Fourteen days later, on August 22nd, they posed together for a final promotional photo shoot, which was their last appearance together at any Beatles event. Although one more album was released (“Let it Be”), “Abbey Road” was the last album recorded by the band, which was already virtually dissolved as a unit. Yet the album was a great artistic and commercial success. The “Let it Be” album was intended to be released first, but the group did not think it ready. They moved on to record “Abbey Road” and released it on September 26th and October 1st, 1969, respectively, in the UK and the US. The cover photo, fittingly designed by Paul (as he was the only member who had a passion to keep the group together; even as he finally sued to end the partnership), depicts the band’s final crossing of “Abbey Road,” toward their studio home of the prior eight years. Ironically, even bizarrely, convicted murderer and “wall of sound” creator, Phil Specter, did the final mixing in 1970 of several songs on “Let it Be,” almost as an audition. He was not aware there would be no more Beatles, although he did some work for Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band.

I was, and am, a great Beatles fan. Then again, most rock music lovers are. As a fan of professional sports, I found many similarities in these seemingly dissimilar cultures.  An obvious similarity is both have Halls of Fame. Both cultures encourage respect for the success of the great ones who came before them, as well as those contemporaneous to them. The Beatles, for example, loved Buddy Holly’s group “Buddy Holly and the Crickets” and, of course, Elvis (Lennon said “before Elvis there was nothing”). Even their name, in part at least, was recognized by them to be similar to the Crickets and helped them choose the name “Beatles” (prior names included Johnny and the Moondogs, and The Silver Beetles).

Of course, not everyone is a Beatles fan. Lead singer Michael Stipe, of the group R.E.M, when asked in a 1992 Rolling Stone interview about the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, responded that the Beatles were like elevator music. He did not even respond to the Stone’s question. Stipe, I believe, was being honest. Yet, his lack of awareness as to their impact was profound. I know “standing on the shoulders of giants” leaves him cold, but that sentiment also reflects a severe lack of existential awareness. I have never felt the same about Stipe or R.E.M. since.

In 2008, a book in “words, pictures and music” by Barry Miles, named The Beatles Phenomenon, was published.  Miles wrote McCartney’s official biography in 1998.  My 17-year-old daughter spent five weeks at Oxford this summer (studying Shakespeare and playing “Hamlet’s” Guildenstern in the Oxford debating hall; yes, Guildenstern). My birthday occurred while she was away. One of her classmates had just bought Miles’ book for her brother’s birthday. My daughter, who became a Beatles fan from the 2007 movie musical “Across the Universe,” bought the book for me for my birthday. What is interesting about this is, 40 years after the last Beatles album, teenagers are still buying Beatles books. Before I get into my primary “thesis” and inevitable political “take away” about the Beatles, there are a few facts I find fascinating about the group. In no particular order, here are a few:

-Their famous “mop top” haircut was designed by Astrid Kirchherr, girlfriend of Lennon’s art school friend and early band member, Stuart Sutcliff. I already knew that. What I did not know, is she copied the style from the French movie actor Jean Marais’s portrayal of Oedipus in a 1959 Jean Cocteau movie (“Le Testament d’Orphee”). The Oedipus irony is priceless, given the cultural, political and social revolution which was the 1960s.

-The first top 20 hit by the Rolling Stones (UK) was given to them by the Beatles. It was “I Wanna be Your Man.” The fact that Ringo sang it one year later is amusing. The Stones were desperate to get an album out and enlisted Lennon and McCartney’s help. The Beatles literally completed writing the song (which they already had begun earlier) in the presence of the Stones in the latter’s studio in less than an hour. As Lennon later said “that’s how much importance we put on it.”

-Of the 183 songs written by the Beatles, 73 were written by Lennon, 69 McCartney, 17 Lennon/McCartney, 22 Harrison, and two Ringo. Lennon and McCartney agreed their songs would always have a joint credit. I always thought McCartney had written more, but this was incorrect.

