Posted on 02/22/2007 1:04:36 PM PST by Tirian
Time to Stop Looking Past Black KKK: Denial Only Empowers Negative Forces in Community -------------------------------------------
Could you imagine the level of denial had my column not been written?
We would still be running around pretending that NBA All-Star Weekend was some sort of glorious black holiday, and anyone who dared mention the nasty elements of what transpired in Vegas would be shouted down as a racist.
Denial is a problem's No. 1 enabler.
We have a problem in the black community, and it didn't make its debut at All-Star Weekend Vegas. What was impossible to ignore in Vegas was on display in Houston, Atlanta and previous All-Star locations.
With the exception of Louis Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March, it's been on display nearly every time we've gathered in large groups to socialize in the past 15 or so years.
The Black Ku Klux Klan shows up in full force and does its best to ruin our good time. Instead of wearing white robes and white hoods, the new KKK has now taken to wearing white Ts and calling themselves gangsta rappers, gangbangers and posse members.
Just like the White KKK of the 1940s and '50s, we fear them, keep our eyes lowered, shut our mouths and pray they don't bother us.
Our fear makes them stronger. Our silence empowers them. Our lack of courage lets them define who we are. Our excuse-making for their behavior increases their influence and enables them to recruit more freely.
We sing their racist songs, gleefully call ourselves the N-word, hype their celebrity and get upset when white people whisper concerns about our sanity.
And whenever someone publicly states that the Black KKK is terrorizing black people, black neighborhoods, black social events and glorifying a negative, self-destructive lifestyle, we deny and blame the Man.
I don't want to do it anymore.
This must be the way Rosa Parks felt on that bus. She was just tired of eating white racist (spit). I'm tired of eating black racist (spit).
I'd like to kick it with my friends without worrying about the Black KKK opening fire in the parking lot. I'm tired of reading the about the drive-bys (modern-day lynchings). It gets old waking up and hearing about the Darrent Williamses, the Tupac Shakurs getting cut down in a hail of gunfire.
I'm tired of the lack of respect, the random violence, the celebration of drug dealers and the insinuation that education is anti-black.
Wednesday I received a troubling e-mail from a fan, someone who writes me frequently. She was upset by my All-Star Weekend column.
"Why are you hating so much these days and why do you sound so bitter," she wrote. "As I always say to you, you are my favorite. I am always looking for your articles, but lately you are just hating. I still love you though!"
The whole All-Star Weekend just put me on edge; it left me in a sour mood. I can't deny what I saw.
When I arrived at the Vegas airport Tuesday afternoon, All-Star Weekend gave me one final kick in the stomach, and I'm not talking about the long lines at the Southwest baggage check-in.
I stood in line for 75 minutes in the Southwest A boarding group. I was fourth in line behind three elderly white people (ages 60 to 75). They beat me in line by three or four minutes. The A, B and C groups were all filled an hour before the flight's scheduled departure.
Twenty feet away from where we all waited in line, a middle-aged black woman (45 to 55), what appeared to be her two sons (22 to 30) and an elderly black man (60s) all sat together and randomly slept, ate and talked.
When it was time to board the flight, the group of four stood, approached the elderly white woman standing in front of me and told her, "We're second in line. That's my bag on the floor."
The elderly white people were obviously intimidated. I wasn't and told the group they were crazy, and they needed to head to the back of the A boarding group and get in line behind all the people who stood for an hour.
Of course, they disagreed. I walked over and told the Southwest boarding agent to fix the problem. He witnessed the whole thing and came over and told the group they needed to move to the back of the A group. Words were exchanged between the agent and the group.
Eventually, and I'm not making this up, one of the young men told the agent that this was racism and they were being to asked to move because they were black. The other young man said that people like me were the reason black people couldn't get ahead.
The rest of the story is boring. I bring the story up to illustrate the mindset that has infected some of us in the black community.
Rosa Parks is a hero because she got tired of white people feeling a sense of entitlement to a seat on a bus wherever they wanted it. They didn't have to respect us. It didn't matter if we were there first and were just as tired. They took what they wanted from us and dared us to do anything about it.
Forty years after Parks' bravery, why would any of us think to heap this kind of disrespect on anyone else?
Why would we fight the white KKK and forty years later embrace the black KKK?
Almost gives you hope things could change.
Almost.
