As IF Times

link NAACP passes resolution blasting Tea Party ‘racism’ – CNN.com.

Really?  And this motion is meant to impress or influence whom? For those who are members of the NAACP, the motion has significance because it reaffirms the views of those who are members.  Sort of like frat boys affirming their interest in large breasts.  Outside of their membership, it’s doubtful that this motion will have any kind of impact at all on America.  Why is that?  Because the group has proved itself to be an irrelevant organization.  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.  It even sounds like a relic of the 1800’s.  Any organization which dismisses the improvements to society in the area of race relations over the past hundred years is one that deserves to be ignored by the mainstream.  From noble beginnings, the NAACP has morphed into a group solely interested in making racial mountains out of molehills. 

If they have not noticed, many of the most influential top paid entertainers in America are black including of course Oprah.  Most of the top paid atheletes are black.  Also, in case no one noticed, the holder of the highest office in the land including many in his cabinet are people of color or black.  The struggle for equality ended long ago.  The only impediments to ‘colored’ people advancing in their lives are themselves.  If anything, the deck is stacked in favour of many minorities in the guise of affirmative action programs at school admissions and job postings.  The struggle to survive and get ahead is the same for everyone.

So if the playing surface is equal for all Americans, where is the need to push one race over another?  What many fail to grasp is that in a free society, one is free to fail as well as to succeed.  Not every failure is a product of overt racial bias.  To hear the racism slander hurled at the Tea Party probably induces eye rolling for most people rather than elicit any feelings of sympathy.  The Tea Party, in a knee jerk defensive response, denies the racism label and so the media jumps on the ‘conflict’.  The fact of the matter is, black people make egregious mistakes as well as non black people.  Incompetence is an equal opportunity characteristic. If Terrell Owens is criticized for dropping an easy pass, it’s not racism, it’s because he’s a dufus.  If the president enforces policies that are ill advised, he also is guilty of dufusness. There is no free pass when you screw up a country just because one happens to be of color. 

There’s a classic Seinfeld episode in which a dentist converts to Judaism and begins to tell self depricating Jewish Jokes.  Jerry Seinfeld tells him the dentist’s jokes are offensive.  The dentist replies that it’s ok, he’s Jewish.  Seinfeld responds the jokes are offensive to him as a comedian.  The NAACP may wish to change their mandate to the National Association for the Advancement of Competent People.  Boy do we need that.

link FOXNews.com – Ex-Official Accuses Justice Department of Racial Bias in Black Panther Case.

As kids, we all remember watching horror movies which seemed to follow set formats for creating wide eyed, on the edge of the seat suspense for viewers.  Typically, a young girl or young girls are in a house at night and often there’s a storm raging outside.  Over the course of the film, one by one, the girls are killed off.  Naturally the phone lines are out and the remaining heroine hears strange noises.  The curiosity gets the better of her as she searches for the source of the sound.  It seems to be coming from behind….a….particular…..door….   Of course, by then, the viewer is imploring her not to open that door as the increasingly suspenseful music ramps up….  The viewer knows that the end result won’t be good since there’s been ample evidence and hints throughout the movie.  Somehow, the heroine and future victim, is oblivious to the clues so apparent to us the viewer.

This is the same plot line unfolding  in American politics today.  When you step back and assess the actions and inactions of the Obama White house, you can virtually hear the urgent pitched music ramping up in the background, REENH REENH!

The story reference in the link above is the most egregious of recent actions implemented by this administration.  From all accounts in this case, the attorney general, Eric Holder (a dead ringer for Stedman, Oprah’s BF in case no one noticed) decides to call off the case against some  Black Panther intimidators during the 2008 election despite compelling video and eye witness evidence in support of conviction.  According to the Justice Department, wearing para military gear, wielding black truncheons and spewing racial slurs at whites on camera wasn’t sufficient evidence to press on with a sentence, even though the suit was won.  Laws that are on the books are clearly being ignored or overruled in favour of certain groups.   We have yet to hear of any outrage by minority groups over the blatant reverse racism involved here. 

Just the other day, the administration decided to pursue a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for enforcing federal laws on illegal immigrants in that state.   Again, these are not really new laws, they are laws which only emphasize long standing existing Federal regulations.  Once again, laws are already on the books and once again, they are being ignored or overruled in favour of certain groups.

Oh, and on a recent post, we noted that the incoming NASA head states that reaching out to the Muslim world would be the prime goal of that agency.  !!! As if that’s the mandate of NASA, to bring religion into the space program.  Can anyone hear the pitched music blaring in the background yet?  Does all this sound reasonable??  On the financial front meanwhile, it was announced that the U.S. budget deficit would be over one TRILLION dollars in June.  REENH! REENH! More scary music. 

Do the viewers at home not see the unfolding of the horror show?  The evidence is stacking up for anyone paying attention. Aren’t Americans collectively the young girl about to open the scary door?  Or has the door already opened? When the President campaigned for the “fundamental transformation of America”, did he really mean that existing laws would be set aside in favour of ones that fit his vision of society?  It looks more and more like executing an agenda instead of innocent policy errors.  As George Orwell may have noted, some people have become more equal than others. Naive Americans have become the young girls in the horror movies.  Sadly, in the horror flicks, she usually meets an unfortunate end.  Doubly sadly, this isn’t a movie.