An American Double Standard

The next time some disingenuous commentator starts bemoaning the fact that 60% of “racist” whites are not voting for Obama, I hope someone points out that a much larger percentage, around 90%, of blacks are voting for for him and as such are not voting for the white woman, who, together with her husband, has done more for for the African American community than, just about any politician since the 60's.

Of course nobody will point out that the far more significant evidence of racial bias on the part part of the non-white community might be suggestive of a bit of black racism, to say such a thing would be viewed as political heresy.

The usually excellent Jon Stewart of the Daily Show mocked the white voters of West Virginia who voted overwhelmingly in favour of Hillary Clinton However, not even he has the honesty, courage or integrity to do anything similar about 90% of blacks in Mississippi who voted with their race or the 92% of blacks in North Carolina who did the same.

Furthermore, why has nobody asked the regiment of black celebrities who have abandoned their old friend in their rush to endorse the untried young senator from Illinois if their actions might have been a tad influenced by his race?

Of course the hypocrisy of political correctness is even more deeply ingrained into the American political psyche than it is (yet) in ours, and is revealed in all its malevolence when political pundits contemptuously dismiss Clinton's claim that she won the popular vote (if all the popular vote had been counted)

Can anyone doubt that if the situation were reversed, and had two major states which had voted overwhelmingly for Obama been excluded from the count on procedural grounds these same commentators would be screaming “foul” and making furious accusations about a racist fix. The Primaries in Florida and Michigan would no longer be referred to as “disqualified” but the word which would leap from every news column would be “disenfranchised”.

I hold no brief for Hillary Clinton, other than that I admire her tenacity, and would like to see a woman win. However, she and her supporters deserve fair treatment, meanwhile , a torch of truth needs to be shone upon the Obama campaign, and, at present neither is happening.

If it is racist for 60% of whites not to vote for a black man, surely it is far more so when 90% of blacks do!

Although I have yet to see a country which, after having been led by a black man, has emerged better off for the experience, my objection is not to the possibility of a black US president, blacks make up more than 13% of the American population and their numbers are growing, so that development is inevitable. However, the fact that a limp-wristed nonentity, such as Barack Obama looks set to defeat one of the most significant politicians in America, which, love her or hate her, Hillary Clinton certainly is, due to black racism and egalitarian fantasies, is a travesty which encapsulates the malaise of our age.

If, as seems very likely, Barack Obama is chosen as the Democratic candidate for president, this will certainly not be a result which transcends race, as many of his worshipers will rush to declare it, and many a Clinton supporter will have some justification in feeling robbed.