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Crying ‘wolf’ on racism: Some ideasTue, 07/01/2008 - 3:57pm
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Am I the only one who has had his fill of the garbage put out there from the NAACP? I doubt it. There is a problem between many black and whites. And the “R word” is the reason we are having problems, but it is not racism, it’s resentment. What could white people resent about black people? Here is a partial list: affirmative action, O.J. Simpson, 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Jeremiah Wright, black racism, Duke lacrosse scandal, Al Sharpton, class warfare, Don Imus, Jesse Jackson, the N word, and Presidential voting conclusions. Affirmative action is a big one. It is supposed to make up for poor treatment in the past. But is it fair? If your grandfather stole something from my grandfather 50 years ago, should you be put in jail today? If someone stole your car, does that give you the right to steal mine? Do two wrongs make a right? If you give something to someone who did not earn it, you have taken it away from someone who did. Racial discrimination is wrong whether it is black racism or white racism. Both are unconstitutional. Everybody, black or white, knows that O.J. Simpson killed two people, but a black jury set him free. His trial began a period, which still exists today, where black people are justified for whatever they do or are judged to be innocent simply because they are black, i.e., racism. If a white person said what the Rev. Wright said, only about black people, we would have seen march after march in front of his church by Al Sharpton and other black “leaders.” Don Imus said three words in a poor attempt at humor, not racism, and Sharpton gets him fired. Imus could not have been more contrite and apologetic, but he loses his job. Wright continues to unrepentantly spew racial hatred and Sharpton defends and justifies him. Unbelievable. If you are black (or a Democrat) you not only get a pass, but are vigorously defended. If not, there are no excuses and you must be severely punished. The Rev. Sharpton, by the way, is not a problem solver. He is a flame fanner. He and others are in the race business. If he does not find racism he is out of business. He has yet to complain how a white person has been treated. He does not care about people. He cares about black people. In the primaries, 94 percent of black people voted for Obama, but if 94 percent of white voters voted for John McCain in the November election, every black person in the country would scream racism. How does racism only work one way? Incidentally, not even black people can criticize black people. I have been listening to Tom Joyner for almost 12 years, but not as long as Tavis Smiley has been on the program. He criticized Obama for not going to Memphis on the 40-year anniversary of MLK’s death. He was universally castigated by black people to the point that he submitted his resignation from the TJMS. We all know the scolding Bill Cosby has received for contending that black people are causing their own problems. Same lesson: black people are untouchable. Ninety-four percent of Clark Atlanta University is black, but UGA needs to admit more blacks for diversity? Where is the needed diversity at CAU? There is a 100 Black Men of Atlanta group, but if someone started 100 White Men of Atlanta we would have Sharpton back in town screaming that day. The hypocrisy and double standards are mind numbing, yet never addressed. You can’t complain about being treated differently if you, in turn, are treating people differently. Class warfare is used to promote an “us against them” sentiment. Why are so many black people poor? The two most obvious reasons: 69 percent of black children are born to single moms and 50 percent of black teenagers do not graduate from high school. Two quick fixes are in the statistics. Black women college graduates make more money than white women graduates and married black men have the same employment/unemployment rate as married white men. Any objective eye can see that the above two things and black-on-black crime are the three biggest problems facing the black community. Yet black “leaders” turn a blind eye. People will march for the Gena 6, but where was the outrage when, on July 26, 2007, an Atlanta 9-year-old girl was shot and killed while sitting at her computer by a stray bullet from a gang member? Sharpton could not care less because the shooter would have been black. John Jones, of the Fayette County NAACP, had the predictable interpretation of what went on in court with DFCS supervisor Cylenthia Clark’s case. It’s all about racism, blah, blah blah. Exactly what we would expect NAACP court observers to find. The NAACP is the modern day version of the old crying wolf story. The boy cried wolf for no reason so often that the villagers stopped taking him seriously. Nobody takes the “racism” cry seriously for exactly the same reason. Time to give it a rest. Some might try to discount me as racist, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have four adopted daughters, two Korean and two black. When you have met that standard of acceptance, we can talk about me being racist. The latter two have only experienced racism from the dark-skin black girls intolerant of their light skin and how they talked white (like their parents). After one daughter was pushed down a flight of stairs by two of her persecutors, we had to switch high schools. The only ones who took exception to their skin color were people of the same color, only of a different shade. Bottom line, Mr. Jones: if my job is loading trucks, I will load trucks. If my job is finding racism, I will find racism. The day we no longer have people whose job it is to find racism is the day racism will have virtually disappeared from sight. Wise up. Bill Webster Peachtree City, Ga. login to post comments
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