Vote Your Melanin!
Vote Your Melanin!
Apparently, all black people are supposed to vote alike. Who does this icky thinking come from? None other than Jesse Jackson, who went after Alabama Congressman Artur Davis as a race traitor for going against the health care bill. From the WSJ:
"We even have blacks voting against the health-care bill," said Mr. Jackson. "You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man."Mr. Davis is running for governor in a state that John McCain won last year, and his vote was surely influenced by the reality that Alabamans aren't the biggest fans of ObamaCare. The Congressmen, to his credit, took the high ground in response to Mr. Jackson's low blow. "One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader," he said in a statement referencing Mr. Jackson's 1988 Presidential bid. "The best way to honor Rev. Jackson's legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race."
Psssst! Jesse...there are a number of conservatives out there who happen to be...rather dark-skinned...Thomas Sowell, John McWhorter.
I would say the real race traitor is a guy like Jackson who expects less from black people simply because they're black (remember Jesse Jackson muttering about Obama that he wanted to "cut his nuts off," apparently in response to Obama's telling black fathers to man up). Of course, Jesse Jackson's living has always depended on divisiveness, or maintaining the idea of it, between blacks and whites. And then, as Patterico notes, it's hard for a guy to stigmatize the tragic number of out-of-wedlock births in the black community when he himself is the baby-daddy of some single mother's child.
Does anybody call white congressmen race traitors for voting the way the Black Caucus recommends on some issue? Or, are they simply congressmen voting their conscience (I know, it's, well, optimistic to say that of many politicians) or the way the voters in their district would prefer?
Of course, in the spirit of fairness, it isn't just the black people who play the race card. Here's Barbara Boxer getting reamed by Black Chamber Of Commerce CEO Harry Alford a few months back. She twitters on for a while, but he sure brings it home at the end:
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Sorry I don't by it. There is such a thing as tokenism and that what we have in the republican party, I was part of it and a token. I might not agree with jesse jackson, I always though he was kind of an idot, for your point is equally idiotic