Milestones . . .
This, by Dwayne Horner at Townhall, has to be the dumbest thing I’ve read in a while. “We’ve all heard how historic it was to have the first African-American elected President back in November. Is it not equally important to have the first African-American ever elected to the position of Chairman of one of our political parties?” (emphasis added)
Well, no. Obviously, no. The chairs of the two leading political parties are powerful men, but their positions are vastly less important and significant than the that of the president—a statement so obvious that I feel a bit silly noting it.
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It’s official, I’ve become a reactionary, Clinging to the definition of fairness that said a black American (as any) should be given the same opportunity to do things like be president or chair our most corrupt institutions. Now I see even the “conservative” Republican Party has abandoned that position.
I’ve been further retrograde in thinking assigning this premium to race was simply unfair. Not reverse-racism, but just plain racism, “well intended” or not–call it “perverse-racism” (hereby trademarked). Two hundred years after the birth of Darwin and I still haven’t descended from the tree onto the savannah floor.
Of course, Mr. Horner is just trying to hype the selection of Michael Steele by inflating (hyper-inflation?) the historic importance of his position. All he manages to do is draw attention to the tokenism of it.
Most registered Republicans I know cannot tell me the chairman’s name, much less that he is African-American.
Not to mention Ron Brown was elected to be the first black party chair (of the Dems, but still) back in 1988.
Though the awkwardly-written blog post that so set Clark off and running does indeed read like self-parody, and does indeed make someone like Brent Bozell seem a virtual Goethe by contrast, the blog from which it came is merely one of over 200,000 blogs hosted for free by TownHall (“Create Your Own Blog – It’s Easy!”), the equivalent of any median commenter’s archive from precincts afflicted with Freeper Madness. Not that such status within the movement-conservative pecking order or any other is to be sniffed at, given the sort who rise to the top therein in influence, and the need to judge content purely on intrinsic value. Before digging further, though, I had assumed from the tenor of Clark’s post that the quoted blog was of a density of influence matching that of the thick head generating it.