8 Ways Blacks Perpetuate Racism and the Only Way to Thwart It
It shouldn’t matter that I, an author with the audacity to select such a title, am black. The arguments presented should stand or fall on their objective merit. Nevertheless, I declare my racial identity at the outset to defuse any prejudice readers may bring regarding the motivation behind this piece. Indeed, it is in part because I am black that the following must be said.
All things considered, blacks and the civil rights culture surrounding them are the most open and prolific purveyors of racism in America. This is an ironic travesty which spits upon the graves of history’s abolitionists and offends all who are committed to a dream of equality under the law and goodwill among men.
Surely, such a claim is provocative. Unfortunately, it is also demonstrable.
In a recent interview with National Public Radio host Michel Martin, the Oscar-winning black actor Morgan Freeman made the odd declaration that President Barack Obama is not America’s first black president. NPR reports:
“First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him … they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America,” Freeman said. “There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president — he’s America’s first mixed-race president.”
This is a new take on Obama’s racial identity from Freeman, who has previously cited Obama’s blackness as the chief motivation behind political opposition from both Republicans in Congress and the Tea Party movement. From an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan:
… Morgan asked the actor, “Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism or has it, in a strange way, made it worse?”
“Made it worse. Made it worse,” Freeman replied. “The tea partiers who are controlling the Republican party … their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What underlines that? Screw the country. We’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here.”
Apparently, Obama is black enough to trigger baseless charges of racism, but not black enough to qualify as the first black president. If that makes your brain hurt, you might be rational.
Freeman’s comments are not anomalies. He channels long-held, broadly accepted ideas regarding what it means to be black, the relevance of race, and the claim of blacks upon the rest of society. These ideas are horrifically racist, yet uniquely tolerated.
The tolerance of racist ideas openly expressed by blacks and the larger civil rights establishment is informed by sloppy thinking regarding both race and the role of government in society. True reconciliation requires confronting these ideas with reason. Here are eight ways in which blacks are perpetuating racism, and the one true way to effectively thwart it.
The despicable Mary Frances Berry, who was amazingly a former chairwomen on the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights once saying: “Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them”, is as brazen as her apparent belief in having that special shield which means no matter what she says, it’s not racist, even when it is.
Ms. Berry also wrote in July of 2010: “Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans.” Publically admitting that one is a liar and a race pimp in only 2 sentences is rare and why I used the word despicable.
May Frances Berry was once the President of the Pacifica Foundation at a time when multiculturalism and anti-white male feeling was at its height. I wrote about the institutionalization of racialist thinking at Pacifica Radio here: http://clarespark.com/2010/10/21/links-to-pacifica-memoirs/. These essays are part of a larger story in which white liberal foundations funded black power and cultural nationalism of a particularly obnoxious variety. See http://clarespark.com/2010/07/18/white-elite-enabling-of-black-power/. The full bizarre content of the Shirley Sherrod tape is described at the bottom of the latter blog.
Mary Frances Berry… We get angry about this, but what we’re seeing is the normal and typical result of what white liberals create in the minds of political blacks. You are expected to be racist against whites, it’s as natural as separate water fountains once were. Berry wasn’t trying to shock, she was just being honest. White liberals are like puppy dogs that always come back to play, no matter how you hit them or say nasty things about their breed.
Thank you for saying this.
My theory about this is that this will eventually create a rubber band effect where all this push and false accusations of racism will anger people and it may create actual racists purely out of spite. It’s sad that the left thinks this is the proper way to fight racism. This is only going to make things worse.
That’s been my concern for a long time. Stormfront celebrated the election of Obama. I fear that we’re on the brink of that sort of thing becoming respectable again.
Clarify, please. What is “Stormfront”? Thanks.
Stormfront is a white-supremacist organization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_%28website%29
We must remember that progressives see people not as individuals, but as members of a group (“collective”). As such, racism is very convenient for them as it provides a starting point for dividing our nation into warring factions rather than individuals working (relatively) harmoniously with one another. They like racism and are typically very racist themselves. In fact, progressivism was first implemented in America by some of the most racist Americans of their time.
Yes! And many of the early so-called “Progressives” were eugenists who believed certain people were inferior to others. They still carry the same views, they just hide it better. Margaret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood was a eugenist progressive and she also advocated sterilization. This is why PP offices were placed in inner cities, especially where people of color lived. Their goal was basically a genocide of black babies…and it still is. Leftists are tyrants and everything they do is for themselves. They have only been using people for their own personal gain.
Interesting you said that, my thought on this comment that the left seems not to really care about fighting racism at all. I think the true goal is gaining the appearance of moral high ground as opposed to any real desire for equality and justice.
Very well said Dawn, I believe the same. Used as a convenient ploy to divide, not unite. Equality is out the window if you can continue to play the victim card to get your way.
Have to read this article later. Should be interesting. However, the only possible answer to the question in the title could have, and would have, been given by Nathan Bedford Forrest 150 years ago.
And what Nathan Bedford Forrest answer would that be?
Yeah, he was the first grand poo baa of the klan, but he also disbanded it because – what for it – it was becoming too violent.
The klan came back, but not with Forrest.
Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was invited to speak during a meeting of the “Jubilee of Pole Bearers”, 5 July 1875. Here is a portion of that speech:
“… I came to meet you as friends, and welcome you to the white people. I want you to come nearer to us. When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. Go to work, be industrious, live honestly and act truly, and when you are oppressed I’ll come to your relief. I thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for this opportunity you have afforded me to be with you, and to assure you that I am with you in heart and in hand.”
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As a Conservative and a Canadian, I have never suffered from ‘liberal white guilt’. The significant black population of Canada did not exist until the 1970′s, so black/white racial issues were almost non-existant. However, since Obama has come to power, I have developed a distain for blacks and black culture. My eyes have been opened to who the real racists are. I used to defend blacks, but no more. Now, I view so many of them as professional victims, screaming at a fictitious boogeyman. Violent, angry, irresponsible children who cry racism whenever it suits them.
I had a similar experience. Years ago I used to defend the blacks in barracks discusions. That was before Jackson, Sharpton, et al. One day, a boy from GA
asked: Did you ever live among them? To which I replied, NO. I was arguing against the current stereotype, viz. stupid, lazy, irresponsible, dishonest.
However, now I do know what he meant and he was right! I suffer from ‘post-judice’ I guess.
Well from one fellow Canadian and Conservative to another we both can certainly relate to this style of unrelenting attacks from the Liberal and NDP brainwashed masses here in Canada. I don’t know about you but I have been more than aghast at the intolerance and bigotry that spews forth from these so called enlightened ones. They display the same type of mentality and ethos that is prevalent in the race baiting in America, in fact I believe it is from the same play book as the same old tired bromides and canards put forth under the false flag of racism can be applied to our political classes here in Canada.
In fact the same war is being fought here in Canada and all you have to do is replace ‘black’ with ‘aboriginal’ to see the exact same similarities being played out. In fact Canada is so corrupt in that regard that we have our Federal government able to advertise job opportunities that clearly state ‘only aboriginal candidates will be considered’.
So progressive, so enlightened… so wrong.
Toronto Girl you state,
“My eyes have been opened to who the real racists are. I used to defend blacks, but no more. Now, I view so many of them as professional victims, screaming at a fictitious boogeyman. Violent, angry, irresponsible children who cry racism whenever it suits them.”
I grew up in New Orleans, LA. There was and is racism, black on white and white on black. Social justice was a HUGE focus of my Catholic High School, Jesuit High. “Liberal White Guilt” was a DEMONSTRABLE phenomena affecting SEVERAL priests. It was difficult to stomach. A huge portion of their quest for social justice and equality was guilt driven by my observation.
In more recent years I worked in a place that had a few cliques of black females in key positions. The corruption was unreal and the working conditions were horrible. It was a horrible experience, almost traumatic. The black on white hate was ever present in a highly toxic atmosphere. The race relations were always just beneath the surface as a major motive behind how one person may deal with another. If one was part of the clique … things got done and if not … good luck. Bottom line, I agree with your statement 100 percent, “Now, I view so many of them as professional victims, screaming at a fictitious boogeyman. Violent, angry, irresponsible children who cry racism whenever it suits them.”
It is a form of terrorism … because in certain jobs, when one crys racism …. there is an office that sometimes aggressively facilitates the cry (the Equal Opportunity Office — very close by in my case). People’s ability to hold a job and by extension … feed their own children is directly affected. It shocks me that this is the case, but it clearly is and I am far from the only one who has observed this kind of behavior. God help us.
Thank your for this thoughtful article. I learned a lot.
The Left does not want “racism” or the perception of racism to die because it is the engine that drives their power. They use race propaganda to generate solidarity for their elitist causes. Many liberal black leaders would have no power without “keeping the pot stirred” by claiming racism; therefore, they quite frequently claim racism where none exists in order to incite the masses to react with a mob mentality for the purpose of making themselves “necessary” and to intimidate political opponents.
Exactly… The leftists are the racists and are using racism to divide and conquer the nation. The leftists are manipulative tyrants who only care about amassing power and wealth.
Honestly? I see this happening already. Worth noting, I suppose, that the sort of racism discussed in this article is itself a reaction like you’re talking about, to the vicious racism of America’s past. It’s a vicious cycle, and the only way out is to choose not to engage in it any more.
What an absolutely wonderful article.
But within hours, Mr. Hudson will be tarnished for his egregious sins of not walking lock step with the culture of victimization – perpetuated by black race hustlers and pretentious white elitists posing as concerned for the black plight.
Yes of course,
And with his White Mother, he will be relentlessly heckled as an oreo, house nigga, and Uncle Tom…dismissed as a “nerd” by the “cooler”, Gangsta types because he’s “not really black”
_Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fubar!_
Nice to hear someone in lines of Fredrick Douglas, Martin Luther King, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Condi Rice and Lee Elder. It’s time that the msm gives these views to Americans, instead of the typical Rev. Al, Jesse, Shirley, Diane, etc.
Most excellent comment!
Thumbs up, five stars, loud applause
which of these things is not like the other?
Condi does not belong in that list
she pulled her race card in Israel saying she understood apartheid (which Israel is not) b/c of her own background w/slavery
Condi was not referring to a background of slavery. She was referring to her personal experience of growing up in Alabama, during a time when state and local government (run by Democrats, of course) still enforced racial segregation.
I salute you for both your analysis and your courage in printing it.
Wow, this message is much needed. What a great article. I especially liked your response video to the Unfair Campaign video. If the script in the Unfair Campaign video had been read with a straight face without all the fancy background music, I think there would have been a lot more people appalled, because WOW. How can someone say things like that and think it’s right?? Yet I see the same startling attitude among white liberals all the time. *shudder*
Some years ago, Professor Walter Williams penned a column in which he asserted that unless racism has a deleterious effect on individuals’ equality of rights or equality before the law, it is not a properly political subject. It seemed so clear and straightforward a formulation that I couldn’t imagine that anyone would disagree.
Yet plainly, some always will — not because they’re motivated by individuals’ rights or their legal equality, but because they seek tribute, or vengeance for imagined wrongs. As there will always be some such persons in a population of billions, we will never be completely free from racism-hustling. Therefore, we must learn to shrug it off…and as difficult as that might seem, it is not impossible.
We can only shrug off the hustling of race to the extent it does not intrude upon our rights, as Professor Williams states. Under the status quo, where race is politicized and leveraged to justify the initiation of force, we cannot merely shrug it off. We have to combat it.
But what can we do to stop this insanity? I spent many years talking one on one with my friends and made some headway with some of them. But I am only one person and the problem is so much bigger than just one person.
He’s talking about the difference between institutionalized racism and anecdotal racism, e.g., bumperstickers, insults, taxis that don’t stop.
Virtually 100% of mainstream raced-based entities reside on the political Left today.
Read any “black culture” website out there; the hostility towards whites is palpable. They are a disgrace. Obama’s friend Henry (Beersummit) Gates runs The Root; owned by WaPo, with mainstream ads. The Root is hate-speech lite. It is an institutionalized disgrace and racist site.
This Spring The Root had an article titled: “Black Professionals: We’ve Got Obama’s Back.” If Ann Coulter wrote that on a conservative site she’d be fired and the site discredited. As far as Coulter has gone, she’s never gone that far.
The entirety of the black academic New Jim Crow political Left in America are a disgrace because they are bald-face racists. They don’t care any more about the greater good than a cat.
Say that again. There is zero racism on the mainstream right. It’s policy for the mainstream left. They don’t even consider it controversial.
Yes, racism is primarily found in people who lean toward Statism – it’s often a founding principle. Look at the National Socialist Worker’s Party in Germany. Look at Greece.
That’s National SOCIALIST Worker’s Party – Worker’s Party? A political union organization? Wait, don’t the unions typically give millions to Democrats?
Ruh roh, Raggy.
The drift of their common neurosis toward full fledged psychosis over the years is showing through the media whitewash in the welcome rains of patriotism.
I am vagely aware of the site you mention which resembles my Tag line here…..I’m only aware of who they are by the comments of others refering to them, and refuse to “investigate” any further who they actually are.
I am “the Root ’83″ only because Marines of my generation were a bit jealous of the “saltiness and swaggar” Combat Marines who served in “The Nam” had, thus when we experienced our trial by fire, it just HAD to be called “the” something…
So Beruit became “The Root” to all who served anywhere in Lebanon in the various events of the 80′s…its been, in various forms, part of my “handle” for nearly 30 years.
That many Trolls who comment here become confused, think I represent/sympathize with that site, and thus become apoplectic at my treasonous “oppostite camp” tantrums, is my Online Joy.
I will persist my in refusal to seek out or familiarize myself with this other “Root”, and continue (I hope!) to annoy and offend all who cannot believe that someone named “The Root” could hold the opinions I do.
my roommate at the citadel class of 81 was killed at “the root”. charles (chuck) schnorf lt. 10/23/1983. 1st battalion 8th
Thank you for your service. The most moving memorial ive ever been to was in Jacksonville n.c. just that simple line They Came in Peace at the Beirut memorial spoke volumes. The sacrifices your generation made have not been forgotten, especially by Marines & those who love them, like me.
Semper Fi Brother.
I understood your handle the first time I saw it. Alot of the guys from my graduating class at PI were assigned to shore party 1st Battalion 8th Marines. We both know how that ended up. To “autdrew”, the memorial in Jacksonville is the only memorial to our lost brothers. It is very moving. The American people should realize that the first shots fired (VBIED’s), beginning the GWOT, happened at the American Embassy and at the Beruit Airport in 1983.
