Affirmative action critic Andy Martin says President Obama is the “end of the line” for affirmative action

Contrarian columnist and New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin juxtaposes the chaos in the White House today with the turbulence at the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Andy says that “affirmative action,” supposedly prohibited by the 1964 Act, is undermining the safety and security of the United States and promoting incompetent public officials such as Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama. Andy predicts that our “great national experiment” with affirmative action in electing Obama to the presidency will end badly and scar the United States for a generation. Andy remains committed to civil rights and racial quality but notes that President Obama’s incompetence will leave a legacy that will linger long after Obama is gone.

Andy charges that affirmative action ultimately creates a sense of arrogance and entitlement for its beneficiaries. The negative consequences of affirmative action explain the current disorder in the Obama White House. Eric Holder had it backwards in a recent ABC News interview; he is not the target of racism. Rather, he has been the beneficiary of affirmative action and that has made all the difference in his attitude towards public service. Holder was promoted to a position for which he was manifestly unqualified; Holder is now angry that the public views his performance unfavorably.

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“The Last Days of Affirmative Action; President Obama’s incompetence will undermine racial preferences forever”

(MANCHESTER, NH) (July 17, 2014) 

Dear Fellow American:

This commentary is my reaction to the recent remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder that he and President Barack Obama are the victims of racism. Holder’s remarks force us to confront the unfortunate reality that our civil rights laws have created. We must also confront the results of the “affirmative action” remedies that have bedeviled our society for almost fifty years.

As a candidate for the United States Senate I am committed to equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. We should not and cannot tolerate diminished standards and lowered expectations of competence in our public officials and employees.

Affirmative action has been a controversial subject since it surfaced in the late 1960’s. Let’s review the history before we see how affirmative action gave us a president who is totally unqualified and completely incapable of discharging the duties of the office. In addition, affirmative action has created a sense of entitlement and ultimately arrogance in both President Obama and some of his appointees that is destroying both his administration and our society.

1. My own personal civil rights background

     I grew up on a college campus in a home that was very hospitable to civil rights. My home town in Connecticut had a generally color-blind environment. In first or second grade, one of my closest friends was Norman Hunter, who lived in the projects. Children, of course, are often color-blind; those of us who grow up in such environments are fortunate indeed.

As a college football player, my roommate Art McCaskill was an African-American. Together we followed the civil rights battles taking place in the south. Art came from Centralia, Illinois where race and class were sharply defined and where resistance to civil rights occasionally became violent. We remained close friends after college.

My own church has been very heavily involved in aid to Africa and helping to encourage the struggle for liberation in South Africa. I remain as committed to civil rights today as I was as a college student. There is no place for bigotry or hatred in our society.

2. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

     The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the greatest pieces of legislation in American history. The law remains so today. Earlier this month we celebrated the signing of the 1964 Act on July 2, 1964. But the 1964 Act was sold to Congress and sold to the American people as a law that prevented and precluded “affirmative action.” Affirmative action is loosely defined as mandatory steps by government and private industry to ignore the qualifications of individuals and to hire and promote on the basis of racial quotas or “goals” for racial and ethnic enhancement.

How did a law that barred affirmative action become a law that mandated affirmative action? The federal courts were importuned to ignore the statutory language and to invent “remedies” that “redressed” genuine problems; unfortunately the courts did so in a way that countermanded the specific intent of Congress.

Adding to the problems created by the growth in demand for “affirmative action” was the fact that our federal courts have historically created a doctrine of “standing” that effectively bars individual from challenging general government actions except in the narrowest of circumstances.

This week legal scholars debated whether Speaker John Boehner can sue President Obama for violating the “faithfully executed” clause of the Constitution. The reason? Boehner may lack “standing” to sue on behalf of Congress and the amorphous “public interest” even though the merits of Boehner’s claims are painfully obvious.

Obama is not “faithfully executing” the law. He is contemptuously and intentionally violating our nation’s statutes. Under the judge-created doctrine of standing, however, no one may have a legal right to challenge Obama’s illegal behavior. (Memo to file if I get to the U. S. Senate: we need to amend the U. S. Constitution to give Congress “standing” to challenge the president in court.)

