Nation of Cowards
Yesterday was supposed to be the day the TV died in Rockford, but the local ABC affiliate decided to run the Evening News. With a glass of wine in hand, I decided to bid farewell to the demons that are devouring the brains of Americans. The show did not disappoint. One of the featured stories was the speech given by Attorney General Eric Holder to Justice Department employees as part of Black History Month. Holder celebrated the occasion by condemning Americans, really white Americans, as a nation of cowards.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race. It is an issue we have never been at ease with and given our nation’s history this is in some ways understandable. And yet, if we are to make progress in this area we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us. But we must do more- and we in this room bear a special responsibility. Through its work and through its example this Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must—and will—lead the nation to the "new birth of freedom" so long ago promised by our greatest President. This is our duty and our solemn obligation.
Complaining—or rather whining—that “this nation has still not come to grips with its racial past,” Holder went on to suggest that Black History Month be turned into an opportunity for a more open discussion of racial conflict. The alternative, he warned, would be " to allow to continue the polite, restrained mixing that now passes as meaningful interaction but that in reality accomplishes very little.”
Translation: Americans like me should be compelled to spend more time listening to the complaints of poor Mr. Holder, whose career has been retarded by prejudice and discrimination to the point that he was not able to reach the office of Attorney General until he turned 58. If he had only been white, Holder would have been President at 40.
The job of the Attorney General of the United States used to have something to do with enforcing the laws of the United States. Mr. Holder obviously has a different conception. His mission is to lead a crusade for increased minority privileges and to serve as the national scold. I have only two things to say.
First, this shows us where the bully pulpit mentality promoted by the Reagan and Bush II administrations leads to. All you conservative Republicans were happy when Republican Presidents and their bully-boys in the cabinet preached, over the heads of Congress, to the American people and expanded the power and prestige of the executive branch. I hope you are all satisfied. You have your reward
Second, this is exactly the rhetoric any sane person must have expected from an Obama Cabinet. Let us only hope, with Jon Stewart, that Obama and Co. do not really mean what they say or at least do not intend to act out their fantasies. To all you conservatives who said you wanted to show your independence by lining up in the herd that sent Obama to the White House, I can only recommend that you solemnly forswear your right to vote or an express an opinion in public.
Holder is right about one thing, though: We are a nation of cowards. If we were not, Obama could not have been elected President.
P.S. The crackdown may be just beginning. In Oklahoma City a man was pulled over by the police because his car displayed a sign, "Abort Obama not Babies." A report was filed and the sign was confiscated by officers who apparently thought the word "abort" constituted a threat. The sign was restored to the driver, when Captain McCool of the OKC police thought to consult the Secret Service. Perhaps he also looked up the word in a dictionary—though McCool is still describing the incident as a difference of opinion, not a clear violation of the law. The Secret Service, dictionary or no dictionary, still insisted on walking through the man's house to see if he belonged to a hate group. He probably does: a group that hates infanticide.
No, I do not fear jackbooted stormtroopers coming to our office to enforce political correctness, and anyone who talks about blood in the streets is obviously seeing the wrong movies. But the atmosphere has already changed, and even strong-minded conservatives look both ways before telling an Obama joke.
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I think it would show a great deal of bravery if Mr.Holder would talk openly about how much more prevalent black on white crime is in this nation of cowards. There is a dialogue you arent going to get on the "news". Perhaps leavening this discussion with some of hapless Abe's more notable white supremacist comments.
Thank you for your comments on this. So far, yours is the only public criticism I've seen of this speech, though I hope more are coming. As an ongoing part of our cultural suicide, black racism is alive and well, and now it's their turn, as a BET commercial proudly proclaimed a couple of weeks ago. Some melting pot. At age 42, I've never considered myself a racist and have never perceived myself as being governed by racists--until now.
"First, this shows us where the bully pulpit mentality promoted by the Reagan and Bush II administrations leads to. All you conservative Republicans were happy when Republican Presidents and their bully-boys in the cabinet preached, over the heads of Congress, to the American people and expanded the power and prestige of the executive branch. I hope you are all satisfied. You have your reward."
