Posted on 01/05/2003 6:12:13 AM PST by SJackson
What’s wrong with black Americans?
Provocative question, isn’t it, especially when it’s being asked by a white guy like me. We white guys aren’t supposed to question what blacks do, because it automatically makes us a racist. Which brings up another obvious question: How come blacks can criticize whites, calling them honkies and racists at the drop of a hat, but whites can’t criticize blacks?
Let me break my first question down into some smaller, more obvious questions:
How come when Harry Belafonte recently called Secretary of State Colin Powell “a house slave” for serving in the Bush administration, few blacks came to Powell’s defense? Is it because they resented Powell’s heroic climb from the slums of New York to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then to the inner circle of the White House, without asking for any special treatment along the way?
How about when Congress was interrogating Clarence Thomas some years back during his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court. When a lone woman accused Thomas of sexual impropriety, black leaders joined in the attack with a fury. But later, when Clinton was accused of the same thing and worse, by many women with many corroborating witnesses, blacks came to Clinton’s defense? When Thomas was exonerated and confirmed, his accuser, Anita Hill, went on the speaking circuit for years attacking Justice Thomas, but few blacks criticized her. Clinton was impeached over his improprieties, but just the other day he became the first white man to be inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame as an honorary member.
What gives? Is it because Clarence Thomas was another black heroic figure who broke ranks and rose to the pinnacles of the justice system by his own determination and hard work, and Clinton has always been the white crusader wanting ever more free federal dollars for downtrodden blacks?
How about the O.J. Simpson affair? Simpson brutally murdered two innocent people. DNA tests proved it, and overwhelming evidence proved it. Yet a mainly black jury voted him “not guilty,” and we all witnessed the TV scenes of crowds of blacks cheering wildly when the verdict was announced. Did they cheer because Simpson had killed two whites and got away with it? Sure looked like it!
Why did 85% of black congress people vote against America going to war with Iraq 10 years ago, and why do Congressional blacks now hold rallies against us going to war with Iraq again? They claim it’s because blacks represent a larger percentage of the armed forces so it is they who will be asked to die. But I think that’s just cover for the real reason, namely that they think America is the villain in this showdown. They empathize with Iraq as the underdog, just as they perceive themselves as the underdog in America. It’s America they hate, not Iraq.
And here’s a really racist question: Why haven’t blacks assimilated completely into American society, even after the federal government has spent more than $700 billion dollars on the poor—largely on poor blacks—since former President Lyndon Johnson vastly expanded welfare with his War on Poverty nearly 40 years ago? Irish people like me have assimilated, and my immigrant ancestors were valued below slaves when they arrived on the boats in places like New York and New Orleans at the height of their great flight from Irish hunger a century ago. And millions of Mexicans are assimilating right before our eyes. Is it really because racism continues to keep blacks down, or is it their own fault, a fault that mainly has to do with their desire—or lack of it—to stand on their own two feet?
These are all terrible questions for a white man to ask, I know. I must indeed be a racist to bring these things up.
But I can’t help it. When I watch Colin Powell, one of the greatest Americans of my lifetime, being viciously attacked by activists like Belafonte, with people like Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee joining in, I feel like screaming: What are you fools doing?
Powell is a black man who has lived the American Dream. He didn’t do it with the federal handouts that have done nothing for blacks but make them a permanent underclass in America. He did it by himself. Why aren’t you rising in outrage against Belafonte and the rest of the attackers. Isn’t this what the War on Poverty was all about, to make sure poor people, especially poor black people, could take part in the American Dream?
Of course we all, in our bitter, racist, heart of hearts, know the answer to all my questions. Black heroes like Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas believe in the wrong ideology. They believe in self-reliance. They are renegades from a liberal ideology that says blacks can’t take care of themselves. Rather than criticize those blacks who have made themselves a success, blacks should feel ashamed that they, as a race, have wandered in the wilderness from one type of slavery only to find another: the new nanny state of black slavery, with Jesse Jackson and a host of white bureaucrats directing how all the welfare freebies are to be divied up. But step out of line, as Powell and Thomas did, and they’ll be after your ass with a vengeance, accusing you of every crime in the book and calling you the white man’s house slave. That’s about as ironic as it gets!
My Irish immigrant mother has some advice for black Americans: She gave it to me in the 1950s when I was a boy in all Irish South Boston. I had been boasting about how great it was to be Irish. She told me curtly: “You are not Irish, you are American. Act like it!”
Of course Duffy poses the wrong question, it's not about black American's, it's about liberal ideology.
What's wrong with 'most' of today's black Americans is that they are racists.
I don't use that term in the denotative context but in the context of "always thinking of things in terms of race".
The minority of blacks that have been able to let it go have become successful in the world. This enrages the racist blacks even more.
It's very sad.
Wise words from Mother, wish more of us heeded it and dropped the hypenated garbage.
Quit the snivel, and state your opinion like a man.
Because the leftist battle plan always take the high ground and repeatedly tells the big lies so many times that the lies have been morphed into truth.
Because words matter and the leftist have declared the English language to be offensive.
Because Political Correctness and thought control have suceeded.
Your thoughts enumerated above are offensive and actionable as hate.
Blacks who are successfull despise Republicans.
Powell, Thomas, Rice, Watts, Sowell and Williams are just porch negroes to the black majority.
They are very intelligent and their diction is impeccable. This won't do! JMHO.
More accurately, most are liberals. The problem is that racism has been insitutionalized as a primary chacteristic of the Democrat mindset. It now transcends mere skin color and ethnicity as crucial defining and life-giving forces for sustaining liberalism.
But racism is a negative defining force for liberals and the Democrat Party. Liberals will lose substantial political power in this nation the day racism continues to exist. They know that, and it alarms them. Therefore they work feverishly to keep racism alive. If they cannot find racists, they invent racists. So skilled are they, and so warped is their mindset, that they can even make distinguished and accomplished blacks such as Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas into racists.
Racism is vital to the health of the Democrat Party. It is its oxygen.
I don't basically disagree with anything you say and I don't think it's inconsistent with what I have said.
Again, I don't think blacks are racists as defined by Webster. I don't think they see themselves as superior or inferior based on their race. But I do believe they think of all things in terms of race. And yes, they despise Republicans just like any jealous person who thinks someone else has it better than themselves.
It's the old "white man keeping the black man down" thinking. While that was true decades ago, it has long since been replaced with the "white man wants to help you bring yourself up". The problem is that the RATs, socialists and assorted race baiters don't want that to happen. They see a good racket for themselves and they're NOT going to let it go.
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