Posted on 09/18/2020 6:02:18 AM PDT by Liberty7732
by Rod Thomson
Theres a deeply inconvenient truth that the Black Lives Matter, Inc. left does not want Americans to hear. Anyone can be racist and anyone can be the victim of racism. Weve seen this over the past months with multiple videos of black people attacking white people because they are white, even with police investigating some as hate crimes. The media doesnt care to report those, but fortunately they are not the lone informational gatekeepers anymore.
This bookends with obvious racist acts against black people. The true number of incidents on both sides are small, but the point is they are on both sides and involve other ethnicities as well. This is just an ugly part of human nature not a one-race-specific act, which is a racist assertion.
But you dont need to be physically attacked or even killed, as the young man in Milwaukee was to be the victim of racism.
I grew up in Flint, Michigan in the 1960s and 1970s. Flint was a racially divided city in those years, experiencing the riots of 1967 and general racial distrust. There was just a lot of racism to go around.
In elementary school, I was a majority but there was a sizable and growing minority of black kids. In around fifth or sixth grade it was a long time ago I was over and over again chased home by two black kids, one who was my size and one who was huge for our age. They made it abundantly clear they hated me because I was white. More than once they caught me. I recall being held down and punched under some bushes next to a corner house one time. I wasnt the only kid to get this treatment, and pretty sure it went the other way, also.
Pretty ugly stuff and obviously reflecting what they heard in the home and by other adults and kids in their milieu. But I also remember some dads talking, frustrated with the rioting and destruction, and one of them said, Ill vote for any president who will send three shiploads of them back to Africa. Also pretty ugly stuff.
We moved out of that neighborhood and to Flint Township before junior high began because of the fights I was getting in. By 1982, I graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in journalism after working sometimes full-time while carrying a full load, just to get through. White privilege, you know.
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In the late 1980s, we wanted to live in the Twin Cities and I applied and was interviewed for a job at the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch newspaper. At the end of the interviews, I was sitting in the office of, I think, the Managing Editor, but I dont recall for sure. He was an old-time newspaper guy with a jar of cigars on his desk and one in his mouth. And he let slip and by slip, I mean he straight up told me that I seemed like a good reporter and qualified, but I would not be getting the job because it was reserved for a minority journalist as part of affirmative action. I think he was trying to make me feel better, but it really didnt.
For the second time, I had been victimized by people or a system for having white skin. I strongly suspect this happened more in my newspaper career, but I have no evidence of it.
While it is possible that whites face less racism than blacks, I strongly doubt that is the case in journalism and other fields dominated by leftists. But as I understand the current most woke thinking, which may change by the time this column is completed, lived experiences trump any of that data.
I dont really believe that of course, because I operate in the realm of common sense. But the reality is I am far from alone in experiencing racism that is utterly counter to the dominant cultural narrative. My story, and thousands like it, put a stake in the heart of white privilege. I represent one bookend of the lie of white privilege and one-way racism in America. Sasha and Maya Obama already have the lived experiences representing the other bookend.
And in between the bookends? The lie remains a lie.
EVERY race-based law in the last 170 years has been a Democrat invention (since the advent of the Dems and GOP parties). And this isn't a thing of the past, they passed a race-based mask law in Oregon this summer.
In 1852, some Christians came together and formed the Republican Party in their open effort at ending slavery. Which two major groups do Democrats hate the most these days? Christians and Republicans.
Democrats since then have fought and died for slavery, formed the KKK, passed every Jim Crow law, attacked peaceful diners at sit-in protests in the 50s and 60s to assert their race-based laws, set a record for filibustering while opposing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and since then have passed every racial preference and quota laws in hiring, housing, college admissions, government contracting, lending, etc. Today, they even still assault peaceful diners to assert their race-based laws. Their terror tactics have not changed, they've simply changed which race to treat better/worse... but they have never stopped treating Americans by the color of their skin.
