Democrats Spend Too Much Time Pandering to Blacks

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Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used the Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as professor Shelby Steele explains, "whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance." In response to a question from the audience: "I need you to tell us what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans right now," Sen. Clinton answered, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about. . . ." Though the audience was largely black, I doubt whether any of the attendees had any plantation experience.

Clinton was simply employing the Democrats' political rope-a- dope for blacks. As Steele asks in his Wall Street Journal editorial, "Hillary's Plantation": "Must blacks have their slave past rubbed in their face simply for Hillary Clinton to make a little hay against modern-day Republicans?" Steele also asks, "Does she really see us as she projects us -- as a people so backward that our support can be won with a simple plantation reference, and the implication that Republicans are racist?"

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Democrats Spend Too Much Time Pandering to Blacks

Clinton is not alone with such demeaning pandering. Before a predominantly black audience, during his 2004 presidential bid, Sen. John Kerry said, i...

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