The essence of our new "post-modern" race problem can be seen in the parable of the emperor's new clothes. The emperor was told by his swindling tailors that people who could not see his new clothes were stupid and incompetent. So when his new clothes arrived and he could not see them, he put them on anyway so that no one would think him stupid and incompetent. And when he appeared before his people in these new clothes, they too—not wanting to appear stupid and incompetent—exclaimed the beauty of his wardrobe. It was finally a mere child who said, "The emperor has no clothes."
The lie of seeing clothes where there were none amounted to a sophistication—joining oneself to an obvious falsehood in order to achieve social acceptance. In such a sophistication there is an unspoken agreement not to see what one clearly sees—in this case the emperor's flagrant nakedness.
America's primary race problem today is our new "sophistication" around racial matters. Political correctness is a compendium of sophistications in which we join ourselves to obvious falsehoods ("diversity") and refuse to see obvious realities (the irrelevance of diversity to minority development).
Political correctness is killing our country. It causes our president to not call an Islamic extremist who attempts to blow a plane out of the air on Christmas an "Islamic extremist." It causes a political party to use the race card when it's not even at play in order to guilt white people into voting a certain way and to unjustifiably shackle minorities with the status of racial victimhood. And yes, who can deny that many voted for Obama, a guy they knew nothing about, because of the allure and sophistication of showing us as a non-racist country.
Those of us who have known the emperor is wearing no clothes can only hope that at least 51% of Americans will see that fact the next time they have an opportunity to vote for the most important job in the country.
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