Don't Confuse My Heartfelt Convictions With Racism

CNS News ^ | January 17, 2013 | Charlie Daniels

[Albion Wilde]

Having seen overt, hard core racism, I can truthfully tell you it's become exceedingly rare among Caucasians since my youth. I believe we simply outgrew it. We saw it didn't provide a benefit, cost us more than it could ever have given us in terms of advantages, and was rude at the very least and morally wrong at the heart of the matter.

I agree. Our family used to travel south from Maryland for vacation in the 50s. Even though I was a child, I was disgusted and mortified by the segregationist customs -- "Whites Only" signs, all blacks in positions of servitude marked by different color uniforms, filthy accommodations next to clean ones for whites, etc. Just wrong. While neither of my working-class parents were overt racists nor abolitionist crusaders, I witnessed their ability to change, especially after MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. He called on Christians to do the right thing, and most responded.

Since Obama has been elected, I have been subjected to racist abuses by blacks on at least a dozen occasions, including the trashing of my car at a stop light by two grown men using kicks and fists on all the side panels, totalling the car. I am a little old lady now, and thank You, God for sparing my life! Incidents like these are all over the nation and remain unreported and hushed up by a delusional media -- not a welcome chapter in the history of race relations, especially after all the true victories of the 60s, 70s, and beyond.

The "low-information" thugs are those who do not want to work for their position in life, and who have convinced themselves that whites were just handed everything they have; whereas most of us know how difficult it was for our forbearers to carve a nation out of a wilderness and start everything from scratch; and how much was expected of us by our parents in terms of achievement and morality -- until the 60s.

And as a woman, I can tell you absolutely that nothing has been handed to me in the business world, and now there is age discrimination on top of the usual sex discrimination and harassment. Yet I don't go around hating men.