Wed - August 6, 2008The End of RacismA black man has been nominated by a major
political party for president. He looks to be very popular and might very well
be elected. Racism has ended.
But the race mongerers won't let us be. Sure there will always be kooks and extremists for any opinion, but institutionalized and culturally encouraged racism is dead. So why does B. Hussein Obama insist on insulting his voters by calling us all racists? Why that's because he, and especially his wife, are the real racists. They're also from Harvard so they seem to have the typical Harvard snobbish elitism where any opinion but theirs is not only wrong, but ignorantly wrong and impossible to comprehend. So that's the main proof that racism is dead. Despite the insults to our character by calling us racists, a black man is still on top of a major ticket. But there's an even more significant, if quieter bit of evidence for the end of racism. I went home to Virginia last week for a visit. I
grew up there and lived there until I finished college. One common sight
everywhere was that of the manual laborers used to be almost exclusively made up
of black men. Trash collectors, landscaping crews, roofing crews, construction
gangs (except for the really big construction jobs) were invariably black with
just a smattering of whites. I have no statistics, but that's how I recall it
during the 60's, 70's and the 80's.
In the late 70's I worked as a clean-up boy for a small construction company, all the foremen were white and most of the workers were black. The roofing crews were exclusively black. The racism between these workers and the foremen was openly expressed and accepted as proper. The slurs and bad jokes were never ending. I was just the clean-up boy so I didn't mingle with either group, I just tried to keep my nose to my work and not get in trouble with either group. On this most recent visit to my old home town, I was struck by the fact that the same work was now being done by hispanics. Before you'd never see a hispanic in Virginia unless they were in the navy, but now they are quite common and they have overtaken these rougher jobs. My only conclusion is that blacks in southern Virginia have succeeded in graduating from schools, starting businesses and living better lives. It's time to cry foul when the race baiters try to make us feel guilty about slavery. No one alive today was involved in slavery, no one alive today can be punished for it. If the race baiters want to insist on calling us racists for the actions of our relatives or the relatives of other people (I have no relatives that were in this country 143 years ago) then why can't it go both ways? B. Hussein's relatives weren't slaves. His family was in Africa. If his ancesters were not sold into slavery, then we might conclude that his ancesters were the ones selling their countrymen into slavery, or remaining tacit while others did so. If race baiters want to use corruption of the blood to assign guilt to me, who has absolutely no blood corrupted, then turn about is fair play and we can use corruption of the blood to assign guilt to B. Hussein. But that's absurd, of course. No one is responsible for the sins, imagined or real, of their ancesters. All we need to know now is that racism is ended. We can see that to be true anecdotally, and now officially from nominating B. Hussien to office. Go Back to the Start, Do Not Collect $200 Send me your two cents | |