Using the race card against Lynn Vincent
Earlier today, Max Blumenthal of The Daily Beast took an unfair swipe at Lynn Vincent, implying that Sarah Palin’s book collaborator and the WORLD senior writer is a racist because of her association as a co-author with a old college chum. “[I]t is Vincent’s association with Robert Stacy McCain that offers the clearest window into her far-right politics,” writes Blumenthal, who labels Lynn as “noxious” in his headline. He also brings up as further proof an article Lynn wrote for WORLD last January, which was about how African-Americans have been fighting the high toll of abortion in their own community by developing compassionate alternatives.
Ben Smith at Politico, however, came to Lynn’s defense this afternoon, writing:
. . . having done my own profile of Vincent using many of the same data points a couple of months ago — this seems both off target and missing something pretty basic about the version of Evangelical conservatism to which both Vincent and Palin belong.
The pastor of the San Diego megachurch Vincent attends (with Carrie Prejean, natch) is black. She’s also spent most of the last few years on a pair of inspirational books about, basically, racial reconciliation in the friendship between a rich white art dealer and a homeless black drifter, the first of them a Times bestseller. More broadly, she hails from a (large) stream of Evangelicalism that puts racial reconciliation very high on the agenda.
Vincent is — like Palin — well to the right, as Blumenthal notes, on abortion; but the race card (in both cases) seems out of place.




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Maybe there’s a counterrevolution brewing. One can always hope.
I am growing more confused by many thought leaders in the black community who speak of how racist America is yet encourage more and more blacks do put their lives in the hands of government officials who are white. Is government bureaucracy immune from racism or classism? If American society is categorically racist against blacks then black liberation would focus on divorcing blacks from dependence on the state—which is controlled by “rich white people,” as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright says.