-The number one selling rock group from 2000-2009 is still the Beatles, having sold 27 million albums. According to Billboard, the Beatles have had 19 number one albums. Elvis was second at 10, tied with Jay-Z. Tied for fourth are Springsteen and the Stones with nine. The Beatles and Elvis are the only acts estimated to have sold more than a billion albums. Michael Jackson, ABBA, and Queen sold about 350 million. The Stones sold 200 million, Springsteen 120 million, and Jay-Z 50 million. Paul McCartney and Wings sold almost as many albums as Springsteen, 100 million (not counted in Beatles total). Michael Stipe’s R.E.M, sold 50 million. Not bad for a group who hates standing on the shoulders of giants.

-Finally, on the trivia front, which segues nicely to the next paragraph, is that McCartney, Lennon and Harrison first picked up a guitar in 1956 (Paul) and 1957 (John and George). Six years later they were the most famous group in history at that point in time, as well as since. How did this happen?

As a child and young teenager, I lived and died for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I read all things Dodgers, that I could get my hands on. That meant reading about the Brooklyn Dodgers. Branch Rickey, the famous and successful Brooklyn Dodger GM who signed Jackie Robinson, once said “luck is the residue of design.” This quote always stuck with me. Baseball is driven at the micro level by randomness and luck. It is a game of probabilities; a bounce of the ball this way, a failed close call that way, a great timely play by an outfielder, etc. Over the long run, however, the best tend to win out.

The Beatles were, of course, lucky. Working with Brian Epstein and George Martin was timely and serendipitous. But their luck, too, was the residue of design. If it wasn’t Martin and Epstein, it would have been someone else. Why? Their work ethic and commitment to being a successful rock group was phenomenal. Lennon and McCartney came together in 1960, joined shortly thereafter by George Harrison (who himself aggressively sought acceptance by Lennon and McCartney). There were a number of other members who came and went, the most famous being Pete Best the drummer. He was fired before their first album was cut, and a drummer from one of Liverpool’s top groups, “Rory Storm and the Hurricanes,” Ringo Starr, was hired in his place.

As Barry Miles documents, their workload was astonishing. Between August 1960 and early 1963, they performed more than 800 hours on stage (not including practice) in Hamburg, Germany alone. During that same time period, they appeared almost 300 times at Liverpool’s “The Cavern.” This does not include other venues they played. This is astonishing and surely accounts for their success. Yes, they had skill, but work is what made them the Beatles. George Harrison said: “[In Germany] we learned to work for hours on end, and keep on working at full peak even though we reckoned our legs and arms were ready to drop off.” This work ethic created their prolific song writing ability. McCartney describes their first recording session for the album “Please Please Me”:

We’d been playing the songs for months and months and months before getting a record out. So we came in the studio at 10 in the morning, started it, did one number, had a cup of tea, relaxed, did the next one, a couple of overdubs…we just worked through them, like the stage act. And by 10′ o’clock that night, we’d done ten songs and we just reeled out of the studios, John clutching his throat tablets.

They also were among the first singer song writers in history. This was rarely done prior to the 1960s. They released 12 original albums (one double) between 1963 and the beginning of 1970; additionally they released 30 non-album tracks. Elvis never wrote a song. They did two full length feature films, did hundreds of radio and television appearances (when counting interviews). They lived in close to squalid conditions and played for little money prior to late 1962. They also were heavy users of various forms of amphetamines. They consciously sought diversity in their sound and the songs they played. They were willing to play covers as well as their own songs. They drove themselves to improve. Any venue was an opportunity.

