A racist is someone who treats a group of people poorly because of who they are. Hitler believed in a "master race" and thus thought Germans should be treated well and everyone else badly.
Obama apparently believes that the "wealthy race" is evil, even though most or many of them are wealthy because they are productive. He is also willing to discriminate against the entire race of "non-union people" as displayed by his actions with the Stimulus Money and ObamaCare.
Other strong words can be used to describe Obama's class warfare, words such as bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination.
If you do not understand the moral principle that all Americans should be treated equally under the law, you are not a moral person. In fact, you are probably a bad person. America's best principles include opportunity and equality.
The Declaration of Independence from July 4th, 1776 is famous for this line: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
N. Scott Mills sums up what he believes this way: "I am classically liberal, or a Jeffersonian liberal, and I'm an individualist, individual and free, because I choose to be; I believe in individual and equal rights, equal laws, equal justice, and equal freedom. I believe Justice has to be blind to race, and all forms of social prejudices, for Justice to be equal. I believe nobody is above or below the law, and everybody should be treated equally under the law, with equal rights, and equal freedom, for everyone individually, so they can become whatever their abilities, aspirations, hopes, and dreams can create for them. I believe in the right of self-determination, over our minds, bodies, and souls, and that every one of us are free sovereign autonomous individuals. I believe the State or Government does not Own us, and therefore has no Right to make our decisions for us, or tell us what we can and cannot do with our own bodies, minds, and souls."
Source: http://www.freedom4ever.net/freedom_to_become.htm
Shawn M. Griffiths wrote this: "I advocate a low, flat tax where everyone is treated equally under the law. I do not support tax breaks for the wealthy, but I do not agree with those who claim the rich should be taxed more just because they make more money. I believe everyone should be treated equally under the law."
Source: http://shawngriffiths.com/2011/08/06/were-all-to-blame/
Wikipedia says, "The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that 'no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.' The Equal Protection Clause can be seen as an attempt to secure the promise of the United States' professed commitment to the proposition that 'all men are created equal' by empowering the judiciary to enforce that principle against the states. As written it applied only to state governments, but it has since been interpreted to apply to the federal government of the United States as well. More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a great shift in American constitutionalism. Before the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected individual rights only from invasion by the federal government. After the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted, the Constitution also protected rights from abridgment by state leaders and governments, even including some rights that arguably were not protected from abridgment by the federal government. In the wake of the Fourteenth Amendment, the states could not, among other things, deprive people of the equal protection of the laws."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause
The SixthFormLaw website sums up equality before the law this way: "Formal justice requires that like should be treated as like, in other words everyone should be treated the same irrespective of wealth or position, gender, colour or race."
Source: http://sixthformlaw.info/01_modules/mod1/1_4_legal_personnel/1_4_1_judiciary/00_rule_of_law.htm
I hope this essay makes you think. If you are not racist against minorities, you should not be racist against the wealthy either, not if your morality is true.
Bradley Hennenfent, M.D.
physician & economist
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