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Race is always an issue, but not in the way our hopelessly "politically correct" country likes to portray it.
Too many times we see black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson come to the "rescue" of black victims of "white inflicted injustice." As leaders of their community, I think they are failing.
Recently, we were witness to dispicable acts of violence portrayed largely by black people during a crisis that was already bad enough. People looted, raped and murdered. Black leaders came to the rescue and immediately pulled the race card and overshadowed these acts. We have heard that it wasn't a "black" problem...it was a poverty problem thanks to white society.
This could be acceptable, were it the first time we have seen this. In 1992, we watched L.A. burn in a similar show of violence. Stores were looted, 50 people were killed, 4 thousand people were injured, and there was 1 bilion dollars in property damage. Black leaders were quick to rush to the scene and portrayed this display as a lashing out against white injustice against blacks. Again, this wasn't a "black" problem... this was a "white" injustice problem.
In 1995, we saw blacks all over America side, against overwhelming evidence, with O.J. Simpson. Did they side with him because they believed he was innocent? Oh, that's what we heard then, but you won't find many people today that subscribe to what was fashionable back then. No, he was merely black and murder had nothing to do with it. Blacks turned this trial into a contest to see which color would win.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have strayed a long way from the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. Where once rage and protest could easily be explained away because of racism and civil unrest between peoples, now it is merely used as a crutch whenever applicable. These two people care no more for blacks than they do for whites. They are actually insulting to blacks if they would open their eyes to see it. The message I heard from these two as they condemned the Federal Government for it's absence, was that without supervision, blacks shouldn't be held to any kind of standard. They earn a paycheck by exploiting every situation and by painting as racial a picture as possible. Today's leaders have no strength to condemn their own. Instead, they cover and mask and hide violent displays and temper tantrums under a facade of white racism where it does not belong. In my circle of mixed colors and races where we sit and joke of this racial garbage while growing up in DOD schools or wear military uniforms, we take time to laugh at the collective American response to these two individuals. Black leaders are earning paychecks, white Democratic leaders are scrambling for votes, black voters are more than happy to give them that vote (no matter that Louisiana is a Democratic State), white Republican leaders always accept the blows, because doing otherwise will only damage their political standings with white voters who allow themselves to feel guilty. It would be hysterical if it were not so despicable. I think blacks could do with a little more constructive leadership, rather than leadership that looks for scapegoats and excuses for simple bad behavior.
Too many times we see black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson come to the "rescue" of black victims of "white inflicted injustice." As leaders of their community, I think they are failing.
Recently, we were witness to dispicable acts of violence portrayed largely by black people during a crisis that was already bad enough. People looted, raped and murdered. Black leaders came to the rescue and immediately pulled the race card and overshadowed these acts. We have heard that it wasn't a "black" problem...it was a poverty problem thanks to white society.
This could be acceptable, were it the first time we have seen this. In 1992, we watched L.A. burn in a similar show of violence. Stores were looted, 50 people were killed, 4 thousand people were injured, and there was 1 bilion dollars in property damage. Black leaders were quick to rush to the scene and portrayed this display as a lashing out against white injustice against blacks. Again, this wasn't a "black" problem... this was a "white" injustice problem.
In 1995, we saw blacks all over America side, against overwhelming evidence, with O.J. Simpson. Did they side with him because they believed he was innocent? Oh, that's what we heard then, but you won't find many people today that subscribe to what was fashionable back then. No, he was merely black and murder had nothing to do with it. Blacks turned this trial into a contest to see which color would win.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have strayed a long way from the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. Where once rage and protest could easily be explained away because of racism and civil unrest between peoples, now it is merely used as a crutch whenever applicable. These two people care no more for blacks than they do for whites. They are actually insulting to blacks if they would open their eyes to see it. The message I heard from these two as they condemned the Federal Government for it's absence, was that without supervision, blacks shouldn't be held to any kind of standard. They earn a paycheck by exploiting every situation and by painting as racial a picture as possible. Today's leaders have no strength to condemn their own. Instead, they cover and mask and hide violent displays and temper tantrums under a facade of white racism where it does not belong. In my circle of mixed colors and races where we sit and joke of this racial garbage while growing up in DOD schools or wear military uniforms, we take time to laugh at the collective American response to these two individuals. Black leaders are earning paychecks, white Democratic leaders are scrambling for votes, black voters are more than happy to give them that vote (no matter that Louisiana is a Democratic State), white Republican leaders always accept the blows, because doing otherwise will only damage their political standings with white voters who allow themselves to feel guilty. It would be hysterical if it were not so despicable. I think blacks could do with a little more constructive leadership, rather than leadership that looks for scapegoats and excuses for simple bad behavior.
