Posted on 05/27/2015 8:50:19 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
It was a while ago that our Attorney General, the one and only Eric Holder, claimed that our country was a bunch of “cowards” for not wanting to discuss issues of race. I am willing to discuss them. And contrary to the opinion of race baiters and progressive, grievance mongers, I won’t bow to the narrative they have developed over the past seven years.
Most Americans believe race relations in this country are bad and deteriorating. In my lifetime I have not had any difficulty with someone of another race. Perhaps that is because I was in the military for 20 years, an organization in which progress is generally based on merit rather than skin color or, increasingly, gender. To the Obama Administration, a “conversation” on race means listen to what we say and kneel down to the altar of racial concepts which bear no resemblance to reality.
But I believe a conversation is possible; an exchange of ideas without confrontation and without blustery, meaningless rhetoric. Some points must be made:
First of all, stop with the victimhood. Every time I hear a Black whine about “Whitey” keeping him down, my question is, how? What have you done for yourself, what has your community done? I know many blacks, again while in the military, that joined because the community they lived in would pull them back every time they tried to get out. I can understand that as a hindrance. When even family and friends ridicule you because you want to do better, call you an Uncle Tom and put as many impediments in your way as possible, it becomes more difficult to get out.
Also, the Obama Administration has shown a disregard for black families in America and a total lack of empathy for young blacks who...
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Using our own country as an example, race wasn’t the issue, greed was the issue, as it always has been and will be.
Two reasonably sane people will always get along one on one within reason until an outside influence intervenes, even within racial boundaries.
Was the title for this intentionally incoherent?
Also, how can you have a racial “dialogue” when no one is allowed to say “Yes, as a matter of fact, I am racist — here’s why.”
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