3. My own efforts at “affirmative assistance”

     After law school I remained in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois for several years. I had the occasional need of an electrician. One of my closest law school friends knew a porter at his fraternity that did electrical repairs; I became friendly with John Mitchell. Like many African-Americans, John M. had been treated harshly by life. He had the survived the hard knocks but was still struggling to succeed. He did not have an electrician’s license. With my encouragement and financial assistance he obtained the license. Eventually I helped him get an electrical contractor’s permit as well. But at each stage John was insistent that he must have the “qualifications” before we approached the next step. He did not want to be promoted without being qualified for his new assignment. He did not want to be the beneficiary of affirmative action.

4. Affirmative action begins to poison the workplace

My own belief is that many African-Americans and other minorities have never wanted individuals to be promoted on the basis of quotas when those persons lack the experience or qualifications to do the job. The reason: failure of an unqualified individual could taint the perception of an entire ethnic group.

The hydraulic pressure created by government-based liberals to undo the damage of centuries of racial deprivation and to do so in the course of a few years unfortunately created during the 1960’s and 70’s an environment where individuals were promoted without being qualified for their new positions. The consequences and public reaction to the problem of unqualified people working in government has been acute resentment by citizens who have had to deal with these unqualified public employees.

Most minorities have succeeded on the basis of their own merit. In business it is very difficult to manage a plant or a product line if you are unqualified, whatever your racial or ethnic background. Likewise, in the military, affirmative action cannot be a factor when lives are at stake. Overall, the 1964 Civil Rights Act has succeeded in opening the world of opportunity to minorities, and that is precisely as it should be.

But affirmative action, which in many instances hardened into “quotas,” has left lingering distaste in the mouths of many Americans. In one of his reelection campaigns Senator Jesse Helms ran a powerful anti-affirmative action commercial that may have turned the tide in his reelection.

The net effect of promoting some unqualified individuals based on quotas has been that the gains of those individuals who succeeded and prospered because they were qualified have been diluted by the promotion of the individuals who were unqualified and only advanced because of affirmative action quotas.

The disastrous consequence of affirmative action in the White house is that beneficiaries such as Obama and Holder have developed an elevated sense of entitlement to special treatment. Entitlement often hardens into arrogance and contempt for ordinary Americans. Both Obama and Holder appear to suffer from this syndrome.

When Holder was interviewed by ABC News earlier this week he claimed that he and Obama were being attacked politically because of the innate racism of American society. Nothing could be further from reality. Americans are opposing Obama because of his policies and politics, not because of his racial background.

5. Obama steps onto the national stage

     One of the challengers of analyzing affirmative action is that the results of that policy take decades to manifest themselves. Although affirmative action began decades ago a presidential candidate who had been the intended beneficiary of affirmative action did not appear until 2008.

     When Senator Barack Obama began to be seriously considered as a presidential candidate I enhanced my research into his family background and personal history. That research is still continuing, a decade later.

Many Americans and especially the mainstream media wanted to promote the election of an African-American president. They overlooked Obama’s deficiencies and lack of experience and presented him to an unsuspecting and vulnerable voting public. People were afraid to oppose Obama because they were afraid of being called racists.

6. The “Incredible Shrinking Obama”

     When Obama entered the White House he claimed that he would be a transformative president. Instead, he has become the “incredible shrinking president.” Obama is the only recent occupant of the White House who has not grown after entering the Oval Office. Usually the challenges of the presidency cause occupants to “grow” to meet those challenges. Obama has done the opposite. He is visibly shrinking before our eyes. Almost every day some Obama policy or promise, such as “lead from behind” or “you can keep your doctor,” is discredited.