I know this goes back a few years. My nephew George Dramis was one of the last Marines killed over there. By anychance did you know him?
No Sir, I did not know him, but there are some excellent web-sites where Beirut Marines get together and discuss experiences. The best way to find them is to look for the Beirut Memorial web-site and check the links. Most of the guys will be very happy to help you. Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner, work you know.
It is too late. I suspect this time it will end in Burn, baby, Burn, but it will be entire cities that go up in smoke. And blacks will have neither homes, ebt cards, or medicaid left to rely on. If 70% are born without fathers in the home, that will be a death sentence. It could have ended better had people like Gingrich supported ending affirmative action rather than preventing its end during Reagans term. Cold turkey will be a killer, especially with an economy spiraling into the dirt.
>>>>Surely, blacks are not the only demographic group which chooses to associate together, and there is certainly nothing wrong with free association. The problem is the double standard. Substitute white for black in any of the above and you would have theatrical public outcry and claims of civil rights violations.
Thats’ because Whites are not really an ethnic group, and a white-only association would mean really “we don’t want darkies here”. On the other hand there are tons of associations where fair-skinned people associate based on some actual ethnic history (as opposed to merely “white”) that are perfectly acceptable: nobody sees, say, an organization such as “Jewish business owners from city X” or “Italian bakers from state Y” are “racist” because no blacks can join.
Yes, Blacks in Africa are also divided into many groups — Ibos are not the same as Zulus, say, or Nigerians and Kenyans. But that’s just it: in America, Blacks DID over time become one ethnic group as opposed to a collection of different ones. I doubt most Black people have the slightest idea what specific tribe in Africa their ancestors cames from, and even if they do, they don’t see themselves as members of that particular group, but as black.
Also, I don’t see this as self-segregation. Are people who join the “association of Black hotel owners” only associate with other Blacks? Do they have a “Blacks only” sign at their hotel? Of course not. Just because I belong to one group does not mean I belong ONLY to that group.
You’ll have to help me parse out this comment. You appear to be saying that a white association would be objectionable since it would “keep out the darkies,” while a black association is just fine because its members otherwise interact with whites. I struggle to discern any objective principle informing that conclusion. A hypothetical National Association for the Advancement of White People would not have to place a “white’s only” sign on its door to generate ire among the public. Segregation is inherent to an organization with a racial qualifier in its name, and is not dependent upon a broader segregation outside of the association.
I also have trouble following your point about ethnicity. Both race and ethnicity are subjective and can inform bigotry. So I’m not sure what point is served by the distinction. Whether a group segregates according to physical differences or cultural differences is irrelevant. My point is not in opposition to segregation as such, so long as it is an exercise in free association. My point is in opposition to the double standard applied to segregation in our political discourse.
I think he’s saying that a hypothetical “National Association for the Advancement of White People” would be objectionable because it would presumably be formed to keep out “darkies” as he puts it, but a hypothetical “National Association for the Advancement of Italian-Americans” would be OK, because it would narrowly define a group, separate from other whites, and exclude them too. On the other hand, Blacks are mixed together so much that it would be impossible to have any sort of association built around an ethnic sub-group in the Black community, so whatever organization there is has to be all-encompassing.
I think that’s his point; I mostly disagree with it. Italians, Irishmen, and Jews have been subject to racial discrimination themselves, in the past. The idea of a hypothetical “National Association for the Advancement of Blue-eyed Blonde-haired Northern Europeans” is pretty close to laughable.
Btw, I am mostly Northern European, though neither blonde nor blue-eyed.
Your analysis of his point is probably accurate. It just doesn’t seem rational to me. The object of criticism is segregation, regardless of basis. If it is wrong for one group to segregate, it is wrong for all. For my purposes, the point was not to hash out whether it’s wrong, but highlight the fact that there are two different standards.
People have a double standard on this issue. Probably because of the origins of black associations. The NAACP is a classic example. At one time it had a damn good reason to exist. Today it’s nothing but a racist enterprise.
Cheap psychology tends to come into play, empowered by deluded ideas like white privilege and post-traumatic slave syndrome; yes there is such a thing bruited about. The generational hangover is the most common theme used to say these groups should exist. Tell the Jews who created Israel in only 3 years about that. If a man can do a thing, he will do a thing.
So what happens is that mitigation and blame get mixed up and fogs the issues, particularly for liberals who seem to not understand the difference between an institution and an individual when it comes to race.
The bottom line is that it’s 2012. There’s no place in America for such groups. Why anyone feels the need to have a Miss Black America Pageant, Assoc. of Black Scuba Divers or firemen is beyond me. The idea of a Society of Black Science Fiction Writers is plain silly.
>>>>>I think that’s his point;
Yup. If Blacks had kept their ethnic identity as Ibos or Zulus then the “Black hotel owners” association would have been racist. Not necessarily so as it is.
>>>>>I mostly disagree with it. Italians, Irishmen, and Jews have been subject to racial discrimination themselves, in the past. The idea of a hypothetical “National Association for the Advancement of Blue-eyed Blonde-haired Northern Europeans” is pretty close to laughable.
But such organizations DO exist. I didn’t check but I’ll bet anything there are organizations that promote German or Scandinavian culture. If they are racist or not depend — again — on what they do, not on the very fact they exist.
Do they promote tourism to Finland, or sell “protect the European race — avoid black people!” pamphlets? Do they see being a descendant of Finns as a reason to remember Finnish independence day, or as their most important quality, overshadowing their commitment to America or to obeying the law? If a Scandinavian man convicted of jealously killing his black wife gets off, do they celebrate in the streets and call it “racial justice”?
I’m quite sure “advancement of Finns” organizations are not racist — but the NAACP is, because it long ago stopped wanting to advance colored PEOPLE and became an organization to advance COLOR as the most important thing.
Sorry Skeptic, many white Europeans didnt keep their ethnic identity intact, but to protect themselves from Black Racists who target them for being white, they need to organize to protect their interests. Being the only group that is dissallowed from joining the current New Left Identity Politics zeitgeist, (and with all others gunning for you) means that your interests will not be served as pollies dont have any group to pander too, people are afraid of legal action brought by organizations that defend your groups rights agianst infringement by others.
Try again. The White Euro-American Mutt has nowhere to go and everyone gunning for him or her.
For your reference, Finns are not Scandinavians.
False. Here’s but one counterexample: Igbo Catholic Community USA (ICCUSA).
I didn’t have to look very hard.
Try again.
Yes, but how recently did those people immigrate? If they are mostly recent immigrants from Africa, then it doesn’t matter. We’re talking about Amercan blacks of slave descent having held onto their African tribal identities.
Right, but it is the same for many white Europeans….they still have their European identity intact (for the time being) but they dont have a more focussed Ethnic Identity.
Thanks for the reply — I can see why my claim is confusing. I am making two different claims.
1). The first is that the rhetorical device, “what would you think if it was the association of white hotel owners” is based on a false analogy. It is like claiming that a synagogue which accepts only Jews is racist because we would think a shop that would sell to anybody except Jews is racist. This is becasue in reality, “white” in such a context is not an ethnic group, but simply saying “no minorities”, much like “restricted” used to mean “no Jews”. An appropriate analogy is to compare black-only associations with similar genuine ethinc group assocations: Jewish business owners or Italian bakers, say. If they’re legitimate, so is black hotel owners.
2). While (nearly) all “everybody except group X” associations are racist, it doesn’t follow all “only group Y” associations are NOT racist. My second point is giving a SINGLE standard for all such groups: is the ethnic association the #1 concern above all others? Do they see their ethnic identity, not as part of their being, but as the only one? A synagogue as such is legitimate. A synagogue that teaches all non-Jews are subhuman (not that any such exist) would not be.
The NAACP is racist: it clearly sees being black and the be-all and end-all of American blacks’ identity, regardless of their obligations as citizens or parents or workers. They often view non-blacks with suspicion and hostility. The association of black hotel owners seems from their web site to be just the opposite: they claim their goal is to help promote success and enterprenuership in the black community, that is, to help the black community JOIN the larger society. And there isn’t the slightest indication they think white people are to be shunned.
I inferred something which I did not imply. I do not think it is inherently racist to maintain a segregated organization. As I made clear, I am content with free association. My appeal is for a universal standard. If it is bigoted to segregate, it is bigoted to segregate. If it is not, it is not. In either case, I fail to see how segregation advances the stated goals of the civil rights movement, equality and inclusion. Surely, it is inconsistent to demonize segregation while practicing it.
Sorry, meant to say YOU inferred something which I did not imply.
I agree the point is one of principle. I personally don’t care if there is an association of black journalists. What I do care about is the implication that whites are racists who necessitate such a thing. What I do care about are accusations of racism from a racial entity aimed at people who have no interest in forming such groups in the first place yet are treated as if they have. The double standard that says we can do it and you can’t is insanely racist.
Historically, the notion that there was no such thing as a White ethnicity in America was probably valid, but in recent years a feeling of ever stronger solidarity among European-Americans is being subtly but profoundly reinforced by Black racism. When Black racists demonize all Whites as “devils,” even those Whites whose ancestors had nothing to do with slavery or even Jim Crow, then it no longer matters much to the Whites being dehumanized by such racists whether they happen to be Irish, Italian, Polish, German, Jewish, Anglo-Saxon, or even Hispanic. The foolishness of the Black racist unites all Whites into an ideological opposition that is impervious to the charge of anti-Black racism, since it is the very racism of Black people that helped bring this united opposition about in the first place. When all Whites find themselves at the receiving end of an abusive power trip, in which they are constantly made to feel guilty for past sins over which they had no control, they wind up developing a strong fellow-feeling for each other across ethnic lines, because they see in the Black racist a common enemy.
Interestingly, this fellow feeling also in many cases extends to Black conservatives. I think many Whites feel genuine outrage at the way Black conservatives are vilified as “Uncle Toms” who are somehow infatuated with white people and are completely servile. Underlying the hatred of the race-conscious militant bigot for the Black conservative is not any purported “servility” on the latter’s part, but rather the fact that for Black conservatives hating White people has no role to play in how they define themselves as human beings. It is the very decency and civility of the Black conservative that excites the hatred of the militant, apparently because his decency is regarded as “inauthentically Black.” So in the end, what do ethnic differences between Whites matter when the message being delivered is that to be “authentically Black,” one must hate and resent all White people as the “enemy” and the “oppressor?”
I would add to your second point that black conservatives ARE considered ‘us’ by the white thrown-together majority of your first point. Which means that it’s not so much ethnic as cultural. The patient majority, that has been striving for decades to right the wrongs of the past, is getting impatient, and those who no longer demand more more more are instantly included in the majority, whatever their origin. This goes for more than those of African descent, and skin color does not carry the same weight among the posited ‘white’ majority as it does for the leftist/Democratic segment of the country. Barack Obama is half white and has very light skin; the Democrats would never EVER have elected someone as dark as Clarence Thomas, and certainly not those that are even darker. If you want racist code words, Democrats use the term ‘handsome’ to describe such folks. It goes all the way back to the Antebellum south with their hierarchy of mixed race words: mulatto/maroon, quadroon, octoroon etc. To the ‘white’ majority, that distinction is irrelevant and meaningless. That somebody is 1/8 black is simply an interesting matter of family history, much as having a Scots-Irish Covenanter or a Huguenot ancestor.
One of my best friends came here from Africa, Malawi to be precise, and he out-Americans lots of Americans born and bred. It irritates him when people who’ve lived here for generations call themselves African-Americans because they’re just Americans, and know little or nothing about Africa. He could call himself an African American since he was born there, but he never does. American is good enough. He’s part of my ‘us,’ and the skin color is meaningless. That’s really all it’s about, which ‘us’ we belong to. Those of African (or more likely, somewhat remote African and mostly European extraction) who insist on remaining apart can’t ever join the majority ‘us,’ because they refuse to. Those who join the majority ‘us’ are welcomed and admired, not least because of the difficulty in escaping ‘them.’ I look forward to the day (though I’ll not hold my breath) when all Americans are ‘us,’ and even further out when all humans are ‘us.’ Some of ‘us’ are already there, and waiting for the rest to join up.
Charlize Theron was born a South African citizen, and later became a naturalized American citizen. Technically, then, isn’t she an African-American?
Well, she certainly looks African-American to me. No?
You do realize that Uncle Tom was ENTIRELY patterned upon Jesus Christ? ( per Beecher Stowe )
‘Uncle Tom’ as an epithet was a KKK construct; it was short hand for African-American Republican.
He was the ultimate ‘uncooperative’ slave.
In many, many ways Denzel Washington’s Private Trip in ‘Glory’ was Uncle Tom revisited.
That was no accident. Notably, his character takes a severe unjust beating — twice — first as slave then as soldier.
In both instances, without proper complaint — pure Uncle Tom.
If I may offer a hypothetical which I hope will clarify things here (at least it does for me): Suppose a man whose mother is black and whose father is, say, Polish, wants to join the Polish-American club. If he’s accepted into the club, it’s not a segregation, because even though he has another ancestry different from his Polish one, he is associating with other people who want to celebrate a common Polish heritage. But if the Polish-American Club rejects him because of his dark skin, then that is racist segregation, and it’s wrong, because it says his dark skin matters more than his Polish heritage.
Likewise, I can foresee the day (already here, in fact) when organizations form for Somali-Americans, and Nigerian-Americans, and other African associations that will be only for people descended directly from those African groups, not black people whose families have been in America for generations and have no particular African ethnic origin other than black. Hopefully these will all be nothing more than social clubs, with a cheerful loyalty to American society overall, and no particular political leanings.
nice article
love the “that’s racist” gif
could have lots of fun with it
something along the lines of providing a summary of a jesse j or al sharpton rant
The problem with your very fine article is that its proffered solution is rational. And as I am sure you are aware, matters of race (like sex or religion) are deeply irrational. We make Aristotle’s definition of humans as “rational animals” seem laughable.
And I will confess, somewhat sadly, that after fifty years of watching the kinds of behaviors you describe and decry, the considerable hope and sympathy for Blacks, as a group, that this White man had has pretty well dried up. The Trayvon Passion Play & Soap Opera was the final nail in the coffin.
I have come to believe that the problem is intractable. And, in any case, Blacks must deal with their situation on their own. Although I must and do live with the consequences of that community’s behaviors, a half-century after the “civil rights” revolution, I wash my hands of any responsibility for it and, individuals excepted, have a very hard time seeing this group of people as fellow citizens rather than as a dysfunctional drain on a dying Republic.
