{"id":1329,"date":"2017-03-27T13:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2017-03-27T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:39:38","slug":"wont-liberals-see-sovereign-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/2017\/03\/wont-liberals-see-sovereign-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Why won&#8217;t liberals see me as a sovereign human being?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/577290132\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 65.488215% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/577290132?et=ZXMQ0if-QxFPCLsb8gTpLw&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=guA3zsxpolbuaRZOemSQjDx0Cwp-ucTq_X3kJPggc_4=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"389\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/mar\/23\/david-clarke-jr-milwaukee-sheriff-trump\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> had to say about me in a recent feature: \u201cSheriff David Clarke Jr: the black Democrat who is Trump\u2019s favorite cop.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I have a question: Why did this writer feel the need to immediately jump to my race? I know who I am. I see that I am black every time I look in the mirror. I like who is looking back at me, by the way. If this reader never mentioned my race I believe that with all the photos he posted with the story, most readers who never heard of me would have noticed that I am black. But he like most liberals fell the need to label me not as if Sheriff or conservative was not enough. To the left, race is the ultimate descriptor when describing people, especially \u201cblack\u201d people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Enquiring minds want to know. Because last I checked, I am an American; a sovereign human being. Period. As an individual I represent myself. No one else. Imagine if <em>The Guardian<\/em> was brave enough to print that instead of describing me as a \u201cblack Rush Limbaugh with a badge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I resent \u201cwhite\u201d liberals referring to me by group identity; or placed into some box; or labeled by \u201cwhite\u201d liberals as some oddity \u2014 a \u201cblack\u201d this, a \u201cblack\u201d that.\u00a0I have never once heard the liberal mainstream media refer to Democrats, progressives, Republicans, or conservatives by their race unless they\u2019re black.<\/p>\n<p>The last frontier for blacks to gain freedom in America is being freed in the minds of these \u201cwhite\u201d liberal Democrats and progressives who claim to be \u201ccolor blind\u201d but prove the theory wrong at every turn.<\/p>\n<p>My friend, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, made a powerful comment on this subject and I\u2019d like to share it with you.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1330\" 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