Yes, the President has become our "leader" = "Führer" = "Duce." He has long since ceased to be that executive who under and within the Constitution simply executes the laws passed by the Congress. He is now expected by the fickle masses to be the one who can solve all problems and has commensurately become the one to style himself, as well as his clones in his cabinet, as the leader who can do such.
As to Mr. Holder, it is quite obvious that he is not willing to accept man is a creature of family, clan and tribe, more at home among his own kind than with others who are, well, others. Since compulsory integration of schools in our climes in the late 60's and in the early 70's, one merely has to observe the lunch rooms of our education factories. Black kids sit with black kids; white kids sit with white kids, and Hispanics sit with Hispanics. On the fringes at some table or tables there are almost always that tiny group which fraternizes across racial and ethnic lines. Kids instinctively do this, and usually keep things peaceful in the lunch room.
I was once the principal of a high school which was 90% black. The tradition at the school, since integration, had been that there would be a black and white homecoming queen and a black and white court representing each class each year. (Jacobin "equality" well entrenched!) At the beginning of my first year as principal, the few white girls in the school approached me before the elections of the queen(s) and her(their) court and stated that they wanted to eliminate the dual system. They were, they said, perfectly content if no white girls were on the court at all, which was highly likely since the majority of students were black. It got out in the "community" that I was a racist. Why was I a racist? Because, so it was argued, there might come a year in which the majority of black students would elect a "white" queen and there would be no "black" queen. I was therefore guilty of plotting to allow a year somewhere in the future to come to be in which the "community" would be denied their queen. I would love to have a eyeball-to-eyeball discussion with Mr. Holder!
Does he really want to talk about the racial matters that divide us? You've got to be kidding because his race isn't going to fare to well in that debate. I would think he should just lay low and be thankful someone of his mediocre skills has risen so high.
"Holder is right about one thing, though: We are a nation of cowards. If we were not, Obama could not have been elected President."
Dr. Fleming, what is the appropriate therapy for a family member who voted for this yuppie maniac?
Were he simply a close friend (and I am speaking hypothetically...), "amputation" of the friendship would be the obvious and necessary first step. Family, however, cannot be written off so easily. Even the Catholic Church, in the present state of society, has moderated the previous harsh stance of cutting off any and all non-essential communication with apostates.
Personally, I think it is okay to punch someone if he "has it coming."
Just what we need in the AG's office: a black Ramsay Clark.
I wish I knew. I have reached the conclusion that it hardly matters what most people believe or say or how they vote, because they are not morally autonomous. The only way I have ever reached anyone is to did down deep enough into their assumptions and find the contradictions, either with other assumptions or with the way they actually feel. So long as they do not make themselves personally offensive to you, it is best to put up with a brother or cousin who is a political idiot in the same way you would put up with a feeble-minded relative.
NGPM,
All you have to do is play the waiting game. Pretty soon your relative will become just as disallusioned about Obama as most of us conservatives were about Bush. This guy already has gone back on just about everything that the electorate hoped he would accomplish.
Nation of cowards indeed. Allow me to interject: "Dissent is the noblest form of patriotism" - there are numerous sources who said it first but we are surely a nation in desperate need of an opposition party (pure dissent). Nevermind the elephants, donkeys and other farm animals - we need a viable opposition that will speak up against any non-sense that passes through our corrupt Congress. Otherwise our future is more than just gloomy.
Nation of cowards? Bah Humbug!
My brother attended junior high school at Woodbourne, in Baltimore, and at age 15 (in 1965)noticed that Americans were supposed to act like adults until age 21 when they could finally act like children and buy speedboats and motorbikes, ditch work and be generally loutish. He returned to England, but I chose to stay here in Virginia.
No, not a notion of cowards, and not a nation of whiners either. A nation of immature debt slaves for whom accountability and responsibilty are foreign concepts assigned only to pussies and other perceived weaklings. Such is the state of post-Christian America. We deserve economic collapse because it might just make us stronger.
