Monday, March 16, 2009

MICHAEL STEELE, RNC CHAIR, AND RACE.

This guy alternately excites and worries me. I think he's finding his feet and will become an excellent leader of the Republican party. I certainly trust his dedication and goodness. Here, he comes out with one of the rare, sane statements on race to be found in the media- or at least the MSM:

What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good. It could be above moral vanity. And so it made no special promises to me as a minority. It neglected me in every way except as a human being who wanted freedom. Until my encounter with conservatism I had only known the racial determinism of segregation on the one hand and of white liberalism on the other — two varieties of white supremacy in which I could only be dependent and inferior.

The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity. I always secretly loved Malcolm X more than Martin Luther King Jr. because Malcolm wanted a fuller human dignity for blacks — one independent of white moral wrestling. In a liberalism that wants to redeem the nation of its past, minorities can only be ciphers in white struggles of conscience.

When I finally learned enough to see the left for what it is, I was astounded and ashamed to have been part of such a transparently racist politics as the left promulgates. The only change the democrats made was from using the KKK as their armed wing of enforcement, to using the rhetoric of "caring" to keep American's of African descent in "their place."

Sickening.

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