When Brian Epstein happened on to them in 1962 in Liverpool, he saw great potential, although he had no experience as a producer, being merely a record shop owner. But he was a promotional wizard at heart and committed himself to their success. He also took advantage of the Beatles’ business naivete (which they eventually over came). He signed a deal in which he received 25% of the gross (normal was 10%) and the Beatles paid expenses and split the remainder. Still, the Beatles never resented Epstein. Lennon always said that Epstein provided the organizational and marketing skills to supplement their work ethic to make them successful. The Beatles, at Epstein’s urging, were also willing to stop wearing denim and leather and switch to those funky suits. They felt no less “authentic.” More than 70 million people watched each of the two Ed Sullivan appearances in early 1964 when they first came to America. They sounded great. The population of the US was 180 million. To put that in perspective, Obama and Palin each drew about 40 million to their nominating speeches in a country of 300 million.

The Beatles were obviously great. They were great because they are fun to listen to. They could make it seem so easy, which makes them even more fun to listen to. The White Album, consisting of about 35 songs, was an astonishing random assortment of various sounds and melodies. It was as if they were playing with their competition.  But it was not easy. It came out of effort as well as brilliance.

So what political message am I going to pull from this 40th anniversary of the dissolution of the Beatles? It is obvious, right? They were poor, but not victims. They did not ask for hand outs. They could not have been invented by a government program. They pursued self interest but provided enjoyment for hundreds of millions. Why is this not the message of our current president and his congressional allies? Why does Sonya Sotomayor credit affirmative action, rather than her own hard work, for her success? She distorts what should be her message. Why does the Democratic Party look to give to protected groups of people while taking from others? Why aren’t we encouraging work and the entrepreneurial spirit instead of demonizing the profit motive? McCartney is worth 1.5 billion. As economist Don Boudreaux says, “only $1.5 billion?” Not everyone who works as hard and as passionately as the Beatles will become mega-wealthy, but without hard work and motivation, there can never be any success. Why is this not the economic message of our day? As George Harrison once sang, we have this instead from our Government.

Let me tell you how it will be,
There’s one for you, nineteen for me,
‘Cos I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.
Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don’t take it all.
‘Cos I’m the Taxman,
Yeah yeah, I’m the Taxman.

(If you drive a car car), I’ll tax the street,
(If you try to sit sit), I’ll tax your seat,
(If you get too cold cold), I’ll tax the heat,
(If you take a walk walk), I’ll tax your feet.
Taxman.

‘Cos I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.
Don’t ask me what I want it for
(Ah Ah! Mister Wilson!)
If you don’t want to pay some more
(Ah Ah! Mister Heath!),
‘Cos I’m the Taxman,
Yeeeah, I’m the Taxman.

Now my advice for those who die, (Taxman!)
Declare the pennies on your eyes, (Taxman!)
‘Cos I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.
And you’re working for no-one but me,
(Taxman).

The United States Supreme Court tackled the issue in the seminal case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 US 265 (1978).  In that case, the Court found that race could only be one of numerous factors in determining admission to a university.  It stated that the University of California policy was unconstitutional, but that the policy used by Harvard was a valid type of affirmative action.  The result was that Mr. Bakke was admitted to medical school and became a respected physician.

Since that time, there have been many more challenges to the doctrine, some of which were successful and some of which failed. This week, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court, basically eliminated affirmative action or reverse discrimination or whatever you want to call it.

In the case of Ricci v. Destefano, the Supreme Court held that an affirmative action policy by the City of New Haven, Connecticut was invalid.  The litigation began when the City tossed out the results of a promotion exam because too few minority members passed.  Accordingly, the white firemen who did pass the test were not promoted.

The Court ruled that the white firemen who did pass the test should have been promoted.  Four justices in dissent felt otherwise.  The dissenting opinion was written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who stated that although the court felt sorry for the passing firemen, it wasn’t enough.

Hopefully, this decision puts the final nail in the coffin of reverse discrimination, which is anything but fair to either side.  By definition, it is discrimination.  Anything that puts one group above another is discrimination whether it is to make up for past wrongs or not.  What has happened in the past is the past.  What matters now is the future.  And, in the future of the United States, there should not be discrimination of any kind, reverse or otherwise.  These policies have lived past their time, if, in fact, they ever had one.

