I was reading Jeff Dunetz’s article, along with the comments, when I remembered a perfect example where I live.
My wife is music director and plays organ at our African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church. (She’s the church’s token ghost…does that make us racist?)
A couple months ago, the middle school principal called in some seventh graders who were scoring 30% average on their tests. (Yes, that’s 30 correct answers out of 100.) The kids were all non-honkies (does that make me racist?)
The AME pastor decided to get a group of tutors together, which worked with the principal’s support to help the kids make eighth grade.
Next thing I know, the pastor brought in the NAACP from Austin to protest at a school board meeting, claiming the middle school principal was racist and should be fired, because she allegedly humiliated these kids, who were all non-crackers (does that make me racist?)
Because she singled them out for help, NAACP claims she’s racist. But had she done nothing and left these kids to drop out and rot their lives away, she would have been accused of racist oppression via neglect.
Recently, our ministerial alliance voted a female black minister in as chairperson. All the white ministers (does that make me racist?) supported her candidacy. There were three nay votes, all from male ministers of black Baptist churches. Supposedly, their Bible says only men can hold leadership positions in the church.
Affirmative action works! Bigotry is now an equal opportunity employer.
Your views on low-aptitude students would carry more punch if you could spell the word ‘principal’ correctly.
You’re correct. Sorry I missed that. “Low-shoulder”? I don’t know why these kids were failing.
Boy, I’m having one of those days. “Low-aptitude.”
Remember: The “principal” is your “pal.” THat’s how to remember the P-A-L ending.
Try to help and be blamed for racism. Perfect. I think we need to replace the current school system. The one size fits all approach is ridiculous. With so much info available online, we should have a system where kids can advance at their own pace. Kids would have an incentive to work and advance quickly. They’d go to school in order to get help with things they do not understand (tutoring). No more indoctrination. No more political correctness.
The pastor worked with the principal and then called in the NAACP? I am confused.
So’s everybody else. But remember: Don’t miss an opportunity to use a crisis. If necessary, manufacture it.
Without the main stream media and pundits the country over giving the black race machine attention, they wouldn’t have many tools in their tool boxes….but thats not the reality. The black racist machine is a crucial operative component of the socialist-progressives movement. Crackers accusing crackers of being racist towards blacks just would be quite as successful…would it?
Racism is a very profitable hobby and occupation of the socialist-progessive yankees!
Recently saw a retort on line; “I’m not racist, I dislike everyone
equally.” Am 85 (come June) and I shall adopt that reply to every cry
of racist tossed my way.
JIM IN ARKANSAS
Liberals always play both sides just like they did in the housing crisis. HEADS – you are redlining bank that does most of it’s business with rich, white people. You better follow our government mortgage guidelines or we will shut you down. TAILS – you are a greedy bank preying on the poor by giving them mortgages they cannot afford then foreclosing.
Didn’t Obama vote against the Patriot Act and the debt ceiling as a senator? Now he is in favor of these things. So what is his position? The answer is whatever gains him the most political advantage.
“The answer is whatever gains him the most political advantage.” And there you have the bottom line for every prostitician.
“prostitician”
I am SO stealing that.
Mostly, I did well in college on my lab test in inorganic chemistry. The test was to analyze a few unknown samples using what we had learned about reactions and color changes. I got the wrong answer detecting iron, if I remember correctly. The testing guide said that iron would produce a red color. My sample gave a light pink result, so I concluded “Yes – iron”.
I was wrong; there was no iron in my sample. The teaching assistant told me that any iron produced a deep red result. I hadn’t seen that positive test, so I could only guess that the light pink color showed iron.
I don’t think that most people have seen real prejudice or racism, so they are subject to manipulation by false claims made for political advantage. Biases, experiences, and mistakes in judgment are everywhere. These are usually the result of inexperience or habit. Certainly it is good to actively discuss prejudice and challenge people who have biases.
But, that is not real, iron-positive prejudice or racism. It is dumb to analyze every action, preference, word-choice, or bias as if it is discovering rabid, hidden, racism which must be ostracized. These false accusations of racism must be resisted and opposed.
Real racism and prejudice is not mild, hidden, or hard to detect. That is, I think that is the case, since my only personal examples are from past news videos. Real racism is easy to spot. The racist doesn’t just use this or that word. He prevents you from ordinary participation in life.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
[edited] On June 11, 1963 George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, stood in the entrance of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama, to keep his inaugural promise of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever” and to stop two black students, Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood from starting school.
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Brilliant analogy. Thank you.
To Rob Crawford,
Thank you for the compliment.
“[T]heir Bible says only men can hold leadership positions in the church.” That’s what my Bible says. Does that make you a heretic?
Only if you believe everybody should follow the Christian Bible, and that all other religions are wrong. The Catholic church did this, and we now call that the inquisition and derogate the church’s actions.
The woman in question is one of the smartest and most qualified ministers I know. So if somebody decides to use religion to suppress her accomplishing things in the world, I must conclude they are practicing bigotry. Generally, I have found that bullies like to use whatever excuse is at hand to gain the upper hand. In this case, the bullies used religion to justify themselves. They’re not even practicing Christ’s teachings.
“Community” is a substitute for an older word. That principal sounds like a credit to his community. If the community is so damaged that assistance is regarded as persecution, then, yes, the only recourse is not to assist or intervene. Let them be themselves as guided by the principles of their community. They will live fuller, richer lives for living it within mores of their community.
“chairperson”
What ugly language; reeks of EU bureaucratic socialism. All churches should reject it, unless they worship their own politics in place of God.
I suppose we could call her the chairman. She has more stones than the 3 blind mice who opposed her leadership.
You know, I use to think that racism was inherent in whites, but have sine found out that it is inherent only because the left planted the idea.
It can be liberating to actually be normal – non racist, but not anti-white as so many seem to prefer. Oh well, I guess racism comes in many colors…
If you are a Christian, this has no significance – except for the moment. Have fun kids…
Disenfranchising people is wrong.
Does this include white males?
Huh?
I’m sure they FEEL much better for writing such a trite truism, but I suspect they don’t know what they meant, either.