Democrats & Racial Hypocrisy

There are some Republicans who hold racist viewpoints.

There are some Democrats who hold these very same racist views.

I am free of such a burden. I am fortunate to be young enough to have been raised more in an era where a man is judged by his actions & deeds.

My only reason for bringing up racial feelings is what I believe to be a glaring double-standard on the subject.

Several years ago, then-GOP Senate-Majority Leader, Trent Lott was forced to give up his leadership post after commenting at Strom Thurmond's birthday celebration that things might have been different if the old segregationist had won the presidency in '48.

Some may disagree with me on this, but his observation was correct, things would have been different.

The difference would not have been for the better, but for the worse.

How would a majority-Christian nation condone such disdain for his fellow man?

There may be some behaviors in some people we may not like, and we may chose to avoid them for that reason. We are certainly smart enough not to be sucked into avoiding someone based on the color of their skin.

Yet to hear the liberals speak; all Republicans hold such views.

The liberals will tell you that, yes some racists were Democrats, but after the Civil Rights passage, they left the Democratic fold and joined forces with the GOP.

The Democrats are quick to jump and shout if a member of the GOP makes a racially insensitive remark.

In typical knee-jerk reaction they call for the offenders resignation. Many times this reaction is justified as there is no more room in the US for a person holding such feelings to participate in the public discourse.

It is quite telling when a party points to insensitive remarks of the other party's leader making such remarks, and your own party has made a former member of the KKK the leader of your own party. I am speaking of Robert Byrd, D-WV.

The Democrats elected Byrd to lead their senate efforts after it was known he was a former Grand Wizard of the KKK.

Can you imagine the outcry if the GOP had done this?

With that said, I would like to get to the crux of my point.

I find it totally hypocritical for the Democrats to point to the GOP as a party of racists (when we know that is not true), when their own leaders get caught espousing the very same racist feelings.

There is a new book out called 'Game Changer'.

This book is bound to set Washington on its head.

The book quotes contemporary politicians making racially insensitive remarks.

Were it not for the blatant hypocrisy coming from the left on this issue, I would not bring it up.

In the book, Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid is quoted as buttressing his support of the Obama candidacy by claiming that Obama is a "light skinned" and does not have a "negro-dialect" unless he wants to.

What are we to make of such a statement?

In 2008, did Harry Reid still feel the need to justify his support for an African-American? Did he need to point out that Obama was "light skinned" and had no "negro-dialect"?

What message was Reid trying to convey?

Would Reid not have supported Obama if he was dark skinned or spoke in stereotype slang?

All weekend the liberals have taken to the television airwaves defending Reid for comments that they would have ran a member of the GOP out of town for making.

What they are ignoring in their rush to circle the wagons, is that Reid made these comments in private believing they would not go beyond their intended audience.

What is alarming about this is that they show the mindset of the Democrats chosen leader in the US Senate.

Reid really thinks this way................and the Democrats are attempting to defend him.

The book serves to reinforce a perception whose groundwork was laid during the campaign by who many believed and touted as the first African-American President, Bill Clinton.

During the campaign, Bill Clinton raised the ire of the black community for his comments about how the Obama campaign was merely a "fantasy", and dismissively pointed out that Jesse Jackson had also won the South Carolina primary when Jackson ran for the nomination.

Now the book brings up a conversation that Bill Clinton had with then-Senator, Ted Kennedy when trying to get Kennedy's endorsement for Hillary's campaign.

Bill Clinton was attempting to belittle the Obama candidacy as nonsensical.

Clinton told Kennedy, "a few years ago, this guy would have been serving us coffee", meaning that Obama was only a few short years beyond being able to merely serve coffee to the Democratic stalwarts, much less actually being worthy of serving as President.

Again in this exchange, Bill Clinton tipped his hand to his inner way of thinking.

Similar to people who have been drinking, many are less inhibited in their speech when they believe they are in a private conversation.

Kennedy was angry with this comment from Clinton.

The Massachusetts Lion of the Senate came out and endorsed Obama over Clinton's private objections.

While Harry Reid has apologized for getting caught airing his true beliefs, Clinton has not as of yet.

Before applauding Reid for his apology, put into context. It took the publishing of a book and passage of two years beofre that apology was forthcoming.

Sunlight truly is the best disinfectant.

Had either of these two men been members of the GOP, we would have experienced a weekend of GOP-bashing more intense than that given the Democrats.

Racism comes in all shapes, colors, sizes, and political parties.

While I believe racism is a dying belief, there are obviously still remnants of bygone days.

The hypocrisy on this issue from the Democrats is so transparent and obvious, it will be a long time before the left dares to rear its ugly head on this.

Each time they do, we will have these quotes and the pictures of Bob Byrd in his KKK robes ready to trot out for all to see.