Barack Obama recently issued another of his linguistic masterpieces in addressing the issues of racism, hate-speech and his spiritual mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. His speech was pretty. It was eloquent. It was impassioned. It attempted to approach the true issue in danger of being overshadowed by a sensationalistic mainstream news media; racism in the total of American society, including the Black community. It even included a condemnation of specific statements by Wright, a man Obama says, “...has been like family to me.” But Obama’s speech fell short in answering some important ideological questions about his belief system and in doing so exposed the Achilles heel of the Progressive-Left where race is concerned: The Progressive-Left, in its quest for a multicultural utopia, simply can’t have racial harmony.
One of the biggest buzz-words used by the Progressive-Left – America’s Fifth Column – is “diversity.” They used the idea of advancing diversity as a means to achieving what they hoped – what they “knew” – would be a racially and culturally symbiotic utopia where “all men are created equal.” The problem with this line of thought is that celebrating diversity factionalizes people; it does not help to bring people together under a commonality. By exposing the great racial and cultural divides that exist in the United States – within all racial and ethnic communities – Barack Obama is forcing an examination of the ideology of multiculturalism versus e pluribus unum (out of many one), much to the chagrin of the Progressive-Left.
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Frank Salvato also serves as the managing editor for The New Media Journal. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention.
