As stated, my use of the "N-word" was intentional.
Predatory and cannibalistic -To those concepts I must add 'oblivious'.
Throughout his book Obama demonizes a particular race of people; interwoven in Farrakhan's speeches is the demonization of a particular race of people; Reverend Wright unabashedly excoriates a particular race of people; Dr James Cone accuses a particular race of people of all sorts of evil; Jackson and Sharpton vigorously pursue a particular race of people with unrestrained disdain; black athletes, movie stars, commentators, authors, musicians characterize a particular race of people as being devilish, evil, selfish, destructive, oppressive and soul-less; movies portray a particular race of people as slave masters, oppressors, captors and purveyors of hate; magazines, newspapers, books, You Tube videos, blogs, web sites, documentaries and footnotes characterize a particular race of people as corrupt, evil and vile. And more....
This evening a documentary portrayed Nelson Mandela as a heroic, decent victim of an oppressive, evil race (Nelson Mandela: A Hero). This evening another documentary brought the slave trade to front and center - demonstrating that a certain evil race not only kept slaves but also employed bounty hunters to capture escaped slave (Slave Catchers, Slave Resistors). This evening a documentary showed a group of musicians, the descendants of slaves, celebrating black history month at the White House (Performance at The White House). This evening a movie showed the selfish shallowness of a particular race as an innocent black soldier is charged with murder following WWII (Hart's War). This evening another movie demonstrated the selfishness of a certain race of people who stole cheer leading ideas from an urban cheer leading squad. (Bring It On).
I'm truly glad we have had an array of experiences in our culture. I'm delighted when someone whose color differs from my own does not hold me to history's errors or condemn me for matters over which I had no power and to which I made no contribution. As regards the oppressed masses who throw a blanket indictment over my race, well, "Me thinks they protest too loudly."
Perhaps my perspective is all wrong. Either that or my genius is poking through and confounding mortals who lack the capacity to grasp the danger of hate-laden messages. Recently I witnessed a group of Americans holding signs. The signs had pictures of Obama portrayed as Hitler while other signs had swastikas on them - a symbolic inference, I suppose, that the connection can be made between Obama's values systems and the EVIL the swastika and Hitler represent. Am I drawing too much from these visual, symbolic references? I think not. In fact, I THINK that too many Americans are oblivious to the liability of their beliefs; beliefs that, when errantly composed, allow more than hate to carve a place in our culture. The use of symbols to get a message across is commonplace; so, too, is the use of descriptive words and phrases that define the meaning of another word. "A dirty road" bares little resemblance to "A clean road" and "The white man is an oppressor" bares little resemblance to "The white man is an angel."
Perhaps my argument that within much of the black community 'white' is synonymous with 'evil' might have been accomplished by showing pictures of lynched black men surrounded by a group of whites. Or, better, a more recent picture of white cops releasing German shepherds on freedom marchers in Selma might have clarified that 'white' and 'evil' are synonymous. I would have used those pictures but they are so frequently used the message is now subconsciously ingrained. The fact that we cannot retrace history anymore than we can stop a bullet has no relevance to what little sane conversation occurs on race in Western culture. No, liberals, the Diaspora and all peoples who deem themselves members of the oppressed masses have to demonize white to validate their rage and the conditions of their lives: After all, you cannot have an oppressed race without an oppressor.
Those who say, "The word 'white' has no symbolic reference to 'evil'" do not live on the same planet I live on. Against whom, may I ask, is the vindictive of 'black', 'brown' and 'yellow' directed? How is it possible that a person with even moderate intelligence would fail to grasp the rational idea that when the 'white' is demonized, 'white' becomes the demon?
Our culture is not like a bad oil painting that can be softened with a little texturing of the pigments or smoothing of rough strokes. The current picture of our culture is best described as a conglomeration of opposing, contrasting and conflicting rigid ideologies. We have become factions, divided by ideologies and convictions and inexplicable passions that are forcing the inevitability of conflict no matter how we choose to smooth the strokes. The tragedy, and it will be a tragedy, is that history is again recording the proposition that the only way for one race to prosper is for another to be diminished or exterminated. Environmental justice, for instance, is yet another conduit through which the minority becomes the victim of the 'white oppressor'. Is it necessary for 'white' to be the demon for the minority to achieve its goals?
Blacks have not escaped the bonds of slavery, and will not, so long as everything they do, every aspect of their lives, every problem they encounter or difficulty they must overcome is blamed on 'white' - Katrina; poverty; education; crime; pregnancy; unemployment....ad nausea. Blacks depend upon blame to rationalize their dependence upon 'white' for nearly every aspect of their culture. Not unlike the guilty child who angrily lashes out at his parents after stealing ten dollars from the family, blacks are lashing out at whites in response to the guilt they must feel or should feel for parlaying self-inflicted misery into a flood of anger and blame directed at 'white'.
