Happy Negro

Recently, Juan Williams, pictured here was called a "Happy Negro" by Boyce Watkins. As usual, when a black man wanders off the reservation and doesn't tow the liberal party line, he is labeled with some epithet questioning his authenticity as a black. Some quick background; on his radio show, Bill O'Reilly made some nice comments about Sylvia's, a restaurant in Harlem where he lunched with Al Sharpton. Juan Williams was a guest on the show at the time. Later, the lefty blogosphere put the comments in the high spin cycle and out came a racist interpretation. More on this here and here. Later, Williams defended O'Reilly as an actual witness to the conversation. Hence the vitriol being slung his direction.

My point here is the consistent racism on the left. Yes, you heard it here first, left wingers are more likely to be racists than conservatives.
Exhibit one: Conservative blacks are labeled Uncle Toms or worse. The underlying racist attitude is that blacks can't be conservatives, that's reserved for whites. See the poo flung at Michael Steele, black candidate for the Senate in Maryland, 2006.
Exhibit two: Affirmative action/racial preferences in hiring. The underlying racist attitude is that blacks and other minorities can't make it without special help, that they are somehow inferior because of their race. If that isn't hidden racism, I challenge the readers to tell me what is.
Exhibit three: The welfare state, which disproportionately created dependency among minorities. Often we are lectured that a policy is racist if it has a discriminatory outcome (like using SAT scores for college admissions.) The racist outcome of the welfare state was the creation of a disproportionately black permanent underclass.

I say it again, the left is more racist than conservatives. The prosecution rests.