His Rich Pastor Taught him Well

I see people are making hay regarding Barack Obama’s comments on small-town blue-collar people. I almost said “working people,” but that would tend to perpetuate the bigoted leftist canard that white-collar work isn’t work. It’s peculiar, how that myth is disseminated successfully by soft-handed liberals–politicians and journalists and academics–who sit behind desks and wouldn’t know which end of a shovel to hold.

People seem to hope Obama’s comments will kill his campaign. They say it proves he’s an elitist who looks down his nose at “flyover country.” I don’t see it happening.

Everyone already knows that liberals are elitists, largely concentrated in the northeast and on the west coast, who look down on flyover people. They are ignorant and provincial, and they believe their idiosyncratic ways should be imposed on the rest of us by the government. The knowledge that the rest of us can live in ways of which they have not approved eats at them like acid. No Democrat who is even dimly aware of what happens in this country will be surprised by what Obama said.

It kills these people to know that there are places where people drive pickups with gun racks in the windows. It infuriates them to know that far away, someone may be legally spanking a child. It enrages them to contemplate the fact that homeschooling is going on, pulling children out of their reach and destroying the left’s well-known plan to steal emerging generations and program them to do their bidding. It drives them crazy, not that other people are allowed to do things that affect them, but that other people are allowed to live their own lives, far away, as they see fit. The way refusing to submit to Islam in Nebraska infuriates an Islamist in Saudi Arabia.

Barack Obama sees religion and firearms and bigotry as refuges to which the simple run irrationally when life frightens them. So what? That’s not news. Hillary Clinton feels the same way. So do most people in Manhattan. Not the ones who’ve been mugged or burglarized or raped. I mean the ones who are still asleep, with visions of taxpayer-financed sugarplums dancing in their heads.

I don’t think this will hurt him. Most of the votes in Pennsylvania are in the cities, and the people who live there probably think Obama is absolutely right. “We really ARE better. This guy sees it!”

Obama was appealing to bigotry, pure and simple. Just like Jeremiah Wright. I think he knew what he was doing. I think he was saying, “We have to neutralize those crazy white Christians out in the boondocks, before they come to Philadelphia and hold lynchings.” The message will sell, among the people to whom he directed it. Not just white liberals, but also blacks raised on a destructive diet of victimhood. The folks who think Church’s Fried Chicken is a Klan operation that puts drugs in the food to sterilize black men (funny how they don’t go after those ubiquitous Planned Parenthood abortion abattoirs). The wackjobs who think AIDS was developed intentionally by the government/Jews/Bill O’Reilly/the Easter Bunny (take your choice) to kill blacks. The people who seriously believe the ancient Egyptians were black geniuses who flew around in helicopters, or that white people are a race of devils created in a laboratory by a mad scientist named Mr. Yakub.

Alicia Keys is an example of one kind of person I’m talking about. She says the government created gangster rap to drive blacks to kill each other. How do you counter that kind of willful stupidity and close-mindedness? “I’m hitting myself in the face with a hammer. It’s obviously the result of a government conspiracy.” If you’re prejudiced enough to believe a thing like that, what hope is there that you will ever believe the truth about anything? It’s not enough to treat black people well. In order not to be accused of genocide, you have to proactively prevent them from killing each other on their own initiative.

Please don’t take my word for any of this; take five minutes and check the web. I could not make this crap up if I tried.

Geez, I’m sorry. I’m sorry about all the drive-bys I caused by voting for Republicans. I’m sorry about that poisoned fried chicken. I’m so sorry I made people run around and have unprotected, sinful sex and get AIDS. I apologize for belonging to a race of devils created by a vicious lunatic; I take full responsibility for his actions. I am really, really sorry for destroying all evidence of those Egyptian helicopters.

I created crack. I admit it. I made the first batch on my very own stove. I’m the guy. I feel so bad about it now. I couldn’t help it. I’m a devil, after all. This is what I do. Because like all white Republicans, I have nothing better to do than make life miserable for black people I don’t even know.

How does a people improve and overcome and live in victory, when it cannot identify its mistakes and accept responsibility for them? Maybe Alicia Keys can tell me.

On the other hand, being continually accused of wrongs you didn’t commit eventually destroys your desire to help the accusers. Something to think about when you fraudulently cry “victim” for the five-millionth time.

It’s so frustrating, seeing American blacks, as a bloc, make the worst possible decision, time after time. Almost all Americans want to help. But how do you help someone who is willing to take extraordinary measures–willing to swallow any story, no matter how ludicrous–in order to believe the worst about you?

Anyway, to get back to the point, Obama was appealing to bigotry, both white and black, and I’ll bet it ends up helping him. I can’t think of a single example, in the recent history of blacks in America, where this strategy has not succeeded wildly.