Racism Is Dead -- Al Sharpton Looking For Work

Racism is dead is America.

I'm not saying that we've eliminated racists. There will always be malicious morons. But institutional racism has been buried. How could you believe otherwise? Americans (primarily white Americans) elected an African American man to the presidency with a resume that's thinner than Mary-Kate Olsen. You just have to consider the legitimacy of Geraldine Ferraro's claim that Obama's campaign was successful because he was black. Think about it. No, come on, you're not looking deep enough. Really think about it. Would a white guy with no executive experience, 140 total days in the Senate and no major legislation attached to his name ever win a major party's nomination? Of course not. Race was an issue and in a positive way. America chose an inexperienced African American to leads us. Institutional racism is dead.

But this creates a problem for the parasites who feed on hatred and racial division. Their fame and livelihood is based on Eucharistic victimization in the church of false oppression. They need to keep racism alive because if it kicks the bucket they'll be kick to the curb.

Exhibit A: Al Sharpton.

When I heard about the New York Post Cartoon that had Sharpton blubbering "racist" again I figured that my radio was picking up static from the 70s. The cartoon showed a policeman killing a monkey, which referred to an episode in Conneticut when an officer shot a chimpanzee that had attacked a woman. In the illustration an officer says, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." See the cartoon here.

OK, first of all the cartoon wasn't very funny, but I got it's point. They used a real (as in "it actually happened") incident to demonstrate that the stimulus bill is so stupid it could have been written by a monkey. Not much in the way of humor but pretty accurate as political observation. You see, Rev. Sharpton immediately started waving his hands to point out that using the actual creature that was killed was making a racist statement about Barack Obama. Forget the fact that if anybody could take credit for authoring the stimulus disaster it would be Nancy Pelosi (who looks rather simian now that I think about it) that doesn't matter. Cartoon Monkey + Obama is president = Racism. Time to March. If only that Conneticut cop had shot a llama.

But this isn't the end of the story. Rupert Murdoch, who owns the NY Post , issued an apology for the cartoon that Sharpton had reinterpreted to his own advantage. But that didn't mean it was over. It couldn't be. Sharpton needed to flare in the spotlight a bit longer. In his opinion the apology (which if you ask me never should have been given in the first place) was "tepid." Weak, but in this economy I suppose I can't blame good ol' Al for trying to breathe life into this controversy. A man has to make a living.

So grab hold Rev. Sharpton and don't let go. Battle cartoons depicting actual events and aimed at white women. Attack tepid apologies. Racism may be dead, but keep dopes alive.