Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Please join us for another Sanity Squad podcast this evening at 8:00 pm! Dr Sanity, Shrinkwrapped and ourselves will be discussing Geert Wilder’s movie “Fitna” (see below) and the ongoing campaign against the Sadr militias in Basra.

And, if you haven’t seen “Fitna” yet, take 15 minutes to watch it. It really shows nothing new (i.e., that readers of Sanity Squad blogs haven’t heard about), but it shows it graphically and with very little comment. Watching it is an act of freedom and defiance against those forces that want nothing more than to destroy the very values upon which western civilization is based.

The podcast can accessed from the Sanity Squad BTR Homepage.

The call in number is is (646) 716-9116.

Doors open at 8:00 PM sharp.

If you haven’t seen “Fitna” yet, take 15 minutes to watch it. It really shows nothing new (i.e., that readers of this blog haven’t heard about), but it shows it graphically and with very little comment. Watching it is an act of freedom and defiance against those forces that want nothing more than to destroy the very values upon which western civilization is based.

More at the Terrorism Awareness Project.

The following is not intended to offend the fans of tennis, basketball, hockey, football, NASCAR or baseball. It is rather, an attempt to put everything in it’s proper perspective.

Was it about golf that inspires such fierce passion?

Have you ever wondered why golf is growing in popularity and why people who don’t even play the game go to tournaments or watch the game on TV?

Have you ever wondered why golf courses have 18 holes?

The following truisms may shed some light.

Newspapers rarely have stories of golfers in jail.

Golfers do not kick dirt on or verbally assault officials or fans.

Professional golfers are paid in direct proportion to how well they play.

Golfers are not paid a per diem or assigned two seats on a charter flight when they travel from one tournament to another.

Golfers do not hold out for more money or demand new contracts because of another player’s deal.

Professional golfers do not demand that the taxpayers pay for the courses on which they play.

When a golfer make a mistake, no one is there to cover for them or justify the error.

The PGA raises more money for charity than the NFL does in two.

You can watch the best golfers in the world in any tournament, all day long, for $25-$30.

Super bowl tickets can cost between $300- $1,000 or more.

Golf fans are free to bring their own refreshments. If you bring a soft drink or even bottled water into a tax payer funded ballpark, you have one of two options. Get rid of the soft drink or leave.

In golf, you cannot fail 70% of time and make $9 million dollars a year. Think about that the next time you consider the best hitters in baseball with a 300 batting average.

Golfers keep their clothes on when being interviewed.

You can hear birds chirping on a golf course, even during a tournament.

At a golf tournament, you don’t have to worry about your kids hearing a steady stream of four letter words, foul language or worry someone will spill beer on you.

Tiger Woods can hit a golf ball over twice as far as Barry Bonds can hit a baseball.

Golf courses do not ruin neighborhoods.

One more thing. In 1858 a discussion was had by the membership committee at Saint Andrews, the Cathedral of Golf in Scotland. A senior member noted that it took exactly 18 shots to finish a fifth of scotch. A round of golf was finished when the scotch ran out.

Now you know.

One of the most accurate reflections of the state of health and fitness of a nation, culture or society is the state of health of it’s educational system. The more education a nation, culture or society affords it’s students, the more healthy that nation, culture or society. The more a nation, culture or society demands good education, the more advanced that society and culture are. Education is also a barometer of the state of freedom within a a nation, culture or society. The more freedom a citizen has to learn and explore, the freer that society is.

Education is not about ideologies or specific beliefs. Education is about the freedom to explore, be it of the armchair or field variety. In a healthy society, education exists along side ideology and specific beliefs. There are Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and Jewish universities where religious beliefs and instruction go hand in hand with the experience of learning and the exploration of new ideas. This is no small distinction. Religious institutions have contributed mightily to the great body of knowledge that has benefited all mankind.

Conversely, in an unhealthy or undeveloped societies, education devolves and becomes becomes less about learning and exploration and more about indoctrination.

