A new shibboleth

At one time it was drug use. Information that a candidate had once used drugs was sudden death to a campaign. Eventually politicians figured out it wasn't really that they'd used drugs, but that they'd hid the fact. Now as long as it isn't recent, and they come clean about it up front, it not seen as too much of a hindrance.

Then it was hiring illegals. A few politicians were discovered to have had illegals working as domestics, and it became a serious political liability, causing some judicial nominees to withdraw their names, and others to quickly, and quietly dismiss employees who might become an embarrassment.

At other times it's been other things. Affairs, crooked business dealings, attending a church that actually teaches the Bible rather than Liberal, pseudo-Christianity were all shibboleths that could spell doom for a political candidate.

And now, Obama has given us another. And it's about time.

Personally I think it's possible that Obama may weather the current storm, but from here after Black politicians wanting white votes will have to distance themselves from the kinds of outrageous, anti-white racism that passes for sermons in some Black churches. (It may also mean the end of recording sermons in Black churches as well).

But this is a good thing. It may bring about, finally, a recognition that anti-white racism is indeed racism, and the nation will no longer give Blacks who espouse it a free pass. We all know people have affairs, use drugs, hire illegals and other things that are universally seen as bad, but since it's a free country, we tolerate it, but not in our leaders. We also know that an uncomfortably sizable portion of Black America harbors an uncomfortable amount of bigotry, and so far we've tolerated it (wrongfully so) and not made a big deal about it. But hopefully Obama's predicament will set the stage that any Black politician hoping to gain more than a seat in one of the many self-segregated section of the nation, will have to distance himself from the anti-white nonsense being espoused so freely in so many Black churches.

What that means, then, is that these prominent churches will have few politicians that will dare step foot inside. And since many of these church pride themselves of the celebrity status of some of their members, they'll tone down the hate, in order to bring back the fame.

Once we can get the Black churches that are promoting hate to stop doing that, more Black people will then take serious the evil of blaming everyone of a specific race for problems. Then they can take a unfettered look at the problem and look for a real solution rather than simply blaming "rich, white people" for everything.

Posted by Danny Carlton at March 18, 2008 9:15 AM