By John W. Lillpop
While campaigning in 2008, President Obama promised to deliver a ‘Post-racism’ era in America, an era that would fulfill the Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King when King said, in part:
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Unfortunately, Barack Obama seems intent on implementing policies that fly directly in the face of the King speech.
Rather than working to eradicate the issue of skin color from public discourse, Obama has exacerbated the issue with his ‘Robin Hood’ approach to life in America.
In Obama’s mind and in the minds of Maxine Waters and others in the Congressional Black Caucus, the federal government exists largely for the purpose of transferring wealth from white Americans to people of color, be they brown, black, red, or yellow.
Its called “leveling the playing field” and is seen as atonement for slavery, Jim Crow laws, discrimination in employment, education and housing, issues long since rectified by white people.
The ‘Robin Hood’ swagger is notorious for spawning un-American sentiments like those of Rep. Carson who illuminated the halls of Congress with this uncontrolled outburst of belligerence and racism:
Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC whip, told attendees at the CBC's Job Tour visit to Miami that the Tea Party is actively taking steps to keep down the black community and other vulnerable populations.To date, Obama has not stepped forward to demand that Carson and others “tone down the rhetoric;” perhaps because the president agrees with Carson’s hate speech, but is constrained from saying so openly by virtue of his high office.
"This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow," Carson said. "Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens."
"Some of them in Congress right now of this Tea Party movement would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree."
Once again, this president ‘leads from behind’ on an important issue. The result is a brewing storm of discontent that has lead to increased racial tensions, without any sign whatsoever of ‘leveling the playing field.’
Mr. Obama and the Democrat Party must stop the insane class warfare and politics of race before the nation is splintered to the point of no return.
Drop your ‘Robin Hood’ act, Mr. President, and strive instead to be a healer!
