For much of the last forty years, ever since America “fixed” its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, “When are African Americans finally going to get over it? Now I want to ask: “When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?
Recent reports that “Election Spurs Hundreds’ of Race Threats, Crimes” should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in “Bombingham,” Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than “talk the talk.”
Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.
We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent. Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes. Call for their impeachment, perhaps.
But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.
But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we’re back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we’ve proven what conservatives are always saying — that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president. But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to “assassinate Obama.”
Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, “How long?” How long before we white people realize we can’t make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us? How long until we white people can – once and for all – get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color? How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior? How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?
How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin? How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?
I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners? How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?
How long before we starting “living out the true meaning” of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that “red and yellow, black and white” all are precious in God’s sight?
Until this past November 4, I didn’t believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don’t believe I’ll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem. But here’s my three-point plan: First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that Black Slaves Built, I’m going to pray that God (and the Secret Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.
Second, I’m going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama. Third, I’m going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise the world once again, when white people can “in spirit and in truth” sing of our damnable color prejudice, “We HAVE overcome.”
It takes a Village to protect our President!!!
…and now YOU LOST Obama, GET OVER IT.
This p.o.s. ……… and article you have here isn’t even factual. Its hate fill rhetoric JUST LIKE HITLER. I’m sure he’d be proud of you since Jews are almost all white and you hate whites.
1) Republican party was formed to end slavery in America. Republicans WON that Civil War freeing slaves from democrat slave owners who would have rater split America than give up slaves. How come you dont know that? How come???
2) Jimmy Carter has been caught saying “ni@@er” and “kyke” more than once. He is a liar and a hypocrite and he hurt ALL Americans, black and white and all in between.
3) You have no facts to call all white people racists, but you clearly hate whites, so that makes you racist. YOU ARE A RACIST. DEAL WITH IT!
4) Obama is the President, MY President. But I completely disagree with his policies. So acfording to you, that makes me a racist against black…. small minded, low IQ brainwashed thinking. Where were you when people were making threats about President Bush, and making movies about his assasination? You are a bigot, thats a FACT.
5) I’d gladly put down any racist dog had I been alive in during the US Civil War and I would have PROUDLY given my life to fight for the freedom of slaves JUST LIKE the other HUNDREDs of THOUSANDs of WHITE MEN who died for you.
6) I wanted Allan Keyes for President, DEAL WITH IT.
7) JC Watts would have been my second choice but he didnt run and hatemongers like you would have called him “Uncle Tom” anyway.
8) I voted for Mitt Romney because all the others were weak, including McCain. That doesnt make me racist, but Mitt didnt get the nod because other whites are Mormon haters. I’m not a Mormon, no.
9) You are a fraud and a phony – you arent after equality for blacks, you are a white man hating racist scum
10) You have NO CLUE about REAL AMERICAN whites who arent racist and love all men and women of color – ALL colors, white black, brown, yellow, red, and all shades in between. You are a biggot and a xenophobe who is out of touch with life.
11) DEMOCRATS TRIED TO BLOCK DESEGREGATION
12) ALL Southern Democrats voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act. WHY DONT YOU KNOW THIS?
13) Strom Thurman started out as a Segregationalist Racist Democrat. Later in life he turned away from that past and became a Republican. Did he find love for people of colored in his heart? I dont know, but if he didnt, he died a racist but only he knows that.
14) Obama wouldnt be President if it werent for the creation of the Republican Party and the Civil War victory of the North. The side I would have been on.
15) If you want people to respect you, you should stop insulting an entire group of hard working, honest men who are not racists. Like me, my Brother, my Dad (RIP) and my friends, because I dont have racist friends. Do you?
I could go on but you wont learn, typical of racist losers. Care to rebut?
In the United States of Corruption, they teach the youth about the days of slavery and establish the belief that blacks are different from whites. The children grow up being taught separation and racism. They don’t even encourage overstanding in other peoples beliefs. All politicians are corrupt liars, but the fact is that the people that follow their lies are even worse. Everyone believes they are doing the right thing but they cant overstand that the right thing to do is let the people come together and stop breeding separation. The government of America is what divides them. Democrats and Republicans bicker and teach so much hate it is sickening. Educate the people and let them decide.