You’re certainly correct in so much as the discussion of race and similar demographic categories in our political discourse is highly irrational. I would only add that the rationality or irrationality of such discourse only matters to the extent we allow it to inform prescriptions for force. You feel the way you do about blacks at-large because force is being applied in various ways against you on their behalf (E.B.T., etc.). Absent that, you would have no reason to harbor a negative attitude toward them. More importantly, the characteristics which you find objectionable would not be enabled. A hungry man quickly finds the motivation to work.
Sorry, but there IS a reason people have bad feelings against blacks. But… it can be helped. Let me explain.
When you look around you in a dark street and see a black man behind you, are you scared? I’ll bet you are. You should be, too. But wait! If you take a second look and see the black man is wearing a doctor’s coat or a suit or a starbuck’s barista uniform, are you scared THEN? I bet you aren’t. Why? Because you can recognize that that black man is not part of the dangerous and violent gang underclass. In NYC, for instance, lots of MTA workers who work on the subway are black. But nobody’s ever scared to see a gang of young black men on the subway at 2 AM… when they’re wearing MTA uniform.
You see, THAT is why people (including other blacks) are afraid of blacks and have “something against them” — not because anybody thinks all blacks are violent thugs, but because so-called “cultural warriors” and other race hustlers tell black people to ACT like they’re violent thugs, lest they be considered “race traitors” or “not genuine” or something.
You know, doing all those white things like having a job or following the law, clearly evidence of “institutional racism” or something. Who is the real racist here, I wonder — those who expect Black people to follow the law, or those who claim Blacks are, by the color of their skin, inherently incapable of doing that, so it’s “racist” to ask them to?
Is there hope? There is. You’re a black man? Disown the “gangsta” culture and dress and act in a polite, reasonable way as you do your job or simply are in public. It ain’t (*cough* ISN’T *cough*) hard. Millions of blacks (including the author of this piece) do just that, obiously. You’ll be surprised how much “racism” you see all around you all the time will disappear if you do that.
You are correct – clothes make the man – or woman. Young people choose the image they want to present to the world in their choice of wardrobe.
This is not just a “black” phenomenom. Oprah Winfrey discovered this a couple of decades ago when she tried to prove white people were racist. It turned out that people (ALL people) were equally terrified by white youth running around if they dressed like thugs. Same hispanic. And girls are just as threatening as the boys are.
I thought it was hilarious at the time – but telling. We didn’t have a “race” problem. We had/have a feral youth problem.
Another reason for white against black bad feelings is that while blacks may be minorities in the U.S. as a whole, they are the ruling majority in many cities. In this situation, you always find black favoritism in hiring anyone, in Poice and Fire departments, and always find taking the color over any other considertion such as education, experience or willingness to do the job.
Detroit is a prime example of what happens to those cities that allow only “friends and buddies” to serve the city and its black “leaders”.
Here in Birmingham Alabama, the city had to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars because of a law suit against what they called “reverse discremination” against a racist, black administration.
The Mayor involved has since retired and has had streets named after him —-
for being a racist.
The city proper remains mostly black and the policies remain in effect. Really makes you like them, you know ?
I remember Je$$e Jack@on saying, at one time, “When there’s someone walking behind me on a dark street I’m always relieved to see the guy is white.” Jack$on wasn’t always the fervent race hustler he is now. Must have been before he figured he could extort large sums of money from it.
You’re right. Another way to say the same thing is that LBJ’s Great Society, which began a still ongoing decades long race-based wealth transfer of ransom payments after the 1960s riots, was rooted in post-Jim Crow racism, but gussied up in the frills and badges of progressivism that directly resulted in the scuttling of black culture in America. Today, that program has reached rock bottom, with rap “artists” and ACORN at the fore.
The only way to reverse this course is to smash socialism, and set all of us free, especially blacks, from the carrot-dangling shackles of elite central gubmint.
That’s what the Tea Party proposed, and of course they were branded racists for their trouble. By the elites. So it all fits. What goes around comes around; 90% of black voters will cast their ballots for Prez Barack Hussein. The spendthrift racist policies will persist and his reelction, the economy will collapse, and blacks will suffer the most, as they already are now.
Can’t get something for nothing. Not forever, at least.
Destroying socialism and decreasing the public workforce will essentially gut the black middle class. Most figures I’ve seen indicate that something like 70-80% of al the blacks who have joined the middle class since 1968 have done so through public sector employment, most of it through AA. This is why blacks are wedded to the idea of ever expanding government. They understand that returning the size and cost of government to some sensible and Constitutionally correct level will have a disastrous effect on them economically. It is this phenomenon, not welfare reform, that is truly terrifying to the black community and their Dem hired guns. Addiction to government employment can strike an individual of any race but it is the Dem government plantation for a disproportionate number of blacks. A terrible service was done. (And yes, I know that Nixon shares a good chunk of the blame.)
It should be done anyways, and it shouldn’t and wouldn’t matter because vlakcs let go from government work should feel confident that they can move into the private sector, but for the fact that the left has filled the black community with the poison of the soft racism of lowered expectations for decades.
The sad thing is that they’ve racialized the culture. That culture you describe of dressing well and working hard and speaking well. They call that “acting white” and they avoid it and make fun of or denigrate those who engage in it. How are they ever going to solve their own problem when their own culture is one that isn’t going to lead them to success?
Thank you for giving me hope again. Great article!
On the question of blacks and “racial purity”, it should be understood that this countries definition of “black” is nothing more than an iteration of the slave masters old “one drop rule”. IOW one drop of “black” blood makes one “black”. It’s why someone who has seven white great grandparents, and one black great grandparent – an Octaroon – is considered “black”. In reality there have always been “color lines” within the “black community”. Witness the old saying: “If you’re white, you’re alright. If you’re brown, stick around. If you’re black, get back”. Indeed the entire tenor of the Civil Rights Movement changed from the acquisition of basic skills and capital under the dark skinned, Booker T. Washington, to the push for social integration under the light skinned W.E.B. DuBois. Now which would have been more useful to the “black community” at large. In any case, I think Morgan Freeman, sensed something “off” about Obama and was touching upon the inkling of a fact that I had long since noticed. Obama is the child of a Kenyan and a white American. He was raised by his mother and his whit grandparents in one of the “whiter” states in the Union. When he hit the mainland it was to attend school in the mostly white and left wing milieu of higher education. Obama has little if anything, in common with the “average” life experience of American blacks. For all intents and purposes, he is a left wing white guy with, a good tan. I have no doubt that he sat in Rev. Wright’s pew for all those years, so he could “learn” how to be a black man, and not embarrass himself in front of a black audience. Blacks supposedly see Obama as “one of us”. In reality, most of his friends and acquaintances, have been other than black. Even his closest black acquaintance – Valerie Jarret – was born, and spent her first few years in Iran.
Taking your analysis for granted, my rhetorical question is: why seek after blackness? In other words, what value was there in Obama trying to take on a black identity? Regardless of the answer, I see it as a waste. There is no objective difference between what a black person needs from his government and what anyone else needs, namely to be protected from the initiation of force and treated equally under the law. Racial or ethnically identity is irrelevant to those goals. So to value such identity is to harbor other goals, which we know Obama does.
I won’t comment on the basic premise of your post, which is for the most part beyond my direct knowledge and ability to express an opinion. I know who Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois are, for instance, but I’ve never made enough of a study of either man’s writings to express an opinion on what you said about them. However, I can tell you from personal experience that Hawaii in the ’60s and ’70s wasn’t one of the “whiter” states in the Union; in fact it probably was the *least* white of any of them, save perhaps Mississippi. It was largely non-black, but that’s not the same thing.
I visited Hawaii four times before I was 16 (I had an aunt and uncle who lived in Honolulu, where he was a teacher). The last time I was there I spent the summer living with them. Back then anyway the island’s population consisted of more or less three groups, ethnically. One group could be called “Asians”, and would consist of everything from Japanese people to Polynesians. These groups would probably resent being lumped together, but it would take too long to list them all, and they tended to be treated pretty much in the same fashion. The second group was what was called on the island “haoles” (pronounced “howlies”). The word typically translates as “mainlander” and is used to refer to outsiders from the other parts of the Union. Usually, but not always, it’s used to refer to whites. It’s mildly pejorative, can be used as an actual insult. The third group would consist of the islanders, native Hawaiians who are descended from the natives who were there when Cap. Cook et al arrived. The whites might have been a plurality of the population back then, but at least where I went there were a *lot* of Asians and Hawaiian Islanders around.
A black person would have been pretty much an outsider, more exotic than anything else. It’s my experience that if you meet one person who’s a member of a minority group, they tend to be just an individual. If you meet multiples, you start thinking of minority groups. As such, he probably wouldn’t have been subject to much overt racism, the way he might have been anywhere else in the country, but he wouldn’t have been treated as a compadre, either, by the Asian or Polynesian community, never mind the Hawaiians.
And in case you’re wondering, yes, there’s a considerable amount of racial animosity between the various groups and the whites, on the island. There was famously a case in the late ’30s where a white woman accused four Hawaiians of gang-raping her; in the aftermath of their acquittal (there essentially was no evidence at all, beyond her testimony, and they had very good alibis) members of her family kidnapped and murdered one of the accused. They were arrested and charged with that murder, but they too were acquitted (Clarence Darrow was their defense attorney, if memory serves correctly). To this day some Hawaiians regard the whole thing as a travesty of justice (which it probably was) and as a symbol of white racism (which is probably considerably less true). When I was there it was still the subject of some discussion, and it had been about 40 years since the incident occurred.
“this countries definition of ‘black’ is nothing more than an iteration of the slave masters old ‘one drop rule’.”
Incorrect. While the link was quickly made between blackness and slavery, one’s enslavement primarily depended on the condition (free or slave) of one’s mother. Prior to the 1900s, most states had 1/4 or 1/8 blood fraction laws. With that said, regardless of a state’s legal definition, people – whether informally in the community or formally in the courtroom – routinely made determinations based on one’s appearance, behaviors, and associations/allegiances. Rigid/extreme racial classification really took hold over the first quarter of the 20th century, whether in law in several states or in practice in much of America. Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was the exclamation point: A drop of sub-Saharan African blood or a drop of Asian blood or a few drops of Native blood was enough to legally classify or re-classify one as non-white. Of course, the above racial classification schemes have little to nothing to do with President Obama. With the exception of the pre-Civil War lower South, historically in America someone with his appearance has generally been considered non-white/black.
Now we have new racial clasificaiton schemes being pushed by the current Left and their gaggle of minority identity politics groups.
See Elizabeth “1/32nd blood” Warren. The Canadian Mohawk tribe that recently racially cleansed their tribal territory (this was done throughout the US in the 70s as well). You have to prove your group purity to get the preferences and special payouts according to your groups effectiveness in proclaiming their victimization and need and pushing for special goodies. A spoils system predicated on your group affiliations, which need to be established by rules of purity…who is in and who is out.
Welcome to the New Left Zeitgeist…predicated on the idea that they are ending preferences and priveledge…..no less. When seen this way, you can clearly see that it is really just do as I say, not as I do….payback time. And most certainly isnt a move away from preferences and priveledged status based on race, sex, and so on and so forth.
At this particular point in time, it was most advantageous for Obama to be black. Between a guarantee of 90+% of the black vote and 40% of the white-guilt vote, he was pretty much a shoe in. And having a communist father, a left leaning mother and step father, an America hating minister and a card carrying communistUSA mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, http://www.obamasrealfather.com/frank-marshall-davis/
everything fell into place for him to come to power and push his socialist ideology. All I know now is, if we don’t get him out in November, this country might be finished as we know it.
On the question of Cultural Segregation, many of these black organizations go back to the periods before blacks were allowed into the major white organizations of the same type. Now the “bad old days” are gone, but as anyone who has ever been a member of these types of organizations will tell you, over the years you build up friendships, associations and contacts, which you’re loathe to give up. Perhaps the thing to do, which no doubt should have been done years ago, is to merge the National Association of Black Accountants with the National Association of Accountants. No doubt the sticking point is those people who have become “big frogs” in their particular “small pond”.
I remember the day the OJ verdict was read, I was in a business meeting out of town. They brought in a TV for everyone to watch in the conference room, right before the announcement we took a bathroom break. Standing at the urinal next to a black co-worker he said to me “I hope he gets off, even though he most likely did it” – still amazed and saddened.
Mr. Hudson…WOW.
Fantastic job. While people may or may not agree with every little point you make,no one can deny your point is cogent,intelligent,rational and obviously well-thought-out.Putting reason above emotion is the mark of the truly civilized man, a rare trait in any person these days.
I agree with you on one point very strongly, a point which may seem tangential in this discussion, and that is about cleaning up our language and removing the tendency (mostly from the left wing) to use words to mean something they do not and quite often the exact opposite of what they (the words) originally meant.It is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to any discussion between any two people or two groups to use words which everyone understands how to use properly,especially when the discussion you want to have is as politically charged as a discussion about race can often be in our country.
I am heartened that you put a reference to MLK Jr. at the end of your article,because I consider him to be one of the greatest black thinkers of all time, and one of the wisest and most irrefutably GOOD people of all time.Growing up in a heavily black area,I was exposed to his writings and speeches at a very young age as one might expect, and unlike many of my fellow whites and many of the blacks who were exposing me to his philosophies,I took his message to heart. I believe in his dream. And I know it can come true if enough good people,willing to forgive one another for injustices of the past and present,come together with open hearts and open minds to secure peace for the future.
@Skeptic
You said:”But that’s just it: in America, Blacks DID over time become one ethnic group as opposed to a collection of different ones.”
Despite your line of argumentation, white people are often not a collection of different groups either.
My own heritage is a mixture of Irish,German,British,Scottish and various other Anglo tribes. It would make as much sense for me to stand beside Mike Myers in a kilt blowing bagpipes as it would for a black American man to identify as a Zulu warrior. The only group that could serve the interests of a person like me,looking to associate with others of similar ethnic makeup would be a “White Business Association” or something of that nature. I don’t even want to do this because I don’t think it matters,but it shouldn’t be considered offensive if black people can do it without causing offense. That just doesn’t make any sense.
On the east and west coast,groups of light-skinned people connected by religion (for that is what your example actually represents,Judaism for Hebrews and Catholicism for Italians and Hispanics) may come together around a shared cultural background, but everyone should be aware by now that it is considered a no-no for white people to do it based on their whiteness ,whereas the same is not true of blacks.
