Posted on 07/27/2009 4:15:57 PM PDT by fiodora
Something strange is happening in America. For the first time, a white man is standing up to a black man’s charge of racism. And he is being supported by his employer. In another first, the media coverage of this event is not employing the time worn premise that only whites can be racist.
This incident may have gone the way of millions of others but for the fact that this professor was a friend of President Obama. Luckily for Henry Gates, the most powerful man in the world took time out [...].
The President then announced publicly that the Cambridge police Department ‘acted stupidly’, even while acknowledging that he wasn’t familiar with all the details.
What makes this incident unique is the fact that the automatic assumption of racism on the part of the white policeman is actually being questioned. [...]
White guilt is best described by author Shelby Steele, who says “White guilt is literally the same thing as black power.” [...]
Because white guilt is a vacuum of moral authority, it makes the moral authority of whites dependant on proving a negative. As in, ‘Have you stopped beating your wife yet?’ For over 45 years, [...]
As usual, the Rev. Al Sharpton weighed in with his predictable and automatic assignment of blame to whitey, calling the case an “abuse of power” [...].
The writing that seems to indicate that charges of racial oppression and racism ring false now that a black man has been elected to the Presidency. The writing that indicates that most white Americans are ever so tired of having to prove day and night that they ‘are not racist’. [...] The writing that indicates that frivolous charges of racism will now be challenged.
Finally, Martin Luther King’s dream may become a reality ...
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
White Guilt is THE reason Obama is in the White House.
I never had to do that until I started to discuss Obama's politics with people (libs).
and people forget that racism goes BOTH ways and there’s no such thing as ‘REVERSE’ racism.
I have never owned a slave nor did any of my family. There is no guilt here and as for the White Guilt Racism BS, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
Agree totally. This white boy never did anything to any hyphenated race. Nothing. Not even the N word. Ever.
I owe them nothing, and up to a few months ago, was actually neutral.
No more. As one who had to work and get his degrees (real ones, not Obama and Gates ones), and did a lot of other things requiring extensive testing, I’ve had it with these blame-mongers.
You want diversity? Let’s talk sports, sukkahs.
When I see the appropriate racial lines there, we can talk about the law, science, etc.
I know that since the obamnation took over, any vestige I have ever had for white guilt is totally gone. A racist in the wh, a COUNTERFEIT in the wh, got my attention, big time. I will never feel the same about equality again or black people again. I had thought that they felt the same way about me that I did about them... That I gave them the benefit of the doubt, and if they came 50%, they were my friend. I didn’t know what they were saying behind my back about hating whitey and the gates’ talk. I heard it on rap music, but I still thought that was a small segment and I ignored it. I believe that the black people shot themselves in the foot, all 95% of them that voted RACIST. They will never get another chance to vote for a black president..obamanation has destroyed that chance forever
Thankfully due to education and daily inoculations of listening to Rush Limbaugh I am not afflicted with White Guilt.......
It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
Soon, a white person is going to have a ‘person of color’ charged for ‘hate speech’.
Not as long as there is a single democrat politician serving.
If we had appropriate racial lines in the sciences, mathematics, law and engineering we'd still be living in the 7th century. The cultural relativism that permeates liberal cesspools in intelligentsia is both ridiculous and laughable.
Liberals are always on a guilt trip about anything and everything America and Americans have done.
As has been said many times: Liberalism is a mental disease.
There are alot of very sick libs I just ignore.
Do you know who I am???!?!!
I am an expert in white maleology. I have P.h.d in
white studies!!
Harvard are you listening? I work cheap.
We’ll never have a color-blind society as long as race-hucksters like our dear leader president can further their communist agenda by stirring the pot. As long as white guilt = black power.
I’ve long since stopped caring if they call me a racist.
Seeing as how liberals don’t believe in right and wrong, how can they believe in guilt at all?
It's not "white guilt"...it's RAT GUILT!
The Republicans have nothing to feel guilt over.
Four of my great great great grandfathers wore the blue suit. One didn't come home. We've paid our reparations then and on an ongoing basis thru exorbitant taxation now. Indeed, ENOUGHT IS ENOUGH!!
That’s what I said the day after the election...no more excuses, no more charges of racism.
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