Stastically Speaking 3
OK. You want honest and open? Here we go.
Is there still a dividing attitude of racism in America? Yes, but it runs on both sides of the racial chasm. And while racism still exists, the perception or claims of racism is far greater than the actual occurrence.
You would be hard pressed to find a minority in this country that has not at some time experienced a situation that they considered racism. While each instance is different, I find many of the stories to be the same things white people have to deal with every day. White people get poor service in restaurants, inattentive and indifferent sales clerks in stores, we lose jobs, get passed over for promotions, get turned down for loans and credit cards, are made to feel insignificant by those with authority over us and have run-ins with police. But white folks rarely have the advantage of using racism as an excuse for our frustrations and disappointments. We are left to conclude that the person we are dealing with is an idiot or that our own actions may actually have played a part in the cards we are dealt.
Instead of focusing on the advancements made in race relations and minority opportunities available we focus our attention on insignificant annoyances that happen to everybody at some time. We have become so insanely politically correct on race that we have lost all concept of what racism is, where we have come from and where we are today.
When was the last reporting of a lynching in America? Do you suppose they still occur and the news media has decided not to cover them? Not likely. If there is a racial killing where whites kill blacks the news media is all over it with 24 hour non-stop coverage. If we had a lynching Jesse Jackson would be at the scene within hours looking for blood to smear on his shirt and Al Sharpton would be there claiming everything about white people is evil except their hair styles. The entire country would literally be turned on its ear and focused on little else for the next 6 months. It would be a shock to the entire country and rightfully so.
Golf Channel analyst Kelly Tilghman made an attempt at humor by saying other golfers would need to take Tiger Woods out back and lynch him if they wanted to win and almost lost her job. Tilghman was suspended for a month for the mere mention of the word. A garbage truck driver in Philadelphia was fired for hanging little a hangman’s nooses on his truck as a Halloween decoration because we, as a country, have become so politically correct and racially sensitive that we cannot discern between the image and the intent.
Lynchings were a dark page in our countries history. White thugs would gather up young black men who had committed some sort of inexcusable infraction like sitting in a whites only area or drinking from a whites only water fountain or looking at a white girl walk down the street and they would hang them from a tree as a sign of their brutal power and a warning to others of what happens to those that of cross them.
We have not had a lynching in this country for decades, but every single week across America 40 to 50 young black men are killed by other young black men. Each one of them is just as dead as the young men hung from trees. The reasons for these killings are usually equally inexcusable infractions like walking down the wrong street, selling dope on the wrong corner, flashing the wrong gang sign or having the wrong color bandana, disrespecting the shooter in any number of perceived ways or doing nothing at all but being in the wrong place.
Where are Jesse and Al at these killing? Where is the President, where is Reverend Wright, where is Professor Gates? Are they afraid to go into those neighborhoods? The carnage in the streets of black neighborhoods has become so commonplace that local news media outlets cover these killings simply as time fillers if there is no other news happening that day. There is no outrage. There is no call for a federal investigation. There is only tacit acceptance.
Most of these killings are carried out in full view of witnesses who are usually too afraid to give police any information out of fear of retribution. There is no difference between these killings and the lynching’s except the color of the attacker. We use ridiculous terms like “hate crime” to add some sort of delusional meaning to an act of violence, but the reality is the guy is just as dead whether the killer hated him or not, or whether the killer was white or black. Just imagine what would happen if the 40 to 50 killings every week on our city streets were carried out by marauding whites instead of other blacks.
And what do the black leaders and the white liberals blame for this urban holocaust? They blame the gun. How far would we have gotten in this country if we would have blamed the rope for lynchings? “The key to cutting back on these lynchings is a reduction in the amount of rope we have on the streets. If these guys didn’t have the rope they wouldn’t be able to hang anybody”.
Whenever I write about race invariably I will receive e mailed comments accusing me of racial prejudice. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I believe liberals are the epitome of racial prejudice.
I believe everybody should be held to the same level of responsibility. Blacks are just as capable as whites, entitled to the same struggles, the same disappointments and the same benefits. Liberals are the ones who believe that blacks are not capable of competing with whites. That is why we have this constant push to lower the standards and deflect blame. Liberals have created a welfare society with generation after generation of impoverished, dependent minorities who live in far greater fear of each other than of anything a white man will do to them. Liberals have made failure attractive and success nearly impossible. Once they have you in their endless system of hopeless despair liberals understand that you cannot break the narcotic hold welfare dependence thereby assuring them of your vote.
You can build all the schools you want but if the desks sit empty you have accomplished nothing. You can give all the job training you want but if it’s acceptable to just make babies and live off the welfare dole the lure of building a new and better life is lost. You can blame racism for the inequities in life or you can develop the necessary skills that will prevent anybody from holding you back.
Racism exists. From the white liberals who glorify the acceptance of failure and diminished standards, to the black leaders who preach excuses and justification instead of empowerment.