NEVER ONCE has the GOP been behind a law that treated Americans differently by the color of their skin. We need to keep reminding the Race Baiters of this simple and irrefutable fact.
They denied me service or tried to thwart my purchase and each time I simply laughed and left.
I spent my money somewhere else, that store was denied my money, those losers probably still live wherever they live and I still move forward...
It is still awkward for me when it happens. I do what I can to make sure it happens as infrequently as possible.
I just think they are stupid, laugh and go somewhere else.
I spend lots of money and if their livelyhood isn’t dependent on my irrational spending habits then “Later Tater”
I know a guy who got his US citizenship his junior year at Tulane. Went down to the financial aid office, applied for, and got some sort of African-American scholarship. He says it was basically a free ride his senior year.
He is a white South African emigre.
Apparently the black clerk in the financial aid office wasnt amused, but I guess she wasnt calling the shots.
I’ve been told to my face twice that I would get the job except for the fact that I’m white.
There are some blacks who are clearly racist against whites, but in my experience the biggest discriminators against white are government agencies, and colleges and universities.
And you aint seen nothing yet.
I also grew up in Flint during the mid 60’s. I had rocks thrown at my car while “driving white.” I was also told outside of formal channels that there would be no promotions for whites until affirmative action hires were in place. I guess that helped me form my definition of “white privilege.” The whites left and we all did quite well for ourselves.
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My son is black. He was pulled over regularly by police.
He of course, acted politely and cooperatively.
I asked him if he felt he was being singled out because of his color.
He said no mom, happens to all my white friends too.
We are being singled out because we are young males.
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It was a longer walk than I expected, but I finally saw the 7-11.
I walked in, waited in line, and when the cashier was waiting on me I looked up.
Everybody in the store (20+) was staring at me...
I couldn't figure it out, and then recognized the puzzled expression....
"What are YOU doing in HERE?!?!?
I smiled and left, no problem. But I certainly felt singled out.
In fairness he was the only one who expressed this attitude.
Once I made the team and the other kids saw I was treated the same as they were we were all good.
My younger white sister had to fight blacks pretty much every day during forced desegregation busing back in the 70’s in Florida. It was in middle school. It changed her and I will always feel shame for not being able to help her.
My daughter does a side job with “Door Dash”. She quit doing Indian Food deliveries. (She’s white).
“I’ll sit there for 1/2 an hour after the pickup time. Ten Indians will show up, order and get their food. I’m still waiting!”
Years ago I must have wandered onto the wrong side of Washington DC. I was in a grocery store and EVERYONE (all black) was staring at me.
I asked one of the workers where I might find something. He looked at me and walked on by. I didn’t feel threatened, but it was interesting to be discriminated against. Although I must say, I have never ignored someone, or been rude to someone because of the color of their skin. (Well - except that time my older sister told me about when I was 2-years old!)
Sometimes, the blacks are shocked a white would have the guts to walk in amongst them. Not necessarily racist but mystified why youd bother. Because they wouldnt if they could! LOL
BTW I find usually its white libs who talk a big game but are scared to death to go to black cities.
Only now are young white socialists taking full advantage of the general chaos.
The worst black racism against whites is the hatred shown by a large minority of blacks who engage in violence against whites in revenge games called Polar Bear Hunting and “the knockout game” These games usually consist of a surprise attack by one or more blacks which is being filmed by another to put on facebook.
Colin Flaherty put many of these attacks witth the accompanying videos in his book “White Girl Bleed a Lot”
Somewhat similar, on a nickel-dime scale. In 1960s Southern California, a buddy of mine, a swarthy Italian, and myself (Whitey) went fishing. On the way back we stopped at a store on an Indian reservation.
Buddy and I get a Coke each. We go to the register and the Indian clerks tells him "25c". My turn, "$1.00" and looks me right in the eye. I look back and throw a buck on the counter, knowing that tomorrow morning I'll still be a white guy with a good job, while he will still be an Indian shuffling quarters in some back country store.
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