Dr Sanity, in The Evolution Of Education Into Indoctrination:

…Hegel, building on Kant, Rosseau and Fichte, would go on to write, “It must be further understood that all the worth which the human being possesses–all the spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State…”

If you can convince children that objective reality is an illusion; that A does not equal A; that black is white; and that good is bad; if you can make them accept that everything is subjective and relative; then you have successfully breathed new life into doctrines that by all objective measures and standards led to the death and misery of millions of people. Through the careful manipulation of language, everything can be distorted, without the messy need to resort to facts, logic, or reason.

For the children of postmodernism, what matters is not truth or falsity–only the effectiveness of the language used. Lies, distortions, ad hominem attacks; attempts to silence opposing views–all are strategies that are perfectly satisfactory if they achieve the desired effect–i.e., furthering the collectivist agenda. Ideas and reason make way for reification of feelings; and freedom is replaced by thought control and preservation of “self-esteem” at all costs.

The postmodern assault as it is used by the new totalitarians of the 21st century is a four-pronged attack to undermine

- Objective reality
- Reason and the rational debate of ideas
- Individual freedom and freedom of thought and speech
- Progress and capitalism

The strategies used are:

- The distortion of language and meaning to undermine the individual’s perception of reality;
- The use of direct or threatened physical violence to suppress speech and individual freedom;
- Politically “correct” thought control and cultural relativism to undermine reason and rational debate;
- The promotion of environmental hysteria to undermine progress, industrialization and capitalism

Most of ‘who we are,’ as a nation, society and culture is determined by the kind of education we receive. If the education we receive serves freedom and equality, then we are a free people. If the education we receive undermines freedom and equality, then were are slaves, no more than chattel for those who would use and abuse us for their own needs and agendas.

Freedom cannot coexist with conditions that reinforce or tolerate oppressive and repressive behaviors, ideologies or beliefs. It is because we have allowed for and tolerated behaviors that are abhorrent, all in the name of pluralism, that we find ourselves in a ‘clash of behaviors.’  What was once unacceptable in our society has now become tolerable because we have created conditions where oppression and repression are considered acceptable forms of political expression, equal to our own.

See also Dr Sanity, The Corruption Of The Curriculum:

Make no mistake about it, what many teachers today are doing is indoctrinating their students minds into an unquestioning obedience to the collective. This they cannot do unless they also can manage to corrupt even the hard sciences with their dogma.

There can be no area where a child is allowed to think freely and without the proper political perspective…

While our popular culture refrains sensitively from portraying Islamofascists as villains in movies out of political correctness (yet another aspect of socialism’s quest for “social justice”); it does not hesitate to make businessmen evil and malignant oppressors of the innocent. Individualism, the pursuit of profit, and private property is always bad and everyone must bow to the will of the collective…

One very harmful result of this sorry educational situation is that there are few people–even among those who stalwartly defend the free market, who understand and appreciate the essential morality of capitalism. Certainly our children, taught by ideological purists like the ones above who are leftover from the 20th century debacle of socialist/communist tyranny–never even have a chance to rationally consider any ideas not approved by their aggressively collectivist teachers, so intent at quashing those aspects of human nature they don’t like.

This is child abuse, pure and simple. It is indoctrination. It is the willful manipulation of young minds which cannot never be allowed to develop even the capability of thinking for themselves. And these perverts call it “social justice.”

The snowball effect has led to the inevitable. There exists now have a class of people who share the same views and ideologies as those we find repulsive, going as far as to call for  renunciation of the very things that make us free. They openly offer vociferous support of those who call for our destruction.

Immigration is redefining the kind of society we live in, That is not necessarily a bad thing. This nation was built by immigrants and would not be what it is today if were not for the ‘wretched refuse’ that blessed these shores.

It is also true that the immigrants that came before are very different than the immigrants who are arriving today. This is very true of Europe and that truth is often played out on the nightly news. The mass influx or Arabs world immigrants has changed the Continent forever.

