Here are excerpts (in italics) from these two civil rights documents on the official Obama website:
“Barack Obama's Record
“Record of Advocacy: Obama has worked to promote civil rights and fairness in the criminal justice system throughout his career. As a community organizer, Obama helped 150,000 African Americans register to vote.”
Notice that the document doesn't say "150,000 American citizens." It says, "150,000 African Americans." That's not a typo or an oversight. Obama got into the voter registration business not out of some general commitment to democracy but to boost the political muscle of blacks.
“As a civil rights lawyer, Obama litigated employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and voting rights cases.”
Obama likes to brag that, as president of the Harvard Law Review, he could have taken any high paying legal job in the country, but that he chose a lower paying job as a civil rights lawyer.
Swell. But keep in mind that the more the Obama Administration tries to carry out Obama's personal passion for crushing residual examples of discrimination against blacks, the more false positive errors it will make and unjustly accuse whites.
In statistics, that's called the Type I Error vs. Type II Error tradeoff.
As I wrote in VDARE in 2003, the unfortunate reality is that racial quotas are the inevitable by-products of our anti-discrimination laws. These laws place the burden of proof on the employer to justify any deviation from equal outcomes in hiring and promotions. Lawsuits can be won. But the cost can be so crushing that most firms will do just about anything to stay out of court. So they use quotas.
Lots of pundits don't understand this logic. But Obama is a very smart guy. He gets it. That he chose to sacrifice income in order to, in effect, push for more quotas for legally protected minorities is not something that I, as a legally non-protected non-minority, find reassuring.
“As a State Senator, Obama passed one of the country's first racial profiling laws.”
He cracked down on the police using racial profiling—great! As I wrote in VDARE.COM in 2003, despite the War On Crime, there are still roughly five 9-11's worth of Americans murdered each year. And that could easily go back up if the cops are constrained.
Simply put, the police can use either of two alternative strategies:
They can sit around eating donuts and wait for bad guys to commit crimes.
Or they can get in the face of potential bad guys and prevent crimes.
To do the latter, though, they have to use the brains God gave them to figure out who is more likely to cause trouble.
And that's when they get blamed for profiling.
Obama's website goes on:
“…and helped reform a broken death penalty system.”
To give credit where it's due: Obama's leadership on getting police interrogations in Illinois videotaped was an excellent piece of good government work to clean up a horrific situation where cops were torturing suspects.
On the other hand, would Obama have invested so much effort in this worthy reform if it didn't primarily benefit blacks?
For example, has he crusaded to cut down on prison rape? I can't find evidence on of him paying much attention to the issue.
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