Since the time of Roosevelt we have raised a culture within a culture. We have allowed black culture to exploit every mistake 'white' has ever made. We have pandered to black leaders - including Obama - who insist all faults within the black community are 'other inflicted'; the 'others' being 'white', of course. We have expanded upon the diseased state of black dependency coupled with blame coupled with rationalizations for self-destructive and other-destructive behavior in the black community. We have pandered to blacks, erroneously choosing to believe that feeding the demon will pacify the demon. In fact, since Roosevelt, the demon has grown: The forty pound child now weighs two-hundred pounds and the nature of his complaints and the intensity of his anger has grown to the point that a collision between guilty parent and angry child is inevitable. Either that or we must accept the fact that blame and anger will flow from the black community to the white community without restraint or moral sanity. We must adjust to the fact that 'white' will be held responsible for all sorts of ills that afflict the black community and, therefore, it will be the duty of whites, just as it has always been, to cure those ills with massive entitlement programs and especial treatment that causes the rational mind to wonder who is the slave and who is the master? These matters are real; they have been real; they will continue to be real - We cannot expect the angry child we have raised to suddenly change his behavior anymore than whites are capable of grasping the diseased nature of the relationship 'white' and 'black' share. What, I ask, will happen when the choice must be made between national security and welfare? What will happen when our nation's coffer has run dry and we must make the choice between feeding the child or protecting our homeland? What reaction will be issued from the black community and at whom will it be directed? While whites may be characterized as stupid, the history of this nation during the past sixty plus years has demonstrated beyond any doubt that blacks are selfish - As Obama has written, "The pain and suffering it causes whites is of little consequence." I mean, hey, whites are devils and as such deserve nothing but the worst which is best expressed by hate.
By definition hate commands action: Hate is not a passive verb that rests between'we' and 'them' (We HATE them). My position has been and shall continue to be an argument against hate and a refusal of those indictments against my race that condemn me for acts I have not committed and demands I am unwilling to meet. Because I am not oblivious to the liability of choosing denial rather than truth or seeking compromise rather than resistance, I passionately and vehemently resist the demonization of my race and I refuse to hide behind political correctness or disguise truth by playing hide-and-go-seek with racial issues. The stakes are too high.
I recall a recent State of the Black Nation wherein the conversation flowed for hours. The black spokespeople - who may or may not have been members of the NOI, or black nationalists or black liberation theologists openly discussed the 'oppressor'. What race, pray tell, might that 'oppressor' be? During the conversation the 'oppressor' was held responsible for every ill in the black community. The audience of more than three thousand blacks regularly nodded their heads in agreement as one black speaker after another found common ground by characterizing 'white' as 'the oppressor'.
You may be an oppressor, and you may have friends who are oppressors. You may be a racist and you may have friends who are racists. Perhaps you are a current-day slave master or a captor - Only you know your relationship with 'black'. As for me, well, the folks I know, or choose to know, have given greatly to the black community through taxes and tolerance and silence. Many of those folks, just like me, have grown weary of the charges and threats coming from the black community. We have taken up our shields to insulate ourselves from the arrows being launched against our culture, our race and our nation. Some of us have the wisdom to know that you don't go into battle with nothing more than a shield thus we carry unsheathed swords in our free hand, not quite certain whether to continue to tolerate the barrage for as long as our shields will last or launch our own offensive and settle the matter once and for all. We are not haters but we have grown weary of being hated and we are tired of the necessity of carrying a shield. We are tired of the siege.
Western culture and the white race are in a state of siege. "White" is being demonized. "White" has become the garbage can for all of the worlds bitter complaints, discontent and....hate. The picture I see, the picture that has been clearly and distinctly painted to describe "White", needs no correction or modification to describe its content - The content is all too clear.
'Whites' who fail to grasp the liability of their color, to see 'white' through the eyes of 'white' haters - whether those haters are brown, black, yellow or white - will live to know another truth - to see yet another of history's canvases stroked with blood. Eric Holder stated our nation is incapable of an honest discussion on race - Remember? I am. Because I know, and as I have again proved, the process we are using to openly and frankly discuss race include our desire to avoid truth. And when the obvious becomes obvious, when the liability of our race is well known to us, we choose to play hide-and-go-seek with the reality of conditions - A fact that causes our detractors to laugh mightily as we cannibalize one another or suicidally avoid frank discussions - Is it not obvious that in the minds of many blacks, 'white' is only 'good' when 'white' remains silent as 'blacks' spew message after message of hate directed at 'white'? When will many whites realize that before they will be hung they must be condemned? The messages of hatred for 'white' coming out of the black community are forging the nails that will one day hold the gallows together.
Asking me to believe that the word 'white' within the much of the black community does not carry the symbolism or 'evil' and cause the emotion of hate, resentment, anger, distrust and rage is like asking me to believe that 'Jew' was innocuous in Nazi Germany. Sell that crap to the garbage man.
I apologize for discussing race. I haven't yet gained the wisdom or skills to talk about racism without talking about race. Perhaps a more artful writer can provide an example.
Bob