To understand the transformation of Europe, one has to understand the Arab world and especially how the Arab world defines education, a key indicator of societal and cultural values. (This is no small matter. Previous generations of immigrants came to Europe and the New World and left their own behind, understanding they would embrace the new and forgo the old. Today,  the Old Country is a phone call, an email and a website away. You don’t have to leave the Old Country even if you leave the Old Country. Ever increasing cradle to grave benefits and not opportunities, are the incentive to relocate today. There are no reasons to embrace the values of a new culture).

For centuries, Arab world education has been at the bottom of the world educational barrel. Dysfunctional religious instruction is more easily and readily available than even the most basic of instruction.

The few Arab world colleges and universities that are not religious in nature are abysmal. There is an ever increasing ‘brain drain’ into Europe and the United States that will leave the Arab world playing ‘catch up’ for decades, if not centuries. Those who do remain in the region are caught in an educational environment that negate the history and culture of others and is obsessively focused on teaching the superiority of Islam, regardless of action or deed, instead of actually providing a real education. The Arab regimes have successfully manipulated yet another generation into oblivion.

Even prior to their arrival in the west, Arab world immigrants for the most part are really an entire class of people who have been deliberately short changed of a future because they have been indoctrinated and not educated. In place of a real education, designed to prepare an individual to be a productive and contributing member of society, this class of people are destined for poverty and failure, all by design. This of course, ensures a permanent, hate filled, lower class.

That isn’t to say all Arab immigrants are destined to fail. Clearly, that is not the case. There are doctors and lawyers and scientists and economists and the like, but in truth, they are a very small minority- and one that many say is shrinking.

Just as real education provides for unlimited opportunity and reward, Arab societal and cultural education closes every door in it’s proximity. The only real demands Arab societal and cultural education demand placed on students is permanent membership in the Fraternity of Hate. Instruction deliberately shuns modernity and advancement. Instead  students are taught to blame others and are inspired with ideals of regaining lost glory and superiority- by way of eliminating others. Real critical thinking is not applauded in the Arab World. Rather, it is feared.

There is an entire class of people who are being deliberately short changed of a future. In place of a real education, designed to prepare an individual to be a productive and contributing member of society, this class of people are destined for poverty and failure, all by design. This of course, ensures a permanent, hate filled, lower class.

Children are inculcated with the idea that God mandated hate will provide the ‘wealth’ that they have been deprived of- wealth stolen by the infidels, with their concerted conspiracy to keep Muslims from their rightful destiny. of course, these ideas are antithetical to the civilized values of hard work and equality.

The values that Arab immigrants to western shores must defend are the values of failure. It is no wonder the Arab immigrants are so enraged. To admit their values are failed is to negate everything they have been taught and the notion of their own superiority.

The Arab world goes to great length to deride and excoriate the Jews for being ‘The Chosen People.’ In fact, the well documented successes of the Jews as a group can be attributed to hard work, discipline and effort despite many obstacles they faced. All of that of course was preceded by the values Jews placed on education. It is the Arab world and not the Jews that demand to be recognized as ‘Chosen,’ simply by virtue of their existence. They believe they are exempt from the notion of equality, believing themselves to be superior.

It is the repudiation of real education that has been the ‘mother’s milk’ of Arab failure and discontent. That is the same ‘mother’s milk’ that has fed a generation of westerners and has bred a self loathing culture of discontent and hatred of all things Western, most especially the notion of equality. That they are equal to Christians, Jews, Buddhists and everyone else is a humiliation, as far as they are concerned.

Arab immigrants bring with them the dysfunction of the world they left behind- and they force that dysfunction on their children. The inability to succeed and participate as equals in the west only highlights their broken values. The stated desire and inclinations to commit acts of violence against anyone they please only highlights their failure and dysfunction- and these are values that are taught to their children, because these are the only educational values they know. They see the passing on of those values as education. We see them for what they are- child abuse. They are teaching their children to hate.

Shrinkwrapped, in The Arab mind, Part VI, describes the mechanics of the kind of child abuse found in the Arab world- and imported into the west.

Shrinkwrapped’s series, The Arab Mind (archived here. Scroll down for earlier installments) is especially important, if for no other reason than he is making us aware of what is now influencing our society. We urge you to read the entire series.

