"Post-Racial" America

Yep, when "we" elected Lord Obama, "we" were sure we were finally in a post-racial epoch. All the horrors of our past were atoned because of the election of a black man.

How's that working out? Oh, just about the way any thinking person knew would happen. Race is even worse. Criticize Lord Obama and you're obviously a racist.

Hell, even not voting with the Democrats is now a racial act. Seems like a black man isn't black if he doesn't support Lord Obama and fellow Democrats.

When Alabama Congressman Artur Davis voted against the health-care bill that passed the House earlier this month, he probably expected some grief from fellow Democrats. But he couldn't have anticipated being accused of selling out his race.

Mr. Davis was the only black Member to oppose the legislation, and his vote earned him a rebuke from Jesse Jackson at a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation reception Wednesday night. "We even have blacks voting against the health-care bill," said Mr. Jackson. "You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man."

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Liberals insist that America still isn't "post-racial," notwithstanding the election of President Obama. But when a politician's skin color is gratuitously invoked in a debate about whether the government should have more control of health care, you have to wonder if the political left has any serious interest in a color-blind society. Former President Jimmy Carter suggests that whites who oppose the President's policies are racists; Mr. Jackson says blacks who oppose them are betraying their race.

Even in the age of a black President, too many liberals still believe they have more to gain from identity politics than from a post-racial America.

Yep, "Hope and Change" was and is the slogan of idiots.