Posted on 11/12/2008 11:33:19 AM PST by mc5cents
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By Tom Adkins
Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, 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 neo socialism. But there's a massive silver lining in those 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 worked with America-hating domestic terrorists. Wow! Some resume! Yet they made Barack Obama their leader. Therefore, as of Nov 4th, 2008, white guilt is dead.
For over a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 60s, 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. But if a black man can become President, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barack Obama absolutely destroys the entire 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 now exactly ZERO. And it's time to clean house. No more Reverend Wright's "God Damn America ," Al Sharpton's Church of Perpetual Victimization , or Jesse Jackson's rainbow racism. Cornell West? You're a fraud. Go home. All those "black studies" programs that taught kids to hate whitey? You must now thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.
Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. Maxine Waters? Shut up. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. Go ahead. I'm waiting.
Gangsta rappers? Start praising America . Begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. And please…no more ebonics. Speak English, and who knows where you might end up? Oh, yeah…pull up your pants. Your underwear is showing. You look stupid.
To those Eurosnots who forged entire careers hating America ? I'm still waiting for the first black French President.
And let me offer an equal opportunity whupping. I've always despised lazy white people. Now, I can talk smack about lazy black people. You're poor because you quit school, did drugs, had three kids with three different fathers, and refuse to work. So when you plop your Colt 45-swilling, Oprah watchin' butt on the couch and complain "Da Man is keepin' me down," allow me to inform you: Da Man is now black. You have no excuses.
No more quotas No more handouts. No more stealing my money because someone's great-great-great-great grandparents suffered actual pain and misery at the hands of people I have no relation to, and personally revile.
It's time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid 60s ideas. Drag it over there, next to wife swapping. Plenty of room right between free love and cop-killing. Careful…don't trip on streaking. There ya go, don't be gentle. Just dump it. Wash your hands. It's filthy.
In fact, Obama's ascension created a gargantuan irony. How can you sell class envy and American unfairness when you and your black wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and got elected President? How unfair is that??? Now, Like a delicious O'Henry tale, Obama's spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by it's own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama's election has validated American conservatism!
So, listen carefully…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. White guilt is dead and buried.
However, despite my glee, there's apparently one small, rabid bastion of American racism remaining. Black Americans voted 96% for Barak Obama. Hmmm. In a color-blind world, shouldn't that be 50-50? Tonight, every black person should ask forgiveness for their apparent racism and prejudice towards white people. Maybe it's time to start spreading the guilt around.
Replace “Booker T.” with “George” and people would be screaming RACIST!
Funny thing about Booker T. Washington, he was able to advance black education so much because he got massive private donations from the Evil Whitey that others condemn, like the ultra-rich “robber baron” Henry Rogers of the evil Standard Oil.
I appreciate your viewpoints and respect your opinions. It’s’ so nice to read your comments.
Mr. Adkins comments notwithstanding, I agree completely.
I think this will just make matters worse. The blacks will expect a lot and when they don't get it, well, you have seen the report on the skyrocketing sales of guns right? That has something to do with the big Zeros stance on the gun control and a lot on peoples apprehension of what is coming next. Race relations did not get better with the Zero being elected. Not by a long shot.
The leftists are happy because the black President-elect is a socialist. If Keyes or some other black conservative had been elected they would be in a sputtering rage.
It isn’t going away any time soon. The race industry isn’t closing up shop. It’s too lucrative. Want to bet if we’ll have “affirmative action” and race preferences in 4 years?
The Era of White Guilt has just begun in earnest.
I'm afraid you are right!
Couldn't be truer.
New tagline...
CRA (which led to the housing mess) WAS reparations.
Than anybody I'm aware of.
The debt will never be re-paid to the satisfaction of malcontents, whether they are black or white. The pressure will only increase for additional reparations.
Thanks. I will have to check out Tom on Commonconservative.com
Great email from Alan Keyes. I got a chance to hear him speak in 1994 and even then you could tell that many in the audience squirmed in their seats. He might be a lousy candidate but he can sure put the prevailing wisdom in a rhetorical crucible and burn away everything but the truth. For some it clearly makes them uncomfortable.
Hey, I’ll take back all that white guilt if I can just get my country back from the Marxist usurper.
Mr. Adkins put my thoughts on paper very well. His style reminds me a bit of Mark Stein.
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