Eric Holder ought to be held responsible for the pardon of the vile criminal Marc Rich.
@1 Tom
Dream on, brother! That's never going to happen, at least not on Holder's watch. He'll use his pathetic little bully (wimp) pulpit to stick it to whitey.
@3 Robert
You neglected to mention Shah and Imperator.
@ 6 Tom
Ha ha ha! I need a firm foundation of Virginia Gentleman rinsed down with Schlitz Malt Liquor!
"frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us."
One would have thought Obama victory said a lot about the country but apparently some people wish to keep on yakking. I'll exercise my right to leave the room.
When one of my aunts in a neighbouring town found out that her fourty-something son (who should have known better) had voted for B.O., she didn't just scold him, she chewed him inside and out as if he were still ten years old. It didn't do any good.
When I and two of my friends discussed the issue of who in our community had voted for which candidate, we could come up with only three individuals or families with members who had voted for B.O. One is a white trash bunch, the other two are not known for being too bright. Dr Fleming is right, you have to tolerate these people like feeble minded relatives, town drunks, and village idiots.
Nearly all of my relatives voted for Obama. The funny thing is that Obama lost the county I live in by 2 to 1.
Wine?All this on just a glass of wine?Usually takes me three bourbons.I share the sentiments but I still can't lump Reagan with Bush II.Whatever the disappointments,there were and are "Reagan conservatives" and his Justice Department had some actual courage at times.The Bob Jones controversy comes to mind.Were there ever really any "Bush II" conservatives?Can't think of any.
@Dr. Fleming, Mr. Bruce: The problem is that people nowadays often do in fact live like idiots as well as vote like them. It is one thing to vote for Obama; it is another thing to actually believe in him. It's even more frustrating when one has to watch a fellow with a high I.Q. behave like a cretin.
That said, I am perhaps a bit too harsh on the world. I was 19 when I first heard the name, "Barak Obama," and in fact the first source I heard it from was Samuel Francis. Consequently I have never been enchanted with this utterly unimpressive man, nor viewed him in any sort of benign light. Not everyone is so fortunate.
Q. Why is February the shortest month?
A. Because it's black history month!
How do you like that Mr. Holder? I have lots of them. I can keep these coming as you as you keep spewing your intolerant, leftist hatred towards the 600,000 that paid with their blood, and the countless millions who paid (and continue to do so)with their hard-earned tax dollars.
One more thing: Americans have elected numerous weirdos and libertines to the Oval Office, but never before have they elected a President more or less overtly a stranger, more or less overtly hostile to everything traditionally American, than Mr. Barak Hussein Obama. A man who voted Obama is more than simply blind, more than a simple idiot, unless there is such a thing as "culpable blindness" or "culpable idiocy," although such terms are, technically speaking oxymorons.
If we discuss race are we allowed to include such issues as crime, education, welfare, and the like? I avoid talking about race because it leads me to places I don't like to go.
Wine is better. After 45 years of whiskey or Martinis nearly every day, I have concluded it is a waste of my energy--except on rare occasions, rare being no more than 4 days a week. Moderation in all things.
Off-topic, but what strategy can anyone suggest for everyday drinking wine for a single man who usually dines solo? I don't like to use so much Private Preserve for cheap wine but at the same time I don't like to let half of a bottle of any price go to waste... a few glasses most days is doable but a bottle? Hardly.
TJF @20
Tom,
Be sure to be careful about building fires in your hearth as you age and continue to enjoy a few spirits. A man that you remind me of in so many good ways had reduced the pleasures of his life to only a few desirable things. But like all good things,they lead to the same end. Enjoy all while it lasts. My conversations with you are always priceless.