The French playwright and philosopher Moliere once noted that ‘The less were are like our ancestors, the less we deserve them.’ If we want and value freedom and a free society, we will have to defend freedom- and that starts with real education, not just the politically correct kind.

Real freedom is both an art and science. Just as the limits of art may be tested and challenged, the science of freedom retains the truths and absolutes that are the building blocks of our society. That natural tension is fundamental to freedom.

MHNN (Ann Arbor, MI)-Dr Pat M Santy (PMS), renowned psychiatrist, expert on chemical sedatives and author of weekly Carnival Of The Insanities, was approached by both Clinton and Obama campaigns to address issues they were struggling with.

Santy, who has experience in dealing political figures of all kinds, agreed. Accompanying the candidate were their  spouses. When told that Chelsea Clinton would be sitting in on the session, the Obamas demanded their spiritual advisor, Jeremiah White also be included in the group. At first, Santy was reluctant but gave in after Michelle Obama noted her discomfort ‘being in a room with so many white folks.’ She told Santy she would feel less intimidated if there were an ‘equal number of blacks and white, at the very least.‘ She wanted to be on record as saying that there ought to have been been more blacks than white present, ‘so as to undo the injustices of white folk and equal the playing field.‘

At first, Santy demurred but the preacher threatened to preach, she gave agreed. She also gave the controversial preacher some Haldol and Zoloft with his coffee.

What follows is transcript of the conversation.

PMS- Welcome.

JW (Jeremiah Wright)- Welcome my ass. Why are we here? You need some cleaning and cooking done? You need some manual labor taken care of?

MO (Michelle Obama)- Pastor, we asked for this meeting-

JW- You did? Why didn’t you just come to me? You don’t need a shrink- It’s the white man who did this to you-

BO (Barack Obama)- Pastor, would you just be so kind enough to remain quiet until I call on you?

JW- Of course, Barack. I’m just under big stress. We’re moving from God’s House into the Big House in a Lilly white neighborhood and we’re just not ready. I mean living with whites- I get a headache just thinking about that! There is so much to do. We’ve got to deal with the Nation of Islam Painting crew, the Nation of Islam Plumbing Company, the Nation of Islam Heating and Cooling specialists, the Nation of Islam Custom Closet Company, the Nation of Islam Decorating Services, the Nation of Islam Floor Coverings-

BO- We get the picture, Reverend.

JW- Yes. So much to do, so many choices to make. And we’re talking tradespeople- who do you trust?

PMS- Hillary, you called because you were upset at the way you have been treated by the media lately.

HRC- I am upset-

JW- You should be upset, you lying white bitch-

(Room erupts. Calls to shut up are audible.)

HRC- Look, I just misspoke, OK? So I got carried away with something I said-

BC (Bill Clinton)- Do have to be such a drama queen? Do you always have to take center stage? It wasn’t as if you looked into a camera and said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” You did the same thing I did, you lied-

PMS- Let’s stay focused.

MO- The white bitch lied. The white bitches always lie. I know what she’s doing. Shes’ making a play for my man-

CC (Chelsea Clinton)- Can it, you freakazoid, affirmative action hanger on. You are just like my mom- your going to ride the ‘good time express’  on your husbands coatails and sooner or later, that man of yours is going to have to admit he rode the Obama Girl’s ‘good time express.’ The only difference is that he’ll look into the cameras and say the white girl really wanted it and Michelle will say it’s just another example of how white people tempt black men-

MO- Hey, that’s pretty good, Chelsea. I like it.

JW (moving hips)- Bill Clinton is gonna to Hillary what he did to Monica-

(Room erupts. Calls to shut up are audible.)

PMS- OK, Everybody calm down.

(Room settles down in a few moments)

PMS- Why did you lie about Kosovo, Hillary?

BC- Because I told her to. I told how hot that gets me-

PMS- Mr President, your daughter is in the room-

BC- She is?

HRC- I lied because it makes for a good speech and good speeches make for good sound bites on TV.

