Ben Stein has written, even by his standards, a shockingly racist article in The American Spectator which is jaw-dropping both for its bigotry and idiocy.
It's an article within which, ironically, Stein argues that racism no longer exists for white folks ... just see for yourself:
White people have pretty much given up racism as a factor in their lives. They have to worry about jobs and education and families. Thus, there are none, not any major white leaders of any kind whose stock in trade is whipping up race hatred. That movement simply does not exist.
But among “black leaders,” who really can no longer make credible claims about racism now that we have a black President, who really have no answers to the crisis in the black community, a chance to distract people from their own powerlessness is a golden opportunity.
Yes, racism no longer exists for Stein because jobs and a black President.
Now, you might wonder why Stein is even babbling on about such things. The occasion for Stein's article is to defend George Zimmerman, to rescue him from the anti-white frenzy whipped up by the liberal media's manufactured racism narrative.
He's out to show that white people don't suck anymore.
In doing so, Stein manages to craft some of the most offensive and racist passages I've read in a conservative publication in some time.
I don't even know what to say:
It horrifies me that the media has tried to turn this sad case into an occasion to make black people hate white people. It horrifies me that Mr. Obama has joined in. His assertion that he could have been Martin is breathtakingly dishonest. If Obama had been Martin, he would have talked Zimmerman out of his watch and his wallet and then gotten a scholarship to college for writing about it. Martin was a dangerously violent kid. Obama was and always has been a politician.
But it’s worse than this: the black community in this nation is in crisis. It has a disastrous situation in terms of education, lack of work habits, complete collapse of the family, wild overuse of drugs, violence, and generally behavior that is destructive to itself and far too many other people. (Obviously, this applies only to some black people. I work every day and you work every day with black people who are in fine shape, much better shape than I am in.)
Shorter Stien: not
all black people suck. (Oh, and Obama would have stolen Zimmerman's wallet.)
Stein's main point is that black people have it good today, much better than when things were really bad. Much better than when there were, you know, actual racists.
I suppose it's something about which he knows plenty.