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A Simple Thought Experiment on Race
I’m a pretty simple guy. I hear Eric Holder tell me, yet again, that he believes racial animus plays a role in the opposition to him and the president; loaded phrases like “we need to take our country back” are, he claims, for many (or most), racial code words that really mean something like “we’ve got to throw these black men out of power” so we can put white guys in office (but not white gals — we’re also sexist).
So I decided to use myself in a thought experiment.
Who am I working for to win the 4th District seat in the House in Utah? That would be Mia Love.
Who’s book changed the way I think about liberals and conservatives? It’s a book called A Conflict of Visions, by an economist named Thomas Sowell.
One of my favorite books on race in America is White Guilt by an academic named Shelby Steele.
Of recent Secretaries of State, who was the most honorable and competent? White woman Hillary Clinton, white male John Kerry, or black woman Condoleezza Rice? Rice by 30 lengths.
Whose columns on economics make consistent good sense? Another economist named Walter Williams.
Which Supreme Court Justice hews very closely to my own interpretation of the Constitution? This is kind of a three-way tie: Justices Scalia, Alito, and Thomas (latter pictured).
One of my favorite up-and-coming senators? Tim Scott from South Carolina, that most racist of states.
Why do I abhor the policies of Obama, Holder, John Conyers, and Valerie Jarrett? For exactly the same reason I abhor the policies of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and a vast horde of white leftists. They believe in the administrative state, vast bureaucracy, identity politics, huge deficits, a tiny American presence in the world, abandoning Israel, insulting religious people, political correctness, and on and on and on.
So what is it? Policy (and the principles upon which policies are based) or race? You decide.
Published in General
It is one thing to for a black person to have “concerns” and quite another to use accusations of racism as an intimidation technique to enforce a “black privilege” (my word) by which no black public figure may be ever criticized for anything, lest the critic be labeled a racist.
Imaginary accusations of racism are unforgivable, because in our society, such accusations are considered extremely grave. Racism is wrong. False accusations of racism are defamatory.