In the national liberal chatter over what could possibly have gotten into the American people over this health care business, the talk eventually turned, as you may have guessed, to race. The narrative is that Americans have not yet made their peace with the fact that Obama is black. This causes that kind of deep and untraceable angst that makes you go to a town hall to yell at your white congressman. So the race thing has been trotted out for a few weeks now, and then I was informed just this morning that I was being accused — on the world wide web, no less — of racism because of my posts about Obama. Can you imagine?
So let us get right to a protestation of my innocence. Let us clear the air. Let us correct the record. Let us get this real straight. For every stupid thing that Obama is doing and defending, I bet I could find ten Anglos urging policies every bit as clueless. Obama is not an economic illiterate because he is black, for heaven’s sake. He is an economic illiterate because he doesn’t know the first thing about economics. Give him a break, people. He went to that bastion of economic illiteracy, Harvard. His head was stuffed full of nonsense by Brahmin white people.
Racism, forsooth! Bigotry, bah! Did not Dr. King lift us all up to inspired heights when he told us that the day was coming when we would no longer judge a man by the color of his skin, but rather by the emptiness of his head?