Dissent, with extreme prejudice
It's come to this: the white, coservative American majority have the balls, in George W. Bush's America, to play the *race card* on behalf of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. This continues the trend of the radical right's success at appropriating and running away with hitherto liberal bastions in American political discourse, such as journalism (FoxNews), satire (Rush Limbaugh), Social Security (the President), and now the once-sacred cow of racial sanctimony.
The Christian Coalition of America, a Washington, DC-based lobbying organization run by Roberta Combs, shown at right, calls itself "America's Leading Grassroots Organization Defending Our Godly Heritage." Today, the Christian Coalition of America released the following statement:
Washington D.C. -- Christian Coalition of America condemns left-wing Senators -- and a moderate running for President -- for their prejudice against successful American conservative minorities, as exemplified by their vote against the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State. Senators who voted against Secretary Rice's confirmation were:
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)President George W. Bush has not only appointed the first black man to be Secretary of State (Colin Powell), but has now had confirmed by the United States Senate the first black woman. President Bush said today: "She will be a great secretary of state and Dr. Rice and I look forward to moving forward."
The President of Christian Coalition of America, Roberta Combs said, "President Bush should be highly commended for his appointment of minorities to Cabinet positions and other high-level positions in his Administration. In fact, no president in American history has reached out to minorities as much as has President Bush."
As a self-identifying liberal American, I will be the first to raise my hand to say that yes, I am undeniably prejudiced against conservative ideologues in goverment, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, disability, or tribal affiliation. Condoleezza Rice is such an ideologue, and while Stanford University may have had no better provost, the United States is better served diplomatically by a person who is less interested in towing the line for the men in power.
The Christian Coalition of America is following the coservative logic to its conclusion. There has been over the past twenty years slow, deliberate subversion of liberal race ideals that began well before Clarence Thomas and continues to this day - most recently in the bold hubris of running Alan Keyes, carpetbagged in from Maryland, against Barak Obama in Illinois (Obama won by a landslide). The plan is to install ideologically archconservative minorities in goverment and thereby neuter the liberal charge of white, upper-class control of society. Follow the race cards, and you'll see what I mean.
Now the white-rights are cashing in, which is pretty clear to progressive thinkers of any race. The message is turned on its head: it's now the liberals who are prejudiced, and the Christian Coalition promotes their own lie of Christian victimhood. Which isn't hard to do when the scion of the East Coast establishment can convince half the country he's a down-home good ol' NASCAR lovin' boy from Texas.
Don't buy it. Political dissent does not equal racial prejudice.
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