America, You Have Been Had

Liberals are right about the "Right-wing Noise Machine." It really is a wonder to behold, and last week it was performing like a well-tuned NASCAR race car. They say that liberals are all prepared for the inevitable "swift-boating" of Barack Obama. Look behind you, liberals. It already happened and, like last time, it was an own-goal scored by liberals.

This time it's Bill Moyers' fault. Why, oh why, Bill, did you decide that you had to put Reverend Wright up Bill Moyers Journal on April 25, 2008 so that we could all hear his side of the story? You must know that the sooner Reverend Wright is rusticated to his $1.5 million house in a gated suburban Chicago development and never heard from again the better.

So when Reverend Wright indicated on Bill Moyers' show that his sermons had been taken out of context the eevil right-wing talk-show host Hugh Hewitt saw his opening. He put the whole of Reverend Wright's post 9/11 sermon and his post Iraqi Freedom sermon up on his website and ran them on his show in drive time.

I never believed that celebrating that which makes different (diversity) would bring us together.

All the years I spent in classrooms in college and grad school and now as a teacher in those same venues, I have to say that "diversity" made absolutely no difference in terms of the quality and quantity of knowledge gained/imparted. What did matter was how hard one was willing to work to learn the material, and effort paid no mind of "diversity". You either worked hard and learned or you didn't.

I alway knew instinctively that seperating us would, well, seperate us.

History again is our guide here. We saw what the Balkanization of Europe did in the early 20th century. It brought about (in large part) the most calamitous event to befall mankind up to that time. Whereas prior wars killed their thousands, the first world war killed its millions. The present push to "diversity" and "identity politics" is taking us down the same road, but from within. That's not to say we're all to be cookie cutter assembly line golems, but at one time in this country recognition of diversity led to a desire for unity, a blending of different peoples under one flag and nation, steeped in a tradition of individualism and personal liberty and freedom. Now, the opposite is occurring. The push for "diversity" is leading, ironically, to further erosion of personal freedoms and individual liberty, i.e., toe the line, or it's "sensitivity training" (re-education camp) for you.

I share your experiences, raybbr. Meaning, I wore the t-shirt, got spat at, verbally stoned, and kept on standing.

What have I ultimately learned through the past 15 years? What you've written is true. Censorship, theft of earnings, and rights, and property. The whittling away at Liberty by the left.

What else have I learned? Even anchor babies are going to grow up one day and resent being thefted and dictated to.

Yes our healthcare and social security situation is in an abominable way. But when I think about what my dad's generation top medical technology had in the way of treating ear infections (hot needles) versus what's available today (antibiotics), there is good also. I say this by parable.

When Americans learned about the KKK and what was going on in the South - they were outraged, and moved to rectify the matter. The same will go, IME, in re the Black Nationalist movement.

As more people get thefted the minute they move above a certain income level, and realize they are being punished by Marxist legislators, they tend to do one of two things: look for more freebies from the government, or fight back.

Americans are ultimately no different from the majority of people anywhere in the world - loving their families, willing to work to live, and to live to work.

What I also realized, living in the SF Bay Area, that I was -- was that I was surrounded by people who'd not been mugged by reality. For now, the socialist platform, made them feel on the cusp of trend. It made them feel good about themselves, rather than to ever wonder what such trends portrended.

Being in such a situation, on the frontlines, as such, can leave one in a position of despair.

But when one pulls back or travels the country, one gains a much larger perspective, and the recognition that one specific area does not describe an entire country, and nor does one's personal reality define the whole.

I've had the fortune of witnessing the transformation of once-illegal immigrants into conservatives, etc.

If our troops can continue to stand fast and continually hold the line in Iraq, then I can bloody hell well do the same as far as continuing to speak my truths and observations about domestic US matters. I never let that stop me when awash in a Blue Zone, nor when in a Purple, and now in a Red.

