Somewhere, Professor Ric Caric struggles for ways to declare Arnold S. Trebach, Chief of the Administration of Justice Section, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1960-63, an unreconstructed racist — “race neutrality” being, as it is, the height of racism, while political racialism and racial racketeering is the mark of the highest form of racial consciousness.
For decades this nation has followed a bizarre racial path in which discrimination in favor of minorities has been viewed as the path to non-discrimination and equality. This view, influenced by white guilt over the past, has spawned a racial grievance industry dominated by racial entitlements, race-based preferences, and unequal enforcement of federal civil rights laws. It is a scandal obscured by the fact that most of us are embarrassed to complain about it for fear of being tarred as right-wing racists or worse.
I find myself uncomfortable even discussing the subject, because for most of my life I was a liberal Democrat — I was on the front lines of the original civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s as a protester on the streets and as a federal civil rights official. I was present in the deep South to expose and dismantle the vast machinery of violent racial discrimination which was truly a stain on our national honor.
Like many other officials, I confronted white racists who were terrorizing innocent black citizens. We have not yet succeeded in completely halting such awful practices, but the election of an African American to the White House by a majority white electorate, including me, is proof of just how far we have come in the proper direction.
What outrages me is that despite our country’s wonderful successes, too many seek to gain and hold power by cynically perpetuating and exploiting racial grievances. These racial racketeers seek to convince minority members that nothing will help them improve their lives unless they buy into the myth of racial helplessness and continuing victimhood.
Those leading this destructive scam are both blacks and whites in positions of power, including — to my astonishment — lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division who once were involved with me in securing the destruction of racial segregation.
When I led an official federal investigation of the Civil Rights Division in 1960, I found lawyers dedicated to the race-neutral enforcement of the civil rights laws.
The current crop of racial racketeers, in and out of government, have betrayed the dream of my idol Martin Luther King Jr., and my own dream and the dreams of millions of others in the real civil rights movement.
Some of the worst aspects of this dream-betraying behavior were brought home to me on July 6, 2010, at a Commission on Civil Rights hearing: I watched attorney J. Christian Adams blow the whistle on the Obama/Holder Justice Department for its racially motivated decision to drop most of the charges in the already-won New Black Panther voter intimidation case because the defendants were black.
Adams resigned his position as an attorney in the Civil Rights Division because his political bosses under Eric Holder let the New Black Panther thugs off with a gentle slap on the wrist — even though their behavior clearly violated the voting rights laws of the nation. In his testimony — and now in a just-released powerful book – Mr. Adams claims that the racial discrimination in favor of black defendants in the Panther case was only one example of many such illegal actions on the part of officials in the Civil Rights Division. Incidentally, he views other Divisions of the Justice Department as acting in the best traditions of the legal profession.
The book is filled with examples of black assaults on the rights of whites wherein most of the nation, including the vaunted Civil Rights Division, turned a blind eye. […]
A few courageous Division lawyers, including Adams, eventually brought a suit in federal court and won an historic judgment.
It is fair to wonder if one gutsy patriot and his book can help us all to gather our courage, to take the risk of being called bigots, and to go forth and realize the dream of Dr. King.
A small straw in the wind indicating that there might be some hope was the news that Loretta King, the Civil Rights Division official responsible for the biased Panther decision and other of that ilk, has just resigned in advance of the release of the book. […]
Here’s a simple truth — and it’s one I’ve articulated here for years now: the racialism of contemporary race / ethnic studies scholars, which is the institutionalized view of racial politics as it is currently practiced (enabled by ancillary alliances with “multiculturalism,” the “diversity movement,” and “social justice” programs) by those with the power and influence to shape social and government policy, is anathema to the bedrock principles of individual liberty and equality before the law upon which this entire constitutional republic is predicated.
The idea that race neutrality is a form of White oppression represents the flailing of race pimps and academics — whose entire economic and intellectual existence depends upon the perpetuation of perceived iniquities that can only be remedied by way of special dispensations (the agitating for which is itself a form of political power, as Tom Wolfe recognized in the Mau-Mauers) — at its most cynical; because only in the increasingly sophistic world of the academy could the argument be made with a straight face that the only way to ensure racial equality is to practice racial inequality as a matter of government policy.
Unfortunately, bureaucracies in all levels of government — and entire cottage industries in the private sector that surround academics and businesses as self-styled equality watch dogs — are larded with those whose own interests demand that race neutrality be demonized, and that the assimilationist model of American civil society be replaced by the “quilt” model, in which Americans are Balkanized along the lines of identity groups (which are then pitted against each other, with the government and the bureaucrats seizing upon the conflict to set up a regulatory system under which they become permanent rule makers and referees).
Such an organization of society works at the most basic level to undercut the foundational idea of individual liberty and autonomy, and to keep Americans controlled by a central authority who must then find constant (but historically fluid, in theory) victim groups to “protect,” thus assuring themselves of perpetual political power and influence.
Nice racket. And for the race racketeers, nice work if you can get it.
(h/t Quin Hillyer, who has more here)
In commonsense a man knows when he encounters a human being. What is a human being? He points: that, that right there.
Maybe Professor Caric finds “the election of an African American to the White House by a majority white electorate” to be a national hoax. In which case, immediate impeachment.
