Having Your Racial Cake and Eating it Too

John C. Calhoun, father of the confederacy, said about the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence: “there is not a word of truth in the whole proposition, as expressed and generally understood.” These sentiments were echoed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roger B. Taney. Writing the majority opinion for Scott v Sanford, Taney also denied the veracity of the founding noting, “…the Declaration of Independence shows that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument.”

It is a continuing source of fascination that the new left has chosen this view of the founding, replete with its historical inaccuracies, while the political right has adopted that of Abraham Lincoln and Justice John Marshall Harlan. It was Harlan who wrote in his famous dissent in Plessey v Ferguson that “Our Constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”

This brings us to the current controversy surrounding the president’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. (more…)

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Tags: identity politics, Obama, race, racial politics, Sotomayor
Posted Jun 8th 2009 at 12:31 pm in Politics | 154614118 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/06/08/having-your-racial-cake-and-eating-it-too/Having+Your+Racial+Cake+and+Eating+it+Too2009-06-08+19%3A31%3A25Joseph+C.+Phillips

Sickness of our Age: Leftist = Historic

If someone like Beethoven had a vision of the future and realized the impact his music had on humanity, would he be able to compose with the same fortitude and confidence, or rather, would the pressure of the realization of his own importance would eventually render him dysfunctional? 

I don’t confuse this hypothetical inquiry with Beethoven’s realization of his genius. I’m sure he knew of his own greatness. This is different, though, from the pressure that one may experience if his or her genius is also perceived in its historic context and significance. 

In other words, would Beethoven be able to remain Beethoven if, well, he was conscious of the fact that he was Beethoven, (or Beethoven the way he is perceived today)?

These musings of mine could easily be dismissed as exercises in futility or outbursts of excessive if not useless imagination if they were not so coincidental with the policies and style of our current government and prevailing cultural mindset.  (more…)

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Tags: Clarence Thomas, Guinness Book of World Records, Hillary Clinton, historic, history
Posted Jun 5th 2009 at 9:58 am in Politics | 14855860 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ykochar/2009/06/05/historic%e2%80%99-sickness-of-our-age/Sickness+of+our+Age%3A+Leftist+%3D+Historic2009-06-05+16%3A58%3A00Yervand+Kochar

Al Sharpton and the Economics of False Outrage

The far-left are experts at placing people into boxes like a Microsoft spread sheet based on their sexual preference, skin color, religion or world views. And because of that, they are unable to see us as “All One.” The moment we do become “All One,” the game is over and their voting block is gone. These are people who, the moment you disagree with them on anything that has to do with one of their chosen imprisoned spreadsheet groups, call you a racist. People with this confined view wake up every morning looking for something in their day to offend them. Well, if you start your day out with that premise; guess what, you’ll find something offensive in your day.

Al Sharpton has made a rich living for decades waking up every morning and asking himself, “What’s offensive today that I can make a buck on?” Today what he found was a NY Post cartoon lampooning that crazy killer monkey from Stamford, Conn. A cartoon that was clearly comparing the act of creating an out of control stimulus package by a bunch of crazed politicians too busy playing with their poo to read the bill, to that of an escaped chimp terrorizing the citizens of its community and biting the hands that fed it.  (more…)

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Tags: Al Sharpton, identity politics, NY Post monkey cartoon, racial politics, Tawana Brawley
Posted Feb 19th 2009 at 9:57 am in Media Criticism, News, Politics | 5457490 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlindsey/2009/02/19/how-to-blame-whitey-in-a-down-economy-and-make-a-killing/Al+Sharpton+and+the+Economics+of+False+Outrage2009-02-19+17%3A57%3A33Joseph+Lindsey