Lance Fairchok

The Tyranny of the Minority
September 30, 2009
 

The Diversity Czar of the Federal Communications Commission, Mark Lloyd, believes in racial exceptionalism. It is not enough to provide equal opportunity and a level playing field, Mr. Lloyd desires minority supremacy and the control of the media by “social justice” elites. Like the former White House green jobs Czar Van Jones, whose radical statements made him a shoo-in and a shoo- out for the new administration, Lloyd was picked because he lives in the echo chamber of radical leftist academia and adheres to beliefs that are so far out of the mainstream and so divorced from reality that most Americans would demand his resignation should they but hear them.

At the Conference on Media Reform: Racial Justice in May 2005, Lloyd made these statements:

"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

"[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance."

“This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem.”

“We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.”

Lloyd’s past statements make his political assumptions clear and we can extrapolate further--free markets are bad, corporations are bad, conservatives are bad, and free speech is bad, white people are bad. Lloyd is the kind of nasty political creature Obama has surrounded himself with, an ideologue that holds America, its people and its institutions in contempt. Obama’s Czars constitute a shadow government that sidesteps oversight to pursue a radical agenda as muddled as it is destructive. Every week that passes finds part of the foundation of the American Republic chipped away, another agency politicized, another non-partisan body corrupted. Of all our institutions so undermined, perhaps the most troubling is the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

The New York Times reported in early September that “Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.” The article entitled ‘Justice Dept. to Recharge Enforcement of Civil Rights’ was written by the leftist author Charlie Savage. It paints the picture of a Civil Rights Division left crippled by the Bush administration.

The words Mr. Savage uses are clever. They insinuate a rebirth; the DOJ will “recharge” civil rights enforcement with more staff and more money. But Holder is not merely interested in enforcing laws and ensuring justice. His Justice Department is being reborn as an activist organization that will proactively seek out “injustice” as defined by the “social justice” ideology the Obama administration is pursuing. It is a “revival,” a spiritual awakening, in the spirit of the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the communist terrorist William Ayers and the black supremacist New Black Panthers.

“As part of this shift, the Obama administration is planning a major revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement against policies, in areas ranging from housing to hiring, where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly. President George W. Bush’s appointees had discouraged such tactics, preferring to focus on individual cases in which there is evidence of intentional discrimination.” The statistics Holder’s Civil Rights Division cherry picks will undoubtedly reveal endemic racism deep seated at every level “from housing to hiring,” in a new crisis of race that cries out for “justice.” It will justify a racial exceptionalism that will make affirmative action look mild.

Holder will not be encouraging voting reform to prevent fraud, nor will he prosecute voting crimes with equal application under the law. He will ensure the rules remain favorable to Democrat environs where voter fraud is a time-honored tradition. Voter ID will officially be “discriminatory” because minorities may not have a driver’s license, a twisted manipulative logic used for years to stop states attempting to prevent vote traveling and multiple voting. When voter fraud is discovered, prosecutions will be sparse and political.

Employment discrimination regulation will be broadly reinterpreted to revive and accelerate quotas and hiring preferences, discriminatory practices redefined to eliminate hiring restrictions for education, language ability and personal appearance. Employer discretion will be restricted and regulated, with unions “co-opted” to write the new regulatory guidelines along very socialist union lines.

Lending practices will be driven by racial preferences. The left believes the appalling performance of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is unfortunate, but the unavoidable price of “lending justice.” Footing the bill for deadbeats is our civic duty, our communitarian responsibility, especially if they are minorities. We may even see “community committees” organized to oversee housing issues.

The flawed results of a chaotic and corrupt census process will drive redistricting after the 2010 census. Exploited for partisan political purposes, the Democrats will break what few rules still limit them. Despite scandal and disgrace and a public break, a renamed ACORN, its affiliates, proxies and other “community organizing” groups will have a great deal of influence on the census process. The issue is too central to racial gerrymandering, and they will not abandon it because of some bad publicity. Holder has ACORN’s back.

After less than a year of Obama’s anti-American administration the damage is extensive, after four, if left unchecked, it will be catastrophic. The national deconstruction the left pursues is accelerating, transforming a free market republic to a government run and government controlled socialist state. We hang on the precipice of disaster.

We face the tyranny of the minority, where the voice of the people is silenced by Neo-Marxist elites that wrap their policies with moralizing platitudes and bald-faced lies, spending away our future and frantically spinning their crime for an increasingly skeptical electorate. Obama has divided us as never before. November 2010 is the fork in the road, the branch we choose could mean our renewal or our ruin.

It is a troubled time, a time where there is no easy way, no moderate position or bi-partisan agreement that can save us from what will come if we sit idle. It is not enough to simply hold opinions or write letters, it is time to act, to show what “community organizing” really is, to show in all our millions that we reject the theft of our country and our liberty. Our children will not forgive us our timidity if we fail to act. It is time to remember what our forefathers taught us about sacrifice and principle, time to rekindle the spirit of a revolution that brought greatness to our nation and freedom to untold millions around the world. It is time to stand against the rising tide of government tyranny and all its corruption, theft and deceit. It is time to fight back, before the insidious socialist disease Obama and the Democrats have delivered upon us metastasizes into America’s soul.