I have noticed of late that the moment someone starts talking about race, whether in person or, even more so, on television, my mind wanders and I start to feel very sleepy. It’s almost hypnotic, as if someone had just slipped a triple dose of those time-release Ambien capsules into a cup of Sleepy Time tea and poured it down my unsuspecting throat. Soon my eyes are beginning to close… No more race…. No more race…. You are very sleepy…
And then my eyes are shut.
If I hear one more reference to Shirley Sherrod’s video, I think I will turn into Rip Van Winkle. Wake me up when it’s over. Even if it takes twenty years.
Am I the only one who is feeling this way? I don’t think so. In fact I rather suspect I am in a majority. If there’s one thing most of us don’t want to hear about now, whatever color we are, it’s race.
Eric Holder had it all wrong (as he does about a fair number of things these days) when he said we don’t have the courage to talk about race. It’s the reverse. We don’t have the courage to NOT talk about it.
Like monks at a Zen monastery told by their abbot to STFU until further notice, we need nothing more than a solid dose of enforced silence about race. The minute we mention the “R” word we should be clapped on the back by the abott’s hardwood stick and made to sit endless hours in the lotus position — without a cushion.
There is another way to look at it: Years ago I heard about a treatment used by French psychiatrists to circumvent decades of painstaking and overpriced psychoanalysis. They would put highly troubled neurotics in the hospital and, instead of giving them the “talking cure” or some other treatment, they would just make them go to sleep for two weeks. (I’m not sure that was the precise length, but you get the idea.) When they awoke they would be all better (or close).
That’s the way I feel about race.
I know this sounds a tad sarcastic but actually I think it’s true. The best way to deal with America’s race problem at this precise moment in history is to shut up about it. Everybody. Including me.
“Move forward on other issues. Keep race out of it. Really we can.”
The leftists will refuse to go along with your wonderful suggestion. Employing the race card has become almost instinctively easy as breathing. It’s perhaps the number one play in their playbook. What else can they do? Can Kobe Bryant stop playing basketball and switch to hockey? I am only slightly joking. These people are trapped in the habits of a lifetime. They never bothered to thoroughly study the issues. Charging their ideological opponents with racism took a lot less effort.
The typical white voter is fed up with the race card nonsense. Many of them naively voted for Obama believing that this would get the country “past race.” They feel downright betrayed—and will seek revenge in the November elections. The Democrats may have lost these people forever. The odds are perhaps minimally 50/50 that the Democratic Party is no longer a national entity. Its candidates might be victorious in only the bluest of areas.
No, the Democratic Party is only just entering its
growth phase. The white middle class cant grasp
what it will mean to no longer be a demographic
majority. Race isnt going to fade away because Roger Simon, or you, or I are bored with it. It going to become all the more ferocious. The very idea
that you can switch the channel on this like a boring
TV program is a result of a white middle class complacency.
But that complacenccy is going to be as much a part of the past as..well.. TV itself. Welcome to MultiCulturalism.
The white middle class cant grasp
what it will mean to no longer be a demographic
majority.
And . . . . when is this supposed to happen? You almost make it sound present tense.
I keep hearing this tired mantra about white Americans becoming a non-majority, but when? The demographic trends of minorities are greatly exaggerated except when illegal immigration is taken into account; it ain’t birthrates. Black birthrates have declined, and black women are disproportionately more likely to get abortions than any other group. Hispanic birthrates have also declined to the same as white Americans in red states, and that’s in Mexico, as well as in the U.S. The recently cited figure of %65 of Americans being white — which is still an overwhelming majority if you ask me — includes that huge influx of illegal Hispanics into the total. Take out illegals, and white Americans are 70% of the population. It’s going to be so long before whites become less than a majority that all sorts of things are likely to happen in the interim to mess with those bogus linear projections.
The problem isn’t a diminishing white majority, it’s the fact that America, and the western world in general, have allowed minorities to wield enormous leverage out of all proportions to their numbers.
When will Whites become the minority in the USA?
Jan 1, 2011.
The date calculated by the US Census when the baby will be born that by voting
age will be the one that puts whites at 49% of the population.
Some more fun facts. The majority of whites did NOT vote for OBama..and still he was elected. This is another first in US History.
Want more? California went from the most educated State in the Union in 1980..to the least educated State in the Union in 2010 due to Third World immigration.
Want more? White taxpayers carry nearly 85% of the tax burden in the USA
Want more? 47% of the population pays no taxes at all?
Or how about this…since 2000… 23 million non white immigrants entered the USA
11 Million are now on welfare..paid for by that dwindling number or whites that are
spit on as racists and supremacists..but which everyone comes to with their hands
out. But whitey isnt paying anymore. Game over.
The date calculated by the US Census when the baby will be born that by voting age will be the one that puts whites at 49% of the population.
Dude, dude:
That statistical notion is bogus. The census bureau is using linear projections based on both obsolete and misleading data. You’ve allowed yourself to be snookere and alarmed because of your concerns about racial and ethnic politics. The bureau extrapolats “birthrates” from immigration data that is really about adult illegal immigrants entering the country; that makes their projections phony and alarmist. Secondly, the “49%” figure assumes that non-white immigration will continue unabated at current rates, or that 1980′s birthrates among Hispanics will somehow, for unknown reasons, come back. Don’t bet on it, and I wish that the Census Bureau wouldn’t bet on it either.
There is a perception of greater non-white numbers than really exist because of the enormous leverage for minorities that has been allowed by the powers-that-be. California is one of the exceptions because of its geographic location.
Want more? California went from the most educated State in the Union in 1980..to the least educated State in the Union in 2010 due to Third World immigration.
Want more? White taxpayers carry nearly 85% of the tax burden in the USA
Want more? 47% of the population pays no taxes at all . . . etc.
Not arguing with any of this, but look back at my comments on enrmous leverage. Break the leverage.
I am much more hopeful that dark skinned citizens will not continue to be enamored with identity politics. We live in dangerous times. The vile David Duke types are presently marginalized individuals, but that could unfortunately change if things get worse. A white American must indeed be concerned that they are perceived enemies of the politically correct classes. They are rapidly learning that the Democrats are out to damage them severely—especially if their incomes are derived from the private sector.
I am reminded of the old quotation wrongly attributed to Trotsky: You may not be interested in war—but war is interested in you. We may prefer to cease talking about the divisive issue of race, but our foes are not willing to do likewise. Any action on our part will be unilateral, and not reciprocated in the slightest. The race card will still be employed against us long into the indefinite future. It is naive to conclude otherwise.
You’re usually so right, David. But your “typical white voter”, though fed up, SHALL continue the game.
Most voters come imbued with ineradicable premises, publicy funded through the “education” system, which makes them loath straw men they see among us. The ‘redneck’. The ‘bosses’. The ‘rich’. The ‘country club’ Republicans (they’re right in this case). And so on.
The Demoqoguic Party put those false premises in place through the teachers so they can play directly to them.
Like Roger, I too have lived and worked all over the world, but in my case for over four decades. I too can attest that the U.S. of A. is the least racist of any country I know. But indoctrinated stupidity is nonetheless stupidity.
“Eric Holder had it all wrong”
Yeah, he’s a Democrat. Comes with the territory.
I think it is almost part of the lefts DNA now. They are obsessed with the issue.Every white Christian is either a racist or a potential racist,these are the times we are living in.
A Christian is properly defined as someone who loves his brothers and sisters as himself, or herself, which Christ teaches is everyone, including the unborn. It is therefore impossible for a real Christian, who takes Christ’s message into his or her heart, to be a racist. As HG Wells said, there is only one group who over the last 2000 years freed the slaves twice — circa 500 AD and circa 1865 AD. It was the Christians, pal. (And we may have to do it again). It is thus impossible for a true follower of Christ to be a racist. Or an Anti-Semite. What you are talking about is the pretend or hypocrite Christians, a completely different group.
Edmund
I love Ugandans..in Uganda
I love Syrians ..in Syria
I love Indians in India.
You see Edmund I dont believe that Diversity brings Strength. I believe
it brings tension, race riots, bombings. pathological jealousy, revenge plots.
I get these far fetched ideas by reading the daily paper. There is an interesting
article about the trial in NYC for the Syrian who tried to blow up JFK airport..he
was trained in Iran and funded by Venezuela, and his fellow conspirators
were Jamaicans converted to Islam. Now why dont you show your Christian love
by connecting with reality and giving up your idiotic naivete..and actually save
some innocent lives.
“..there is only one group who over the last 2000 years freed the slaves twice — circa 500 AD and circa 1865 AD. It was the Christians, pal…”
But there was that nasty period between 500 AD and 1865 AD that included persecution of heretics, buning of libraries, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the pillage of Central America and other such pleasant things. Best to keep your pride in your religion out of the discussion – especially if you want to go on past track record.
Well, pride in the evil achievements of hypocrites is not something I ever felt. Those who profess to be Christians but are not and are not are not the same as those who actually practice the faith. I know what Christianity is supposed to do — and it is mostly a dream, and true Christians are as rare as hound’s teeth, but because suicide bombers are not Christians does not mean that I reject true Christian beliefs. Nor do I want law enforcement relaxed, or criminal laws revoked. Evil will always be afoot, but good people can still reject it for themselves, even while fighting it in others. Thanks, Guys, though, for missing my one simple point, though I certainly understand and mostly agree with yours.
What the Hay, though? 143 Comments and counting! No one sounds bored with this discussion yet.
