From Human Events:
Liberals Can't Break Their 200--Year Racism Habit
Ann Coulter
Democrats spent the first century of this country’s existence
refusing to treat black people like human beings, and the second
refusing to treat them like adults.
After fighting the Civil War to continue enslaving black people and
then subjecting newly freed black Americans to vicious, humiliating Jim
Crow laws and Ku Klux Klan violence, Democrats set about frantically
rewriting their own ugly history.
Step 1: Switch “Democrat” to “Southerner”;
Step 2: Switch “Southerner” to “conservative Democrat”;
Step 3: Switch “conservative Democrat” to “conservative.”
Contrary to liberal folklore, the Democratic segregationists were not
all Southern — and they were certainly not conservative. They were
dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrats on all the litmus-test issues of
their day.
All but one remained liberal Democrats until the day they died. That’s the only one you’ve ever heard of: Strom Thurmond.
As soon as abortion is relegated to the same trash heap of history as
slavery has been, liberals will be rewriting history to make Democrats
the pro-lifers and Republicans the pro-choicers. That’s precisely what
they’ve done with the history of race in America.
In addition to lying in the history books, liberals lied on their
personal resumes. Suddenly, every liberal remembered being beaten up by a
300-pound Southern sheriff during the civil rights movement.
Among the ones who have been caught falsely gassing about their civil
rights heroism are Bob Beckel, Carl Bernstein and Joseph Ellis. (Some
days, it seems as if there are more liberals pretending to have been
Freedom Riders than pretending to be Cherokees!)
In the 1950s and ’60s, Democrats were running segregationists for
vice president, slapping Orval Faubus on the back and praising George
Wallace voters for their “integrity.” (That was Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
in The New York Times.)
But the moment the real civil rights struggle was over, liberals
decided to become black America’s most self-important defenders.
Of course, once we got the Democrats to stop discriminating against
blacks, there was no one else doing it. So liberals developed a rich
fantasy life in which they played Atticus Finch and some poor white cop
from Brooklyn would be designated Lester Maddox (racist Democrat,
endorsed by Jimmy Carter).
White journalists who didn’t know any actual black people (other than
Grady the maid) became junior G-men searching for racists under every
bed, requiring a steady stream of deeply pompous editorials.
You will never see anything so brave as a liberal fighting nonexistent enemies.
Liberals drove the entire country crazy with their endless battles
against imaginary racists, to make up for their having been AWOL during
the real fight over civil rights.
Throughout this period, every black-on-white crime became a
re-enactment of “To Kill a Mockingbird”; every cop who shot a black perp
was Bull Connor; and every alleged racist incident was instantly
presumed true, no matter how preposterous.
When it turned out the hate crime was a hoax, the cop was being
mugged and the black kid was guilty, the whole story would just quietly
disappear from the news, as if the media were reading a bedtime story to
a child, whispering the ending and tiptoeing out of the room.
Then came the O.J. verdict.
Millions of Americans watched as a mostly black jury acquitted an
obviously guilty black celebrity and saw black America cheer the
verdict. The sight of black law students whooping and applauding O.J.’s
acquittal had the same emotional impact as watching Palestinians
celebrate the 9/11 attack.
Overnight, the white guilt bank — once thought “too big to fail” —
was shut down. Henceforth, instead of producing stuttering
embarrassment, liberal moral intimidation on race produced only
eye-rolling. With that, America became a much healthier country,
especially for black people.
Without nonsense claims of racist “code words” to stop them,
Republicans were finally able to implement long-sought reforms on crime
and welfare. The unqualified success of Rudy Giuliani’s crime policies
in New York saved tens of thousands of black lives. Welfare reform was
such a stunning success that Bill Clinton claimed credit for it.
Blacks had won the final civil rights battle: The right to be treated
like adults. Even liberals ceased their oohing and ahhing over every
little thing any black person did.
But the post-O.J. paradise came to a crashing halt with the appearance of Barack Obama.
Obama allowed liberals to return to accusing Americans of being racists and get the most liberal president America has ever seen at the same time.
The only firm evidence that there are any actual racists left in
America is the fact that so many whites voted for Obama as some sort of
racial penance.
More white people voted for Obama in 2008 than had voted for any Democratic presidential candidate in nearly 40 years.
They must have felt guilty about something. Not harboring any racist impulses, I was free to vote Republican.