Also,while you may not be aware of it, many whites of Anglo-Saxon descent would not consider a Hebrew or Italian to be “white”. We would view them as Middle Eastern and Mediterranean,respectively. Though I imagine we all look the same to many black people, like black people, we are also guilty of ranking someone’s “whiteness” based on how closely they compare to what we consider the traits of whites from the whites’ “area of origin”,which is West-Central to Northern Europe.I have seen the debates rage between factions of blacks for many years,and to be honest,it seems silly to me for blacks to distinguish between the “blackness” of James Earl Jones and someone like Beyonce or Halle Berry. That must be how a black person feels at my revelation that Jews are not considered “white” by many whites,though they seem acceptable candidates by many blacks.
As I said, we play the same game, but it is less common as there seems to be more at stake for black people with regards to how you rank up in the black heirarchy. I understand it to be a grave insult to be considered “more white” than another black man. With most whites,this is not the case with our heirarchy. Even if you “win”,you lose, because then you can be considered by many blacks and all affluent whites to be “white trash” for being more “white” than someone else.
Anyway,the takeaway point from my comment that I would like you to understand is that I cannot join a Jewish Men’s Association based on the fact that we are both “not-black”,I would have to be a member based on being a practitioner of Judaism,which is not the same thing as receiving help from the NAACP because I’m “not-white”.The other important point is that,like the author seems to say, I believe that even if I could do such a thing,I wouldn’t want to, because it further entrenches racism rather than removing it. Martin Luther King Jr wanted people to see each other as individuals, not as members of groups, and that is the only way we can ever finally put racism to rest in America.
MLK as “one of the wisest and most irrefutably GOOD people of all time.” I suggest you read some non-hagiographic info about him, at least the powerful evidence of how much he plagiarized.
JC MLK was not.
I don’t need to read other sources. I am quite sure you tell the truth when you say he plagiarized some people’s work. Plagiarism is not necessarily a morally evil thing to do and wouldn’t invalidate my point. Even if MLK Jr raped three women in the process of a triple homicide/bank robbery,if he truly saw the error of his ways and spent the rest of his life trying to make up for the things he did he could still qualify as a good person in my book.
If it’s good enough for Almighty God,I’m willing to accept that standard.
Being good is about striving towards good with all one’s focus and determination,and consciously eschewing evil,as the actual quality is very hard to define and even harder to achieve. I don’t place impossible restrictions on very flawed beings, which is why I would not compare MLK Jr,or anyone,against the record of Jesus Christ.
Besides, I’ve “plagiarized” my ideas from a lot of people,if you wanted to define it that way. I’m in no position to judge anyone about that.
Yes, it is.
You have no business telling us critical it is that we “clean[] up our language”, when you have just re-defined lying.
“Woe to them that call evil, good, and good, evil.”
In addition to lying, plagiarism is also theft: theft of intellectual property.
“That must be how a black person feels at my revelation that Jews are not considered “white” by many whites,though they seem acceptable candidates by many blacks.”
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It’s not just that some whites don’t consider Jews to be white: some Jews apparently don’t consider themselves white!
Take a look at Mike Wallace’s much-discussed (at PJM) interview with Morgan Freeman, the one where Freeman says that the best way to get past racism is to stop talking about it. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh8mUia75k8. In that interview fragment, which starts with discussion of Black History Month, Freeman asks Wallace when White History Month is; Wallace says “I’m Jewish”. The clear implication from his tone is that Wallace does NOT consider himself white.
On Collective Responsibility, Chris Rock was right about early 4th of July celebrations being different foe someone in bondage. He was also incredibly tactless. As would be someone who broke into a 4th of July celebration, to rant about how his ancestors were still starving in Ireland, and continue with why is this holiday supposed to mean anything to him. Or someone who pointed out that when the first fourth of July rolled around his ancestors were in Debtor prison in New York. Yes, there were slaves in the US, but dwelling on that fact at every opportunity, will do nothing to change that fact. The people alive now can have no effect on the past. And just as, attempting to assign collective guilt for the sins of the past based on skin color makes little or no sense, so does assuming that a black person living in the US can, or should be responsible for anything happening to blacks in any other country. Or State or city, for that matter. What would you suggest a black person living in the suburbs of New York, do about crime on the streets of Detroit? Should one be able to effect some type of change simply because the criminal and that person share skin color? To complain about assigning collective responsibility – and then turning right around and assigning collective responsibility – makes no sense.
I assume you’re directly this at me. I am not suggesting that blacks bear collective responsibility. I am pointing out that the appeal to collective responsibility is highly selective and hypocritical.
If Blacks argued for Black Owned Capitalist Enterprises, and started voting Republican so they could accumalate savings to reinvest in Detroit, they, like JD Rockefeller and his partners who emanated out of Cleveland into New York, Florida and all over the world, could help Detroit alot. With Capitalistic, Libertarian and Republican ideas and principles of self-development and Ben Franlin like thrift. Giving up to half your earnings to an incompetent and fraud ridden organization trillions of dollars in debt, daily getting worse, which 96% of the Blacks get bribed with chicken feed to support (the Dem Donkey Way) will not help upwardly mobile blacks to help any blacks fenced in by poverty, joblessness, drug dealing and social and family collapse. Of course people can help. We just have to get organized against the government manipulator/robbers who are trying to strangle the poor out of their own greed. These are the true racists who see the Poor Blacks as nothing but ciphers they can manipulate for votes.
Vengence? Is there some reason that no one will credit the jury in the OJ trial with any intelligence? Possibly the skin color of a majority of them? People complain about the “Dream Team” – and then ignore the fact that the State of California spent TWICE as much to convict him. And people who complain about the OJ verdict seem curiously unwilling to discuss the actual evidence – or the major problems with it. Things like the LAPD’s own photographs and video tape showing evidence not being where officer witnesses testified it was, when and where they testified it was. Perhaps those blacks were simply happy to see the system actually work in their favor for a change. Why is the concentration on the few knuckleheads out there, who see everything in racial terms.
Sir, you’re missing the point. There is no need to sort through the evidence in the O.J. trial and reexamine the question of his guilt. My point is demonstrated by those who celebrated his acquittal as a victory against institutional racism, rather than an execution of justice in the particular case. Go back and watch the video embedded in the article. Note the interviewee who says O.J. was not on trial, that Mark Fuhrman and the LAPD were on trial. Note how he talks about the black jurors, how he says each of them has likely personally experienced injustice at the hands of the LAPD. He is saying that the verdict is a political indictment of the police, rather than an objective finding of fact. That’s the problem! And that is consistent with what black celebrants had to say about it. They weren’t celebrating because they had reviewed the evidence as you suggest, and earnestly believed O.J. was not guilty. They were celebrating because O.J. had done to the white man what the white man had long done to blacks, gotten away with murder. They celebrated vengeance.
You should try learning something about the trial, beyond what was reported in the media. Yes, there was obvious bias present with at least one juror (he gave the “black power” salute as they left the box after rendering the verdict), but there was also obvious evidence tampering.
If, as a juror, you strongly suspect the suspect is guilty, but you KNOW that police planted at least some of the evidence and lied about other evidence, should you convict?
I hope your answer is a resounding NO.
There was no evidence tampering – but it was still a circus. Judge Ito should never have allowed cameras into that court room – and I watched that whole sordid thing. What was clear to me was OJ had the better lawyers. The prosecution made some crucial errors, but I believe they proved their case.
Those jurors could have been shown a video of OJ slicing his wife’s head off and then going after that other young man and this jury would have still aquitted him. It really WAS all about sticking it to whitey and they as much as said so.
Hmmm. What about the blood samples drawn from OJ, that were missing for two or three weeks, and turned up in the suit coat pocket of one of the investigators? Does the phrase, “chain of custody” ring any bells with you?
Then there’s the problem that the blood samples taken from the back gate turned out to have preservatives in them, the kind used in standard blood collection test tubes. Like the ones that were missing for two or three weeks.
The prosecution tried to say it is a natural blood substance (which it is), but the problem was, it was at levels about a thousand times higher than that found in blood. Levels wholly inconsistent with blood that was NOT put into standard blood-draw tubes.
Hmmmm.
Mark, do you *REALLY* believe OJ didn’t commit murder?
The only thing the O.J. Verdict is dispositive of is that LA political authority was incompetent or feckless. Either Clark and Darden were so busy playing gropey-fondly that they couldn’t put on a case, in which case LA management was incompetent, or they’d been told to throw the case, in which case, LA management was feckless.
I was preparing for a big damn deal labor board case at the time of the OJ trial so I was working at home a lot and had the TV on; I’d have fired any of my subordinates for putting on that case, and I’ve had fired them only because law and decency prevented me from killing them. There were some pretty easy ways to win that case starting with appealing to the black females on the jury about a rich, successful black man forsaking his race for that white ho. Sure, it’s playing the race card, but it is a card to be played. Clark and Darden let Simpson be a sympathetic character to a jury that easily could have been induced to see him as anything but sympathetic. They put on days of pedantic and boring scientific evidence using a bunch of honkies and asian that the Blacks hate when they should have just brought some charming handsome black “scientist” in as an expert witness and explained the DNA in words of one syllable. Anybody can buy an “expert” to say anything they want and the 12 morons with drivers licenses believe what the most attractive and charming one tells them. So, maybe I’m way too cynical,but that case could have been won and the people who called the shots in Garcetti’s shop were either stupid or were afraid of a guilty verdict.
Darden was the handsome black man. They chose to see him as a “token black,” which he probably was, a token affirmative action black that wasnt qualified to handle the case (more interested in getting his own slice of white meat).
I’ll go with Scenario B, Art. Remember, this was only 2-3 years after the Rodney King riots. TPTB in LaLaLand were terrified at the near certainty of more rioting if OJ was convicted, so they told the prosecutors to “Black Sox” the case.
Loose charges of racism, are as bad as simply dismissing all charges of racism out of hand. Just as the world isn’t full of racists, it hasn’t finally gotten rid of them all either. We should examine the evidence. Look at the recent case in Florida. I don’t have to make Martin into some black thug who leaped out of the bushes on Zimmerman. And I don’t have to make Zimmerman some crazed racist looking to nail his first black kid. I satisfied that two people were running around in the dark and rain, ran into each other, misunderstood each other’s intentions, and things escalated. I don’t have to make either a villain, and would be suspicious of anyone who tried to produce one.
No where do I dismiss all charges of racism out of hand, or suggest that there are no racists in the world. Indeed, the premise of the piece relies upon the existence of racists. My prescription is to apply reason and objectivity to our perception, and get government out of thought policing.
We are still within the living memory of people who grew up under a radically different system (Morgan Freeman was raised in the segregated South). So it came be understood that there is still a certain level of suspicion floating around. And to someone from that past the idea that whites don’t have a leg up, is ridiculous. You asking them to discount the evidence of their own eyes. However these days any advantages have far more to do with class than they do with simply color. I have observed that a college educated white is far more comfortable with a college educated black than either is with a blue collar worker of either race. I believe that’s part of the reason for this ongoing fascination with TV shows, featuring people working at dangerous blue collar jobs.
There is much packed within this comment. What you call class is simply another subjective aggregate of demographic characteristics. It is hardly strange or suspect that people wish to associate with others who share common traits and interests. That will always be true, and violates no one’s rights. There are a multitude of ways a person’s particular relationships might give them a leg up on the competition for a particular opportunity. But there is no general advantage to being a particular race. To assert otherwise is to affirm the bigotry of racism.
What I suspect you mean to say when you evoke class is that there is something inherently unjust about people having a particular advantage due to their social positioning. I would ask you to articulate precisely how it is unjust. The relationships you foster are yours and belong to no third party. What claim does another have on you and those with whom you choose to associate?
I got two things from his post – the first of which I reject: That we have to give people of Morgan Freeman’s age and location of birth a pass because even though he grew up in the “racist south” and has seen the change in American culture over the last 60 years it doesn’t matter because he’ll always judge people by what he saw as a kid. His current personal wealth means nothing.
The second part is absolutely accurate – at least it has been in my world: Like hangs out with like – and that doesn’t mean color. You associate with people you have things in common with, whether it’s religion, economic or regional.
I am not as old as Morgan the racist Freeman. In the system in which I have grown up the only group of people who are legally and sytematically discriminated against share my light skin pigmentation. Poor Morgy, such a hard life. Want to trade?
Men like Herman Cain and Allen West grew up under the segregated South system too, but you don’t see them making racist remarks now. They have taken responsibility for their souls and lives TODAY.
Civil Rights, things American citizens are guaranteed by law, have become conflated with things it would be nice to have. A “Right” to a good job? Even if you’re a lazy toad with five thumbs on each hand, too stupid to follow the simplest instruction? Shouldn’t you just be overjoyed that some one will give you any kind of job?
Mr. Hudson, I found your article informative and well presented. Your final point, “Lifting Civil Rights Above Inalienable Rights,” was particularly thought-provoking.
Thank you!
Wow! A great article and a great stream of comments. In early 2011, Lt Colonel Allen West (R-FL) was induced into the House as a new member. With most of the members of the black caucus leaning heavily on the left, there was something awkward about him joining the house black caucus. It would have been narrow minded on his part not to join, and many in the black caucus, politely trying to downplay their displeasure, were nevertheless challenged by the novelty of one of them being “on the wrong side”.
This is just one symptom of the terrible climate we live in today, when dishonest hustlers are still delaying the materialization of MLK’s dream by pushing inaccurate assumptions of the boundaries of political perspective necessarily following the contours of ethnic association. We are not doing anyone any favor when we say “African American”. Why not just say “American”, as implied in MLK’s teachings?
So we still have a long way to go, even as the great majority have long wanted to turn the page. Industries can disappear when their product becomes outdated. I am anxiously waiting for the day when the race hustling industry finally disappears. What will render their product obsolete? The painful delay is not caused by the supply, it’s the demand that has to vanish. This great article is very useful in that pursuit. My high energy kudosses to Walter Hudson!
J.C. Watts (R-Oklahoma, 1995-2003) was spurned by the Congressional Black Caucus and called an “Uncle Tom” by them. He wouldn’t go along with their racist agenda. Rep. Watts identified the CBC membership as “poverty pimps”.
And the two biggest race/poverty pimps in history are pictured at the top of this article.
Excellent and thought provoking analysis. Thank you for posting it. I’ve seen the sad day when racial grievance was justified; ironically the “grievance industry” dishonors those who endured it.
