Posted on 01/31/2021 4:01:35 AM PST by Kaslin
There was a time when an allegation of racism was one of the worst things someone could be accused of. Now, it’s a punchline. Back in the day, the word had meaning – aside from an occasional Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson shakedown, it was not cavalierly tossed around to score political points and it was not reported on without something close to irrefutable proof. Now it’s a debate tactic of the left to avoid serious engagement and cover for a lack of factual back-up. Everything is “racist” now, and as someone who actually used to care, who was disgusted at the concept and its existence, thanks to the weaponization of the term, I can’t bring myself to care about it anymore.
When I was younger, one of my many jobs was working in a machine shop that built devices to shape metal. I don’t want to be more specific than that because the company still exists and my account is based solely on what I saw at the time and hopefully has changed, but the company sure came off as racist for the few months I was there.
In one of the many times in which I was desperate for a job, I saw a help wanted sign in an industrial park outside a non-descript building and walked in. After filling out an application, handed it over to the foreman, and after a quick “interview,” I was hired on the spot and told to start the next day. It was amazingly easy.
Happy to have a job, I went about it without paying attention to much else. But it was boring, repetitive work – taking a piece, drilling a hole in it, stacking it in another bin for assembly. Mind-numbing for someone with a desire for more but no drive or clue how to do anything about it would be the perfect words to describe it. But it was a job, and just having a job was the extent of my career goal at the time.
I quickly made friends with a few of the younger guys, one of whom was my cousin, and we’d find ways to make it less awful – which would sometimes involve slamming a 40 of malt liquor and/or smoking a joint at lunch. I don’t recommend doing this and operating heavy machinery, but when I was young, aimless, and dumb, I was young, aimless, and dumb.
One day, the company was hiring again and I noticed people were coming in the way I did to answer the sign out front. I saw several black guys coming in, filling out the application, handing it to the foreman and leaving. They were given the standard blow-off “Thanks, we’re just starting the process of looking” response anyone spending their time filling out applications knows well.
Then a white guy came in and, like I was, had a talk with the boss and started the next day.
I pointed this out to one of my work friends who said it always happens like that. Everyone who worked there was white, something I’d noticed but didn’t think anything of because I was new and had no idea what had happened before I’d started. The place had high turnover, but not a lot of employees – maybe 30? Each time someone left, the pattern repeated itself.
I had a problem with this. I needed the job, but I wanted to see something happen to them because of it. Maybe there was a reason, maybe I was wrong, I had no idea about the inner-workings of the company or its history. I was just a new guy on the shop floor, usually wasted after lunch. But I wanted to get someone with power to look into it, maybe force some change.
I tried calling the local talk radio station a few times, figuring a public airing (without naming the company) might get some attention. The call screener told me they weren’t interested. I called the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), thinking the government could get to the bottom of it. They weren’t interested because I wasn’t the person discriminated against. That struck me as odd, but I didn’t yet know how worthless the federal government was.
In addition to working in the shop, I was working nights at Best Buy, selling TVs. With what the EEOC told me in mind, I told a black co-worker friend of mine about it and we devised a plan to have him come in to apply for a job, and if he weren’t hired but a white guy was, we figured the EEOC would then care. But a week of waiting, he never showed up to apply.
I quit soon after because I hated the job and the place.
I could never stand racism or anyone who was. Not much one person can do about it, I learned, but I never lost the disgust at the concept. And now that disgust is surpassed by the way I feel about how Democrats are playing that card so often, and for everything.
Democrats have declared every arrest, every police officer, even the very concept of enforcing the law to be racist. Every Republican, every independent, every non-Democrat to be racist. Disagreement, dissent, and any bit of non-conformity…
You get the idea.
As someone who cares about the real problem of racism, I can’t bring myself to do it anymore. When no matter what you do you’re labeled a “white supremacist,” what’s the point? If everything is racist, nothing is racist.
Racism, of course, does still exist, but it exists in such small doses and from all quarters. Yet, Democrats have redefined the terms around it to the point that they’ve taken all meaning out of it. Now only white people can be racists, all white people are racist unless they’re sufficiently “anti-racist,” which is code for “Democrat in good standing.”
Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter-ANTIFA rampage, destroying lives and they’re cheered, revered by the “woke” establishment, covered for by the media, even nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
I’m done. I can’t care anymore. Show me real injustice, and I’m there. But when a political party waters down true injustice to score politically and drowns out reality with their latest tactic, I’m out.
Racism still exists. In a nation of 330 million people there are always going to be a few bigots around, of every color. But this country isn’t racist, fundamentally or otherwise. The Democratic Party is. And as long as they continue to engage in that racism and get away with it, people will continue to suffer and the few real victims who exist will continue to be ignored for the politically convenient and manufactured victims. I’m not going to be a part of it, so I’m going to join the majority who tune it out.
