Thank you for posting this article.
One of the MANY money quotes is:
“Did millions of people do well under affirmative action? Yes. A bribe only works if you actually give somebody something. But the benefits that accrued to black America under affirmative action could almost be considered a byproduct of the program’s actual endgame: to give black people just enough to stop rioting and leave the white establishment to go about its business.”
I don’t even need to expound on it, it’s pretty well self-evident.
I was discussing this topic with my father and he told me that he was tired, very tired of being called a racist simply because he was white and not for anything he had ever done.
He also told me of an incident several years ago where a black man was bitterly complaining about a job he hadn’t been given an offer for. Since dad was the only other person in the waiting room at the time, (A Dr’s office), he asked if the man was speaking to him.
After a bit of hemming and hawing the Black man finally said that yes he was sort of speaking to my father.
My father said well since you are speaking to me and you have basically called me a racist just because I am white and privileged let me tell you a few things.
I was born in a small town in Oklahoma, we lived in a two bedroom house. My four brothers and my parents. For most of my childhood and teen years I had one pair of coveralls and a pair of boots that my parents would scrape up the money to buy each of us. WHen wash day came each week, the five of us boys would stay in bed while my mother would wash and dry our clothes.
That wasn’t out of laziness either, I literally had no other clothes to wear and there were no hand me downs because we wore out the bib overalls so bad that we couldn’t pass them on to our younger brothers.
He then went on to explain that as a teenager he would pick cotton at fifty cents a hundred pound bag. He asked the black man if he had ever picked cotton,to which he replied ‘no’. Dad told him it was a dirty miserable job, but he did it every year he could until he had graduated from the school, (Class of twenty eight students I believe), and then joined the Navy.
It was a long conversation my dad said and then he finished it up by saying. I never met a black person until I joined the Navy and they were like any other people I met, some were good and some were not so good. But he treated everyone the way he wanted to be treated in return.
He then said to the black man, because I worked my way up from a boy with literally nothing but the clothes on my back and the shoes on my feet to where I am today I am called a racist by people who want to do nothing more than stick their hands in my pockets and take the money out of my wallet, then I can say I am a racist because they made me that way.
As the economic plight of most whites worsens under the socialism of Obama, expect to see “white guilt” die and opposition to the affirmative actions freebies (jobs, promotions, diplomas/degrees) disappear.
Great post. Thank you. I loved reading it.
I think this series of articles is being written because “Massive Liberal Failure” is obvious and now the cat is out of the bag [and after 8 years of a black, liberal president] blacks, browns and whites might be getting the idea that it’s way past time to leave the liberal plantation.
They don’t need this man’s advice to do that. They just need to walk away from the chains of Big Government.