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Sunday 20 May 2012

Mitt Romney has been a devout Mormon all his life. He was 31 years old in 1978, when the church announced that, thanks to a timely divine revelation, its traditional position on blacks—i.e., that they were the direct descendants of Cain and a “cursed race” whose skin color and “flat noses” marked them as inferior to other human beings, and so could not join the priesthood or marry non-blacks—was now, as Ron Ziegler used to say, inoperative. Romney, like all good Mormons, does not now believe that black people are inferior and “wicked” by nature. Did he believe it for the first 31 years of his life, when his church literally dictated that he should? After Things Changed in 1978, one church leader, Bruce McConkie, shrugged off the church’s history of holy racism by saying, ” It doesn’t make a particle of difference what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year.” It could be argued that this line could be the motto for the Republican party on the issue of whether whites who’ve used positions of power to enforce racist policies and express racist views should be held accountable for it, and that the thought that Romney could have believed something that ridiculous and offensive and turned on a dime when he was given permission to is exactly what creeps many people out about him. Of course, to ask anything at all about what we can tell about a white Republican’s moral values would be the height of political correctness. But Jeremiah Wright may be the scariest of all the black-power boogeymen who’ve been cast in the role of Obama’s evil mentor, because of the honorific “Reverend” in front of his name, which reminds some whites of so many other black men of God who, as they see it, just wanted to start some shit. The rule for white Republicans now seems to be that it’s wrong to ever suspect a white person of harboring ill feeling towards blacks, even if he’s expressed it at some point in his reckless youth, but a black person has to prove every second of every day that he isn’t plotting against whitey, and if he’s ever seen in the company of someone that a discerning fellow like Joe Ricketts may have his doubts about, then his cover’s blown, forever. To just call this a double standard would be very kind indeed. P.C. for Me but Not for Thee

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