The end of race: 50 years after King's speech, it's time to stop caring about skin color

Politico ^ | 08/24/2013 | Gov. Bobby Jindal

[windsorknot]

time to stop caring about skin color

Not when you can make a lucrative career out of it.

[50sDad]

It's funny...I stopped caring twenty years ago. However the race-baiters keep bringing it up, using it as an excuse to expect no accountability from young black men who are raised in a broken culture, without fathers, by grandmothers, and whom have no respect for work because they can't be expected to go out and find it, dress nice, or speak clear English.

If the Rhyming Reverends would begin preaching accountability in their own communities (chastity, hard-work, and Christ's expectations that we will follow God and want to be better than we are) instead of doing nothing but blaming others for bad behavior, perhaps race concerns would disappear. Gandhi (and MLK Jr., actually) espoused that the way to make the oppressor change is to be outstanding, smart, empathetic, and good to others. You make your people so impressive that others have to recognize your humanity, and grant that to you. However, today's Excusologists in the "community organizer community" do nothing more than make genuinely color-blind people like me say "there you go again", and begin to expect the worse from some groups.

Mssrs Jackson and Sharpton...you don't give a crap about MLK or what he stood for, because you refuse to listen to his pleading spirit. Like W.E.B. DuBois noted, there are some who keep the black man down because they find it more profitable. Fifty years ago, sadly, it was mostly white men (a lot of them Democrats.) Today, it is nobody but YOU.

[GBA]

Bring back the melting pot.

Agreed. How about a timeout for a while?

How about we stop adventuring around the world, "solving" its problems and telling others how to live and what to do and get back to being ourselves and clean up our own house and our act?

Let's do it for the children...and for ourselves!

[Altura Ct.]

This isn’t about skin color, it’s about ideology.

That't a tired argument when you look at how our opponents come after us and have been for decades. Their very effective raced based juggernaut moves through our society. With weak defenses such as 'I'm not a racist - you are'. Which has no effect on them and completely disarms us as is evidenced by the position we find ourselves in.

[Steve_Seattle]

"True. However, I detect a note of desperation in the pimping. I think the race card is beginning to bounce."

Among the general public, true, but the media and educational and political elites are still obsessed by it. Because of this, big corporations often dance to the tune and sponsor mandatory sessions on "white privilege" and other leftist indoctrination. Same with gay marriage and gay rights - the media obsessed over this for twenty years, just hammered on it on an almost daily basis, and finally moved public opinion.

[thecodont]

Excellent article.

Thanks Gov. Jindal!

[thecodont]

How about profiling based on statistical data?

We are all actuaries now.

[SoFloFreeper]

Bobby Jindal bump.

I like this guy.

[JimRed]

It’s not color, Bobby, it’s BEHAVIOR.

[353FMG]

>Racism isn’t one of them.<

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Tell that to Barack, Jessie, Quanell X and other black race baiters.

[353FMG]

I think that it was never really about skin color — it was all about social behavior.

I attended a Southern University in the late 50’s and early 60’s during the days of segregation.

We had many professors and students from India that were darker in skin color than the local African Americans. Yet, the former were fully accepted in our society.

Can anyone explain?

[chris37]

I agree. It is about social behavior. From my own perspective, the color of one’s skin or country of origin or religion in most cases matter not a hill of beans to me.

It’s all about actions, how you treat others and so forth.