How I wish there were no reason to continue this series. But there always seems to be one.
This time it is found in Michelle Malkin\’s latest column – a brilliant, must-read commentary on a subject I have written about many times: the amount of racism – as smug as it is venomous – that is spewed by some people who claim to be against racism.
You can read Ms. Malkin\’s entire piece by clicking here. But let me show you a key segment:
If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.”
Conversely, if I point out that my skin is far darker than that of the TV progressives of pallor who presume to know more than me about what it\’s like to experience prejudice, I\’m accused of exploiting my ethnicity.
We\’re coconuts, bananas and Oreos (brown, yellow or black on the outside and “white” on the inside).
We\’re accused of “thinking” and “acting” white if we quote the Constitution, shoot, hunt, oppose high taxes, homeschool, take personal responsibility or demand that government leave us alone.
You can\’t win with these insane identity-mongers who preach compassion and peace while practicing vicious demagoguery. Black conservatives are “Uncle Toms.” Jindal is an “Uncle Bobby.” And GOP Gov. Nikki Haley, born to Indian Sikh parents, has been derided as a “female Uncle Tom.” Jindal is “trying to be white” even though his parents are Indian and his wife\’s parents are both from India. Meanwhile, haters have accused me of being an “Auntie Tomasina” for marrying outside my race and taking my husband\’s name.
Marriage choice and marriage equality are sacred rights for everyone except minority conservatives.
That is as near a perfect description of what people like Ms. Malkin live through as there can be.
Michelle Malkin married outside her race and outside her religion. If she were an MSNBC-approved left-wing thinker, that would make her a goddess to these people. But instead she is every epithet in the book to them – including every racial epithet.
Why? Because these people, who rail against racial stereotypes, are infuriated that she doesn\’t fit their racial stereotype.
Real racism. It comes in all forms from all sources. No one is immune to it or from it. Certainly not the blazing hypocrites whom Ms. Malkin refers to above.
