Three Types Of Racists
Deborah Venable
08/03/09
The
racial situation in this “melting pot” of ours has taken a serious turn for the
worse lately. Anybody else see
that? Haven’t we just spent a couple of
weeks now discussing the Obama/Gates gate?
Before that we had the Sotomayor gate, which certainly had enough foul
flavor of racism in its own right, and of course any time you have any negative
thing to say about Obama or his policies, you must be a racist, n’est-ce pas? No, we don’t seem to be getting any better
off with our race relations – not as long as the liberal rant includes daily
slurs about America’s “shameful” past and present!
Let
me just say for the record, in my opinion, the president handles the whole
question of race relations in America quite “stupidly.”
After
giving it some thought, I have come to the conclusion that there are three
types of racists or potential racists in the world. All of them have to do with a lot of ignorance, a basic lack of a
healthy American attitude, and an insistence that human beings have no
individual value. This brings us to
type number one:
1. Collective thought racist – this could be an
umbrella definition under which the others would probably fit, but I’d rather,
for the sake of complete accuracy, break it down even further than this. A collective thought racist is incapable of
individual thought processes and so must identify with a collective, a group or
collection of groups which he can totally rely on for unquestioned support.
2. Guilt-ridden racist – this collective thinker
chooses to place himself into a group of unworthy, (or less worthy) people of
whom nothing is really expected. These
groups certainly don’t expect individuals with no guilt to be anything but
objects of ridicule, and, as such, usually see them as nonsensical and
ridiculous or even hateful.
3. Constructed racist – this is the mass produced
racist constructed by the unabashed educational system and/or media. These are the truly dangerous racists
because they cannot reach beyond the boundaries of their construct. They can only fit the mold that produced
them.
The
lofty, stated ideals of Martin Luther King may never be reached by any of these
people because they are incapable or unwilling to recognize “content of
character” and, thus, cannot see beyond the color of skin.
Yes,
racism in America is alive and well.
Black liberation theology, such as that brought to light by the Reverend
Wrights of the world, holds that God shouldn’t be very happy with America
specifically because white folks made slaves out of black folks once upon a
time. Never mind that slavery hasn’t
been an issue for a hundred and fifty years now and several generations of
black folks born in this country have been born free, and never mind that a
relatively small percentage of the white population back then ever owned black
slaves, (a lot more actually owned white ones.) All that is irrelevant.
Segregation was evil if it meant that blacks were restricted from
mingling with whites, but segregation is accepted and encouraged if it affirms
special consideration for minorities.
Affirmative Action sets aside any consideration of equality, but
“goddamn” an America that tries to stop it – right Reverend?
Pat Buchanan's piece, written back in March of 2008, attempted to
address the race issue in much the same way that the Al Sharptons, Jessie
Jacksons, and other well-known race baiters have always addressed it, namely:
“sit down, shut up, and listen to my side for once.” I did a little research on just how Buchanan’s article was
received and found, not to my surprise, that most of what he had to say was
totally dismissed by the assorted types of racists who don’t really acknowledge
being racists. I warn you, the
link provided
contains very harsh language and a lot of ignorance. If you would like to see other research, I trust you could find
as much or more than I did, but don’t expect any definitive answers.
I
have come to the sad conclusion that we will always be a country of racists
unless and until we reject the slide toward collectivism and remember that we
are a country of individuals. I don’t know
of a single, true individualist that is a racist, so, therein lies the answer.
You
guys, who continue to embrace collectivism, just go on thinking that we can
“unite” the races if we just learn to respect the differences and forget the
past. I learned a long, long time ago
that forgiving and forgetting are two entirely different things. We can forgive without forgetting, but we
certainly can never forget without forgiving.
Then we would also have to have a very good grasp of just what it is we
are trying to forget or forgive. If it
is the issues of slavery and discrimination, an individual who has never held
slaves or discriminated against anyone because of race, has nothing to forgive
or forget. An individual should not
feel shame or superiority simply because of his race, yet that is what race
baiters ask us to do on a regular basis.
If
you were expecting great strides toward “equality” because of the election of
the bi-racial president, how’s that working out for you? He is perhaps the worst collectivist of all
because not only does he depend on pitting groups against groups, but he also
expects to rule from a point outside of all groups – as a dictator.
Obama
has no more right to lecture on America’s shameful past or present than any
other dictator living in a philosophical glass house. If he were a self-assured individualist and true race uniter, he
would not need a well-publicized and symbolic beer party to punctuate how well
the races can get along without apologizing for errors in judgment, defective
content of character, or injecting accusations of racial profiling into the job
of keeping the peace and protecting individual property. Anyway, he should have at least served wine
and offered to break bread with the “offenders.”