Now that Obama is up for re-election, liberals are back to their old
tricks. A nation with more child pornographers than racists — a nation
that’s already elected a (half) black president once — is suddenly said
to be bristling with racists again!
My new book, out this week, “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the
Seventies to Obama,” reminds us that nothing good has ever come of
Americans capitulating to liberals’ racial bullying, especially not for
black people. Never. Don’t make the same mistake again, America.
More from Ann and Human Events:
Matthews A Few Race Cards Short Of A Full Deck
Today, we will focus on the outstanding individual performance of the man who, since the departure of Contessa Brewer, is widely regarded by his colleagues as the stupidest on-air personality at MSNBC. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Chris Matthews.
Appearing on “Morning Joe,” Matthews exploded at Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, alleging that Mitt Romney’s harmless birth certificate joke from a few days earlier was a “cheap shot,” “awful,” and an example of the Republicans playing “that card.”
(Discussing his hometown roots while campaigning in Michigan, Romney had cited the local hospitals where he and his wife were born, adding, “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.”)
Even the liberals on the show were perplexed. Asked to clarify whether he considered the birth certificate joke “playing the race card,” Matthews angrily said: “Yeah, there’s no doubt he did with his birth certificate. No doubt. Why would he bring it up? Why would he say, ‘I have no problem with my birth certificate’? What’s that supposed to say?”
Joe Scarborough: “Because he misfired badly on the joke?”
But Matthews didn’t have time for alternative explanations. Besides, he had already yelled at Joe and Mika, so the issue was obviously resolved. Chris quickly moved on to Romney’s ads describing the Obama administration’s change to welfare requirements as another example of racism.
Matthews said that Romney’s (factually correct) claim that Barack Obama is weakening the work requirement for welfare was “playing that card,” fuming at the RNC chair, “and you are playing that little ethnic card there.” Priebus, like most people who haven’t spent much time around Matthews, could only laugh awkwardly.
Matthews raged: “You can — you play your games and giggle about it, but the fact is your side is playing that card. You start talking about work requirements, you know what game you’re playing and everybody knows what game you’re playing. It’s a race card.”
Asked by Scarborough if he really believed that the welfare ad was racist, Matthews said: “Of course it is. Welfare? Food stamps?”
On “Hardball” that night, Matthews continued his welfare rant: The Romney ad was “ethnically charged” and a “dog whistle.” (The phrase “dog whistle” is a dog whistle for imaginary sightings of racism.)
For the clincher, Matthews added: “Did you catch Romney following it up by saying this was Obama’s effort to excite and shore up his base, passing out welfare checks? His base.”
As everyone but Chris knows, the “base” Romney referred to consists not of individuals collecting welfare, but those distributing it, i.e.: union-dues-paying government workers. Democrats’ problem with welfare reform always was that if it worked, we would need fewer of these well-pensioned public employees, a fact repeatedly acknowledged by liberals themselves.
When welfare reform was first proposed in 1994:
– Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute said the reforms would sever Democratic ties to the liberal “base,” which he described as: “Congress, the interest groups that cluster around them, the bureaucracies that work closely with them, the social service providers and experts and think tank types.”
– Robert Kuttner of the uber-liberal American Prospect magazine wrote that welfare reform would hurt Bill Clinton with “the Democratic base.”
– Liberal journalist Jeff Greenfield of ABC News said that Clinton’s becoming a third-way, New Democrat would risk “alienating a liberal base.”
I’m sorry, gentlemen, but it is my sad duty to inform you: You’re all racists.
The next night on “Hardball,” Matthews made his most dramatic announcement yet! It seems the mention of “Chicago” in relation to the president is also a racist dog whistle.
Matthews: “They keep saying Chicago, by the way, you noticed?”?
Guest John Heilemann, like an orderly in a mental institution trapped alone with a patient, played along, responding, “Well, there’s a lot of black people in Chicago” — while frantically jabbing at the alarm button.
For the love of Pete, can’t we all acknowledge that a reference to “Chicago” in this context manifestly refers to corrupt, big-city, machine politics and 1920s gangsterism — not race? No one thinks Al Capone was an African-American.
My advice to Chris is: Pace yourself. It’s a long way to Election Day. If you get too crazy, too soon, you’ll have nothing left for the fourth quarter.
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