Brunch protests. LGBT “white space” protests. Burning minority-owned businesses. An administration populated with the black student extras from The Strawberry Statement…
Yeah: let the racial healing continue!
When Obama was nominated I wrote that should he be elected he’d set race relations back 50 years — though I certainly wished he’d fail.
He hasn’t.
We’re living in the “benighted States of America” Rabbit, Redux’s Skeeter railed against — only it’s 44 years hence, and it didn’t have to be this way. Sharpton, Holder, Obama, Dyson, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright: these are the people who piss on Dr King’s legacy while laying claim to it, straining to keep alive racial divides and open erstwhile cauterized civil wounds, luxuriating in the tensions and chaos they will into being. These race hustlers and political cynics need to keep pitching the narrative of a racially-polarized country, because this is how they are able to tribalize us, rob of us of our individual autonomy, and secure power for themselves.
Which, no wonder they’re reluctant to be judged by the content of their characters.
(h/t J Geraghty)
I was very young as I witnessed Martin Luther King working his wonders in American politics and though I understood little of the depth of his thought at the time, nevertheless it was impossible to miss how distinct was his love of justice and his appeal direct to the true hearts of men. How rare such a man was, how earnest, how steadfast, was immediate and obvious even to an eleven year old.
The meaning of his aim — his aim — has been erased by his lessers today. Surely they too could see what an adolescent could see all those years ago, but they saw (and see) more powerfully something else altogether — their own vile and narrow interests.
if poor oprah doesn’t get her goddamn oscar this fucking country’s gonna fucking burn
#blacklivesmatter
For the first time in my adult life, I’m ashamed to be an American.
Ironic indeed. King dreamed of a color-blind society, and worked toward achieving it because he believed in it, and not because his personal power, or status, would stem from it.
While the race-hustlers, one of which is an advisor to POTUS, claim to work for racial reconciliation, but really foment division, precisely to retain their power and elevated standing in society.
MLK surely wouldn’t approve of the actions of the race hustlers and professionally aggrieved.
Bob Reed wrote: MLK surely wouldn’t approve of the actions of the race hustlers and professionally aggrieved.
We’ll never know — but, maybe, it’s better that way because, near the end of his life, MLK was hanging around with Socialists/Communists. Perhaps it is better we never witnessed the fruits of his late-in-life associations. Would he have become one? Would he have transitioned to Fascist, like Jackson and Sharpton and so many others?
[…] Jeff Goldstein wrote earlier today: […]
FYI, for the SOTU, Glenn, Pat, and Stu are going to do “Political Science Theater 2015,” which might make it bearable.
They made the little ball of clay with a parody logo and everyjunk.
PST 2015? So if repeat to myself “it’s just a show”, will I be able to just relax?
Or might relaxation come only if my good buddy Ardbeg is at hand?
will I be able to just relax?
No, fraid not. The saving virtue of Manos: The Hands of Fate is that it exists on film only.
This is gallows humor, no more and no less.
Thanks Joike and ‘bots, for letting us have the last laugh before the wave closes over our heads.