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.
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Clearly.
If a truth-teller is a “lousy candidate” these days it says more about the hearers than the truth-teller.
But, I remain firm in my belief that there is still a mighty moral plurality in this country who care about the truth.
If we can unify and focus that power, the republic can still be saved.
Doing that is the only hope for saving the country.
It’s SO upsetting. I was raised dirt poor and attended a school that was about 30% black, mostly very poor too. My best friend in jr. high was a black girl who came from money...she got teased to high hell for being “white,” i.e. being in honors classes, speaking properly, and not dating ghetto trash. She slowly pulled away from us in a effort to “fit in,” but never quite made it. I think high school was very lonely for her.
I digress...my original point was going to be that people are so blind! Who benefits from keeping poor people poor? Democrats! I get so mad listening to them talk about making college more affordable. I didn’t have ANY money from my parents, and I made it on loans, grants, and working my way through.
We have to find a way to educate the poor and the college kids to realize that WE are the ones who actually help for the long term. We don’t throw you $5 and thank you for your vote; we are interested in helping people move up and stay up. And the educating needs to start now.
The bills and bitching will last as long the guy being asked to pay the bill and being bitched at takes it. A good beginning would be to tell Jesse, Al and their ilk to p!ss up a rope.
The Leftists and general run of the mill assholes have been patting the Jacksons, Sharptons, Farrakhans and Obamas on their nappy heads and actually listening to the poverty pimping racist charlatans for so long - the clowns are beginning to believe their own scam!
I think a great equalizer is on its way. I have thought and said for a long time that America is too affluent for its own well-being. That is morally and ethically. It is hard to give a lot of credence to the race pimp when you’re having trouble putting enough food on the table. America is busted now, and spending the money in the cookie jar. Actually, making promises based on money that should be in the cookie jar but isn’t.
I am 62. I doubt I will ever see prosperity like it was at its peak, just before the crumbling set in. That doesn’t mean we won’t have good lives, however. Just fewer ipods, blackberrys, boats, Ariz winters, $50 nail jobs, etc.
What happened to the real black leaders? I can even appreciate a later-years Malcolm X better than these modern-day whiney victim-mentality extortionists. Of course I disagree with Malcolm X on much, but at least his philosophy was to get up off your ass and do something to make your own life better.
I never had any guilt either. My parents came to the US in 1948. Pops worked two blue collar union jobs (railroad, post office) over a 35 year period. In the late 1960’s he took the civil service exam trying to go from the railroad (which was dying at the time) to the post office. Despite a good score, he was passed over for minority applicants with lower scores. Eventually he got in. He was smart enough to know that education was the key to success. My two sisters and I have three bachelors degrees and three masters degrees between us and are doing pretty well in America. I guess that is the real American dream.... We all had to overcome affirmative action to get into college and grad school... Yeah, no guilt at all....
Amen!
I am retired Army. What actually happened was I enlisted and did my first three years, went to Nam, got wounded, rehabbed, went to Germany and patrolled the East-West border. Then I got out of the Army.
So, I go home, enrolled in the junior college and since I was 21, I could put in for the police department. So, I go to the city civil service board and sign up. Get the call, go take the test, get my score later and told I am like #4 on the list. Then a couple of weeks later get another letter and AM TOLD THE TEST IS NULL AND VOID!! Why???? NO BLACKS PASSED THE TEST!!! They said that they were REQUIRED to hire one black for EVERY one white they hired!!! So, month or two later, took the test again. Again passed and was like #2 on the list. GUESS WHAT?? You get only one guess. RIGHT, no blacks passed it again and once again the darn test was tossed out. So, third time is a charm, right? WRONG. Passed it the 3d time and was like #2 on the list again. BUT NO BLACKS COULD PASS THE DAMNED TEST!!!! EVERY stinking one, in every test, FAILED!!!
By that time I had had it. The local recruiter, whom I knew, had been calling me and trying too get me to come back into the Army. I was sick of civilian life, civilian hiring practices, the garbage of it, and knowing that I was happier in the military than I was at trying to HOPE some black guy in our town would pass the test, I just said to hell with it. I missed being in the Army, I am going back. I reupped, got my sergeant E-5 stripes back, got a signing bonus, and picked my post of assignment. Chose Fort Campbell, KY and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and did my other 17 years. HAD my attempts to get into the police department been successful, I might have been a city cop all those years and would not have done a military career. But, in the end, it turned out the best for me, because I actually enjoyed being in the service and not patrolling the ghetto rousting drunks and druggies.
I come from a state with 40% black population and lived in black countries most of my adult life till 10 years ago.
Unlike most perpetually indignant freepers, I got over white guilt by the early 70s and around 19 years of age
Guilt is a selfish emotion.
For real pain try shame.
A black teenage girl shoots to death the white teenage girl at school.. Is this going to be a new trend? What was behind the shooting I wonder...
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