A walk on the dark side

About forty years ago I subscribed to the Atlantic.

It was liberal then, but not so radical as it is today.

This is racist hate literature and an endorsement of black hatred and black violence.

The "congenital racism" of America of which he writes - of white America, of course - is nothing compared to the congenital racism of black Americans such as himself, and for which he has not one word to spare.

That it appears in the Atlantic tells you a lot about the thinking of the "white power structure" that is making this writer wealthy and famous.

The author himself still does not understand what happened in the Gates incident and insists it was proof of enduring and pervasive white racism.

Violence works

And yet his perceptions about Obama and his likening of O to Leon Blum are apt.

What he refuses to see is that, just as even a large community of Christians, if short of a majority, does not suffice to make a country Christian, even a significant presence of anti-Semitism does not make a county anti-Semitic.

Likewise, the white racism that endures in America is far from enough to justify saying, of the white population as a whole, that it is racist.

I doubt we will ever read any article by him considering whether the percentage of blacks in America who hate and are bigoted about whites is high enough to justify saying that the black community in America as a whole is racist.

As I write this on Thanksgiving morning I am listening on Amazon Music to Ahmad Jamal's Saturday Morning.

Helps break the mood.

Salon this morning is absolutely full of black writers dumping on America and on Obama.

If it weren't for that they would have more than one article attacking white America for genocide of the Native Americans and denouncing Thanksgiving.

Also lots of articles full of feminist diatribes against men and the white males of the Republican Party.

Exactly two articles on class issues.

Not exactly Wilson, Taft, TR, FDR, or even LBJ liberals, are they?

Actually, these people hate almost everything those progressives stood for and took for granted.

The only things they still value in progressivism are the civil rights agenda that came late and in truth has long been achieved, and the welfarist - not the unionist - agenda.

Which is most important?

Judge by what they yell about.