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Summary of this week’s report: We seem to be having that “conversation about race” that Candidate Obama so stridently urged when he was trying to mislead critics concerned with his extremist associations with Rev. Wright. However, I don’t think this is quite what he had in mind.

Two recent events – the Sotomayor hearings and the Henry Louis Gates uproar – demonstrate the dangerous direction Obama wants to take America when it comes to fairness, equal justice, and race relations. The Sotomayor hearings also make it clear that we’re going to need some Republicans with more backbone than our current ones if we hope to avoid this fate.

The full report:

Sonia Sotomayor’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee is over, and the behavior of Republican Senators on the committee was quite disappointing. With the Democrats having a huge majority in the Senate, few conservatives are naive enough to believe that Sotomayor won’t be confirmed. What millions of us were looking for was some evidence that the GOP is going to quit rolling over and playing dead for liberal Democrats and the increasingly numerous groups that are aggressively demanding more and more preferences and favoritism for minorities. Unfortunately, there weren’t many signs of that during the hearings.

The Sotomayor confirmation hearing was a great opportunity for the GOP to highlight Obama’s radical judicial agenda for the American people.  Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan laid such a plan out explicitly in some of his recent columns, saying that the Republicans on the committee should use the hearings to make it clear that Obama and Sotomayor want an America where decisions about college admissions, jobs and government contracts aren’t made on the basis of merit, but are based on race and gender preferences and quotas.  Internet columnist Steve Sailer went even further, coming up with a list of questions the GOP senators should ask Sotomayor, which included:

Considering the personal benefits that ethnic preferences have provided you over the years, shouldn’t you have recuse[d] yourself from the Ricci case?

Will you promise to recuse yourself in all future cases involving quotas, affirmative action, discrimination, or disparate impact?

Should immigrants be eligible for racial and ethnic preferences?

Judge Sotomayor, you were a member of the National Council of La Raza from 1998 to 2004. What do the words “La Raza” mean in English?

These are all highly relevant questions, which should have been asked, but there’s no record of any of them being raised by GOP senators. Instead, with one exception, the Republican committee members went out of their way to go very easy on Sotomayor, no doubt fearful that the media would paint them as racists if they played hardball with her. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina started things off by assuring her that there was nothing to worry about because, “Unless you have a complete meltdown, you’re going to get confirmed. And I don’t think you will.”

Our own Senator Cornyn opened by promising Sotomayor that he wouldn’t take part in any attempt to filibuster her confirmation. Both of these men asked Sotomayor a few seemingly tough questions about her past writings and statements, but let her evade, downplay, spin, and distort her long history of radical views on racial preferences. Senators Orrin Hatch and Charles Grassley were even less interested in grilling Sotomayor. Only one GOP member of the committee made more than a half hearted attempt to expose Sotomayor as the radical quota queen that she is, and that was Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.

In the end, John Cornyn did tell Sotomayor that her statements before the committee were markedly different from her writings and speeches over the years, but praised her for her intelligence and charm. Graham told her she was a mainstream judge, and “not an activist” at all. All in all, it was a very disappointing performance by the GOP senators, who seemed to be far more concerned about being called “racist” than about standing up vigorously for basic fairness and equality for all.

The Henry Louis Gates episode demonstrates just how high the stakes are when it comes to this subject. You’ve no doubt heard all about it, so I won’t go into every detail, but let me recap.

Henry Louis Gates is a well known black professor at Harvard University, who has made a career out of writing about what a horribly racist country America is, and how affirmative action and racial quotas must become much more widespread to make up for this racism. This country he hates provides him with a nice house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is near the university.

The other day he was locked out of his house. He and his driver began forcing the door open, and a passerby naturally called the police, thinking she was seeing a break-in. When the cops got there, and tried to ask him a few questions, Gates began screaming that the white policeman was a racist, who was harassing him because he’s black. When he refused to calm down and cooperate, he was eventually arrested for disorderly conduct. After being booked, he went to the media and called James Crowley, the arresting officer, a racist, and threatened to sue the city. At a press conference a reporter asked Barack Obama about the case. He replied that the police had “acted stupidly.” After a national uproar about a president condemning local cops for doing their job he said he “could have calibrated” his words differently. Now he’s asked Gates and Officer Crowley to come to the White House to talk it over while they have a beer, as if it’s all a big misunderstanding, with both sides equally at fault.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Henry Gates, a long time radical racial activist, saw a white police officer – who was coming out to protect Gates’ own property – and became belligerent, because in his worldview, white policemen are presumably racists. Officer Crowley did nothing wrong; a black officer who was there said he agreed “100 percent” with Crowley’s actions, including the arrest. Yet Barack Obama instantly and reflexively took the side of a black man falsely accusing a white person of racism and threatening a lawsuit over it. Judging by his own writings, and his twenty years of attending Jeremiah Wright’s church, Obama unfortunately seems to see America much the same way Gates sees it – as filled with tens of millions of white racists who never miss an opportunity to make life miserable for minorities.

Obama’s selection of Sotomayor for our nation’s highest court is a natural result of his view of America. Just like Obama, Sotomayor also seems to regard this nation as a hotbed of racism where minorities need special rights and privileges to protect them from the irredeemably racist majority population. For decades, she has been saying as much in her speeches and articles. Anyone who thinks that once she’s seated on the court she will suddenly change her mind about the need for quotas and special rights for minorities is kidding himself. She loves affirmative action, quotas, and every other kind of racial preference imaginable. She says they made her what she is today. Sotomayor is certainly going to use her power to reinforce and expand these discriminatory practices, not abolish them.

We are on the road to becoming a divided nation, where the various racial and ethnic groups in America are constantly squabbling. We’re supposed to be the United, not Divided, States of America. That’s going to become increasingly more difficult as the Obamas, and Sotomayors, and Henry Louis Gates’ of America demand more and more special privileges for half of the population, while constantly accusing the other half of racism, no matter how ridiculous the charge. That’s why the GOP’s performance during the Sotomayor hearing was so disappointing. If we’re going to remain a truly united country, then we’re going to need a Republican party that has got the heart and determination to boldly and relentlessly oppose any and all special privileges for any particular group in order to provide equal justice and equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s not what we saw at the Sotomayor hearings.

There is a silver lining in all of this, however. James Crowley refused to back down, refused to apologize and single-handedly put the biggest chink to date in the seemingly unstoppable Obama’s political armor. To be a white person falsely accused of racism by a minority is one of the hardest tests of moral courage you can endure, especially if it might mean your job.

Crowley’s bravery in facing off against the President of the United States, standing on principle, did more to damage Obama’s poll ratings than all of the GOP’s pansy senators combined. More and more people are starting to wake up and see Obama for what he is due to this police officer’s dignified courage.

I’m not sure of Officer Crowley’s political affiliations, but the GOP needs more James Crowleys and fewer Lindsey Grahams and John Cornyns.

Sources:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32699
http://vdare.com/sailer/090709_sotomayor.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31887698/ns/politics-white_house/ http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/07/when_testimony.php
http://www.star-telegram.com/238/story/1506578.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates,_Jr.#Career
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRlIdFcWd5k
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124865178752782423.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aa9AVFX2J9YI http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j4S-r9G0m8HEq4JAFUw7_epFRb9QD99KVBQG1

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