The Regression of Harry Reid

Joy Tiz

©2010

No sensible American denies that blacks were treated abominably in the past.  Slavery was a national ignominy as was segregation.  It’s worth noting that Democrats have always been on the wrong side of civil rights.  The Ku Klux Klan was the creation of southern Democrats.  Some of us are growing weary of being charged with racism by the party that has a former Klansman serving in the senate.

Blacks have long been abused in America, but not by conservatives.  The Communist Party, ever on the lookout for a group to exploit, has always cultivated interracial tension. The useful idiots on the Left rely on divide and conquer. Inciting racial antagonism contaminates the culture and destabilizes the country.  Racial harmony provides no advantage to liberals and Misery Merchants.  When liberals start howling about racism, the question that must always be asked is:  who benefits?

The Left has never cared about minorities.  Like Hitler, it’s the Left that persists in segregating Americans into groups.  If liberals really gave a damn about minorities, they would defy the teachers’ unions and support charter schools. 

Most conservatives recall Dr. Martin Luther King’s appeal to judge a man by the content of his character rather than the color of his skin.  We said okay.  It is liberals who think racial color blindness is a form of racism. In point of fact, there are so few conservative racists that liberals have had to invent pretend code words and then try to catch conservatives using them in their tireless effort to keep grievances alive.  Like all tyrants, liberals govern through fear.  It is almost farcical to note that Hitler accused other parties of being “divisive” along sectarian lines and insisted he only wanted to focus on the economy.  (Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism).

Barack Obama was supposed to be America’s post racial president.  No president in history came to office with more political capital than Barack Obama.  He squandered it like a lottery winner within a few months.  If liberals had any sense of irony, they would appreciate the inanity of bleating about racism right after America elected a black president.

Obama’s entire life has been devoted to fomenting racial animus.  All of his mentors, from the rancid racist and surrogate father, Frank Marshall Davis to Fan of Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, have been rabid, whitey despising racists.

In his fictional “autobiography”, Obama is consumed by bigotry.  He can find ersatz discrimination in nearly any situation.  Even his white mother was preoccupied with race.

After decades of braying like jackasses over imaginary racism, democrats are now in the untenable position of having to confront genuine racism among their own upper echelons.  Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid’s comments about Obama being blessed with “light skin” and a remarkable capacity to turn a “Negro accent” on and off at will are devastatingly revealing about the high ranking democrat’s attitude toward race.

Reid’s statements go beyond asinine; they are truly bizarre.  When was the last time black people were referred to as “negroes”?  What a throwback to an earlier, uglier era of discrimination that was.  Evidently, this was Reid at his most candid.

By extrapolation, we can presume that Senator Reid thinks darker skinned “Negroes” are at a distinct advantage politically.  Again, his comments are reminiscent of the days when blacks were told they could only get ahead in a white man’s world by trying to be as white as possible.  There was a time when women went to great pains to straighten their hair and look less black.  It took the civil rights movement for African Americans to at last feel comfortable claiming their heritage.

Senator Reid apparently missed all of that and remains stuck in the 1950’s.  Even in his apology he used the terminology of decades ago when he addressed everyone “within the sound of my voice.”  Who uses those expressions anymore?

After dissing black Americans who are not sufficiently light skinned to have a future, Reid made things worse by crediting Obama for not speaking with a “Negro” dialect, except, of course, those times when he wants to speak with a “Negro dialect.”

In other words, Reid is enchanted not only by Obama’s lack of blackness, but also his skill at manipulating various groups via a phony persona.  Apparently, for democrats, the ability to bamboozle your audience into thinking you are alternatively down for the struggle,  versus  being almost white is a resume enhancer.

Reid’s invidious comments reveal more than just his obvious bigotry; they show us a man who is deeply rooted in the past whose thought processes are bizarre, at best.