Sir George Bernard Shaw once said, "If you can't hide the skeleton in your closet, then you'd better learn how to make him dance." Democrats and their enablers in the liberal media would like nothing better than to hide their embarrassing racial skeletons as they are on the verge of nominating the first black man ever to make a serious bid for the White House.

Reminding me of this, was watching my friend Paul Begala and Donna Brazile mix it up on CNN recently over Hillary’s Clinton’s blatant pursuit of white voters in the Democratic primaries. This comes on the heels of her husband Bill also making open appeals to white voters. Begala said he did not want to be in a party with “liberal eggheads and African Americans.” The mind reels at the grief Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Mark Levin would bring down on themselves if any were to utter a similar phrase.

Some find it odd that the liberal kommentariat says nothing about such racial overtures by the Clintons but then again, this is a party that never trembled when Senator Robert Byrd used the phrase “white ni**er” in an interview several years ago. In 1968, feminist and Democrat Gloria Steinem said, after the election of Richard Nixon, “We’re all ni**ers now” for which she still has yet to be called to accounts for uttering. Uber-liberal Senator Joe Biden patronized Obama in the worst possible stereotypical way when he said the African American was “…bright and clean and articulate…” Yet Biden’s pals in the media yawned.

Those who are not members in good standing of the Democratic Party and who utter such phrases are routinely castigated, hounded and harassed. Double standards abound as the Duke University white lacrosse players and Don Imus will tell you. Why?

Quite simply, African Americans have gotten a better deal from the Democrats than they have any time recently from the Republicans. Group consciousness, victimhood and the celebration of the past are all defining elements of the Democratic coalitions. Traditionally, the organizing philosophy of the GOP, conservatism, is about individuality and the celebration of the future, inconsistent with those who make up the Democratic Party.

It is, as these things always are, about power.

It will be interesting to see, however, Senator Obama nominated by a political party that was built and created for the express purpose of exploiting African Americans. Then Democrats carried out their own American jihad against blacks for over 100 years.

In the beginning, the cherished founders of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, both owned slaves with Jefferson refusing to free his slaves except for Sally Hemmings and her children on his deathbed, and Jackson paying extra for runaway slaves providing their captors whipped them.

The GOP, on the other hand, was built expressly to oppose Democratic-sponsored enslavement. Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress said 600,000 white men dying in a war to free the slaves was not enough, so they then passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, granting emancipation, equal protection and the right to vote for black men.

In the post Civil War era, an important coalition in the Democratic Party sprung up, the Ku Klux Klan, and not just in the South either, but in Ohio and Indiana, among other Northern states. Even into the 1920’s, the Klan was two million strong. So strong that they defeated attempts to pass planks in the Democratic platforms denouncing both the Klan and lynching. The GOP had, years before, already passed such planks. The Klan routinely vetted Democrats, and aspiring politicians like Bobby Byrd and Hugo Black of Alabama saw joining the Klan as a means of advancement in the Democratic Party. Hugo Black, of course, was appointed to the Supreme Court by FDR. Meanwhile, Democrats had already passed all the odious Jim Crow laws of the South into law.

FDR had his own problems with blacks. When Jesse Owens returned from the Berlin games with his gold medals, it wasn’t Adolph Hitler he was angry with---Hitler even shook Owens’ hand---it was FDR Owens was mad at for the rest of his life, because President Roosevelt didn’t even bother to send a congratulatory telegram to him, much less invite Owens to the White House. The horrific government experiments on black men in the 1930’s and 1940’s all happened on the Democrats watch. Continued...