But, this case is interesting on other grounds besides what it may mean to affirmative action. The Supreme Court, by deciding as it did, was overruling a decision in which Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotamayor took part.  Does this mean her nomination is in jeopardy?  I think not, but it does mean that she should be more carefully examined by the Senate.  Remember, this is the woman who stated that her rich cultural background as a Puerto Rican woman would qualify her more to decide certain types of cases than a white man.

Maybe, she is the one who is guilty of discrimination and being racially biased.  I do not believe that the Senate should give her a free ride.  She should be examined very carefully before being put on the bench.

Outrage, hysteria, fire and brimstone followed, most of it from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, who demanded an apology. Never mind the fact that Bennett had clarified, “That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do,” this was a situation that, like slavery, apparently, could only be rectified with an apology. What good would an apology do, anyway? He still said it. It’s not like court, where it can be stricken from the record. And would it really satisfy Reid and Pelosi? Of course not, they just wanted to see a talk radio host begging forgiveness.

Liberals like to support things, like abortion, and do a quick about-face when the things they support are presented in an unfavorable light. Now, all of the sudden, Reid and Pelosi care if aborted babies are black or white? A hypothetical from a talk radio host is treated with more disdain than, oh, I don’t know, yanking a baby feet first from the uterus and stabbing its head with scissors. They argue that Partial Birth Abortion is rare, but rarer still is the practice of mass-abortion on the basis of race, so what got them so irate? Bennett is against abortion, and was speaking hypothetically. They’re for it! They want the government to fund it! It’s like in “Falling Down,” when Michael Douglas says, “I’m the bad guy?” Bennett presented a hypothesis, shot it full of holes – holes that Reid and Pelosi roundly dismiss when they’re not presented in the context of race. To quote William “D-Fens” Foster, “How did that happen?” In this case, it was the liberal-pet-issue-bait-and-switch.

Take affirmative action. I know it’s more complicated than black and white, but again, it’s an issue that liberals are largely for, and conservatives are largely against. But just suggest, I dare you, make even the slightest hint that oh, say, Michelle Obama got into Princeton and subsequently landed a job at a prestigious law firm, all because of affirmative action. Wait. Before you say it, you better pull a Kate Winslet: practice a speech in front of the mirror. Grovel. Plead. Offer to take sensitivity training. Actually, I believe Michelle is a smart woman who has achieved everything on her own merits. She navigated her way through a racist system, earned her way, and deserves everything she got as a result. But other minorities need the help of affirmative action and other programs, because they’re not on a level playing field? This is the elitism of the Democratic Party. They achieve without the programs that they support, because they’re special.

Look at Michael Moore (sorry, easy target), who claims in his book “Dude, Where’s My Country,” that the American people need to let go of the rags to riches Horatio Alger myth. Get that? The college dropout who scraped together money to make several entertaining fantasy films and now lives in the lap of luxury polishing his Oscar is telling you, America, that there’s no American Dream, when in fact, he is the living, breathing, eating, and eating, and eating embodiment of said Dream! He made it. Because. He’s special.

This is why they trumpet public education and send their kids to private school. They’re special. In fact, instead of crying sexism at suggestions that, say, Katie Couric needed affirmative action to achieve her post, liberals should respond much differently. “Yeah,” they should say, “Katie Couric did make it because of affirmative action, and it proves that the system works.” Maybe Katie Couric isn’t a good example, but how refreshing would it be if Democrats weren’t embarrassed about giving such paltry sums to charity? What if Al Gore had said, “True, I didn’t. It’s because I think the gov’ment’s supposed to take care of people.” Do you know how sweet that’d be? Sweet as ten gay ninjas on a sugar high.

