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In light of the political presidential campaign and the fight for the democratic candidate, there seems to be a lot of racial tension going on these days. Just last week,
Hillary Clinton made a statement that elicited ire from groups across the nation, claiming her to be a "racist".
“Clinton played the race card yesterday as she dismissed Barack Obama as a candidate who will have a hard time winning support from ‘white Americans.’ It was the most starkly racial comment Clinton has made in the campaign, and drew quick condemnation from some Democrats.
But wasn't Geraldine Ferraro forced to step down for her suggestion about Obama’s presence in the race being colour oriented? What if an individual of colour had made that same suggestion?
And since Hillary pulled the alleged 'race card' recently, shouldn't she step down from her own candidacy or is that another misstatement? No, because she apologized.
The problem with racism is that it is a subjective term in that the individual or group wishing to pursue the issue is really the defining entity.
Reverse racism is alive and well in America, where late last summer, a white man
won a lawsuit and $150,000 USD in New York against his black supervisor for calling him names like "cracker" and "stupid white boy". They worked at a correctional facility geared to help troubled kids.
The problem with the "race card" is that the organizations so quick to jump on perceived racist situations seem to focus their energy and resources on ensuring the American People never forget their oppression and the trials and tribulations without providing the same sensitivity to other groups in the process.
Racism, by definition from the US Civil Rights Commission:
Is any action or attitude, conscious or unconscious, that subordinates an individual or group based on skin colour or race. It can be enacted individually or institutionally
whereas discrimination, by definition is:
To treat differently a person or group of people based on their racial origins. Power is a necessary precondition, for it depends on the ability to give or withhold social benefits, facilities, services, opportunities etc., from someone who should be entitled to them, and are denied on the basis of race, colour or national origin.
Racism is meant to belittle another and to elevate oneself in an effort to separate the two groups based on appearance. In racism, the separation and hostility that is created teaches younger generations that it is "OK" to make jokes about a person's nose, slanted eyes, red or pale skin.
Simplistically, we are educating the young to disrespect based on colour and it is equally, if not more prevalent in groups other than whites.
Take comedians where it is acceptable behavior for black comedians, who are allowed and encouraged, to berate and belittle white people. It is considered "comedy" and humor. A black comedian is also allowed to pick apart his own kind.
A white comedian must gingerly tiptoe around so as not to ‘offend’ the black community, as they don't want to be labeled as a racist.
Racism is also seen in between other cultures, where the Japanese make fun of certain "Americans" with their big noses, bushy hair and, well, large male appendages. All in fun, right?
When a Caucasian stereotypes one by slanting the eyes and bucked teeth, maybe some glasses and a camera around the neck, it is considered racism at its finest.
The black superiority groups such as Louis Farrakhan have shown an incredible amount of anti-white, anti-Jewish and anti-homosexual statements, where the
Anti-Defamation League quotes:
Farrakhan’s bigoted and anti-Semitic rhetoric has included statements calling whites “blue eyed devils” and Jews “bloodsuckers” that controlled the slave trade, the government, the media and various Black individuals and organizations. In 2006, he blamed Jews and Israel for the war in Iraq, for controlling Hollywood and for promoting what he considers immorality during his February Saviours' Day address in Chicago.
In a 2007 interview with Arabic-language television news network Al Jazeera, Farrakhan accused Jews of anti-Semitism, charging that “The real anti-Semites are those who came out of Europe and settled in Palestine, and now they call themselves the true Jews, when in fact, they converted to Judaism.”
Even Reverend Wright was quoted for making racist statements:
“Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger.”
The Sharpton's and Jackson's have helped pave the way for racial victimization and blaming whites for the errors of society. Even Obama has distanced himself from the two groups for reasons, only speculative answers can provide.
Most recently, the
Curious George T-Shirt incident in Marietta, Ga., that spawned racial controversy across the nation. It got so bad for one website, that they had to pull the thread less than 24-hours after posting on freerepublic.com (
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015242/posts - 31k). The biggest group to scream national outrage over the small-town tavern profit idea was the Nation of Islam.
But isn't Barack Obama a Christian?
Even worse in this country is the black against black racism, with one group targeting the more conservative groups of blacks, resorting to racial epitaphs such as "Uncle Tom" and "white wanna be".
On the May 14, 2008 Sean Hannity radio show, two black women were discussing issues with the blacks. One woman, a military officer and conservative, failed to agree with the other woman's liberal black views. The educated officer became the victim of racism and was called a white wannabe because she had an opinion.
This type of racism is not new and is drawing
attention across the nation.
Blacks encourage black separatism, or racism by definition, and call it empowerment. They are being spoon fed that they cannot be "authentic" unless they embrace their true culture and that the Black Rednecks, by Thomas Sowell, is not their true culture. Of course, certain facts are eliminated and they are also selectively fed information saying that only blacks can be oppressed because they have no power. Whites and others have power so they cannot, in essence, be oppressed.
Sadly, those that have become powerful and educated are the targets of black racism and termed wannabe whites and "Uncle Toms".
In 2005, when black Republican Michael Steele
announced his candidacy for the U.S.Senate, he was pelted with Oreo cookies and endured racial slurs, including "Uncle Tom".
Racism isn't just an oppressive "white on black" thing and right now, there is more than just racism occurring in the United States, with one
ABC news story in April, 2008 describing "Weightism", or the overt discrimination against people because of their size, being more prevalent in America than racism.
As the political road becomes more narrow, drawing to a heated battle for a leader, it seems like "all is fair in love and war" will become the Presidential Mantra. From T-Shirts to to misstatements, the discriminatory jokes against the candidates age, race and gender will more likely escalate over the next several months.
Who will cry discrimination next: AARP?
