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Democrats have long ago bought into the idea that minorities can only relate to people who look like them and must be coddled by people who do not. The Party of Lincoln, on the other hand, carries the unenviable burden of telling black, brown, and yellow people that it welcomes them, even as it insists that they have no special place, purely as a result of their race, in the party's core beliefs about the free market and individual freedom.
So the black man in the White House came to power by incessantly invoking his biography and identity. Barack Obama reminded everyone every day on the campaign trail that he is the son of a man from Kenya and a woman from Kansas. Michael Steele, the black man at the center of Republicans' political comeback efforts, prefers to talk about "personal freedom, liberty, and the desire for self-governing."
It is a stark contrast. Unfortunately, political realities skew in favor of the man of biography and the party of identity politics. Racial entitlement often creates a corrosive effect on minorities. Some brazenly demand jobs, college admissions, or business transactions based on race or gender, while others insist that identity trumps ideas or objective considerations. In that vein, Obama's Supreme Court nominee believes that "a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."