Race as a Weapon

Earlier this week, the Senate and the House, controlled by massive Democratic Party majorities, sent a bill to President Obama's desk to re-authorize the three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, you know, the Act symbolic of President Bush's "shredding of the Constitution". I was planning to make special note of the hypocrisy of the Democrats who voted to re-authorize. (Recall, back on September 14, 2009, Obama sent a letter to Congress asking for re-authorization).

However, in researching the vote authorizing President Obama to continue to shred, I came across this:

H.RES.1085
Title: Honoring and celebrating the contributions of African-Americans to the transportation and infrastructure of the United States.
Sponsor: Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] (introduced 2/22/2010)
Latest Major Action: 2/24/2010 Passed/agreed to in House.
Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 419 - 0 (Roll no. 65).

As I wrote six months before CJOTSCOTUS Roberts plagiarized me, we will never be a color-blind society until we are a color-blind society.

Those who use race as a weapon, and their enablers, remain the impediments.