The phrase “waving the bloody shirt”
grew popular in the South as a description of Republicans’ alleged exaggeration
of the crimes of the Ku Klux Klan, the paramilitary division of the Democratic
party. It is an irony of history that waving the bloody shirt has in the Age of
Obama become the Democrats’ primary mode of discourse. Oppose the Affordable
Care Act? Racism. Like the Second Amendment? Racism. Black Barbie is on sale for half off, but
white Barbie is full price? Racism. Black holes sucking the energy out of
your quadrant? Why single out the black ones? Racism!
Waving the bloody shirt is not only
about making an emotional appeal — it’s a strategy for distraction. It became a
bitter joke in the Soviet Union — whether the issue was the crimes of Stalin or
the fact that the Lada was a piece of junk, the answer was always the same: A
u vas negrov linchuyut. The same principle is at work in today’s Democratic
commentariat: As Americans start to notice what a fiasco Obamacare is . . . Oh,
look! A Confederate flag! There is really nothing more satisfying to liberals
than a Confederate flag sighting, though I wonder what they’d make of the fact
that in my corner of Texas it is not unheard-of to see black men wearing Dixie
belt buckles or T-shirts. (All of our necks are just different shades of red.)
When Brad Paisley sings about the Confederate flag, it’s like Christmas morning
for Touré. Yet, despite the daft insistence of Joan Walsh and the Affiliated
Suburban Pearl-Clutchers of America, there is no neo-Confederate revanche just
around the corner. The idea is, however, a useful distraction. But a
distraction from what?
From $4,955.
Fifty years into the Democrats’
declaration of a war on poverty and President Kennedy’s first executive order
for affirmative action, while spending $300 million a year on worthless diversity workshops and singing endless
verses of “We Shall Overcome,” after enduring endless posturing from Barack
Obama and the moral preening of his admirers, that is what black American
families have to show for themselves: an average household net worth of $4,955.
The average white household in these United States has a net worth of $110,729. Black Americans’ median
net worth is less than 5 percent that of white Americans.
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