But Roger the “National Conversation About Race” is only just beginning!! Now we get to converse with 25 million Mexican illiterates who have only just begun to be
politicized. Already the endless Los Angeles barrios are breeding Che Guevaras
like Ron Gochez who are teaching “his people” about the “real” history of whites
in America and the “coming Revolution”. That will be a South American style Revolution.Check out Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela for a preview. Then Rog in the coming years the muslim population in Michigan and New York and Florida will want to enter “the debate”. Muslims always have such
colorful “debating” tactics when it comes to politics. You can check the streets
of Beirut, or Baghdad what that will look like. Its all just beginning Rog. So if “race”as a topic makes you sleepy I suggest you get some earplugs if you want to
ignore the coming “conversation”. And remember Rog…”Diversity is our Strength”.
ehunter,
Yours is the dream of the Democratic Party, that’s for sure. But really, the conversation has only just begun? I went to sleep with hype like yours playing in the background about 30 years ago, and I like Roger’s suggestion that I continue to get the rest I need now. You ought to be a bit careful, though, about all those Che-like tendencies you ascribe to people on the basis of their color or origin or “illiteracy.” Some rather nasty racists (the real sort) used to do that regarding the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, the Poles, etc., etc., all seen as threats (or promises) of upheavals never to be in our past. You would not want to be in with that crowd of Cassandras, now would you?
Youve got me pegged wrong. I am against the Demagogue
Party. I just dont believe it can be stopped by being
bored with it. If you want to stop fueling the Demagogue
Party..stop the regurgitating there Egalitarian garbage.
1. All cultures are NOT equal.
2. Races are vastly different.
3. Race is more than skin color.
4. Destroying the White European vast majority basis of the USA is destroying the USA.
Try that on.
I agree with you that all cultures are not equal, but the statement that races are not “vastly different” from each other is not “egalitarian garbage” – it’s actually true. People from two different ethnic groups can share more DNA than people from the same one, as it says on this Human Genome Project website: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/humanmigration.shtml
As to the fourth point, I agree that immigration is a problem, but not because white America is America or anything like that. I have no problem with people from any race or ethnicity becoming Americans…if they’re willing to become Americans. The problem is that people sometimes refuse to assimilate, and so we end up with citizens who don’t believe in liberty or equality, for instance. It has nothing to do with their race per se. If YOU want to stop fuelling the Demagogue Party…well, I’ll just leave it there.
ehunter,
I have you pegged exactly right. Your embrace of racism is absurd and ugly. Cultures may not be equal, but races are phantoms of your imagination. You are not “white” and you are not a “European,” and neither is anyone else in this country. Period. The whole thing is a pathetic pathology.
Better get use to it pal because I am not lying to you or anyone to give you
that PC feel good buzz that you crave.
1. There are vast differences in racial IQ figures. Whites BTW arent the smartest
Russian Jews are..followed by Northeast Asians..followed by Whites. As a white
I can live with this. What I cant live with is lies.
2. Western Civilization is what you live in and depend on for every fragment of
your being..and you couldnt live, or want to live anywhere else but ..enjoy
pretending elsewise.
3. Western Civilization and White Europeans exist in a symbiotic relationship.
When one dies the other dies. Of course you can prove me wrong by finding
a single example where Western Civ has survived the demise of white people.
One example will be fine. One. Begin your search in South Africa, then study the
fate of Post Colonial Africa then move on to South America.
Sorry..no feel good PC lies here..you have the MSM for that.
Ehunter;
“1. All cultures are NOT equal.
2. Races are vastly different.
3. Race is more than skin color.
4. Destroying the White European vast majority basis of the USA is destroying the USA.”
Y’know, I’ve withheld judgement about you, both on this thread and the Radosh one.
I think though, that I’m now ready to decide.
Take care not to become what you claim to despise.
I think you might be further along that course than you care to admit.
All of our problem was summed up in your very first point:
“1. All cultures are NOT equal.”
BANG! Done…full stop.
That is how a West African Black man emigrant from the most God-awful backwards tribal kleptocracy, (think Nigeria), to the United States can prosper and succeed on our own cultural terms…and be a credit to any community lucky enough to have him.
Culture is the key, culture is everything.
In America, however, we are NOT a White European culture,(and looking at Europe past and present, who would WANT to claim such a thing?).
We are a bastard culture composed of what every booger-eater who washed ashore,(or the dirt-merchants that was there to greet them), dragged along with them.
We are cultural mongrels, and that is our strength, although it can also be our weakness.
Because it works both ways.
There’s an old saying that I can personally attest to the truth of:
“The absolute WORST ‘niggers’ are the ones with white skin.”
You might want to ponder that.
Bilge baby,
Demographics.
THINK.
Now apply stats.
If you’re a white woman (which you’re not, I KNOW lol), you SHOULD fear black men.
Is that racist or REAList?
YOU HAVE NO IDEA what it is like to be a petite white woman.
UGH
“YOU HAVE NO IDEA what it is like to be a petite white woman.”
That’s what the 5’4″ woman I married sometimes says. I don’t know that you;d consider her White, though, since strictly speaking, she’s as mestiza as such things are reckoned. Half American Indian and half “Land-Grant” Spanish.
(We can discuss the Hispanic “Peculiar Institution” of “caste” some other time, but right now we need only acknowledge that it exists)…you should hear HER talk about the Mexicans, btw, of course you should hear her mother talk about the Apache and the Navajo nations.
“If you’re a white woman (which you’re not, I KNOW lol), you SHOULD fear black men.
Is that racist or REAList?”
As far as it goes, it’s prudent…but that’s only as far as it goes.
See, you SHOULD be fearing white men at least as much if not more so, statistically, than you should fear black men.
Good way to get yourself blind-sided, ain’t it?
Rather like what has been going on in the black community for at least 2 generations now. Their heads have been so filled with this idea that white racism is their greatest threat that they are totally oblivious to the fact that they are slaughtering each other.
And the sad fact is that if I pointed this out in a gathering like the NAACP, (not that they’d invite “my kind”), I’d be howled at for spouting racism.
To be fair, I’d also be howled at, likley more so, for saying so at a MoveOn rally, (not that I would voluntarily associate with “those kind”).
And yet, the facts remain what they are.
Black people have been murdered by other Black people in America in FAR greater numbers than were ever lynched by mobs of White racists.
It is this instilled culture of obstinate ignorance to the facts that are right in front of your face that allows this slow-motion suigenocide to continue.
Don’t fall for that yourself.
If you are surrounded by white people, then it is a white person that you need to fear most.
If you are surrounded by black people, then it is a black person that is likely your greatest threat.
When you are at your most comfortable is when you are in the greatest danger.
THAT, Delia, is being realist.
Bilge, you made irrefutable truth.
The only people who molested/raped/tortured/abused me were white.
Case closed.
*sad sigh*
It also took me some to time to catch on to ehunters bigotry however there is no longer any doubt. Too bad the ” e ” he is hunting isn’t an education.
Hey Menachem
Find any Anti Semites today? Dont worry..when you cant find them
you create them. Just be yourself.
While a number of ehunter’s points are disturbing, simplistic, and some of his statistical notions incorrect, he’s not completely off the wall, and that is a fact that is more disturbing than ehunter’s musings.
Here’s what I’m getting at: the vast database of human genetics that is being gathered, processed and analyzed is rumored to be showing that there are certain differences between races, including levels of intelligence. This information is just over the horizon, and may turn out to be very explosive if not handled with great care. It must be handled with care, because if it’s true, it will be mishandled and misconstrued across the ideological divide. Our friend ehunter might misuse it, but so would an affirmative action bureaucrat, who has a whole lot more influence than the ehunters of the world. The fact that every racial and ethnic group has shown itself to be capable of thriving in an advanced society will be ignored at our peril if genetic intelligence markers are misinterpreted.
As for cultures: America is primarily a western culture with predominantly European origins — to this day. Most people did come here to “not be Europeans anymore,” but the underlying attitudes and sensibilities were derived from a primarily European ancestry. Indigenous western hemisphere cultures did reach the level of qualifying, technically, as civilizations, but they couldn’t hold a candle to the European ones that overwhelmed them. It didn’t help those indigenous civilizations that they were so cruel and barbarous towards subjugated indigenous groups that the Europeans found ready allies to help topple the Aztecs and Incas, for instance. A “superior” civilization can and does show barbarous behavior when it suits it to do so, so I’m not celebrating the ruthless actions of European (or other advanced) cultures, just being very straightforward about historical and cultural realities. East and South Asians are making significant contributions to modern, advanced societies, yet the Chinese insist their kids learn to play western instruments and western classical music, because they admire western culture more than many westerners do. Go figure.
I expect that there are significant statistical difference between “races,” but always bear in mind that statistics are useless in describing a single individual. Men, in general, are taller and physically stronger than women, but that does not preclude an individual woman being taller or stronger than an indiviidual man.
I expect that there are significant statistical difference between “races,” but always bear in mind that statistics are useless in describing a single individual.
Steve: I do bear that in mind. I thought I made a similar point in my post.
Okay, but I took your major point to be that such evidence needed to be handled very cautiously to avoid… all right, I see it now.
It puts me in mind of the research on difference between men’s and women’s behavior, due to physical differences in brain structure and biochemistry. Much of it has been conducted by women, because most men working in fields where such research might fit consider the topic toxic (justifiably). Some of the women doing such research have come under pressure from Establishment Feminists to change or suppress their findings on the grounds that either 1) hardwired differences cannot be permitted to exist for ideologically grounds or 2) any differences at all will be taken to imply superiority for the men and immediately cause The Handmaid’s Tale to spring into full realization.
