- Uppity N###ers!

I have on occasion mentioned my inability to recognize the the sins of others that I'm not actually guilty of myself. I never see envy coming, or the lust for power, or even 'greed' (whatever that is), until long after they are blatantly obvious to everyone else. The truth is, it's a cynical skill I have no interest in developing. And I find that I've come upon one of those moments again - when the motivations of others have been made clear to me, and I know that I'd have never seen it myself.

Much energy has gone into figuring out why liberals so despise Sarah Palin absent any rational cause, and Star Parker has finally figured it out. She's come to another very insightful conclusion (that I would have probably never noticed) that liberal's hate people like Clarence Thomas And Sarah Palin in exactly the same way that southerners saved a particularly vitriolic brand of anger for runaway slaves:

Slaves who had the temerity to run away from their plantation “home” paid dearly if they were caught and returned. Measures were taken to make them an example to others who might harbor similar thoughts about freedom. Among those measures were brutal public beatings of rebels to which other slaves were forced to bear witness and digest with great clarity the price of rebelliousness.

Such is the fate today of those uppity souls who choose to challenge the authority and legitimacy of our inexorably growing government plantation. Those with interests for the care and feeding of this plantation cannot physically punish these rebels with the whip. Their whip is the mainstream media and the means of punishment of this virtual whip is not beating of a physical body but assassination of character.

This perspective helps us understand the ongoing liberal obsession with destroying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.


I've got to admit, I find that conclusion spot on. Simply Brilliant.

There are some writers on the right who I follow very closely. Thomas Sowell of course, is better (In my opinion) than almost everyone, as are most of the astoundingly bright staff over at National Review. But until today, the only thing I knew about Star Parker was that she does some Fox news appearances. I never honestly paid much attention to her. Yes I I've agreed with much of what she's written, but I never saw her as a standout.

This could be a one off - a fly ball over the right field fence from a reliable ground ball hitter. I have no idea. But this is a first rate piece of thinking if you ask me. The ultimate test will be how deranged it makes liberals, as it begins to gain traction as an explanation on the right.

Anyway - follow the link above to the whole piece.