Let's have a conversation on race relations

It’s a long post today. I’m headed in for rotator cuff surgery today and don’t know when I’ll be able to get back to the keyboard for some one armed hunt and peck typing. Anyway, split it up over two or three days or read it all at once.

McCain gets booed at MLK talk

Shocking! They’ll stand and cheer for Rev Wright’s anti-American tirades but boo McCain for apologizing for a vote, which at the time, reflected the overwhelming view of his constituents. McCain apologized for voting against making MLK Day a national holiday. The “they” in this case is the group of perpetually offended blacks who see everything from their three out of wedlock children from three different fathers to their decision to drop out of high school so they could move up the gang hierarchy – besides education is acting white – as Whitey’s fault. Maybe the Rev Wright ought to squeeze in a sermon on forgiveness (is that still a Christian thing), if it could be worked in between anti-American, anti-Jew, anti-white hatred and bigotry.

McCain gets credit for going and apologizing. But let’s face it, McCain will get about 4% of the black vote. Sadly, there is nothing that he can say or do that will change the minds or votes of the other 96%.

Here’s a sad one

Last year Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries wanted to form an anti-gang task force. He wanted to form the task force in cooperation with Ft. Wayne’s police force. Sheriff Fries’ initiative made sense. Ft. Wayne is Allen County’s largest city and the hot bed of gang activity within the county.

Well the blacks of perpetual victimhood had a fit. Certainly Whitey Fries just wanted an excuse to come into black neighborhoods and arrest young black men. There could be no other explanation for Fries’ gang task force. They called Fries a Nazi and intimidated the Ft. Wayne police chief into rejecting Sheriff Fries’ plan.

Last week there were seven gang related killings in the Ft. Wayne in a 40 hour period. It was so bad in Ft. Wayne for a short while that Harry Reid and the Democrats declared Ft. Wayne lost and called for a complete withdrawal of Americans from the city. So the same blacks of perpetual victimhood who opposed Sheriff Fries’ gang task force last year rallied last week to voice their complaints. And what were they complaining about? The lack of police protection.

You cannot make this stuff up.

Racism is a black thing other minos won’t understand

So what do the two stories above tell us? We have a race problem in America. Duh. But I don’t think it’s a race problem. I think it’s a black/white problem. See other minorities have come to this country and done well. Who is the Asian Al Sharpton? Who is the Latino Jesse Jackson? How come the Hindu Indian Rev Wright hasn’t shouted G-D America and organized our taxi drivers and convenience store owner operators?

Let’s stipulate that for the most part Whitey is a money grubbing racist a-hole. If that is true, then he’s a racist a-hole to everyone. You cannot make the case that he’s a racist a-hole to blacks but loves Asians, Latinos and Indians. If he’s a racist, he’s a racist to everyone.

But our race problems only seem to involve black and white. Al Sharpton was no where to be found demonstrating in the Korean neighborhoods shouting “no justice no peace” through his now legendary bullhorn after Korean store owners shot an untold number of black looters during the Rodney King riots in LA. Today the Dem primary shows a big split between Latinos and blacks but nobody is calling either side racist. But the race hustlers will call Whitey a racist if he doesn’t support B-HO.

And how do you explain away Whitey’s money grubbing economic “disenfranchisement?” Aren’t the two mutually exclusive? If I’m a money grubber, I’m going to hire the best person I can get or afford to get the job done. If I’m a racist I’m going to end up hiring white trash Whitey and be beaten like a drum by everyone who hires bester people and soon be I’ll out of business.

No discussion

As loudly and persistently as people of all hue call for a discussion between black and white about race, that discussion is no where near happening. How do I know? Well, blacks can’t even talk to blacks about race yet. Every time somebody like Shelby Steele, Bill Cosby, Juan Williams or Thomas Sowell try to talk about black responsibility rather than black victimhood, they are shouted down with taunts of “Uncle Tom” and “Oreo.”

So if blacks are incapable of having a discussion about race among themselves without one side quickly spiraling into vicious name calling, what chance does Whitey have to join the discussion?

The sad fact is that there is a race hustling industry in this country that has no desire to see any resolution or even an easing of racial tension. Revs Jackson, Sharpton, Wright et. al might have to start looking for legitimate congregations and serious but less profitable pastoral work if Whitey and blacks join hand in hand and start singing Kumbyya.