Coulter - Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

MUGGED

SENTINEL

MUGGED

RACIAL DEMAGOGUERY FROM
THE SEVENTIES TO OBAMA

ANN COULTER

SENTINEL

SENTINEL

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Mugged : racial demagoguery from the seventies to Obama / Ann Coulter.

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ALWAYS LEARNING

PEARSON

For the freest black man in America

The Democrats slogan during the Bush years was: Dissent is patriotic. Under Obama, its: Dissent is racist.

Liberals luxuriate in calling other people racists out of pure moral preening. They seem to imagine that in African American households throughout the land youll find mantel portraits of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy and Keith Olbermann. (More likely, those mantels would have portraits of Bernie Goetz.)

Beginning in the seventies, there was constant racial turmoil in this country, stirred up by the media, academia and Hollywood to promote their fantasy of America as Mississippi Burning.

This was madness. There had been a real fight over civil rights for a century, especially in the previous two decades, but by the end of the sixties, it was over. Segregationist violence was gone, and all public places integrated. But in their minds, liberals lived in a heroic past, where they were the ones manning the barricades and marching against segregation. Liberals were hallucinatingabout the present and the past.

Contrary to the myth Democrats told about themselvesthat they were hairy-chested warriors for equal rightsthe entire history of civil rights consists of Republicans battling Democrats to guarantee the constitutional rights of black people.

Not all Democrats were segregationists, but all segregationists were Democrats and there were enough of them to demand compliance from the rest of the party, just as todays Democrats submit to the demands of the proabortion feminists. The civil rights protests brought attention to injustice, and voters needed to know what was happening in the Democratic South. But the hoopla was unnecessary.

What really made the Democrats sit up and take notice was that blacks began voting, and would soon outnumber the Democrats segregationist wing. That was accomplished by Thurgood Marshall winning cases in the Supreme Court, Republicans in Congress passing civil rights laws and Republicans in the White House enforcing both the court rulings and the lawssometimes at the end of a gun.

Despite lingering hard feelings over the Civil War, Republican Dwight Eisenhower snatched large parts of the South from the Democrats in the 1952 presidential election. Boosted by his war record in the patriotic, military-admiring South, this Republican candidate carried Tennessee, Virginia, Florida and Texasand he nearly won Kentucky, North Carolina and West Virginia, losing Kentucky by a microscopic .07 percent. The Democrats dream team that year was Adlai Stevensonand Alabama segregationist John Sparkman.

(Eisenhower started a trend, but as far back as the 1920s Republicans were sporadically winning southern states. In 1920, Warren Harding won Tennessee and in 1928 Herbert Hoover won Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and Texas. Between Hoover and Eisenhower, Republicans didnt win a single presidential election, much less the South. The Hoover/Eisenhower southern states were the same states Nixon and Reagan would do best innot the states Barry Goldwater carried in 1964. More on that to come.)

Eisenhower put a slew of blacks into prominent positions in his administrationunlike Barack Obama he chose competent onesand quickly moved to desegregate the military, something President Harry Truman had announced, but failed to fully implement.

It took a lifelong soldier who had smashed the Nazi war machine to compel total racial integration in the military. Eisenhower may have felt as his fellow Republican and soldier Senator Charles Potter did when he stood on crutches in the well of the Senatehe lost both legs in World War IIand denounced the Democrats for refusing to pass a civil rights bill. I fought beside Negroes in the war, Potter said. I saw them die for us. For the Senate of the United States to repay these valiant menby a watered-down version of this legislation would make a mockery of the democratic concept we hold so dear.

When Eisenhower ran for reelection in 1956, the Republican Party platform endorsed the recent Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education desegregating public schools. The Democratic platform did not. Indeed, a number of Democratic governors proceeded to ignore the landmark decision. Ike responded by sending in the 101st Airborne to walk black children to school.

In his second term, Eisenhower pushed through two major civil rights laws and created the Civil Rights Commissionover the stubborn objections of Democrats. Senator Lyndon Johnson warned his fellow segregationist Democrats, Be ready to take up the goddamned nigra bill again. Liberal hero, Senator Sam Ervin told his fellow segregationists, Im on your side, not theirs, adding ruefully, weve got to give the goddamned niggers something.

Vice President Richard Nixon pulled some procedural tricks as president of the Senate to get the 1957 bill passed, for which he was personally thanked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But LBJ had stripped the first bill of enforcement provisions, so Eisenhower introduced another, stronger civil rights bill in 1960. All eighteen votes against both bills were by Democrats. Democratic opposition to civil rights was becoming what we call a pattern.