Black victimology.

Ilana Mercer has some choice words about Mr. Obama's recent Explanatory and Unifying Speech #5(b). It would be stealing her thunder to quote the delicious observation she makes in her second paragraph, so go there yourself.

I like what she wrote about how realistic people can actually choose not to roll around in the bad experiences of their ancestors at the hands of other people's ancestors in the course of mankind's halting, erratic, contradictory, accidental, unconscious, inadequate, partial, limited, warlike, unequal, diabolical, inspired, greed-driven, enlightened, ignorant, calculated, saintly, psychopathic, and compromising march down the centuries to inside plumbing, salted peanuts, industrial strength brassieres, socialism, the microchip, talk radio, antibiotics, internet porn, and nationwide consciousness raising about bladder control and erectile dysfunction:

The senator began his address by cutting the American founding down to size. The Declaration of Independence, he informed us, was “stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery.” Individuals who never owned slaves were so stained as well. The stain was such that it has leapt across generations, from “the spring of 1787” to the spring of 2008, to mark America with an eternal Mark of Cain.

And I thought Jews had monopolized the market for collective and cross-generational guilt!

Seriously, my family tree was truncated by an event far more fatal than was slavery: the Holocaust. I do not carry this legacy with me. I blame only those who planned and executed the Final Solution, mostly long dead. Members of my family—and tribe—have never ascribed their misfortunes and misdeeds to that contemporary calamity. They own their personal failings.

After WWII, large numbers of "displaced persons" showed up in America with the clothes on their back and zero knowledge of English. They went to work, took advantages of what America has to offer, and prospered. Millions of immigrants did the same before them. Vietnamese refugees did the same in 1975 and prospered. Today their children are the valedictorians of their graduating classes and now you can't swing a cat in any medical school and not hit some Vietnamese guy or gal.

But, due to the legacy of slavery, the graduation rate of blacks, presumably, from the Detroit government high schools is a mere ONE (pause) THIRD.

Legacy of slavery or completely inadequate culture? Personally, I think it's that legacy of slavery. What else can explain this?

Here's the money quote from Mercer:

How and why, Americans must ask themselves, did Obama become spiritually enmeshed with an impious pastor who hates white America.

"Obama’s Racial Ramrodding." Ilana Mercer, 3/21/08.