Who, Me ?

This just in -- there is, as it turns out, such a thing as "racism" among... guess who... Democrats! Yes, an "AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them 'lazy,' 'violent' or responsible for their own troubles." Well, I must say I'm crushed by this news. Here I had always thought of the Democratic Party as the veritable bastion of enlightenment and "color-blindness" when it comes to politics and social policy. But lurking in its midst are people who see blacks as, of all things, "responsible for their own troubles". Of course, there are many black commentators out there who have said the very same thing. (But they're not Democrats, so their views don't count, I guess.) Even the "lazy and violent" (if that's not a contradiction) part can be traced, in many ways, to the basic attitude problem, or "meme", among blacks, especially of the urban "ghetto" type, which considers not working, and committing violent acts, as political statments in protest against white oppression. Never mind that blacks who do work, and are not violent, seem to have very little problem, these days, with white oppression. Of course, these are all common-sense observations, which is why it's all the more amazing that members of the Democratic Party might have made them as well. But in any case, the thinking was that this factor might become important in a close race. (Somewhere Hillary Clinton is smiling... )

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that there is, in fact, such a thing as genuine racism, which is a form of prejudice. But there are also observable facts, and the poll results are not clear as to which of these we are talking about. The article also said that "Lots of Republicans harbor prejudices, too, but the survey found they weren't voting against Obama because of his race. Most Republicans wouldn't vote for any Democrat for president — white, black or brown." Yeah, well, I could have told you that. Republicans would be perfectly willing to vote for, say, Clarence Thomas, or Thomas Sowell, should they be on the ballot as Republicans.

But the truth is, I'm just playing cat-and-mouse with the real point, which is that the Democrats have wallowed, for decades, in the form of racism that sees blacks, ultimately, as incompetent and inferior, and needing help -- in other words as perpetual victims -- who must be kept in a state of dependency on government in order to constitute a reliable voting bloc. They must, in other words, like the proverbial mushroom, be kept in the dark and fed bullshit in order to keep the Democratic/liberal socialist/collectivist power structure in place, with all of its charming features like redistribution of income, urban blight (caused by "urban renewal", which is always justified on the basis of "blight"), and -- most vicious of all -- the effective "triaging" of the black ghettos into no-man's-lands of violence, illegitimacy, and drug abuse. These are all things that, far from being accidental, are designed to feed into the socialist, i.e. Democrat, agenda -- and which are, besides, characterized by secularism and an overall attitude of doom, gloom, and despair.

The Republicans may "protest too much" when it comes to "compassionate conservatism", but I'd like someone to show me a truly compassionate liberal -- just one! Or a truly compassionate liberal program. I think we can judge well enough by the results. So, while the traditional good-ol'-boy, gun rack and axe handle type racism is gone from the Democratic Party (maybe because all those guys are voting Republican now), the more insidious form of racism is alive and well. This poll only tells a tiny part of the story.