7. The Obama presidency is unraveling, both him and his policies

     Today there is a growing public frustration with President Obama and many of his appointees such as Eric Holder. Foreign policy is in a shambles. Our southern border is being invaded by illegal aliens. The economic “recovery” is insipid at best. Tens of millions of Americans are either unemployed or underemployed. Valiant soldiers are being “fired” and dumped on the street at a time when national security risks are increasing and we need a strong military. Even minorities are protesting. Why is Obama neglecting urgent needs in our cities and instead requesting billions in aid for illegal aliens?

Economic hardship is rampant among young people. In a situation similar to that which existed during the Great Depression (1929-1941), when family formation was postponed for over a decade, today young people cannot afford to marry, cannot afford to start a household, cannot afford to purchase and furnish a home. We should not be surprised that there is policy-based hostility to President Obama. What is surprising is that he and Holder respond by crying “racism.” Their sense of arrogance and entitlement is overwhelming and overweening.

8. Obama will leave a legacy of bitterness and hostility

     The incompetence of both Obama and Holder will leave a legacy of bitterness and resentment when they finally exit government. Affirmative action also undermines our confidence in the professional accomplishments of other persons operating under the umbrella of preferential treatment. Is Jeh Johnson competent to serve as a cabinet officer? I have no idea. But many voters will question the qualifications of all of Obama’s minority appointments precisely because he is making those appointments not based solely on merit but rather on the basis of affirmative action.

Obama’s arrogance, and his delusional belief that he and Holder are victims of “racism,” is an insult to the American people who voted for Obama twice. Voters are against Obama not because of his race but because of his socialist agenda and total incompetence (unless you subscribe to the far-fetched theory that Obama wanted to send the whole world into a tailspin and that creating worldwide disaster was indeed his “policy”).

8. America will be “open for business” after Obama leaves

     When Hillary and Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001 they stripped the White House of every article they could carry off, almost down to the floor boards. And, as part of their congenital greed, they sold off pardons to Marc Rich and other Democratic Party contributors. Money, money, money. Since then the Clinton Spin Machine has constantly injected vapors into the American psyche in order to make people “forget” just how bad the Clintons were.

But today the years in which Clinton served in the White House look pretty good by comparison with Obama’s. That is because an out-of-control President Clinton was handcuffed by the American electorate in 1994. Clinton was prevented from implementing his harebrained schemes and Hillary Clinton’s “Hillarycare.”

The Clintons have now become wealthy entertainers. Like stand-up comics or “experts” they traverse the nation collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for “speeches” which offer very little substance and a huge dollop of nostalgia for the “the years before Obama.”

When Obama leaves the White House he too will probably earn hundreds of millions of dollars and the public will conveniently forget what an incompetent “leader” Obama was while in office. The United States of America will open for business the day after Obama is finished. We will start undoing and repairing the damage that eight years of Obama inflicted on the American people. Obama’s successor will inherit the mess Obama leaves behind.

Every American citizen will have been diminished by the first and very likely last affirmative action president. Affirmative action will “die” with Obama. The great national experience in “enhanced incompetence” will have ended with him. Affirmative action? R.I.P.

The bottom line: we need to think deeply about why Obama is destroying America, and why he seeks refuge in delusional claims of racism. Obama’s and Holder’s senses of entitlement and arrogance, and their contempt for our history and our Constitution, pose a danger to every American.

Faithfully,

Andy Martin

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Is Barack Obama killing affirmative action by his incompetence in the White House?

Obama author and critic Andy Martin says Barack Obama is a great entertainer but a lousy leader.


Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin on the day affirmative action died in the White House

‘Bye, bye Obama Pie”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin says the media elected Barack Obama; media branded anyone who questioned Obama’s qualifications a “racist”

Now we are stuck with an “Affirmative Action President” who is incompetent to lead, in effect the “Bush III” people voted against

Part One of a two-part series

(NEW YORK)(February 12, 2009) America’s great national experiment with affirmative action in the White House is over. Barack Obama is a failure.