JW- That’s right! I do that all the time!

BO- Reverand, I asked you not to speak-

JW- I’m sorry. Look at me- Listening to a half white boy! Only in America is that possible!

(Room erupts. Calls to shut up are audible.)

PMS- Hillary isn’t the only one who lied-

BO- Mea culpa! Don’t you just love it when a black man uses big words and sounds white-

MO- Do you have to say that? Do you have to refer to the white part of you-

BO- But I am half white!

MO- Listen to me, you clueless idiot. You aren’t from the ‘hood. You grew up Lilly white. I may have married you because I wanted to move up, but that doesn’t mean I don’t get to be a victim, you dumbass. If you want everyone to believe that there can ever be a level playing field, what happens to the rest of us? We can’t be victims anymore and blame the white man for all our problem. Then what happens? You can move your half white sorry ass back to Kansas, but what about me?

JW- Tell him! Tell him!

PMS- Barack, you lied, too.You said you never knew about some of the more outrageous things Reverend Wright said. That clearly wasn’t true.

BO- Yes, but people have lower expectations of me. They get excited because I use phrases like ‘mea culpa‘- hardy ever heard in the ‘hood. That makes whites feel good about themselves, as if maybe the schools really aren’t failing-

MO- Would you just shut up with the ‘hood’ thing, you freaking half Hawaiin cracker?

BC- You’re awfully cute, Michelle.

MO- Thank you, Bill-

CC- Daddy! Not Now!

BC- You’re right, Chelsea. Let daddy fix it. Michelle, I take that back-

MO- You are such a white man, giving, taking, giving, taking-

PMS- Look, we need a lot more time-

JW- Just like you white folk! Keep taking time, lifetimes away from us blacks. It’s all your fault and it’s always the same. History repeats itself- Bill did to Monica-

(Room erupts. Calls to shut up are auduble.)

JW- I’m sorry. It’s the move into the white neighborhood that has me all stressed out-

CC- If the move into a white neighborhood is so stressful, why move there?

JW- Chesea, you foolish white child! Do you think I want to with all those n-

(Room erupts. Calls to shut up are auduble.)

PMS- OK, next week same time, same place-

(Room erupts. ‘We know! We know! Carnival Of The Insanities)

BC- Hey doc, you look pretty hot-

HRC- One more word, just one…

MC- You got Bill, I got Obama Girl. You know, we women are always victims…

Tired of the same old vacation? Are you looking for a new and unique holiday experience?

We’ve got the answer:

That’s right. Spend some time in jail!

From the website:

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This is our popular 3 day package at a price that will fit into any budget. For a mere $50.00 per day, you can come in on Monday and leave on Thursday. Included in this package:

• A deluxe semi-private bunk in one of our suite pods.
  
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At $75.00 per day, this 3 day package is a little more expensive, but offers so much more. You come in on a Friday and leave on a Monday. Included in this package:

• A semi-private bunk in one of our Penthouse’s located in the authenticate Casa Felonia.
  
• The thrill of an actual “visitation day” (weekends only).English Bible Study (Sunday only).
  
• Jail Camp movie night.
  
• A “complimentary” strip search during dress down.

Can it get any better than that? Additional info and pictures on this exciting holiday vacation!

More on entertainment and punishment.

Laurie Kendrick is having a birthday.

While in itself that is of not really noteworthy (birthdays tends to be regular events and are more easily predicted than the weather. Oddly, this seems to be a real surprise to many people who believe their birthdays are events unique to them. These are the same people who pretend to celebrate other birthdays while believing that in fact that in the entire cosmos, it is only their birthday that matters and has special meaning), the birthday we are referring to is that of her blog.

Over the past year, Laurie Kendricks’ blog has made it’s mark (not unlike your pet) in the blogosphere, been nominated for more than a few blog awards, has been referred to and has been noted by various regional and national publications. Ms Kendrick’s blog has also achieved some notoriety in her hometown of Houston, where the former TV and radio personality lives and is a regular and major hitter in that pool of media talent in that oasis of all things humid.

