Modern day liberals would hail a Hispanic tyrant as a sign of progress. "Oh look! All the tyrants in history have been white, from King Louis XIV to Hitler. Now in our day, because of our good instincts and our generosity, we finally have a strongman from another race. Geewhiz, aren't we just great and forward looking?"
Tyrants are like crayons, they come in all colors. But uneducated liberals desire a rainbow of oppressors and they don't make that a secret. They'll probably legislate the composition of a rainbow to include the color pink so that gays too can one day send men off to war.
Just to be clear, there is a long record of marginalization and disfranchisement of minorities in America and that is not what I'm disputing with my objection to Obama and her new judge. I am disputing the belief that Obama and her new judge automatically represent their "peoples" interests just because they look like them. A proper judge represents the law as best as she/he can within her powers. Judges are human, yes, but we give them that title because they represent an impersonal entity who disbands their loyalties. Are they without bias? Hardly. Are they without error? Not in our lifetime, unless we start appointing computer judges. But it isn't right or legal to be an activist judge, pushing a particular agenda that benefits some people--who, in fact, would be better off without the 'help'.
Moreover, if Fred Hampton was the first president of the United States then I'd agree we've made progress but Fred Hampton is not in the White House. And neither is Cesar Chaves in the Supreme court. Obama and her judge do not exhibit in their words or in their actions, the best traditions of their peoples.
Anyways, there is a larger point were missing, which is the fact that there are no different races. We express ourselves in different environments through various languages and cultures but our general genetic make up is the same. This celebration of the first Black Prez, the first Hispanic Judge, etc. just doesn't feel right. First for fist sake; is that something we should be proud of? Is that how low our standards of decency have dropped? It feels like were stuck in a time warp, in the early twentieth century when conversations about the superiority of certain races was accepted in liberal company, when eugenics was gaining popularity amongst the elites, an idea which reached a crescendo in Hitler's Germany.
Defending corporate interests with a brown skin tone is not progress. That is cheap exploitation, and nothing else. I don't care if we have the first 'Black' president, or the first 'Hispanic' Judge. I care about what they believe in, what they stand for, and what kind of decisions they have made in the past. He/she or heshe can be gorilla black or snow white, I don't give a damn about their race, color, gender, or sexuality.
And what kind of progress are we talking about exactly? The people's views, values and tolerance may be progressing in the right direction, towards accepting all people in public life. But is politics progressing? Is the Supreme Court protecting the constitution and maintaining its original jurisdiction? We can't trade one progress for the other and simply accept our fate. Trading in white tyrants for black ones will not change anything.