Democratic Party bigwig Geraldine Ferraro was the first person to state openly in 2008 that Barack Obama would not have been taken seriously as a candidate for president of the United States if he was a white man. Ferraro was pilloried for her remarks that the media were promoting an African-American candidate for a position for which he was totally unqualified.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/us/politics/12campaign.html

During the campaign, Obama constantly played the “race card” himself, while falsely accusing the hapless John McCain of doing the same. McCain might have won if he had presented a coherent reason why voting on the basis of race could endanger the nation. McCain was too incompetent a national candidate to do so. Americans were left to be intimidated by Obama’s claim he “didn’t look like” the pictures of people on our currency.

Those of us who have been victims of affirmative action know what a pernicious policy it is. People are promoted to positions for which they lack training and experience. Obama became our first “affirmative action president.”

The result is what Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker calls an embarrassing “Amateur Hour” in Washington. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003098.html

My guess is that Obama’s increasingly demonstrated incompetence will be a serious setback for race relations in America.

Parker notes that people “kept their fingers crossed” when they voted, because Obama lacked a record or a resume of leadership. Voters “tried to pretend [experience] didn’t really matter.”

But the media were intent on electing an African-American, and they succeeded in foisting Obama on the United States at a time when competence, not charisma, was our crucial need.

Of course, I may be labeled a racist by the Obama echo-chamber for raising the issue of affirmative action at this time. Anyone who stands up to Obama risks being smeared by the media, by Obama’s wealthy supporters and by the gaggle of Hugo Chavez-style bully boys that supports Obama. But demanding outstanding experience and demonstrated competence in the presidency is a race-neutral point of view.

The American people are now doomed to endure at least four years of racist-inspired rhetoric from the “bully pulpit” of the Oval Office, from a man who lacks the authority and credibility to speak to the crises we face.

But why were the media obsessed with electing a black? Obsession is not too strong a word. Media refused to investigate Obama’s past, or his convoluted family history. Even today no one has seen Obama’s original typewritten 1961 birth certificate. He has gone to great lengths to prevent the release of that document. What is he hiding?

Likewise, people were afraid to call Obama “Barack Hussein Obama” until after the election, when Obama himself insisted on being addressed with “Hussein” in the middle (John McCain are you reading, or have you already nodded off?).

When I stated the truth, namely that Obama came from a Muslim family background, I was attacked on the front page of the New York Times.

Bill Ayers? More smears from the media. Fox News and Sean Hannity were forced to commit sepukku for allowing me to summarize what was known and unknown about Obama’s links to radicals and extremists. No one wanted to learn the truth about Obama. No one wanted to probe the character and psychology of a man who would be thrust into a position of unbelievable stress and responsibility (more on this in Part Two). Even today, Obama’s supporters deny that his “stimulus package” is a thinly disguised plan to deconstruct America and impose step-by-step socialism on the American people. Bill Ayers is smiling. He could have written Obama’s “recovery” proposal; maybe he did.

When ContrarianCommentary.com’s investigative task force landed in Hawaii last October, we were the first (and so far the only) media investigative team to begin a serious look at who Obama really is. The mainstream media only appeared in Honolulu when Obama went swimming or on “vacation” in luxury accommodations. Otherwise, “please don’t bother us with the facts” was the media’s mantra.

Now we have the real, unvarnished Obama, flailing about, threatening, attacking. Obama turns out to be precisely the opposite kind of person people thought they had voted for. As Parker points out, Obama felt that the White House was too confining, after two weeks. Maybe he wants to head for the surf in Hawai’i again?

I became Obama’s first critic, way back in 2004. He never fooled me. I have never denied “Barry O” is “easy company,” to use Parker’s phrase. He would probably be fun to have as a neighbor. But a national leader? Please. My book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask," was the first to explore the “mask” of Barack Hussein Obama and what it would mean if he was elected. It was all there is broad daylight. But there are “none so blind as those who will not see, none so deaf as those who will not listen.” Maybe America is listening now. Maybe not yet.

Obama fooled the American people. But, most of all, he may have fooled himself. His incompetence is going to set back race relations by decades. What George Bush did to discredit WASPS Obama will do to African-Americans.

Affirmative action, anyone?

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