Perpetuating the racial divide
Michelle Obama, by convention an extension of the Obama regime, again fanned the contentious flames of racism while addressing the NAACP. To Americans, the regime's activist fixation on race and the NAACP's resolution folly should be troubling -- and telling.
It is no secret that Michelle Obama was genuinely surprised by her husband's cross-racial base of support during the 2008 campaign. It was as though she couldn't believe white Americans would ever vote for a black man.
Yet her husband was in fact elected primarily because of significant support by white voters -- of every political stripe. White guilt? Perhaps some, but perhaps the majority simply believed his flowery rhetoric.
Throughout the run-up to the election, absurd progressive scribblers warned of daily, mean-spirited attacks against Mrs. Obama based upon a perceived lack of American values -- leftist code for her illustrative history regarding race and racism.
It never happened.
What is happening now, however, is America's reevaluation of the regime's disingenuous boast of post-racial concord now that a black man is at the helm of the Ship of State. Especially since by their own words and deeds Obama, his wife, the Democrat Congress, the Black Congressional Caucus, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have slandered so very many people or groups - from a Cambridge cop to the Tea Party Movement - as being racist. For eighteen months now, a steady stream of such baseless accusations, parroted by State-run Media and wealthy race pimps, have been saddled upon any and all who oppose the regime.
Race card -- cui bono?
Who benefits from the race card? Mrs. Obama and her husband know that millions of those white voters who proudly elected America's first black president are now disillusioned. They also realize that those millions are not disillusioned by the color of Obama's skin but by the color of his anti-American words, policies, and ideology.
In her now much-publicized address to the NAACP national convention on Monday, Mrs. Obama wasted a golden opportunity to speak about racial unity and instead pointedly focused on racial divisiveness, capped by her support of the NAACP's despicable resolution condemning the Tea Party Movement as racist. Why would she do such a thing? Why indeed -- pure political pandering.
This is not about the politically-motivated lies that black members of Congress were called names and spat upon by Tea Party members. It is not even about the belief of many blacks within the ruling class that it is payback time. It is, at its core, all about political power. Obama, his wife, the Democrat Congress, and their supporters realize that they are in serious trouble. They will try anything - even repulsive, non-stop accusations of racism - to energize their base in the hope of salvation come November.
The NAACP? This anachronistic organization was begun by three progressive white people (Mary White Ovington, William English Walling and Henry Moscowitz) after the Springfield, Illinois race riot of 1908. In 2010 America, no serious person can any longer reasonably justify its existence. Which is why its leader, Benjamin Jealous, must resort to race-baiting to maintain a membership locked in a time capsule of racial animosity and divisive race-based politics -- keep hatred alive, keep the cash flowing in.
Contrived racism is loathesome
What of the Tea Party Movement response to the unsubstantiated racist accusations and contrived resolution championed by Mrs. Obama and the NAACP? Tea Party Express spokesman Levi Russell stated, "For the NAACP to accuse the tea parties of racism is insulting to the great patriots who have participated in this movement, and sadly shows just how out of touch that group is with the American people."
Labeling Mrs. Obama and the NAACP as "out of touch" is being gracious to the extreme, but also in error. Obama and the NAACP are very much in touch and know exactly what they are doing by spreading their racist poison across America.
Mind you, many of the tens of millions who now actively support the Tea Party Movement -- many of them independents -- also voted for Obama. In fact, Obama would not now be in the position to do so much harm to America were it not for their support at the ballot box. Yet now, those same people who voted for a black man are suddenly racist?
It's not working
To Barack and Michelle Obama, it's not about what race a person is. It's about what race they are not. As Mrs. Obama has made clear, it's not really about other people's whiteness -- it's about how whites don't share what she calls her "blackness." This is pathetic and pitiable commentary from the wife of the president and a woman who was raised within the safe shelter of middle class affluence and a vast, seemingly endless cornucopia of equal opportunity initiatives.
Every time the Obama regime and those allied with it sense they are losing any political argument, no matter how trifling, they attempt to destroy the opposition by playing the race card. They do so because they can -- thanks to an obedient State-run Media -- and they do so because it used to work. It used to muffle criticism of whatever the Obama regime was scheming at that moment. Those shameful days have passed.
Is every person in America who disagrees with the regime a racist? Even all the citizens of color who are in opposition? The trite race scam no longer works like it once did.
It's not going to work before November, either.
Hype and Chains for 110 more days.