Kendrick see the world through an interesting lens. Read Koncept Amerika and The Crisper. For a really fun time, see High School: I Remember When.

Laurie Kendrick is a wordsmith in every sense of the word. Although she is noted mainly for her humor writing, there is more to her blog than just the funny stuff.

Her post, I Know How This Day Ends, is a wrenching look at the kind of Christmas we barely know exists. She shares her own Father’s Day message so that others might be grateful for their blessings and she talks to God- really talks to God. See also Angel’s Unawares, written after the loss of a close friend. It is about, as she put it, Arrivals/departures; Beginnings/endings.

Happy Birthday, Laurie’s Blog. We wish you many more- not for you, but for us!

Some of these quotes were taken from actual Federal (US) employee performance evaluations.  All can be applied to people you know and all are familiar to mental health professionals. (h/t Shrinkwrapped)

“Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.”

“His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity”

“I would not allow this employee to breed”

“This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definite won’t be

“Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap”

“When she opens her mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet”

“He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle”

“This young lady has delusions of adequacy”

“He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them”

“This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot”

“This employee should go far, and the sooner the better”

“Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together”

“A gross ignoramus - 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus”

“He certainly takes a long time to make his pointless”

“He doesn’t have ulcers, but he’s a carrier”

“I would like to go hunting with him sometime”

“He’s been working with glue too much”

“He would argue with a signpost”

“He has knack for making strangers immediately”

“He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room”

“When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell”

“If you see 2 people talking and one looks bored, he’s the other one”

“A photographic memory but with the cap over the lens”

“A prime candidate for natural deselection”

“Donated his brain to science before he was done using it”

“Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn’t coming”

“Has 2 brains, one is lost, the other is out looking for it”

“If he were any more stupid, he’d have to be watered twice a week”

“If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you’d get change”

“If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean”

“It’s hard to believe that he beat out 1,000 other sperm”

“One neuron short of a synapse”

“Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, he only gargled”

“Takes him 12 hours to watch 60 Minutes”

“The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead”

Barack Obama wants us to have a conversation about race in America (see The Audacity Of Hypocrisy and Barack Obama, Failures And Fairy Tales), call made many times before and for the most part, ignored. Early on and throughout his career George Bush made an effort to encourage the nation into just such a conversation and was rebuffed. When he spoke of the ‘velvet discrimination of lowered expectations,’ the leftist storm troopers yawned and ignored him.

Notwithstanding the derision of the left and other political opponents, Mr Bush must have been doing something right. In his reelection bid for governor of Texas, blacks and Hispanics voted in unprecedented numbers for Mr Bush because of markedly improved schools in their districts. At the 2000 Democrat Convention in Los Angeles, the Texas delegation threatened to walk out as speaker after speaker derided the level of education on their state, as a criticism of George Bush. The delegates may have been Democrats, but they weren’t happy hearing the word ’stupid’ in association with education in their state.

Yesterday, Gateway Pundit published Dear Democrats: A Letter From Lt Col Francis Rice. A sampling:

We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development…

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today…

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them…

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist…

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War…

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans…

Read the whole thing.

It also bear remembering that the original district ‘gerrymandering’ was used by Democrats to disenfranchise the black vote in the south.It also bears remembering that the laws Rosa Parks challenged were enshrined by Democrat politicians.

It was the Republican Party in Congress that passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. That forward legislation guaranteed the rights of all African Americans equal access to all public services and facilities. This was not an earth shattering or remarkable effort. This was the vision of the Republican Party from it’s very inception dating back to 1854. The party was founded as the anti-slavery party in direct opposition to the Democrats.  The Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights.

Slavery was not restricted to the Southern States. After Charleston, SC, the largest number of slave owners per capita was in New York City. The most enthusiastic opposition to Lincoln and his efforts to rid the nation the evil of slavery was most vicious from northern Democrats.

