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I've witnessed some true absurdity in the past couple of decades when it comes to race relations... a white man and woman standing at a traffic light in Dallas when a black guy walks up about 20 feet away. The man says to the woman, that black guy looks like the man my friend. She turns to him aghast. Don't you know you can't say that? What he asks. That he's black, she says.
....my local tv station only announced color for criminals when that criminal wasn't black. It became such a joke among locals because the only way you knew was if race/color wasn't announced. 6' man being sought for robbery, dark hair, dark eyes, 180 lbs was the description you might get. You only knew he was black if they didn't tell you he was white, hispanic, etc.
....I stopped to ask an elderly black lady if she knew where one of the city government buildings was. She looks around, points to a red brick building and says, in that white building. Then stops, stammers and apologizes and says I'm sorry people are so sensitive these days.
....I give my testimony to police after witnessing an accident. White guy runs a red light, hits a car with a black guy and his mother inside. I tell the police what I see. Black guy thinks I'm just the shit because I didn't lie.
....I get an assignment to go to the local school system to report on their sudden success at increasing the numbers of blacks in academically gifted programs, after being sued by the NAACP because the numbers were low. No one would discuss the actual program, not teachers, not administrators, no one. They took me to classes and let me watch students do things like make pottery, but when it came to the actual program changes, everyone hedged, got wary looks on their faces, and spouted virtually the same lines. I go back to my editor and tell him, I have no idea. Everyone is beaming about the result, but the method, well, got me. My editor was looking for one of those moment in the sun stories and sent me back. So I go. End up with the second in line of the entire school system. I'm taking notes, he's walking around the bush in about 43 different ways. So I finally say, ok. I got it. Everyone is happy now. Now tell me how.
That took another hour to figure out but the bottom line is they removed the requirements to be listed as AG, and simply made all AG students by recommendation. I go back to my editor. He drops the story as a paper piece, but wants me to write it as a commentary. Says, we can't run that.
So perhaps Mr. Holder is right. What he doesn't address are the points that Mastershakes, cory and slaveboy have made. Namely that opinion is only ok when it's approved by some shadowy, limp wristed movement that defines what it's acceptable for you to think. Free speech isn't the issue here. There's nothing free about it. I can watch Charles Barkley stand on camera and talk about hating white people and go right back to work while a golfer who jokes about collard greens when Tiger is on the green never works again.
So yes, maybe the nation is full of cowards, but we as a nation created it. I believe in equality. Past that you need something besides color to even make a dent in me when it comes to liking you, or even sometimes tolerating you. You need a personality, a sense of humor, to demonstrate some responsibility in your life. I don't know how anyone could listen to MLK and not be inspired. I also don't know how we got the idea that curing oppression would best be served by instigating another form of it because that is exactly what the PC hall monitors do.
Like cory said, "It seems to me that the only people who are so engrossed in talk of race are those that are racists" and those exist on both sides of the aisle, because honestly, I think some of the most vitriolic of those on the politically correct side are some of the worst racists in the country.
Just me though. I mostly don't pay attention to either side.
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