What Chris Rock seems to have forgotten is that those White Europeans are the ONLY ones who have given up slavery voluntarily. It’s still practiced in black and asian and arabic nations pretty much all over the world. The whites are the only ones who have fought wars to end it.
Being an adopted half white, half Cherokee I learned about racisim but learned from my blood Grandfather that it was my job to combat it by proving my worth. Only in this way can it end. Yelling about the past is to fight with ghosts and sure since the ghosts can’t answer you feel like you are winning but it does not address the problem now. My Grandfather taught me cowards blame the past warriors strive for the future. Walter Hudson you are a warrior striving for the future. Wonderful article Brother. It mean’s Crazy Wolf-Nuda Waya.
I like your grandfather’s wisdom.
I have to say that seeing black mobs attack people of other races or loot stores in ‘flash’ attacks isn’t doing much for blacks’ reputations. I have certainly grown far more wary than I used to be, by about 180 degrees. It is too dangerous to be open and trusting. I guess I am getting racist and the terrible thing is that I no longer even mind the label.
When everyone is a racist, no one is a racist.
Let me add my compliments. This is probably the most succinct and rational analysis on the issue of racism I’ve ever read. I hope that one day we can all see the problem as clearly as you have.
Freeman cracks me up! A guy with freckles saying anyone isn’t “black enough” is hilarious.
Wait — we got the eight ways. What’s “the only way to thwart it”? I didn’t see it. Did I read too impatiently?
I think Mr. Hudson’s message is that the cure is individual liberty, just as our Founders intended and just as it is for most of our other problems.
Well done. So, romantic love, often described as irrational, blind, unreal fixated projections onto a single person fantastically expected to meet all one’s needs for the duration to the exclusion of all other people, is the highest form of bigotry. It’s good to see some bigotry is not all bad.
Thank you for this article. It needs to be shouted from the mountain tops. As for myself being a white conservative, completely sick and tired of being labeled a racist, I have employed a turnaround strategy on liberal blacks wherever possible leveling the race card on them. For instance, Ive heard one Stephen A Smith say over and over again on Hannity that he voted for Obama because he’s black and will do so again. I got his attention by tweeting that if Tim Tebow was a black quarterback, he’d love him but as it stands he despises this incredible young man. He actually tweeted back to tell me how “ignorant” I am…..strategy worked. Blacks have never had to defend themselves against the race card and simply don’t know how. It sets their hair on fire….now they know how it feels. WE’RE NOT RACISTS BECAUSE WE DONT LIKE OBAMA’S POLICIES. IF HE WERE WHITE, HE’D STILL BE A SOCIALIST AND WE’D STILL BE SAYING THE SAME THINGS!!!!
First of all, I never considered Obama’s race an issue. He needs to be a one term president, not because of the color of his skin, but because he is a rotten president. He has done nothing to help working Americans. The only ones he seems to be interested in are illegal aliens and other countries. He simply needs to go back where he came from.
Excellent article. Please note : the slaves who came to our shores were enslaved by other black Africans and sold forward — Johnny Reb did not go over and round up slaves. Blacks in Africa continue to enslave other blacks.
Wish the author had spent a moment or three discussing the ongoing demands for “restitution”. If you follow the money in discussions about race, that’s the basic bottom-line for a lot of non-performing people of color, and it’s also another way to say “spreading the wealth around” per the ideas of our beloved President.
you missed my favorite: National Organization of Black Law Enforcement. Holder spoke to this group just this week, he’s a member.
All you need to know about Mr Jackson and Mr Sharpton is that they are silent about the mayhem in Chicago when it is “black on black”. Are those dead people any less important than the dead kid in Fla?
In the minds of the race hustlers, of course not. The only Black that matters to them is the one killed by Whitey (even Hispanic Whiteys).
Compared to racism, the discrimination of the rich against the poor, and of the upper class against the lower class, is head and shoulders above the discrimination based on skin pigmentation. Whites loved Hank Aaron, Walter Payton, Jim Browne, Morgan Freeman, and OJ Simpson, before his run in with the law. They were rich, talented and deserving of all the fame they got, across all racial lines. Even Tiger Woods til he stubbed his toe too. But the Northern Scotch-Irish Protestants in Northern Ireland despised the poor Irish Catholics. The Tutsi and the Hutu tribes (spelling?) one rich the other poor, hated each other, and the one butchered the other with machetes as the French Peasants hated the Aristos and chopped all their heads off, and the poor McCoys shot up the richer Hatfields and vice versa. Need I mention the poor Irish coming to this country, then the poor Italians? If all the Blacks were given capitalist tools and training to become wealthy, the Republican plan to defeat the Democratic anti-Black racists like Obama, pigmentation racism would disappear, along with discrimination against people with green eyes or red hair.
Those misguided anti-captialists who oppose this are the anti poor elitist Racists who hate and fight against the advances that Capitalism has made (they must have read too many socialist, Marxist and redistributionst thinkers). These are the people, mostly democrats and socialists, who hate competition, profits and market wealth being produced in abundance by factories, mines and oil and gas wells, who want to return to fuedalistic windmills that are guaranteed to make all of us poorer, and will bankrupt the government that is supposed to feed 40 to 50% of us, without any exchange or work being required in exchange. They want return to pre-1789 elitist fuedalism from Europe, which is what socialism is, which will never help advance the Blacks, since it destroys the wealth and money supplies. The inevitable result, as happened in the leftist socialist/fudalist countries, Gernmany under Hitler, Russia under Lenin, Stalin and others, China under Mao, North Korea, Cuba and Cambodia, etc.. millions are condemned to labor camps, torture, starvation, disease, execution,and suicide because fuedalism can’t possibly support the number of people that capitalistic production can, when equally owned by all trained producers. This latter is defined as Capitlism, which the monopolists and elitists hate because their innate racism informs them, without proof, that all the poor cannot be trained to be producers and owners of factories sufficiently productive to support them and their families forever. Hogwash. If you own 17 or 18 profitable factories, even in part, you will never be poor again, as long as the government fuedalist-elites, do not come along to steal from you. Just tell them “You did not build that government alone. If you did you would not need taxes.”
Rich AGAINST poor? HA! Please don’t make me laugh. As it stands right now the “rich” pay most of the taxes in this country while a 48% of the population doesn’t pay any federal taxes whatsoever.
Who is taking advantage of whom, here?
Hence the obligation of the upwardly mobile and rich to help the poor become upwardly mobile and rich so they stop voting for those who will raise taxes. Money comes from profit. The government should create more money by making a profit to help elevate the poor. The poor become richer and become Republicans, taxes are not necessary anymore since all wealth is produced through the market and through the profit motive, whether in the public sector or not and taxes are not necessary any more. This is the way the Democrat’s scam ends, or it is back to Lady Gilloutine singing her one note song in the public square. I do not believe there is any other program for moving forward, except creating more money and letting everyone, rich and poor alike, become richer. The trickle up theory you might want to call it, but it is capitalistic to its core, based solely on Republican virtue without any democratic trickery whatever.
“The government should create more money by making a profit to help the poor.”
Are you nuts? The government is not a corporation that makes profits. The only money a government has comes from taxpayers. So I guess what you’re really saying is that the producers in the country (the makers), which are only about 50% of us, should pay for the other 50%, who are the slackers (the takers).
Wrong. If the government uses the poor to create their own factories and capital, which the poor and not the fictional government (which has no human DNA) which the gov’t bureaucrats take a piece of, and all their money comes to them through the competitive market, they are earning the money the same way the private sector does, by producing wanted and needed market products. There is no need for taxes, so no one is taking from any one. No taxes, we are all richer, including the poor who now own their businesses and their jobs. Do you have any conception of how rich we would be with all that additional profit and money? What you do not understand is that the sole source of money value is market profit. Turn all money over to taxes wasted by the government on government pamphlets and regulations that no one reads, produces no profit, no wealth and we all starve as in North Korea. Lack of profit is the problem. With the government makeing a profit we don’t need taxes. I don’t know what you don’t get. Just because in the entire history of government the gov’t never tried to do so, does not mean it can’t be done. Tarp made a profit from investment. Now they should do it with competitive market production. Please don’t twist my words. Try to understand what I am saying. Try to understand what market profit is — producing wealth people will buy, with moneyy, worth more than the cost of producing it.
Republicans/Democrats-one and the same.
Racism needs no new laws to combat it. All that is needed is enforcement of existhing laws equalliy. The Constitution assures the rights of it’s citizens.
Historically, millenia, each nationality was considered a separate and distinct race. For example, in Europe, British, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Russian, etc., were all considered different races, with distinct physical features, languages and cultures. The same is true for Asia, Africa, and the Americas. For example, the word Cherokee means “the people,” a separate and distinct race from say the Apache, Commanche or Sioux. The Aztecs and the Incas and Mayans considered themselves different races or peoples.
That last point goes to the heart of the matter. A race is a people. Because peoples were geographically isolated from each other, and due to the limits of transportation, these peoples naturally thought of themselves as distinct. There were trade routes between them, but they didn’t intermingle.
It wasn’t until the dawn of the Modern Era, say mid-15th century, that this began to change. With the advent of sailing ships, exploration and the discovery of the New World, different peoples began to intermingle. America was the first country to incorporate peoples of different nationalities. It became the melting pot of the world, as it were.
Of course, slavery existed. It has since time immemorial and still does to this day in some parts of the world. The first slaves sent to America were the Irish. Yeah, that’s right, the first slaves in America were white. It was African and Arab slave traders who sent the black slaves to America, but as is largely unacknowledged the vast majority of black slaves, 94%, were shipped to Central and South America. Only 6% were shipped to the United States.
The Civil War remains the only time in human history when a dominant racial majority went to war with itself to free an enslaved racial minority. But nobody wants to talk about that, 400,000 dead for emancipation. And as America progressed afterward, there remained enclaves of racial groups, like Little Italy, Little Russia, Little China, Little Germany, Little France, and the like. Most people associate with those of their kind, whether along racial or class lines.
When I was a kid growing up, there was a railroad track that divided the town. The affluent lived on the east side, and their children went to South Jr. High. The “others” lived on the west side, and their children went to North Jr. High. But there was only one high school. So, for the first time, the east siders and the west siders had to be in one place at the same time. Oh, there were cliques. Groups sat at different lunch tables. Me, I was popular, because I was pretty much the only guy in drama. They couldn’t hold a play without me as the male lead, and I enjoyed a modicum of fame. The east side girls loved me. But they never invited me to their parties, even though my parents were rather prominent in the community, because I lived on the wrong side of the track.
This what I’m talking about. It goes on everywhere, all over the country, all over the world. People associate with those of their kind along racial and class lines. I wouldn’t call it segregation or discrimination. I’d call it selective association. And it will always be around.
Ironically, today most people are of mixed-race or mixed-people. While technically, on the census, I’m categorized as Alsatian, my ancestors were French, German, Polish, and Swiss. I’m a mutt. I don’t have a race. I’m an American. And the only people I recognize are the American people.
Maybe I’m an anomaly. I can associate with anybody. I can have lunch with a janitor and dinner with a millionaire. I’ve done it before, have for decades. I don’t discriminate. In my business, that would lead to bankruptcy. I take people as they come and treat them with respect. It’s the only way to do business. Black, white, brown, yellow, red, I don’t care. Tall, short, rich, poor, that doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t care which side of the track you grew up on. How can I help you?
This is my experience. I was a teacher, and as a teacher you don’t get to choose your students. You have to treat them all equally. Now I’m a realtor, and as a realtor you don’t get to choose your clients. You have to treat them all equally. A young couple comes to me and wants to buy a house, I couldn’t care less what they look like. My concern is finding them a nice house in the price range they can afford. I’m certainly not going to lie to them, take advantage of them, that would be bad for business. No one would come to me to buy a house if I did that. These are young people just starting out. They want to buy a house and start a family. How could it possibly benefit me in any way to discrimate against them because of their skin color?
I think that’s the essence of Mr. Hudson’s argument here. His larger point is against the race hustlers and grievance mongers that pollute our culture, but his essential point is that we’re all Americans and should treat each other as such.
And that is a point well made, sir.
It’s most ironic that black Americans loudly decry that they suffer from a plight of racism:
1) Whites voted en masse for BHO exactly becuase he’s regarded as black (he’s actually a mulato, but that was close enough).
2) They did this despite the fact that there are federal laws and regulations that require employers and schools to racially discriminate against whites.
3) Our culture was infused a few decades ago with an ethos rigged to not criticize blacks and to always put whites in the worst possible ways.
Once you open a trough, it’s nearly impossible to shut it down and shoo off those who’ve been feeding from it.
Given all this, it’s a wonder that there has not been an outbreak of white-on-black violence. But that’s exactly the point: racism is at the center of our culture now, of a new breed, that enforces against anybody foolish enough to take on the power of the trillions of dollars in wealth transfers and hundreds of media outlets (in fact, almost all outlets) now under the new racism’s aggressive and unforgiving regime.
Indeed.
Youre against my special privileges and preferences and government wealth redistributions to me and mine, because you are a hater and bigot against (fill in the group affiliation).
Mr. Hudson, your analysis overwhelms me. It also strengthens my desire, after 30+ years absence in Germany, not to return to America. There are various reasons. One is the consciousness of race. While in America I had a couple of BLACK friends, yes “black” friends. I knew they were “black”, they knew I was “white”, and such knowing never disappeared, however much the friendship might develop. Race awareness was there! I do not wish to return to a situation where “black” friends are, well, black. I will explain what I mean.
During my many years in Germany I got to know a Congolese, even blacker in skin color than my pale hide is lilly white. He was studying with my former dissertation chairman who asked me to extend a hand of help to a French speaking African who at the time had limited knowledge of German. Well I extended my hand of aid to that “black” African, but quickly we gave each other handshakes of friendship. In an odd way, my African friend was less scarred by racism and discrimination than has been the fate of blacks in the US and, if I understand your analysis, they are being encouraged to remain consciously damaged. We, the odd pair, knew each other 15 years before his untimely death. With that man I had a man-to-man friendship and (unless someone would ask me) I took no note of his skin color nor he of mine. My God, how I miss my friendship with that man. If I return to America, at best my society will allow me to have “black” friends once again. Your article helps me understand why my return would entail said relationshp of racial awareness.
I have seen many of the points you bring up in your article in tv or read about it in American newspapers. As I listened to Freeman, amongs a number of others, I felt revived in my consciousness the race-feelings I had known 30 years ago, ones that even distorted the purity of friendship. I want none of it! Unfortunately for the now somewhat uncivil rights fighters of yesteryear, I can vote from abroad. But, I will not return as I want to continue morning the loss of my friend without seeing him as my deceased “black” friend. Even this comment leave a bad taste in my soul.