Or maybe he finds Obama’s abysmal performance in the polls — representing that same group — to be a hoax. In which case, a handy reelection.
Yet neither seem at all likely, although if I went to school under Professor Caric’s tutelage surely I’d know which he subscribes to. And precisely how race factors.
Besides wholly by Prof Cancer’s vaguest projections, I mean.
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Chicago has a whole industry based on setting up fradulent “Minority or Women Owned” businesses to latch onto the Government teat.
The biggest example was the Duff brothers – big D backers and Mayor Daley cronies.
IMO, this is worse than having activist judges on the bench. A bad decision by a judge is a valid and open subject of criticism. Prosecutorial misconduct, especially in the form of letting criminals off the hook, slips under the public radar much easier.
Making the Civil Rights Division’s behavior worse is the fact that abuse of prosecutorial discretion is one of the major complaints historically brought by the civil rights movement e.g. prosecuting only black defendants and letting white defendants skate. The only difference between a Jim Crow prosecutor then and a Civil Rights Division prosecutor now is the color preference.
Seems to me like we’ll make some progress on this racism thing when it’s no longer held as a virtue to have laws enacted or enforced based on something as arbitrary as melanin levels.
All those white raaaaacists that voted for Obama were only voting for his white half.
McGehee, I’m old enough to remember when children born of bi racial parents were looked down upon by the white and black communities. The Black community always felt that bi racial children were not “authentically” black.
If Herman Cain runs against President Obama, it will be interesting to see just how quickly Cain is labeled “sell out” and “not really black.”
By the way, heard Herman Cain on Beck this am. I liked what I heard.
They’ve been warming up that recipe since the Florida straw poll, but of course they had the ingredients ready as soon as he took part in his first 2012 debate.
I hope Herman Cain does well. I heard him on one of the Sunday talk shows last weekend, and I just loved the way he had snappy answers for all the questions.
Speaking of which, asked about the black community, he declared it hypnotized (IIRC) by Democrats. Asked to expand on the theme, he remarked that most black people would turn a black Republican down without ever examining positions.
So, I think he already recognizes he’s going to be hit with the “sell out” and “not really black” slurs, and is preparing an active offense against them.
Duff Brothers. Importers of Düff beer, right?
(Sorry.)
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Uh oh, I know I said I’d shut the hell up about the Cain flap, but I thought of another really good point.
I submit that the way Cain reacted to the situation is a perfect example for how to react to racially charged situations.
Can you imagine how Al Sharpton would have reacted to that set up?
Cain didn’t start denouncing Perry and southerners, he said Perry was not sensitive to how that made people like him feel. In other words, Cain left room for clarification and understanding, instead of labeling and denouncing the man involved with the situation.
I admit to liking that Cain is black, as well as everything else he is. I think if Cain was elected, especially if he is successful, he really would unite us as a country. I think he could do for race relations what Obama only claimed he would do. He would restore pride and dignity to the office, and to minorities that have been made to feel helpless.
Cain is the guy we need at this time, and I’m going to repeat I’d be really jazzed if it was a Cain/Gingrich ticket. Cain will need a guide in DC, and not only does Gingrich know the game and where the bodies are buried, he’s one smart MoFo.
Cain didn’t react well. It wasn’t a deal breaker, and he’s minimized the flap, but he didn’t react well. He gave more than one interview on the subject. He had time to know the facts before speaking to the situation on at least one occasion.
It bothers me. But I still like Cain, and with Palin out, it’s now down to Cain, Bachmann, Palin, and perhaps Perry. I’d happily go for Santorum but he has no chance. Nor does Newt, though he could be a useful VP candidate, because I’d love to see him debate and play the role of attack dog.
“Cain didn’t react well. ”
maybe. but with ows we should be asking about the demonrats affiliation with jew haters and 9/11 truthers. put the ball in their court.
Marco Rubio has said no thank you to the VP job today. Talking heads don’t believe him, but I do.
I’ve been attacking those assholes all day.
I think somebody should cut together a video of all the anti-semitic, anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist horseshit being recorded at these protests alongside the endorsements of the event by prominent Democrats.
And when the violence starts — and it will — I hope that Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, et al., lay it directly at their feet, as they attempted to do the TEA Party and talk radio when Giffords was shot.
“I think somebody should cut together a video of all the anti-semitic, anti-capitalist, pro-Marxist horseshit”
beck’s blaze is collecting that.
It’s still funny to me to think about the extent to which Hegel had his shit together, pointing to the way in which these twerps demise themselves.
“He had time to know the facts before speaking to the situation on at least one occasion.”
Oh, well, I don’t know what he knew and when he knew it, but the response had to be indifferent, reasonable, or outraged. I believe he was reasonable.
Only for certain definitions of reasonable. Which directly makes Jeff’s point, that the word reasonable has been defined so the “reasonable” reaction to these racialists has moved away from Kipling’s memorable definition in “Cleared”:
Oh, I meant reasonable in the sense that Cains reaction was more of introspection and dialog, not the accusation and retribution of the outraged.
Tell someone they are insensitive, and you can talk about it. Call them an asshole, and there’s not much left to talk about.
Also, Perry agreed with Cain that had the circumstanses that Cain thought existed been true, it would indeed have been insensitive.