The Rule of Racial Preferences

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The same double standard applies to so called hate crimes. Immediately after assuming office, President Obama promoted a massive expansion in hate crimes enforcement.

While the legislation was being debated Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked about both hypothetical instances where whites, Christians, or military members would be assaulted and if such would qualify as hate crimes. Attorney General Holder responded that hate crimes legislation “would not necessarily cover that” and was designed to cover “protected groups.” He explained this meant “people who are African-American, Hispanic, people who are Jewish, people who are gay people” and “have been targeted over — over the many years.” In other words: not whites and Christians.

While African Americans have been targeted for violence in the past, today it is whites who are more likely to be victims of interracial crime.

According to the FBI’s latest National Crime Victimization Survey, Blacks were over 50 times more likely to commit a crime against whites than vice versa. There were over 14,000 black on white rapes and the number of white on black rapes was so small, it did not show up on FBI’s statistical samples. That same year, the FBI did not report a single anti-black rape hate crime.

Call me old fashioned, but I believe we should treat criminals the same no matter their race, the race of their victims, or why they committed their crimes. But the truth is that President Obama appears to be more concerned about stopping virtually non-existent “hate crimes” against “protected groups” than stopping actual committed crimes.

These are just a few examples of the actions by the Obama administration that provide cause for concern expressed by Congressman King and others.

In the past, African Americans were greatly mistreated in this country. But we should not respond to these past injustices by giving special privileges and treatment to a particular race or ethnic groups. Rather, we should treat everyone equally regardless of race.

Virgil Goode represented Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District from 1997 through 2009.

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  • Dan

    One of the more disturbing aspects of the race issue in America today is the immediate label of racist applied to anyone who questions the policies and actions or the eligibility of the President to serve. This is also true of anyone who expresses concern over Islamic terrorist acts or the violence prescribed by the Quran. Rather than debate on the merits of any issue, it is much easier to simply label people as racists, extremists, or hate groups if they don't immediately fall in line with the Left's socialist agenda or its not so covert attempts to redistribute wealth and vastly increase government subsidies.

    There was a time when you could debate the policies of the White House and the controlling party of Congress. Unfortunately, it appears that is only the case when Republicans are in charge of one or both.

  • Thunder

    No barking by those educated beyond their intelligence yet?
    Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
    Ann, as usual – bull's eye! :)

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/k1oik k1oik

    It would appear that this subversive, anti-truth, anti-rights element is depending on the inertia of law-abiding people to keep on following the rules, while they change those same rules for themselves.

  • andres de alamaya

    All actions, utterances, attitudes or comments by Holder come directly from Obama since Holder is Obama's puppet. Obama is only half black. He is half white. It matters not to him that it was a white America that voted him in. Deep down in racist mind which he struggles to suppress, the whites who voted him in were useful idiots. When we discovered his Rev. Wright connection, we needed to turn our backs on him but we chose to wear blinders and bring him in just the same. His racist tendencies are regrettable but not nearly as damaging as his overall ignorance, his kowtowing to Islam, his international relations and a host of other negatives. Pray, America, that we can survive this catastrophic mistake that we made by bringing him in.

  • PAthena

    The policies described in the article of President Obama violate the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, commanding equality under the law. Whether having the Department of Justice insist on gerrymandering to get blacks elected or dropping the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia, President Obama violates the Constitution.

  • Jean

    They're tribal. Nothing you can do about it. Equality is a Christian concept. They're not Christians. They're tribesmen.

  • poptoy

    This entire administration is absolutely anti-American.

    • Jim C.

      No…just anti-Republican. But I guess that's the same thing.

  • george rennit

    Many whites suffer from a collective guilt rooted in the past, and therefore find redemption in the blind idealism that results in a man like Obama in the whitehouse. Ironicly, white Americans were more prepared for a black man as president than black Americans in that pro-Obama whites saw his election as a victory for the nation, blacks saw it as a victory for blacks over whites. When we speak of civil rights, we don't think of them as rights for the civil citizen in general, but as exclusive rights for black Americans.
    The undercurrent of racial hatred towards whites cannot be ignored. White Americans have become the vicitms of racism in the name of equality and social justice. Obama is a symptom of a deeper social pathology. It is taught that blacks cannot be racist, they cannot commit a hate crime, that they are colorblind. Really? Personally, I didn't expect anything different from Obama than what we are getting. There is nothing more dangerous than someone in power who sees themselves as a victim.

    • Jean

      I like what you wrote. Well said.

    • http://amren.com guest

      Very well said, George. So much content in a couple of paragraphs.

      You said it so good…"pro-Obama whites saw his election as a victory for the nation, blacks saw it as a victory for blacks over whites."

      Ive attempted to explain it to the White liberals, but all I get in return is this egalitarinism-second-grade-mouthwash that they have been 'taught' to think and say-to be 'one of the good White guys' in todays society.

      They have self-subjugated themselves into total submission.

