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THE RACIAL SPLIT THAT'S TEARING THE DEMOCRATS APART |
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Written by Shawn Steel
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
Barack Hussein
Obama's recent ridicule and rejection of Hillary Rodham Clinton's suggestion
that he be her VP running-mate squashes the "dream-team" fantasy of many
Democrats.
It also means the
racial division within the Democrat Party between Blacks and Latinos will
continue to widen into a disastrously unbridgeable abyss. What's happening in my home town of Los
Angeles is instructive.
The Los Angeles Times
has been documenting with Pulitzer quality reporting, the racial
gang wars in the L.A. basin. The largest and oldest Latino gang, the Mexican Mafia, has
ordered ethnic cleansing of formerly all-black neighborhoods. This has led to
an increase in black vs Latino violence.
Close to my home, the Gateway Harbor area, several blacks have been murdered by
Latino gangs in this expressed racial hate crime wave. A six year old black boy
was shot in the head and is fighting for his life at Harbor UCLA Medical center
-- two Latino gang members were arrested for the "random" shooting.
Hate crime charges may be filed.
These hate crimes help explain the growing division in the national Democrat
Party. The Democrats since Tammany Hall have always embraced
"identity politics". That is, voting for a person because of
his skin color and/or his ethnicity. This creates a never- ending American
balkanization which tears at the fabric of American unity.
These hate crimes may also help explain why Latinos were a main reason for
Barack Hussein Obama's primary loss to Hillary Rodham Clinton in California -
and in Texas. Most reports show that in both states, Latinos voted for Clinton
by a 2/3 ratio.
This racial polarization is not good for America, nor is it good for the
Democrats.
The seeds of racial polarization come direct from Democrat Identity Politics.
Their caucuses must have "affirmative action" racial percentages.
Naturally, this led to literal street fighting between blacks and Latinos in
Texas caucuses on March 4.
The animus between Latinos and blacks may endure for years in the Democrat
party.
The racial alienation is growing daily between the Clinton and Obama camps.
They naturally deny any such phenomena is occurring, yet both carefully measure
their individual successes on promoting their racial blocks.
The latest example,
of course, is the headline scandal of Geraldine Ferraro stating the obvious,
that no one would consider Obama as a presidential candidate if he were white
rather than black.
Yet even before the Ferraro flap, famed civil rights crusader Congressman John
Lewis (D-GA) recently tossed his endorsement to Hillary aside and regrouped
with identity politics by switching to Obama. The pressure on Latino and black
Democrat public figures is striking. We will likely see more defections from
each camp based primarily on race.
This will create huge defections for Democrats this fall. Should
Obama win the nomination, many Latinos will defect. The same is true for
Clinton - should she win, blacks will stay at home in historic numbers.
This civics lesson ought to teach scholars and Democrat leaders the price
to pay for racial polarization. That
price is discord, disharmony, and catastrophe to Democrats in November.
Shawn Steel, a Los Angeles attorney, was elected to the
Republican National Committee in February.
He is the immediate past chairman of the California Republican Party, founder of the California chapter of
The Club for Growth, and was Jack Wheeler's colleague in Youth For Reagan
during Ronald Reagan's original gubernatorial campaign in 1966.
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