Posted on 09/18/2011 9:20:58 AM PDT by flowerplough
...In 1964, in West Virginia a fourteen-year-old Henry Louis Gates Jr. broke his hip and went to a doctor who x‑rayed his knee, which was also in pain. The doctor saw nothing wrong with his knee and deemed his pain psychosomatic. "He said that I had a nervous breakdown because I was an overachiever," Gates said. "He said colored people weren't supposed to do as well as I had done. I had been stressed out and there was nothing wrong with my knee. White guy thought I was imagining things. And that's why I walk with a cane and I've had a dozen operations since I was fourteen." Gates remains bitter about the whole thing. "I hope that motherf***er's burning in hell."
Duke Professor Wahneema Lubiano, ... took the National Merit Scholar's test and placed as a semifinalist. But when she went to the guidance counselor, he suggested she go to secretarial school. "And I believed it," she said. "I went home crying but I believed it." ...
In the fall of 1960, in Greenville, South Carolina, an eighteen-year-old Jesse Jackson tried to use the public library. He was home from college and needed a certain book for a speech he had to give. "I went to the colored library," he told me. "Librarian said, 'I don't have that book but my friend at the Central Library does. I'll write you a note and I'll call her. She's my friend.' ... When I got there I went in the back of the library and two policemen were standing there talking with her. No doubt she told 'em I was coming.
"So I give her the note. Said, 'May I get the books?' She said, 'I'll have 'em in about six days.'
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“Duke Professor Wahneema Lubiano, ... took the National Merit Scholar’s test and placed as a semifinalist. But when she went to the guidance counselor, he suggested she go to secretarial school. “And I believed it,” she said. “I went home crying but I believed it.” ..”
I have a similar story (except that I WAS a National Merit Scholar, not a semi-finalist). Was race to blame for my story? I think not.
This whole article and book, apparently, is designed to cultivate grievances where they may not even exist. How does some poet think she is more brilliant than people think she is? The work of a brilliant poet will, in the end, rise and be seen and appreciated.
On the other hand, I have seen so many low-talent to zero-talent blacks treated as if they were brilliant, I could scream. Of course, this practice — which is a form of liberal racism — causes all non-blacks to question to value anyone assigns to the work of blacks, as a matter of course. Does the book point this out? Of course not, that would challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Today, blacks are being destroyed by leftist policies that assume they cannot get ahead without government intervention and dependency-inducing welfare. That has been far more corrosive than the old-fashioned in-your-face racism. In the 1950s the black family was mostly intact in a period of segregation and legalized racism. Today, more than half the black population has descended into degenerate living patterns and many are no more than wild savages. Thanks, liberals, for such wonderful progress.
Imagine what the world would have been like if institutionalized racism had ended and no one set up the liberal plantation based on racism? Blacks would have become a successful minority. Liberals could never tolerate that. They had too much to gain by keeping them down. This article encourages and promotes the mentality that helps keep blacks in their place — the liberal version.
Is there thing that indicates that this is the reason you were treated this way?
Back in the early 90s' a unit on my base was about 3/4 white and 1/4 black. The monthly, quarterly and annual award winners were always black. Only blacks were given accelerated merit promotions (E-5 Below-the-Zone) and STEP Promotion nominations.
The black squadron commander of this unit publicly said "I don't like white boys." It was well known throughout the wing that he was a bigot. Nobody up the chain had the balls to call him on this (Doncha just love PC BS?) and the behavior was never corrected.
Would you say that the commander's behavior was based in racism?
Let's go back to your story. The salesman may have tried to con your family due to racism. He may have thought your father wasn't too bright and did this to anyone who he believed wasn't too bright, regardless of race.
Do you have anything more than the fact that (I assume) this man was white and he tried to rip off a black family? Would you have felt better if it had been a black guy who tried to rip off your family?
I don't know why he did it and I don't think you really know why, either.
“I can’t believe how these people are hanging on to a few negative things that were said to them over 40 years ago, for whatever the reason. What a sad angry life they must live.”
It keeps the TV interviews and cash flowing their way!
Well said, Kara.
Secondly, affirmative action can contribute to bigotry against people who actually EARN their positions. A belief by their co-workers, whether deserved or not, that they got to their position because of their race. This is terribly unfair to those who actually earned their position, and what's worse, can be terribly unfair others of the same race who had nothing to do with it. An unearned position by an incompetent can lead to bigorty.
Mark
I remember those days of the '40s and beyond. If anyone thinks that there were no "flash mob" attacks in those days they are wrong. The only difference is a white could avoid them back then by staying out of black neighborhoods.
Things really exploded in the 1960s and many of white found out the "Denny"-way.
This is THREE generations ago
(every 20 years)
This is racism from people who GREW UP BEFORE 1940
I dont actually give a crap about this article for that reason, except as a historical example and proof of HOW THING HAVE IMPROVED
This is not an example of why we need more affirmative action- but how we have more than acheived equality, when an incompetant buffoon can become president mostly BECAUSE he is black.
I guess Obama would say the Dr. "acted stupidly."
In the sixties racism was a very real and evil thing.....today there are individual racist committed by ignorant asshats.....it is almost impossible for institutional racism to exist in today’s society with all the federal regulations and rules
Someone should write the article “the most racist thing that happened to me in the past 10 years”. It might involve the black panthers, Jeremiah Wright or Eric Holder, but it would not involve actions by white people.
Our family is white. My mom went to Clark U. in MA in the 60’s and was heading for a music degree. She was told after she had completed her degree, she might give piano lessons. Many things were different that long ago.
She left Clark U. shortly after that and continued on to get Masters Degrees in library science and east Asian history from U. WI at Madison, WI.
ML/NJ
I took an "aptitude test" given by my high school, and the counselor told me that my best bet would be to study for the post office exam... I've been in IT since 1985, in nearly every discipline, and even spent a 4 1/2 year stint as a networking instructor, including a highly specialized message transfer system, and I was one of only 3 people in the US authorized by Novell to teach the course (I taught the network admins for the Military Airlift Command at Scott AFB to work with it).
Chalk up another success for "government experts."
Mark
There's an old saying, "The best revenge is to live well." I can't think of anything better than proving someone who thought you had no value wrong, and then rubbing their nose in it. But that means letting go of the anger, and doing something.
Mark
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