Regardless, any study of human differences that detects or even suggests a predilection for behavioral or performance differences is going to be explosive however handled, and is going to be rejected in some quarters out of hand on purely ideological grounds regardless of validity. I don’t fear racists appropriating the data and enforcing policy based upon its misuse (despite leftists’ hysterical terrors that fascist theologians are lurking around the corner ready to pounce, there’s no threat from “right wing homophobic racist Xtianists”), but rather the subject being summarily declared taboo. Are there statistical differences in IQ among specific population groups? I’d be surprised if there weren’t, but to even broach the topic has now made me irrevocably a hate filled Nazi (see the Naturalist, by Edward Wilson).
Lucky for me I have robust self esteem and have long since reconciled myself to be the incarnation of sheer evil in the leftist universe. In fact, I rather revel in it.
I agree wth the author but a moratorium on raceism accusations is not going to happen, its part of the identity politics used by the left to win elections. If they can’t stir the pot with accusations of racism then there is very little hope of them winning and if they can’t link into that great pool of liberal white guilt then noone would vote for their cadidates. I suggest that the rest of us keep doing what we are doing, going about our lives with dignity and respect for others and standing up to the race baiters whenever we can. The truly sad thing about these “racism accusations” thrown around willy-nilley is that when there is a real issue of discrimiation noone wants to listen because they have had enough. Its the story of the boy who cried wolf, when it really mattered and the wolf was at the door no one cared anymore. I wonder if they truly understand the national harm they are doing themselves and their cause. I doubt they really do.
Our economy is in the toilet, Iran is about to get a nuclear bomb, North Korea may just start a war with South Korea in a last desperate bid to stay alive, our national debt is embarassing, we’re spending money we don’t have, if the Chinese cut off our credit we’re screwed, Muslims may be taking over Europe be default simply by moving there in droves and having a ton of kids, Greece and several of the European countries are bankrupt, and Congress has its lowest approval rating (according to Gallup) in history.
And we’re obsessed with a low-level manager at the Department of Agriculture getting fired over race? Have we all gone nuts? Trust me, there are a lot, and I mean A LOT, more important things to worry about in the world today.
But if you want to obsess about race, think of Egypt. The northern Egyptians really hate the southern Egyptians and this hatred has gone back about, oh, 2,000 years. And they still hate each other to this day. And you think WE have problems?
A certain amount of racism will ALWAYS be with us. Some blacks hate whites, some whites hate blacks, Muslims hate Jews, and everybody hates Muslims. Deal with it. Let’s move on. There are way more important things to obsess about in this dangerous world of ours.
You make sense. You are rational. You will be ignored.
The key to political power in a mass democracy is
to appeal to the sub rational. The instinctive, the
tribal. The General IQ of the country is approaching
Third World levels. These people know nothing about
the issues..the debt, the outside world. They know
one thing..their tribe, their skin color. And they
will vote according to race and all the perceived
slights and persecutions their boundless self pity can
invent. Welcome to MultiCulturalism.
And I was just beginning my recovery from depression.
Depression results from feeling helpless. Punching back against the lies
is good exercise and will cure you of Depression better than anything.
“Some blacks hate whites, some whites hate blacks, Muslims hate Jews, and everybody hates Muslims.”
The difference there is that “Muslims” are not a race, they are a religion. In America you choose your religion, so it makes it perfectly acceptable to judge them, and judge them harshly based on this life choice that they made.
Thank goodness many whites don’t take Mr. Simon’s cowardly approach to the blatant racism being perpetrated against white people in this country.
We have institutionalized racist policies against white working and middle class people in academia, government, corporate America, lending institutions and on and on. Not only us but our children can be guaranteed to be racially discriminated against. They call it “affirmative action” its really just discrimination against whites.
We, as whites, are disenfranchised at the polls. Not only does Obama’s DOJ sanction black racial intimidation at the polls it also condones and facilitates massive voter fraud through government funded organization’s such as ACORN.
We as whites, unlike any other group, are not allowed to have any racial consciousness or pride as a group. If we do we are excoriated as being “haters” and “bigots”.
I think Mr. Simon’s approach to go crawl in a corner and say nothing is shameful. BTW, I’m anything but bored.
“We as whites, unlike any other group, are not allowed to have any racial consciousness or pride as a group.”
Well said….maybe it’s time for our own MLK moment and a leader too? Before we go into complete reverse. But I can’t imagine angry whites burning anything other than their burgers….can you?
Sorry Abdul if I didn’t read your post correctly.
You did state that – “But I can’t imagine angry whites burning anything other than their burgers….can you?” Yes, but when they run out of burgers all hell will break loose.
I want a “White caucus”!!!…white affirmative action!!!!
I ‘m tired of seeing our citizens being pushed around…However, it seems that most are in such a state of “don’t stir the pot, don’t cause trouble”, that we allow the Obama’s of the world to run wild as long as they don’t effect us “directly”…
If someone has lost their job, been effected financially etc..we will see “white” action, otherwise tend to keep their heads down, or bury them in the sand.
In general we in the USA are just not concerned. Let the other guy take care of “it”..what ever “it” is.
I suppose it’s who do we call “white”.. Anything but black? People should be judged by their qualifications, not the color of their skin. Otherwise we end up with the wrong people in the wrong positions and in general our nation does not flourish…and that does seem to be happening, look at the skin color we elected to the presidency. Sounds ugly huh..well, it’s the truth and it’s not pretty. We didn’t bother with his qualifications and background, it was color that ruled..
We have had more racial tension in the US since the last election than I can remember.
It might be time to be bored, but the dems won’t let that happen..it’s a rally cry!! There is ideology and then there is idiocy
Beer Summit anyone??
Poor steve. He’s being picked on. boo hoo. Grow up. Yes, young one, some whites have been passed by in the idiotic wish for “politically correctness”. So what? For that entity the end result has been a slip backward into mediocrity. The only way to rationally “deal with it” is for the passed person to take her/his talents elsewhere and out-compete – financially bury – the idiot entity involved. That result makes it all worth while. Not groaning about it here.
“The only way to rationally “deal with it” is for the passed person to take her/his talents elsewhere and out-compete”
Really…unless that one has the National Association of Always Complaining People in their corner to stir things up…eh?
Then if one is passed over unfairly in favor of those whose melanin guarantees them a “hand up”….and pursues the issue in the courts ( as in the case of the passed over fireman in Connecticut ) they’ll have a “wise Latino” like Sotomajor put them down again.
Wise up. The hand your dealt isn’t always a good one.
As you can see by the replies to my post that black racism is a very serious threat to our nation. When people like Mr. Simon grow a spine we can win this battle.
We’ll never have equality of of outcome in a free society. American blacks average only an 82 IQ level and that is inflated because of those who have white genes. If they didn’t it would be in the 70′s and no high tech civilization could function with that intelligence level. That is a fact.
We are a Christian civilization that is based on individuality and not on demonic collectivism. There are blacks that work hard, there are blacks that have 120+ plus IQ’s and deserve all the fruits of their labor in our society. Nobody of consequence denies that to be true.
However, if we no longer are a white Christian society, we will be a third world country and those who wished for that will suffer as well. All of those except the political whores that so many leftists seem to love. Barry and Michelle will eat continue to eat $100 wagu beef and lobsters smothered in butter.
Steve, Mexicans have a lower than average intelligence quotient too and an influx of these third-worlders being ‘legitimized’ will definitely be the fall of America as we know it. How can a country sustain a bunch of low IQ produce pickers? Yeah, it’s ‘raaaaaacist’ to mention, but, it’s also a scary REALITY that people don’t want to touch with a ten foot pole.
Eventually, most of the mundane ‘chores’ of today will be outmoded by technology and where will those ‘produce pickers’ end up? Crime rates will sky-rocket!
I fear for our future as a once stable nation.
Lower IQ…? I’m dismayed that this is used as an excuse for what is going on in our republic.
If so, they sure have used that lower IQ to set this nation against itself. Our so called leaders are on the side of the lower IQ I suppose? The lower IQ gets them welfare, housing, medical care, free..education, free…affirmative action used in a job they are not the best qualified for..It really cannot last much longer.
I have wildly varying views on race. I understand wanting better for yourself and your family, but I am also tired of people demanding respect while they are doing dishonest things.
Racism is alive and well, but the “word” no longer has the same effect.
If Mr. Simon wants to sleep I suggested he buy some earplugs to drown out the sound of gunfire, and riots
bombings and exploding airliners that MultiCulturalism is bringing to this country.
As for the rest of us willing to fight for traditional
America built on the white middle class..we are indeed
fully awake.
I believe the fight in the black community against white racism is now very substantially out of sync with the actual amount of white racism incidents. That a strong presumptive attitude of white racism and defensiveness against it developed over the years and still exists in many blacks and some white politically correct minds leading many to see white racism where it often doesn’t truly exist. Racism has also been overused as a tool to further an agenda – often political and economic.
I also believe that there is a black sub-culture which developed as part of that defensiveness. One example of it is a sub-language where poor english grammar and unique words have been adopted as a tribal identification. This tribal identification has also encouraged blacks to bond into black only groups for further tribal identification and protection. One recent example of this was my neighbor’s mention of his membership on a local blacks only baseball team. Yet, I can’t imagine any white person attempting to form an all white baseball team.
I sometimes wonder if being black takes precedence over being an American, which reminds me of my last trip to China where one Chinese man said he was Shanghainese first and Chinese second.
