Un-Liberaled Woman

Here’s the problem with playing race-card/identity politics. At some point, you’re going to slam your foot into your mouth with a “wise [insert race here]” moment. For Sotomayor, it was a “wise-Latina” could draw on their experiences to be more intelligent or compassionate on certain rulings. For Obama, it’s now that “wise-African Americans” understand the American experience more than I guess say other races because “they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on.” (via Mediaite)

That’s part of the African American experience. You are, in some ways, connected to this distant land, but on the other end, you’re about as American as it gets in some ways. African Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don’t have a recent immigrant experience to draw on. It’s that unique African American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years long before we actually founded the nation.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!

Newsflash to Captain Ethnocentrist, but a major part of the American experience IS about the immigrant experience. Stating otherwise doesn’t make you wise or delivering rhetorical elegance. No, this type of boneheaded remark means you’re talking before thinking.  And what about those races that endured indentured servitude. While not the same as slavery, it still meant you were raked over the coals in terms of work production and basically working toward your freedom, the only real difference being it had a time limit, although this time frame was abused on many occasions. Many Germans, Scottish, Irish and English went through this type of slavery-light.

And let’s not forget about Hispanics, who today comprise of our county’s biggest immigrant population, yet based on your illogical reasoning it’s somehow African-Americans who are rooted in America MORE???

This totally goes back to Michelle Obama’s “proud for the first time in my adult life” of America backhanded comment. Spread that guilt, spread it.

One race over another doesn’t make anybody, ANYBODY, more wise, intelligent, compassionate or relatable to what it means to be American. The beauty of America is that we can all define that concept without competing to be the epitome of what defines American. I know that’s hard for some to get, but it’s the truth.  I’m no more American than my blue-collar Dad or my white-collar friends or Bill Gates or the panhandler outside the Chicago Metra station. Neither is Obama. Neither is the black race over the Latino race, or the WASPs.

Either we’re all created equal or we are not – get the story straight, or admit that you’re cherry picking because underneath it all you’re basically a ethnocentrist bigot! What about the everyday man in middle America – I guess his ability to relate to the spirit of American only matters on the campaign trail when you’re visiting taverns in the country of Pennsylvania and Indiana. Typical blue donkey ass elitist.

The ego of this obliviot astounds me more and more each day.

UPDATE: Apparently it’s blown out of proportion according to Allahpundit. While I can be convinced by his argument, the fact of the matter remains that Democrats don’t make it hard to jump to these conclusions when they have a track record with reverse racism (see Sen. Boxer, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., etc.). It doesn’t help too that Obama sat in a church for 20+ years while propaganda sermons of black power were spewed from the pulpit by good ol’ Rev. Wright.