{"id":11918,"date":"2013-07-17T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-17T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:53:07","slug":"how_the_first_black_president_chose_to_exacerbate_racial_tensions_and_divide_america_instead_of_uniting_the_country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/07\/17\/how_the_first_black_president_chose_to_exacerbate_racial_tensions_and_divide_america_instead_of_uniting_the_country\/","title":{"rendered":"How the First Black President Chose to Exacerbate Racial Tensions and Divide America Instead of Uniting the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: The attorney general, Eric Holder, is moving on the stand-your-ground law. I tell you, folks, these people… It is really sad. I think it was the British historian Alistair Cooke (I think it was him) in his Letters to America who said that America would never overcome its “black problem.” It was never going to happen. I\u2019m struck here. We elected the first black president, and that was supposed to fix all of this, wasn\u2019t it, or at least make a huge dent in the race problem in this country? <\/p>\n

Wasn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n

The theory was that if America, with a vast majority white population and 12 to 14% black population, elected a black man president, “Why, that would speak volumes about how progressive and advanced America had become. It would go a long way toward healing the wounds that apparently remain from slavery and discrimination and all the other things.” But seems it\u2019s got worse, to me. It seems that with the election of Barack Obama, racial strife in this country\u2019s worse than it\u2019s ever been since the Civil War. <\/p>\n

Or as bad, at least.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Certainly it hasn\u2019t improved, let\u2019s put it that way. It has not improved. The country\u2019s more divided in more ways than I can remember in my adult lifetime, and I mean that. I\u2019ve thought about that. I\u2019ve gone back in my memory, and I\u2019ve tried to remember when we may have been more divided on so many things, and I don\u2019t remember it. What I do remember is everybody saying — and many people hoping and a lot of people believing — that the election of Barack Obama would end a lot of it, and it hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It has just made it worse.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Eileen in Clinton, Tennessee. Hi, Eileen. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. Thank you for taking my call. I\u2019m honored. When you mentioned that… I\u2019m not sure exactly what. You mentioned something that made me think of a study that I had heard about Hispanics assimilating better than we would have thought. You know, there\u2019s a lot of talk about the rising Hispanic population and people saying, “We\u2019re gonna look like Mexico. They\u2019re gonna take over,” and there are enclaves where you have to be Spanish speaking to do business in whatever. But as a whole, according to social scientists who measure things like generations talking Spanish over speaking English, they\u2019re assimilating much like my grandparents. All my grandparents were immigrants, much like other waves of immigrants have —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the Hispanics are, you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The Hispanics. I\u2019m wondering. I\u2019m trying to understand this, because I don\u2019t think —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me understand. What you\u2019re saying is everybody\u2019s worried about immigration and amnesty and illegals because the Hispanics are not assimilating. But in fact, you read something that says they are and you also —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, and that\u2019s just one study.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I\u2019m trying to apply this to…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I know what it was! You\u2019re saying that after Obama got elected we expected better race relations. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, everybody thought that. Everybody thought… Well, not everybody. I didn\u2019t. I thought that exactly what has happened, was going to happen. I thought racial relations would get worse. I thought racial relations would be exacerbated. I thought there\u2019d end up being more friction in our society. Because I know liberals, and I knew what was gonna happen. “Okay, we got the first black president elected but that\u2019s not gonna count for anything. <\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s gonna be chalked up to people who didn\u2019t really mean it. They were just voting for the black guy so nobody would think they\u2019re racist, but they don\u2019t really love Obama.” That was the first thing they were gonna say, and the next thing they were gonna do was this: Any time Obama\u2019s criticized, they were going to accuse the criticism of being racist in its orientation. Well, folks, there hasn\u2019t been a president alive who doesn\u2019t get criticized. <\/p>\n

Presidents are criticized by more people every day than anybody else in society. But the left, the Democrats set it up so that any criticism of Obama had nothing to do with substance. It was all racist. The objective here was at least twofold, if not multifold. One was to silence any criticism by making those who would criticize Obama fearful of doing it, because they didn\u2019t want to be called racist. The second objective was to be able to call people racists, because it does matter. <\/p>\n

If somebody calls you a racist and it sticks, you have a problem, particularly if you\u2019re in politics and are seeking people\u2019s votes. So that\u2019s why I think the next thing the Democrats are gonna do is try to find another first. The first female president. See, any criticism will be sexist. It will allow them to continue the War on Women, or maybe they\u2019ll find an Hispanic to run on their side that they think could be elected.<\/p>\n