“I believe the fight in the black community against white racism is now very substantially out of sync with the actual amount of white racism incidents.”
Feh…it’s become just another “industry” for too many people now. A money-making enterprise.
Which means that all too many have forsaken Justice for Profit.
Rather like Ms. Sherrod, who informed her NAACP audience that while it’s still a “white and black thing”, it’s much more a “have and have-not thing”.
And then proved it by winning 13 million bucks and change for her New Communities Inc. from the USDA…and then taking employment at the same USDA.
See, the “black and white thing” led her to get on the right side of the “have and have-not thing”.
It’s all very clear, really.
Ben bored with it 20 years…
This is a complete distraction from real issues…unfortunately the current administration is failing and chose the convenient “buggy man” to blame…
The name callers only describe themselves…that includes “you a racist” types with only that do argue when “you” disagree: intellectually devoid…like that loser sitting w/Breitbart on TV; (I do not have a TV, I see clips on the internet) what a loser…
Breibart had intellectual comparison/analogy…the loser had “you a racist”; which is preposterous, same with tea party types who only say: we want low taxes, small government, job creating policy…see that proves tea party is racist!
Neither side will or can avoid playing the race card nor can they avoid pointing out that the OTHER side is playing the race card. Seriously do you think that Fox can stop running Black Panther billy club video or PJM can stop giving a platform to Christian whatever-his-name is? NO; your demographic demands it.
Much of Obama’s demographic demands what RodgerS #(is that our Roger?) describes.
Alas, it still stirs too much juice and therefore will continue to be used by both sides.
And when Fox does this sort of thing with race, or any other issue, they raise holy hell because they are very good at what they do. They understand 21st century gossip culture better than do/did the rest of the MSM, so their partisan digs at lefties raise more hell than the MSM’s digs at GWB, because Fox does it better;(and therefore worse) they can get away with their heavy-handed agenda framing because they allow more back and forth but that is another topic.
Go on, get down D-White!
Welcome to the Modern Liberal World! Where only PJM writers and Fox News do wrong.
Where’s the fevered, blathering, Pseudo “Centrist” Picket Fence Rap?
Looks like the “Centrist” mask was made of toilet paper that got used and flushed.
Are you dating Rachel Maddow, or just studying under her?
Blather was thirty years old today…
Hey, old pal. And I was afraid that you were ignoring me. I am doing affirmative action for you and will keep pushing you to the front of the line until you finally can generate some content of your own. Screw up your courage…and go for it.
And I was afraid that you were ignoring me.”
Yes D-White, loss of control can generate fear. The notion that a self created “line” and a “front of the line” exists along with the establishment of an “affirmative action” pushing smacks of non-Centrist thought. Modern Liberal posing?
No fevers, no blathers, any longer. Just… a desire for control.
And thrashing the air with his hands…
So, covering the Black Panther story is tantamount to stirring things up/being racist.
Therefore, the only thing one can do is NOT cover it.
I’ve noticed this sort of reasoning a lot lately.
“If you talk about what they do, then it’s your fault.”
Or, if you show what someone does (a la Breibart), it’s your fault for showing it.
A truly non-racist person would skip entirely over the Black Panther story. right?
No numbskull Dwight, RodgerS is not Roger L. Simon.
My profound apologies; it is instead the renowned Rodger S!
Anyway Rodger,when you say “I sometimes wonder if being black takes precedence over being an American….” you have a solid point about blacks and a number of other ethnic groups, but polarization is so strong that you could even make the case that many are liberal first, or conservative first, and American somewhere down the road. They talk as if they had more in common with their ilk in other cultures, than they do with their rivals in ours. Many had hope that Obama could get us above this but he has not. Some of it has been his agenda and his screw-ups and some of it has been the intransigence of righties to do anything other than fear and despise him from DAY ONE, while lefties push their agenda as hard as they can while they have the numbers.
Obviously, having the economy improve would reduce the fear and loathing factor significantly. The recession is hitting blacks harder than whites, but their fear and loathing is generally not channeled in Tea Party directions, but it is still there. Hispanics are not exactly dancing in the streets. There is plenty of hurting in all the camps, but each sees the other as the big threat, the ones somehow gaining unfair power and privilege.
And God Bless the United States of America!
“some of it has been the intransigence of righties to do anything other than fear and despise him from DAY ONE.”
Fear and despise a Marxist? And his takeover of their country? How silly of them.
LMFAO to the power of ten.
Mr. Simon:
“Am I the only one who is feeling this way? I don’t think so. In fact I rather suspect I am in a majority. If there’s one thing most of us don’t want to hear about now, whatever color we are, it’s race.”
I hope that you are the only one who feels this way.
Would you be offended if I said that every time someone mentions “anti-semitism” I find it boring and want to fall asleep?
For the record, I don’t, but I’ll wager that you’d get pretty damned pissed off if my response to your defending Judaism and Israel to Hew-hatred was a big ostentatious yawn.
Would I be wrong in this?
Now if that’s the way you REALLY feel, then you’re not doing a very good job of tucking yourself in, since “race” has been one of the overarching talking points since the Alleged Hawaiian first announced his candidacy.
But you’ve been anything but somnolent here at PJM, haven’t you?
And let’s call it what it is.
This latest round of “racism” was authored by the moonbat Left and the racists in the NAACP accusing the TEA Party folks of Racism…not because they can prove any of it, (Mr. Breitbart still has $100,000 waiting for the moonbat who can produce evidence of the Capitol Hill “N-Bomb” being dropped on Pelosi’s Minstrel Show March), but solely as a political weapon to attempt to silence the debate.
Well, it appears that a very large segment of the TEA Party folks, and people generally, are not going to put up with this kind of crap without a fight.
And if that puts you to sleep, well then I reckon the best thing for you to do is shut down PJM and pull on your Doctor Dentons.
I don’t think you’ll do that.
“It’s just going to make us angry — or, in my case, tired. And I say that as someone who spent a fair amount of time as a civil rights activist. But those days are over. Period.”
Mr. Simon. Those days are never over.
As long as there ARE races, there will be racism. As long as there is politics, race and racism will be used for political purposes.
That’s just the way it is, and you know this already.
Bilge-baby, the very ‘mention’ of ‘race’ is ‘racist’ don’tchyaknow?
Interesting that ALL CHINESE populations aren’t considered ‘racists’ or ‘Japanese’ populations either.
Oddly, every ‘race’ that ‘infects’ a predominately white populace is supposed to be the ‘norm’ and considered ‘racist’ if you consider ‘otherwise’ even with tragic results [i.e. the Muslims overtaking parts of Europe and even INSISTING on SHARIA law].
When I was growing up…I thought ALL people were at least as smart as me or smarter…
Nope.
People are scary STUPID.
SCARY.
Xiando!
ACK
A white woman is 138 times more likely to be raped by a black man
than a black woman is to be raped by a white.
Blacks are 13% of population but commit 60% of all felonies.
1 in 4 young black males are in the criminal justice system
Since 2003 7000 Americans were killed in combat in Iraq.
Since 2003 42,000 Americans were killed on American streets by blacks.
Source: US Department of Justice “Statistical Survey of Crime in the U.S.”
Anymore egalitarian garbage that needs to be tossed out the front door?
I’m a racist, Roger (at least that’s what the trolls on PJM tell me).
I’m a realist.
Is that racist? Maybe?
I look at stats. I look at the bell curve. I look at crime rates.
Yes, I’m a racist [apparently].
Why the most intelligent people on earth (Jews) are often Lefties defies ALL LOGIC though. Is there some IQ mark that sends people over the INSANE bridge? I dunno. I DUNNO.
Frustrated HMPH!
I do fart in stereo though! Heh®™
Not just the trolls.
That’s what your father told me too.
I have no idea what you mean by that, and no desire to have you explain it.
I’ve read your various comments on Mexicans, Africans, blacks etc in this thread, and in the other thread where the ‘trolls’, repelled by your comments there, called you out.
Roger Simon found in his international travels that while not perfect, the US is generally far ahead of other countries in consigning racial differences to the trashbin. That has been my experience also. But I have also run across many exceptions to that experience, both in the US and abroad. Your reply to comment#16 above, the ‘Black people are genetically behind every other culture/race’ one, makes you one of those exceptions. It leaves no doubt in my mind about what you are and what time and nation you would have thrived in.
There’s a ‘troll’ here. An ugly, stunted, homunculus. And it’s not me.
Your highly emotive post gave your EQ a boost but your IQ is definitely lacking.
Where is your ‘proof’ that blacks are not racially inferior per data? Blacks also have more testosterone (both males/females) which makes them ore sexually aggressive early (high pregnancy rates) and also violent.
Oddly enough, blacks have more ‘diversity’ in their DNA and whites have less diversity in their DNA. Which means, blacks are not ‘bruthas’ as much as they’d like to believe and whites definitely have some ‘banjo duels’ in their blood.
If we can’t talk about certain ethnicities having ‘bad’ habits…we’ve pretty much lost the “Judge a man by his character” bull caca.
We either DO or we DON’T. There is no ‘maybe’ or ‘if’ or ‘perhaps’.
If a LARGE percentage of Blacks and Mexicans are violent and problematic, we have to address that. WE HAVE TO. Turning a blind eye does NOTHING to thwart that kind of behavior.
There are GOOD and HONEST people who are Blacks and Mexicans but they are the outliers. The aren’t the ‘norm’ per statistics.
Poverty doesn’t make someone a criminal. Idiocy DOES.
STUPID is what we are breeding for America’s future.
Not pretty.
