I, like many Americans, am thoroughly disgusted with hearing empty allegations of racism every day! Far-left liberals see everything in black and white, male and female, gay and straight etc. The guiltiest among them are the so-called ‘leaders’ of the black community like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. These men are RACE HUSTLERS and worse, cashing in on the controversy that THEY stir up! They do so for one reason…their own publicity! They care much more about that than their own communities! And, they project their own narrow-minded racist mentality onto everyone else...especially conservatives.Most of us are too busy living our lives and trying to get along with each other to be bothered by such narrow-minded lunacy. These race hustlers fail to look beyond black and white to see the humanity common to us all. It is such people who are keeping racism alive and well in America!
Splashed across the news in America just now is the case of Trayvon Martin. For someone who’s been in Outer Mongolia…he was a seventeen-year-old black teenager who was recently shot and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman in Florida. The controversy surrounding the shooting involves, what the media has reported as, a white man shooting an unarmed black youth. (He was, in fact, a Hispanic man...but race hustlers needed him to be white.) Almost every news channel has film of mass protests led by Sharpton, Jackson and the New Black Panther Party calling for the arrest of the man who did the shooting. The Black Panthers have even put a bounty on the head of the alleged shooter. It's a case of racial profiling they tell us.
I’m not concerned here so much with the details of this event except to say I think it’s a tragedy that we’ve lost another young man. I don’t believe all the facts are in yet so I am withholding my judgment. I believe the media is using this event, to their shame, to bring in more viewers. In doing so they are leaking only part of the facts and are stirring up racial discord for no good reason other than ratings. What I find completely hypocritical is that none of the ‘so called’ black ‘leaders’, like Sharpton and Jackson, have voiced ANY public outcries over the 49 young black men shot in Chicago over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend...or any of the other 'black on black' crime that is rampant in some parts of this nation. I guess there were no good photo opps there!
The left wants to tell us what constitutes the news and they want to ban free speech for anyone who disagrees with them. Well, it’s time for honest people to drown them out! Americans, black and white, need to dump ‘political correctness’ and talk honestly with each other. BOTH sides need to LISTEN to each other. Both sides need to face the facts the other presents and stop throwing around charges of racism over honest criticism. Up to now the conversation has been woefully one-sided…thanks, in large part, to white liberals. Black Americans should seriously ask themselves if their 'so-called' leaders are helping them or actually hurting them. They should ask the same thing of white liberals! They also need to ask what's in their own power to change. Racial profiling is going to exist in peoples perceptions until the race in question changes their behavior. Jesse Jackson himself once said: “There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life, than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” Even Jackson himself racially profiles! That's because of behavior in the black community! It's NOT about skin color...it's about BEHAVIOR!!! That's not racist...it's just a fact!
Almost every people on earth have been enslaved at one time. Blacks were enslaved in America for over a hundred years. Other Africans originally sold them into slavery. Arabs later took up and expanded the trade. White Europeans were late in the game. And, it’s a historical fact that the first American to own a black slave was a black man!
This country almost tore itself apart ending slavery. Over 500,000 lives were lost in our Civil War, ending the practice in 1865. No one alive today was ever a slave or a slave owner. It’s true that racial prejudice and racism have remained alive and well for over a hundred years since. But white Americans have done everything possible to make up for the injustice of that national shame. And, yes, it was white Americans that fought for their freedom.
Our government has spent over 40 TRILLION tax dollars and passed dozens of laws over 40 years to ensure racial equality. Though liberals think the government should do everything for everyone...it simply can’t. The government can’t change the perception of non-blacks towards blacks. The government can't change peoples attitudes. Change like that will only begin when black Americans begin to take responsibility for, and uplift, their own communities.
America has been the greatest beacon of hope the world has ever known. Sure, we have our problems and our flaws, some of them deep, but this country has provided the most freedoms for the most people in the history of the world. Our history, while flawed, is also full of our attempts to become a better nation.
The following text contains excerpts from a letter written to Barack Obama from Pat Buchanan. I reprint it here because it contains facts that need to be openly and honestly addressed. Instead of crying ‘racism’ after reading it…it should cause the black community to do some soul searching.
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse; that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
When will we learn what Dr. Martin Luther King tried to teach us and begin to work on the content of our hearts? Real dialogue, real change must begin in our hearts. That's when our communities will change. And, that's not going to happen while Race Hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson stir things up for their own publicity. That is black and white!
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