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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As for "blood in the streets", it's been going on for at least 50 years. Stalinist "journalists" from sea to sea routinely covered-up and obfuscated the ongoing dirty war of back-on-white murder and rape since the AP guidelines of 1948. The DOJ Holder presides over even skews its own crime statistics. Hispanics are broken out as a separate category when counting victims of violent crime but are listed as "white" when counting up perpetrators.
Holder's speech is essentially a declaration of "open season" on whites. With the full panoply of totalitarian measures enacted by moronic, criminal Republicans under the "Patriot" acts in place, anyone who merely mentions a "hate fact" or even criticizes Obama-Christ-Superstar can be arrested and held indefinitely as a "terrorist."
The comedian Eddie Griffin filmed a movie in Mozambique, a former Portugese colony. After independence that land deteriorated into complete barbarism. After returning to the US he joked that he thanked God for the people who sold his ancestors into slavery. He would never talk badly of the United States ever again. Apparently returning to Africa is not an option -- at least for him. But for recidivist criminals, repatriation should be considered.
Not my idea, no sir! I'll give credit for that to Honest Abe. Happy Black History Month!
McCallum,
It was in the February 19, Atlanta Constitution. The suspect, 22-year old Shamal (AKA) Jamal Thompson, was in the lobby asking a real estate agent about touring two condos that were for sale. Jeanne Calle overheard and said, "Don't forget mine. It's for sale, also."
Soon after, a secutity guard called Calle and said that Thompson was in the lobby.
"Would you like me to escort him up?" the guard asked Calle.
"No, it'll be fine," Calle responded. "I don't want him to think we don't trust him."
@38 If that were only possible!
David N,
I had no reason to doubt your comment about Calle but thank you for providing a quote.
She is a victim 3 times over: once by the negro, once by herself and once by the therapeutic state.
The third of the three is the very reason I refuse to stand for the national anthem and refuse the pledge. Rome has asked more than is required and no more shall I give be it in tribute or blood.
McCallum
The Brits will make "wine" out of anything. But I'm quite fond of their hard ciders and the applewines produced around Frankfurt are very good too. My Paw Paw used to make an elderberry wine that was so good the women's group from the local Nazarene church couldn't stop drinking it and got plastered.
I'd have loved to have read Dr. Francis' take on this story.
Really, is honest dialogue even possible? Can you imagine?
Black guy: "Slavery.... slavery..... slavery! slavery! slavery!"
White guy: "Antebellum slavery was one of the more charitable institutions in human history."
Black guy: "Racist.... racist..... racist! racist! racist! I bust you in da mouf, racist!!"
Epilogue to the dialogue:
White liberal shrew with Dutch-boy haircut wearing female business suit: "See, I told you white men were evil."
My friend John Hackney should be more annoyed than he is by the turn this conversation has taken. It should be possible to discuss Mr. Holder's bias and hypocrisy without going on and on about why you don't like black people in general. I understand the temptation to get even by sounding off, but enough is enough.
Mr. Holder is correct a discussion of race needs to take place. Among the topics should be how the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs to low wage countries and unchecked immigration has destroyed the economic stability of black communities; how that lack of jobs, combined with declining moral standards, has destroyed black families and led to a rash of single mothers living off of others and a rise in criminality in black men; the failure of education reforms and affirmative action ( caused by black genes not being selected to prosper and flourish in white environments, as proved by lower values on IQ tests culturally biased towards white people); and pretty much every other decision made by governments in the last 40 years that have harmed whites, and because of their different starting position, black people even worse.
I have encountered blacks nothing like the personnage in the exchange Mr. Johnson has presented. Unfortunately, I have also encountered blacks very much like the personnage in the exchange Mr. Johnson has presented. It is not so much an inherent "proneness" of blacks to such behaviour as it is their particular manifestation of the culture of victimhood and no personal responsibility. (The particular manifestations among white people or among Americans in general are simply not as spectacular, mostly for being too disgusting to behold.)
@Semipronius: bread, specifically the baguette de tradition. Accordingly, and indeed somewhat ironically, very little baking is done outside the home, such is the importance accorded to traditional bakers.
Myself: I am a university/postgraduate entrance exam specialist and a technical writer.
@Dr. Fleming: thank you for your advice and for your kind tolerance of my divergence from the topic at hand. On the other hand, the only way to counter barbarism is to promote civilisation, and without beer and wine, where would civilisation be? (Further evidence that Quakers and Puritans are cultural cavemen, by the way: their complete intolerance of alcohol.)
In that same speech Holder also mentioned how we mix during the work week and then on the week ends we "retreat into our race-protected cocoons."
By mentioning "race-protected cocoons" could he perhaps be referring to blacks insisting on segregated college dorms, exclusive black fraternities and sororities, Ebony magazine, BET, the black caucus, blacks forming racially close groups in businesses and excoriating other blacks that advance, branding them as sell outs to the system and "Uncle Tom's", blacks here in Dallas protesting the firing of police chief Terrel Bolten as totally racially motivated, even though Bolten had survived four major incidents in his tenure, any one of which would have fired a white man in his position... and countless other things?
Or does he have none of these things in mind because he, like so many others on the radical left, is convinced that the only ones in America that are capable (and guilty) of racial bias are whites?
Finally, what is he insinuating we do about it in a practical sense? Talk? Haven't we had enough of that? Perhaps I should break loose from my "race-protected cocoon" here in Duncanville on a Saturday night and head to the clubs of South Dallas to hobnob with that segment of society that commits a disproportionate number of homicides in America, the number including both blacks and whites?
If he means none of these things perhaps he is just using racial politics to do what it always does so well: stir up hatred.
How much better off the nation would be, and how much better we would all get along if politicians and dimwits like Holder and his ilk just kept their mouths shut.
You'd think the hatred created by Reconstruction might have taught them something. Wait a minute, it did; it taught them the Federal government's policy of "divide and conquer" by inflaming societal hatred is very effective and should be used repeatedly on those they seek to weaken and render ineffective.
Sorry, I'm just slow to catch on, coward that I am.
TJF,
What turn has the conversation taken?
Mr Hackney has the ability to speak for himself (if he is being addressed) and if charged with something I expect he has the ability to defend his ground.
McCallum
If it is not understood why vulgar stereotyping, if carried too far in a public, can bring give offense, then there is nothing to be done but close the discussion. Please note that I am not attributing any moral or intellectual defect to anyone, only a certain lack of taste and manners that has become typical of internet conversations in general.