The Big 'What If'

The hopes of black America ride on his [Obama's] shoulders.

by Randall Kennedy - September 14th, 2008 - Washington Post

The senator's progressive politics, cosmopolitan ethos and pragmatic style have turned me into an enthusiastic supporter, and I savor the prospect of his triumph. But I'm watching this election very closely as I teach a course about it this semester. And I know that the conclusion to this electoral drama is far from determined. Yes, political gravity would seem to favor the Democratic candidate after two terms of Republican control of the White House. Yet the possibility is very real: Barack Obama could lose.

Randall Kennedy, a beneficiary of racist advantage as codified in the special privilege known as affirmative action, sees everything through the lens of racism. It permeates this article, especially when he refers to fellow blacks as unable to appreciate "their miserable fates."

Kennedy is like the black student who wrote, "Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime black candidate . . . our one shot, probably the only real contender that my parents and grandparents will ever see, and maybe the only contender my generation will see. All my hopes ride with him." To many blacks in America their hatred of whites is such that the only thing they see is the color of John McCain's skin. Hating his whiteness, they will vote for anyone who is black, especially if they espouse racial grievance dialog as the community organizer Obama has so frequently done.

Kennedy notes in the article that Obama is actively espousing a political philosophy that is antithetical to most Americans. Progressive / Liberal / Socialist / Marxist ideology is NOT what Americans embrace or believe. The trail of liberal Democrat candidates who went down to defeat promoting this agenda is a matter of public record. Such candidates as John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, George McGovern and Walter Mondale were not elected President, often losing by huge margins. Were they black? Does Randall Kennedy not realize that Colin Powell would have been our first black President if he had wanted to be? Randall Kennedy would probably not have voted for him though, since Powell would not have gotten there based on being a black activist espousing racist complaints and racist grievances.

Kennedy notes that if Obama loses many black's feelings "will be accompanied by bitter disappointment, and in some quarters, stark rage." We know what he means here. Riots are a well known phenomenon in the black sections of our cities.

I think that a major part of the problem is affirmative action. As long as affirmative action is the law of the land blacks can believe that they deserve to be given special privilege. That allows them to argue it is only a matter of degree and they deserve MORE advantage based on the color of their skin. The dream of America is not sharing the wealth of individuals based on quotas, but each person, working as an individual building their American Dream. The idiocy that whites are not competing and that success is not hard for whites is the fallacy of affirmative action. Affirmative action destroys the dream for those who have their chance taken away by government rules making it easier for anyone who is black. The scales of justice are not balanced. When it was out of balance against blacks it was considered evil. Now government hands on the scales of justice to favor blacks is just fine with some blacks.

It is clear to Randall Kennedy that he feels current government privilege is not enough. In this article he talks about the prejudice that hurt John F. Kennedy in 1960 and yet Randall Kennedy is too self absorbed to recognize that proves many whites suffer bigotry too. Mitt Romney was not judged honestly this year, but was judged by the same type of bigotry that John F. Kennedy was referencing. I bet anything Randall Kennedy does not care about the bigotry that harmed Romney or that harms any white. Randall Kennedy is too bigoted to even notice or care about injustice for whitey. To Randall Kennedy it is all about him and his rights and his wants and the prejudice he has experienced. That anyone not black can overcome greater prejudice than he has experienced is something he cannot and will not ever concede.

Affirmative action is an insult to the American Dream that each individual will be treated with equal opportunity under the law. Government cannot chose winners. When that happens the dream has been abandoned and replaced with the Marxist dream of equal results under the law . . . but only "equal" for some among us. Such tyranny is never fair. Affirmative action provides cover for the bigotry of those in the black community who see everything through the prism of race. Affirmative action is not just and it must end.