An Historic Day

Today is a most appropriate day to rekindle my service to you at this site, newly engendered and inspired by the nomination of the first black American to be nominated for President of the United States. I am not a black man, but I feel kinship toward Juan Williams (Chicago newspaperman, Fox and PBS correspondent), a black man who appeared, at least to me, to be emotional in his commentary in the immediate wake of the Democratic Convention's nomination, but who also had previously called Barack Obama to task on numerous occasions for his dangerous positioning for our country during his odyssey to the nomination.

I am proud of this man Obama. We must, all of us, savor this moment.

But there is a paradox. Africans were brought here in chains, whipped, and we are in awe of the fact that an African-American now towers in a position to whip us all into a give-back scheme that will empower no one but impoverish us all. Tax credits to those who pay no taxes is naked redistribution of wealth. Moreover, confiscatory tax rates sap instantly the incentive of individuals to produce: they wither the "unseen hand" prophesied by Adam Smith. Our day is a particularly inauspicious time to cripple economic hope.

I am white; I was raised from my birth in large part by a loving black woman and taught by loving black teachers. I have employed, and have been vocationally subservient to, and have loved, and been loved by, black people. But this man, whom we praise this day, for whom we are thankful to God for showing us that one day a black President will surely come; this very man we must, black and white alike, defeat soundly, because our nation cannot afford him.