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?)
Thank you for putting to words the truth. Race has been used to silence us but used to inflame hatred against us at the same time.
Yes, we've been had.
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!