Justice Scalia Right About Voting Rights Act

March 1, 2013 4 Comments

The left is up in arms over comments Justice Scalia during oral arguments on a case involving the Voting Rights Act. The Act was passed in 1965 and was intended to last only five years. It basically required southern states to petition the Federal government before making changes to voting laws. In 1965 it was perhaps understandable legislation as the intent was to guarantee blacks the right to vote, which southern states had up to that point tended to deny. In 2013 the south is hardly the hot bed of Jim Crow legalized racism that it was in 1965. As Justice Roberts asked during arguments, is the south more racist than the north? The answer to that is no.

One of the issues with the Voting Rights Act is that it requires states to make majority minority districts, generally via gerrymandering. Scalia chimed in on this suggesting “whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.” The left is enraged over this comment. Justice Sotomayor asked one of the attorney’s arguing the case whether voting was a racial entitlement.

Generally speaking the left is following Sotomayor’s apparent line of argument, outraged that Scalia would call voting a racial entitlement. Except of course Scalia made no such argument. He’s merely pointing out that creating an entitlement to a majority minority congressional district as well as other voting entitlements for racial minorities are politically difficult to eliminate. He never once suggested that voting itself was a racial entitlement. The problem here is that when conservatives speak liberals hear something entirely different than what is being said. They’ve been taught to root out hidden racism. They’re like Communists in the East German Stasi, constantly looking for the hidden enemy that doesn’t exist.

In 2013 can anyone cite a single example of any American in this country being denied the right to vote because of their race? Can anyone cite an example of a single American being denied the right to register to vote based on their race? If not, why do we need the Voting Rights Act and all of its Federal regulations? You might argue that the Act is aimed at the racist south. But the north has far more segregation and racial animosity than the south. Just go to metro Detroit, Cleveland or Chicago sometime, there are clear racial boundaries. Those areas aren’t subject to the Act, the south is. Indiana, a state that elected KKK Governor’s in the 20′s, has never been subject to the Act. Is Indiana less racist than Alabama?

Scalia’s point is perfectly valid. He’s not arguing that voting itself is a racial preference. He’s arguing that creating special rules, regulations and districts aimed at minorities is a racial preference. Whether that means the Voting Rights Act is going to be overturned remains to be seen. Odds are either Kennedy or Roberts will vote against overturning the law. That said, pointing out the 2013 reality of the Voting Rights Act isn’t racism. Scalia isn’t a racist for calling the Act what it is. The left is intentionally mischaracterizing what he said for political gain. Or perhaps they’re mischaracterizing it because they are incapable of listening when a conservative speaks.

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Romney’s Pirouette With The NAACP

July 12, 2012 2 Comments

Yesterday Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP. Not surprisingly he wasn’t very well received. He actually gave a pretty good speech if all that was required was highlighting why a Romney administration would be better for blacks than a second Obama administration. He’s right of course but that message wasn’t going to be heard by the NAACP crowd. Romney tossed around statistic after statistic then made the fatal error of declaring he would repeal Obamacare. The NAACP is a group of radical leftists, all of Romney’s statistics fell on deaf ears by a group that needed to hear a message on foundational viewpoints.

Barack Obama has been a disaster for blacks. Black unemployment is 14.4%, down only 0.4% since Obama took office. In fact, black unemployment jumped 0.8% in June alone. Young blacks are unemployed at the staggeringly high rate of 39%. Obama eliminated school choice in Washington DC, thus forcing black kids into failing neighborhood government schools. Inner city schools remain terrible, propped up by the policies of Obama. Inner city violence is up dramatically in the last four years, Chicago’s murder rate for example is up 38%. That disproportionately affects blacks. The poor economy is hitting the black community in more ways than one.

No doubt Romney’s policies would be better for blacks. A lower tax rate for everyone, along with tax certainty, would boost the economy which will help everyone including blacks. Allowing school choice for inner city kids in DC would be good for them. Romney has talked about tying Federal education money to the child rather than handing out grants to schools. While I oppose government education and in particular Federal education spending, tying money to a student would force schools to compete for students thus increasing education standards and student output. All of this is good for the black community.

But the NAACP isn’t thinking along these lines. This is a group that has adopted a radical leftist outlook. It no longer is the group that it was when it was founded, that being a group dedicated to the end of Jim Crow. It’s now a group filled with radicals and they don’t care about the black unemployment rate. They don’t want to hear a message about no one ever saying there was to much free enterprise in a community. That’s because they’ll say exactly that. This is a group filled with the remanent of the Saul Alinsky 60′s, a group that believes not only is the big corporate CEO evil but so is the local merchant. We’re talking about people who truly believe the local merchant is trying to screw blacks by selling goods at a profit.

