Help, I'm a Racist and I Don't Want to Be

Admitting it is the first step! But it's not enough. What you do at this important juncture matters. By: | Posted: at 12:47 AM

"I'm a racist, and I don't want to be. I'm a white man in my very early 40s, and for years I've been extremely awkward and anxious around African Americans, especially men. At some point in my early teens, I became very self-conscious about the racial divide. And about that time, I moved to a much more homogeneously white area, and I guess gradually black people became abstractions to me or something. When I moved back to a more mixed neighborhood in college, I found I was afraid of them. Horrible thoughts and associations -- of crime, violence, whatever -- would spring to mind.

"Now it's reached the point where I can't encounter any African-American person without these thoughts cropping up, along with this seizure of panic that I'm racist, I'm giving off a funny vibe, I'm making that person feel uncomfortable and he or she can see through me and knows what's going on. It's a complex of shame and humiliation and fear that for two-plus decades I haven't been able to think my way out of, and if anything, it's only getting worse with age.

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can’t justify your existence, if you’re not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you’re not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

-George Bernard Shaw, Fabian socialist

There are plenty of whites who have been victimized by blacks in horrible ways and they need to start shouting about it.

Thank you for you condolences. I don't think about that often since it was over 40 years ago. I try to occasionally remind myself of the roots of my feelings, with tonight being one of them. As for shouting out about being victimized, I do necessarily look at it as being victimized. I rather deal with facts and justice. Yes, there are still victims, but the big problem is being able to talk about the facts. That is a problem, not with a minority (blacks), but perhaps with a majority of Americans, including many whites.

I can not think of one person that would go on national TV, let alone be allowed to go on national TV and say something as simple as "all major cities in American have been under Democrat control for decades. These same cities often have black majority populations. The schools are failed. Dropout rates are in many cases over 50%, and many that graduate are functional illiterates. This means generations of blacks are illiterate and unable to contribute to the economy or American society in a positive way. It doesn't take more money to solve the problem, it takes a change in black culture."

When I watched Dee Dee Rachael Jeantel or what ever her name is on the stand I see the epitome of black culture. When I see pictures of Trayvon, recent ones, not the little boy ones, I see the epitome of black culture. I also think about the tax dollars that I pay and the debt that my children will pay to allow current black culture to continue to exist. I am against all forms of welfare and only favor charity when people are required change their lives for the positive. Black culture needs to be ended and American culture needs to be adopted by blacks.

I am not a racist. I am a culturalist. There's a difference. I have no problem with black people. I have a problem with trash. I know many good black people and some of them are even in Detroit fighting against the trash there.

Modern inner city culture is trash and its followers are trash, be it eminem wannabes or Crips and Bloods. The biggest trash of all are these politically correct guilty white progressives and media types (run by these white progressives) that perpetuate this trash on all of us.

One can't choose skin color or ethnicity, but one can choose which culture to follow and make their own choices.

Sounds like someone who has observed bad behavior for a long time and now feels guilty about believing the evidence.

You see this so much in life in so many facets...regarding Muslims, regarding Obama, regarding black crime, regarding the debt. So many people can't stand to see the truth. The problems are complex. They are huge. They can't be solved overnight if at all. It's so much easier to put your head in the sand or cry like this "man" and say he's the one with the problem for observing and generalizing. We all know there is a world full of very decent black people, but there's a very big problem in America at large and specifically with American black culture. To deny it is to be ignorant or a liar. This guy should talk to Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. He would set him straight.

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