I’m not, for the record, a goddamned racist.

Glad to get that off my chest – I’ve been wanting to say that for awhile. Although it seems silly, I’m going to take that quite a bit farther.

Of living intellectuals, the one who has most influenced my thinking is Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Sowell, an economist by training, is the author of 43 books, including Basic Economics, a book if taught in every public high school in the country would mean the end of the Democrat Party within a generation. Sowell is a national treasure, one of our greatest thinkers, and he happens to be a black man. I don’t like Sowell because of the color of his skin, I like Sowell because of his wonderful mind.

Over at SCOTUS, I have two favorite justices, one of whom is Clarence Thomas. Thomas’s life story is as American as it gets, imbued with the virtues of thrift and hard work as a young boy being raised by his grandfather, but that’s not why I like him. I like him because he is a strict constructionist when it comes to interpreting the Constiution, which means he doesn’t legislate from the bench. Thomas, as you know, is also black – again, not why I like him.

Of the great pieces of writing regarding human dignity and individual freedom, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” is up there with “The Declaration of Independence” and “Common Sense” in American letters. I don’t like King’s expression of outrage at fellow clergymen because he was a black man, I like it because he was right, and damn right at that.

In less serious matters, when I was a kid, I wanted to be Dr. J. As a basketball player born in 1974, my favorite “peer” player was and remains Allen Iverson (we’re the same age aka peer, and Iverson was the kid my age highlighted as best in class in SI in its 1987 roundup of up-and-coming talent – AI was The Answer long before the question was asked).  This may seem silly, but spending as much time as I did as a child and teenager playing basketball at the YMCA, at school, at camps and on traveling AAU teams, I spent more time around black kids than most kids who grow up in rural areas.

Personally, I have few black friends, but I don’t have that many white friends, either, the toils of being an introverted loner. I have dated a few black women and although I have no interest in getting married, I wouldn’t think twice about marrying a black woman so long as we shared some basic values. Same goes for every other hue of skin a woman could possibly have –skin color means absolutely nothing to me. I’m no more proud of being white than I am proud of being left-handed or blue-eyed – I had no control over these things, it’s just who I am. Judging people on genetics is a first-class entry into the road to serfdom.

I have nothing against the half-black, half-white either. Remember, Mariah Carey is one of my favorite singers and I still find her drop-dead sexy.

Oh, and let’s not bring up Balkanization…

And make no mistake, I’m as white as they come. A blue-eyed devil with atrocious dance moves, no rhythm, a vertical leap of about six inches and a perpetual attendee of DMB shows – it doesn’t get much more honkey than that. Effall, I wear Ralph Lauren shirts. Every. Single. Day. If I was a Nike commercial, my meme would be “I am Polo Country.”

Isn’t all of this silly? Isn’t a fellow such as myself inventorying the various people of a certain hue I’m inspired by just – frankly – stupid? Of course it is.

Of course it is.

There are certain people I cannot stand, but not one of them has gained my ire based on the color of their skin. The Dear Leader happens to be half-black, and he happens to be one such person I do not like. With every passing day and every passing speech, with every absurd policy and every lie, with every cheesecake interview and staffer-supporter-race-bait and demigod acceptance, I like him less and less and less.

TDL likes his straw men, his race-baiting, his fictional triangulating – in short, he’s like Pres. Clinton, only lacking Clinton’s humility.

If nothing else, that should scare the daylights out of you.

Because I have a side of me that is politically masochistic, I read lots of liberal sites aka sites populated by Liberals, some from traditional Medea outlets, others from Web-only enterprises. In the last two days, I’ve read pieces at the NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, Daily Beast, Kos, etc, describing criticism of TDL as fueled by racism. Frankly, I’ve had enough of this nonsense.

I don’t get into theoretical – I know that the world would’ve melted down had Trace Atkins summited the stage at last night’s VMA’s and snatched the microphone from Beyonce, drunkenly bemoaning the fact that Taylor Swift deserved the award for Best Female Video, but honestly, who cares? Beyonce did the right thing at the end of the show (her moment was the proper thing to do, but quite touching nonetheless), and news flash, Kanye West was a douchebag before last night, and he’ll continue to be a douchebag. This Kanye episode is relevant only because Kanye said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and Kanye was a very vocal supporter of TDL as he ran for POTUS. Like TDL, Kanye is a knuckle-dragging racist, always has been, always will be.

Unlike TDL, Kanye didn’t nationalize a large section of the banking system, two auto companies while forcing a $780 billion “stimulus” package down our throats, attempting to force cap-n-tax (before Sarah Palin stepped in) before ultimately trying to force nationalized healthcare upon us (also before Sarah Palin stepped in).

