Originally Posted by
Omaha
As a Caucasian and a Colbert Conservative, I have a problem with liberals. Liberals see “inalienable” rights being denied everywhere. They have a hard time pledging allegiance to this great nation because they don’t believe our history has been one where for every day of our existence this has been a nation with “liberty and justice for all.”
That said, I must caution you that RACISM is an INCREDIBLY loaded/divisive concept. Racial bias, bigotry, chauvinism are everywhere you look. Liberals are much more sensitive to this stuff…I think it is part of their DNA…that’s why they see it where it does not exist.
I don’t believe that humans will ever be without such prejudices and, in the big scheme of things, they don’t matter much. It is my belief that only when these ideas partner with POWER, do we need to take a second look. Prejudice plus POWER makes the playing field on which we all INDIVIDUALLY compete uneven.
Everywhere I look, I see liberal bias is all over government. Government has power, and laws have been changed over the years to address what liberals call institutional racism…and liberals still aren’t happy!
Go back about 50 years and you get the Equal Pay, Civil Rights, and Voting Rights Acts. These liberal programs addressed issues the “free market” was already addressing.
If African Americans, women and other POC didn’t want to do the same work as white males for less money, all they had to do was individually make decisions NOT to work for employers who paid them less.
If these same groups didn’t want to work for employers who discriminated against them in employment practices, all they had to do was NOT work for such employers.
In both cases, if enough of the targeted groups individually decided NOT to work for such employers….the employers would have to change their policies or go out of business. +
Now, I won't disagree that these employer policies may have had a negative effect on POC and women. Some of that may even have been visited on generation after generation, seemingly making the opportunities that money can buy to become all we can be more limited. But the main point is that if enough negatively effected people make individual choices to address the problem...over time...sometimes over a very long time...in theory the free market works!
Now the Voting Rights Act is more troublesome. It takes deeper analysis. For this kind of “deep thinking” I have to go back to conservative icon, William F. Buckley.
Poll taxes, literacy tests and other challenges were indeed thrown up to POC in the South. Liberals with their "all seeing bias detector" believe that such institutional devices to make sure the best voters could vote...believe such practices more greatly disadvantaged POC. But as Buckley implies eight years before the law’s passage…it was for THE GREATER GOOD.
“The central question that emerges…is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.” William F. Buckley, the father of modern Conservatism, commenting in 1957, on why Whites, although outnumbered by African Americans, must continue to control economic and political institutions in Southern states
Who could argue with such well-reasoned thinking? Liberals, that’s who! Even after liberals addressed this voting issue…the capstone to the Equal Pay, Civil Rights, and Voting Rights Act trilogy…there were problems.
Look at the civil disturbances that happened in major cities in 1967!
Fast forward to DetroitYES! forums and racism is still being discussed. I, like hundreds of other conservatives OF ALL COLORS, just wish the liberals would DROP the subject.