As a public high school teacher, I assure you this gansta culture is literally killing black youth. If this were happening to white kids we'd all be standing up screaming to have it stopped. Because it's mostly damaging black kids whites are afraid to point out the damage. Somehow, white people have no standing to tell blacks anything. Very few blacks have the nerve to do what this man did. Good for him.
Crazy, but there it is.
Here's a social experiment you can try. Go to a MacDonalds or a Burger King or any other fast food place that asks you to clean up your table when you've finished eating. See who actually does.
Are you talking Center City in Philidelphia? Seesh, I had no idea, I just looked it up on the map and almost stayed close to Liberty Park when we were were there a week ago.
I decided to stay at Penns Landing instead, It just looked nicer. No idea that it may be safer too. Maybe I'm wrong. That's why i avoid cities.
Indeed it was.. His storys in the article are duplicated thousands of times hourly across America.. with no black person to stand up.. and expose it..
Not all but very many black people are becomeing spoiled affirmative americans..
The worm has turned and the pendalum has swung..
The future will not be pretty... Black culture is toxic..
Toxic to all of any race including especially black people..
RAP is harbinger of bad tidings.. and is poisonous..
Did anybody see the Paula Zahn show last night? The title was "hip hop....art or poison?" 55% of live viewers polled said it was POISON. One of the guests was the virulent anti-white college professor michael eric dyson who blamed whitey for the failure of everything black. Never before in the history of this great nation has there been a group or people (blacks) that continues to blame so many of it's own shorting comings on other people (whites). And Paula (the good little guilty white liberal) played right along. The show was pathetic.
Thanks for posting that.
The courage of this writer gives me hope.
"Man is he going to be receiving some hate mail."
One of dim Gangstas will likely put a cap in his ass.
These incidents happened a few years back....usually the drunken riots are limited to Eagles games (DON'T come to the Linc with the visiting team's jersey on). We can hold large gatherings (Live 8, any 4th of July, Mummer's Parade) without too much trouble these days.
Center City is one of the safest areas of Philly, especially around Independence Mall. The bad parts of town are well away from there.
I'll be writing on this subject (again) this weekend.
Only problem with calling them the "Black KKK" is that the white KKK was an enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.
This group of thugs are just punk-ass criminals. To call them organized is propping up their intelligence more than should be.
Words cannot express how great this article is.
I'm with my neighbor Sterm on this one.
Not really much to worry about in Center City 99.5% of the time. In fact, that's what made "Da Greek" so disturbing. You go into North Philadelphia, and you've got to be looking for trouble, but in Center City, you have a general expectation of safety and civility.
(DON'T come to the Linc with the visiting team's jersey on)
That's not a joke either. You know, I've seen a lot of games in Philly (I'm speaking more of The Vet than LFF or CBP) and I've seen a lot of fights. They cut across race, age, sex, and income, but there's one unifying factor: The participants ALWAYS had it coming to them. Wearing the other team's jersey is a good way of telling some hammer-head that you've got it coming to you.
Owl_EagleIf what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
It has not the quality of an insinuation. It is an openly proclaimed principle. The leaders decry the unequal representation of blacks in the more highly educated professions while at the bottom, in the schools education is proclaimed "white" and shunned. Those who study are intimidated, sometimes beaten for their presumption and are certainly socially ostracized. So Education is a White Man's tool of oppression and Orientals and Hindus and Nigerians and Lebanese use that tool to become part of the "oppressor" class very successfully. It is a wonder that so many urban blacks are so intent on living their lives as oppressees, abjuring utterly advancement other than that advancement that comes from a career in petty and not so petty crime, most of which constitutes oppression of other blacks. It is a lost cause for most of the aspirants because there is not much room at the top and less in the rising ranks of the crime industry and it comes with a high mortality rate.
I am sure the government will nip those winds in the bud with more massive programs. Government programs and the Great Society pretty much created and nurtured the situation that Whitlock and Cosby are trying to rectify.
I couldn't agree more. Of course, it is now entrenched in academe. It takes at least a generation to purge academe of its current flavor of indoctrination.
He can have some of mine....
Actually, that about sums it up, the essence of the truth that is. This journalist, Jason Whitlock, seems to have captured the essence of the 'new KKK' pretty succinctly. I wonder how long it will take to deal with the reality he enumerates? Too long, you can bet on that, just like it took too damn long to end the obscenity of forced social segregation once the heinous obscenity of slavery was ended. Come to think of it, Jason is still having to write about the same thing, forced social segregation. Sheesh ...
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