      Its not just pathetically and utterly foolish….its "Sad"….literally Sad.

  • BS1977

    Liberalism is a mental disorder….Ann Coulter is the cure.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/FBastiat FBastiat

    What to tell a "liberal" about affirmative action: http://www.abcdunlimited.com/ideas/affirmative-ac

    • Stephen D.

      FB. I just read the entire piece "Affirmative Action Negative Justice" What a fantastic work! Thanks for the tip! Everyone should read it.

    • Jean

      Yes, thanks. Print-worthy. :)

  • USMCSniper

    I will never understand why racism against white people is treated like it's a shocking revelation. Maybe it comes from the "politically correct" idea that racism exists only in the majority; that is, only the majority – the rule-makers and law-makers by default – can practice racism. After all, that is the accepted definition of racial discrimination: giving preference to one race over another. Many liberasl and blacks will have you believe that blacks cannot practice racial discrimination. That's just ludicrous. It's an excuse to behave in a racial manner and hope to get away with it. Holder and Obama do it in spades – pun intended.

    • Jean

      <chortle>

    • Philip Lindsey

      Those whose definition of racism involves musings on power relations and demography (e.g., majority vs. minority) ignore the crucial factor of organization. Whites and men are the only groups in our society which lack effective political representation. As such, they are easy targets for racist non-whites and sexist women who seek to advantage themselves at their expense.

  • Seek

    To denounce "racism" when practiced by blacks (as opposed to whites) misses the larger point. Racism is not the problem. It's a failure to look at reality — that a large, growing and bitter racial minority undermines a nation. History has proven that innumerable times.

    We are a predominantly white nation. Should the day come when that is no longer so (the Census Bureau projects that to happen in 2042), kiss us goodbye.

  • PMN

    Pay your taxes. You're subsidizing your own demise.

  • Steve Chavez

    Universities are now bombarded with a "student" group called "Black Men in Motion." A google search shows that this group was a product of The Million Man March led by the biggest racist of all: Louis Farrakhan!

    In a Youtube video posted by the leader of the University of New Mexico, a song be an unknown rapper screams, "N*******s don't count money, we weigh it!" The song freely used the "N-word" which is the most hated word in the world but is freely used including by the likes of Whoopi Goldberg.

    This "student" group is one the most racist I have ever encountered in all my years of overlooking the day to day operations and activities at our university. When I protested to the higher ups about this racist group, they had no reaction. Can you imagine the outrage by the same higher ups if someone started a "White Men in Motion" group and also funded by student fees?

    I'm also sick and tired of groups like La Raza and their racism!

  • NP66

    Nice to see all of the cracker barrels in lock-step here. Keep hate alive.

    • caroline

      Can't make it out there on your own, huh? Grow up. Nobody disagrees with you because of the color of your skin. They disagree with you because you're acting like a moron.

  • Egalitarian

    All discrimination is wrong. Obama is a racist.

  • conserve56

    Obama is the President of black revenge. He has been taught to hate white people through his many years of indoctrination and palling around with communists and radicals like Rev. Wright.

    Since he is half white with the white side of his family the only ones raising him, his hatred of whites does not make sense. Be that as it may, he clearly does hate whites. He will purposely ignore black crimes against whites no matter how heinous.

    Unfortunately we are stuck with him through 2012. Elections have consequences, and the 2008 election has had the most dire consequences in the history of our Republic.

  • Rick Boone

    Only in Black vs White cases. Actually, Latinos are much more important when you give jobs that Black kids or even black adults might want are given to illegal immigrants. Just TRY to get a job at McDonalds or 100 other places if you are not mexican. After all, Obama figures he has the N***** vote locked up. He figures they are too dumb to do anything else. You don't see him wasting a SCOTUS seat on them. Do you?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/MarcJeric MarcJeric

    What did you expect from Abu Hussein al-Mombassa (or wherever in Kenya this marxist Moslem was born)? What did you expect from Holder, the pardoner of the murderous Puertorican terrorists and the Castro's lawyer in the Elian Gonzalez case?

  • superinfidel

    With Barry in the White House (I bet he hates that name and thinks it's some kind of racist code word) moving the Overton Window, and his henchmen doing his bidding, we're all fokked. God help this country. When Barry heard there was a disaster on the Gulf Coast, he thought they said there was a disaster on the golf course, so he rushed right out and has been trying to locate it ever since. In his 1st year, he has played more rounds of golf than GW did in all his 8 years. I'm just ill.

  • Mimi

    With the way Obama and all his henchmen have been behaving since his annointing, I don't see this country electing another minority as President for a very looong time. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Pity he's so horrid, I would have loved to have seen a good minority President. I hope we can turn things around eventually. The SCOTUS will take a long time to correct if Kagan gets in, though. You watch-some Progressive or Liberal will try to pass a law that bars challenges to a SCOTUS precedent, regardless of who may be sitting on the SCOTUS in the future.