Today's Racism: Who's Really to Blame?

By Thornton Crowe

Lately, with all Black Lives Matter activities coming to the forefront, there has been many conversations here on Salisbury News about racism -- promoted by the lynch drawing at SU and the group beating of a white PHS student along with BLM invasion on OC's boardwalk.

Racism is now front and center in our minds and no topic on this blog goes unscathed without some comment that's racially based. Salisbury is only a indication of what's going on in every community throughout America. Obama's divisive rhetoric has poisoned the wells not just in urban areas but small towns as well.

David Horowitz, a former Civil Rights activist during the King era, makes many startling claims in his book, Progressive Racism, which boils down what's really doing on in America today -- the racial turmoil. And, his fact-based conclusion may surprise many.

Using examples based in actual history, the majority of blame for racism in America today is Black Americans and the Liberals (Progressives). The Democrats, under the guise of social justice, are merely using the Black community in order to paint their opponents as racists because of historic taboo implications. However, with the gross overuse of the word, it's gotten to the point where it simply doesn't really mean anything, anymore.

Unfortunately, especially in this election, being called a racist merely means you don't agree with another person's point of view. No longer does it mean anyone actually holds some deep-seated hatred for another race or religion. For example, by sheer virtue, I am a racist. Why? Because I am white and not a Democrat. It doesn't matter that I have Black friends or that I hold no negative attitudes towards any minority group. It also doesn't matter that my academic background concentrations in the Civil Rights Movement history. Because I'm a non-Liberal white, I'm immediately a racist.

Does it bother me? It used to, but not anymore. I know the people who call me a racist are ignorant. They're belching out spoon fed lines the media talking points. Ironically, as we discovered last week, the media is in collusion with the DNC and the Clinton Campaign so that even further marginalizes their rhetoric.

Sadly, they don't seem to understand, they're the only ones name calling. Amazingly, the Black Americans whom engage in race baiting, don't seem to get the fact that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism against their ancestors that goes well beyond the recent Wikileaks revelations about the DNC/Clinton Campaign referring Hispanics as "Taco Bowls" and Black people, "Boos."

Horowitz points out the hypocritical balderdash about wanting a conversation from politicians like Hillary Clinton. In reality, this 'conversation' has always been a monologue, not a dialogue and never based in facts or statistics - only emotions.

Furthermore, these same politicians conveniently forget that no Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964. And once passed, it wasn't until President Richard Nixon (R) that segregation was outlawed in practice not just on paper.

It doesn't matter what has been done to help them or how many bars have been lowered to accommodate them, they will never be satisfied. Because their leaders won't allow them to move on. Instead they go from cradle to grave believing White America owes them something. And worse yet, the Democrats will never let them be satisfied either.

In short, Horowitz clearly demonstrates the racism is one-sided and Blacks along with Liberals are the now the ultimate racists - not Whites.

The Liberals' blatant abuse of  Black America is shameless. Yet, most Black Americans continue to support them, despite the fact their hope for the American Dream has been all but severed under their leadership. Hence, his argument clearly proves the Democrat Party is the worst affliction on Black America since the days before Reconstruction. Even Malcolm X denounced them before he died, so Horowitz is far from alone in pointing out how Democrats viciously manipulate them for their own political gains and thirst for power. The politicians don't realize or care the wounds they create take decades - generations - to heal.

It's unfortunate Black America continues the Democrats' mythological hate against them because, in reality, we are all Americans -- and we're all in this together!

How say you?

1968?

Richard Nixon & Lyndon Johnson

By Thornton Crowe

Never was there a year so pivotal in our history...that is, until now.

Millennials weren't around in that fateful year but many baby boomers  remember 1968 well. Some of us were little kids but the year was so devastating in our history, it was even felt on a child's level. Many young ones, having no idea about '68, don't grasp when political pundits brings it up, how America was torn apart at the seams.

Chicago Rioters

Hippies of love provided a stark contrast because while love may have been abundant in the Haight-Ashbury culture, social unrest was everywhere else. Vietnam had become wildly unpopular. Two assassinations of prominent Political and Civil Rights heroes had come the Spring before the Democratic National Convention, which was fraught with violence in Chicago's streets. In short, the country was in turmoil - in every way possible.

Martin Luther King, Jr. & Robert Kennedy

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in April caused major disturbances throughout the black community everywhere. In Salisbury, the area where most of the black families lived, was ablaze for a couple days as they burned their homes down, which took many years to rebuild. Two months late, in June, Bobby Kennedy, running for the Democrat nomination was gunned down in Los Angeles at the infamous Ambassador Hotel. Ironically, it was Bobby who preached to the black community not to riot upon news of King's death. Both assassinations hit at the heart of America's youth and minorities as both King and Kennedy were their voice against the status quo.

Vietnam

President Lyndon Johnson, by this point, was unpopular with young men because every week, more and more were sent to Vietnam to fight a war many couldn't understand why we were involved. As the first televised war, every night at 6:00pm sharp, Vietnam came into every living room across the country, giving us horror images that have remained ingrained in our minds ever since.

After Johnson decided to not run for re-election, pandemonium reigned the months leading up to the DNC convention. And we all know it worked out; the summer's riots, many believe, have much to do with the outcome.

Presidential Candidates: Donald J. Trump & Hillary Clinton

As we now watch each violent riot unfold on our big flatscreens, we feel the same fears and apprehension felt in that tumultuous year many decades ago. With the brazen lawlessness, a sense of urgency as America spirals out of control with special interest groups taking us hostage with their chants while shutting down free speech - at least, speech they don't agree with - forcing themselves on us.

Is it the candidates' fault? Not really. This kettle started simmering when Obama began dividing people into categories; pitting one against the other. It also comes from local governments issuing stand down orders to its police force, thus, letting physical assaults and property destruction run rampant without consequence.

San Jose Rioters

America is, yet once again, at another fateful crossroads where we must decide whether to restore prosperity to all people rather than a chosen few or continue to spiral down into a country devoid of its sovereignty and the eradication of its 200+ year old Constitution, once and for all.

Is this the last election we'll ever have as a republic...or has the Silent Majority re-awoken?

How say you?