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.
Southerners get along with each other a damn sight better than any yankees I’ve ever been around.
First time I went to a northern city, I was embarrassed by the way they talked about black people. Especially around D.C.
Poor soul...
Roger that.
Dude! Quit standing in front of a mirror when you write your bigoted screed.
He was indeed appointed in 2013. He then went on to win a special election in 2014.
Thanks for the assist. How can such a thing happen in such a racist Confederate state like S. Carolina?
White monsters?
According to the black supremacist muslims of 5 Percent Nation, (like Barack’s buddy Jay-Z), the correct term is “white devils”.
Is there no limit to the extreme idiocy?
Look at the bullcrap that the blackface NAACP spouted (false claims of her father being run out of the south because of death threats by white bigots).
There is a ready audience that wants to believe the hate rhetoric. They are racists and that racism is not being discussed by the MSM.
Democrats are playing the minorities like a fiddle. The KKK was founded by Democrats. Jim Crow laws were drafted by Democrats. The Democrat PARTY should be put in a museum and run out of politics.
Precisely.
Are all Blacks willing to own the looting and destruction of some 200 businesses in Baltimore? How about Fergusson? Watts?
Are people so ridiculously removed from the concept of individual responsibility that they will fall for this crap?
One little problem.
No one has taken the time the time to ask the people of the state how they feel about having one of their cultural icons dissed and trampled on.
Politcal correctness only takes you so far and there are gonna be a lot of pissed off good ol’ boys and girls who will not take too kindly to their flag being vilified along with themselves by association.
I rather expect some blow back on this one, especially since the elite interests who are pushing this flag ban are the same people who are screwing the Southern middle class and trying to destroy their way of life.
The Confederate Flag may actually become the final straw and a rallying symbol for people fed up with the direction our marxist, politically correct “Citizen of the World” Elite political leadership and media castes are taking us.
And it might just be more than the South rallying to the flag this time.
They are trying to demonize good, honest folk. Just like Hitler did with the Jews. In the end that is where all this shit leads. The ovens.
Shows how desperate the media is to try and find something to hang the hildabeast upon for national acceptance. It is sick, absolutely puke worthy.
They have to dehumanise us the same way their master Hitler did in Germany
Amen from a South Carolinian who feels almost like I belong here after 12 years.
This is all being done to divert attention away frim Obama and his horrible administration. They r the ones who have caused racial divide and bitterness since day one. Instead of looking at what this rotten US govt has done. They are diverting attention to a flag and demonizing southerners. They r protecting this rotten govt and horrible president.
17 trillion in debt tells me we arent free.
The Left rolls out the exact opposite narrative and the idiots and low info crowd think it’s true.
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