VA State Senator Louise Lucas in debate mode
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The Challenge Of Dealing With Minority Officials Who Run Afoul Of The Law Is A Pre-Eminently Democratic Problem
by James Fulford
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The indictment of 82-year-old black Democratic Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas (see pic above) brings up an old problem for the Democrats—minority politicians being corrupt…and getting caught.
Of course she’s one of the people who Tweeted when Trump was indicted that “Donald Trump just learned no one is above the law!”
My headline above is from a 2009 USA Today article by Rutgers political scientist Ross K. Baker on Roland Burris’s apparent perjury (for which he was never charged) on his way to being appointed to the Senate.
A danger for Democrats
The challenge of dealing with minority officials who run afoul of the law is a pre-eminently Democratic problem and will certainly arise again when the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct makes its report on some questionable activities by Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means. Rangel is accused of failure to report income, circumventing New York City’s rent-control laws by occupying four of the cut-rate units, not the allowable one, and using official House stationery to raise money for a school of public affairs at the City College of New York that is named for him.
In light of the reluctance of Democratic leaders to stand up to the chorus of support for Burris, they could find themselves accused of dealing less aggressively with minority corruption than with malfeasance by whites. This would be difficult enough given the importance of minorities to the Democratic coalition. What compounds the situation is the readiness of African-American politicians to make the accused into racial martyrs. [The Burris problem - Opinion - USATODAY.com, February 25, 2009]
There’s more, at this archive.org link, and for a Mainstream Media publication, it was very brave—although it’s no longer on the web.
And yes, this is a major problem for Democrats, and it would be a much bigger problem for them if the Mainstream Media would report it. You will never see a headline that says “Black Congressman Arrested For Bribery.” The only time I saw a headline that read “Black Charged With Fraud,” it was Conrad Black, and he was (a) white, (b) not actually guilty, and (c) eventually pardoned by Trump on the basis.
Typically the accused’s race only comes out when he or she plays the race card
She, in this case, is not being reported as a black criminal—none of these headlines say “Black Charged With Corruption” although there are photographs:
But of course, she’s posturing as a black victim of racism:
And white liberals are defending her on that basis:
The fact is that while no one in the media will mention that a malefactor is black, they will mention it when a politician wants to use it in his defense.
Here’s something I wrote about when I was just starting at VDARE.com in 2001.
The media never mention anyone’s race, sex, or immigration status if they can avoid it.
I found out in 2001, five years after I first heard of him being sent away for having sex with an underage girl, that Congressman Mel Reynolds is black.
No one mentioned it, so I didn’t know until I came across a story where he mentioned it himself.
In classic Clintonian style, Reynolds smeared his young accuser as a “liar” and “nut case.’ A diverse jury of six blacks and six whites believed the troubled girl, not the conniving Rhodes Scholar. Yet, Reynolds bitterly blamed racism in a 40-minute courtroom tirade: ‘When they shackle me, like they shackled my slave ancestors and take me off to jail, nobody in this room will see me crawl.’ [Mel and Bill: bosom buddies, By Michelle Malkin, January 31, 2001]
I was particularly surprised to hear this, since the only color that had been mentioned was the color of the girl’s underwear (peach) discussed by Reynode by the FBI.
This started me on my path of trying to find out what the journalists are trying to hide from the public:
Hiding The Race Of Criminals—The Media’s Deliberate (And Dangerous) Lie
James Fulford Jan 25
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“Race is destiny in American politics,” as Peter Brimelow has repeatedly pointed out. It means that minorities will have different voting habits and traditions, as well as different activities in office. That includes differential rates of corruption and white collar crime. To quote something John Derbyshire wrote in February, 2001, in The Case For Racial Profiling:
I do, however, think it is naive to imagine that the “racial profiling” hubbub would go away, or even much diminish, if all state and federal drug laws were repealed tomorrow. Black and Hispanic Americans would still be committing crimes at rates higher than citizens of other races. The differential criminality of various ethnic groups is not only, nor even mainly, located in drug crimes. In 1997, for example, blacks, who are 13 per cent of the U.S. population, comprised 35 per cent of those arrested for embezzlement. (It is not generally appreciated that black Americans commit higher levels not only of “street crime,” but also of white-collar crime.)
As long as Democrats insist on being the “Black Party” they’ll continue to have massive levels of corruption among their elected officials.
And here’s something to think above: after his eight years as President (annual salary $400,000,) Barack Obama’s various friends in the media have increased his net worth to $75, 000, 000.
James Fulford has been writing about the national question for over 20 years, mostly for VDARE.com, more recently for WhitePapers.