One would think that after 140+ years after the Emancipation Proclamation, America would get over the destructive habit of racism, especially as it is based on the fiction that there is more than one human race. Unless, of course, there are powerful, organized forces at play which perpetuate the habit.

Hmmmm...seems to me that the Democrats are always quick to "play the race card" and call anyone in opposition a racist when it serves their purposes. So here's a hypothesis (or "an" hypothesis if you prefer): The Democratic Party is continuously involved in an act of mass projection; that they are the real racists who perpetuate this national nightmare.

Now, before you go ballistic on the atomic blogger, remember that this is just a hypothesis, and it needs to be tested before any credence can be given to it.

Let's see: What are the THE most important domestic policy positions that are held by Democratic Party as a whole; you know, issues for which they will go to the mat; issues on which they have fought so hard that they have managed to prevail even against 12 years of their being in the Congressional minority and six years out of the White House?

Feel free to disagree, but I doubt anyone would seriously challenge these three issues as THE most central to Dem. political action on the domestic front: Preventing Social security privatization, preventing any sort of voucher system for non-public school choice, maintaining abortion on demand (usually phrased as preserving Roe v. Wade, and manifested as the refusal to confirm--or even to allow a confirmation vote upon--any candidates for the Supreme Court who they suspect might vote to overturn Roe v. Wade).

Let's take these positions in order, and see how they stack up. The latest vital statistics in the US show that white people live, on average, about 5 years longer than black people (about 76 v. 71 and 81 v. 76 for men and women, respectively). Since the Social Security retirement system is based on an insurance model, your benefits end when you die. That means that the average man who retires at age 65 will receive 6 years of benefits if he is black, and 11 years if he is white. You get the drift: One of the conservative think tanks did the precise math a few months back and proved the point: The Social Security retirement system effects a net flow of dollars out of the pockets of black workers and into the pockets of white retirees. If the system were changed to a pension system model, where each worker would own his or her own pension, and it would transfer to his or her heirs, then blacks and whites would benefit equally, in proportion to what they put into the system. But as its stands--as the Democrats insist it stands--the Social Security system actually serves to keep black people poor, relative to white people.

School vouchers are the only way that poor, inner city black kids' parents can afford to get them out of the often rotten public schools in their neighborhoods. No school choice outside the public school system means many will be relegated to poor educations and the lower socio-economic status that results; i.e., it keeps them being second-class citizens. (And what about the separation of church and state argument? It's easily proven to be pure bs and I'll deal with it in another posting.)

And abortion? The statistics in that arena are most telling: Black babies are aborted at more than three times the rate of white babies; a major reason why blacks now constitute a smaller minority than Hispanics. Since Roe v. Wade, something like 12 million African-American children have been killed before birth, by "choice".

So what's the bottom line? The main thrust of the Democratic Party's domestic agenda energy has, and continues to be expended upon keeping black people poor, poorly educated, and few in number. Consciously or unconciously, that sounds like a racist agenda to me.

Are you listening, Uncle Tom Obama?