I thank you for your analysis and bet, should you have broad effects, that you are in line for being the next “black” racist. Or, am I just too sensitive.
Innate and immutable biological and cultural differences between the races exist. All the ideology in the world will not erase them. No multi-ethnic, multicultural propositional empire dedicated to equality can ever paper them over. No system of economics can override them.
In the end, all the propositional empires will crumble. The final result will be nationalism — the end of all propositional empires and the return of a social oorder based uppn sovereign states defined by race, ethnicity, and culture.
And this is as it should be. Man is by nature a nature racial and ethnic creature. Only in spirit are all men brothers. There can thus be only one universal institution, a spiritual institution: the Catholic Church. A Christendom of race- and ethicity-based nations is the only world order than can survive because it is the only world order based upon man’s nature.
The empires are crumbling. Like calls to like. Nature will not be driven out. We need only ask ourselves if we prefer to return to the natural social order by the easy road or the hard road.
Don’t like it? Tough. Reality is what it is. You can either accept it or play “pretend”. I choose to accept it.
I agree in full with your comment. I would go further and state that human happiness itself is unattainable under conditions of race-mixing, which in our time is imposed on an increasingly unhappy humanity in the name of diversity/multiculturalism. Lest we forget, the ultimate justification underlying the creation of the United States was the pursuit of happiness. And the pursuit and achievement of happiness was possible for as long as the nation remained 90% white. Why is happiness only possible in a uni-racial society? Because happiness consists of much more than the achievement of economic sufficiency, important as that is. Happiness is only possible when a nation is a family. And the commonalities that make for a national family cannot jump the racial barrier. The fact is there is only one solution: separation. It doesn’t matter that the best and the brightest will rail against separation as an expression of bigotry and will go so far as to attempt to, are already attempting to criminalize it. The outrage of their deliberate suppression of happiness will simply foment an ever increasing groundswell of counter-outrage on the part of the millions denied their God given right to the pursuit of that ultimate end of all human striving. I believe the road will be hard not easy. But I also believe the whole house of cards may fall with great speed once the tipping point is reached.
As you so pithily put it: nature will not be driven out.
“There can thus be only one universal institution, a spiritual institution: the Catholic Church.”
This is your opinion, certainly not a fact.
Otherwise a very sharp post. I don’t know why it is the elites deem it necessary to push “multiculturalism” down our throats, as the clinging to one’s own culture serves as a means to preserve it. Doubtless it all boils down to the desire to impose one’s own will over other people to control them. We must continually rail against this.
The most hard bitten vitriolic racists, those people who cannot look at any part of life or society except through the prism of color, are for the most part, black. These people such as Freeman, Rock, Sharpton, Jackson, et cetera, perpetuate race baiting, hatred, and discrimination.
It is ludicrous to think that anyone who thinks needs to use obama’s race as a vehicle by which to condemn his presidency. He fails on virtually every level and race has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. His foreign policy is a disgrace, his knowledge of economic realities is less than that of an 8 year old with a lemonade stand, his leadership skills do not exist, and his arrogance
is nothing less than monumental. His colossal ineptness in almost evey area of management is apparent to even the most obtuse of observers. Having never worked like an ordinary American, rather lived off government/tax money, he has no deep feeling for this country, no work ethic, and no respect for those who do have those things. I have great difficulty trying to think of anyone for whom I would not vote rather than this charlatan now sitting in the White House.
It is NOT ineptness. Zero is doing everything by the book according to marxism as described by Cloward-Piven, Alinsky, his mentors, Lenin, his father and mother, and friends. Why do people especially O’Really continue to make excuses for this person. He is a marxist. He knows perfectly well what he is doing.
I agree and I’ve been saying so for almost 4 years. If his intention was to destroy the United States of America what would he do differently?
Mr. Hudson;
I have to say the Morgan Freeman is on to something in his description of the President. He is right for the wrong reasons. On one level Barak Obama is merely a person who has modern African genetic heritage. Culturally, he is a product of Midwestern white family and despite his attempts at constructing a black narrative he is little different than your average white progresive.
On another level, Obama should be considered an African-American in the same way that the children of a white South African should considered an African-Anerican. His father is an Anglo-African from East Africa. Ethnically he has nothing in common with black America. East Africans were never slaves unless they were taken by Muslims. He has no concept of the historic black American experience.
If you remember, at the start of 2008 campaign most black American political leader were in the Clinton camp and many of them dismissed Obama’s claims to be authetically black. They were right but as the bandwagon got going they felt a need to jump on board.
Mr. Hudson, you’re a brave man and you make me proud that you’re a fellow American.
Americans of African descent need strong black leadership to step up and free the black community from the clutches of the race hustling poverty pimps. Until that happens we are going to have to suffer the likes of Obama, Sharpton and Jackson.
The 1995 “Die Hard With a Vengeance” movie with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson dealt with the issue of black racism. Samuel L. Jackson’s character was teaching his young nephews not to accept help from white people, and kept playing the racist card for almost half of the movie toward Willis’s character and white people in general. They eventually became dependent on each other to survive the bad guys. At the end of the movie it more or less leaves the issue up in the air.
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Walter! Shhhh! Pointing these things out (especially the blatantly racist groups like NAACP) means you’re never getting invited onto NPR except as a whipping boy.
It’s not about fairness. It’s about advancing a narrative which keep blacks divided from the mainstream, poor, in the ghetto, dependent the government and voting Democrat! Got it? There’s a lot of people depending on that narrative to advance their political agenda, stay rich (Sharpton, Jackson) and hold onto power whatever the consequences for ordinary folks.
Is there any other group that votes with such mind-bending solidarity? It would be interesting to see if any other group of a million or more consistently supports one party by margins of even 70%. Yet blacks do it in lockstep in the high 80′s and up, even when the party’s candidates are transparent crooks like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Franks, and the rest of the cast of cartoon liberals and marxists.
If any group of people wants to paint themselves as mindless sheep, that might just be the best way to do it.
In answer to your querry…
Jews.
Not as lockstep as blacks. You have to go back to 1992 to see 80%, and back to 1968 to see higher.
Reagan, Bush I, and Nixon all got over 35% of the Jewish vote.
So it’s bad, but not as bad as the high 90′s for blacks. But even so, it’s in some ways harder to understand. It’s not like most Jews need the handouts, and it should be obvious to them that marxists are anti-semites. Some smart people have tried to figure it out without much success. It could be a perverse variation of the Stockholm syndrome. It might also be that Jews have bought the koolaid that Republicans are the descendants of Nazis, ignoring the fact that proto-Democrat Communists have gleefully exterminated Jews themselves and the fact that the modern day Democrat party has been taken over by violent fascists who exploit any sub-group that they can get a grip on.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/jewvote.html
It’s not hard to understand at all. Conservativsm in a Christian Nation is tied to Christianity. Rejection of Christianity is central to Jewish identity, thus they vote for the Leftist party which seeks to push Christianity out of the public sphere and shove into individuals basements….whilst simultaneously promoting all “Other” minority cultures and religion (Diversity Promotion, Multiculturalism).
Nothing convoluted about that. Jews support the subversion and disempowerment of Christianity and Christians in Euro-Christian nations.
“…it should be obvious to them [Jews] that marxists are anti-semites.”
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How so? Karl Marx was the grandson of a rabbi. (Karl Marx’s father converted to Christianity to advance his career; I’m not sure what sort of religious upbringing young Karl received or what his mother’s beliefs were.) Many of the early leaders of the Bolshevik Party were Jewish, including Trotsky, Lunacharsky and Zinoviev. Lenin was said to be one-quarter Jewish although this has never been proven as far as I know. Stalin was widely believed by his intimates to be anti-Semitic yet the only man he allowed to shave him, a minion named Pauker, was Jewish. Stalin was among the first world leaders to recognize Israel when it declared independence, yet he also ordered the murder of Solomon Mikhoels, a top Jewish leader in the Soviet Union. Stalin also opposed his beloved daughter Svetlana’s wish to marry one Jewish man, although he accepted her marriage to another.
In short, the Marxists have a very inconsistent relationship with Jews.
Play the race card. Raise it up the flag pole, laminate it, expose it to massive publicity, pour the sunlight on it. Overexposure onto ho hum boredom is a way to diminish the knee jerk reaction to the dogmatic invective charge of the lack of pigment pride, civil war guilt, the bling of low self esteem, and the avenues of shakedown.
Any group of people, call them serfs, who march and vote in lock step, even off of the cliffs, who practice group-think and submission to chronic failure, have to be slaves to their own inner slave. Freedom is an individual sport, the God given right beyond a fair government, and never a function of a mindless collective.
That is dog whistle racist, er, somehow, and I said it really fast with lots of big words so that makes me right.
Three words: BLACK congressional caucus.
One word: WHY?
The whole idea of a Congressional Black Caucus seems inherently racist to me. I have to wonder how the non-black people who voted for these representatives feel? Do they feel they get represented by their Congresscritter?
A “civil right” to a job, an adequate wage, a decent home, medical care, insurance, and education sound an awful lot like… slavery.
If one expects to be handed these things, there is no appreciation for any of it. This describes how many designated minorities feel. They were handed these things. They didn’t earn them. Thus one tends to be ungrateful.
Meanwhile, “civil rights” leaders seem to be doing all they can to devalue these achievements by giving them out for free. I made the most of the opportunities I had and I worked hard for my education. Nothing was handed to me on a platter. And I appreciate the fact that I was able to do it.
For someone who is handed a scholarship because of his ancestry, well, he or she typically doesn’t appreciate what they have. Why? Because they didn’t work for it. I am all in favor of a hand up –but damn it, we all need to put our work in to the mix as well, or it will be unappreciated and there will be no sense of achievement.
And then we wonder why so many minorities join gangs, rob, rape, and murder each other; and the solution is MORE aid?
I am selfish. I want everyone from every background to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Why? Because as an “Evil” White Republican, I would prefer to spend my hard earned tax money on other things besides decaying inner cities. I want more middle class wage earners and tax-payers. I want them to pull their own weight.
Unlike the minority civil rights legend, I’m not trying to keep them down. In fact, it is quite the opposite. I want to see them succeed. I want to see more people function intelligently, and productively in this nation, with fewer trollish bureaucrats.
How about Virginia’s Louise Lucas, who is part of Obama’s “truth team”? She said: “Let’s be real clear about it, Mitt Romney is speaking to a group of people out there who don’t like folks like President Barack Obama in any elective or leadership position. We know what’s going on here. And some people may be afraid to say it, but I’m not. … He’s speaking to that fringe out there who do not want to see anybody but a white person in a leadership position.” http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/2012-election/va-state-sen-l-louise-lucas-says-mitt-romney-gaining-polls-because-he
She then said that she was teaching her children that racism is alive and well in America.
Well, she’s got that right – and the members of the CBC are doing their darndest to keep it going. With an assist from Hollywood and the news media.
But the racism is black-on-white racism, so give her points for getting it half-right.
A good portion of those folks would love to see Allen West, Herman Cain, Alan Keyes, Tim Scott, Lynn Swann, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and J.C. Watts in positions of power.
As opposed to Sheila Jackson Lee, Cynthia McKinney, John Lewis, Andrew Young, Maxine Waters, Ron Dellums, James Clyburn, John Conyers, Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jacson Jr., Charles Rangel, Bobby Rush, and last but not least Barrack Hussein Obama.
Black youths (think Trayvon Martin – Barry HUSSEIN Soetero’s imagined son) between the ages of 15 and 25 who form LESS than 2% of America’s population commit 52% of all the murders and 63% of all the violent crimes in the USA. The highest cause of death for such youths is to be killed by ANOTHER Black youth. Black on White crime is endemic whereas White on Black crime is miniscule in comparison.
So are other ethnic groups right in being wary of Blacks – they most certainly are and with just cause.
Hollywierds Racism.
HOLLYWOOD has been punting BLACK PRESIDENTS, black Bosses, Black Chief Detectives, Blacks as brilliant Scientists, Black as computer EXPERTS, Black as the most moral men, Blacks as the hero’s bestest truest most longest friend ever for decades now. In Hollywoodland what the Black NEVER is the CRIMINAL or the villain or the Terrorist(or if he is he is ALWAYS misunderstood and INNOCENT of this particular crime or FORCED in to the crime by wicked whitey and his persecution) No those parts are reserved for Whitey and preferably South American or European whiteys. Now I am not saying some Blacks are not Chiefs of Police or Bosses or Scientists but in EVERY movie and TV show they ALWAYS are and even with all the RACIST Affirmative action that exists and distorts the picture in the USA that is NOT reality that is PROPAGANDA.
There are exceptions to the generalizations you cite. Perhaps the most prominent was the brilliant HBO series The Wire, possibly the highest-rated TV show in IMDB (the Internet Movie Data Base). It is set in a majority-black city, Baltimore, and the majority of the cast is black. Black actors appear in many roles, including Senator, mayor, chief of police, city councillor, as well as the more “traditional” black roles as drug dealers and assorted other criminals. The show was conceived by a white (Jewish) journalist, David Simon, and a white former Homicide detective (and schoolteacher), Ed Burns. Some of the black characters are good people, some are distinctly criminal. I think you’ll see most of the stereotypes you’re used to seeing shattered in The Wire.
After the 2008 election where McCain lost (I voted for Sarah) I recall having a feeling that perhaps this bi-racial President might actually be able to do something positive about racial issues in this country. You know, maybe fix things. And then, there was Eric Holder- the Clinton throwback, along with Rham Emanuel. That did it for me.
I never dreamed there would be all of this dancing around the fire with spear in hand. My little business may well be the target of the next morning’s hunt for 250K plus-ers. I can hear the drums in the distance. But where to turn, what to do? Being cornered is not a good thing. Why, it could turn somebody’s hair Bozo red.
I have a better idea. Let’s get back to doing business as Americans and do away with all the commie crap that has gotten us into this mess. And let’s admit this November that Obama’s Cosmic Fail was the last thing we needed given the real estate collapse that wiped away trillions in equity from our accounts. If the best way to “spread the wealth around” were through government, it would have succeeded before, and it hasn’t. This four year ‘detour’ has been exhausting and I can’t wait to get back on the road to prosperity. Because, at the end of the day, “it’s the economy, stupid”.
