The post racial candidate. That’s what Barack Obama is called. Heck, the New Republic said “even white supremists don’t hate Obama.”

But it seems the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress are looking to pass out the stimulus package based on…race:

Don’t take my word for it, listen to Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and current member of the Obama economic transistion team. Then consider the lack of outrage from Rep. Charlie Rangel after hearing Reich talk about excluding a certain portion of Americans based on race:

I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals or to white male construction workers. … I have nothing against white male construction workers. I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well. … Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed minorities, women, people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals.

Reich later says that “criteria can be set so that the money does go to others, the long term unemployed, the minorities, the women…”

Basically, he is suggesting that Congress set up a plan that eliminates the white man from the picture.

And not only does Rangel agree with him, but he says there needs to be a way to keep the states from having a say in where the money goes. Rangel and Reich know more about the needs of the states than the states do. That’s true elitism.

Here’s the real kick in the groin. I have been told over and over again that there are more white people on welfare than there are black people.

Jet magazine headline: More whites than blacks on welfare despite myth

Ebony magazine wrote in 1995:

Racist attitudes notwithstanding, it is a matter of record that White mothers receive more than half of the checks distributed under the auspices of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program–55.2 percent, compared to 39.2 percent received by Blacks. Additionally, the U.S. Census Bureau reported in February that during an average month in 1990, 61 percent of major assistance program participants were White, compared to 34 percent who were African-American.

So after years of being told that the white folks are the real welfare queens, the first black president’s administration suggests excluding them because they are white.

As Ed Morrissey writes, “What Reich proposes is flat-out official racism by government, refusing to hire people on the basis of their skin color.”

Only on the left could you suggest blatant racism as a policy of economic stimulus and not only get away with it, but have members of Congress openly agree with you.

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