La Shawn Barbour has her own take on what is real racism-yet another real conversation unaddressed by leftists. Like all leftists elsewhere want no part of any conversation they cannot control. La Shawn eloquence belies her passion:

Perhaps Congress should apologize for decades of bloated socialist programs that caused the black family to disintegrate. Paying unmarried women to have babies is obscene, immoral, and the reason so many (too many) black children have no fathers to speak of. Treating blacks like dummies who require separate (LOWER) standards than every other race is offensive. I’m offended. Where is my apology?

Generations of blacks have been lulled into feeding from the government trough, and the damage it caused will reverberate for generations. And those numbskulls down the street are apologizing for failing to pass anti-lynching laws 100 years ago. Lord, give me strength.

I’m sick of politicians wasting time and money pandering to blacks, treating us like empty-headed children, spoon-feeding us putrid pabulum, and prostrating themselves for every perceived slight. Don’t apologize to “Black People.” Apologize to individual blacks who actually care about this mess.

Apologize for failing to protect Americans against foreign invaders. Apologize for taking our hard-earned money and giving it to people who don’t want to earn it themselves. Apologize for constantly referring to me as “African American,” implying that I’m a lesser American than everyone else. Apologize to all Americans for pushing racially divisive entitlements and preferences and insane “hate crime” laws. Thanks to your misguided paternalism, racial tension will always be front and center.

Freedom is more important than all the apologies, handouts, and excuses Congress could ever come up with. I’m living in the best country in the world, and I’d never be freer anywhere else. To blacks who grew up believing America was the most racist place on earth, if you no longer believe that and realize freedom, the right to be left alone, is the only apology you need, demand that from your senators.

Gagdad Bob resides in the real world as well. In a superb post, the master observer notes

…highlights this absurdity of the left, in that it hews to faux-eternal principles which can never change irrespective of what actually happens in what they ironically call “reality,” being that reality for them is reduced to the flatland, material world. For example, Walker asks, “How many ‘civil rights’ leaders talk as if racism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society? How many feminist leaders talk as if sexism is an immutable, eternal characteristic of American society? The mere passage of years, the mere enactment of statutes or adoption of polices, the decades long public relations campaign against bigotry — none of this can be allowed to make a difference” (emphasis mine).

But why does the left embrace a kind of bitter and reactionary anti-theology, in which they hold to such a negative view of the world despite what actually occurs here? As Walker writes, “the sins of America are a religious article of faith to self-appointed black leaders and to self-appointed representatives of the female sex.”
You’d think it would be uncontroversial to utter a simple truth, but you’d be wrong, wouldn’t you? I am reminded of Obama’s shamelessly opportunistic and manipulative “dialogue about race,” when the whole reason we cannot say anything useful or productive about race is that the left will brand you as racist if you do. It seems that to carry Truth is to pick up a cross and paint a target on one’s back.

…the leftist must always fool you (and, more importantly, himself) into believing that he is defending eternal principles, principles in which he doesn’t actually believe. For example, the left universally believes that it is proper for the government to discriminate on the basis of race, “gender” and “sexual orientation”, and that failure to do so should be illegal. Not surprisingly, the party of trial lawyers loves these kinds of laws, because trial lawyers are the group that most benefits from this crass power grab in the guise of a principle.

The left once unanimously maintained that we should judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. But the fact that they so readily abandoned this principle shows how they are always rooted in tactics, not principles. Likewise, up until the late ’60s and early ’70s, the left was a vocal supporter of Israel, whereas now all of the wholesale anti-Semitism in the world emanates from the left (including, of course, the Obama campaign (cf here).

When it is all said and done is Barack Obama the person you really want to lead an American dialogue on race? Should his supporters, those who defended and apologized for his 20 plus year association with what is now a long line of bigots, be given any kind of credibility when it comes to talking about race?

George Bush and Republican legislators in Texas made a difference in the lives of blacks and Hispanics in Texas, especially when it came to education- so much so that they supported him in unprecedented numbers. He made sure what kids learned would make a difference in their lives.

Barack Obama stood by a preacher who taught racism, bigotry and hate for 20 years and made sure his children were in the same pews, learning the lessons from the pulpit.

Who do you think is better qualified to lead a national dialogue on race in America?