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By J.R. Dunn
Obama is finished. It's not so much the past six weeks, rough as they were,
as his own actions and responses that have finished him. His showdown with
Congress over the debt limit, which he then ran away from. His
bewilderment at the fact that markets responded to that level of stress with
a serious slump. The lousy job numbers, which anybody but Obama and his
kept economists could have predicted. His insistence on his precious
vacation at a time when the country was deeply shaken over economic matters.
The painfully bogus "people's hero" photos released in the wake of "
hurricane" Irene. The uproar over his jobs speech, an attempt to embarrass
the GOP which merely added to his reputation for incompetence. The speech
itself. These were not the actions of a leader, a statesman, or even an
adult. They will be neither forgiven nor forgotten.
It's hard to see how he recovers from any of this. (And this is not even to
mention the unfolding Solyndra, LightSquared, and Fast and Furious scandals
; add the AttackWatch debacle and my cup runneth over.) He has no shred of
reputation left to build on, no reservoir of goodwill to draw from. His
approval rate is 40% or below, a number no first-term president has ever
come back from. According to Gallup, he is running effectively neck-and-
neck with every GOP candidate, even exotics like Ron Paul, and the campaign
has scarcely begun. The triumph of Bob Turner in NY-9, a district that hasn
't voted Row B since glaciers covered Long Island, merely puts the seal on
it.
At this point, he has only two possibilities -- a GOP screwup, or a dirty
campaign.
The GOP looks promising. This, after all, is the party that allowed the
entire MSNBC politburo to moderate its first debate. You can wrack your
brains from now 'til Election Day for the rationale behind this, and you
will get nowhere. An official explanation from the GOP national committee
would produce something so 19th-century in nature as to be incomprehensible
to a contemporary mentality.
All the same, the GOP, with its infuriating mixture of obtuseness,
cleverness, and ability, cannot be depended on for certain failure. The
Dems will have to look elsewhere.
So a dirty campaign it is. And we don't have to look far for the source of
the muck. In fact, we don't have to look at all, since it has kindly made
its way to us. This campaign is going to be about one thing: racism. No
matter what else happens, racism will be the theme. If we are invaded by
hive entities from Tau Ceti, if the economy collapses to the point of barter
, if Yellowstone goes up as a supervolcano to rival the Toba Event, if the
Archangel Gabriel appears in the east with blazing sword and announces that
he's really a Muslim, the reason will be "racism." That is the alpha and
omega of the 2012 campaign.
How can I say this with certainty? Because it's already happening.
Consider Obama's adoption of the Rockwell painting "The Problem We all Live
With" as a personal emblem. Consider the empty hysterics over Rick Perry's
"black cloud" remark. Consider Andre Carson's claim that many of his
congressional colleagues would like to lynch him. The whole thing was given
official black cultural legitimacy with the appearance of an article in "
The Root," AOL's black site, titled "Let's Face It: There's Only One
Explanation for Some of the Attacks on President Obama."
If you are tired of this already, find a cave. We'll be hearing it to the
point of insanity for the next fourteen months.
It is a remarkable thing, passing all logic, that the racism card has proven
such a useful tool for American liberals. It's well-understood that the
Democrats were the party of racism and the strongest force keeping
segregation alive. Many of liberalism's grand heroes were not only racists,
but crazy racists, obsessive, unbalanced, and cruel. Woodrow Wilson had
blacks fired en masse from the Postal Service, where they had found an
employment niche similar to that of the Irish with the police. He attempted
the same with the Navy, where blacks had found a place as ship's stewards.
(The Navy officially "obeyed," but kept most of them on surreptitiously.
That's how shipmates behave.)
Millard Tydings is a liberal hero for opposing the monstrous Joe McCarthy.
He was also a racist of the type who couldn't bear having a black individual
enter the same room. Tailgunner Joe financed his defeat at the hands of a
political neophyte who ran on a civil rights platform -- something the libs
never see fit to mention.
While never die-hard crusaders for civil rights, the GOP did strive to act
fairly when opportunity presented. It was Eisenhower who enforced the Brown
decision in 1954, and it was Eisenhower who attempted to pass a civil
rights bill in 1956, which went down to defeat at the hands of the
segregationist Dixiecrats. When the Democrats did get around to offering a
civil rights bill eight years later, it was Republican minority leader
Everett Dirksen who got the bill passed after liberal Democrat Hubert
Humphrey failed.
This is the outfit that has set itself up as judge, jury, and lord high
executioner of American racists. Which means simply "Americans," since the
vast majority of them, like Rick Perry, the GOP rank and file, and the Tea
Party members, are not racists at all.
A recent incident reveals the power of the accusation. During the 2006
senatorial campaign, George Allen of Virginia was being stalked by a
Democratic operative wearing a circa-1982 punk-band mohawk. Allen took to
mocking him, and at one point called him "macaca." Well, it turned out that
this was considered racist by some authoritative sources. Allen said --
and there's no reason to doubt it -- that he got the term from his mother,
who had spent her early years in an African colony where the word was in
wide use. While never explained by the press, it's likely that it was
derived from "macaque," a species of monkey, and would describe any
mischievous or obnoxious individual. But that made no difference, nor did
the fact that the kid in question was Hindu, and thus just as much a Cauc as
Allen, myself, George Washington, or Willy McGilly.