My typo riddled post is proof positive that I have some ‘banjo duel’ in my blood-line. lmfao
I would bounce my IQ against yours any day, but that’s neither here nor there. Ignorance and small-mindedness has nothing to do with IQ.
Roger’s post was about putting what you peddle behind us. Not just about hiding behind skin color, but also not being able to see through it. You can’t.
Your vile arguments are from the same crevasse in the human experience as those made in 1930′s Germany. Only then Jews, Slavs, Gypsies etc were the inferior races. The sooner we backfill that crevasse with you and your fellow travelers at the bottom the better. For now, enough time wasted on you and your venom.
Just passing gas,
What say YOU about the current sitch with racial animosity from blacks towards whites? The DOJ ring a bell?
What say YOU about the O.J. Verdict?
What say YOU about the truth in the bell curve?
What say YOU about blacks slumming ‘the vote’?
What say YOU about ‘diversity’ when it means a tiny white girl gets to be a ‘fireman’? Do you WANT a tiny white girl to save your cookies in a fire sitch? REALLY?
LIAR
The only time the P.C. crowd especially the Media wants to talk about race is when they play pin the blame on the white man if one white knucklehead does something particularly stupid or Hannis it turns into a indictment on what all white folks secretly yearn to do so we have to stop the discussion and start apologizing for someone or thing we don’t know, we don’t like or want anything to do with. OK gotcha slavery was bad but not my bad I had nothing to do with it. In the mean time if you bring up legitimate beefs about African racial traits like the men not sticking around to raise their children the children not sticking around to get a diploma or the violent crime they inflict on EVERYBODY around them they “Blacks and the media” trot out some scrubbed little boy in a bow tie or a little girl in braids and pig tails and again the discussion stops the apologies start and more importantly the money flows!!!
HannisheinousSpellcheck is your friend, whitey.
hay thanks why doncha gets yoself a malt liker and chill on da corner LoL
Well, bein’ I iz white an’ all, I iz not sho of yo intentions. lol
well in that case have a nice zinfandel (proubly spelt dat wrong 2) at the country club LoL
For the record, I find nothing wrong with an ice cold malt liquor on a hot day.
It’s the perfect beverage to wash down a plate of pork rinds, (or “cracklins”, for the culturally competent), doused with Tabasco sauce…a delicacy that i also have been known to indulge.
And in the interest of harmony and diversity and all that jazz, I’ve also been known to introduce the delight of pickled herring in sour cream on black bread with sweet butter to those who’ve never had the pleasure.
Africans come in all colors, it’s a continent not a race. It used to be the Roman name for Carthage. Abandoning families is not a racial trait. Culture and the irresponsibility of youth play a big role. Yeah, we’re finally talking about black racism, a subject long overdue. That’s why the Obami panicked. Why they want to make Andrew B. the issue. Bad Andrew won’t play their game.
“Africans come in all colors” due to racial mixture.
Let’s be real. Black people are genetically behind every other culture/race and they are more animalistic and violent/tribal. There are STILL to this DAY AND AGE tribal blacks in Africa and even parts of Australia.
I’m sorry, but, truth is, blacks are very low on the evolutionary scale. There are outliers who break from the pack of xiandos, but, otherwise, blacks are bad for ANY and ALL societies in large numbers.
Yes, that is racist and I don’t give a flying phuck.
Yep…Africa. I’ve always pondered why is that in the 21st Century….these people look upon a wheel barrow or a shovel in wonderment?
That something as simple as the wheel baffles them? Take the former Belgian Congo. Once considered the bread basket for the entire continent, capable of feeding all Africans. To say nothing of it’s huge resources. Then it gains it’s “independence” and spirals into chaos, poverty, anarchy, war, pestilence and tribal genocide.
Then of course the IMF comes running to them with billions in hand….why? That winds up in the hands of the least competent, the most diabolical murderers and thieves and the spiral continues.
So far this century…the only thing Africa offers the world is…Aids, Ebola, swine flu and hurricanes.
The lights are not on in Africa….they don’t know what to do with a “switch”.
Gary,
You forgot to add:
“The bell-curve is raaaaaaaacist!”
The Left has so devalued the concept of racism, that it has become meaningless. One of the Democrat Patriachs was KKK member, and it’s OK, but the TeaParty is racist, based on some hazy accusations that no one has been able to demonstrate, let alone prove.
Racism means nothing. It is a normal part of life. Live with it.
At this point If the Left releases photos of the mopes with the pointy hats lynching someone, I’d wonder what political angle they were distorting.
Got that, Race Mongering Lefties, you’ve used it up. Racism is nothing.
We don’t have the courage to not talk about (race).
Well, we do, but they don’t, since it is characteristic of the whining, community organizer, holier-than-thou, heart-on-sleeve Leftist to rely on and dwell on the negative in the human experience.
Liberals make their bones on the endless, awful plight of “the other”, what the man has dun to them, as a function of melanin, XX chromosome, you name it.
Gradually, the so-called other seems to be on to them, thankfully.
I humbly submit that the NAACP, in its recent attempt to cast racial aspersions, is trying to keep itself relevant in much the same manner that race hustlers Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been doing for decades.
The false accusations hurled at the tea party are transparent, not to mention despicable. Distraction, changing the tune from the coming November vote, energizing the base, these are the real goals of the race baiting the NAACP has indulged in in recent weeks.
That organization has mainly succeeded in bringing itself down many notches.
I think we should have taken the Zen French Not Talking Cure from the getgo and ignored these people.
So you ask yourself what is standing in the way of Dr King’s dream and you have to answer it is now the government and the NAACP, not the people.
I’m with Roger. Hopelessly bored. I don’t think we’ve any Arabs (are they a race?) in the family, or any Indians from India, or Eskimos, but we’ve got the rest covered.
I was feeling the same way, Ed. Until the subject became black racism. I thought that mammoth in the room was off limits. The spectacle of the lamestream media trying to dodge it might provide a little entertainment.
So I’m a racist again today… (yawn)
FTW!
For the record, and the survival of intelligent life in the universe, I’d like to quote a black man at a recent Tea Party…
“I’m with my people. Americans.”
Contrast that with the endless whining of the Shirley Sherrods of the planet about “her people” and how none of us understands (including the President who lacks slave blood) the troubles she’s seen.
21st century, Shirley. Voting rights, constitutional amendments, a sort of black President & AG (though both are rather brain dead.)
Time to move on, Shirley, and lift up all people by making your own life about something besides whining.
(and didn’t you advise “your people” to get jobs within the federal bureaucracy where they can never be fired ? That’s lame)
OK, here’s the problem. When great leader said he would be the first “post-racial” president most of us thought he meant “post” as a prefix, not a verb.
It’s just a simple misunderstanding. We bad.
I’m personally convinced that most of the ‘racism’ in America is of the manufactured variety by people/organizations with an agenda. Having just been released from a jury for a AA on AA murder, I failed to detect any underlying racism with anyone, black or white. I found it curious that only one AA was selected to the jury, and I know he didn’t want to be there. (Mostly due to the time commitment. At the end of the day, we weren’t much different than one another on a superficial level, although he was selected and I narrowly missed the cut).
I’m afraid to say that I think the make-up of the jury represents the expectation of fairness (as it should), but I would question whether most of us were truly peers.
“If you want to stop talking about race then stop talking about race.”
-Morgan Freeman
And it works.
Here’s a link with him saying it:
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/07/17/morgan-freeman-on-how-to-end-racism-stop-talking-about-it/
Sorry, Chris. Pick a better loser. Morgan cheated on his wife. He’s scum in my eyes like 99.9% of all Hollyweird.
Get real, Delia. If everyone, man or a woman, who cheated in their life were disqualified from having an opinion about anything, democracy would be dead. I just listened to that Morgan Freeman video link and he was terrific. Take a look and I’m sure you’ll agree. He’s a great actor too.
Nancy, Morgan Freeman was my ‘HERO’ until I found out about his infidelity.
YOU may be able to excuse it (like he lame fem birds who can excuse “SLICK WILLY” and his ‘MONIKA’) but, I for one, hold my standards high because I actually LIVE UP TO THEM.
When a GOOD man goes BAD I lose respect for that person. PERIOD. There are no ‘excuses’. I don’t care if his wife’s vagina was on life-support, you don’t CHEAT on a GOOD WOMAN. Men who cheat are lower than pond-scum. They spread herpes and genital warts (both INCURABLE viruses).
SCUM doesn’t deserve kudos. EVER.
Athiestconservative,
“CHeetos” That’s ALL you got?
LMFAO
You’re pathetic with a big ol’ ‘P’.
I have the body of a 25 year old and the wisdom of a 44 year old.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself, home slice.
Morgan’s infidelity has nothing to do with the issue at hand. If this were a thread about marriage and fidelity, then I would take your advice. However, this is a thread on race and he is correct on race.
By the way, if we are to be strict moralists on fidelity, then we might as well throw Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Martin Luther King Jr. out the window.
I have NO problem with hating people with swinging dicks.
I also hate most of our founding fathers who believed ‘slavery’ was ‘OK’ (whilst raping the black women).
No. Just NO.
People like you crack me up. You don’t act morally superior because you are morally superior. You do it because you have the privilege of anonymity, of keeping your own skeletons in a closet.
If you honestly can hate a great man and a fantastic actor because he ‘cheated on his wife’ – something evidently alleged without proof during divorce proceedings, which are famously acrimonious and prone to wild allegations – you don’t deserve any heroes. Heroes are human. Scum that sits around in their home sucking down Cheetos and throwing around salacious rumors are less than human.
