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The Future of Race Huxters

Bruce at Q and O [1]

I really can’t blame Julian Bond for this [2]. After all, we’re talking about the end of an industry.

Racial disparity will remain an issue in America, regardless of whether Barack Obama is elected as the nation’s first black president, the chairman of the NAACP told the organization’s national convention Sunday night.

Julian Bond, a veteran civil rights leader, said Obama’s candidacy doesn’t “herald a post-civil rights America, any more than his victory in November will mean that race as an issue has been vanquished in America.”

But he drew loud applause when he said the country, and “all of us here,” are taking pride in the success in this year’s campaign by a candidate who couldn’t have stayed in some cities’ hotels a few decades ago.

Of course, if I were a betting man, I’d bet that for the majority of America (I probably should say white America) an Obama victory will signal our entry into a “post-civil rights America”. The Bonds, Jacksons and Wrights of the world aren’t going to like it, but in fact, it will be time to move on.

Bruce has this one right, here. I’ve been saying for years that the worst thing you can give a liberal is the solution to the problem he supposedly seeks, because that problem existing is his means to power. Actually SOLVE the problem, make that problem go away, and that means to power goes away, too.  Never forget this is not about solving problems… it’s about power.

The one thing he does get wrong….Obama winning or losing isn’t going to keep the Bonds and Jacksons and Sharptons of the world from ending up on the scrap heap of history. He’ll just get a short reprieve. And what happens if as I expect, Obama proves to disappoint? We’ll hear about how he’s half white.