Orthodoxy

I remember when Nixon advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan was villified in the media when a memo he had written to President Nixon became public. In it Moynihan had told Nixon in confidence, "We may need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades." To this end, writes Goldberg, "Moynihan urged the president to avoid confrontations with black extremists and instead invest his energies in an aggressive class-based approach to social poliicy."

Blacks "married their interests to the state and to its righteous representatives, the Democratic Party." Many black "leaders" consider opposition to the Democratic Party to be, quite literally, a form of racism.

Goldberg writes, "There is no issue on which modern liberals consider themselvesw more thoroughly enlightened than that of race. And there is no contentious topic where they are quicker to insist that dissent from liberal orthodoxy is a sign of creeping fascism. White liberals learned this trick from black liberals. Black "civil rights leaders" love playing the Nazi card. Goldberg cites examples from Julian Bond, Harry Belafonete, and Jesse Jackson.

Last year I commented on the blog of my pastor about how Bond and Belafonte unfairly castigated President Bush. My pastor deleted my comments. Our church is about 25% black, and the pastor is a "jazz theologian." The music at the church is fabulous, and my pastor is a brilliant man committed to many good works. But orthodoxy is orthodoxy, I guess.