" Hilaire Belloc has died. I used to meet him staying with Mary Herbert at Pixton during the war. He was ailing and querulous. He seemed to exist only on wine, then very difficult to get. But Mary somehow provided it and he sipped it all day long, smacking his lips and complaining how indifferent it was. From time to time he warmed up, and talked and talked and talked. Was sardonic, but brilliant. Was very class-conscious, referring to himself as the epitome of the middle class and Mary that of the upper. He wasn't wrong. He always wore the same dirty old cloak. One night there was a great noise. Mr Belloc going to the bathroom with a candle set himself ablaze. Mary put him out after filling the bathtub with water. Then she called me for help. There was a smell of burning next morning and the bathroom was full of ash from his rusty old cloak. In similar circumstances he died recently.
--Diaries, 1942-1954 by James Lees-Milne (abridged and introduced by Michael Bloch), entry for Wednesday, 19th August 1953
Whatever the word "racism" means? Spirit world mumbo-jumbo as far as I can tell, perhaps if I had a college education I would understand.
Oh dear, Nicholas, I fear I am not the man to answer your question, since finishing a bottle has never been a problem. My problem is what to do with the second bottle, half finished. My advice is not to open a really good bottle unless you intend to finish it, if you do not have a nitrogen system. A decent bottle can be preserved for a day or two if you extract the air with one of those inexpensive devices, consisting of a rubber stopper with valve and a hand-pump extractor. This would also work with a really good wine, though I am not sure how well the bouquet would last. Failing that, fill a beer bottle with wine and put a good stopper in and drink the rest. Keep it rather cool, though refrigerator temperature may be too cold. (I don't know, but my wife says it is. I think the problem is not waiting for the wine to warm up.) The problem, I believe, is oxidation, which can be greatly reduced by cutting down the surface exposure to oxygen and lowering the temperature
I agree with you, Dr. Fleming, we are a nation of cowards; but, I would add that we are also a nation of dupes. We have been duped for many years by a national leadership, either donkey or elephant, that has hoisted political correctness as a national policy to hide the philosophical and social aberrations, inanities, and contradictions that form the basis of welfare-state legislation of the Liberals/internationalists. We are cowards because we go along with political correctness.
"have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us" = let's discuss more handouts and continue the demonization of European Americans
The election of Obama has encouraged and emboldened thugs like Eric Holder. Recent events (including Judd Gregg stepping down because of black and Hispanic lobbies worried about a white person overseeing the census, or Robert Reich saying he doesn't want too much of the stimulus construction money going to white males) suggest things are going to get much worse.
As one contributor to Chronicles recently summed it up: "isn't diversity great"
Is it just me, or are Eric Holder's demands part of a larger picture developing?
Exhibit A:
http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/judd_gregg_and_the_ethno-lobbies/
Exhibit B:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opxuUj6vFa4
Exhibit C:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7548/barassociationta9.jpg
You all are making me thirsty.
The Obama administration is not backing away from Holder's disgraceful and divisive insults to the American people:
"This nation still is hypersensitive no matter what part of the spectrum you're on when it comes to the issue of race in this country," said April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks.
Ryan added that Holder said his department would help bridge the racial divide, noting that former President Clinton couldn't hold his race initiative until his second term because it was considered a third rail.
@24: With my schedule and line of work a bottle a day is simply out of the question... of course if I am taking a night and day off I can easily polish one off.
"“isn’t diversity great”
Yes. (The problem is that on such an occasion as mentioned above I typically supplement it with apéritif, Port and digestives.)
A wine merchant advised me against vacuum contraption. Absent a nitrogen system one can buy cans of argon but even at 15 euros for a can that lasts about 100 bottles I prefer to leave it for the good stuff.
The best is when I have just cooked a nice dish that requires half a bottle of wine.
Still, I'll keep searching. It is hard to beat a pizza with emmentel and lots of extra virgin olive oil accompanied by Salice Salentino (which is not at all expensive and which I have come to prefer to Tuscans for tomato and cheese dishes).
"Judd Gregg stepping down because of black and Hispanic lobbies worried about a white person overseeing the census"
I was asked to write my political views on Facebook. I wrote, "If I said it I'd be arrested on either side of the Atlantic." I am now thinking that I would actually be safer in a country with "hate crimes" legislation such as I am in now than in my own home country.