Sometimes, it means I'm bannished from correctness society. Sometimes it means I'm punished just because I exist. Sometimes I can lose jobs over it, or even be persecuted by the "Strong Arm of the Local Bureacracies".

But sometimes, it means my message is heard, and it comes as a bright light of awareness and liberty to another who was struggling to make sense in the dark.

The point is, getting depressed because one's view is not appreciated is not cause for asserting all is "over".

Many times a prophet is never appreciated in his own town. And many times not until he has left that town, and sometimes not until after he's been dead.

And it is up to each of us to soldier on. And to never give up nor despair. The world, while seemingly small, is actually a much larger place and contextually.. Selective snapshots on any one issue can make the world seem a rather dreary, dire place.

It's rainy in one location, but sunny in another. There's slavery in Africa but not in America.

I don't mean to respond to your post with a homily, but I do intend to lift you up.

I'm a pragmatist. A pragmatist with Rose Colored Lenses. I prefer to aim my view and actions towards what some might call a Pollyannish perspective. I fight when I need to. But I do prefer a world which uplifts rather than depresses. As opposed to being a pragmatist with glasses always foggy from bawling.

I'll never give up.

Hope

We white conservatives have been taught for the last generation to button our lips and never to give utterance to a racist thought. We thought that we were parties to a bargain: that if we shut up and truckled to the liberal race bullies sooner or later we would emerge from the post civil-rights era and its hypocrisies of affirmative action and diversity and we would ascend to the sunny green uplands of post-racism.

Now we hear the ravings of Reverend Wright and realize that we have been had. While we were buttoning our lips and attending compulsory diversity seminars liberals were not holding up their end of the deal and neutralizing the Reverend Wrights of America and their vicious racist bile. On the contrary, liberals were pumping them up! We used to wonder how it could be that blacks voted 90 percent for Democrats. How could this be, we wondered, when you can never get more that 60 percent of the rest of America to take sides on anything?

(my thought exactly...after bringing our kids up to be decent people who do not judge on skin color, only to find out blacks have been doing the opposite all these years? In church?)

It has been in the rap music, for anyone who could bare to listen. On the radio, magazines and television stations which label themselves exclusively for 'blacks'. What is most interesting is that even though it has been in our faces for all these years, we really couldn't bring ourselves to admit it in public. Oh we might have said something to our closets and trusted friends, but how gouache to say it in public! We see the same sort of behavior about Islam.

How has this discussion been so effectively shut down? By labeling it 'extreme right'? FreeRepublic.com was started to combat the effects of the liberal muzzle, why are so many falling for the name game? Why are Americans accepting such a horrendous mind yoke? We may as well be mules with metal bits in our mouths!

Heck the 'education' system has been ripped from the hands of truth and put into the hands of the indoctrinators, all based on the fallacy that the vast majority of whites are racists.On that foundation, indoctrination into the politicizing of race, they managed to also inject 'gay rights'. Who are this 'they'? This other, the big conductor?

But then when I read this: Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable it made me think that it may be that as Americans we just need get our names for our fears, anger, and frustrations in harmony with each other. We all seem to share these emotions and have need to express them as groups, if we could just agree on who the real enemy's of America are, we might get somewhere. But instead the media has worked to label or color stuff so that it's like joining a team, instead of being adults and taking the reins of America's destiny in to our own hands and leading her to even finer living quality, like moving manufacturing to the moon, and from the moon on to other planets. I see that emotions are just too easy to manipulate and facts can easily be swept away when no one is paying attention to them.

How many times have we been to the moon? Most people believe that we have gone only once, but we have actually been around 6 times (apollo 11-17)That is something that is truly cool and awe inspiring. Yet for some reason we stopped doing that and are now mired in the exact same economy which we had sixty years ago, with the same vehicles, oh we have better bells and whistles but is essentially the same technology ~ no antigravity cars or the cool things we were promised. It's just this stupid race stuff ad-nauseam!

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AGREE 100% !