For many months, I have predicted in this column that the outcome of this year’s presidential contest notwithstanding, the “Racism Industrial Complex” (RIC) would exploit that outcome to further its interests.
I also predicted that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, an Obama victory, far from diminishing charges of “racism,” promised to increase them to an extent that would surpass the number of such charges sure to follow in the wake of an Obama loss.
A Nov. 15 Associated Press story strongly suggests that, less than two weeks after the election, both of my predictions are coming to pass. Its ominous headline, “Obama election spurs ‘hundreds’ of race threats, crimes,” should be enough for all remotely astute grown-ups to recognize it for the sensationalistic piece of nonsense that it is. But if more evidence is needed to prove that the RIC agents are working overtime to insure their own ideological and financial survival, we needn’t look far to find it.
First of all, the reader is informed that among the “hundreds” of instances of out-of-control “racism” that is sweeping the nation, there has been “at least one physical attack” and several “vague threats” (emphases mine). Of what that “physical attack” consists, the column never says. As for the “vague threats,” the column leaves us guessing. It introduces us to a black woman from Snelville, Ga., whose sister-in-law, she says, had to endure the terror of having her Obama lawn signs “mangled.” Her agony was further prolonged by the discovery that the vandals had left behind two pizza boxes filled with feces.
Now, for people who insist on desecrating property and otherwise cause mischief, I have nothing but contempt. Yet the point that requires underscoring here is that there is zero evidence that this was a “vague threat,” much less a “racist” act. Here in my home state of New Jersey, stories of John McCain signs being stolen and destroyed were legion, and these stories could effortlessly be retold throughout other parts of the country. In addition, stories abound of people with “McCain/Palin” bumper stickers whose cars were vandalized. Perhaps not so interestingly, I recall no AP writer or, for that matter, any other journalist, so much as reporting on these phenomena, much less concluding that it was “racist.”
Another possibly “vague threat” motivated by “racism” on which the column reports comes from the mouth of “a 46-year-old white Georgia native.” With respect to Obama’s campaign slogan of “Change,” Grant Griffin said: “If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama’s) church being deported.”
Horror of horrors.
Most Americans, including many in the “mainstream media” who otherwise supported Obama, experienced, or at least claimed to have experienced, repulsion upon first discovering the vitriolic diatribes of Obama’s “spiritual mentor,” Jeremiah Wright. Mr. Griffin, it seems very reasonable to assume, is no exception. In expressing a desire that Obama’s former congregants be “deported,” there is no reason not to think that he intended to express a sentiment with which all Americans of good will can relate, a desire that we be rid of those who would insist on exacerbating inter-racial tensions. This is a desire born not of “racism,” but of “anti-racism.”
How do we know that there are “hundreds” of incidents of “race threats” and “crimes” in America? Mark Potok says so. Next question: Who is Mark Potok? The answer says it all: Potok is the director of “the Intelligence Project” at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Intelligence Project “monitors hate crimes.”
If the RIC had a face, it would be the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC exists to “monitor hate crimes.” Without the ever-present threat of “racism,” it would lose its purpose and, thus, its life.
Of course, the SPLC is but one organ of the RIC. Another organ that could just as easily symbolize the RIC is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And, according to the column, the Georgia chapter of the NAACP is “calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about hostility and resentment.”
Finally, and perhaps worst of all, is the report of a middle school student from Georgia, presumably a black child, who was suspended for having worn an Obama shirt to school the day after Election Day. The child’s mother admits that the principal had told students in advance that no “political paraphernalia” would be permitted, yet the AP, in a painfully obvious attempt to convince readers that the suspension was motivated by racial animus, ends its column with the following:
The student’s mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: “Whether you like it or not, we’re in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with this decision.”A question for the AP: do you think it is possible, just maybe, that the good folks of Georgia are disappointed with election results because they are conservative Republicans and a radical left wing Democrat won? In other words, do you think that just maybe it isn’t the race of the president-elect as much as his politics that displeases them?
For real victims, I have nothing but sympathy, including victims of theft, vandalism, and mischief. For the agents of RIC, on the other hand, I have disdain.
There is no question in my mind that this AP article is a harbinger of events to come.
