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The Racist Label
Posted by Raven on July 11th, 2006
A lot of people like to accuse me and my blogging friends of being racist. Not just me and my friends, but Republicans in general.
I’m not a racist at all. Those who make the claim are though. Why do liberals say these things? Why can’t THEY accept people for being just PEOPLE?? Not black. Not white. Not Hispanic or Jewish? Because, if they stopped making the noise, the issue would die.
Liberals keep the race card alive by invoking it all the time.
…Do most whites really not publicly say what they believe, if what they believe differs from what a black believes — even when the subject has absolutely nothing to do with race (i.e., reactions to a radio talk show discussing other subjects)?
So I posed to this question to my radio audience, and, sure enough, whites from around the country called in to say that they are afraid to differ with blacks lest they be labeled racist.
I could not imagine anything more detrimental toward abolishing racism and to enhancing black progress in America than such an attitude. But apparently it is the norm in American life to so fear being called a racist that individuals as well as institutions react to blacks as they would to children — humoring them rather than taking them seriously.
Mr. Prager has an excellent point here. People have become so sensitive to offending a person of color, they chose to shutup. Not me.
This is another terrible legacy of the dominant liberal attitudes vis a vis America’s blacks. For the liberal worlds of academia and media, as for the Democratic Party, blacks are not seen as individuals, the way members of virtually other minority and majority groups are. In the liberal mind, blacks are an oppressed group — the ultimate oppressed group in America — and there is little more about black Americans that one needs to know.
Therefore, in a mind-numbing non sequitur, blacks are not be judged, talked to, talked about or hired as other human beings are. I write “non sequitur” because even if one were to agree that blacks are an, or even the, oppressed minority, why would that obviate the need to judge, talk to, talk about or hire black human beings differently than anyone else? It would seem that anyone with equal respect for blacks would judge and talk to them just as they would all other people. But high schools and universities, newspapers and television, the Democratic Party and other liberal institutions have made it very difficult to do so.
There is a lot of money to be made by playing the race card. Lawsuits. We had racism in America several decades ago. But like all things liberal, the past is always dragged up as the present. Racism still exists, say the liberals, so IT IS so. They keep it alive by constantly mentioning it.
Anyone who argues that standards should be identical for blacks — in hiring and in college acceptance, for example — is likely to be labeled a racist. And if the person making that argument is himself black, he becomes a member of the group liberals most hate, black conservatives — “traitors” to fellow blacks.
Standards? No no…Black people are disadvantged. Under-educated. Poor. Abused. They have too many things going against them. BULLSHIT. The only thing they have going against them are those who seek to KEEP them in a lower class- liberals and Democrats. Victims stay victims when they allow others to percieve them as so.
July 11th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Picnic 2006-07-11
Today's picnic basket of items from my blogroll.
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July 11th, 2006 at 9:57 am
Over here, we have a slang word – ‘Izzit’
The word describes people who make false of frivolous accusations of racism for personal gain or to attack others, and derives from ‘Iz it ‘Cos I is black?’
I met an izzit once at a bootfair. A black women, browsing with her three children. One of them had just upwraped an icecream and – dispite standing no more than a few steps from the bin – droped the sticky wrapper onto the ground. Being in an irritable but self-rightous mood, I commented on this to the mother, and was immediately hit with a barrage of accusations: ‘Are you saying black’s cant raise their own children!’ and similar remarks, shouted loudly in order to attract the disapproving attention of everyone nearby. I retreated hurridly.
It is the Izzits who are causing this situation. The ones who have people scared of accusations. When anything that shows even the slightest unintentional hint of racism opens an potential route of attack, of course people will be terrified to argue with any minority.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
ROTF SR– now this is funny. Izzit. A term I shall use.
And TY for the excellent example of what I am talking about here…exactly.