I have had and used irregularly the air extractors for about 5 years and never noticed any harm, but, then I am often drinking fairly modest wines from Argentina and Portugal. It is partly a matter of how long you intend to keep the wine. The longer you keep it, the more useful the air extractor is. Here is a column on it I have read: http://www.winereviewonline.com/leslie_sbrocco_on_leftover_wines.cfm.
The lady complains that wines sealed up for a day or two with air extracted seem to close up--the result, apparently, of lack of oxygen. She does not say, however, whether or not she aerates the wine, either by decanting or one of those bubbler things recommended to my son (the former philosophy major) who is now in a leading Culinary School by a leading wine educator.
The Soirée. That combination works for me the best. I'll subject it to a more systematic test in the next few weeks. The Soiree may disturb a really structured old wine--our friend Claude Polin does not even decant his oldest wines and lets some of them breathe only a brief time because they are fragile and tend to collapse if too vigorously treated. That should not be a problem with the Salice Salentino.
Please do not imagine I am posing as a conoisseur. I drink a fair amount of wine--roughly a bottle a day with or without a drink before dinner--and most of it is quite modest. I hardly ever run the risk of getting French wine in the States and even much of the Italian wine does not travel well. I have never drunk a good Vernaccia di San Gimignano here, though I once mistakenly paid about $75 in a restaurant for a quite ordinary wine. Even the Chiantis, which boast of being scientifically made to withstand the rigors of shipping, do not travel especially well, either when they are sent by wholesalers or when I take a few bottles back with me of wines I have enjoyed over there. The trouble with drinks before dinner, as everyone knows, is that they numb the palate. I got a case of a pretty good Portugese wine--a highly rated Douro--and found the first two bottles pleasant but a bit insipid after my Martini (mine are made with 4 ounces of gin and a dash of vermouth). On the wagon, I cracked another bottle and it was another wine entirely. This is not fair, though it is a law of nature like gravity. Another law of nature is always eat a lot of fat with strong drink-fatty cheeses, the pork meat they call lard, etc. The Russians and Serbs do this and seem to be able to handle their drinking better than people who only eat chips or nuts. Also, either before going to bed or the next morning, belt down those nasty East European liquid yogurts--Kefir. It is a life-saver, as I learned in Russia.
@NGPM
If I may,I have two questions for you.Firstly,what is the French national dish?I'm not familiar with French cuisine,but every nation has some staple it relies on.Italians have pasta,Britains have fish 'n chips,Germans sausages,etc..What about the French?Secondly,what exactly do you do there in Paris?Hope you dont mind me asking.
@ NGPM
They are selling better quality wines using the bag-in-the-box. I suggest using those for single glass servings, and camping trips.
Here's a good easy wine recipe that even I can make: Cut Gala or Winesap apples (Winesap is best)into slices around a sixteenth of an inch thick. Stuff them in a sealable jar and fill with a semi-sweet red wine (it must be semi sweet). After about six hours of soaking, they are exquisite. Dont let them soak too long or they will taste like nasty sweet perfume. Four to six hours is best.
As for the thrust of the article, wait for them to start going after Confederate flags and monuments with renewed fanaticism, and for someone to get pulled over for having one on his bumper. We all know it's coming.
Putting down my third bourbon,and before I take the "sporting" dog out for a long walk,I've got to give Mr. Holder the courageous response he seeks.Sir,you are a modestly talented individual with ethical problems.Because you are "black" or "African-American" or some other term of hue you are Attorney General.If you have any honor,you will resign this post given to you as a matter of racial spoils.You can return to a successful legal career and earn the respect and admiration of honorable people.We are actually a race-obsessed nation that talks about nothing more than race..but within official limits and to the detriment of our souls.We are as obsessed with race in a manner perfectly familiar to the mad "Nazi" scientist still the villian of our popular entertainment.We tie jobs,school admissions,prison populations,income levels,mortgage applications and everything under the sun to "race".And yet we are prohibited from ever discussing "race" in any truthful,rational or scientific manner.Are you really sure you're ready for the truth,Mr. Holder?The last thing a race-hack like you needs is people to actually lose their cowardice on the issue.