Racism is one of America’s “natural resources” that has been mined to exhaustion while it provided a good living for lots of people in the political arena for many years. Where are these people to go after they have extracted the last bit of ore from this political/guilt bonanza?
Being ‘black’ is the new ‘white’, only nobody needs to wear a ‘sheet’ to prove how ‘racist’ they are.
The Al Sharptons and Rev. Wrights of the world will go down to their eventual fates which include burning forever in the stench of their own brimstone.
The REALITY lies somewhere in the middle.
There are blacks who truly hate whites.
There are whites who truly hate blacks.
There are GOOD people who hate bigotry and prejudice of ALL shades.
We have to stop giving blacks ‘victim’ status. If black man is only capable of doing low-scale work, do not denigrate him for that fact. Blue collar work is WORK. I’d rather have an American black man toil and labour for my country over an ILLEGAL MEXICAN.
DUH?
I also have to add:
I find it incredibly patronizing to literally PUSH blacks to the front of the ‘bus’ with affirmative action. That kind of ‘cherry-picking-prejudice’ denigrates the truly INTELLIGENT blacks who are legitimately intellectual and belittles those whom have truly earned their honors needlessly.
Michelle 0bama should NOT have had her ‘thesis’ passed without AA. What a sad joke [no, I wasn't calling her "THE JOKER" even though she has a mandible to rival the scariest of large-jawed creepy clowns].
White people (as a whole) are a ‘minority’ via world statistics. Where white people are the clustered in a majority status, people of all color have prospered. In other ‘CULTures’, people of an ethnicity not of the majority suffer incredibly.
Excuse me, but, I think white people need a little kudos.
Another perspective: The Dems don’t, in their hearts, give a damn about the race issue; they are, themselves, racists. Any party that would place Blacks in housing projects, as the Dems did in the so-called ‘War on Poverty’ is deeply racist. They destroyed the Black family and demoralized a couple of generations of Blacks.
What Dems do care about is power–and holding on to power–and keeping the Black vote is key. If race relations improved, Blacks would no longer “need” them, and might start thinking for themselves, God forbid. Therefore, nothing can ever improve; failure is baked into the cake.
The Democrats have nothing to sell a Black person who’s educated, has a good paying job, his own home, a car, good schools, etc. Nothing. All they’re selling is envy and grievance, and the injustices of the past, and retribution. Liberalism is based entirely on the separation and division of humanity; it is essentially, a very negative and unproductive view of life. Once the majority of Blacks figure that out, the Left is doomed.
Excellent point, excellent post, thank you.
I can only add that the Democrats have succeeded in the mutation from being the party of the KKK to being the party of welfare state for Blacks quite because of what you say
AND
because of their totalitarian control of the media.
Now that the Internet has caused the WALL of totalitarian media to fall, the WALL of the Dem’s propaganda is doomed too.
It will take time, but their lies will be exposed, more and more and more.
And that’s why they are becoming truly dangerous…
‘ahem’, Dems would NEVER teach a man to fish (they might lose a vote)!
Sometimes it seems like we are still discussing the merits of phrenology, or the nature of the invisible “ether” that scientists still, as recently as the early 20th century, believed was part of the substance of the universe.
“Race” is a pseudoscience, based on the superficial observation of external characteristics. Yes, people in Africa or bearing African ancestry tend to look “Negroid”—but there is a hell of a lot of difference between a seven-foot Masai and a four-foot pygmy, too. There is also visible difference between a Frenchman or an Iberian or an Eastern-European Slav, or between a Chinese and a Korean and a Japanese. Those familiar with variations among Amerindians can doubtless tell, roughly, whether someone from that large population group is likely to have come from somewhere near the Arctic Circle or from somewhere near Tierra del Fuego.
These similarities, and differences, occurred because human populations were largely segregated by geography and the difficulty of travel for most of human history. That such superficial visible differences were initially used as a shorthand means of dealing with and classifying unfamiliar populations is unsurprising, but scientifically it is no different from classifying all substances as belonging to the “four elements” of earth, air, fire and water, relying on “humors” and bleeding for the practice of medicine, or using astrology to predict the future.
What is remarkable is the political survival of the pseudoscience of “race” long after it became clear that it is scientific nonsense. Even more remarkable, in our current political landscape, is the extent to which its loudest advocates are among those exhibiting the least of the characteristics of the “race” they claim to represent; Eric Holder, Ben Jealous, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan are all what used to be called, in an earlier era, “light, bright and damn near white.” Their attachment to the small admixture of “black” in their genetic makeup is exactly the same as a backwoods Mississippi sheriff, pre-Civil Rights Movement, enforcing an anti-miscegenation law that decreed someone with 1/32nd or 1/64th “black blood” to be Negro.
Buzz, I have often (and pointedly) referred to myself as “AFRICAN” with links to prove it (LOL).
That fact that some of us escaped Africa and became more intelligent (for SURVIVAL) as we traversed the world is fairly transparent.
Being born ‘stupid’ because of genetics is politically incorrect. We must make ‘fanciful deviations’ to account for the low IQ of Blacks and Mexicans and other low-end tribes of humanity. We make ‘stupid’ a ‘victim’ group.
Sorry, but, sometimes ‘stupid’ is just fricking STUPID. Can we stop the hand-holding of idiots? They are breeding like obese gang-busters whilst the intelligent folks have one or two children at most.
Is IDIOCRACY a reality?
YES.
The Racism Card will keep being played until it stops working. If we want to stop enabling this abusive behavior pattern, we need to extinguish this. It’s too soon to ignore, initially we need to give strong negative feedback. Perhaps something like this:
“You know, I don’t care anymore. I finally realize that your opinion of me has nothing to do with me, and everything to do with manipulating me and making yourself feed good about yourself. So I no longer care about your opinion. You are a sad, pathetic little bigot, and you aren’t worth the trouble.”
Race-baiting is the cornerstone of Leftist thought; Leftists were the proponents of slavery and segregation, and cannot survive without the submission and manipulation of minority ethnic groups
In the past I have tried to post comments relating the Philidelphia voter intimidation incident on Roger Simons articles, and the posts were deleted. Every one of them. Roger Simon didn’t want real current racism against whites all over his “pure” civil rights experience expositions. He is late to the party, but made a difference providing a platform for a real hero; the attorney who went public.
I think Roger Simon has been confused, like a lot of liberal Jews who are waking up and realizing they have been sleep walking towards an abyss holding hands with people who mean to kill them. They try and fit their off-beat worldview (pro gay, pro-Israel, politically correct semi-conservate) into conservative spaces, but it always oozes out around the edges in stuff that sounds like a 59.99$ bill at Taco Bell …”Wait? What!? No, that can’t be right.” Ron Radosh is like that too, sounds and reads calm, cool, and then sometimes out of the blue he just zips off into naive hippy land.
Not long ago I was in a discussion group of a dozen or so, one of whom, “Joe”, happened to be black. Joe was a particularly irrascible fellow who, when confronted by someone who disagreed with his statements, would invarably retort “You just say that because I’m black!” I finally responded “Joe, I’ve been around here a while, and I think this is one of the least racist environments I’ve ever experienced. It seems to me that the only one here who has a problem with you being black is you.” Joe had no answer for that, but the rest of the group predictably tore me to shreds.
Hallelujah! Mr. Simon you are a pastor preaching to the silent majority.
How truly sad. The garbage that comes out of the mouths of so many. Blacks hating whites. Whites hating blacks. Not an ounce of anything rational to be found on either side.
The truth is that color of skin, racial background, and all the other surface qualities are meaningless in comparison to the quality of character and the nobility of the soul.
There are only two groups of people in the world. There are good people and there are bad people.
I’d rather live with the good of any color that the bad of my own color.
I’d rather rely on the honor and courage of good people than rest assured that only someone like me cares.
Are there natural affinities for some folks and not for others? Sure.
Yet the failure to grasp that any human being can live up to a higher moral standard than one who simply looks like us is a failure of intellect and reveals a poisoned soul.
” The fight for Iwo Jima in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. A tiny island in the Pacific dominated by a volcanic mountain and pockmarked with caves, Iwo Jima was the setting for a five-week, non-stop battle between 70,000 American Marines and an unknown number of deeply entrenched Japanese defenders. The courage and gallantry of the American forces, climaxed by the dramatic raising of the American flag over Mt. Suribachi, is memorialized in the Marine Corps monument in Washington, DC. Less remembered, however, is that the battle occasioned an eloquent eulogy by a Marine Corps rabbi that has become an American classic.
Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn (1910-1995), assigned to the Fifth Marine Division, was the first Jewish chaplain the Marine Corps ever appointed. The American invading force at Iwo Jima included approximately 1,500 Jewish Marines. Rabbi Gittelsohn was in the thick of the fray, ministering to Marines of all faiths in the combat zone. He shared the fear, horror and despair of the fighting men, each of whom knew that each day might be his last. Roland Gittelsohn’s tireless efforts to comfort the wounded and encourage the fearful won him three service ribbons.
When the fighting was over, Division Chaplain Warren Cuthriell, a Protestant minister, asked Rabbi Gittelsohn to deliver the memorial sermon at a combined religious service dedicating the Marine Cemetery. Cuthriell wanted all the fallen Marines – black and white, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish – honored in a single, nondenominational ceremony. Unfortunately, racial and religious prejudice was strong in the Marine Corps, as it was then throughout America. According to Rabbi Gittelsohn, the majority of Christian chaplains objected to having a rabbi preach over predominantly Christian graves. The Catholic chaplains, in keeping with church doctrine, opposed any form of joint religious service.
