By Larry Elder
Source: Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta
Journal-Constitution via A
Former President Barack Obama once
again pulled out the race card for political gain, consequences be damned.
This time at the funeral of civil
rights icon John Lewis, Obama compared President Donald Trump to not one but
two racial segregationists, former Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public
Safety Bull Connor and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. The inconvenient
truth that Connor and Wallace were Democrats is, apparently, of no relevance to
Obama, his fellow Democrats or most of the media.
About Connor, Obama said, "Bull
Connor may be gone, but today we witness, with our own eyes, police officers
kneeling on the necks of Black Americans." The longtime former Bronx Rep.
Charles Rangel, whose district included Harlem, also employed the
Republicans-are-like-Bull Connor meme. Rangel, though, used it on
then-President George W. Bush, who also spoke at Lewis' funeral. In 2005,
Rangel criticized Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina by saying, "George
Bush is our Bull Connor."
For those who have forgotten or
never knew, Connor is the segregationist Alabama lawman who, in the '60s,
turned water hoses and sicced dogs on civil rights protesters. "You can
never whip these birds if you don't keep you and them separate," Connor
said in 1963. "I found that out in Birmingham. You've got to keep your white
and the Black separate."
Yes, Obama just compared Trump to
that man. Never mind that Trump signed the First Step Act that, so far, has
allowed more than 3,000 inmates convicted for crack cocaine -- mostly Black men
-- to have their sentences reconsidered and over 2,000 released. Never mind
that Trump posthumously pardoned Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight
champion, who was the victim of a racially motivated prosecution.
About Wallace, Obama said,
"George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government
sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators."
In 1963, Wallace defied federal officers by literally standing in front of the
door of the University of Alabama in a failed attempt to prevent the university
from integrating. That same year, in his gubernatorial inaugural speech,
Wallace said, "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this
earth, I draw a line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of
tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation
forever."
Yes, Obama just compared Trump to
Wallace, the governor who tried to stop Blacks from getting an education
at a public school that Blacks qualify to attend. Never mind that Trump is a
proponent of school choice, allowing Black students, K-12, to take their public
school dollars to whatever school they qualify for as an alternative to poor
urban public schools.
Since Obama compared Trump
to two dead racist Democrat segregationists of the 1960s, it is only fair to
ask about Obama's relationship with two living racist anti-Semites.
During his first six years, Obama
invited the anti-Semitic, race-hustling, Tawana Brawley-lying Rev. Al Sharpton
to the White House 72 times by December 2014. (Any visits after that time are not available on public
record.) This would be the same Sharpton who, in 1991, fueled a rage in
Brooklyn's Crown Heights, which experienced several days of violent protests in
which Jews were attacked by Blacks. A few days earlier, Sharpton was recorded
on tape bellowing, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their
yarmulkes back and come over to my house."
As to Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan, a smiling Sen. Obama, in 2005, took a photograph with America's most
notorious anti-Semite -- and segregationist. ("What the Muslims Want"
No. 10 on the Nation of Islam official website reads: "We believe that
intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited.") Photographer Askia
Muhammad admitted that he did not show the photo to the public until 2018, after
Obama left office. Asked whether the photo would have made a difference in
Obama's 2008 presidential race, Muhammad said: "I insist. It absolutely
would have made a difference."
If in doubt about whether the
Obama-Farrakhan picture would have mattered, consider what Democratic lawyer
Alan Dershowitz said after seeing the photo: "Louis Farrakhan is a
virulent anti-Semite. He's called Judaism a 'gutter religion.' He's
anti-American. He is a horrible, horrible human being.
"And if I had known that the
President had posed smilingly with (Farrakhan) when he was a senator, I would
not have campaigned for Barack Obama. It would have influenced my decision.
Look, I threatened to leave the Democratic Party if Keith Ellison were elected
as chairman because of his association with Farrakhan. You don't associate with
a bigot. You don't associate with an anti-Semite."
Democrats, such as Obama, can
"associate" with racists and bigots like Sharpton and Farrakhan and,
with a straight face, denounce Trump's alleged racism and bigotry. And Obama
knows that our left-wing media, of which MSNBC host Sharpton is a part, will
not call him out.
Hypocrisy, anyone?
Larry Elder is a bestselling author
and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. His latest book, "The New
Trump Standard," is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook,
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By A Reader
A pundit pointed out “The Left
controls every major institution in America. Mainstream media, academia,
administrative government, Hollywood, big tech. So if 'institutional racism'
really does exist, whose fault would that be?”
To win elections and gain
power, Democrats engage in ugly race mongering, keeping our nation roiled in
racial strife, while, hypocritically, accusing Republicans of being racist.
Democrats point to impoverished black neighborhoods as justification for
assailing America as being racist.
However, Democrats have run
those black communities for the past 60 years and the failed socialist policies
of the Democrats have devastated those neighborhoods.
As author Michael Scheuer
wrote, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S's: slavery, secession,
segregation and now socialism.
For additional details, see the
article “Republicans And Democrats Did Not Switch Sides On Racism” at: http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/p/the-party-of-civil-rights-by-kevin-d.html
