One thing that conservatives and Republicans really know. When we step into the public square we have to be whiter than white. Anything we’ve said or written that doesn’t square with the liberal zeitgeist will be hauled out and used to prove that we are bigots, racists, and homophobes.
Barack Obama has, for twenty years, belonged to a church in Chicago. His minister, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., has opinions that, in a conservative or a Republican, would disqualify him from the public square. As Ronald Kessler reports:
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs and creating a racist society that would never elect a black candidate president.
"Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body."
It’s ok to say stuff like that if you are liberal and black. But a Republican saying that would be driven from the public square, and anyone connected with him would be convicted of guilt by association.
But in America, we have a Double Standard. Liberals and blacks get a pass when they say racist and bigoted things. Well, their hearts are in the right place.
Some day, when the American people just can’t take it any more, this double standard will crumble into dust and a new double standard will arise to wave cynically over the fruited plain.
But that day is not yet.
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