From the Archives: America’s Not Ready For A Black President
Pulled from the ashes of my WordPress database is this blog posting of mine exactly 13 months ago. Given today is the day of West Virginia's primary, it's still relevant, and is perhaps more-so than ever.
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Originally posted on April 13, 2007:
Now, first off, I do not condone or support Don Imus's joke that was in poor taste. With that said, what the left did to him is just as depraved. There's a double-standard in the way political and social discourse is conducted in this country and the left and mainstream media (I know, one and the same) use that to full effect.
On April 12th's Larry King Live on CNN, Della Reese, when confronted with the double standard regarding use of racially or sexually offensive language by Don Imus and rappers/hip-hop performers, said:
With hip-hop and stuff like that, you choose to listen to that. We didn't choose to hear this gentleman say what he said.
Granted, if you listen to hip-hop, chances are it was your choice to do so. But guess what Della? The same goes for what Don Imus said. Nobody forced you or I to listen to him. Let's not forget, either that Jesse Jackson suffered no repercussions from calling New York City "Hymietown." Al Sharpton was convicted of libel in the Tawana Brawley incident. Senator Byrd used the "N" word on the floor of the Senate. In none of those incidents did you have the press or "tolerant" liberals calling for Jackson, Sharpton, or Byrd to lose their jobs or have their bully pulpit permanently revoked. In fact, the opposite happened. The media and other liberals run to them with cameras in tow (assuming Jesse Jackson's internal video camera homing device didn't spot one first).
Tom Delay cut to the meat of the issue quite nicely in today's column on Townhall.com, where he wrote:
"You see, I have learned something about liberals. They are much like communists. They believe they have to destroy you in order to win." As I outline in my book, the Left is effective by using the bullying tactics inherited from their comrades. Intimidation and force are their only means because they refuse to accept public debate or the free market's ability to simply turn the dial.
This brings me back to the title of this post. The reason why America is not ready for a black President is not because this country is inherently or systemically racist. It's not because Americans aren't ready to vote for a black (or woman) president. It's because the left and the media are not ready for a civil discourse should a party nominate a black person or a woman as their candidate for President of the United States. Let's say for arguments sake, that Barak Obama is nominated as the Democratic Party's candidate. The demonizing of anyone and everyone that would not vote for Obama, even on ideological or policy grounds as a racist and "not ready for a black President" would start immediately and not let up for years after the election, whether he wins or not. If he were to lose the general election, the headlines of the liberal rags such as the Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times would be, "Americans Not Ready For African-American President." The left would, in a blanket statement, label America racist because it didn't choose the black candidate. To them, it's not the candidate's platform that matters. To the liberals, we're racist if we don't vote for the person, who happens to be a minority, even if we disagree with their platform.
Americans are ready to vote for a black President. The liberals inside and outside the mainstream media, however, are not ready to let us vote for the other candidate without labeling us racist. Once (and if) the left grows up and can show tolerance for other points of view, then America would be ready for a black President.
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With how the media across the board painted rural Pennsylvanians as racist because they voted for Clinton in their primary, this demonization is already in full swing. God help us all.
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