So then we have the first Hispanic president, and every criticism will be anti-Latino, and that\u2019s how they set it up. So it\u2019s twofold. It\u2019s to silence any criticism, but that criticism that actually survives will be characterized as racist or sexist or bigoted or what have you. And it\u2019s just a way… The overall purpose of this is for the left to silence and do away with any opposition, because that\u2019s their objective. <\/p>\n

I was told that yesterday on MSNBC, they had a panel discussion, and the people on the show were literally having cows over my interpretation of them and their reaction to the Zimmerman verdict on Saturday. I approached the Golden EIB Microphone on Monday<\/a> and I told you that their reaction was really not about Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

It was just they are a bunch of children that didn\u2019t get their way. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been getting their way on everything. In the last five, 5-1\/2 years, they\u2019ve gotten 99% of what they want. They didn\u2019t get this, and they were bellyaching. I accused them of having a temper tantrum. You would not believe how that was purposely misinterpreted and then mis-analyzed, which is something they always do. They limit all of the crucial context of any critic that they launch into. So what it became was… Folks, I don\u2019t remember. It was so insane, I don\u2019t remember how they interpreted it.<\/p>\n

But I am a premier communicator. I say what I mean. I don\u2019t leave it up to chance. If somebody asks me a question, I answer it. I don\u2019t speak in riddles, and I said that what really had \u2019em ticked off about this verdict was that they didn\u2019t get their way. Somebody didn\u2019t let \u2019em have what they wanted. They wanted a guilty verdict. For whatever reasons, they wanted a guilty verdict. They didn\u2019t get it. (crying)<\/p>\n

And then they launched into, “The country\u2019s racist,” just \u2019cause they didn\u2019t get their way. Well, it… Eileen, I\u2019ve not forgotten your question. This is all sort of a setup for my answer to your question, because she has observed and she\u2019s read that it\u2019s not so much that the Hispanics are not assimilating. It\u2019s actually blacks who are not only not assimilating, they appear to be regressing. There\u2019s actually an opinion piece about this at PJ Media. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: My friends, I can\u2019t tell you the number of people — recently and over the course of my sterling professional career — who\u2019ve said to me, “You know, Rush, it\u2019s a lose-lose proposition to talk about race, even seriously, the way you try. You can\u2019t win. All you\u2019re gonna do is get yourself in trouble, and it isn\u2019t worth it. You ought to just leave it alone. Just make it one of these things where, when something comes up, you just discipline yourself to ignore it don\u2019t go there.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been told this… Gee, I don\u2019t know. Since probably the first time I mentioned Jesse Jackson\u2019s name on the radio back in 1983 in Kansas City. I hear it from close friends, people who say, “Rush, there\u2019s nothing to be gained.” You know, my reaction to that\u2019s always been, “Why isn\u2019t there?” They may be right. There isn\u2019t there anything to be gained? Why is it a lose-lose proposition to discuss race? <\/p>\n

I think it would be said not just of me but a lot of people who probably would be advised the same way. “Just leave it alone.” The problem with that is that when you surrender it, you\u2019re surrendering it to who? Who are we letting discuss it and therefore shape opinion about it? In my mind, the answer to that question is: The people who have made a mess of this country and this culture for way too long, and that is leftists. <\/p>\n

Of all races, creeds, stripes, religions. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Leftists. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

There is an ideology that has slowly been eating away at the foundational fabric of this country. I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s race or whether it is any issue. I don\u2019t care what. I can\u2019t let it go. I care too much about the country, and I care too much about everybody that lives here. And I\u2019m cursed. I am. I think I\u2019m cursed. I\u2019m cursed with a… Well, I have a hope, a desire that everybody in this country love it, that everybody in this country enjoy the life they\u2019ve been given and the opportunity they\u2019ve been given to live that life in this country. <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t tell you how disappointed I feel when I run across people that don\u2019t and can\u2019t enjoy their life, and I think that\u2019s what this really comes down to. I mean, folks, the kind of anger and angst and tension on this and practically everything else that the American left cares about does nothing but make people miserable and nervous, and in some cases unhappy. Even the people they claim they\u2019re looking out for. <\/p>\n

And maybe not just “even,” but especially the people they claim to be helping. They claim to be the sole representatives. They claim to be the guardians. Those people that are under their wing are miserable, and that misery and angst and unhappiness is exacerbated by the left. It\u2019s amplified. Anything other than that isn\u2019t permitted. That just… Well, it bothers me, and in some ways, it honestly does break my heart. I have such a deep appreciation for the uniqueness of life. <\/p>\n

