To no slight extent, this presidential race is about race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We all know this\u2014however reluctant we may be to admit it.\u00a0 Those who would deny this fact do so only by giving it a different name.<\/p>\n
One of the contestants has been universally hailed as \u201cAmerica\u2019s first black president.\u201d This alone is enough to establish that, at a minimum, there must <\/em>be a racial subtext to his campaign to be reelected.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, there are other\u2014many other\u2014considerations that can be cited.<\/p>\n For one, in any society comprised of more than one racial group, its politics will inescapably involve racial <\/em>politics. Now, the United States is a society comprised of more than one racial group.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thus, American politics are always racially themed\u2014even if the racial dimension isn\u2019t explicit.<\/p>\n Second, Americans talk endlessly about race (again, even if much of this talk is implicit).\u00a0 Perhaps they are no different than anyone else in this regard.\u00a0 But the point is that it is ridiculous to think that the only time, or one of the only times, when we can abandon racial talk is when there is a presidential election and, even more unrealistically, of the two contenders, one is white and the other is black. \u00a0<\/p>\n Third, overwhelmingly, whites planning on voting for the white candidate.\u00a0 Even more overwhelmingly, blacks (and to a lesser extent, Hispanics) plan on voting for the black guy.<\/p>\n Fourth, the white contestant, Republican challenger Willard Mitt Romney, embodies every racial stereotype regarding white America in which his opponent and his opponent\u2019s ideological ilk have been trading for probably at least as long as a half-of-a-century.\u00a0<\/p>\n In short, Romney is the proverbial poster child for \u201c1950\u2019sAmerica.\u201d\u00a0 He and his family are obviously white, but to look at them is to think that they are as white as \u201cthe pure driven snow.\u201d\u00a0 Romney has a picturesque family\u2014good looking, healthy, successful.\u00a0 However questionable many may find some of the theological tenets of their Mormonism, the Romneys are known for being active members of their church, and Mitt Romney, we now know, has contributed tremendous sums of his own money to a variety of charitable organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n Romney\u2019s, in other words, is the quintessential face of the American dream.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n Yet because his face is that of a white man and a Christian, and because\u2014especially because\u2014Romney possesses a sea of wealth that he made in the private sector, he personifies the rank hypocrisy underlying the American dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n Romney, you see, epitomizes the \u201cchild of privilege,\u201d the white bourgeoisie whose pursuit of the American dream always come at the cost of engendering a nightmare for \u201cthe Other\u201d\u2014\u201cthe disadvantaged,\u201d women, the non-white, etc.<\/p>\n Make no mistakes: these are the associations that assume center stage in the leftist imagination.\u00a0 And thanks to the leftist\u2019s remarkably successful campaign to wrestle control of our institutions, these are the associations that now linger within the popular consciousness as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fifth, Barack Hussein Obama is America\u2019s first black president. The image of Obama that this distinction conjures up is that of a Civil Rights-style hero who has shattered the last glass ceiling of white racial oppression.\u00a0 In criticizing Obama, to say nothing of attempting to prevent him from securing a second term, his opponents can all too easily be seen as coming down on the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n And we know that Obama and his supporters spare no occasion to charge their rivals with \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n Finally, from his pastor and spiritual mentor of over 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, to Joseph Lowery, the pastor who gave the benediction at his inauguration and who, it was recently revealed, remarked that \u201call white folks are going to hell,\u201d we know that Obama has a long history of allying himself with all manner of folks who can only be described as anti-white.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Let us be honest with ourselves: race figures quite significantly in this year\u2019s presidential race.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To no slight extent, this presidential race is about race.\u00a0 We all know this\u2014however reluctant we may be to admit it.\u00a0 Those who would deny this fact do so only by giving it a different name. One of the contestants has been universally hailed as \u201cAmerica\u2019s first black president.\u201d This alone is enough to establish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n