What is Racism? Racism or racialism is a form of discrimination based on race, especially the belief that one race is superior to another. Racism may be expressed individually and consciously, through explicit thoughts, feelings, acts or socially and unconsciously through institutions that promote inequality between races. It seems to me that Americans of African descent have been given a "green" light to carry out "inverse racism". Using the excuse of slavery which was stopped over 150 years ago, white Liberals plagued by guilt have created mechanisms such as multiculturalism, or diversity coupled with affirmative-action which is nothing more than the preferential selection of blacks or other minorities to fill jobs that used to be carried out by white Americans. This preferential selection favoring minorities, is based solely on race, and not qualifications. Is affirmative action intensifying, and inciting racial tensions rather than easing them.
I also agree with William Raspberry who wrote the following for an editorial about this divisive subject: "Some of us believe that the best way to achieve a colorblind future is to practice colorblindness now".
During the mid 90's in New Jersey, budget cuts forced a school to make the decision to lay off one of two teachers. One was white, the other black. Both were equally qualified, and both had been hired the same day. The school did the Politically Correct thing and fired the white teacher and kept the black one. Nat Hentoff wrote an Op-Ed entitled "Fired For Being White" about this decision, and I quote: "When students see a teacher being removed form the faculty solely because of his or her race, what lesson does that teach the students?" I believe that two wrongs don't make a right. Slavery was wrong, but so is affirmative action. I firmly believe that success not earned is not the American way.
A disturbing trend we are witnessing is the double standard and use of politically correct "newspeak" that allows blacks to declare themselves as being victimized racially simply to silence others opinions. An example of this was when radio talk show host Mr. Don Imus was again accused of saying "racist comments" when he simply stated the truth, namely that our prisons are populated by many Afro-Americans. In fact most crimes against blacks are committed by other blacks. Also we must note that 27% of the United States prison population is comprised of illegal aliens. It is another "politically correct" lie that they all come here to work.
The media discourages the use of the "N" word, but blacks can freely toss around the insulting label of "cracker". (ABC's The View - Whoopi Goldberg recently flavored the N word and more than a couple of people commented on how "blacks could get away with calling white people "cracker," plus other unsavory names.) Yes there is a double-standard foisted upon us thanks to Political Correctness. Many Afro-Americans and their representatives want "reparations" to be given to that group to compensate for damages caused by Slavery, an institution that was banished about 150 years ago. I feel that this would be a grave injustice as Slavery was ended so long ago, why punish whites now? "Two wrongs don't make a right."
Not that long ago, Kanye West accused President Bush of being against the black community on live television. Yet whites cannot question anything about Barack Hussein Obama, for example his middle name, his religion, his ties to radical groups, etc, without receiving insults and being labeled racists or bigots.
Another example of the double standard, whereby any white can by lynched by our politically correct media, is the case of the black stripper who accused the Duke Lacrosse team members of raping her. The media and a great swath of our population assumed it was true. This was a case where whites were victims of a racial witch hunt. In fact, a Wall Street Journal article from June 20, 2007 by John Steele Gordon entitled "Racial Role Reversal" showed how racial injustice towards the five white students led to the prejudicial presentation or reporting of this case. The author wrote the following: "[M]any Duke University students and faculty, and many members of the media simply plugged the alleged circumstances into their racial paradigm - wealthy white college jocks partying and behaving badly with regard to a poor black woman - and proclaimed the Duke boys guilty."
And: "Meanwhile the 88 members of the faculty have yet to apologize for a rush to judgment that was racist at its heart." [Note: one apologized.] So we have 5 totally innocent white students and athletes whose lives and reputations were tarnished and trashed by not only the Duke Lacrosse administration, but also by our media, and by black leaders such as Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. Mr. Jackson even rewarded the lying stripper with a scholarship. Mike Nifong the District Attorney of Durham County was disbarred for dishonesty, fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation for trashing and persecuting these white youths. Yet their lives will never be the same, and they did not even sue the lying stripper for damages. Even The New York Times smeared these young men. Their families have been severely hurt by astronomical legal expenses all based on the lies of the black stripper.
Don Imus the tv, and radio host was fired in April of 07 by CBS, and MSNBC for using a "racial slur", that pales by comparison to what we can hear daily on most rap, or hip-hop recordings, or concerts. Afro-Americans can use the "N" word, or the "F" bomb, or label women as "hos" or whatever, and you did not hear a word about this from Sharpton or Jackson until after the Imus fiasco subsided, and public scorn forced their decision to address the issue after public pressure mounted.
Right after the presidential elections of 2000, black leaders like Sharpton and Jackson were screaming to the four winds that black votes had been "disenfranchised" in the state of Florida, when Gore lost all 4 recounts to Bush. Yet just a few months ago the Democratic Party disenfranchised the votes of both Michigan and Florida during the primaries between Obama, and Hillary. After much contention, and party infighting, the votes of both those states counted only by half! Obama was awarded points he did not even earn nor win. (affirmative action votes?) So after Hillary won the popular vote, the party selected Obama. Yet where is the black outrage? Perhaps Sharpton and Jackson look forward to being invited to White House state dinners, and flights on Air Force One? Because Obama is half black, Afro-Americans are happy with this unfair outcome. They support an inadequate inexperienced black male versus a competent experienced white woman. This looks like racism to me, exactly like affirmative action where the preferential selection is determined solely by race, and not by qualifications, or on the job experience. Two wrongs don't make a right.
www.thinkprogress.org - "The lessons that would not hurt anyone to learn."
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/business - "The unemployment and jobless rates for white men are still lower than for black or hispanic men."
www.politics.blackenterprise.com (7/15/08) "Obama tells blacks to be more responsible/take responsibility."
www.thedailyvoice.com (6/24/08) "Stop playing the victim game already."
www.humanevents.com