Race pimp.
Posted on 04/10/2012 7:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
David Leonard has spent years fighting racism and White privilege--and he's ready for his Caucasian brethren to get on board and see just how wrong things still are in this country.
Dear White folks:
Between the racist comments, the constant use of the race denial card (this country's most frequently used "race card") and the absurd claims of White victimhood, you have really grated my last nerve.
Sure, we got teary during The Blind Side and Antoine Fisher; we maybe even gave money to KONY2012 and after Hurricane Katrina; we maybe even donned a hoodie to protest the murder of Trayvon Martin. I don’t even doubt there are individuals out there who are genuinely concerned about racism and injustice; I don’t doubt that there are many Whites that marched with Dr. King and whose “best friends” might be Black. None of this matters if African Americans continue to die at the hands of guns held by security guards and police officers all without justice.
I have heard that “we are all Trayvon Martin” over the last few weeks, yet we are not Trayvon Martin – and we never could be. White America is never suspicious. White America can walk to the store without fear of being hunted down. White America can count on justice and a nation grieving at the loss of White life. We aren't Trayvon Martin, we are George Zimmerman: presumed innocent until proven innocent.
I want you to close your eyes for a second, and imagine that your son or daughter, sister or brother, granddaughter or grandson, ventured to the corner store for some Skittles and tea but never returned? Can you imagine if Peter or Jan were gunned down right around the corner from your house and the police didn’t notify you right away? Can you imagine if little Sydney or Bobby sat in the morgue for days as you searched to find out what happened them? Can you even imagine the police letting the perpetrator go or the news media remaining silent? Can you even fathom learning about background and drug tests on your child? Can you imagine the news media demonizing your child, blaming your child for his own death?
Can you imagine the outcry if seven White youths had been gunned down by police and security guards in a matter of months? Can you imagine the extensive political interest, the media stories that would saturate the airwaves? Can you imagine Fox News or any number of newspapers reporting about a school suspension for one of the victims or doctoring pictures in an attempt to make these victims less sympathetic? Can you imagine a person holding up a sign calling these victims “thugs” and “hoodlums.”Just think about the media frenzy, the concern from politicians, and the national horror every time a school shooting happens in Suburbia or every time a White woman goes missing...can you imagine if women routinely went missing from your community and the news and police department simply couldn't be bothered?
No, you can't. And you don't have to.
Yet, from Florida to Los Angeles, from Atlanta to Wisconsin, from Chicago to Ohio, Black families are burying the innocent and the future. Doesn’t that make you sad; doesn’t that make your angry? Our silence is telling. We can barely say their names much less acknowledge the epidemic in our midst: Stephon Watts. Trayvon Martin. Ramarley Graham. Wendell Allen. Dante Price. Bo Morrison. Rekia Boyd. Kendrec McDade.
All have lost their lives; and we don’t even say their names. All have died under similarly disturbing circumstances. All should have prompted national outrage and action; or at the least for us to say their names.
I don’t care if you cried during The Help and if the 'feel good' movie of the year featuring chicken-frying maids and affluent White women made you feel all post-racial tingly on the inside. Did you cry at the report of yet another lost Black life? If so, what have those tears done – have they led you to join a rally, to demand justice? I don’t care if you voted for President Obama; have you demanded dramatic changes to our criminal (in)justice system? It is time for us to check ourselves, to listen and demand a better America starting with ourselves. It is time to stop denying racism and defending White privilege, distracting and deflecting with “what ifs” and excuses. It is time to demand justice for the Trayvons and the Rekias, not because it could have been one of our sons and daughters--it couldn't--but because it is simply the right thing to do.
Sincerely
A member of White America
“White America can walk to the store without fear of being hunted down.”
He should come ova and try it in my neighborhood!
Mist Leonard must live in a gated community wid a neighborhood watch or something...
“fig newton” — what’s that?
Tan on the outside, squishy on the inside?
ABC News overnight has been yowling their victory yell, that George Zimmermann has left Florida and is running for his life.
For no-doubt political reasons, the DA has put a hang-'em-all prosecutor on the Martin/Zimmermann case, and she's apparently (this is ABC News "leaning forward" a la MSNBC and possibly talking out their @ss) going to seek a criminal indictment.
My WAG is that Zimmermann heard that too -- he actually called her up and talked to her -- and she must have said something that put him on the run. If she gets an indictment and they set high bail, he's a really good bet to be murdered in jail, with that NBPP price on his head.
Thoughts? Comments?
The Marxist and race machine will continue to pound on whites until whites completely acquiesce and we end up like some form of South Africa or Zimbabwe or whites stand up. Wonder which it will be?
Race pimp.
Any black, man or woman, with an IQ above 100 who speaks properly and has the tiniest bit of motivation will get their college for free and hired first upon graduation, even in a bad economy.
“white” on the outside, black on the inside
as opposed to oreos, which were tossed at Michael Steele by democrat operatives when he ran for LtGov
white kids who try to act black also are endearing called “wiggers’ by the local culture
I made the mistake of looking at the perfesser’s website. It’s ureal how low our universities have sunk. This clown has real white guilt problems. In my opinion, parents who foot the college bills for their offspring would be well-advised to look a bit deeper before cutting the checks.
You are a patriot in every sense of the word. Thank you.
Yep, being this Liberal means always having to say you're sorry.
It must be difficult to feel the need to atone for every slight, both real and imagined, performed by every person in every group that you self-identify with. I'm almost, but not quite, sympathetic to this wretched excuse for a human.
I do care about race, because I don’t want to live in Detroit or Zimbabwe or Haiti.
Sorry, I’ve been too busy working 9+ hours a day 5 days a week, plus helping my kids with their school work, volunteering at their school and with the Boy Scouts, shuttling them to various activities and practices, making sure they get to church regularly and that they know their extended family, taking care of my house, paying my taxes and generally staying out of trouble...to realize how easy I have it.
MY eye-opener with liberals came as a freshman in college. There was a radical feminist group oncampus called "Women Against Rape" (who isn't, but I digress). Among other things, they advocated for mandatory castration of all men at birth.
Rather than kick these idiots off campus (preferred) or just ignoring them (probably the wisest course)... my esteemed college admins chose to fund their little club with MY student fees.
'Twas at that point I decided that I had NOTHING in common with these liberal fools. I suppose that I should thank them; being a conservative has made me pretty successful, and certainly much more happy.
He looks very smug and self-satisfied because he “cares.” He is probably a rock star in his liberal academia community.
I’d remind Dr. Leonard that over 90+ of African Americans who are murdered are murdered by other African-Americans, not by Europeans, Asians or Latinos so the African American community needs to resolve that calamity before condemning the rest of America for their spiraling death toll.
In my extended family, we have...
people who lost scholarships, jobs and promotions to blacks, someone who was harrassed at the workplace by blacks, assaulted, made to fear for safety, and set up to be detained/arrested without cause with black assistance.
Don’t you dare tell me we have it easy. Don’t you dare. It is blacks who have taught me what real racism is. The undercurrent of violence against others is eapecially noticeable on the part of blacks, something I have noticed in the last 7 years in particular.
“Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies”
I’ve re-read that 4x and I STILL don’t understand WTH it means! And we probably paid/helped pay for it, to boot!
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