We each only have one, and most people… Well, maybe not most. Way too many people don\u2019t even think about that for whatever reasons. They\u2019re too busy, too absorbed in things. But I\u2019ve always kind of been in awe of it, and the fact that there\u2019s only one, and the fact that all we have on the other side of it is faith that there\u2019s more? Nobody can prove that. That\u2019s just faith, and so this is it. I\u2019ve been very lucky with mine. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been extremely fortunate. I don\u2019t think that I\u2019m anything special or unique. I think it\u2019s possible for everybody. But then I look around, and I see so many people that basically look like they\u2019re just unhappy to be alive. They\u2019re just miserable and angry all the time, and I looked at people making them feel that way because they are the same way. It infuriates me, so I just want to help. <\/p>\n

I would like to be able to change attitudes and thinking in a positive way that would cause some people to reflect a little bit more deeply than they do, on the really rare opportunity that life in this country affords people. So this latest racial thing, this Zimmerman\/Trayvon Martin case and all the actors in it, Rachel Jeantel, people say, “Rush, don\u2019t go there! Rush, they\u2019re not gonna understand when you\u2019re trying to be lighthearted and funny about it. <\/p>\n

“They\u2019re wound too tight. Everybody\u2019s just waiting to be offended and they\u2019re just waiting to be mad \u2019cause they want to shut you up, and you shouldn\u2019t give \u2019em ammo.” I know all that. I just can\u2019t help myself sometimes. I just can\u2019t not talk about it. Now, our caller, Eileen, said that she saw something recently, and I found out what she saw. It\u2019s a Wall Street Journal editorial called, “America\u2019s Assimilating Hispanics.” <\/p>\n

The Journal claims that they have seen evidence that showed that Hispanics are following the path of earlier immigrants and are assimilating into a singular American culture. Now, Eileen believed it. She read it. She believed it. It\u2019s a 2007 editorial that is being re-circulated. You have to keep in mind when you read it, though, that the Wall Street Journal is very much a pro-amnesty organization. Not just the editorial page, but the entire newspaper is what I call “open borders.” <\/p>\n

They want this influx of people. They want the opportunity for cheap labor for whatever reason. “Can\u2019t find Americans to do the work. Too many are unemployed and not suffering from it so they don\u2019t want to work. They need the laborer labor pool.” That\u2019s the Journal\u2019s constituency, and so that\u2019s who they serve. At the same time as this the article, there was another article then points out that while Hispanics are assimilating, African-Americans born in this country aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

In fact they\u2019re not only not assimilating, they\u2019re regressing. They are Balkanizing, if you will. Now, both of those assertions are fascinating. In the case of the first one, the Journal and the Hispanic assimilation, you do have to read that knowing full well that the Journal\u2019s in favor of amnesty and open borders. If all that assimilating is taking place, then why do we hear even more often in our society, “Press 1 for English”? Why is the audience for Telemundo and Univision, both those networks, growing? <\/p>\n

Now, as to the other side, that African-Americans are regressing. Oh, yeah, yeah. I heard Eric Holder say we have to have the courage to talk about race. Nobody has the courage to talk about race. Everybody gets beat up for doing it, particularly if you happen to be effective or persuasive in changing people\u2019s attitudes that the left does not want them to have. If you are able to talk people out of the mind-set the left wants them to have, then you are really a target. <\/line><\/p>\n

Most people don\u2019t like being targets. So Obama and Eric Holder are the first black president and first black attorney general. You know, it\u2019s interesting what\u2019s going on right now. The Congressional Black Caucus is having its convention. I think NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucasians are having conventions either at the same time or back-to-back, and in both places Holder and Obama are being pressured to do something about this Zimmerman thing and the travesty of justice. <\/p>\n

Now, you would think that President Obama would try to rise above this and do what everybody thought that he was automatically going to do by virtue of being the first African-American — and that\u2019s unite everybody. But he\u2019s not doing that. He\u2019s got this constituency to serve. He\u2019s got the CBC, the Congressional Black Caucasians. He\u2019s got the NAACP. Holder, the same thing. They\u2019re out there, and they\u2019re dangling a carrot in front of these people.<\/p>\n

“Don\u2019t worry, Zimmerman\u2019s not off the hook yet.”<\/p>\n

We just had a jury trial, and we just had a verdict, and we just had everybody involved say race wasn\u2019t part of it. But because it didn\u2019t turn out the way the left wants, that\u2019s not the end of it. “No, we\u2019re not gonna stop until we get what we want. If we have to put pressure on Obama,” and I don\u2019t know how much it will really take. “If we have to put pressure on Obama or Holder to get what they want, what are Obama and Holder gonna do?” <\/p>\n

