Stop Racism Now
Earl, Bubbelah, racism is as old as the hills, or maybe even older. According to drawings on cave walls, it started when one Cro-Magnon man saw that another had less arthritis than the others and that was it. They held a Town Hall meeting and bought out the lout's time share.
By the time our forefathers came around, the idea had gelled so firmly that they were going to add "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and the chance to be a racist," to the Constitution, but they didn't because they wanted to continue to be elected to office.
The good thing about racism is that it somehow gets distributed more or less equally in this country because someone usually has it out for someone else. Blacks, Whites, Jews, Asians, Hispanics, no one gets left out.
It's like Tom Lehrer sang in his "Brotherhood Week" song,
"Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folk
And the Protestants hate the Catholics
And everyone hates the Jews
Because it's Brotherhood Week..
Time to be good to
Those who are inferior to you...
because it's Brotherhood Week."
Why else was a groundbreaking comedy like "All in the Family" such a hit? Because it was true and because everyone had an Archie Bunker in his family sometimes even living in his own house. So long as no one gets clobbered over the head for it, gets his church or synagogue burned down because of it, is denied a job, or even worse gets to keep one, then all is well.
But the best way to shoot it down is for minorities to set a good example no matter how much it sometimes kills them.
I ran for city council in 2009 vs Rosendahl. I lost for 2 reasons: One, no money,,,,Two, I spoke up as Mr Kellar did in Santa Clarita, CA. I am not "Proud Racist," but I am for securing our borders, eleminating benefits for illegals and their offspring, eliminating anchor baby status (US citizenship) for kids of illegals, etc. In Mass. supporters of Mr Brown made hand made signs with paint, signs in the snowbanks with rocks spelling out "Brown for Senator" etc. I too made my own signs. No one helped me but I still got 6000 plus votes out of 21000 cast. Only 21000 voters out of 250,000 souls in CD 11, City of Los Angeles, cared to vote. I got 26%. All over the USA voters are waking up to the illegal alien invasion of the USA. Craig Wilson
You should see what you can do differently next time and run again! Thanks for writing.
I agree with an underlying thought in this article, which is that people's thoughts are in and of themselves not dangerous, and we should quit trying to regulate them. (Unconstitutional, by the way.)
However, I think it would just be super nifty if parents truly taught (and modeled for) their kids the MLK ideal of color-blindness.
When you think about it, what a stupid thing to categorize people by -- their skin color. How about hair color? Shoe size? All would be equally stupid.