obama’s supporters.

No one should be surprised. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, liberal Democrats have to accuse their opponents of racism. Indeed, somewhat to their credit, fighting racism — alas, even where it doesn’t exist — is one of the reasons they became liberal Democrats in the first place.

And that’s the great irony of the Obama presidency. It was Obama’s supporters who hinted, teased, promised, and prophesied that Obama would help America “transcend race.” But now, it is they who shrink from their own promised land.


Here's the key part:

Two weeks ago, town hallers were supposed to be members of the Brooks Brothers brigade, Astroturf division. Now they’re well-armed anti-government militias. At this rate, they’ll soon be android ninjas with laser vision. Wait, strike that. They’ll be really racist android ninjas with laser vision.

Suddenly, if conservatives want to transcend race, we have to agree to massive increases in the size of government and socialized medicine.

That’s not transcending race, it’s using Obama’s race to bully the opposition into acquiescence. Actually transcending race would require treating Obama like any other president. Which is pretty much exactly what conservatives have been doing. Seriously, if Hillary Clinton were president, would conservatives really be rolling over for the same health-care plan because she’s white?

I've long said that the biggest obstacle to Martin Luther King's ideal of a colorblind society is not racist Republicans but racist Democrats who insist on treating minorities as though they're inferior beings unable to accomplish anything in life without government handholding.

Republicans tell everyone they can be whatever they want to be in this great land. Democrats pile social program on social program all of which have the effect of rewarding bad behavior and keeping people slaves to the government.

After 50 years of "war on poverty" programs is the black community in America, especially in the inner cities, better off as result? No. Illegitimacy rates are off the chart, drugs and gangs run whole neighborhoods, and government checks underwrite the whole thing. Democrat programs, and a complicit media that promotes that nonsense, has done more damage to minority communities than anything Republicans have ever done.