There is virtually no white racism in the US today. Certainly not in comparison to the rampant and egregious racism which is spewed by Obama, Cornel West, Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews, and Bill Mahr.
People who "play the race card" need to be laughed out of the game.
Good time to tell a recent and true story, names excluded to protect the many innocent.
Young black woman hired as an elementary school teacher by a black principal. He leaves and is replaced by a black principal. The teacher is observed by the principal and not offered tenure because her teaching skills are wanting.
Teacher goes to a black reverand in town, and he and the teacher’s family begin a campaign that the black principal denied the black teacher tenure due to racism. I kid you not.
So, the teacher must be re-observed by two White assistant superintendants, and a white teacher assists the young black woman by writing two excellent lesson plans for her.
The white school officials then give the black teacher tenure and another dreaded case of “racism” has ben resolved.
This is the America we live in today.
Oh, also great time to complain about a recent article in Parade.
Al Roker, super rich super successful black weatherman, says he gets angry over “injustice and inequality” because even today, in a “normal” section of town, he is wearing a suit and a taxi doesn’t stop to pick up him and his two sons.
Now, for so long as I have been alive it is an iconic aspect of NYC that it is very hard for anyone to hail a cab. Plus, seems every cab driver is a minority of some kind. Plus, they like to make money and Al Roker is famous.
This man of relatively little talent certainly is a multi millionaire many times over, is famous and well loved in America. Yet he would infect his sons with the belief that a cab drives past because they are black.
A racist America would not see him on tv, not quoting long articles praising him in Parade, people not buying his books, his many fans, I’m sure he lives in a damn nice property. It’s just mind boggling how people are convincing themselves that every time the wind blows it must be because they are black.
Excellent writing for a 20 year old!!!
Britain is simply reaping what it has allowed to be sown for decades: uber-political-correctness. I have ZERO sympathy.
If some moron tried this with my kid here in the States, they’d find me standing on their desk.....pronto.
Racism isn’t illegal as far as I know. Whether it’s wise or not is another issue, but until the thought police are fully deployed, it’s not illegal.
Discrimination is illegal.
The affliction we should worry about is witchhuntism. Seems like people everywhere and in all times need somebody to persecute. You see it on the playground, in the rest home, in the prison, the asylum, the classroom, the boardroom, the lifeboat ...everywhere.
The inquisitive boy asked a fellow classmate, “Are you brown because you come from Africa?”
The question that should be asked is would he be racist if he saw a little GREEN ET-looking guy step out of a space ship in the school hall-way and said to him: "Are you GREEN because you come from Mars?"
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Mrs. White owes her son an apology for subjecting him to abuse by strangers. Ignorance of what schools do to children will, for her, no longer be an excuse.
It’s a shame the boy had to suffer while his mother learned this lesson. But I trust her love for him will now prompt her to remove him from this abusive situation.
~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"
The first time my oldest grandaughter saw a black woman and realized she was different, she turned to her mother and asked with awe in her voice “Oh Mommy! Is she chocolate?”
What particularly needs to be looked at, however, is that it is very useful to that Educational school that seeks to promote World Government by the Norman Cousins formula. Cousins spoke to educational institutions & large groups of "educators" during the 1950s & 1960s, urging them to stop teaching how people differed--stop treating any people as unique--rather concentrate on how people were similar or the same. The child asking a question about another child's physical characteristics, may have caused some "educator" steeped in the Cousins' mindset to panic. (Cousins always promoted his approach by trying first to terrify an audience with descriptions of nuclear war.)
For more on Cousins & other one world types, off on a similar tangent: Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.
I personally first confronted the Cousins' effort to poison education at the age of 18. So I have been fighting this lunacy--this effort to lead America to surrender sovereignty by the subterfuge discussed in depth in the linked article--for a very long time. I do not see this sort of thing as a series of irrational, but unconnected, incidents. It should be taken seriously.
William Flax