A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.
The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — an aide later said she misspoke — to Bill Clinton dismissing Sen. Barack Obama’s image in the media as a “fairy tale” — generated outrage on black radio, black blogs and cable television. And now they've drawn the attention of prominent African-American politicians.
“A cross-section of voters are alarmed at the tenor of some of these statements,” said Obama spokeswoman Candice Tolliver, who said that Clinton would have to decide whether she owed anyone an apology.
“There’s a groundswell of reaction to these comments — and not just these latest comments but really a pattern, or a series of comments that we’ve heard for several months,” she said. “Folks are beginning to wonder: Is this really an isolated situation, or is there something bigger behind all of this?”
I've said it before. Here it is again in case you've missed it.
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 coined the now famous and reviled phrase "soft bigotry of low expectations." 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.
The current regressive liberal agenda of failed social engineering and rabid quest for power is going ahead full steam. Regressive liberals 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 are 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.
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