Posted on 06/23/2015 8:02:20 PM PDT by drewh
Following tragedies such as this mass murder in South Carolina, most people resort to prayer for the families of the victims. On The Washington Post website on Friday, Baltimore City Paper writer Baynard Woods was preoccupied with transforming the murderous rampage of a single person into a discourse on the collective guilt of white racism in the most over-the-top manner as possible.
Woods, a self-described white South Carolinian, contended that there is only one way to fix this racial violence fostered by white supremacy,
“it is up to white people to rescue white people from our own worst selves, from the distorted monsters we have allowed ourselves to become. It is time to stop making excuses. We have to stop hiding from the truth of race — that this country, and the state of South Carolina in particular, were created on the idea of white supremacy. We’ll never overcome that history unless we acknowledge it.”
Wow. Just forget the founding documents about how "all men are created equal."
Woods is just condemned an entire race of people as “monsters” based off the actions of this one man, the Freddie Gray incident, and slave owners that predate this massacre by a century. Isn’t that the very icon of racism itself-judging an entire race based off the actions of a relative few? Can you imagine the (justifiable) outrage if the demographics of the massacre were reversed and he condemned blacks the same way?
Woods concluded his racist rant by noting that,
Of course, 99 percent of southern whites will never go into a church, sit down with people and then massacre them. But that 99 percent is responsible for the one who does. We white southerners — those of us who left, the others who stayed, and even those millions who have migrated to the Sun Belt — are all Dylann Roof. We are all responsible. We cannot shirk it. We cannot go forward until we fix ourselves. We must organize ourselves, educate ourselves and come together to fight against white supremacy. If we don’t, there will always be another Dylann Roof around the corner. And in the mirror.
One wonders if Woods has a similar rubric with Islamic terrorists. Is he willing to say that if one Muslim does a suicide bombing the 99 percent of Muslims that did not are “responsible for the one who d[id]?” For that matter, would accuse 99 percent of blacks for the crimes of one?
Also, if all white southerners are Dylann Roof, does that mean the white southern woman who helped the police catch him is another Dylann Roof? What about the white police officers that captured him? What about all the white southerners who are seething with anger and calling for the maximum penalty for this crime? If every white southerner is a potential Dylann Roof, do we have to keep an eye out on every southern white woman in her eighties? Furthermore, why does Woods, himself a potential Dylann Roof, get to lecture others about not being Dylann Roof?
In the end, this is one of the leftist media’s partisan exploitations of a monumental tragedy. Rather than just let the victim’s families grieve in peace, they see the need to exacerbate their pain by using the murder of their loved ones as a platform for their leftist doctrine of collective guilt.
They don’t want to stop racism, its the only cause the Left has.
It's up to white people to totally reject such blithering nonsense from guilt-ridden, self-loathing white fools such as this writer.
Rachel Dolezal?
Well, maybe the folks at the Washington Post are Dylann Roof.
I and the people I know aren’t. And I kind of fancy the Rebel flag.
Blacks, if you’re buying what the Post is selling here, you’re judging an awful lot of people insanely.
The Wa Po is so twisted, they cannot see that.
Let’s talk pre-conceived notions!
I suggest ‘WaPoo’ watch the documentary “You Don’t Know Dixie”. Friend of mine is in it and had ‘Madison Avenue’ contact him (which he was reluctant about)......but they did a good job in all.
This is really low, even for WAPO.
“Woods, a self-described white South Carolinian,”
Which means it’s really an angry, ugly lesbian from San Francisco.
L
And it’s really the other way around
Yeah, well, it's my self-appointed duty to abort those notions.
meanwhile these same Lefties disconnect Islam from Islamic terrorists.
From what I’ve read, part of what set this kid off was the way George Zimmerman got smeared and railroaded in the media, while Martin was portrayed as an innocent 12 year old. When he learned the truth he was angry about being lied to. The MSM “journalists” bear more responsibility for creating that “monster” that the white citizens of SC.
I volunteer to give my 40 acres and my mule as reparations to the first former slave who submits a request.
However, EPA regulation require them to submit an Environmental Impact Statement (the 40 acres “may” be classified wetlands and the mule is so cantankerous that someone is liable to make it extinct at any moment) and the EEOC needs assurance that since the mule is a “trannie”, he/she/it will not be subjected to adverse discrimination by the new owner(s).
Says a lot of the Democrat party and those Democrats who belong to the KKK like Byrd.
The perfect progressive God-Man. So pious, so fervent in his beliefs, his elevation of self above others, his self-flagellation so peripatetic that it strikes us all.
So, Obama and company incessantly race bait for years.
A wicked, crazy white kid finally takes their race bait and commits a horrible atrocity, saying that he wants to ignite a race war.
Obama and company follow up that horrible atrocity with more incessant race-baiting efforts to ignite more racial hatred.
Sound about right?
Personally, I think Americans should utterly reject both of these kinds of racists.
You self-identify as one who delivers contraceptive services to pre-conceived ideas.
Damn straight.
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