Posted on 06/02/2002 12:36:57 PM PDT by tricky_k_1972
It might be easier if all racists were like Bobby Frank Cherry: easily identified, cartoon character good old boys. It might be simpler if all racism manifested itself in violent, clumsy ways. But like any virus, in order to survive, racism adapts to its conditions. These complex times call for a more subtle approach. Today, some racists wear suits and ties, run big bureaucracies or work in government and private corporations. Some are those who have declared racism dead, that the playing field has been leveled, and that affirmative action unnecessary and in itself racist.
Today’s racists are those who willfully ignore the existence of both discrimination against African Americans and their own white privilege. They are those who insist that all they have is due to hard work, while all that other, less fortunate members of society lack is a result of their own ineptitude. Like Cherry, today’s racists take lives and livelihoods, crush spirits, and then blame the victim. I’m pleased that Bobby Frank Cherry will spend the rest of his days in prison, but his conviction won’t bring those four girls back. And racism still is not dead. That can only happen when Americans recognize the entrenched system of white privilege that disenfranchises not only black Americans, but all people of color, not only here, but around the world, and work to dismantle it.
Is that sq. ft., or is that your rent?
They are those who insist that all they have is due to hard work, while all that other, less fortunate members of society lack is a result of their own ineptitude.I had no idea I was a racist.
Of course, that doesn't explain how Jamal got Tamika pregnant, but everybody knows she just a skanky ho.
ROFL! That's right, Jamal is the victim here, and I wouldn't want to be stuck with Tamika either.
I do alot of personal research and I find some things that I feel defy all understanding, but I still believe in this Great Experiment of a Republic that our fore fathers envisioned. I think this little experament that we have created here is something our Fathers would have envisioned and loved.
Again thank you all.
Richard H. Kerr Jr. (Former U.S. Army Active)
Not that I know of sorry. Most of my known relatives are either from Illinois. or Pen. Dutch, thanks for asking.
Some of them also write for MSNBC.
BCD: And we're still trying to bring ourselves to forgive him for it.
I'm the great-great-grandson of a Union Army vet, also... Despite that, I'm very familiar with the arguments for the Confederacy. I'll go so far as to admit, that the Confederates may have been right about everything else besides slavery.
BUT... We need to make a conservative coalition that includes, or potentially includes, everyone. And I hate to break it to you, but to virtually 100% of blacks, the Confederacy EQUALS slavery. They don't know, and don't care to know, that the Confederacy stood for anything else, and I don't blame them for feeling that way. By defending the Confederacy in any way at all, you give creedence to the oft-repeated liberal lie, that conservatives are "racist". And this lie is ALL that keeps the liberals in power -- if blacks voted like whites, we'd be home free.
Defend all the good values and principles that the Confederacy stood for, but don't defend them in the NAME of the Confederacy. Because that name is permanently stained with slavery in the minds of the very people that we most need to reach. The principles of liberty stand on their own merits, they don't need -- and don't benefit from -- the Confederate flag being wrapped around them. Quite the reverse.
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