"Holder is right about one thing, though: We are a nation of cowards. If we were not, Obama could not have been elected President."
White women elected Obama President -- what a real shame.
@ 37 Fred
That's why all constitutional amendments of the 20th century need to be repealed.
Eric Holder:
'And yet, if we are to make progress in this area we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us. But we must do more- and we in this room bear a special responsibility.'
Me:
'WTF!'
The Department of Justice doesn't have a special responsibility to make the country even more of a stinking melting pot than it already is!
And even if anyone has a responsibility to do this, and I don't think anyone does, why does the Department of Justice have any responsibility, much less a special responsiblity to do so?
Eric Holder:
'Through its work and through its example this Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must—and will—lead the nation to the “new birth of freedom” so long ago promised by our greatest President. This is our duty and our solemn obligation.'
Newly Minted DOJ Employee:
'I didn't sign up for any of this sh-t!'
There always comes a moment in a cult where they spring the non sequiter of a solumn obligation on you.
Get out when you still have the chance, you poor stupid dupes under the crazed authority of Holder and Obama!
In any event, we'd be lucky to get white people to speak honestly and frankly about race with other white people, much less with black people.
If we could get more whites to be honest about race with other white people, maybe less whites would be in delusional denial about what a crime prone and culturally corrupting blight the black race is on this country.
I don't know what possible purpose it would serve to have whites and blacks discuss race honestly.
Seems like it would just lead to needless knife fights.
An honest discussion about race:
Black Guy: I sho do like affimative action!
White Guy: But doesn't affirmative action take jobs from more qualified white men and give it to unqualified minorities?
Black Guy: Yeah, that's exactly why I like it!
White Guy: I see.
Black Guy: Now give me your wallet.
White Guy: Oh, all right...
Black Guy: Now that I have your wallet and your job, I still don't feel satified man.
White Guy: What could possibly be wrong?
Black Guy: I don't know.
White Guy: Go ahead and just say it.
Black Guy: Okay. It just is that I feel like you aren't being frank and honest in expressing your feelings in our discussions on race. It's almost like you're afraid of me, and at the same time afraid of the social saction sometimes visited upon white folks who dare to say anything to stand up for themselves and/or their own people.
White Guy: You know what, I think I know what you mean. Like that time you just told me to give you my wallet.
Black Guy: Uh-huh.
White Guy: Well, it's almost like I would've rather kept my wallet but I just gave it to you because I was afraid of you or something.
Black Guy: Man, that's heavy.
White Guy: I know.
Black Guy: How did it make you feel?
White Guy: Well, it made me angry!
Black Guy: That's it, let it all out!
White Guy: Like I wanted to get a shotgun and blow you back to Africa!!
Black Guy: Thinking about it, and how much I like my own wallet, I can understand how you feel. Perhaps if I gave you back the wallet you'd feel better?
White Guy: You know what, I think that would make me feel better.
Black Guy: Here goes, and while we're at it, I'm also going to give up my affirmitive action job as a paramedic. I think my incompetence has killed enough innocent people by now.
White Guy: Good to hear! I'm so glad we had this frank and honest discussion about race.
Dr Fleming, that was so well said, when you were describing how to deal with political idiots within ones family. So far, ive found thats the only way, unless someone wants to get into a pointless fight at a holiday dinner just for the sole purpose of someone elses fun at arguing, which is the case about half the time when it happens in such situations. One just has to walk away, mentally and/or physically, its not worth the irritation factor, especially when one knows that they could find out the same information themselves if they chose to look. It's frustrating, but few want to keep learning after about age 23 it seems, or see any value in it, almost as bad as high school. They stay children all of their lives when it comes to observing and understanding human nature, a subject you have written so well about. I hope you keep up the good work, I've enjoyed your books so far, very insightful, and I doubt many have that insight, but that never stops them from writing about a subject they want to spin to their idiotic ideology, to score political points instead of using said insight for understanding and truth-seeking. Keep telling it like it is, please!
