Burned out on this crap back in the 60's.
Posted on 07/28/2009 6:39:20 AM PDT by shortstop
The talking heads say we need a dialog on race.
After the deal at Harvard, where the president assured us – before he “calibrated” his words – that “the police acted stupidly,” all the smart people on television assured us that this incident proves we need to talk about race.
The assertion is both politically correct and preposterous. It is one more string of meaningless words that are nothing more than a call for yet another racial-sensitivity browbeating.
Because there is no dialog about race in America, there is a lecture. The word “dialog” implies two-way conversation, but the vicious rules of this politically correct society dictate that the conversation will be entirely one way.
And every white person in America knows that – with the possible exception of the self-deluded and self-loathing white intelligentsia. Every white person in America knows that an honest discussion of race would bring with it career-ending consequences and social ostracism.
For example, repeatedly over the last week it has been said that people of color predominate in America’s prisons. This has been used as prima facea evidence of racism in the criminal justice system. Essentially it is meant to be documentation for an American apartheid.
Frequently thought in response, but never spoken, is the possibility that non-whites are more likely to go to jail because non-whites are more likely to commit crimes.
That is a simple observation, and one significantly rooted in fact. But it is unspoken, because the heavy ax of social censure hangs over the head of anyone who would dare say it.
Another example of speech restrictions that preclude dialog is the notion that the Harvard professor in question is not just a jerk, but quite possibly a racist. His racial motivation and preconceptions have not and will not be questioned or discussed. The cop is freely accused of racism – of treating the professor different because of the color of his skin – but no one dares venture the argument that possibly it was the professor who reacted based on the cop’s skin color.
These are all valid, logical questions, but so pervasive is the orthodoxy of political correctness that they cannot be spoken.
So there is no dialog.
There is merely another opportunity for society to be lectured on its intolerance and cruelty to non-whites.
And that lecture doesn’t make racial problems go away, it engenders them. It makes both sides angry with one another and promotes division instead of unity and amity.
The race dialog envisioned by the talking heads – and the president – is one in which the commonly held black view that African-Americans are targeted and persecuted by police will be passed around with the expectation that everyone will agree. The problem with this approach – which has been used for years and years – is that it makes some whites angry and it makes some blacks feel separate and antagonistic. The identity of victimhood and alienation grows in one group and the resentment of being blamed for something you didn’t do grows in the other.
And America is divided further.
Ironically, it is the racial dialog that flames our racial problems.
Or at least that’s the way many feel.
Unfortunately, their voices and opinions are not welcome in the dialog on race.
What some feel, but are not able to say, is that they believe the race dialog is pushed by those who stand to benefit and profit from racial tension. Its objective is not to heal the country but to promote careers, hold political power and make money.
If the goal were unity, the topic would be unity, not a focus on differences and different perspectives, but a focus on shared perspectives and shared values. If you want to unite people, you talk about what they have in common. If you want to divide people, you talk about what differentiates them.
Focusing on the differences of the average white and black experiences in America has a tendency to galvanize people on opposite sides of the color barrier.
And the talking heads know that. They must.
But they continue their nonsense anyway.
What happened at Harvard is that a man got lippy and made a scene in front of a crowd of bystanders. That’s disorderly conduct. He was arrested. Then the political correctness kicked in and the charges were dropped and the cops got dissed by the governor and the president.
It broke down right along color lines.
The black mayor and the black governor and the black president stuck up for the black professor.
Maybe those three should start the dialog on race – and maybe they can start with the person in the mirror.
And maybe someday this country will be free enough for someone to suggest that those three are the ones with the racial bias.
It’s time for black men to get jobs, care for their families and STFU about the past. How’s that for a conversation starter?
Time for people to get over themselves in America?
You raciss.
Nice point.
We don’t need more talk about race. We need less. Much less.
We don’t need more race-based discrimination from our government. We need Less. Much less.
What we need is more talk about individual freedoms and personal responsibilities, and a government that recognizes those cornerstones of a free people.
Here’s how the “dialog” goes:
“Say you’re sorry, Whitey!”
“I’m sorry!”
“Apology not accepted. Open your wallet.”
Maybe it’s time for a dialog race... see who can say more without saying anything at all. Obama might win.
Know whut I’m sayin?
I feel ya...I guess I left out, learn how to speak English, huh?
Skin color doesn't matter
Here’s what we should discuss:
The danger of electing angry, bitter, Marxist black people to public office. After we’ve had that discussion, we should discuss the danger of electing angry, bitter, Marxist white people to public office.
My ancestors were abolitionist. They fought on every front to stop slavery. Some where soldiers in the Union army. Other (family legends says) assisted in the Under Ground Railroad.
I have in my possession a copy of “Uncle Tom's Cabin” that my Great grandmother gave to my grandmother when she was a teenager.
Family members felt the blow of the KKK because they were Republican. My own father worked on legal cases against a member of the Klan convicted of murder.
As a child my parents provided a place to swim for visiting African American children when they were not allowed in the public pools. Dad also visited the homes of people who needed legal advice, but didn't want to be seen going into a law office to seek it. We have entertained “blacks” in our home for generations.
I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to apologize for my actions or the actions of my ancestors to some Racist Pimp. I have nothing to feel guilty about and refuse to accept their invalidating manipulating actions as the “truth” for America.
Anyone with any idea on how to form a like minded group of individuals to send our message to those who need to hear it please contact me.
Let’s judge people on the content of their character...end of discussion.
Skin color doesn’t matter
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Amen! I’m soooooo sick of the ‘race baiters’. I think the people of this country are getting to the point of hearing them ‘cry wolf’ sooooo many times it’s becoming ‘ineffective’. Enough is enough.
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no. it's time for the institutions of gov't and media to quit setting the agenda for the people of America.
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