Second Black President - If

Second Black President - If a Republican candidate for office had stuck his feet in his mouth the way John Kerry has this last few days - i.e., to the knees - the media would be crucifying him.

First, his asinine comparison of the black and gay struggles for civil rights last week - crushingly stupid and illogical:

This was followed by a flashback to the most groan-moment in recent American history, if you have a sense of communal shame; John Kerry trying to latch on to the stupidest statement ever made about Bill Clinton, the "first black president".

This was a statement that made me cringe for Clinton when I first heard it in 1992. I waited for the avalanche of calumny from the Afro-American left.

And waited.

And am still waiting.

Leave aside for the moment that Bill Clinton was a descendant of the redneck peckerwoods that, if stereotypes are what we are talking about (and we are), made life miserable for Afro-Americans ever since reconstruction. Ask this: What made Bill Clinton "black"? Because he was born poor and had a no-count father? Is that something Afro-American society wants to identify with? Is that part of the society's identity? Because he was born poor and southern?

Is that all it takes to be taken in by African-American society?

Now, at least somebody is riffing on Kerry for his stupid statement. Is it the NY Times? The WaPo?

No, Yahoo News, natch.

Posted by Mitch at March 10, 2004 05:02 AM