When you’re black you can get away with all kinds of
crap.
You can be openly hateful toward women, gays, cops, society
in general and get a pass. You can be rude, obnoxious, racist, and violent
and it’s okay. Go ahead and thumb your nose at the same people trying to
protect you, help you, enrich you, and yes, support you and think nothing of
it.
The world exists to serve you. All because you’re
black.
Sure, the black community suffers from overwhelmingly black
on black crime, and the leading cause of death among black youth is murder – by
another black – but because you’re black nobody is allowed to discuss that. Not even other blacks. Nor
is it okay to report that more than 70% or all births in the black community
are to unwed mothers. Or that blacks only make up 13% of the U.S. population
but account for 40% of all prisoners. Or that now 1 in 3 black males are
projected to end up in the system.
Nope. When you’re black you have a built-in excuse for
whatever you’ve done; that excuse being that you’re black. The reason you
failed in school? Because you’re
black. The reason you’re in prison? Because you’re black. The reason you didn’t
get that job promotion? Because you’re
black. The reason you have multiple children from multiple fathers before
you’re 18? Because you’re black. The reason you’re poor? Because you’re
black.
And the reason why we all need to forgive whatever you do
and give you whatever you want? Again, because you’re black.
If white entertainers made songs glorifying robbery, rape,
abusing women, murdering police, dealing dangerous drugs and running whores,
most people would be aghast. However, black rappers can go on at length about
women as hos, jacking cars, killing rivals, and murdering cops, and that’s just
expressing themselves as blacks.
Can you imagine the reaction of the black community if a halftime
show at the Super Bowl celebrated the founder of the Ku Klux Klan by marching
out hooded figures who then formed a giant burning cross mid-field? All that while images of lynchings played on
the Jumbotron?
Yet Beyoncé can do a half-time show honoring the Black
Panthers – who assassinated cops – and Malcolm X, a former drug dealer and pimp
who preached bigotry and hatred, while performing songs about cops killing
unarmed blacks, and it’s just her honoring her black heritage. Meanwhile images
of unarmed blacks being confronted by police played in the background.
This from the same Beyoncé who demanded a police escort to
the show.
But hey, she’s black. Okay then …
There was a time when it was understandable that blacks
would feel like victims. That’s because in many ways they were, especially when
racist whites kept them from eating in the same restaurants, sleeping in the
same hotels, riding in the same part of the bus as whites, and even drinking from the same water fountains as whites.
Yet that time is over, and has been for decades.
America has elected a black President twice. If it were
still mired in racism, as many black leaders maintain still exists today, that
would have never happened. Again, blacks
only make up 13% of the population; that’s not a large enough group to elect a
President on its own – there had to be a lot of whites, Hispanics, Asians and
others voting for him as well.
Even though racism against blacks in this country has
diminished dramatically over the years, racism by blacks against whites seems
to have grown.
Are all blacks racist?
Of course not, any more than all whites are racist.
But I’d bet a higher percentage of blacks are than whites.
If you use my definition of a racist as someone who views everything through
the prism of race, I’d put money on it.
This was driven home to me recently when a black
acquaintance came to our house and went on a rant about how Republicans hated
blacks because they were opposed to affirmative action. She maintained that she
only got her job at a major corporation because she was black, but was later
passed over for a promotion – which went to a white coworker she had trained –
only because she was black. She went to
HR to complain and she got the next promotion.
Forget for a moment that there are other reasons why someone
gets passed over for a promotion – not the least of which is often personality
and how well someone gets along with others – yet in her view it was all about
race. So she openly played the race card to get the next
promotion.
According to her white people are by their nature racist
toward blacks. When my wife said surely she didn’t think we were racist, her
response was “If you say so.”
That’s the attitude. I suppose I should have expected
that.
Back when OJ was acquitted of murdering his wife this same
woman said she and her black coworkers broke out in cheers and applause. Even
though most believed he committed the murder, according to her they cheered
because a black man had been able to “beat the system.”
Is that any different than a hundred years ago when
all-white juries acquitted whites who murdered blacks? I don’t think so. It was
injustice then as the OJ verdict was now.
But it doesn’t matter. The only thing that does is a black
man got off.
Once again black Teflon works. Just as it worked when blacks turned punks
like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown into heroes despite all the evidence to
the contrary. Just as it gave rioters
and looters in Ferguson and then Baltimore license to destroy local businesses
in an orgy of violence and arson. And
just as it conveniently overlooks data that far more cops are killed by blacks
than blacks killed by cops every year.
How durable is black Teflon?
Well, charlatans like Al Sharpton can avoid paying millions in back
taxes but still get frequent trips to the White House. Why?
Because he’s black.
Obama gets a pass on a lot of crap, too, because he’s black.
Whites are afraid to criticize his performance in office for fear of being
called racists.
The Democrats claim anyone who opposes Obama’s policies –
and even his widespread, breathtaking at times, abuse of Presidential authority
– is doing so only because he’s black.
In reality, if Obama were white he would have never won a
Nobel Prize before he did anything; in fact, he’d probably have never been
elected. Even now, that he is black has
prevented him from being driven from office for his sheer incompetence and
laughable work ethic.
The same goes for Michelle Obama. She gets a break for saying she was proud to
be an American – the first time in her life – because America elected a black
man as President. I guess until then she
saw America as a racist empire.
I’m sure she still does.
Yet no one is allowed to call her out because … you guessed it … she’s
black. Instead, Obama’s fans – black and white – jump through hoops to try to
show that Michelle’s comments were taken out of context, or somehow justified
given America’s history of discrimination.
Bullshit. He’s a
racist. She’s a racist.
But that’s okay. Because
they’re black.
When in doubt, play the race card. Works every time.
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