Maureen Dowd can “think” what she wants, but Joe Wilson didn’t yell “You lie (boy),” he yelled “You lie (Liberal)!” And lily white Liberals can race-bait their Conservative honkey brothers and sisters all they want, but that doesn’t make it so. I’m more libertarian-conservative-fringe than 99 percent of the hundreds of thousands of people who took part in the 9/12 protest on Washington Mall (I’m an effing Objectivist, for Chrissake!), and I’m a helluva lot less racist than Maureen Dowd and most Democrats, the party – say it again and again and again and again – of Bull Connor, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, separate but equal, Colored Water Fountains and lunch counters, handuphandout, Klansman Robert Byrd and the Duke University faculty members who signed a full-page ad in the university’s newspaper convicting six white students of raping a black woman before an investigation had completed. Like most East-West Liberals, they’re as racist as they come – they hate Jews and white people with one hand while demeaning American blacks with the other, and many of them are White and/or Jewish. They assume that American blacks are victims, too stupid to help themselves so they must be helped by their white intellectual masters. I don’t think there are “typical” black people like TDL thinks there are typical “white” people, I think, regardless of skin color, we come into this world naked and screaming and we don’t leave it in a much different manner.

I have not and do not think that way – I refuse to see any race, blacks included, as a helpless lot who cannot succeed without the over-leveraged hand of a Liberal honkey. As Snoop said in a much different context, I’m like 7-up in my treatment of black people in that I refuse to treat them in a different context than other people, nevah have, nevah will. I don’t think black people need any more help than any other race of people.

However, I do think that because of Pres. Johnson’s disastrous War on Poverty, the once-standard nuclear black family (statistically stronger than the nuclear white family before said WoP) was destroyed, resulting in one of the worst unforeseen consequences of Liberal dogma in the history of the world. Think I jest? Go to any large city and then, go to the ghetto – it’s not full of white people, it’s full of American blacks and Hispanics. The worse the ghetto, the more entrenched in Liberal politics and policies it will be. Call Pres. Bush, Pres. Reagan, Limbaugh, Newt and me racists all you want, but the more Liberal-Democrat the city, the worse the city’s poor blacks fare. It’s as Democrat as apple tariffs.  

I don’t hate black people, and frankly, I despise they way they are treated by weasel white Liberals and opportunistic black race hustlers like The Dear Leader. I have more respect for five kids of any race, culture or creed working at McDonald’s than I do for the collected ed-boards of NYT and WaPo.

If it were my decision, Planned Parenthood wouldn’t be able to set up shop in the middle of the most high-density, poverty-stricken black neighborhoods in the country, executing its racist, eugenicist founder Margaret Sanger’s vision of eradicating the black race through sterilization and abortion. I don’t care what color the babies are – I think they deserve at life just like the parasites who make a living by murdering them.

If it were my decision, we’d take the taxpayer money earmarked for criminal enterprises like ACORN and Planned Parenthood and redirect it to a microloan program available to individuals only  and inject those funds into every dying city in the country (actually, I’d return it to the taxpayers, but if it must be spent…). It may not seem like much, but a person can make a lot of money buying starter businesses like vending carts or learning usable skills like locksmithing, and to do either a person doesn’t need a four-year degree, they just need a damn loan.

Van Jones, the now ousted “green jobs czar,” had it right when he said that lily white Liberal environmentalists reject environmental pollution from their neighborhoods and poured it into poor minority communities. He might be a Communist and a Truther, but at least he understands that Liberals hate – and I mean hate – black people. They love the votes, but they despise the dark skin. It’s the heritage from whence they spring. Van Jones’s sin was the worst sin among Liberals when speaking on tape – he was being honest. The Dear Leader, recall, said lots of magnanimous things in lots of magnanimous speeches last year (and this year too), but when speaking to right-thinking Liberals in San Francisco, he did refer to those rubes in Pennsylvania as “clinging to their guns and religion…”

Wanna know how much Liberals hate the poor, the black, the Hispanic, aka the undesirables? Look at their most cherished enclaves. They develop “green rings” whereby lower-income housing is zoned out based on the notion of infilling. In other words, the housing market is not only limited, it skyrockets based on the limitation of potential opportunities of housing through the throttling of potential lower-income housing developments. I always return to Boulder-CO aka White City because I’m familiar with it and its green ring is notorious – try to get a low income development in that city, and have fun pitching your trailer park. Liberals love populating zoning boards, and there’s nothing more threatening to a zoning board than any form of unsubsidized, low-income housing.

Watch those James O’Keefe videos that have been blacklisted by CBS, ABC, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC and CNN, and among those ACORN workers who don’t bat an eye when two young, white people come asking for mortgages to buy a house so they can run a brothel populated by 13-15 year old El Salvadoran child prostitutes – at every instance, there are black women my age nodding their heads and helping the scam along. I don’t see black women, I see Liberals. I don’t care what color you are nor do I care about your politics – going along (taxpayer-funded no less) with someone trying to figure out the best way, tax-wise, to structure a human-trafficking, taxpayer-funded, child-prostitution ring is evil.

Yes, the Big E.

Yes, Evil.

I’m not a racist, and I don’t believe most people are particularly racist. However, there are lines in the sand I draw, and what this Administration is doing and what the organizations supported by this Administration are doing are patently racist.

Call the Tea Party protesters racist all you want, it matters not. The day of reckoning is coming, it’s coming fast, and race – at least on our side, my side – skin color has nothing to do with it.