The rich irony of successful blacks like Freeman & Chris Rock (and let’s not forget Obama) is that instead of embracing America for the opportunities it gave them to be successful, they demean it, continually point out & apologize for its flaws, belittle others for their success, and demonize (often by shouting ‘racist’) anyone who disagrees with them. It would be maddening but for understanding the psychoses of the liberal mind.
Comletely disregarding skin color, these things happened with Obama at the helm: USA credit downgrade, average Canadian now richer than average American, explosion of national debt ($4 trillion in 8 yrs of Bush 41; $5 trillion in 3½ yrs of Obama), more welfare recipients than ever, govt takeover of healthcare, to name just a few.
This is a little besides your main point, but I’d like to throw in a personal observation on the “Racial Purity” theme.
According to family legend, I have some Native American ancestry (you have to go back about six generations to find it). Occasionally I’ve mentioned this in a social situation.
In a group of four or more people, there’s usually at least one other person in the group with similar ancestry, and in groups of more than six there is always at least one and sometimes more – and some of those other people are black. Although hardly a scientific survey, this suggests that, at least for people whose families have been here for a while, “Racial Purity” is basically a joke; a significant fraction of the American population is already “mixed race”. Furthermore, this applies only to those who know, or think they know, who their ancestors actually were, and not everyone does.
I, like yourself, am a very Proud, Pure, 100%, verifiable and certified American (Mutt).
No further comment is necessary to this utterly brilliant article. but I can’t resist.
Describing in detail wrongs perpetrated by people who neither respect nor care about those they profess to champion. If only more people would see this and act on it by removing the perpetrators – whether they call themselves democrats, feel your pain compassionates. republicans, civil rights activists, black “leaders” from any influence on their judgements, decisions and lives.. Black ANF white/mixed race demagogues contemptously using thus abusing the black individuals/groups that follow them as if they haven’t the sense to know they’re being conned.
That of course doesn’t even begin to spotlight privileged whites in all civic institution who have beat the drums and trumpets for their fanfare and snake-oil. We cannot even guess at their motivations in devising and encouraging and escalating the patent malevolent and evil effects directly on black/mixed race citizens and indirectly on white/mixed race from their actions.
The results of damage to the integrity of the black citizen as individual and group evident to any person with eyes to see, ears to hear, a brain to think and a mind to evaluate. Do these perpetrators fess up to the damage they have done – deliberately done – to the people of the nation? Do they?
“A good portion of those folks would love to see Allen West, Herman Cain, Alan Keyes, Tim Scott, Lynn Swann, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and J.C. Watts in positions of power.”
Count me as one of them! I thought the Reverend Martin Luther King asked that we “judge by the content of character, not the color of skin”?
Id much rather have them as leaders than Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Chris Dodd,Barney Frank, Hillary Clinton and Al Franken.
What am I a race traitor?
White guy here. Not only that, but I used to vote almost straight Republican until they decided to spew raw sewage across the land. I will probably even vote for Obama this fall.
The irony about Obama is that it has been commonplace for some time to have black presidents in the movies and on TV: Freeman himself (Deep Impact), Dennis Hastert (24), Danny Glover (2012). But those guys were basically middle of the road. The most controversial positions they took were against killer asteroids, terrorists, and the end of the world. Hey, who wouldn’t vote for Morgan Freeman? Obama, on the other hand, is outspoken and clearly intelligent. People who think they’re superior ran into someone who really is superior, and they hate it.
The secret of “white privilege” is that there is no secret. We’ve been on rooftops shouting it through bullhorns for years. Stay in school. Don’t have sex until you can deal with it like a grown-up. Stay out of trouble with the law. Don’t use drugs or abuse alcohol. Cooperate with the police. Don’t touch things or people you don’t have permission to touch. And until liberals start ppushing those positions that’s why I’m still a conservative.
First you surely must be lying about voting Republican. Secondly, why do you assume that people don’t just want him out because he’s inept, and that his policies disagree with the desires of probably 60% of the country (mind you, many don’t even know what his policies and practices are)?
And what demonstrates that his intelligence is anything more than a typical Columbia, Harvard grad (of course higher than average)? He’s shown a distinct lack of understanding of historical, geographic, religious ideas. His understanding of economics seems rudimentary and just pulled out of a liberal professors class notes. He’s been a do nothing President. He has successfully played 100 rounds of golf, if that’s what you were looking for . . . then vote for the man by all means.
I agree, Stan, Steve’s a troll.
Obama is only as intelligent as his teleprompter programmer, a fact that becomes painfully evident every time he goes “off-prompter”.
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If you are born white, or born black, Asian or other that’s something you had no choice in.
Whites who had parents who immigrated long after the slavery was ended in America have no guilt in their eyes for slavery yet Blacks who immigrated also after slavery still shout out how those whites are still guilty of slavery.
Arab slavers took blacks as slaves, yet no one is screaming that Arabs are oppressors of blacks and even blacks who were children of slaves worship the very religion that enslaved them.
By this standard I should be screaming about the Angles, the Saxon’s, Vikings and Roman’s that invaded England in antiquity and destroyed it’s native cultures while also enslaving them.
Should Italy be paying me reparations?
and no outrage at the current slavery, human trafficking, sex trading of illegal aliens that are smuggled over daily.
Dims want to keep it staus quo and fight any move to expand visa process, fight border protection,refuse to speed up nationalization applications, and scream at the mention of any worker program.
I remember when some prominent Blacks adopted Arabic names. My reaction was: “When my very distant relatives went to Africa and bought your very distant relatives, who do you think they bought them from ?”
In # 6, did you mean ” Ideas proceed actions” or “precede?”
…of course, when 90%+ of black voters cast ballots for Barack Obama, that’s NOT racist. That’s PRIDE!! Whoopdee!!
Some years ago I lived in a small upstate NY farming community next door to black man and his white wife, who were older than me. I had some preconcieved notions about this before I met them, though their existence in me was largely undefined at that time. My desire to be a good neighbor over-rode those “mere emotions”, which were unstable as water, and this man and I became fast friends. He was retired from a life of getting whatever labor jobs he could find, while I was grinding out a career in law enforcement, in which I dealt daily with offenders, of whom the majority were black.
A few beers on the back porch in summer, gave way to friday nights in his carriage house during the winter, where among the old tools and tractors was a woodstove in a sitting area with a fridge, a table with a few chairs and a small stereo. My friend, Linwood Little whould smoke Lucky Strikes while I puffed away on a pipe with a nice cavendish, or a fine cigar. Regardless of how deep the snow, or how cold the temperature, the stove conquered the cold and we were kings, mixing drinks and ideas. Our wives understood the bond growing between us and as such, the green light was alays lit for us by them on Fridays.
Once two men bond in friendship words can lessen, while understanding deepens. After some initial conversations each friday, we would indulge the bluesmen, each of us concerned for the full measure of the genre in the other. He introduced me to Little Milton and I introduced him to Robert Cray and from just past supper, we would sit until the wee hours of Saturday, sipping, puffing and listening without a word between us. We didn’t need those things at that point, but we sure enjoyed them.
The day came when I told him that I was moving. My circumstances had changed and I was compelled to relocate to a town about 60 miles away. Though our friday’s would be the most obvious casualty, I knew friendships like ours were forever and I tried to take comfort in that. That same night, Linwood Little died in his sleep.
All that to say that without any of the prejudices that our civil rights and special interest groups impose upon us, which were absent because we chose not to pay attention to them, or take ownership of them when they were in the area, we related to one another in a pure way. The ability to have something like that exists in all of us, but in this the biblical proverb; “A little leaven, leavens the whole lump.” is manifest. Linwood Little was probably the best friend I ever had, which makes eradicating the leven of prejudice none easier, but necessary for the inalienable rights to reascend to their proper place serve to bind us all together as reasonable men.
God bless you chris
Oh dear Chris. The ‘hidden’ Racism is in your story which you seem to think is interesting because YOU know a Blacks cant be bad because YOU know Black man who was a good guy. If you had no racism in you there would be no story to tell.
I would say that there will be blow-back: you just can’t lie that much and have it stick.
Very astute article Mr. Hudson.
Controversial statements by the likes of Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman and Al Sharpton contribute to race segregation being kept alive. It’s too bad that some of these same people making racist statements if they read your article probably wont take the time to do some realistic soul searching.
If you and other open minded authors keep writing and publishing articles like this one, our society will find the shades of gray of bigotry and racism decreasing.
” Granting a civil right to health care or any other provision places a burden upon producers to supply their wares without trade, something which used to be called robbery.”
I’ll leave the rest alone, but this is incorrect. A civil right to vote does not mean that people are forced to work at polling stations without pay. It means that everyone has a matching responsibility to pay for elections so that everyone has a right to vote.
A civil right to police protection from violations of the law does not mean police are enslaved because you aren’t paying them. It means that everyone now has a responsibility to pay for police services (even if they don’t use them directly).
Likewise a civil right to health care is saying that everyone now has to pool in for universal coverage. That would mean that the state would have to pay doctors, through taxes, in the same way everyone has to pay for police even if they would prefer private detectives or private security contractors instead of the military.
Of course, you could also open the medical profession up to the free market. But as the government controls health care (only government licensed doctors can practice, and only they can write prescriptions) it seems like that isn’t liable to happen. There needs to be a decision to either open health care up to the free market (with the ills associated with it), or start footing the bill with the ills that entails (universal health care). You can’t tell people who they can and cannot hire and then also tell them they have to foot the bill after you just inflated the price for them.
The only thing that matters about people is the way they treat you personally. Color is just adaptation to environment. Example, I may move the most ebony person to Sweden and in a few thousand years there will be almost no trace of his origins. Vice versa a most pale person from lets say Minnesota is transferred to Africa same result.It’s the people themselves that matter not the color or the race. We are all Americans not Black,Hispanic,Japanese or any other adjective you care toput in front. If you feel so strongly about your motherland go live there. All people basically want the same things and the majority would like to live in peace. We must from a young age show our children that race is where you come from not who you are.
I’ve long held, and said often, that the best way to enshrine a subtle belief that black people are inferior, in ALL people, including blacks, is to create, maintain or expand laws that practically admit they are.
I strongly agree with you. That’s why Affirmative Action needs to be shut down. Whatever necessity there might have been for it back when it started – and I’m not convinced it was necessary – it has long since outlived its usefulness and is actually doing far more harm than good. Now that just about everyone is agreed that the best qualified candidate for jobs, scholarships, university admissions, etc. should be chosen REGARDLESS of race, we don’t need Affirmative Action any more. To retain it does exactly what you say it does: tells the people helped my Affirmative Action that they really ARE inferior and can’t make it on their own without Big Government ensuring that everything is “fair”. But I don’t for a moment think that Affirmative Action is going away because our governments, once they start doing something, have a great deal of difficulty with walking away from it.
To cite a rather different example from this country (Canada), the CRTC (the Canadian equivalent to the FCC in the US) decided that the Canadian music industry was in a rather desperate state in the early 70s and they needed to ensure that a strong Canadian music industry developed. They decided to jumpstart one by demanding that Canadian radio stations spend 30% of their time playing Canadian music, despite the fact that there were only a handful of Canadian artists with any real following in those days: Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and the Guess Who. The bureaucrats apparently figured that if they FORCED radio stations to play Canadian music, people would quickly tire of listening to the same handful of Canadians over and over again and would start recording other artists. So, for several decades now, our radio stations have spent a very large part of their air time playing Canadian artists. A substantial Canadian music industry has blossomed. But has the Canadian content requirement of 30% been lowered or abolished? Heck no! In fact, it was INCREASED to 35% a few years back. My analysis is that the Canadian music industry has such deep tentacles in the CRTC that their self-interest has driven them to push successfully for an increased quota. And the CRTC is so much in the pocket of Canadian broadcasters and the Canadian music industry that it almost always does what is best for them. The good of the country as a whole is ignored and Canadian musicians are, in effect, told that they still can’t cut it on their own without Big Government protecting them.
“It’s Spreading”: US Census Reports Nearly 100 Million Poor in America; Worst Conditions in Fifty Years Mac Slavo July 23rd, 2012
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/its-spreading-us-census-reports-nearly-100-million-poor-in-america-worst-conditions-in-fifty-years_07232012
Brilliant, that’s all I have to say. Thank you, Mr. Hudson.
I recall back when scientists used to ridicule the kerfuffle over supposed racial differences, because they weren’t genetically significant.
Really!? Walter, Do you honestly believe that blacks in America are solely responsible for the perpetuation of racism? Outside of the media, conversations concerning race and our President vary from circle to circle. The list of “black” only groups are the same across non-white groups throughout the western world. Look up Hispanic, Asian, and Native American academic and peofessional orginazations. Also, your article perpetuates “black and white” racism. A progessive and honest dialgoue on racism doesn not seek to lay blame but openly discuss. What is the purpose of this?
Excellent article, but a waste of finger work on the keyboard. The Progressives [sic] will not allow a rational discussion of race, or much of anything else, for that matter. It’s unfortunate that the next generation of “newspeople” seem, with some minor exceptions of the Fox family, to be as irrationally liberal as today’s. Luckily they are becoming a lessor impact with their reader and viewership declining.
We can only hope we as Americans truly understand the importance of voting Mr. Obama and his divide and conquor Demcratic Party strategy of 70 years OUT. It has been a successful but poison strategy. Hopefully we can change and allow our wonderful country to live and grow once again.
‘ “First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him … they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America,” Freeman said.’
I wonder where Freeman draws the line. Is someone black if his parents were black but one of his grandparents were white? Or great-grandparents? Etc.
If you are white read Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell.
If you are Black read Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell.
If you are Red, Pink, Tan, Brown, Yellow, Polka Dotted or Striped read Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell.
I think that Martin Luther King would be heartbroken to see where the NAACP and leaders of the black community have brought black Americans. MLK was not interested in socialism, but equal opportunity. Only the free-market system offers equal opportunity – not equality of outcome.
The welfare state that black Americans are supposed to thank big government for has done nothing but make their poverty more comfortable – it never lifts them out of poverty.
They have been grossly misled, and it is refreshing to see black Americans speak out for what our constitutional republic and free-market system have to offer ALL Americans, and how conservative American principles benefit every American, when they are put into practice. The distinction must be made that not all Republican policies, unfortunately, are conservative policies… which is something too many people do not understand.
The biggest problem we have in America is ignorance.
Excellent summation of so many aspects of modern slavery – which is exactly what government-sanctioned racism really is. So glad mention is made of the history of abolition in this country. There were MANY blacks and whites who served in politics and other leadership positions in society immediately after emancipation whose names and stories are no longer remembered – to the impoverishment of our national identity. The history of the Republican party and Democrat parties as it relates to civil rights and race must be told. I highly recommend, as a starting point, David Barton’s “History in Black and White” available from Wallbuilders in book and DVD formats.
