I was driving home from work on Wednesday June 9, 2010, and I happened to switch to a liberal talk radio station. Of course they don’t call themselves a liberal station, they call themselves a progressive station. And the person who was on said something that shocked me, though I guess I should not have been shocked. He said that the conservative movement in this country was all about white people, that it was all about creating a culture just for white people. In other words, if you are a conservative, you are a racist. Racism is at the core of the conservative movement. He was equating the racist morons in Prescott Arizona who were upset that a Hispanic child was prominently displayed on a mural, to conservatives in general. Well, I’m going to say it, if that’s what that commentator believes, then he is the racist, because all he can see is race.
I should not have been surprised by this individual’s ignorant comments. This is a ploy that the left uses. If you are white, religious, socially and economically conservative, then you are a racist, bigot, homophobe, ignorant, whatever. The left will describe you in the worst way possible. They do this because they know that good people, who believe in right from wrong, don’t want to be identified in that way, so those good people avoid taking conservative positions. Who likes being called a bigot? No one does. However, we cannot allow ourselves to be intimidated into abandoning our values because they want to call us disgraceful names and denigrate us.
The conservative movement is not racist. The conservative movement is raceless. The conservative movement doesn’t care what race you are. The conservative movement believes in equality of opportunity, not equality of income, and it believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race. Yes, the conservative movement has people in it that are ignorant racists. But do we abandon the core principles of the movement because of a few nut jobs who think the quality of a person is defined by the color of their skin? Of course not. The liberal movement has people in it who are socialists. Does that mean the liberal movement is socialist, that all liberals are socialists. No. Are all Muslims terrorists? No. But the left will label all conservatives, and the whole conservative movement as racist.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Limited government knows no race. Lower taxes knows no race. Liberty knows no race. So where is the racism? If there are conservatives who espouse racist views, they are not espousing conservative views, because conservative views do not look at race. As a conservative I want economic opportunity, freedom, and liberty for all people, not just white people. I want the black community to enjoy happiness and prosperity. I want the Hispanic community to enjoy happiness and prosperity. I want all people to enjoy those things, and there is nothing racist about that. So the next time you hear a liberal radio host say the conservative movement is racist; know that they are just propagating a lie.
Extremus.
