Just caught wind of this simply incredible memo, apparently floating around Knoxville in case current mayor Bill Haslam leaves his post to take the Governorship:

A memo circulating in Knoxville’s political back rooms this week talks explicitly about the importance of electing a white mayor, should Haslam leave office, who could advocate for “a white agenda [that] would better enable us to have our interests respected by and our influence realized in any administration.”

“With the ‘White Mayor first’ approach there is an unstated assumption that having a white mayor in Knoxville is equal to having a white social, economic and political agenda or at least someone in office who would be sensitive to that agenda if not a full promoter of that agenda,” reads the memo, distributed and written at least in part by Knoxville-based political strategist Aaron Trupeau.

Of course, if you pay attention to the news at all, you know this isn’t happening in Knoxville. Given the ridiculousness of something like this happening, you were probably suspicious from the start. I’ll give: it’s Atlanta. And it’s not a memo purporting to advance the white agenda. It’s a memo that suggests Atlanta needs a black mayor so that he can push a “black agenda.” And just as you were no doubt disgusted at the overtly racist underpinnings of the “white agenda” memo above, I can only hope you are equally as appalled at the real memo.

The Christian Science Monitor, from which the altered memo above was taken, has more on this, and the article delves a bit more into the obvious outrage that would explode on the national news were the memo to actually read as I’ve printed it above.

Let’s quit pretending that we’re living in some post-racial utopia. Clearly we have a long way to go, and it’s not going to be solved by reverse racism either.

Update: Bill Whittle does a masterful job in doing what I attempted to do above:

…because of course we have to prevent future crimes if we know they’re going to occur.

It’s good to see that some lefties like Rachel Maddow are sticking to their principles rather than following the sycophantic celebration of all that is Obama.

I like this guy. And no, I’m not referring to Chris “Obama makes my leg tingle” Matthews.

I enjoy reading opposing viewpoints. Especially when their view of the role of Government is so radically different than mine and they can still be honest about the bait-and-switch being presented to the American people as *real* Healthcare Reform. Camille Paglia writes:

You can keep your doctor; you can keep your insurance, if you’re happy with it, Obama keeps assuring us in soothing, lullaby tones. Oh, really? And what if my doctor is not the one appointed by the new government medical boards for ruling on my access to tests and specialists? And what if my insurance company goes belly up because of undercutting by its government-bankrolled competitor? Face it: Virtually all nationalized health systems, neither nourished nor updated by profit-driven private investment, eventually lead to rationing.

Nice to see that, though her political persuasion is entirely different than mine, she can also see the glaring problems with the plan(s) being floated before the nation. She points out the ludicrous rants by the likes of Pelosi aren’t even rational:

Blaming obstructionist Republicans is nonsensical because Democrats control all three branches of government. It isn’t conservative rumors or lies that are stopping healthcare legislation; it’s the justifiable alarm of an electorate that has been cut out of the loop and is watching its representatives construct a tangled labyrinth for others but not for themselves.

And while liberals, conservatives, and libertarians may disagree on many, many things, we should be able to soberly ask ourselves…

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

I fear the answer is a resounding yes.

“When I hit $75,000, I figured lighting struck once, it won’t ever hit again,” Williams said in a prepared statement released by Kansas Lottery officials.

Kind of makes you wonder why he kept playing the lottery, doesn’t it?

But seriously, why on earth should we expect them to actually read the legislation that will radically transform one sixth of the economy.

And we’re seeing more and more of this scenario played out as congressmen and senators come back to their districts for the August recess. Hey, maybe that’s why some are laying low!

This does not bode well for Obama and his “We Know Better Than You” big Government types’ plan to destroy the entire healthcare system in America in favor of single-payer insurance.