instead of getting these
-PJ
Posted on 11/09/2008 11:20:37 AM PST by LA Woman3
There go my fellow conservatives, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric. Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America's flirtation with neosocialism. But there's a massive silver lining in the magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America:
The Era of White Guilt is over.
This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn't give a fluff about skin color and enthusiastically pulled the voting lever for a black man. Not just any black man. A very liberal black man who spent his early career race-hustling banks, praying in a racist church for 20 years, and actively working with America-hating domestic terrorists. Yet white Americans made Barack Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov. 4, 2008, white guilt is dead.
So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. For more than a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 1960s, American liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist solution to the country's problems. But if a black man can become president, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barack Obama destroys the validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is hereby slain.
So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. From this day forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is exactly ZERO. No more Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "God Damn America," Al Sharpton's Church of Perpetual Victimization, or Jesse Jackson's rainbow racism. Cornel West? You're a fraud. All those "black studies" programs must now teach kids to thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.
Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.)? Shut up. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. To those Eurosnots who forged careers hating America? I'm still waiting for the first black French president.
No more quotas. No more handouts. No more complaining that "the man" is keeping you down. "The man" is now black.
It's time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid '60s ideas. Drag it over there, right between free love and cop-killing. Careful, don't trip on streaking. Just dump it. And then wash your hands. It's filthy.
Obama's ascension also creates another gargantuan irony. How can liberals sell American racism, class envy and unfairness when our new black president and his wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and are now moving to the White House? How unfair is that? Now, like a delicious O. Henry tale, Obama's spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by its own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama's election has validated American conservatism.
So ... Wham!!!
That's the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled, and tombstone erected. Dead and buried.
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[exactly what significant barrier is left?]
Well crafted article but it leaves one important detail missing. .The right to descent and free speech.
Race is going to become used much more of an issue in the coming years. EVERY attempt to disagree or descent with any of policies coming from obama is going to be couched as being racist talk against the President of the United States of America
When the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ is reenacted one of prime motivators will be ANY talk of descent or disagreement with the president obama will be called hate mongering and the enraptured public will be delighted to see them put out of business.
The race issue will never be put aside as long as it is an effective tool for shutting people up and keeping them in line.
I would like a check from the African progeny because my people were enslaved by Africans, up there in Egypt for generations.
I disagree. White guilt was a factor in this election, as difficult as it may be for some to believe. As long as race baitors exist, it will never be over.
BTW. You couldn’t be more wrong, “Tommy.”
“At least Latinos are not madly in love with abortion as birth control.”
I don’t have statistics at my fingertips, but that doesn’t ring true.
Well being Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, Hugoenot, possibly Jewish, and Puritan and Quaker in descent, I’ve got quite a history of injustice and struggle in my genes and don’t have much white guilt. I guarantee you I don’t have any now.
As for the blacks who get it, you are and always have been in my inner circle. I just hope some of our fellow black citizens will start to get it too.
instead of getting these
-PJ
His point is that they have been empirically proven to be utterly defeated intellectually and totally illegitimate.
I, for one, am glad that racism is over. It will be nice not ever hear about it again.
You and I know what he’s point is, but in the big scheme of things, does it really matter?
We are at a point in our relatively short history where ignorance and cynicism have infected the majority of the electorate and an equal amount of elitism has all but destroyed our body politic. A critical mass has been met; a tipping point from which I fear there is no safe return.
When confronted with raw emotion, logic and empirical proof will always take a back seat no matter how intellectually dishonest or illegitimate it may be.
There is only one word to sum up our situation; checkmate!
I never felt the need to have guilt for something I took no part in. I didn’t personally own a slave and my immediate family didn’t either.
Oh, wait...I just felt a twinge
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nope...just gas /snicker
He's not in denial if every white person in America recites this screed to any person of any color that attempts to play the race card. I've already used this on a coworker and the silence is truly golden.
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