Did John Kerry Write That Speech Obama Gave? Plagiarism..Again?
This is why I have a blog crush on him! I consider Noel to be a textbook example of an investigative journalist. Compare and contrast Kerry’s speech from 1992, with Obama’s speech from Tuesday. This is what Kerry said in 1992:
In a blunt break from standard liberal dogma, Sen. John Kerry said last night that an excessive focus on ineffectual affirmative action programs has helped foster a culture of dependency among residents of the inner city and cost the civil rights movement its vital multiracial consensus. [...]
When it comes to the American underclass, it is time to look past affirmative action, Kerry said. “We cannot hope to make further racial progress when whites believe that it is they and not blacks that suffer most from racial discrimination.” [...]
The fact is that in 1992 the majority of the white majority in this country doesn’t want to address the issues. They don’t want to invest more of their scarce tax dollars in those programs that fail,” he said. “It would be simple . . . to blame all this on racism, and there is no doubt that white racism persists in our society, that it is ugly and insidious and present everywhere.
“But the issues and the reasons for our dilemma go deeper and are more complex than that. They have their roots in the changing nature of the movement for civil rights.
“Where once Martin Luther King could depict the struggle for equal rights as a mighty battle between good and evil, a battle where pot-bellied sheriffs and attack dogs squared off against hymn-singing children dressed in their Sunday best, today the civil rights arena is controlled by lawyers and the winners and losers determined by . . . rules most Americans neither understand nor are sympathetic with,” Kerry said. “This shift in the civil rights agenda has directed most of our attention and much of our hope into one inherently limited and divisive program: affirmative action.”But, he said, “We must be willing to acknowledge publicly what we know to be true: that just as the benefits to America of affirmative action cannot be denied, neither can the costs. Too many politicians, particularly in my own party, have not acknowledged those costs for fear of undermining the very goals of affirmative action,” said Kerry. “By that failure, we send a message to many of those who feel alienated or abandoned by their government that we simply don’t care about them, and that we don’t realize that it is they, far more than we, particularly when the we is the government, who have borne the burden of compliance with the law. The truth is that affirmative action has kept America thinking in racial terms.”
Citing the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Kerry argued that affirmative action was never meant to result in racial quotas. But “not only by legislation, but by administrative decree and court order, a vast and bewildering apparatus of affirmative action rules and guidelines has been constructed. And somewhere within that vast apparatus conjured up to fight racism there exists a reality of reverse discrimination, that actually engenders racism,” he said.
“There is no question that this reality has been exaggerated by subjective perception and by people who have played on the stereotypes and by politicians eager to exploit it, but out of that reality has come a resentment that is real and widespread and dangerous,” said Kerry. “It is a resentment fed by memories of court-ordered busing and images of riots and looting and raised fists and by a sense of being singled out to compensate for historical sins which today’s white workers did not commit.
“If we truly care about racial progress . . . and about our cities, we must rebuild the consensus that brought us the civil rights movement in the first place. . . . We cannot equate fear of crime . . . with racism and then expect those we have called racists to invest in the very neighborhoods they have fled,” said Kerry. “We cannot deride as politically incorrect the anger of taxpayers who work hard to support their families and then find themselves supporting generations of welfare families as well.“
That’s more than a coincidence! Did Obama borrow someone else’s words..again?
April 13, 2008 - 06:46 AM on April 13th, 2008
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