The soft bigotry of low expectations

The installation by the media of The One into the presidency was supposed to signal the end of racialism in America. This was supposed to be the post-racial era if the media were to be believed. Well, Clinton retread and dwarf, Robert Reich apparently didn't get the memo. Here's what he said when asked about the $1trillion stimulus package, directed toward infrastructure projects.....[emphasis mine]

I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers. … I have nothing against white male construction workers. I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well. … Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals.

So let me get this straight, construction jobs will go to people who're not construction workers or even skilled, simply on the basis of current employment status, gender, and skin color? Seriously? If you're driving with your family across a bridge over the Mississippi River, wouldn't you like to assume that the best available engineers and most highly skilled construction workers were used to design and build it, regardless of race? How many of you would cross a bridge knowing that only firms owned by a certain protected race were allowed to work on the project?

Where's the post-racialism Robert....you moron! By insisting on race-based set-asides, Reich demonstrates his, and by extension Obama's, belief that blacks can't compete with, and are less competent than, everybody else and must be given an advantage. If you voted for Obama because he was the post-racial candidate and you thought he would end the racial disharmony in America, then you are a retard. He's a liberal, first and formost. Liberalism supercedes all else and racial preferences are the cornerstone of liberalism.

Here's Robert Retch pointing to unemployed blacks in the crowd. They are the ones, regardless of level of competency, who'll be given fat government contracts to build our bridges.

Hat tip to Hotair.