If you are sick and tired of seeing politicians and others
playing the race card, or if you are just disgusted with the
grossly dishonest way racial issues in general are portrayed, then
you should get a copy of Ann Coulter’s new book,
Mugged. Its subtitle is: “Racial Demagoguery from the
Seventies to Obama.”
Few things are as rare as an honest book about race. This is one
of the very few, and one of the very best.
Many people will learn for the first time from Ann Coulter’s
book how a drunken hoodlum and ex-convict, who tried to attack the
police, was turned into a victim and a martyr by the media, simply
by editing a videotape and broadcasting that edited version, over
and over, across the nation.
They will learn how a jury — which saw the whole unedited
videotape and acquitted the police officers of wrongdoing — was
portrayed as racist, setting off riots that killed innocent people
who had nothing to do with the Rodney King episode.
Meanwhile, the people whose slick editing set off this chain of
events received a Pulitzer Prize.
Even the Republican President of the United States, George H.W.
Bush, expressed surprise at the jury’s verdict, after seeing the
edited videotape, while the jury saw the whole unedited videotape.
Even Presidents should keep their mouths shut when they don’t know
all the facts. Perhaps especially Presidents.
Innumerable other examples of racial events and issues that have
been twisted and distorted beyond recognition are untangled and
revealed for the frauds that they are in Mugged.
The whole history of the role of the Democrats and the
Republicans in black civil rights issues is taken apart and
examined, showing with documented fact after documented fact how
the truth turns out repeatedly to be the opposite of what has been
portrayed in most of the media.
It has long been a matter of official record that a higher
percentage of Republicans than Democrats, in both Houses of
Congress, voted for the landmark civil rights legislation of the
1960s. Yet the great legend has come down to us that Democrats
created the civil rights revolution, over the opposition of the
Republicans.
Since this all happened nearly half a century ago, even many
Republicans today seem unaware of the facts, and are defensive
about their party’s role on racial issues, while Democrats boldly
wrap themselves in the mantle of blacks’ only friends and
defenders.
To puff up their role as defenders of blacks, it has been
necessary for Democrats and their media supporters to hype the
dangers of “racists.” This has led to some very creative ways of
defining and portraying people as “racists.” Ann Coulter has a
whole chapter titled “You Racist!” with examples of how extreme and
absurd this organized name-calling can become.
No book about race would be complete without an examination of
the role of character assassination in racial politics. One of the
classic injustices revealed by Ann Coulter’s book is the case of
Charles Pickering, a white Republican in Mississippi, who
prosecuted the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the
1960s.
Back in those days, opposing the Ku Klux Klan meant putting your
life, and the lives of your family members, at risk. The FBI had to
guard Pickering and his family. Later, Pickering went on to become
a federal judge and, in 2001, President George W. Bush nominated
him for promotion to the Circuit Court of Appeals.
As a Republican judge, Pickering was opposed by elite liberal
Democrats in Congress and in the media who, in Ann Coulter’s words,
“sent their children to 99-percent white private schools” while
“Pickering sent his kids to overwhelmingly black Mississippi public
schools.”
Among the charges against Pickering was that he was bad on civil
rights issues. Older black leaders in Mississippi, who had known
Pickering for years, sprang to his defense. But who cared what they
said? Pickering’s nomination was defeated on a smear.
Mugged is more than an informative book. It is a
whole education about the difference between rhetoric and reality
when it comes to racial issues. It is a much needed, and even
urgently needed education, with a national election just weeks
away.
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