Another interracial murder in Atlanta the other day. Cancer researcher was found beaten to death in her up scale apartment. The killer is a black male who somehow got access to her apartment by saying he was looking to buy the place.
For those of you native to the South and of a certain age you will recall signs placed in trees as you entered certain communities. Most of you that know what I'm talking about will know what was written on those signs and who those messages were intended to inform. In most cases those signs rotted off the tree years and years ago.
Maybe a national discussion on race would mean putting those signs back up?
McCallum
Regarding the murder in Atlanta mentioned above, the victim told someone that to not show him the apartment would be a sign of prejudice. Being in her apartment alone with a strange black man was a way of showing she was not a racist. I read this in one of the news stories. This was the last act of Jeanne Calle's life.
I agree, all we do is discuss race. I am so sick of discussing something that is not real. If we are to discuss what the census bureau calls "race" we will actually have to have our levels of melanin measured. Of course, this might even separate the "race" of my own children.
I lived in Cleveland and when I drew my curtains shut in the evening, the response from the people standing in my yard was, "Why she closing those curtains? She ain't got nothing I want." I'm a racist. I asked the children to stop jumping across people's garage roofs and breaking down their landscaping, "That's our culture. Get used to living around black people." Police interviewed us as to whether or not we saw who threw the pipe bomb across the street. We stated that it appears that there have been some drug dealings out of that house because of the cars pulling in and out all day long. WE were racist because the people who lived there were black. Forget even calling the police. The assumption will be that the call was made because you are the only white people on the street and you must have a problem with black people.
So after we got tired of the vandalism on our house, the theft of our property and animals, and being told not to look up at people when were outside and to make sure that we never let our children out, we moved, only to be accused of the white people in our new neighborhood that we fled because we are racist.
I am not a hateful person, nor am I the enemy of my neighbor, yet I am accused where ever I go of thinking hateful thoughts and now of being called a coward...and we all know who the "Coward" remark was directed to.
In the mean time, while we are discussing this, and while the politicians keep those with greater levels of melanin at war with those who have lesser levels of melanin, our jobs are being shipped out of the country. While we are accused of hate thoughts, our representatives are stealing our money, allowing the wealth of OUR nation to be carried away. "RACE" has been a policy of distraction for many years now and unless Americans start thinking like AMERICANS instead of like AFRICAN-AMERICANS, or WHITE Americans, or HISPANIC Americans, we aren't going to have any form of America to use as a suffix at all.
There are 100 other points I wanted to make about Holden's silly comments but "race" has already consumed too much of my life and certainly too much of this morning. I am only preaching to the choir anyway. Anyone who feels differently will certainly accuse me of listening too much to the conservative media and being under their influence.
I enjoyed the Black Guy/White Guy exchange very much. I only wish the commentator had chosen to be more precise in the preceding comment. I can't prove it, but I suspect that this gentleman would include me in his definition of the black race. I am in no way prone to crime nor cultural corruption.
If there is a race that needs to be discussed and the air cleared on it is those Puritan Brits, long since further degenerated into Unitarians, whose corrupted philosophy still runs this country in spite of their condescending/grudging/temporary acceptance of our national Constitution.
David N,
I was not aware of that aspect of the story and if that is indeed the case then I consider that she killed herself.
Whoever educated that lady did her a grave (no pun intended) wrong.
McCallum
#39 "The Department of Justice does not have a special mission to make this country even more of a stinking melting pot than it already is." Why do you think so? In fact the DOJ does indeed have this as a special mission as mandated by law for the last 50 years. That's the problem. You don't think it is just a question of attitude do you? It is a question of government force. This is what laws passed by large Congressional majorities require. The only reason we are hearing complaints is the tyrants made the mistake of applying it to other regions than just the South.