As such, to come to a NAACP meeting with a series of statistics and some vague plans for economic change in a free market direction isn’t going to be heard by these people. They don’t care about the statistics and the Romney solution is the opposite of what they want. The only way to approach a group like the NAACP is to take them head on. Romney should have made a substantive argument for capitalism and against big government socialism. Dancing around the subject only enrages the NAACP more and it annoys Romney’s base. 

Romney should have laid out what capitalism is, why it’s good for the black community and every other group in America and he should have laid out in detail how big government socialism has failed America and in particular blacks. Instead Romney danced around everything and once again looked like the lukewarm, johnny come lately conservative that he is. If we can give him something from this speech it’s that he did not offer up a laundry list of big government goodies, he remained true to his claim of being a smaller government conservative. That’s at least something positive to take away from this otherwise mediocre encounter with the NAACP.

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Why It’s Dangerous To Be Black In America

March 28, 2012 5 Comments

The Black Panthers put out a $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman’s head. The left has said almost nothing about it. Anderson Cooper interviewed Mikhail Muhammad, a Black Panther, about the bounty yesterday. Cooper is one of the view mainstream journalists even talking about this situation, doing it on his talk show. Muhammad declared that he didn’t follow American or white people law and declared Zimmerman guilty under something called “street people law.” In short the Black Panthers support vigilante actions, they support lynchings. It’s interesting that the Black Panthers support the same actions that were used against blacks in the south for almost a century.

The lack of outrage isn’t surprising. The left is willing to put up with the Black Panthers because they agree with their positions. The left’s narrative in the Trayvon Martin case is that white people are racist and a white person unjustly attacked an innocent black kid. When it came out that Zimmerman was hispanic, with a white parent he was suddenly called a white hispanic. That term has never been used before, the left created it to keep their narrative going. You’ll note that Obama isn’t a white black man, even though his mother is white.

The narrative of white racism is a lie. The liberal narrative that it’s dangerous to be a black man in America is only partially true. It’s true because according to the Justice Department blacks commit around 52% of the murders in this country. Around 92% of black murderers kill other black people according to the same report. Blacks are 7 times more likely to commit murder than white people and are 6 times more likely to be the victim of a murder. Want to talk about interracial murder statistics? Black on white murder is twice the rate of white on black murder. It should be noted though that interracial murders are a small percentage of murders. Only 16% of white people murdered are killed by those of another race, only 7% of blacks are killed by those of another race. Keep in mind blacks are about 13% of the population.

Those are the statistics, they don’t lie. It paints a dramatically different picture than the one being painted by the media over the last two weeks. It is dangerous to be black in America but not because white lynch mobs or over zealous neighborhood watchmen are targeting blacks. It’s dangerous because other black people are 7 times more likely than white people to commit the crime of murder.

It is a tragedy that so many black people are being murdered. When the race hustlers and liberals focus on a situation like Trayvon Martin, which isn’t even an open and shut case, they take the focus away from where it needs to be. The problem in this country isn’t that white people are targeting blacks for violent crime. It’s that the black community isn’t dealing with crime and/or they have come to accept crime in their communities. The left will blame poverty but that’s simply a cop out. There’s “poverty” (American poverty is generally comical) in the white community to but it doesn’t result in crime and murder.

The solution here is difficult because it has to be tackled from many different angles. There are two things though that standout as a starting point. The church needs to be more active in encouraging black boys and men to be part of the church. The church needs to focus on personal morality and sin. Beyond that, it is imperative that the black community stop putting a chip on the shoulders of its youth by blaming white people for all their problems. Teaching children to blame others for their own faults is never going to result in positive change. It’s only going to create envy, bitterness and hatred, which it has done.

Most importantly though we need to view this problem not as a black problem but as an American problem. We need to stop separating ourselves based on race. We need to stop saying to ourselves, he or she can’t think this because they’re black or he isn’t allowed to say that because he’s white. It wouldn’t kill people in all races to stop being so sensitive. There has to be a solution to the problem of violence in the black community though because it’s an American problem and we are all Americans no matter what the Black Panthers say.

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Radical Racist Left Seizes On Trayvon Martin, Threatens Violence

March 23, 2012 29 Comments

The death of Trayvon Martin has brought all of the race baitors out of the woodwork. Martin died when a self appointed neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, shot him. Zimmerman hasn’t been arrested, the death was apparently determined to be an act of self defense. Race baitors have suggested otherwise, painting Zimmerman as a racist who sought out and killed Martin because he’s black. Zimmerman in the media has been portrayed as white, which has turned this situation into a massive racial free for all.

There’s only one problem. George Zimmerman isn’t white. Zimmerman is a Spanish speaking Hispanic from a multiracial family. That of course doesn’t mean he can’t be an anti-black racist, he may very well be. But it changes the racial undertones of this situation. Of course the media continues to portray Zimmerman as white and race baitors in the black community continue to as well. Their purpose is to portray America as a racist nation where blacks have to fear for their lives at the hands of wicked, racist whites. Reporting that Zimmerman is in fact Hispanic and likely multiracial destroys the narrative.

