Armstrong Williams is taking democrats to task for their racist blockade of Judge Janice Brown, whom democrats claim "isn't black enough." Justice Brown was the first black woman to sit on California's Supreme Court, and she has been nominated for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The position is said to be a stepping stone for the Supreme Court.

Brown, has been compared to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom many Democrats consider to be an 'Uncle Tom' and a traitor to his race. Chuckie Schumer has criticized Brown for "voting" against "minorities" and "low-income" people. Armstrong Williams rightly points out that Schumer was more concerned about their color and income status than whether or not they had a valid legal case. He goes on to rant against Democrat attitudes about blacks in general.

Just like that, all of Judge Brown's hard work-she rose up from a segregated Alabama community to achieve personal and professional success -- dissolve beneath the hurtful and reductive label of "Uncle Tom." This is no different than using the "N-word" to sum up an individual.

This is the approach the Democrats take every time a conservative minority is nominated for a position of prominence. This is what I call, "new racism." It's about systematically preventing conservative blacks and Hispanics from achieving positions of prominence in this country. It's about summing up complex human beings by the color of their skin. And it sends the damaging message that because we share the same skin color, we all need to think, act and vote the same way.

American Blacks and Hispanics are complex human beings. They should be allowed the intellectual freedom to arrive at those views and values that are the best mesh with their individual personalities. Whites can vote for whomever they chose. But minorities are told that they must be liberals or they're traitors to their race. This is one more assault on intellectual freedom and diversity, conducted by patronizing Democrats who still feel they know what is best for blacks and Hispanics.

Unfortunately, Mr. Williams point is all too valid. Regardless of whether or not you agree with that point, you must admit that Democrats have more of a vested interest in keeping black people in line than Republicans. As long as minorities "need" something, some Democrats are perfectly willing to keep stringing them along in exchange for votes. On average, Republicans already don't get the vote of minorities and the poor, yet by and large they are the ones who pay for most of the services that they use. Financially as well as politically, nobody stands to gain more from their success than Republicans.