I find it funny that Obama and Holder are being portrayed as just innocent bystanders here, but they\u2019re really under a lot of pressure. The civil rights coalition makes a big move, a lot of pressure, to get Obama and Holder. I have to laugh at that because Obama and Holder lead that movement. They\u2019re not innocent bystanders waiting around to be influenced. But, see, even saying that is risky. Yeah, but Holder\u2019s out there saying we need courage to talk about race. <\/p>\n

Let anybody try and see what happens. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re lied about, taken out of context, mischaracterized, and people are set out to try to destroy them. So everybody\u2019s afraid. It may not be number one, but certainly one of the top three reasons the Republicans don\u2019t exist in Washington is because they don\u2019t want to be called racists. So the Republicans are caving on practically everything where Obama\u2019s involved \u2019cause otherwise they\u2019re gonna be called racists and the media\u2019s gonna pick up on it.<\/p>\n

The lie will be spread far and wide, and the Republicans probably rightfully think there\u2019s nothing they can do about it. They can\u2019t stop it. They can\u2019t change anybody\u2019s thinking, particularly in the black community. The black community believes every Republican is racist, sexist, all that stuff — and that\u2019s what\u2019s so frustrating. Not true. Nowhere near the truth. In fact, I would venture to say that most of the racism in this country\u2019s on the left. <\/p>\n

Most of the oppression in this country stems and originates from people on the left. They\u2019re the ones that demand you think right. They\u2019re the ones that demand you behave the way they require. They\u2019re the ones who demand you live the way they tell you to live. They\u2019re the oppressors, if you will. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: “What Do You Do When the Oppressed are Their Own Worst Oppressors?” PJ Media, David Goldman. He starts this way: “My earliest memory is looking up at a circle of black and white faces. I was seated in the living room of the family home in Edison Township, NJ, and the group I saw was the local chapter of the NAACP. My association with the civil rights movement goes back to the age of two. The year would have been 1953 or 1954, and my parents were left-wing activists, among the very few white people involved at the time.<\/p>\n

“Their activism was deep. In 1950, my father drove from New York with a group of Columbia University students to protest the impending execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted and eventually electrocuted for the alleged rape of a white woman in Mississippi. I followed my parents\u2019 example: in my senior year of high school I organized and led a student civil rights demonstration and marched next to Andrew Young. You can look it up. I believe in civil rights as much now as I did then.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

“That\u2019s why it\u2019s painful to watch the degeneration of the NAACP with its silly petition to persuade the Justice Department to bring a civil rights case against George Zimmerman. The leaders of what used to be a civil rights movement want to talk about everything but the main problem afflicting black people in the United States. That is the breakdown of the black family. Just 29% of black women over the age of 15 were married in 2010, according to the Census Bureau\u2019s comprehensive Current Population Survey.<\/p>\n

“That compares to 54% of white women. At all ages, black women were about half as likely to be married as white women. That is an astonishing number,” he writes. “The percentage of out-of-wedlock births has risen from 18% in 1980 to 40% in 2010. Twenty-nine percent of white births were non-marital, against 73% for black births. That\u2019s nearly three-quarters of all black births,” occur outside of marriage.<\/p>\n

“Young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to be in jail than to be employed, reports the Pew Institute,” which did the scholarly research. So Mr. Goldman gets to his real point here in the lead sentence of the next paragraph. “The worst oppressors of young black men are older black men who abandon their children. And the second-worst oppressors of young black men are other young black men — 94% of black murder victims are killed by blacks.<\/p>\n

“The accelerating decline of the black family portends a much worse situation in the future. Why have civil rights organizations and black clergy wagered their reputations on the Zimmerman case? It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the issues that really concern African-Americans simply are too painful to discuss,” and there it is. You just can\u2019t talk about it, Rush. “Five years after the ultimate boost to self-esteem — the election of the first black president — things are getting worse faster.<\/p>\n

“If black leaders — from Barack Obama and Eric Holder on down — can\u2019t talk about the real problems, the prospects for the future are frightening indeed,” and he has a postscript here where he says, “Conservatives should view African-Americans\u00c2\u2019 emotional response to the death of Trayvon Martin with empathy. What makes the incident so hard to bear is that so many young black men die every day through involvement in violent crime.” However, it\u2019s 94% black-on-black crime. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I read this, and, again: This has stuff that you\u2019re not supposed to say. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re supposed to leave this alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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