{"id":29233,"date":"2015-07-19T23:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T06:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29233"},"modified":"2015-07-20T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:48:52","slug":"wingnut-media-freaks-out-over-obamas-efforts-to-study-institutional-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29233","title":{"rendered":"Wingnut Media Freaks Out Over Obama’s Efforts To Study Institutional Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conservative media in America has been frantically trying to deny that racism exists anymore. Over at Fox News they harbor the delusional notion that America’s legacy of bigotry was vanquished<\/a> when President Obama was elected. Never mind that the nearly half of the nation that voted against him included members of virulently hostile Klan groups that have continued to spew their hate for the last seven years. And set aside that just a few weeks ago nine African-Americans were slaughtered in a church by a Confederate flag waving bigot. And let’s not even get into the fact that Donald Trump can make overtly racist comments and have his popularity within the Republican Party soar.<\/p>\n

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Now Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post has published an article<\/a> that is dripping with fear over what it calls “a secret race database.”<\/em> The article alleges that the Obama administration is engaged in an “unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race.”<\/em> It goes on to say with a sense of foreboding doom that…<\/p>\n

“Obama\u2019s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school \u2014 all to document ‘inequalities’ between minorities and whites.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heavens to Murgatroyd! What a dastardly plot. The President is scheming to learn about how many of our society’s institutions are discriminating against the citizens they are supposed to be serving. Why ever would he do such a thing? The Post describes the project as an “Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics”<\/em> that Obama wants to use…<\/p>\n

“…against banks that don\u2019t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don\u2019t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently the Post is in favor of banks and schools and employers discriminating against minorities and women. That’s why they are so outraged that the administration would dare to do something about it. And they are particularly disturbed that the whole project is a deep dark secret that is being kept from the American people. At least that’s what they claim in the headline that reads: “Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Curiously, a mere five paragraphs into the article, the allegation of a covert conspiracy is contradicted when the author discloses that “Big Brother Barack wants the databases operational before he leaves office, and much of the data in them will be posted online.”<\/em> Posting the product of your supposedly secret operation online pretty much refutes the allegation that it is secret. And the Post is apparently to dim to notice that they destroyed the whole basis of their own article.<\/p>\n

The rest of the article describes some of the areas that will be studied to ascertain whether any discrimination is occurring intentionally or otherwise. Some of the practices include housing, mortgages, credit, employment, and education. While the article portrays these studies as nefarious, it is clear that they are intended to bring about more fairness and eliminate racial biases. All of the information collected will be from public sources and will be evaluated without breaching anyone’s privacy. Nevertheless, the Post closes with this ominous sounding warning:<\/p>\n

“[Obama] is creating a diversity police state where government race cops and civil-rights lawyers will micromanage demographic outcomes in virtually every aspect of society.<\/p>\n

“The first black president, quite brilliantly, has built a quasi-reparations infrastructure perpetually fed by racial data that will outlast his administration.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other more sane words, he is using publicly available data to shed light on areas within the government that can be improved with regard to racial fairness and non-discrimination as the Constitution demands. And that this initiative to eliminate discrimination will endure over time. What a despicable tyrant. If the Post had its way these institutions would be left alone to continue to grant special privileges to the privileged class, like those who run the Post, and to hell with everyone else. At least the Post is doing everyone a favor by exposing themselves as pro-racism.<\/p>\n

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The conservative media in America has been frantically trying to deny that racism exists anymore. Over at Fox News they harbor the delusional notion that America’s legacy of bigotry was vanquished when President Obama was elected. 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