The Democratic Party is very good at creating certain myths and in marketing those myths to minorities. They champion themselves as the ‘inclusive’ party that cares about people of color and foreign ethnicities. But identity politics are a liberal deception, as is revealed in what happens to minorities if they decide not to tow the party line. Liberal ‘tolerance’ only extends to those minorities who are themselves liberal. The Left embraces a pseudo diversity that amounts to nothing more than ideological conformity.

As John Perazzo details in the case of Justice Clarence Thomas:

The late columnist Carl Rowan sarcastically suggested that “if you give Thomas a little flour on his face, you’d think you had [former Klansman] David Duke.” San Francisco mayor Willie Brown called Thomas not only “a shill for the most insidious form of racism, but also a man whose views are “legitimizing of the Ku Klux Klan.” Brown added that Thomas “should be reduced to talking only to white conservatives,” and “must be shut out” by the black community.”

The ugliness goes on and on. Political scientist Manning Marable asserts that Thomas has “ethnically ceased being an African American.” Movie director Spike Lee calls Thomas “a handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.” Author June Jordan characterizes him as a “virulent Oreo phenomenon,” a “punk-ass,” and an “Uncle Tom calamity.” The late Haywood Burns, who was the dean of a New York law school and chairman emeritus of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, called Thomas a “counterfeit hero” whose ideals had “crushed or forever deferred” the dreams of millions of blacks. Columnist Julianne Malveaux told a television audience, “I hope [Thomas's] wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter, and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease. . . .He’s an absolutely reprehensible person.” Imagine the public outcry we would have heard if white speakers had uttered such mean-spirited nonsense.

The Left has created the mindset of attaching race to liberal politics in blacks and Hispanics. So where does this lead us as a nation?

Ben Shapiro writes: “It seems that racial groups more and more often vote along tribal lines; multiethnic democracy now means racial re-segregation, at least in terms of electoral politics. Small-R republicanism relies on the willingness of individuals to discern and vote for the politicians with whom they agree, not the politicians with whom they share a skin color, racial heritage, and economic background.

Barack Obama’s candidacy was supposed to usher us into a post-racial America. It seems that his election, and his continuing exploitation of racial differences through nominations like Sotomayor’s, has only deepened the racial divides.”

Republicans need to reach out more to different racial groups, and not give up no matter how strong the Democrats’ hold may be. Republicans have to explain that traditional American values and principles are good for minorities too. That lower taxes and greater personal liberty are beneficial to everyone. People of all ethnicities need to understand that liberal policies hurt them the same as anyone else, if not more so in the long run.