Racism is an Equal Opportunity Hate
Posted in Politics
Mar. 18, 2008 at 19:32
by BrendaBee
I was, and am still, a strong fighter for civil rights as you who read my blog know by now. But I have for several years now been bothered by the inequality between the races that I have watched develop since the mid 1970's when most of the laws assuring equal treatment of all races, sexes and religions had been passed. Blacks somehow changed the rules and the reasons we were all fighting for equal rights leaving Whites like me baffled and concerned. It seemed they were not content to be "equal", but had to go beyond and become segregationists themselves. Whites and Hispanics and every other make or model could not in any way exclude Blacks from their associations, but Blacks could exclude all others from their organizations and clubs.Every legislature whether state or federal has a Black Caucus. An organization exclusively for Blacks and no one else need apply. Here in Greensboro we have the Pulpit Forum made up of Black ministers. We have the Simkins PAC, which is a political action group exclusively for Blacks. And there are several other organizations that are made up of only Blacks and which Whites or Hispanics are excluded. These exclusively Black organizations are to be found all over the country.
Now I am not saying these organization should not exist and neither am I saying that they are wrong to exist. However I am saying that I KNOW that if any exclusively White or Hispanic organization should be formed there would be screams of racism against the organizers and probably law suits would be brought against the members for discrimination.
But far worse than these all exclusive organizations are the Black people who openly denounce the United States and all races with what coming from any other person of another race would be denounced and banned as racist. The KKK can not openly gather or march, and certainly do not get the favorable press coverage that these blatantly racist Black individual get. As stated I am a long time civil rights advocate who worked with Blacks very early in the movement, who met Martin Luther King and heard his message directly from him and who fought for and got the laws passed that would assure all races were treated equally. (These laws did not change attitudes because that is an impossibility, but they did make it possible for anyone suffering discrimination to bring the matter before the courts for redress.) As this same civil rights advocate now grown old I am disheartened and dismayed that racism has taken on another color and it is now the Black man who is practicing racism against all others.
This year 2008 AD we have a Black man who is running for president and who is winning hearts and votes all over the country. I have listened to Barack Obama and have been impressed with him. I don't agree with his views, but the man is, I believe, worthy of being President of the United States if elected.
Picture my dismay to find that this very intelligent, well educated, well off, trusted Black man, who has enjoyed all the rights and privileges that being a citizen of the United States can offer to any of it's citizens, is a member of the church of a virulently racist Black minister. A minister who spews out what can only be term as "hate speech" with impunity. Speech that no White minister would be permitted. In fact, speech and words that no White person of any calling could use without being arrested and charged with a crime. Yes, "hate speech" is a crime when spoken by any race but the Black race. And Barack Obama, the first Black man to run for the presidency who has a good chance to be nominated by his party, is a long time member of this minister's church.
I will let Cal Thomas speak for me from this point:
Barack and the Bigot
By Cal Thomas
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
"In his several explanations and denunciations of his longtime pastor, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asks us to believe that he never heard any of the sermons in which Rev. Jeremiah Wright denounced and asked God to damn America. Neither was he present, he says, for Rev. Wright's message in which he said America got what it deserved on 9/11 because we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II and have bombed other countries. He apparently also missed the one about how America created AIDS. The implication appears to have been that it was a plot to wipe out blacks, since the disease disproportionately affects African Americans.
Other church members must have told Obama what Rev. Wright said, or he could have viewed the sermon on the church's Website. It appears many others besides just Rev. Wright share this point of view. If one looks at the video, church members are standing, shouting approval and applauding. This is not one man speaking for himself. From the reaction, one can fairly conclude he is speaking for most, if not all, of the congregation. But not for Barack Obama, he says.
US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) listens to a question from the audience during a campaign stop in Plainfield, Indiana March 15, 2008. REUTERS/Frank Polich (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)
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A statement issued by the church last Sunday accused critics of attacking "the legacy of the African-American Church." That is like excusing racism in some Southern white churches 50 years ago because of a "legacy" of bigotry. Hate from a preacher - black or white - can never be justified."
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