Posted on 01/13/2014 1:43:55 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
... Joe is an 82-year-old black man, a very successful retired computer engineer. He owns homes in the most affluent areas of this city.... Joe is a forceful man who has assumed the role of a leader among our common acquaintance.
Joe is obsessed with white racism, and because he is black, people acquiesce to him in ways they would not for a white man. Regardless of the setting, Joe will change the topic to excoriate white people for their racism.....
..Despite being raised in a middle-class family..., when Joe talks to young people, he does not ask them about their goals; he oppresses them with tales of the horrors of racism suffered by his father and grandfather.
Joe's first wife was black. He divorced her in the 1960s and married a wealthy white woman....she passed away, and he married another white woman.
Joe has a consulting business.I know of no black employees in his firm.
[SNIP]
Joe was recently invited to address a group of about a hundred people, almost all white, on a topic unrelated to politics or racism. As he rose to speak, a soft groan wafted up from the assembled. He opened his remarks with, "We can all agree that things are bad for black people here in South Carolina." He then lambasted the assemblage: there were so few black people in the room because of our racism. This group is primarily progressives who suck up to black people,but nothing assuages a guilty conscience.
The presumption of the pronoun "we" compelled me to stand up and challenge his obsessional projected blame. As I spoke,Joe started to splutter and shake. After the meeting,he barked at me for being rude. Later,a lady from Mexico,a naturalized American citizen, threw her arms around me and said,"Thank you. I am so tired of Joe's crap."
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We all need to stand up and speak out against this "crap."
A great nugget [truth] from the Am Thinker piece:
.....”Guilt has been called the unnatural emotion. Sadness, fear, frustration, and anger are hardwired from birth. Guilt, conscious or unconscious, arises from a comparison between that which is and that which the conditioned mind says should be. Just as the concept of character was replaced by the morally neutral concept of personality in mid-twentieth-century psychology, the concept of guilt was largely replaced by research in the morally neutral field of anxiety.
Guilt is associated with religion and morality. Psychology functions as a religion replacement and is a source of anti-moral humanist doctrine. Clinical psychological research is often implicitly antagonistic to morality and religion. However, a recent article entitled “Pathological guilt: a persistent yet overlooked treatment factor in obsessive compulsive disorder” [1] sheds lights on the understructure of guilt of the left wing’s obsession with race and racism.”.....
>> “Thank you. I am so tired of Joe’s crap.”
Thank God the excerpt wrapped-up with a funny.
Fascinating premise.
>> Guilt is associated with religion and morality. etc
Guilt is a memory fixation.
While it’s important to learn from mistakes, it’s of no use to continually relive them.
I especially appreciate the comparison between (concept) "character" and "personality."
It explains so much about today's pop-culture and America's decline.
This idiot’s not worth the effort of writing something venomous.
Often you hear, “humans are the only animal that feel guilt.”
It’s interesting to deconstruct how we have devolved with all the psyco-babble.
She uses him as a foil to get to the point of her article -- and to say she knows whereof she speaks.
I meant Joe, not the author.
I wonder who “Joe” is?
... Joe is an 82-year-old black man, a very successful retired computer engineer. He owns homes in the most affluent areas of this city.... Joe is a forceful man who has assumed the role of a leader among our common acquaintance.
Joe the subject of this piece.
A few decades ago they came up with "institutional racism" to describe how the system was still discriminating against Black people. This caused a lot of people, even many white liberals, to scratch their heads, because since 1965 the system has been heavily tilted towards Blacks and other minorities at the expense of Whites. Affirmative Action can also be called Affirmative Discrimination.
So now the new term is "white privilege" where white people have all these "unearned" privileges just by the merit of their white skin. It is another form of saying, like Obama said, "you didn't earn that thing, white person."
Progressives will never stop coming up with terms to explain away Black failure, because that would mean one of the Progressives favorite pet groups would have to take the blame for their own failures. Progressives can't stand the idea that 99% of people fail on their merits. It must be the system they complain. And that is why we still have racists like the Black man in the article. They can't stand what they see in the mirror. They desperately want to see some outside force causing their problems, but it comes down to themselves.
I don’t begrudge some black peoples’ obsession with race. They have it rubbed in their faces by too many on the right, and EVERYBODY on the left.
I know!
Progressives would fade away w/o identity politics.
Collectivism! first and foremost, underpinned by exploitable grievance groups.
Individuality is their nemesis.
Today, the worst racists in America are black.
“Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.”
A black acquaintance of mine casually remarked once to a group of white friends we had in common that we would be shocked how much old black people hate white people. I am not shocked any more.
This old man is Black KKK Racist. Good that this writer challenged him
Need to challenge Black Racists and their White Guilt Liberal bootlickers more often
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