To his credit, Cuthriell refused to alter his plans. Gittelsohn, on the other hand, wanted to save his friend Cuthriell further embarrassment and so decided it was best not to deliver his sermon. Instead, three separate religious services were held. At the Jewish service, to a congregation of 70 or so who attended, Rabbi Gittelsohn delivered the powerful eulogy he originally wrote for the combined service:
Here lie men who loved America because their ancestors generations ago helped in her founding, and other men who loved her with equal passion because they themselves or their own fathers escaped from oppression to her blessed shores. Here lie officers and men, Negroes and whites, rich men and poor . . . together. Here are Protestants, Catholics and Jews together. Here no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of his color. Here there are no quotas of how many from each group are admitted or allowed. Among these men, there is no discrimination. No prejudices. No hatred. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy …
Whosoever of us lifts his hand in hate against a brother, or who thinks himself superior to those who happen to be in the minority, makes of this ceremony and the bloody sacrifice it commemorates, an empty, hollow mockery. To this, then, as our solemn duty, sacred duty do we the living now dedicate ourselves: to the right of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, of white men and Negroes alike, to enjoy the democracy for which all of them have here paid the price …
We here solemnly swear that this shall not be in vain. Out of this and from the suffering and sorrow of those who mourn this will come, we promise, the birth of a new freedom for the sons of men everywhere.
Among Gittelsohn’s listeners were three Protestant chaplains so incensed by the prejudice voiced by their colleagues that they boycotted their own service to attend Gittelsohn’s. One of them borrowed the manuscript and, unknown to Gittelsohn, circulated several thousand copies to his regiment. Some Marines enclosed the copies in letters to their families. An avalanche of coverage resulted. Time magazine published excerpts, which wire services spread even further. The entire sermon was inserted into the Congressional Record, the Army released the eulogy for short-wave broadcast to American troops throughout the world and radio commentator Robert St. John read it on his program and on many succeeding Memorial Days.
In 1995, in his last major public appearance before his death, Gittelsohn re-read a portion of the eulogy at the fiftieth commemoration ceremony at the Iwo Jima statue in Washington, D.C. In his autobiography, Gittelsohn reflected, “I have often wondered whether anyone would ever have heard of my Iwo Jima sermon had it not been for the bigoted attempt to ban it.”
The above from the archives of the American Jewish Historical Society
Wake up, JEW.
You are the smartest and yet the STUPIDEST amongst us.
Your bleeding heart will be the END of you!
Don’t you get it?
STUPID people HATE and FEAR smart people!
Can you hear that sound? It’s the trains again…they will load to capacity whilst you sweat over ‘words’ and ‘political correctness’.
‘THEY’ (those whom you have gifted with your MONEY and your SOUL) will come for you in droves.
‘THEY’ will drive you out like jackals in the heat of the night.
‘THEY’ will treat you like an animal or even lower than an animal…reserved for nothing but ‘the kill’.
Wake up, JEW, you are God’s CHOSEN and you will be massacred by those who are NOT, by those who are LESS, by those who are JEALOUS of you.
Wake up, Jews.
The Leftists will have your heads on pikes.
WAKE UP.
Wake Up, Little Jewsies
—apologies to the Everly Brothers and “Wake Up, Little Susie”
Wake up, little Jewsies, wake up
Wake up, little Jewsies, wake up
While you’ve been sound asleep,
Political attentions have creeped
Talk of what was lost back in the Holocaust
And everyone falls asleep
Wake up, little Jewsies
Wake up, little Jewsies
Well, antisemitism’s the oldest hatred
It comes back—what did you expect?
How you gonna defend yourself
Against the “politically correct?”
Wake up, little Jewsies
Wake up, little Jewsies
Well, I know that this time you really dreamed and hoped
At long last you weren’t the automatic scapegoat
Wake up, little Jewsies
Wake up, little Jewsies
No, nothing has changed
Wake up, little Jewsies, wake up
Wake up, little Jewsies, wake up
You expect the world to be fair,
But for injustices nobody cares
And instead they buy the flotilla lies
Of Khalidi, Dohrn and Bill Ayers
Wake up, little Jewsies
Wake up, little Jewsies
Well, antisemitism’s the oldest hatred
It comes back—what did you expect?
How you gonna defend yourself
Against the “politically correct?”
Wake up, little Jewsies
Wake up, little Jewsies
” Talk of what was lost back in the Holocaust And everyone falls asleep ”
Aside from the cure for cancer and whatever disease may smite the ones you love, what was lost was any pretense of morality in the world.
I’m terrified of another ‘holocaust’.
I take NOTHING for granted.
I’m a ‘realist’.
In my youth I had an obsession with the holocaust and I visited my town Library to read of it.
I’m scared for JEWS and you are not. This FACT disturbs me greatly. I DO NOT want to see JEWS hurt/tortured/murdered in my lifetime.
WAKE UP, JEW.
When whatever idols you worship have been confined to the dustbin of history we will still stand witness.
Wake up indeed.
Very cool Semper Fi the 0311 in my name stands for my Marine Corps M.O.S. Rifleman in 1973 on Okinawa A.K.A. the rock we had these flannel shirt wearing, granola eating snapper headed social workers trying to find out why black and white Marines weren’t hanging out after hours off base and we all black and white Marines together laughed them out of there we’d already proved we where ready to die for each other but that don’t mean we had to drink with them and listen to jungle bunny jive and they didn’t want to party with us and listen to red neck rock one black Sargent summed it up nicely when he said why dontcha get your fat a$$’s back to Berkly and leave us be. It’s the professional do gooders screwing things up.
Nice. Thanks for posting that.
I’m with Roger. I’m sick of the whole subject of “race,” which, as Buzzsawmonkey (#30) noted, is a rather dubious categorization to begin with. But if we must talk about it, let it be in the tones that this rabbi used. Let us speak of the triumphs over our baser nature that have come from working together. Let us speak of our common ideals.
Menachem, Good story; thank you for sharing it.
MBY, Thank you for your message and I completely agree. There are good people everywhere and whenever possible, I choose to be with them. I appreciated your story from WWII, it reminded me of my father who also served in the Pacific. My father always encouraged us (kids) to treat people as individuals and that there were more important reasons to like or dislike someone other than skin color. I’m not bored with this topic but it feels like we are missing the point.
“Let’s be real. Black people are genetically behind every other culture/race and they are more animalistic and violent/tribal.”
Black people are more violent, are they?
Sure they are. That explains the tens of millions of people butchered in the two world wars, the tens of millions more slaughtered by communists in Europe and Asia. It’s all because of black people.
I got news for you dear heart, when it comes to violence, white people and yellow people make black people look like rank amateurs.
If there’s a violence gene, then we white folks definitely got more than our fair share.
Ignorance is bliss?
Stats speak louder than mere ‘words’.
*sad sigh*
“Stats speak louder than mere ‘words’.”
Yup, they sure do, and when you start doing the body counts of all the people slaughtered…white folks got the higher body count by a quite a little bit.
There’s some localized slaughters going on in Africa right now, and a lot of people have died…but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to what Euros have done over the years.
Not even counting war casualties, the Nazis are thought to have murdered around 20,000,000, the Soviet communists around 60,000,000.
When it comes to killing and violence…no one can do it as well as we white people can, though some of the East Asians, like the Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians have given us a run for our money in recent decades, we’re still the world’s number one killers.
Hell, we’e so good at it, we can slaughter 100,000 men, women and children in a fraction of a second at Hiroshima…and not even loose any sleep over it.
Sorry, Delia, but I’m afraid your little theory that black people are just naturally more violent doesn’t really hold up too well.
Dave Surls sez:
Hell, we’e so good at it, we can slaughter 100,000 men, women and children in a fraction of a second at Hiroshima…and not even loose any sleep over it.
Bite me, Dave. And hang your vile head in shame.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs saved, at a low estimate, a million lives—Japanese as well as Allied—that would have been lost had it remained necessary to invade the Japanese home islands. Not that I, or anyone else, should give a rat’s ass for the Japanese lives saved, in the context of the time; we were locked in a battle with a brutal and implacable enemy, that had militarized its entire “civilian” population for national suicide—not unlike the Muslims today.
At a sixty-plus year remove, it is nice to be able to note that many hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives were, in fact, saved by the atom bombs, but at the time the objective was to win the war at the least possible cost to our own people. And the bombs did that—killing, in the process, fewer people than were killed by conventional weapons during the firebombing of Dresden.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying there buddy.
But, in any case, I think I’ll take a pass on biting you.
Let’s remember that it not illegal to be a racist.It is illegal to discriminate.Do not submit to having your toughts declared thought crime.Thinking or feeling a thing or thought is not against the law….YET!From a proud white trash Irish-American headbanging pot smoking anti-islamic man.
Your post totally cracked me up.
A year after 9/11 there was a news story about ‘racial profiling’ Muslims (I think it was ‘FRONTLINE’) and Blacks were asked if they felt it was wrong to ‘racially profile’ Muslims and they all answered, “NO”. I guess it’s okay to ‘racially profile’ as long as its not your own ‘ethnicity’ being profiled?
Remember the DC Sniper incident? Everyone assumed the killer was a ‘white’ guy because ‘white’ men are usually serial killers. Did you see ‘white people’ all up in arms about that ‘racial profiling’? Nope. When the guy turned out to be a black man even white people were stunned. Hell, I thought the killer was ‘white’ too!