Bravo for this excellent article!
Julia Gwin
Send them all to Africa for good!
I believe “Ideas proceed actions” should read “precede”?
The double standard has quietly been eroding freedom in the U.S. since the 1970s. If a white (middle-aged) man makes a factual statement, he is ridiculed for his race, and his gender. Somehow this is okay, though.
Then we read in the news where a white (middle-aged) male is attacked because of his race and gender. This is an evil that needs to be healed for the good of us all.
So “sent them all to Africa for good!” is an ok comment but mine is not? Curious about the standards……
I’ll keep this short and sweet, A well thought out and to the point article that almost exactly expose a lot of the same views I also have, and have attempted to make over the last several years myself. I admire your conviction,and commend you Mr. Hudson as very very few people of color are even willing to openly discuss these issues with an open mind.
“I admire your conviction,and commend you Mr. Hudson as very very few people of color are even willing to openly discuss these issues with an open mind.”
I agree with you completely but I do wish you would avoid the “people of color” construction. Unless you are literally transparent, you too have a color because white is a color.
So “send them all to Africa for good!” is an ok comment but mine is not? Curious about the standards……
Great article.
Regarding point 6, the American Revolution was to a large degree an anti-black slavery one. Slavery was legal in all 13 Colonies as per the dictates of the crown. During the Revolution (starting with Pa in 1780) or soon after it was banned in 7 of them.
That 6 didn’t would lead to a tension that was not resolved until four score and 7 (well more like 12) years later.
The Constitution did not establish slavery. It recognized a situation that had been in existence for 150 years.
This article and many of the responses are sad. Whites are really in denial
Oh ok. I see the comments here are cherry picked… So there are probably many people who disagree with this nonsense article but their responses are not being posted
I have an African American brother in law. He is the biggest racist I know, even though he was ok marrying my white sister. Everytime I am with him, which thankfully isn’t very often, he is constantly saying “a black man can’t get a break”. I finally had enough when golfing, he missed a putt and claimed that as a black man, that putt was never going in. Now it was said tongue in cheek, but he says it so often that is has become part of his conversation. This is a very educated man which to me is very sad that he cannot get beyond his color, to the point that I cannot stand being around him, not for his skin color, but because it is so depressing listening to him.
Watch out for deadpan sarcasm…
Alternately, it’s part of his ‘retail hustle.’
In a similar vein, Jews often proclaim that ‘the deal’ is so unfair that ‘their children will starve.’ Adam Sandler has some fun with this in Zohan — with his fellow Jews bizarrely haggling all the way through one negotiation after another.
If this is so…
What you’re looking at is a negotiating ‘tick’ that he can’t drop — leading to entirely absurd venting — even on the golf links!
It’s really a tribute to just how warped his negotiating incentives have become in his lifetime.
He’s retailing ‘racial angst’ even when the ‘store’ is closed.
So, surely he knows it’s a schtick…
Say, if you were paid to squeak … would you?
Have you EVER said a word to your brother-in-law about his racial attitude? Or do you just suffer in silence for fear that he will dismiss you as a racist if you say something?
I don’t want to cause a rift in your family but if it was me in your situation, I would either mention the problem to your sister or speak to your brother-in-law yourself. Simply ask him to dial back the racial rhetoric and assure him that you aren’t racist, though surely he should know that by now.
When did Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock become spokespeople for all African-Americans? They’re entertainers, not political figures. You’re picking simple opinions and tearing them apart as if all Black people think that way – I don’t know if you’re aware that the Straw Man technique is a literary fallacy. I hope people aren’t internalizing this article because it’s heavily biased to the trained eye.
There is truth here that speaks to me. My family history is norse, scot-irish, choctaw indian and runaway black slave. That the last two were not – in my family tree – only one to three generations removed from me….does that make me….WHAT? I have researched my family DNA professionally with tests and comparisons, etc. That leads me to suspect that there is no real white or black or asian or whatever……it is just that some DNA groups left what is now Africa sooner than others did and some didn’t leave at all.
“Black” is a political construct today. For personal and group political advantage. That is all. It is the truth hiding in plain sight before us.
I agree with the two leaders of European countries……”multi cultural societies does not work”
We have a growing disaster here. Phony Reverends preaching hate, muslims foolishly allowed into the country also preaching hate and demo politicians also preaching hate. Thank LBJ for that. PC BS. Can all of this be overcome? I fear not.
Regarding #8 and “racial purity”: look at how hatefully black racists turn on blacks who don’t “act black” — they’re Uncle Toms, Oreos, house ni***rs, race traitors. Or look at what happens to black urban youth who do well in school — they’re accused of “acting white” and get harassed and attacked. It’s sad, shameful, and disgusting.
Your views are ignorant and illogical. First of all, to quote Morgan Freeman at the beginning of your story is insane. He does not speak for Black America. He just married or is dating his stepgrandaughter. He is hardly one to talk about anything right or wrong. Suffice it to say there is a thing as white privilege and it should be faced and not ignored.
Refreshing article. I quite enjoyed reading it as it is something that has been increasingly bothering me.
As far as I can tell, racism from both sides is bred mostly from ignorance. The genetic difference between so called races is vanishingly minute, culture and environment are definitely bigger factors. The idea that some races need special protection or charity is as entirely insulting as the idea of collective guilt for others.
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The expression “White Men Can’t Jump” is seriously valid.
Some genetic coding enhances survival in the tropics — while other coding is a winner in high latitudes.
DNA heritage, decoded, shows that the San / Bushmen of the Kalahari are the oldest living DNA pool within Homo Sapiens sapiens. (Hss)
The San are a separate race from all others — and are distanced in time and intermarriage by tens of thousands of years — the separation seems to have occurred over 40,000 years ago.
By the DNA, what we term Negros, Blacks, African-Americans may ultimately devolve into multiple races — just within Africa. This is a story still unfolding, but humanity has been in Africa for so long, it’s so big, and its environment so varied that the DNA trail shows major, long-lived gene groups that go back tens of thousands of years. This would make them far older than the ‘modern’/ out of Africa races.
It is shocking — to everyone — but DNA now points to Neanderthal males hybridizing with Hss females at least as far back as 40,000 years ago. Astoundingly, EVERY single race ‘out-of-Africa’ contains Neanderthal genes. No African race has any Neanderthal genes of any kind.
ALL mDNA is of Hss parentage.
Since babies have only one father and one mother — and the mDNA tells us who the mother was — daddy had to be a Neanderthal — and female mDNA from Neanderthals can’t be found in any living human — one must conclude that whatever Neanderthal DNA in our modern genes came by way of daddy.
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I suspect that our Neanderthal heritage is under-counted because it is identical to the same coding in San Hss DNA.
Simply: the Neanderthals didn’t split off from Hss so far back in time as to have a radical DNA shift. Instead, genes morphed towards cold weather survival.
The re-crossing of the DNA triggered the creation of the new ‘modern’ races — modern if you think 45,000 years ago is yesterday — there is strong evidence of yet another ancient northern population that has DNA in Polynesians and some Asians, too.
So, the story is very complicated — and is changing with each astounding discovery — most of which are in Siberia and Europe.
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So, in contrast to your assertion: it appears that African races are hot adapted — and the rest of us are cold adapted.
This shows up in such desires as to what games we enjoy. Africans don’t care for the snow — nor to swim. To swim in an African river or lake is to die. So it’s no surprise the aversion is genetic. Snow would also tend to kill in Africa.
In contrast, there is a tribe in Africa that, with only 5,000 souls, out compete the entire remainder of the planet in the Olympic Marathon. (!) Place your bets for 2012 quickly.
Good article. I’m glad social perspectives are evolving. The changes of 60′s were important but priorities change and artificial distinctions need to dissolve. Even over-educated folks create new negative trends that are hard to correct. One personal peeve: “people of color”. Since the phrase was created to conceptually divide non-people-of-color (whoever they are) from everyone else its a racist term plain and simple. If people are really working towards a one-world culture there’s no room for this anymore. But its become institutionalized and commercialized for profit (such as cosmetics for “women of color”). Time to move on, but keep thinking and keep fighting.
Thank you for this thoughtful look at race relations. Sadly, as long as the term ‘race relations’ is in our vocabulary there will likely remain friction between people based upon skin color. Thankfully, we can at least pat ourselves on our backs that we do not look as closely at eye color and hair color.
I am 55 years old. My parents tried to raise me to be fair-minded even though my father had some vestiges of bigotry that surfaced from time to time. When Atlanta area schools were desegregated in the late 60′s I thought it was a neat thing. I was 12. We were kids and to the best of my knowledge we mixed in fairly well. I knew in my heart then that what is good for whites is good for blacks and that equal opportunity had to start with equal access to an education.
Fast forward to 2012. More than four decades later I still feel the same way, intellectually about race and opportunity. Emotionally, I am about up to my neck in frustration and anger that the problem today seems worse than it did then. And, that casts a shadow on my perceptions of blacks as a whole. I still have the ability to judge each individual separate from racial background. I am losing the ability to accept black culture as a whole. I can put my personal aspersions aside when an actual interpersonal relationship is the issue, but the current state of general ‘blackness’ both saddens me and angers me.
This administration has been an abysmal failure in its implied promise to be a healing factor. I am more angry and frustrated today than I was four years ago.
I will speak the simplest of truths now, and this is the God given truth…
Until blacks completely forgive whites (of the past and present) for any real or perceived wrong that they have suffered at our hands, and learn to LOVE whites, the problem will persist. Whites and blacks must learn to LOVE one another, not just be tolerant. That means whites have to forgive the Sharptons and Jacksons of the world too.
The funny thing is, I can tolerate someone that I despise. And, conversely, I might find the actions of someone I love completely intolerable. Lack of tolerance is not the issue. Lack of LOVE is.
Once President Cloward-Piven can say “mission accomplished” about his plan to overwhelm the system, affirmative action will no longer exist.
Paybacks are a bitch, especially when they are so richly deserved.
Thank you for stating what anyone with the gift of sight knows.
You got cojones amigo.
I was born in Latin America. In Brazil, I traveled far and wide and befriended numerous blacks, men and women. No chips on their shoulders.
I always judge a person by the facts of action not by the color of their skin.
In my soul the only discrimination I sense is the discrimination I have felt for being a white male.
Despite his record, I hoped our black president would belie his opposition and work to actually improve the lives of those hurting in America, both black and white.
After four years—disappointing actions speak louder than words.
In terms of being awarded reparations for a supposed social injustice that happened in ancient history to a particular group, can I get reparations from the European country that enslaved my forebears in the 13th century?? Of course not. Every non-black has never complained about slavery throughout recorded history. Nor did they ever demand reparations for such. To perpetuate the mantra of slavery exists at the core of Black excuses and lack of accountability. Slavery has been abolished for 150 years, yet afrocentrists and certain libtards still use that as a weapon to instill White guilt. It’s ludicrous, irraational and fatuouos. Slavery began long before White colonialism in South Africa and the Americas.
I would like to throw a monkey wrench into the concept of black = slave, white = slave master part of the theory. My 10xgreat grandfather came to this country as a slave. He worked the cane fields of Barbados in the 1600′s. But he was white, from Ireland. Arrested for “disrespect to the king”, and judged too young to hang, he, along with his brother, were sold into slavery to a sugar plantation in Barbados. Many Irish were slaves under the British. Luckily after a couple years, he escaped/won freedom/purchased freedom and immegrated to Virginia colony. Obama’s father was black. But his ancestors were never slaves. Probably they were part of the African moslems that sold captives into slavery.
So slave/slavemaster is not a white/black issue.
Think about how hard it is for someone to adjust to being handicapped… A soldier who’s lost his limbs in war, or a child who’s lost his ability to run because of a disease.
These people experience a frustration … not at their disability, but at the dependency that it compels. The natural instinct of a free man is to resist dependency, and the chains that come with it.
Perhaps, the inner-city ethnic anger that comes from young, unemployed or underemployed black youth today stems from this condition. We can call is Dependency-Induced Stress Syndrome, or DISS.
The cure is not to teach the patient to accept the situation, but to learn how to cultivate independence. Sometimes this means developing means to accomodate that independence, such as with ramps for wheelchairs. Wheelchair ramps don’t encourage dependence… Carrying the guy up the stairs does.
I believe that DISS in the inner cities will dissipate when the dependency programs that drive it are dismantled. It will be hard, but so is learning independence with physical disability.
Poverty is a not a disability, but is a perception of one. One that people can rise above. Publicly-funded poverty programs do not teach independence… But privately funded programs do.
Angry Black Youth only need to learn that they are not disabled, Take off the do-rags and put on ties, and get to work! Earn a paycheck, create something of value, and watch that anger disappear.
Thank you Mr. Hudson, I agree with everything you had to say.
Regarding point number one, the most important point of all and the last in your list, consider http://www.bayshoreteaparty.org/btpg-blog/2012/6/9/on-civil-rights-on-human-rights.html
I’d love to like this article, but my f-list would only burst into flames.
“The notion of racial “purity” is inherently irrational, because race itself is subjective.”
Nope. Biologically speaking, race is not at all subjective. Race is quantifiable and can be determined with nothing more than a DNA sample. As such, race determines physical traits. Some traits are more useful than others. As a group, and over time, blacks exhibit the least useful traits. Blacks can never seem to shed their tribal instincts. Has there ever been a truly prosperous civilization of blacks? There have been none.
The modern black is a parasite, consuming without producing. Look at any metric you wish and that conclusion becomes evident. Yes, there are exceptions such as the author but the median value for blacks as a group is a net loss to society. Black tribalism cannot be ‘fixed’ as so many suggest. The failed attempt has cost lives and treasure, and it has become a larger problem. The only solution I can see is segregation. Blacks have Africa so let them stay there and do whatever they wish. That leaves everyone else in peace to do what they wish. The nature of the beast cannot be changed, so we need to stop trying.
There was a time where I didn’t care about skin color. Then reality set in and I stopped listening to leftist propaganda. We are not all equal and there’s no way to force it into reality.
I have high regards for black conservative authors who have guts to speak the truth about the problems of the black people who succumbed to Cultural Marxism and the black victim mentality. Could anyone point me to any work of a conservative Jew who would speak the truth about the damage done to US by liberal Jews infected with Cultural Marxism and the Jewish victim mentality?