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January 18, 2006
"A Credit to Their Racism"
Martin Luther King's birthday is a time to celebrate the civil rights hero's commitment to non-violent social change. That's why this week it was such a shame to see liberal speakers do violence to the English language and the King legacy by engaging in inflammatory rhetoric.Senator Hillary Clinton offended even many blacks by using Al Sharpton's MLK Day celebration to say the Republican House of Representatives has been run "like a plantation -- and you know what I'm talking about." Apparently, she meant that GOP House leaders were the modern-day equivalent of slavemasters, but she declined to elaborate to reporters afterward.
Then there was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, a once promising reformer who has now descended into racial demagoguery to disguise his failure to properly evacuate his city as Hurricane Katrina approached. He used his MLK Day speech to say: "I don't care what people are saying Uptown. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day." He added that "God is mad at America" and said it was the Lord's will that the city retain a black-majority in its population.
When Martin Luther King was alive, the elite media were perfectly aware of which reactionary forces were blocking racial progress in this country. Today, charlatans like Al Sharpton, demagogues like Mayor Nagin and manipulative politicians like Senator Clinton are the major obstacles to letting the country get beyond race. If GOP Senator Trent Lott was forced to step down from his post as Majority Leader in 2002 for insensitive and thoughtless praise of the late Strom Thurmond, those on the left who deliberately exploit race for political gain deserve at least similar scrutiny and condemnation.
"A Credit to Their Racism," by John Fund, OpinionJournal's Political Diary, January 18, 2006
Posted at January 18, 2006 09:17 PM | Categories: Bigotry , Ignorance
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