Modern Rascism
One of my closest mentors in college was a Lt. Col. Harris from the ROTC department, who was not only a highly intelligent, thoughtful, and honest man, but was also meek in the truly Christian sense; in the sense that he saw the bigger picture, and while he did not falsely belittle his own accomplishments, he also put them into their proper perspective, and never showed the slightest sign of arrogance to me or anyone else. When the cadets needed help, he was the one to volunteer to make the time. When a cadet was misprioritizing, he was the one who was able to point it out to them and help them make it right. When my internal crisis with the Church was at its worst, he was the one who was able to remind me of my own sanity. As it so happens, he was a black man.
One of the politicians I respect the most is a woman named Condoleeza Rice. While some other people of her skin color were doing their damnedest to take incriminating photographs of policemen who were just trying to defend themselves and do their jobs, demanding that the state impose racist hiring quotas on employers, trying to hijack the free market economy by interfering in private business choices, and squabbling over the distribution of public works that never should have existed in the first place, she was out earning her Phd, landing teaching positions in such prestigious institutions of learning as Stanford University, and becoming the most powerful woman in American politics, and becoming an accomplished concert pianist (just for the fun of it(!)). While I strongly disagree with her views on foreign policy, I must admit that she is one of the most impressive and respectable individuals in the world of politics. She also happens to be a black woman.
One of the people I enjoyed working with the most was a man named Bobby Williams. I was still in highschool, and it was my first summer job. Bobby was middle aged, but you wouldn't have thought so from looking at him. After working out in the field all day, he would go lift weights and run. He was there early every morning. He always evaluated what needed to be done, and worked harder than anyone else there. He'd always been with the company we worked for -- in the beginning, when there was nothing on the property but trees to be chopped down, and stumps to destroy -- in the hard times, when everyone else was jumping ship and abandoning the company before their jobs disappeared -- in the fallow times, when there were severe shortages of equipment and manpower. He was steady, strong, compassionate, brutally honest, and deeply pious. He didn't have much, but what he did have was his. He never complained, and found happiness in spite of numerous troubles brought on by those who would take advantage of his overabundant generosity. He was not a perfect man, but he was a righteous one. As it so happens, he was also a black man.
I am not a racist. I have no right to be. I have seen firsthand why racist ideas can hold no water.
I am not a racist, but I do understand how it is possible to be one.
I work security at an apartment complex (What can I say? It's paying the bills for now.). This complex receives government funding; it is subsidized housing for welfare recipients. At least 90% of the people who live there are black. There are several crack-houses in the complex, and we're always having to kick crackheads off the property (who are also mostly black). Many of the residents there deeply resent our presence, which is at the behest and pay of the owners of the property (which they seem to feel entitled to as a matter of course), and those that do are almost all black.
Much of modern black culture glorifies theft, murder, and recreational drug use (which, while I believe it should be legal, I do not believe it should be viewed in a positive light (it is damaging, stupid, and low)).
We pay people to sit on their ass and have kids, and call it "welfare." These welfare recipients wait until they are 16 and then do their best to have kids so they can drop out of highschool and collect a check for doing nothing. Most welfare recipients are black.
White and Asian men and women are finding that they are being rejected from Universities and jobs in favor of less qualified black and hispanic students because schools and employers have genuinely racist quotas that favor the black man. Meanwhilst, "luminaries" such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton scream in self-righteous indignation about the white man keeping black people down.
Given this, it's hard to believe that racism (among whites) isn't far more prevalent than it already is; it's practically pandemic among black people nowadays. Most white people are not racist against black people, not primarily because of the outstanding black individuals that they know, but because of the guilt complex instilled into them by today's system of public education and politically correct thought. In the far backwoods of Nowhere, America, there still linger a very few individuals who genuinely believe that being black of skin makes one inherently inferior, but those are so few in number, and so utterly insignificant in person, that it hardly bears mentioning. Yet, there are a great many today that are racist for other, more rational reasons; all the reasons listed above.
Our culture has so earnestly striven to counter injustices of the past, that it has inadvertently (or perhaps even purposely) committed true atrocities in the present against white men and women whose only crime was to be born to white parents.
The reason things have gotten so out of hand is that as a result of our decades of counterracist policies, the black community has come to develop an entitlement complex. Not all black people have this complex, obviously, but a great many of them do; they're used to special treatment at the hands of a society that has been guilted into providing it. Make no mistake: affirmative action is special treatment. It is the most racist trend in legislation since Jim Crow. The simple fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people will do the bare minimum to get by. If you start handing out freebies based on race, then the majority of the people of that race will continue to stagnate -- the basic motivation for survival is no longer present. This is the root cause of racial stagnation; not the racism of white people. Modern racism is not the disease; it is merely a symptom of the welfare state applied to race.
The solution to the current dilemma is simple, yet hard. And it is the only solution:
We must stop taking race into account in the legislative process. Skin color must not have any relevance to public policy. There can be no such thing as a "hate crime." A crime is a crime; nothing more or less. You cannot force people to act fairly, and you shouldn't try; though discrimination is self-destructive in the long run. The only way to kill racism is to demonstrate its stupidity. The only way to do that is to step aside and let outstanding individuals shine, without the help of the state, and demonstrate the irrelevance of skin color. DO NOT HELP THEM! This will only belittle their accomplishments. DO NOT HINDER THEM! In the end everyone will see you for the fool that you are. This is the ONLY solution.
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