The Most Insidious Form of Racism

When he was assistant secretary of labor in the Johnson administration, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) published a report titled: "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" (available at http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm.). The report is a retroactive indictment of social programs that did nothing but further destabilize Black families by discouraging self-reliance and industry and rewarding helplessness and dependence.

Moynihan, whose senate seat is now occupied by former First Lady Hillary Clinton, coined the now famous and reviled phrase "soft bigotry of low expectations." Mr. Boyne and his fellow big government ideologues would do well to revisit the 1965 publication. Would you believe that more Blacks were out of work in 1964 than in 1954? Liberal condescension is the most insidious form of racism. America will never make more and speedier progress not only in race relations but also health care, energy independence, immigration, economic development and a host of other vital issues until regressive liberals give up on applying failed, restrictive and freedom-averse socialist answers to them.

Former Rochester Post-Bulletin editor Bill Boyne is not only behind the times in terms of racial progress (Who refers to impoverished areas where Blacks live as "ghettos" anymore?). His latest op-ed column reveals that he also needs to catch up with the current regressive liberal agenda of failed social engineering and rabid quest for power. His fellow regressives have been trying to do to immigrant populations, both legal and illegal, what they have done to American Blacks. The liberal push for "sanctuary cities" and disingenuous drive for "comprehensive immigration reform" with a "path to citizenship," sadly with some Republican support, is nothing more than a concerted effort to make those populations as dependent on liberals as Blacks once were.

Liberals have realized that, if they are to achieve their goal of a "permanent majority," they can't rely on the Black vote the way they used to. Besides, Blacks have grown tired of liberals' lavish promises and meager to nonexistent returns once Democrats are elected. Four decades of promising "forty acres and a mule" but only delivering hay election cycle after election cycle will do that. Now liberals have set their sights on vulnerable immigrant populations. The result will be similar: the destruction of self-respect, self-reliance, initiative and industry among people who need them most.

Liberal political power is built on the ruins of everything the American Dream is made of.