Kill Whitey!

I’m starting to see Howard Dean’s appeal. No, really. If you’re a moron, he makes a lot of sense. I’m taking a look at this piece in the Boston Globe. It starts with this:

[H]e tells to voters about how his chief of staff as governor of Vermont was always a woman. After two or three years, Dean noticed that she had a “matriarchy” in the office. When the chief of staff was going to hire a new person, Dean said, he told her, ” `I notice we have a gender imbalance in the office, and I wonder if you could find a man.’ She said it’s really hard to find a qualified man. I got everybody laughing about that.” That is Dean’s icebreaker to get audiences to understand institutional racism. “The punch line of the story that it’s so hard to find a qualified man is everybody does it. Everybody tends to hire people like themselves. And I get them all nodding, including the African-Americans in the audience.”

If we assume for a moment that the phrase “everybody does it” was intended to come with the standard disclaimers about generalities, this actually makes a lot of sense. He’s right on target. Then, however, a few paragraphs later, you get this:

“Dealing with race is about educating white folks,” Dean said in an interview Tuesday on a campaign swing through the first primary state where African-American voters will have a major impact. “Not because white people are worse than black people about race but because whites are in the majority, and therefore the behavior of whites has a much bigger influence on hiring practices and so forth

Which has some truth to it, but is fairly well flawed. How? Well, essentially Dean is saying that negative impact on minorities is worse than negative impact on whites.

“No he’s not!”

Yes, he is. He’s saying that the level of discrimination against whites is acceptable, but the level of discrimination against minorities is not. After making a very astute comment that EVERYONE discriminates, he turns around and says that it’s only a problem if white people do it. Dealing with race is about educating everyone. Period.

Of course, the Boston Globe shows its stripes not long later with this beauty:

Clinton also never challenged Republican-inspired laws that had a disastrous impact on young African-Americans and Latinos, such as mandatory sentencing and much harsher jail terms for possession of crack cocaine than for powdered cocaine.

The aforestated laws had a “disastrous” impact on blacks and latinos WHO WERE CRIMINALS. Let’s not forget that it also had a “disastrous” effect on white criminals… but since there are, apparently, less of them it’s made to look somehow racist. Maybe, instead of focusing on how sentencing adversely effects the black population, we should focus on why it is that certain classes of minorities have proportions of convicted felons well above the average for other races. It’s not because they’re inherently more evil, but if you subscribe to the belief apparently held by the globe, you have to make the assumption that they are.

Essentially what Dean does is starts with the truth, and gradually shifts himself to absolute absurdity… the less intelligent members of our electorate don’t see it happening and assume that since Dr. Dean made one obviously true statement, all those that follow must be true as well.

Dick Gephardt understands what’s going on though:

“There is a pattern with Gov. Dean,” Gephardt said in a speech at a Des Moines hospital. “First, say something indefensible. Then deny you ever said it. Then, when it’s proven you said it, don’t tell anybody why you said it. And then go and say it all over again.”

The only other quote I wanted to pull out was this one:

Dean said his own education about unconscious racism began at Yale, where he graduated in 1971. He was trying to get a child from the inner city of New Haven that he was tutoring to talk “proper” English. One of his African-American roommates told him, “Why don’t you leave him alone?”

This has no bearing on the point I was trying to make above, but I think some of you (the more intelligent ones) know why this annoys me. In America, we have accents. We even have, some might say, dialects (if you come to the south, you’ll understand what I mean). We also have a lot of people who speak some bastardization of the english language that makes them nearly incomprehensible to everyone else. If these people are black, however, we’re supposed to “leave them alone” because “that’s just how they are.”

The problem with race relations in this country, as far as I’m concerned, is the multiculturalist, leftist pandering that goes on by trying to make everyone feel like they’re good enough, that they’re just fine the way they are, and that their “culture” should be preserved even if it’s deeply detrimental to them. The left keeps its strangle-hold on the minority vote by making minorities beholden to them for their standard of living, and they do so by making people who aren’t on par with the rest of society feel like they are. Making them feel like they either a) can’t ever speak proper english (or whatever) or b) SHOULDN’T WANT to speak proper english (or whatever).

I don’t let things like this get me down, though, because you can almost guarantee that the Democratic candidate is going to care the vast majority of the black vote (and probably several other division of minorities as well) regardless of how much pandering is done. There’s not much room for improvement there.

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