Left-wing Liberal Democrats are creating a new kind of racism in America to replace the racism of the past.

For racism to exist, one must have two or three players: the oppressed minority, and the oppressive majority, and optionally an enlightened individual or group who identifies and condemns the problem. The oppressed minority must be oppressed on the basis of race. (Rarely, one finds an oppressing minority, as in South Africa under apartheid.)

American history is stained with racism, and is adorned with the bravery of those who fought to end it.

Today, it seems that the Liberal Democrats, after opposing and even filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and then redeeming themselves by fighting for equality for many decades, are about to head down a very dangerous path.

Their problem is, having won the war, they want to keep fighting it.

There can be little doubt that the war against anti-black racism is largely won. In entertainment, sports, and every other merit based activity, blacks compete and succeed on a level playing field against whites. Nowhere is there a law that singles out blacks for disadvantageous treatment. Nowhere can a company afford a perception of disparate treatment.

As proof, note that newly arrived black immigrants -- despite the disadvantages of not knowing the language and culture -- succeed economically in America at rates indistinguishable from other races.

Those who seek out evidence of racism must continually lower the bar. Recently, the taunts of the crowd at a Lake Oswego high school basketball game were branded 'racist' -- even though critics admit they don't think the taunts were motivated by race.[1]

How can a racist act not be motivated by race? When the racism exists only in the heads of white liberals. To the colorblind students who taunted, they were merely giving as good as they had gotten; the other side had taunted similarly. To the guilt-ridden white liberal, however, blacks can never be equal -- they must always and forever be lesser, be fragile, be needy and protected by brave white liberals.

That is why the liberal white reverse-racists have invented "unintended" racism -- thought crime without the thought -- in order to maintain their own position as saviors of the oppressed.

This is more dangerous than it appears. It keeps a liberal boot on blacks, institutionalizing them as perpetual victims whose rise to equality (and thus independence) cannot be allowed. And it teaches previously colorblind youth that a double standard exists, and that colorblindness will not be tolerated. Dr. King would be appalled.

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[1] Lake Oswego Review: LOHS Principal Bruce Plato spoke with a number of students involved in the incident and believes that the students weren't motivated to make the comments because of Leary's race. But Plato condemns the comments just the same. Lakers' fans are on hot seat by Alandra Johnson - 03/10/05 http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/article/6629