In his book White Guilt, conservative, Shelby Steele, from Stanford and fellow researcher for the Hoover Institute argues that liberal politicians, like Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer, in the 60s inspired redress programs that caused damage to African Americans over the long run. These policies of redress according to Steele emanated out of “white guilt”, but ultimately led to prejudice. American white liberal “guilt” helped to establish the governmental system for the breakup of the traditional African American families by removing any notion of personal accountability. Steele defined white guilt as being a “complete vacuum of moral authority wherein a stigma is cast upon an entire group of people regardless of what they do or say.”

Also, due to the very real historical wrongs of segregation and slavery, liberal whites see redressing as the only way to regain “moral authority”, so liberal white politicians used government funded programs to reclaim their moral goodness. Liberal whites want to prove their own worth so to do so they must exonerate themselves of any suspicion of being racist by making sure they are aiding a needy minority. Unfortunately and conveniently for them this has become the mantra of liberal Democrats and it is in their best interest to keep perpetuating the idea that minorities are handicapped groups that require government assistance to rid themselves of poverty.

For Harry Reid to say that all Hispanics should then vote only for Democrats like himself is like calling a good cross section of Hispanic Nevadans little short of stupid.

Harry Reid is not racist and Republican calls for his resignation are misguided. There I said it.

Now there is sounding educated, and sounding ghetto; that is describing a state of being and education level in association with speech patterns. But speech patterns are inaccurately given race equivalents. This always annoyed me growing up… people insisting I “talked white”. No, I never “talked white”; I paid attention in class and made an effort to always speak properly. I didn’t do good in my classes, I did well in my classes.

As you can probably tell this is a pet peeve of mine. I am always being shot dirty looks from family members annoyed at my need to correct their grammar. In my mind I am doing them a favor…. They just think I have bad unintentional habit of being condescending. Now I do not speak perfectly all the time… I usually loose all propriety when I am angry.

But speaking properly gives an indication of a better educational background. It means people will be more likely to take you seriously. It often means better job opportunities and even better pay. Barack Obama is an educated man and he makes an effort to sound that way. He is the President for crying out loud… he should speak properly! The idea that we would ever make a direct link between speech and race is absurd and frankly racist in nature.

“Light-skinned” African-American; “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one” is what the accused, US Senator Harry Reid, admitted saying in reference to the current President of the United States. Members of the jury I want it noted that both the senator and the commander-in-chief are members of the political party ( Democrat ) which brands itself as African-Americans secular saviors. I want the record to reflect my shock ( yeah right! ) that a Democrat of such stellar standing would stoop to racist language more fitting a Republican. This imaginary opening statement is from a trial by public opinion envisioned to address these comments. As y’all can see, I’m no fan of racists or Democrats per se.

Memo to Black Folks and progressives: You’ve got your share of ideological Klansman too!! They just mask it better than counterparts on the political Right. We should welcome this revelation about the good Senator as proof that prejudice isn’t conveniently confined to White folks with ” R” for Republican after their names. Lest we forget, Southern Democrats met all 20th Century federal civil rights legislation with rhetorical pitch forks jabbing. These jabs were punctuated by police gunfire and billy club blows targeting down South civil rights protesters. Officers in these violent jurisdictions were proud ” yellow dog Democrats ” since that was the only party in the South at that time. I’ve seen too much racism from Dems local and otherwise to fall for their ” Black people’s best friend ” routine. The GOP has set new lows in modern racism itself but at least their racists are up front about it. I respect honesty over patronizing lies any day of the week.