Republicans don’t have the wherewithal to spot it, nor the underpants content to effectively counter it. As long as they remain afraid of the charge, it’ll work. For my part, that kid who scrambled to find someone who cared enough to do what was right has now heard wolf cried too many times, for too many things where there wasn’t a wolf or even a dog to give a damn anymore. If turning people off to fighting real injustice was the goal, mission accomplished, Democrats.
“Racism” and “Treason” are two words that have been mis-used and over-used so much as to lose all meaning anymore.
Talk to the hand that exhibits the middle finger, I don’t care period!
Racism against white people is everywhere and enforced and perpetuated by government at all levels.
The author might no longer care about the race-baiters.
But the race-baiters will continue to care about the author.
(And not in a good way.)
When I was 20 I applied to the electric company. They guy interviewing me told me at the end of the interview that because I was white and male, I was out of luck. People of color and females were the only ones getting hired.
I thanked him for being honest with me and he wished me luck.
>> I Can’t Bring Myself to Care Anymore
Not an option. Get some rest, and return ready.
Racism against white people is everywhere and enforced and perpetuated by government at all levels.
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sad but true.
Good morning Doodle-
Not only over-used and mis-used, but the fact that an allegation of racism does not cause complete dismissal of the claim and resulting shame to and immediate retraction by the accuser has allowed this great injustice to perpetuate. Allegation means no facts or evidence. Falsehood, lies, or intentional ignorance by just alleging and then not penalized in the public square have caused great damage to our country. The deterioration in our personal traditional religious values that supported our public behaviors has been a large contributing factor ... as one should not bear false witness.
For years, when someone calls me ‘Racist”, I just laugh in their face.
It’s like magic.
They do not know how to deal with that.
They are so used to it causing the target to become a quivering lump who can’t wait to apologize.
When it doesn’t work they are stunned.
Pretty much what ANY White American is told nowadays in any STEM position.
Totally legal to only hire H1B Indians from South Asia. No one else need apply. They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
I’ve experienced racism and discrimination before. Once in Hawaii where I was attacked by a Hawaiian and called a Howly. Another time while trying to get a room at a Best Western in Fayetteville NC,the black manager told me there were no vacancies. As I walked away a black couple was able to get a room immediately. The manager saw the look on my face and quickly changed his mind and I got a room. I was there to see my son at Bragg before he was deployed to Iraq. I’m retired now and don’t travel but I can only imagine how things are going now. When I do travel it’s to remote locations with my trailer in tow.
You’re just saying that because I’m white.
well.. I Do care .. Rush said Friday the republicans have to fight RAW.. I’ve said on here before.... When in battle with a ruthless enemy..and you are the only one playing fair.. by the rules..you are gonna lose.
The republicans have to know we Trump supporters do not want socialism brought into our country via stealing... via trashing our constitution and making it up on the fly.
I personally want it to be ‘whatever it takes to defeat them’... do it!
yep.
Interesting story on your Fort Bragg visit. Did the manager apologize or explain himself to you? We are all sinners, and when he sees that this is acceptable in society today, he goes along with the culture.
Part of the problem is the insidious nature of vicarious liability for racial injustices of the past being openly assigned to innocent people today based on their race. That is the essence of racism - a raw dehumanization based merely on one’s skin color. For a white person to quote MLK on color-blindness (character) as the way we need to focus, is said to be racist use of MLK to keep blacks down. These extremist ideas dominate the media and public discussion, causing more people who have not been taught their country’s history nor critical thinking skills to buy in, giving more cover to the actual extremist racists, and communists.
The first casualty, Amos and Andy. A hilarious show, cancelled due to perceived racial stereotypes. There are many, many more destructive racial stereotypes at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting than a Mystic Knights of the Sea lodge meeting.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-IGtTLDrUKRlI3T_TjA3EMXLeMyW4Iwm
This is true! and the weak sniveling child follower...has no sense.. no will power.. and is no leader.. He’s not qualified to have his position.
my lawyer son in NJ.. the most qualified in the room... was not given the top management position 2 yrs ago.. was given to a woman.. She knew less.. and she..plus others in the pool.. called my son for answers and guidance..
SHE got the position..title ...my son did her job. and now since biden.... he can’t speak about his President Trump ... lawyers are supposed to be libs... conservatives..muzzled
“When in battle with a ruthless enemy..and you are the only one playing fair.. by the rules..you are gonna lose.”
This brings to mind that all is fair in love and war. You and Rush are correct - the Queensbury rules of politics, or the “gentleman across the aisle” no longer apply. There is no true comity in our political discourse. The only comity that exists on the left is when they use it as a tactic to advance their extremism. We don’t share a common moral code to agree on what is “fair”. Our elected leaders need to realize faster than fast that our institutions and freedoms are greatly damaged and comity will hasten further corruption and destruction.
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