White Men can’t jump across imaginary lines for the sake of their own race.  Ted Kennedy will never rush to the side of another Irish Catholic like Pat Buchanan if such action meant shoving aside negroes and queers. Blacks do not play politics over racial polarity. With the Presidential election looming, four-star ROTC cadet Colin Powell is turning black again to boost the candidacy of Barak Obama. 

Colin Powell is the textbook example of affimative action polished brass who was promoted to high rank without regard to his qualifications. Powell’s only officer training was from the ROTC program at New York City College, where he was a member of a black drill team. When Powell joined the Army, he was assigned to Korea where he served under a white general whose passion was to promote racial harmony by forcing his soldiers to watch repeated screenings of the movie Brian’s Song. 

During the Viet Nam War, Powell was put on the staff of General Westmoreland, where he performed as the general’s high profile bellhop to dispel the danger of mutiny among black draftees following the assassination of Martin Luther King. In 1980, the hot air inflating Powell’s career was chilled when his superior officer at Fort Carson, Colorado gave Powell a poor leadership evaluation that threatened to stunt his career.  But Powell’s political allies swept him up in their arms and pushed him further up the chain of command. Casper Weinberger gave him an office and an armchair with the fancy rank of “senior military assistant” and a couple more shiny gee-gaws to admire in the mirror.  All the sparkle that has been showered over Powell does not hide the fact that he never commanded troops in the field.