Not much introduction needed on this one. Smokey knows how to pick ‘em (from a link he provided). This was written in March, 2008, but is still relevant. I’m not trying to beat a dead horse here. I didn’t really want my first posts to be on this topic, nor did I expect to post on consecutive days, but it needs closure now. Racial issues are about as much fun as picking a scab off your ass year after year, but they are essential to the discourse of this country. If there is a final word on the subject, this essay would be it.
A Brief for Whitey
How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”
But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.
The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”
And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?
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I know many black people, with strong families, strong marriages, and strong morals. They strive for a better life for themselves and their children (as many other people do, of all races). Having said THAT, it is also my observation that there is an entire generation of black people who are still blaming an event they only know from (if they paid attention) school. They are interested in "gaming the system" for everything it "owes" them. In every city in the USA you can find entire neighborhoods of single black women with 2-5 children, living in subsidized (often free) apartments, with EVERYTHING else free, too. And NO desire to change it. After almost 50 years -- fifty years!! -- of every kind of support, exception, grant, and trillions of dollars (taken from WHITE people) given to them, their situation has not improved, but gotten worse. And STILL, they say "it's not enough - we need MORE!!" Stop having children you can't support by men who are in and out of prison/jail. Stop condoning violence and drug use. Insist on good grades and stop saying "it's acting white". The "race card" and the "victimhood" thing is wearing thin and white people are (angrily) beginning to wonder how much is enough? Rightly so.
ReplyDeleteSo, so, so right! ^^^^^^
ReplyDeleteIt has worn past thin and threadbare; it's time that people must act responsibly and accountable and work for whatever they want..as we have done all along. The 2 comments above are spot on; 30 - 50 years is long enough time to learn!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I have no intention of painting everyone with the same brush, but why is it always what we white americans can do?? I would think with blacks numbering only about 12-13% of the population and about 90% of todays prisoners are black it is time that they take responsibility for their own actions and quit waiting for whitey to do something for them. If you get a chance listen to what Bill Cosby has to say about the situation. Look at the recent melee here in Florida regarding a high school football game that went awry. What can whitey do to control antics like that??????????
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I have no intention of painting everyone with the same brush, but why is it always what we white americans can do?? I would think with blacks numbering only about 12-13% of the population and about 90% of todays prisoners are black it is time that they take responsibility for their own actions and quit waiting for whitey to do something for them. If you get a chance listen to what Bill Cosby has to say about the situation. Look at the recent melee here in Florida regarding a high school football game that went awry. What can whitey do to control antics like that??????????
ReplyDeleteImclain......You hit it right on the head. Time for them to clean up their own problems
ReplyDeleteThat article is so true down to the last word.
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