It's Not Easy Being White Today

It's Not Easy Being White Today

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his justly-famous “I Have a Dream Speech” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in which he spoke the inspirational words, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Widely described as a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement, almost half a century later, America’s first (semi-) black president has re-defined that moment and has made a mockery of King’s speech and those words in the process.

Barack Hussein Obama capped off two and a half years of racially-applied justice, demonstrably black favoritism, and expressions of anti-white sentiments by issuing an executive order convolutely entitled, “Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce.”

The stated purpose of the order is “to promote the federal workplace as a model of equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion.”

As Kermit the Frog is wont to moan, “It’s not easy being green.” It’s also not easy being white in Barack Hussein Obama’s America. The Washington Times clarified the White House directive in an editorial: “Whites need not apply” when it comes to employment with the nation’s largest employer. (http://bit.ly/qzYpGM)

The Times elaborated by pointing out that the ”diversity the government is seeking is not diversity of ideas, outlooks or work experiences. In contemporary political parlance, ‘diversity’ refers primarily to the color of one’s skin and not the content of one’s character” as evidenced by details in the executive order. It incorporates such language as, the federal government “must create a culture that encourages collaboration, flexibility and fairness to enable individuals to participate to their full potential.”

However, in a bald-faced effort to tilt the playing field, “the government will intensify programs that discriminate against white Americans by extending special privileges to everyone else.” Laughably, ”The order also says that ‘attaining a diverse, qualified workforce is one of the cornerstones of the merit-based civil service,’ ” while abandoning even the semblance of a fair meritocracy.

The executive order was issued in absentia by the president; he was busily conducting the nation’s business from afar in Martha’s Vineyard where he could escape some of the reaction and political brickbats. Nevertheless, it effectively negates the import and spirit of King’s 1963 speech as well as make the feds the nation’s prime agency of discrimination.

Our federal government–virtually the only employer hiring in D.C.–will now hire exclusively on the bases of “diversity and inclusion,” code for skin color, a factor King felt abhorrent. By presidential decree, their character content and qualifications be damned.

The government initiative is all the more startling, and ironic, in that it was announced during the same week a black congressional Democrat who holds office primarily because she is black went on an unholy rant against her (semi-) black, Democrat president. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5257)

ROCPAC and Abortion

ROCPAC and Abortion

Anyone recall Bart Stupak? He’s one of the many reasons ROCPAC, the Repeal Obamacare PAC, http://repealobamacarepac.com/about-rocpac/, is advocating for dumping Obamacare.

He’s also the congressman who tried to pretend he was a pro-life Democrat in his pro-life Michigan neck-of-the-woods and then tried to defend his cowardly retreat from that position after the U.S. House of Representatives rammed through the Obamacare bill last March on a squeaker vote of 219-212.
Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer interrupted Stupak’s exercise in sophistry by shouting, “Baby killer!” at his colleague, later changed for CYA purposes to, “It’s a baby killer!” in reference to the abortion provisions hidden in the bowels of HR 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, PPAHCA.

Neugebauer was right on both counts.

He “rejected a demand by Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House Democratic whip, that he apologize to the full House. ’For what?’ Neugebauer asked. ‘I was out just speaking the truth, and my constituents know that I was out speaking the truth . . . because their outpouring has been overwhelming.’ He added: ‘I won’t apologize for doing the right thing. Not gonna do it. I will apologize when they repeal this bill.’ “ (http://tiny.cc/hopykzgcj1)

Randy Neugebauer did do the right thing by righteously re-affirming his belief that Obamacare is indeed “a baby killer” but needlessly spared Stupak from the same label and couldn’t have been serious in thinking “they,” Pelosi-Reid Democrats, would ever repeal it.

Perhaps no other feature of Obamacare has aroused such passion as its abortion provisions, at the same time it barely registers on the repugnancy scale of many Independent voters who seem little concerned with so-called “social issues” as opposed to economic issues. That’s regrettable since abortion goes to the heart of what’s wrong with Obamacare, and to what’s wrong with President Obama. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2121)