Allen lost heavily to James "Gunslinger" Webb, whose platform claimed that
George W. Bush was a war criminal, and who soon after the election revealed
himself as one of the most unbalanced members of any recent Congress --
there was a strange contretemps involving an illegal pistol and the suicide
of an aide that was never adequately unwound. Webb is not running for
reelection, and that is a good thing.
But the accusation was effective, which is why it was used. So the question
arises -- how to deprive it of that effect?
Absurdity usually limits the force of this kind of thing (as it did with the
wilder claims of feminism), but for reasons I don't fully understand, this
factor is not operative where race is concerned. Accusations of racism have
the same impact no matter how asinine, irrelevant, or ridiculous they may
be. Considers two of the latest. A TV commercial for a Dove soap product
was yanked off the air amid widespread wailing over the return of Jim Crow.
The ad showed three women washing their faces one after the other -- a
black woman, a Latina, and a white woman. Apparently we were supposed to
take this as meaning that Dove soap bleaches brown skin -- I mean, what else
could it be? You don't think they were just selling soap, do you?
The same thing occurred with an ad for some kind of Nivea grooming product
which showed clean-cut males racing out and tossing away obviously fake
caveman-style heads, bearded and shaggy, with slogans about "recivilizing
yourself." One model was white, the other black, and since he was black,
that meant -- well, I don't know what it meant, but it had to be something
bad.
Note that in both cases, the ad companies were simply trying to live up to
the unwritten rule of Always Showing Minorities as Prominently as Whites.
In other words, in bending over backwards not to appear racist, the
advertisers wound up appearing racist. This is the essence of totalitarian
thought control: you cannot win, you cannot remain aloof, you cannot get out
of the game.
That being the case, the game board must be broken, the pieces scattered,
and the rules burnt. What do we find when we analyze the response to such
accusations? Almost without exception, victims break and run. At best, an
abject apology is offered. At worst, the victim retreats from public life.
That was George Allen's response -- after a bout of public groveling, he
effectively ceased campaigning (and he's been lying low in this year's
campaign as well). Some of us will recall the "niggardly" case of a few
years back, when use of the word in the presence of a black bureaucrat
resulted in his stalking off in a huff. The guilty party (a white
bureaucrat) knew what was required of him and resigned immediately.
A more recent case (which has not yet hit national media, thankfully)
occurred in New Jersey a few weeks ago when the wife of GOP state
representative Pat Delany sent a stupid and ill-thought-out e-mail to Carl
Lewis, currently running for state senate, accusing him of using his "dark
skin" as a ticket to political success. (In fact, Lewis is probably
thinking more of his athletic record.) When the message was made public,
Delany immediately resigned. Why? We all know why, even though we couldn't
explain it. In a reasonable world, Delany would state that he and his wife
were going to straighten the matter out, apologize to Lewis, and that would
be the end of it. But that's not this world. Delany knew the script as
closely as Allen and the niggardly bureaucrat, and he meekly went along with
it.
Compare this to Rick Perry, who was accused of calling Barack Obama a "black
cloud" -- fightin' words if any ever existed. Perry responded with the
absolute obliviousness of a Texan holding four aces, and the accusation
simply evaporated. Obviously neither the media nor the CEOs of the
grievance industry thought they'd get anywhere with a man who shoots his own
coyotes.
This tells us how to handle these accusations. You don't go along with the
script. The script is there to humiliate and destroy, and that is all.
Instead, you defy it. Stand up to the accusers and run them off. Since
their only power comes from numbers, use numbers against them. The next
time an attack occurs during this campaign (as it inevitably will, and
probably aimed at Perry), all the candidates must stand as one against the
accusers. (All except Huntsman, of course, who might be making the
accusation.) The candidates, through public media statements, must make
clear their full support of the intended victim. No weasel-wording, no
equivocation, no ambiguity. A general statement, signed by all of them,
should then be released, presenting a succinct and logical argument as to
why such accusations are unacceptable, with each swearing that he or she
will stand by the others in any such situation, and ending with a
condemnation by name of the accuser.
This can be taken further by conservative columnists, bloggers, and talk-
show hosts. The accuser(s) should be keelhauled. The goal will be to make
them as miserable as they intended their victims to be, which would act as a
form of aversion therapy, forcing them to think twice and then three times
about ever pulling the same trick again. (Need I add that the process would
also prove valuable in cases involving Congress, industry, state
politicians, media, and anywhere else such accusations may arise?)
What will happen is that the accusers will retreat. They are bullies, and
that is what bullies do. (Even Andre Carson, a blowhard and loudmouth of
the first order, has thought better of his "lynching" comment.) The media
will give the GOP candidates all the publicity any pol could want. The GOP
voters will go wild. Any further accusations will be unlikely, a benefit to
all candidates equally. It would mean a cleaner campaign, an easier
victory, and who knows? Perhaps even a step toward a more civil society.
For too long, too many blacks have wallowed in their own private sumps of
self-pity, collapsing into whimpers every time somebody mentions blackmail,
blackouts, or black markets. It's a pathetic epilogue to the heroism and
grandeur of the civil rights movement. It's past time this adolescent
posturing was put aside.
It will take some effort to accomplish this. (We'll refer only to the fact
that the current incumbent has made no such effort whatsoever.) But the
black grievance-hunters are no better than the Dixiecrats of old, using the
same methods to keep Americans on edge, in fear, and overcome with anxiety.
Using racism for political gain is a cheap and coarse tactic no matter who
is involved. It needs to be ended.
J.R. Dunn is consulting editor of American Thinker.
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