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Given the facts in the above, it makes it all the more ridiculous to read stories like this one:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/761957/posts

I know, and have known many of the facts listed above, but they are lost on the professional victims of today. That is why, more and more, I do not see the efforts of minorities and liberals of this mindset as one of trying to enhance the lives of blacks and other minorities, but instead, to tear down and villify whites. Period.

The article makes some good points, and has some value; although it is perhaps a bit of an over-reach as it relates to the privations of the Japanese-Americans during World War II. There was never the degree of mistrust for German and Italian Americans. However, the passage immediately below, deserves a comment.

For at least the last 40 years, political, social and cultural elites have taken a particular point of view regarding this gap and how best to overcome it. From the Kerner Commission of the 1960’s to President Clinton’s “Dialogue on Race” in the 1990’s, the proposed remedy has been to make whites realize the daily racism blacks (and to a lesser extent all non-whites) face, as well as the daily privileges they get from being white. In other words, blacks have the clear view on American racism and whites must be disabused of their bigoted, wrong-headed opinions and made aware of their true history of oppression.

I realize that the writer is being "tongue-in-cheek in his choice of words; that he does not intend the put down of the Caucasian American mainstream, that the words suggest. But the passage cries out for the obvious rebuke of the Leftist tactics decried. The fact is that there is nothing whatever wrong with people preferring their own kith and kin, or seeking to help their own kith and kin to advantage. That is simply the normal pattern of human interaction. And it is no less proper for one race than another.

What we need to do is to stop letting Fabian Socialists turn normal human preferences into the bases for deep human antagonisms; to stop letting them build envy and resentment in some and guilt in others, by being squeamish to challenge their assumptions. The deterioration in good feelings between the races is precisely due to their tactics, and the squeamishness of Conservatives to challenge them. We used to take it for granted that we would all first aid our kith and kin, and no one resented that someone else would first aid theirs. That reality out of the way, there was no reason not to be friends with others living in the same community.

The gap the Left has sought to address is in a major part their own creation. Let's take the politics out of relations between clearly recognizable groups, and see if we do not see a major improvement. With the Leftwing politics removed, we all have a common interest in getting along.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site