John Forbes Kerry told American Urban Radio Network that he wouldn’t mind becoming the second black President of the United States. His comment has sent an almost unnoticeable ripple of discontent through the American-African community but has drawn the ire of at least one civil rights activist.

"President Clinton was often known as the first black president," Kerry explained during the radio interview. "I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second." Kerry’s statement was a clear reference to the mockingly bestowed title given to Bill Clinton by Toni Morrison in a 1998 essay published in the New Yorker magazine. The article was written as satire. Despite that fact, Clinton decided to spin the moniker to his favor, a trademark political tactic of the Clinton Administration, making chicken salad out of chicken…well you know.

Paula Diane Harris, the founder and president of the Andrew Young National Center for Social Change, which offers legal services to those who can’t afford it, said the millionaire, and Caucasian, Kerry, needs to apologize for his insensitive and racist comments. "John Kerry is not a black man -- he is a privileged white man who has no idea what it is to be a poor white in this country, let alone a black man."

Harris also took fellow American-African leaders to task for not being outraged by Kerry’s comments. She chastised them for opting to ignore racist statements by liberal political candidates, candidates the American-African community has favored over the years for whatever the reason, while railing against conservative candidates who issue statements often less offensive. "It seems that all these leaders care about is their personal agendas in how a 'John Kerry' will keep up their personal causes," Harris concluded. She said the deafening silence from civil rights leaders when a Democrat utters blatantly racist remarks is "a practice that further insults African-Americans."

To say the very least, the practice of the liberal establishment calling conservative politicians, organization heads and potentates to task when there is even a hint of racial impropriety while giving their liberal counterparts a pass (most times when they are guilty of much worse) is far beyond a habit, it has become a racially biased and sickening status quo. We hear a stunning silence from the hierarchy of the left when members of Congress like Corrine Brown say that all light-colored people "look alike” to her, or when the good Reverend Jesse Jackson calls New York City "Hymie-Town”, yet when a Senator Trent Lott says something that takes a practiced master of origami to manipulate into a racist phrase they scream for his head and a round of apologies for everyone. We are now hearing that same stunning silence in response to arguably a racist comment from the person who will be the nominee for president from the Democratic Party, the party that pretends to care about the American-African community.

It would be refreshing to see the American-African community finally be awakened from their multiple-decades sleep to see that the Democrats have been using them, pandering to them for their votes and doing little to help the American-African community remove themselves from the socially compromising positions to which a great many have fallen victim. It would be invigorating to see the American-African community realize that the liberals of this country offer little more to them than rhetoric, false hope and the hollow promise that things will be better if they elect the Democrats to power. It would be uplifting to see the American-African community realize that the programs of entitlement created by Lyndon Johnson (a Democrat) and nurtured by the Democratic Party through the decades have become nothing more than "tombs of enablement.” The American-African community would certainly be justified if they stood up to their liberal enablers and deceivers and said, "No more!” This year they have an opportunity to do just that; they can do so with their votes.

Al Sharpton was correct to point out that the Democratic Party hasn’t really done anything for the American-African community since the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Even then Democratic politicians the likes of George Wallace, Lester Maddox and Ross Barnett governed the Southern states of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi respectively, where much of the great and violent civil rights injustices occurred. Yet, today’s Democratic Party simply brushes that history aside by labeling these past party members as "Southern Democrats” and divorcing themselves of a damning moment in their party’s history. At the same time they try to erase the fact that Abraham Lincoln, the president that saw the Emancipation Proclamation become the law of the land, was a Republican and a conservative. They would say, "Pay no attention to the past. We are the party of the American-African community,” as they dole out entitlements that over time create a dependent sub-culture of the American-African community. Their revisionism and selective recall is convenient.

For the liberal leaders of the Democratic Party to contend they are the political party that holds the concerns of the American-African community in the highest esteem is laughable. One needs only look at what the Democratic Party did for the American-African community during the 1990’s, the years of the "first black president”, to see that their promises are worthless at best. Alas, the fallacy that Bill Clinton was good for the American-African community survives, despite the established record that shows conditions for them deteriorated during Clinton's terms as president. The Democrats are geared up to nominate their "second black president” and sadly, the fact is, history repeats itself.

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials, Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.