The modern definition of ‘racist’ is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
Peter Brimelow
With the standard reply by liberals that support Obama being, only racists are opposed to him, the modern definition seems more applicable, than the classical definition. Too often, when people are debating, and the term “racist” is thrown out, it is intended to end the argument, by putting the person labeled on the defensive. It has been an effective liberal tool since the sixties. What does one do? Defend oneself against the slur, and thus head down the path the insult hurler wishes one to go? Say nothing and end the debate on their terms? Or ignore it, and press on with one’s original argument?
Things have changed since the term became such a powerful weapon, and from the modern definition at the top of this page, and those who use the term, they are indeed losing the argument.
Which brings me to some recent releases by Black Republicans, which get little or no mention in the Lame Stream Media, as it defies their well worn definitions of “racists,” as well.
In Denver, for the rest of the month of August, there are fifty billboards on display, that remind people that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, which is poignant when the polls indicate that over ninety percent of black voters support Obama.
Mrs. Alveda King, niece of MLK Jr., and a Republican, has a strong personal message, that can be read here in pdf, in which she states:
My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther
King, Sr., or “Daddy King”, was a
Republican and father of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican.
The reminder is unwanted by most liberals, who have tried to high-jack the civil rights movement as their own, and wish to use 28 August, the date that MLK made his famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, as a historic moment for the first bi-racial candidate for President.
The National Black Republican Association and the Black Republican PAC released a press statement and video ad on Monday.
The press release states:
Forty-five years ago, on August 28, 1963, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican and embraced the traditional values that made this country great delivered his inspirational civil rights “I Have a Dream” speech.
Today, Senator Barack Obama, with the most liberal voting record in the US Senate, is delivering his political acceptance speech, in an apparent attempt to assume for himself the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Dr. King did not embrace the type of secularist agenda promoted by Obama and the Democratic Party of today, which includes fostering dependency on welfare that breaks up families, supporting same-sex marriage and partial-birth abortion, and banning God from the public square.
Obama is no MLK!
The video is here.
No, Obama is no MLK, but he is certainly a race baiter, and evokes identity politics like none have before. An example is this statement he first made last year.
We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America.”
–Barack Obama, NAACP forum, July 12, 2007
An outright lie, a lie he was confronted with by the Washington Post, yet he continued to repeat the same lie, many times after. According to the article:
In 2005, according to the Census Bureau, there were 864,000 black men in college. According to Justice Department statistics, there were 802,000 in federal and state prisons and jails, “even with the old heads holding on,” Morton says.
Between the ages of 18 and 24, however, black men in college outnumber those incarcerated by 4 to 1.
Still, the idea that the reverse is true stems from an image that has been perpetuated, Morton says, by the government, the media and the black leadership, whoever they are.
Then again, the WaPo Fact Checker addressed his lie with this piece.
To deal with the Obama claim first, this is an old myth that has been shot down many times before, most recently by our colleague DeNeen L. Brown in the Washington Post.
According to 2005 Census Bureau statistics, the male African-American population of the United States aged between 18 and 24 numbered 1,896,000. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 106,000 African-Americans in this age group were in federal or state prisons at the end of 2005. See table 10 of this report. If you add the numbers in local jail (measured in mid-2006), you arrive at a grand total of 193,000 incarcerated young Black males, or slightly over 10 percent.
According to the same census data, 530,000 of these African-American males, or twenty eight percent, were enrolled in colleges or universities (including two-year-colleges) in 2005. That is five times the number of young black men in federal and state prisons and two and a half times the total number incarcerated. If you expanded the age group to include African-American males up to thirty or thirty five, the college attendees would still outnumber the prisoners.
Why would Obama continue to repeat the lie about more black men being in prison, than in college? Considering that he and his wife have been obsessed with race issues since they were very young, a better question might be…why not? No one seems interested in arguing with him over this point, most certainly not the press, because they, as he, have relied on the classic definition of “racist” for decades. Obama believes he has some insulation from being called a “racist” while having free rein to attack others as “racist.” I don’t believe it is working as well as he intended.
More recently, Obama’s political mentor, Emil Jones, demonstrated the type of identity politics that his campaign promotes, by calling a Hillary supporter, a black woman, an “Uncle Tom.”
Which brings us to the classical definition of a “racist.”
1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
While it is clear to me, that the current campaign of Obama and the Democrats, still adheres to the classic definition of racist in deed and thought, the modern definition seems more valid in the current state of the Democrat party, as it moves further to the far left in it’s policies and practices.
One can call me a “racist,” if they chose, since I am in complete opposition to the radical Marxist Obama. In doing so, they are demonstrating they have lost, or are losing, the argument, not ending it with a false sense of superiority.
One repeats a lie so that it may one day be taken as truth.
Left by The Holywriter on August 27th, 2008 at 5:26 am