http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/racial-381179-black-obama.html

a capella on December 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM

From the article:

The president himself urged Latinos to “punish our enemies.” He weighed in unnecessarily during the Henry Louis Gates and Trayvon Martin affairs in ways that only added to the racial tensions.

People are just people. But they can turn into veritable monsters when — as a great American once warned — they look to the color of our skin rather than the content of our character.

Thank you, VDH, for saying it.

Toward the end of the presidential campaign, various liberal pundits — a great many of them born after the signing of the Civil Rights Act — thought it a brilliant and damning indictment to note that Mitt Romney ran strong in states that once constituted the Confederacy. When Barack Obama won, Jon Stewart conceded that at least Romney won “most of the Confederacy.”

You know what’s funny about that? We’ve had nine presidential elections since 1980, and Obama did better in the Confederacy in his two runs than five of the six other Democratic nominees. Obama carried three southern states in ’08 (FL, NC, VA) and two in ’12 (FL and VA). Contrast that with the other guys. Carter in 1980 lost all the South except his home state. Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry, and Gore were totally shut out in the South. Only Clinton did marginally better than Obama in Dixie, winning four states both his elections. But instead of dwelling on Obama doing far better in the South than Carter or Gore–two white guys from south of the Mason-Dixon Line–the Dems and the press dwell on what Obama DIDN’T achieve in the South. No, he wouldn’t be President if only the southern states could vote. But if only southern states could vote, we’d have had a GOP chief executive elected every year since 1976.

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/racial-381179-black-obama.html

a capella on December 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM

Dialog from “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967) with Sidney Poitier:
Dad, you’re my father. I’m your son; I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself… as a man.

45 years later, and we have an op ed like Reed’s.

to undermine black interests

What are “black interests”? Aren’t they the same as everyone else?