The Race Against Time
Deborah Venable
07/13/10
I
am saddened today because I feel pity for many American citizens of all races
who are finding themselves confronted with an unfair label - namely “racist”
for perhaps the first time in their lives, thanks to the great unifier and that
pillar of anti-racism, the Democrat Party.
It
is not a new label for me. Growing up
in that “evil racist state” in the deep south, Alabama, I learned at the tender
age of sixteen that I was a racist – simply because I was white! Now, mind you, I had no idea of this
before. I certainly was not raised by
racist parents in a racist home, and I had always been taught to choose my
friends according to their character, (long before MLK’s fame) not the color of
their skin. When I was sixteen, my high
school was forcibly integrated, though, and I learned first hand that the color
of my skin was the only thing that mattered in the whole question of whether I
was a racist or not.
After
having befriended the two black students, who were forced to integrate my
school, (I ate lunch with them every day, even though one was older and one was
younger than I was) I learned that they were miserable about being there. Their parents were paid to send them there,
and they had shadow guards that did not allow them to associate with any of us
after school hours. That’s how it was
in the forced integration of the schools down south, folks.
I
quit school at the end of that year because I realized that I was not learning
anything valuable any more.
Up
until that time, I was a better than average student pursuing the fast track to
scholastic excellence. I had intentions
of going to college and had been preparing to do so through the college prep
course of study. In other words, I was
not just biding my time to make it out of high school with a diploma via
“cripp-courses.” I was not your typical
high school dropout.
So,
I went out into the real world to earn a living with two new chips on my
shoulder – labels, if you will, “racist dropout.”
I
grew up fast and got out of that small community I saw falling apart around me
due to a liberal, racial, sexual, feminist, anti-war, anti-God attack on
everything I knew. Thank God I had
found my partner for life early, and we moved around a lot at the military’s
bidding. Hard work bought everything
good in life I ever had, and that is the way it is supposed to be. Is that even a lesson still being taught and
learned by most people today?
After
that “revolution of the sixties” everybody likes to talk about, I saw change –
an awful lot of it negative change. It
is no wonder to me that so many black Americans today still view their
circumstances with disdain and a bent toward racial outrage. Every “advancement” blacks achieved was
forced, coerced, legislated through equality mandating that they be considered
equal in every way – judged solely on the color of their skin to obtain
anything they thought they deserved.
The oldest civil rights organization signified exactly what they wanted,
namely “advancement.” They were told
they had a right to be advanced simply because they were “colored people” and
white people owed it to them. (At this
point, a little research into the beginnings of this organization might be
enlightening. Founded in the first
decade of the 1900s, it did not have a black leader until 1975!)
It
is very telling to me that the First Lady, Michelle
Obama,
would go before this organization, (NAACP) yesterday, July 12, 2010, and make
this statement:
“So I know that I stand here today, and I know that my husband
stands where he does today because of this organization.”
She
went on to employ the usual language of “struggle” and “sacrifice” as if all
their good fortune had just been obtained recently and at any minute it could
be snatched away by those evil people in the tea party movement.
The
race against time, folks – that’s the way it has always been. Those who are just waking up to the fact
that they are racists simply because of the fact that they are white and do not
support the idea that they owe everyone who is not white “advancement” beyond
themselves must be truly confused – some even shocked or angry. Welcome to the race against time. There is no justice, fairness, or logic to
it.
Successful
human beings in the HUMAN race either make it or they don’t on their own
merit. Period. People who make their living on the backs of
the so-called downtrodden by doling out scraps of perceived human dignity
through forced mandate are despicable human beings. If the Obamas truly feel that they owe their present
circumstances to the efforts of an organization of people who do that, it is no
wonder that they have been ineffective in getting us beyond race, uniting us,
or filling us with hope.
I
found it interesting that in her speech, Michelle Obama referred to the
“inequities” of blacks, whether it be in talking about the criminal element (“a
black child is far more likely to go to prison than a white child . . .”) or
health issues (“stubborn inequalities still exist in education, in health, in
income and wealth . . .”) and (“African American children are significantly
more likely to be obese than our white children.”)
What
do you think she expects the NAACP to do about such things? Out of one side of her mouth she tells them
that they should not consider their advancement as entitlements, while her
message is lost in the declaration that they dare not rest on their
laurels. What does she want them to
do? How can you racially advance an
idea of equality in the prison population?
Well, one way would be to turn a blind eye to someone committing a crime
if he or she happens to be black – is that what she means? Should we start judging criminals not on
their guilt or innocence, but by the color of their skin? Are we supposed to withhold obesity causing
food from black children and encourage more white children to eat up? Does she believe like that King-what’s-his-name-Shabazz
that crackers and their babies should be killed? That would help even the score, huh?
One
thing I haven’t heard from the bulk of the black community or the White House
for that matter, is any kind of repudiation against such obvious racism as
spouted by the Shabazz character. After
all, the color of his skin entitles him to such feelings – it’s all part of his
advancement, is it not?
I
also have great pity for those intelligent black folks – the “American first”
citizens of this country who happen to be black, but who do not share this
entitlement sickness of advancement.
They are out there too, and many times are judged even more harshly than
their white counterparts with epithets such as, “Uncle Tom.”
The
race against time continues to drag us all, kicking and screaming, into a
perceived utopia of equality, but that utopia will never exist. Race baiters will see to that! They don’t want any part of it. They thrive on perceived bigotry, even as
they manufacture it in great quantity through their own actions.
Assuming
that concerned and engaged American patriots, who only wish the best for their
country and their progeny, can regain lost control of a moral and truly free
America, I do not think it would be very long before a conservative black
American could attain the presidency and show all Americans the path toward a
much more racially unified country than we have ever known. I can guarantee that he or she would not
have the backing of the NAACP. More
likely, individualist, liberty loving Americans, like the majority of those who
fill the ranks of the present day tea parties, would willingly catapult such an
individual into the highest office of the land, and support his or her success
with respect – not the adulation that the current occupant expects.
Chew on that one for awhile as you try to figure out how
the hell we can escape this race against time!