On September 2, 2000 I wrote an article
entitled ONLY AN EVIL PERSON WOULD
SAY WHAT WE ALL KNOW ABOUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. It
began it with these words: "So I will."
Watching Clinton moving in to a hero's welcome
in Harlem, I do not hear anybody else speaking out loud
about another fact that we all know. Once again, only
an Evil Man would dare bring it up.
Blacks are the bedrock of Clinton support.
Clinton is a corrupt man. But the fact no one mentions
is that the overwhelming majority of the black population
never hesitates to support corrupt people.
Remember Mayor Marion Barry, who was Mayor
of Washington when he was convicted on drug charges? He
was then overwhelmingly reelected Mayor of Washington.
This is one of many examples where the overwhelming majority
of the black electorate simply will not throw out the
crooks.
The fact is that black countries and black
portions of the United States are wretchedly governed
by the officials they elect.
Robert Novak actually said that Home Rule
in Washington is a failure. Everybody knows that. But
every other jurisdiction in America has home rule. The
big difference between DC and all the others is that the
Washington electorate is black.
Normally, condemning DC Home Rule would
therefore make Novak anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
But DC's Home Rule is costly to rich people,
bureaucrats and media types. To liberals, these are the
only real human beings. So Novak can get away with saying
something they all know is true.
At the same time that he says that DC Home
Rule is a failure, Novak also declares that there is something
wrong with a Republican Party that isn't attracting enough
of this wise and right-thinking black electorate.
Repeating that ritual nonsense helps preserve
Novak's respectability.
The July 17, 1999 article, RACIAL
PROFILING IS THE FAULT OF BLACK CRIMINALS, explained
why my sort of Evil Speech is necessary. If innocent blacks
are not to be unfairly targeted for police suspicion,
they will have to start blaming black criminals for their
predicament. Until then, they are simply excusing the
real culprits.
So, should a Hate Crimes Commission arrest
me and maybe Bob Novak for racial heresy?
You can either go to that logical extreme
or you can encourage people to talk about unpleasant realities.
We can either do what we do now, and refer to blacks as
a wise electorate that must be appealed to, or we can
demand that the erring majority of black voters start
to think and vote like adults.
Blacks are certainly right when they say
whites in general have white supremacist attitudes, but
they don't want to face what that really means. What it
really means is that whites think that blacks CANNOT become
politically mature. Liberals and respectable conservatives
insist that such a demand is cruel and unusual, and that
the mass of blacks is simply incapable of doing any better.
So when Colin Powell tells Republicans that
they must cooperate with the present black "leaders,"
he is saying that they cannot do better. When Republicans
say they must "appeal to black voters" by abandoning
principles and intelligent policy, they are demonstrating
the most white supremacist of attitudes.
Since I am an official Evil Man, my attitudes
are probably white supremacist. So maybe the unspoken
attitude is correct. Maybe the mass of blacks can't grow
up, and should be accepted as permanent political juveniles.
But we should refuse to give black voters
any slack in our demand that they grow up politically
before they are accepted politically.
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