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Sharpton and Obama: There’s No Business Like Race Business

April 29, 2008 - 9:21 am - by Roger L Simon
Gary Ogletree
2008-04-29 12:08:16

After decades of our either ignoring or making excuses for black racism it has grown and spread so much that it can be expressed openly on national TV without much fear of censure. Many in our media and academia even come forth to justify it. Were we the horrible racist nation the Obama and Wright crowd say we are then Jim Crow would reign supreme, and not just in Dixie: no Civil Rights Act, no Voting Rights Act, no War on Poverty, no affirmative action, no black mayors, no black police chiefs, no Oprah show, no BET, no black millionaires, etc. MLK, Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, and anyone else who failed to stay in their place would be parked in federal prisons. But, somehow, typical white people were stirred awake by a young preacher from Atlanta whose moral example has yet to be matched. Again and again white folks rose to the challenge to right old wrongs, assert racial equality and create equal opportunity, spending untold billions in the effort. No nation in history has come so far so fast in redressing social and economic injustice. Any black leader with integrity would celebrate this and express thanks for the Good Old USA. Until that happens, this typical white person says we have done our part and I am not inclined to cut any more slack or tolerate any more BS. Time for black people to stop the endless whining and get their act together. The black community is seriously screwed up and it ain’t whitey fault.