If anyone conforms to a stereotypical white racist, it is me. I am of an age when whites avoided association with negroes, which was the polite term then as opposed to the “N-word.” I live in flyover country and I associate with “deplorables.” Oh yes, and I am white and politically conservative.
According to ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and race baiters like Al Sharpton, racism is responsible for everything from hiccups to halitosis.
If you, the reader, are Caucasian, put yourself in the place of an inner-city non-white person for a moment. You hear the incessant message that white people hate you, feel they are superior to you, and consider themselves entitled to special considerations. How would that make you feel? I would be marching in the street calling for “pigs in a blanket.”
“White Racism” has given birth to organizations like Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and violence has broken out on occasion. So when will this become yelling Fire! in a crowded theater and not just free speech? How many will have to be killed?
Slander
Race baiters are slandering an American public for whom white racism died five or six decades ago. It does not exist today. If you want proof, pay attention to TV commercials which routinely use black people and sometimes use them in mixed-couple settings. Companies pay big money to have these made and to purchase the air time needed to use them as a selling tool. If we were a nation of white supremacists, well…you can figure out the rest of the sentence.
So where did all these white racists go between the time that owning slaves was legal and now? Let’s begin by understanding the nature of this “racism.” As a high-schooler in a small midwestern town, I felt self-conscious walking down the street with a Negro, but I certainly bore no hate toward anybody. What would people think of me associating with a person they thought was inferior?
And there is the key, the amorphous “they” which we imagine to be judging our every move when, in reality, all them theys are experiencing my same insecurities. The civil rights movement convinced us that we were being stupid, and it became chic to have black or African-American friends.
Military Perspective
The military played no small part in this transition. When you eat, sleep and work with people 24/7, the content of their character trivializes the significance of their skin color. Stationed at Ft. Polk, Louisiana, I viewed the “Colored” and “Whites” signs dotting local businesses directing their customers where to eat, drink and dump as signs of backwardness.
Prior to that, I was stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in the mid fifties. I was walking across the post with a friend I spent a lot of time with because of shared interests. I glanced over and realized he was a Negro. Of course I knew that, but it had long since become so insignificant to me that it was liberating to realize I neither cared nor thought it was important.
There will always be some people, small in number and zero in influence, who, for whatever reason, exhibit animosity toward anyone who doesn’t look like them. If any one of my acquaintances used the N-word, he would receive a, “I can’t believe you said that” look, which clearly telegraphs that if you say that again, you are no longer an acquaintance.
Insults
The insults continue and while I can disregard them by considering the source, I can’t ignore the damage they do. It’s the “dog-whistle,” one democrat/liberal/progressive to another, which says I have only one turd to throw at the wall and will continue to do so until it sticks. And kept up long enough, one will stick. If the d/l/p’s cared anything about their communities and the people in them, they would stop the identity politics and develop positive steps to make life better for them.
When d/l/p’s maliciously degrade every positive President Trump accomplishment (and there are many) with racism, that is a personal insult to me and every white person in this country…and I am pissed. It will reach critical mass when every black person believes every white person defecates on them continuously. Blocking streets and carrying signs may not be a strenuous enough protest for them.
It makes one wonder where that conflict will end. This is truly terrifying.