First, though, they have to acknowledge that Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Dick Durbin, Charles Rangel, Harry Reid and Charles Schumer, are not moderates, but, rather, leftists with a Socialist agenda.  Furthermore, they must recognize that the New York Times, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, CNN, the three major networks, the news magazines and the New Yorker, are not objective in their reporting of political events, and neither are Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher, in their commentary.  If these entities and individuals are not on the payroll of the DNC, they certainly should be.  They certainly put in longer hours than Howard Dean.

Step #1:  It is high time that every American be guaranteed the right to speak freely.  It is not reserved solely for left-wing college students who wish to take advantage of the first amendment to shout down conservatives.  At the same time, they must not construe the conservative’s right to dismiss them as arrogant idiots as censorship.

Step #2:  Affirmative action argues that African Americans and Latinos are intellectually inferior and are unable to compete academically unless other students are handicapped because of their race.  Interestingly enough, when blacks and Hispanic students are given these unfair advantages, it’s rarely at any cost to white students, whose rate of college admissions remains constant; instead, it’s nearly always another minority group, Asians, who pay the price.  This is what left-wingers refer to as leveling the playing field.

Step #3:  Liberals always claim to be in favor of higher taxes, agreeing with Bill Clinton that the government invariably spends money more wisely than those who actually earn it.  However, such prominent proponents of higher taxes as George Soros, Ted Kennedy and Mr. and Mrs. John Kerry, protect their own otherwise taxable income through trusts and offshore accounts.  Obviously, any American who believes higher taxes are a good thing can do the honorable thing by spurning all deductions and paying Uncle Sam everything up to 100% of his income.

Step #4:  Even the most secular of liberals seems to believe that Jimmy Carter is a saint.  The evidence for this seems to be that he has on occasion posed with a hammer in his hand at Habitat for Humanity building sites and is constantly walking around with a expression on his face that suggests he has just forgiven Pontius Pilate for betraying him.  This is the same fellow, let us never forget, who called Yasser Arafat his good friend and who has accepted untold millions of dollars from Arab cut-throats, who ask nothing in return except that he go on insisting that there would be peace in the Middle East if only those darn Israelis would disappear from the face of the earth.

Step #5:  Stop insisting that all wars are bad.  It only makes you sound daft.  Carrying signs that equate a U.S. president, any U.S. president, with Adolph Hitler is not only rude, but suggests you’re certifiably nuts.  Every president has left office right on schedule.  Aside from FDR, who just happened to get elected four times, not one of them has remained in office beyond eight years.  On the other hand, Hitler ran Germany for 12 years and only death and the allied forces brought that to an end; Stalin ran the Soviet show for 31 years; while that hero of the left, Fidel Castro, held the reins, not to mention the whip, for about 50 years.

Step #6: Repeat after me, “Separation of church and state” exists nowhere in the Constitution.  The first amendment does not require the removal of Christmas trees from the village green, the 10 Commandments from courthouse walls or “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance.  All it does is forbid Congress from establishing a state religion, such as the Church of England, and anybody who tells you otherwise is a liar and, most likely, a card-carrying member of the ACLU.

Step #7:  Stop using the word “big” as a pejorative.  There is nothing intrinsically bad about big oil, big agriculture or big pharmaceuticals.  Overall, they do a very good job of keeping our cars on the road, food on our tables and most of us over 60 alive and functioning.  On the other hand, big government, which so many liberals simply adore, represents a usurpation of the allegedly inalienable rights of individuals.  A quick perusal of the Constitution should convince you that beyond declaring war, forging treaties, overseeing patents, printing money, running the post office, collecting taxes and protecting our borders — and a few other things that Washington doesn’t do at all well these days — the federal government has very limited responsibilities.

Step #8: Acknowledge that the United Nations is, in the main, an aggregation of venal diplomats who live high off the hog in New York City while representing the most corrupt and vicious regimes in the history of the world.  Only a fool or a diplomat would continue to suggest that this gang of well-dressed thugs possesses anything resembling moral authority.