And what a narrative it is. We have high school students storming out of class because Zimmerman hasn’t been charged. Never mind that they don’t have all the information because the investigation is still going on. The students are of course being egged on by their leftist teachers. Al Sharpton is in Florida threatening violence. Louis Farrakhan is threatening retaliation, presumably against white people even though the shooter isn’t white. MSNBC host Karen Finney blamed Martin’s death on Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Not to be out done President Obama tried to personalize the whole situation by claiming that Martin would have looked just like him.

In short, all the leftists are out in force on this one local incident. Why is that? Because they have a political reason for doing this, they’re trying demonize whites and they’re subtly suggesting that voting against Obama is equal to racism. Their whole narrative, which is that whites hate blacks, is destroyed with the fact that Zimmerman isn’t white. When we look at the black leadership’s reaction, it’s nothing short of outrageous. Sharpton and Farrakhan both threatened violence over this death. Obama absurdly tried to personalize it, even though just like the Prof. Louis Gates situation he doesn’t know all the facts. None of us do.

It may very well be that this death wasn’t an act of self defense and thus wasn’t justified. It may be that Zimmerman, if he isn’t a racist at least has anti-black tendencies. It would be odd considering he allegedly has black family members, but anything is possible. A Grand Jury is set to hear this case in April, the facts will come out then. But until then, turning this situation into a giant attack on white people by jumping to conclusions is nothing short of outrageous. Of course when Al Sharpton is involved anything short of outrageous would be shocking.

Everyone needs to calm down and let the Grand Jury do its job. We need to have faith in our legal system. To venture a guess, a Grand Jury won’t indict Zimmerman with first degree murder because absent evidence we don’t know of yet there doesn’t appear to be the necessary intent. But they could indict him with second degree murder or manslaughter. Or perhaps evidence will show that Martin was up to no good and threatened Zimmerman which then justified the shooting. But we have to let the legal process work its way out rather than jumping to conclusions, accusing whites of collective racism, threatening violence and retaliation.

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2012 Race Battle Begins: Nicole Sandler Attacks Allen West

April 27, 2011 Leave a comment

According to an NPR host the 2012 election will be the most racist election in history. One thing that can never be forgotten about the extreme left is that as far as they’re concerned conservative equals racist. With a black President as far as the extreme left is concerned any opposition to him is equal to racism. Obama has done little to combat such nonsense. This of course shouldn’t surprise anyone. It’s politically expedient to have his opponents labeled racists and it fits in his leftist outlook.

I expect the accusations of racism to grow over the next 18 months to the point that the left is quite open in accusing all conservatives and all Republicans of being racists. Ultimately I think many Americans will grow tired of hearing others accused of racism when all we do is oppose the President’s policies. At some point independents see through the political nonsense and I suspect they won’t be happy to hear their neighbors or even themselves accused of racism simply because they oppose some of Obama’s policies. I think the far left has the potential to seriously overplay their race cards.

What’s particularly amusing is that there hasn’t been any racism at Tea Parties over the last two years. No one hates Obama because he’s black, no one really cares that he’s black. Of course the left will declare that racism is an underlying factor in opposition to Obama, as though people couldn’t disagree with socialism unless the socialist is black. It’s an absurd accusation and it ignores the fact that most Tea Party types also opposed Bill Clinton.

So while the Tea Party, conservatives and Republicans must be default racists I wonder what liberals are who oppose black conservatives? No doubt they aren’t racists according to the left, I suspect they’re called heroes. Liberals can’t be racist don’t you know. Rep. Allen West is a conservative Republican who also happens to be black. He held a townhall meeting wherein several left-wing hecklers had to be removed, one was arrested. It turns out that the arrested heckler is former Air America talk show host Nicole Sandler. She apparently still works for Premiere Radio Network as a fill-in host, she also has her own online radio program.

If opposition to Obama is racist, which the left has repeatedly declared then what is opposition to black conservatives? The problem with the extreme left is that they tolerate racist statements made against black conservative. Code Pink held a rally wherein Justice Clarence Thomas was attacked, members of the group wanted him “sent back to the field.” Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain was attacked in a left-wing blog as being a “house nigger” and “minstrel act” when he appeared at the CPAC conference in February. For the extreme left, racist attacks against conservative blacks is acceptable yet they claim the moral high ground and use it to attack conservatives who oppose Obama as racist.

Racism is unacceptable in any form. If you oppose Obama because he’s black, you’re an idiot whose opinion should not be taken seriously. If you oppose Obama because you believe in limited government and oppose his expansive government and socialist outlook, you have a legitimate reason to oppose this President. It is an outrage that the left is attempting to marginalize half the country by calling them racists when they have legitimate political reasons to oppose Obama. Especially so when the left is silent about racist attacks on black conservatives.

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