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The Spectacle Blog
My latest column at CFIF. Excerpts here:
At National Review Online on Tuesday, columnist John Fund blasted Attorney General Eric Holder for advocating permanent racial discrimination in favor of black Americans. His column is “must” reading….Here is the “money” quote from Fund’s column:
Last month, in an appearance at Columbia University, his alma mater, Holder made a jarring statement in support of racial preferences, saying he “can’t actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease.” “Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices,” he declared. “The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin… . When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”
…..But to have an attorney general of the United States say that the force of government must be used, forever, to enshrine into law what used to be called “reverse discrimination” is for him to say that American law will always put skin color above other considerations - and pick winners accordingly.
This is not the rule of law as most Americans understand the very concept, and it certainly violates every reasonable notion of equal justice under the law.
This is important stuff. And it might fit in well with some of the material — not just the video of Obama at Harvard, but other stuff — that Hannity, according to reports, will air tonight…..
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Pete| 3.7.12 @ 6:20PM
F'ing outrageous. If the media got off its knees and did its job, this would be front page news for weeks.
Drek| 3.7.12 @ 6:25PM
It's tantamount to the creature judicially stipulating that white people are racists, semper, et pro semper.
ayrnieu| 3.8.12 @ 4:51AM
He didn't complain about racism, or about the attitudes of white people; he just wants "more diversity", forever. Which is to say, he wants "less white people", forever, no matter how few remain in a given environment. 'Diversity' means nothing else than this.
Honestly, it's not a new and controversial statement. It's political orthodoxy; contrary statements would be met with shock. "Why wouldn't you *ever* want less diversity?!"
There are just some slow people on the right who still haven't digested, to then pass, the initial propaganda of a 'post-racial society', of 'colorblindness', of diversity in the sense of a given heterogeneous group learning to take better advantage of all of its subgroup's particular skills and aptitudes. Post-digestion: the goal of a post-white society, the narrow pathologization of *only* self-conscious whiteness, and diversity in the sense of replacing a white person with a Person of Color.
Yeah, there's plenty of race hatred and racial supremacism out there, but for people like Eric Holder or Tim Wise to see it in white Americans is like an ocean anxiously suspecting that there's some moisture in a desert.
MarkJ| 3.7.12 @ 6:28PM
"[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease."
Institutionalized reverse discrimation? If you can think of a better receipe for a civil war, let me know.
Curtis Rasmussen| 3.7.12 @ 7:35PM
The Democratic Credo:
1) Claim a group is disadvantaged and do everything in your power to keep them that way and destroy the lives of more, including entitlement dependency for those that are in and heavy tax burdens for those that are out. Try to institutionalize the destruction by pulling the race card to silence dissent.
2) Get said dependent group to vote for you for fear of losing the gravy train...
3) After the sheeple vote is in your back pocket, tax the crap out of anyone who remains.
Voting the clown Obama and his underlings out of office can't come soon enough for me. I pray that the independents that put him in office will see the error of their ways and not make the same mistake again.
albert constantine jr.| 3.7.12 @ 8:02PM
“When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?"
Among our biggest problems today is that not only people of color, but too many people altogether believe they are entitled to “benefits”, rather than life, liberty and the pursuit (not guarantee) of happiness, and that someone else must pay for them.
WestHoustonGeo| 3.7.12 @ 8:04PM
Quoting:
"When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?"
Commenting:
So, the Attorney General of The United States is an admitted racist - one who considers his people "entitled" to unspecified "benefits". The true test for racism has always been to reverse the rolls. Had a Caucasian AG said this about his own, he would have been tarred, feathered and lynched.
C Bowen | 3.7.12 @ 8:25PM
Holder was involved in the cover-up of the OKC bombing related torture-death of Kenneth Trentadue, and has just this past week defended the right to kill American citizens without trial (how is that for consistency?)
Quin's argument is that Holder is too consistent, and favors a more rhetorically benign race discrimination against white people.
Anthony M| 3.7.12 @ 8:42PM
This is the type of thing the Republicans could ride to the white house and a supermajority in Congress but won't dare for fear of offending the liberals they have cocktails with. Nixon would have known what to do. Alas, now we are a party of McCains talking about what good, patriotic Americans our opponents are. Decline and fall.
Oldefarte| 3.7.12 @ 11:25PM
Quin, you are truly at your best when zeroing in on these type issues and I implore you to expand your investigative reporting on same for all of us readers' benefit. This liberal/progressive thought process is within the larger parameters of the Obama/Axelrod/Emmanuel Chicago connection [and to Columbia University from which both Obama and Axelrod have emerged], as reported in the TAS Magazine's cover story this month. Quin, please continue and expand your providing of direly needed information to us relative to this socialistic connection/thread and its relevance to this upcoming presidential election in November [which will become a political war the likes of which has never possibly been seen in our history]. Our country is under seige at present and has been captured and imprisoned since 2008, and this election is our last and only hope for national survival. We simply must understand the socialistic Democratic Chicago machine at work that is plotting the re-election of this president or THIS NATION WILL DIE!!!!!!!!
WL| 3.8.12 @ 12:17AM
We need to recognize that Eric Holder is not just a "racist" or a "race monger"...
He is a "Black Supremacist." Let's not forget...every race in this world (as well as ours) wants to be supreme. (most members, at least)...
We, as better men, Black and White and every other color, know that is not the way to have the best and most wonderful life possible.
Eric Holder, Jeremiah Wright, H.L. Gates, and yes, BH Obama....
Are not good men like we are. They are just like the Wallaces and Jim Crows of yesteryear...
If we get that understanding deep down in our minds.....we'll get somewhere, and maybe even heal a few Racial ills....if we can get the message through to people.
WL| 3.8.12 @ 12:25AM
I just want to make it clear...when I say "we"...I mean all of us of all races...who know that no group should be supreme over the other.