Step #9:  Do not keep insisting that at a time when nearly all the large scale evil in the world is being perpetrated by Muslims that racial profiling is anything but a sensible approach to airport security.  During WWII, Swedish Americans were not suspected of performing espionage for the Axis powers and for a very good reason; namely, because they weren’t performing espionage for the Axis powers.  These days, their Swedish American children and grandchildren are not suspected of trying to blow up airlines, but the smarmy bureaucrats insist on pretending that they’re every bit as likely to be up to mischief as a bunch of 25-year-old Osama bin Laden look-alikes from Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Step #10: Stop trying to pretend that illegal aliens are the same as legal immigrants just so you can claim the moral high ground and accuse those of us who are opposed to open borders of being racists.

Step #11:  Once and for all, stop forgiving murderers.  Whether or not you’re in favor of capital punishment, only the victim of a crime has the right to grant forgiveness.  And inasmuch as the killer has deprived his victim of that ability, don’t take it upon yourself.  It doesn’t prove how compassionate you are, only that you’re as sanctimonious and as self-aggrandizing as, say, Jimmy Carter.

Step #12:  Stop bashing the U.S. military and the Boy Scouts.  The only reason you have the ability to shoot your mouth off is because men and women braver and better than you sacrificed life and limb for your right to do so.  As for the Boy Scouts, they are absolutely right to keep homosexuals from taking youngsters on camping trips.  While it’s true that many gays are perfectly fine people and that very few homosexuals are pedophiles, there’s no reason on earth to take unnecessary risks just so we can all prove how broadminded we are.  For what it’s worth, as decent as most Catholic priests are, I wouldn’t let them take youngsters into the woods, either.  It’s fine to be compassionate and understanding, but let the gays among us be understanding for a change and acknowledge that, every so often, common sense should trump political correctness.

And, finally, making this a baker’s dozen, Step #13:  Let us all agree that while being a woman, a black, a Jew, a Catholic, a Mormon or even a gay, for that matter, should in no way preclude anyone from being elected president of the United States, none of those things constitutes a very good reason to vote for someone.

Eric Holder said yesterday, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.”

How could I have been so self-deluded?

Wow.  I know, huh?  The things you find out about yourself if you just listen to newly appointed/elected government officials. 

I always thought that I treated everyone fairly in my daily life with no preference or deference to anyone based solely on skin color.  I always loved the words of Dr. Martin Luther King who said so eloquently, that he dreamed of a day when people “would be judged, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”.  But now…I find out that that philosophy is racist and cowardly.  And it is proclaimed by the top law enforcement officer in the land, our new Attorney General, Eric Holder.

Apparently, I’m a racist coward because I want to be color blind.  This great national offense of racism doesn’t want to die – even though we just elected our first black president.  Just when you thought it was okay to climb out of the past, to put racial injustice and animosity behind us…the Attorney General in the national media yesterday drags it back out.

At my favorite Baptist Church in North Hollywood, the congregation being 90% Black, I have often been asked to get up and read long passages of scripture for special events.  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Good Friday, Easter Sunday.  Guess they thought my acting background translated to passable delivery of the Lord’s word; I was always happy to oblige, and I hope I did not disappoint.   But each year, when the month of February rolled around, I was always asked the same question:  Would I like to participate in a special Black History Month pageant?  My answer was always the same:  No thank you, I don’t believe in it.  And their response was always the same:  A puzzled look washes over the inquirer’s face, he starts to respond, then not knowing how, drifts away, puzzled.  No matter how many times I explained my position, it seemed to make so little sense to them, as to gain no purchase in memory banks.  This yearly ritual has been repeated six years running.

I don’t believe in Black History Month any more than I believe in White History Month.  To me, Black History Month is a complete insult to Blacks.  We must prop up an entire race of people, give them special awards, honors, and recognitions, underscoring their accomplishments and achievements and contributions to society, based on their color… as if it’s so truly remarkable that they did it in the first place…and are African American to boot? Stop the presses!  A black person accomplished something great!  As if they couldn’t have done it on their own, without help.  As if they are somehow inferior to whites.  That they somehow overcame their blackness…and did all these wonderful things despite the obvious disadvantage, encumbrance, disability…of being a person of color.

