Picking At The Scab Of Racism

Barack Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race, says Pat Buchanan, “revealed the distorting lens through which he and his fellow liberals see the world. To them, black rage is grounded in real grievances, while white resentments are exaggerated and exploited.” Buchanan’s article on Human Events.com says that Obama’s thesis is “resentment of black America is justified, but the resentment of white Americais a myth manufactured and manipulated by the conservative commentariat.” With regard to the consequences of affirmative action Buchanan says “Barack should be asked to explain why discrimination against whites is good public policy, while discrimination against blacks explains the rants of the Rev. Wright.”

California’s Ward Connerly argues against the detrimental consequences of affirmative action that many whites says is discrimination granting jobs and college educations to non-whites only because of race and even though they are often less qualified. In fact it appears this was exactly the case with Michelle Obama’s Princetonscholarship and contributed to both the Obama’s premier educations. A final irony is that only one Senator denounced Connerly’s Proposition 2 in Michiganand endorsed affirmative action for minorities and women. That senator was Barack Obama.

Admittedly Buchanan’s arguments are often obtuse and Connerly — who is himself black and often vilely attacked as an “uncle tom” — are both certainly picking away at a scab here.