Statistics are statistics. The Left will deny-deny-deny the TRUTH and call it ‘racist’ to fit their agenda. Tiresome indeed.
Racism is the weapon of choice of the left. You can pretend it is not there and you can try to ignore it but it needs to be dealt with.
It makes people stupid. Do stupid things: Obama and the Cambridge incident; and say stupid things: sharrod, “opposition to ObamaCare(tm) was because he is black”. The same opposition was against HillaryCare(tm) in the 90s, and RomneyCare(tm) today. How does one get to be so clueless? Racism.
The race hustlers will never stop pimping race….not as long as fearmongering and stoking resentment pay big bucks and political dividends.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a race racket.
Thank you, Roger.
Ah, but you see, this isn’t about race, it’s about President Stupidly and his Gang That Can’t Think Straight. It’s about a duplicious liberal media so naive 400 of them forgot the First Law of Secrets — ‘the probability you’ll be revealed doubles with every person let in on the secret’. It’s about smearing innocent people for daring to raise their voices against a rapacious government. Finally, it’s about whether government is to be our servant or our master. Racism is just a red herring to distract us from the real stories here, make no mistake about that.
You are so right, Swen. And that only strengthens Rogers point that the conversation about race has become so irrelevant as to be tedious.
The only way people, at least lefties, will ever stop constantly talking about race, is if they are no longer rewarded for constantly talking about race. If, the next time an Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, NAACP, most dem politicians, and most dem pundits, start using the line of XXX is racist, they are greeted with derision and skepticism, instead of cringing fear and apology and investigations, then they will stop. Until then, dont count on it. Once the statement of “XXX is racist”, is greeted with “oh, not that old line again, paleeze spare us”, and this response starts to come from MSM commentators as well as conservative commentators, then there will be real change, but again dont count on it.
I will say that this may be the best year for the nations psychology to finally change on this issue though. Because the dems have used the race card this year with such constant and reckless abandon, usually falsly, and now people on the right, like Briebart, are using it against dems as well, the currency of the racism charge is getting so devalued that it is starting to become a characticture.
The Cro-magnons and Neanderthals trod the same European plains and mountains at the same tim. The C’s probably drove the N’s to extinction. Darwinian survival of the fittest probably instilled in human DNA the marker that says “Beware of the snakes, beware of the wild mushroom and stinging bugs, and beware of the “Other” all of which might kill you. This is where racism comes from — vistigial yes, but built into our DNA with the message it might save us from harm. Hey, truth is we are all racists. We all prefer our own. I’m rubber you’re glue. Once we realize its natural, we can still condemn it, but we should recognize where it comes from.
Accusations of racism are a vehicle for communist agitation. The Reds are not going to give up such a rich vein of agitprop willingly.
We should all talk about race constantly, and minutely examine every organization’s and every person’s every utterance and deed for even a homeopathic level of racism, that is, do pretty much what we’re doing now. Only then will we fatigue the topic into sociopolitical oblivion, and undercut its utility in agitprop.
Btw, I’d like to second Roger’s point that America is the least racist country in his experience. I’ve also lived abroad for many years, and traveled extensively throughout the First, Second, and Third Worlds, and America is by far the least racist country I’ve ever had any dealings with. It’s not even close.
I no longer have a copy of the “Asian Mind Game” but it has some interesting comments about the Asian attitude toward race. It is kind of like “racist and damn proud of it.” They Asian business community apparently won’t hesitate to use race prejudice guilt against American businessmen, and laugh at them behind their backs. Roughly speaking the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese all pretty much despise each other for racial reasons but don’t hesitate to do business with each other.
http://www.amazon.com/Asian-Mind-Game-Chin-ning-Chu/dp/0892563524/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279930880&sr=8-1
But if we stopped focusing on race, the Democrats would never win an election again!
What Roger says is similar to what Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote forty years ago about using “benign neglect” to defuse racial discord.
The problem with this approach is that the left side of the aisle has no desire whatsoever to consign the race card to “benign neglect.” The only recourse I see is to create a ruckus whenever the race card is drawn. People and organizations play the race card in an attempt to intimidate, humiliate, marginalize and shut up an opponent. Only when those who play the race card see that it is not getting the results they desire will they stop.
Both Strom Thurmond as governor in the 1940s and George Wallace as a judge in the 1950s earned reputations for fairer treatment of Blacks than was warranted by the proportion of Blacks in the voting rolls, as Blacks did not have the franchise at the time in the South. Both Thurmond and Wallace subsequently played the race card when they saw they could gain votes by doing so. Back then, they played the race card by shouting the N-word. Today, most of those who play the race card shout the R-word. Only when times had changed and both Wallace and Thurmond saw that playing the race card would lose them votes did they stop playing the race card.
When those who play the race card come to the conclusion that they have nothing to gain by playing the race card, will they stop.
What makes this sad is that while these days, most who play the race card do to extract advantage, there are still enough cases of people who play the race card who have really been the victim of racism. Because so many people have cried wolf, the actual cases of racism are more likely to be ignored these days.
Having worked overseas, I concur with those who say that by comparison to other countries the US comes across pretty well regarding race and bigotry. Working overseas cured me of liberal guilt.
Be as bored as you choose, but “they” will not shut up unless they decide they’re done with that tactic. You may as well stand beneath Niagara Falls and claim that you’ll ignore that. The only way the left will put the race card away is if they conclude it’s useless or counterproductive.
So if you’re accused of “racism,” I suggest you shoot back. “That all you got? That’s your argument? Do you want to debate, or just call names?”
Ronald Reagan had a pretty good response during a memorable debate.
“There you go again!”
It’s easy, accurate and might even be useful
If you think it is boring, you need to call your right-wing pals and tell them to stop mentioning that Obama is black every chance they get, as if people will magically vote for someone else in 2012. Fox shows split screens of the oil spill and Obama, obviously trying to impart the subtle message that Obama is black and dirty, just like oil. And, usually when a right-winger goes on one their talk shows, he or she usually calls Obama the “black President” to keep the meme up. When someone points out what Bush and the Republicans did to the country while they were in power, the right-winger’s answers usually is “Well, Obama, the black President,….”
0bama is one fugly white dude. Have you seen his mother? She has the face that begs the question, “Paper or plastic?”
Vinny….you need to go back to pounding pizzas out at Little Caesars, OK?
trying to impart the subtle message that Obama is black and dirty, just like oil
You’re from Jersey aren’t ya?
Vinny, you are not only a shameless liar, but a stupid and clumsy one. Poke that tattered old race card back where you got it from. Don’t you get it yet? We’re not buying your line of crap, and that awesome magical word has lost it’s power. Ir. Simon may be tired of the race issue, me, I’m fed up with the race bating.
“Waaaaaaaaaacist!!11!!!eleventy!!!”
I stand with Roger. When we are all just men, or a Morgn Freeman put it: ‘You are so-n-so, and I am Morgan Freeman. No white man. No black man. Just man. When our _F’N GOVERNMENT_ stops discriminating, then it can tell us to do the same. Why does the census ask your race? That right there is discrimination, and that is where it starts.
It ends here. I am American. no other qualifiers are necessary for governmental purposes or public discourse. I am American. I am man. As are you.
The race question is so boring to me I will ignore it altogether and talk about your “French psychiatric technique” of long term drugging of psych. patients. It’s been tried. The results were horrific. Just look up “deep sleep therapy” and “Chelmsford Private Hospital” in Australia. They killed 26 patients there in one of psychiatry’s more spectacular abominations.
When we live in a world where white Nazis and Communists just got done murdering millions of innocent people, but folks are saying that black people are INHERENTLY more violent than white people…we still need to do some talking about racism, if you ask me.
The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Justice in America
There’s about 20,000 homicides a year in America, about 10,000 of those are committed by black folks (if memory serves). That means that over a hundred years given a constant population and constant homicide rate, blacks would kill 1,000,000 people in America.
From 1933 to 1945 white Nazis murdered around 20,000,000 people…plus they and the Wehrmacht killed millions more fighting WWII.
So, what do you think that means, Delia? What conclusions can one draw from that?
That blacks are inherently more violent than whites?
Somehow I’m missing the logic behind the argument.
Dave, did you even read that blog?
BTW, are you saying with a straight face that you’d feel just as ‘safe’ walking down the sidewalk late at night in an all black neighborhood as you would a poor all white neighborhood?
I await your honest answer with bated breath.
What is fueling the disgust and revulsion in this is not primarily racial issues. It is that we are sick and tired of being lied to manipulated, falsely accused, used, profiled and baited….and we would react the same way if the issue was something other than racial issues. It’s not about race. It’s about thugs who want to dominate the country. Race is just their weapon of choice.
Hope you got the message Roger Simon. Just as you can try to ignore Islam, and the violence eminating from that ideology’s followers, but it will never the less continue to be in your face….there are others who will continue to bring race grievance to the public podium at every opportunity.
You have to deal with it, you cant ignore it. The real question is what are you going to do about it. Are you going to coddle and appease Race Hustlers? That only encourages them to continue the Hustling, just as coddling and appeasing Islam and Muslims, encourages them to keep pushing for Shariah, special rights and priveleges, special protections for their religion, blasphemy laws couched as hate speech protection, and the violence and threats of violence continue.
You cant ignore these people, you have to accept their reality and deal with them, forcefully and directly. Discredit them, disgrace them, disempower them, make them feel negative political and economic consequences for their pursuing and promoting their ideology….whether that be Marxism, Race Hustling, or Islam.
You have to stand up to the bullies and racketeers.
AMEN.
Wondering why comments are open on this one.