Am I the only one in America…who finds this the least bit patronizing and insulting…and downright, well, racist?

I’ve got a lot of black friends who have accomplished great things in the arts and music world, in the business world, the legal profession, the medical profession…and not one of them has ever expected anything from me other than to be a good friend.  I celebrate the achievements of all my friends with love and support and good cheer, and with absolutely no patronizing overt or subliminal addendum of how wonderful you did all this “and you’re a black man, too!  Amazing!”   I don’t compartmentalize my friends based on their skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, political leanings or sexual preference.  We’re all just people, period.

I believe it was the great Vince Lombardi who, when chastising a player for a grandstanding end zone dance, post touchdown, would yell, “Knock off the hoopla – act like you do it all the time!”   We could all learn something about humility…and equality…from those words.

But now I find out we’re a nation of cowards because we don’t talk about race enough.

Mr. Holder went on to say, Even when people mix at the workplace or at after work social events, many Americans in their free time are still segregated inside what he called “race-protected cocoons.”

Uh…yeah.  Maybe because people like Eric Holder are so preoccupied with race that every waking thought is consumed with it?  And they insist on inflicting into every thought and daily conversation within the black community a general and constant grievance-addled invective that fosters a victimhood mindset?   Just a thought.

So…let me get this straight.  If I’m a racist coward because I don’t want to talk about race all the time, don’t want to even think about it, just wish all racism would go away, and everybody just get along as if we we’re all just human beings…and truly do want to judge people not based on skin color, but on the content of their character… Does that mean Dr. Martin Luther King was also a racist?  If he were here today, and repeated those words about ‘content of character’ …would Eric Holder call Dr. King a coward?

I hear Eric Holder’s words and I get a chill up my spine.  It doesn’t sound like freedom from racism to me.  It sounds like reverse racism.  It smacks of concepts like “reparations”…”affirmative action” (code for racial preferences)…and “get-even-with-‘em”… So, Mr. Holder, what can I infer from your words…but a tacit warning?

This, Mr. Attorney General…this is what you want to stir up?  You should be ecstatic for the ultimate affirmative action as reflected on November 4^th.  White guilt to a very large extent enabled a charming but inexperienced young socialist to assume the reins of the most powerful nation in the world.  And still we are cowards because we don’t talk about race enough?

Dude – are you off your meds??

This supports my assertion that no matter what whites come up with, no matter how many ‘adjustments’ or reparations, or consolations they offer, groveling grotesquely at the altar of Political Correctness for the race-baiters…it will never be enough.   My severed head on a silver platter would not placate the sense of racial inequality, aggrieved victimization and indignant persecution Eric Holder and his ilk envision has been perpetrated against him and his constituency by myself and millions like me – people who just want to treat everyone fairly and get along.

Our former leader, President George W. Bush, in one of his more articulate moments, exhorted us to “…challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

But you, Mr. Holder, and those who share your views, are the ones who perpetrate racism in America – by never shutting up about it!  Yes, we Americans are proud of our ‘melting pot’ – we are proud of our national motto, E Pluribus Unum, “out of many, one”.  We are proud of the idea of America, the most brilliant and good and moral proposition ever submitted to the human race:  That all people can assemble in this one nation, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, creed…all men and women can come here and be free.  We can pursue our dreams to the utmost and are free to enjoy the fruits of our efforts and talent and determination, unimpeded by coercion or kings.  We’re not white Americans, or black Americans, or Hispanic Americans…

We’re Americans.

So… if Mr. Holder is calling me a racist and a coward…isn’t he’s calling Dr. Martin Luther King one, as well?

At least I’m in good company.