WHITE GUILT AND RACISM—A BOGUS BUNCH OF BALONEY!

I took an online sampling (a small sampling) of the organizations, etc. across this country that prefix the titles of their organizations with words like “Black,” “African-American,” etc. Read this sampling and imagine the uproar there would be if the prefix “white,” or “Caucasian” were used to identify any such entity in America.

Currently at least 80 institutions like Howard, Morehouse and Tuskegee Universities are designated “Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” There’s a National Alliance of Black School Educators, a “Black Student Association,” a “Black Student Union”, and numerous Scholarships identified specifically as “African American” Scholarships;” scholarships (listed as being specifically) for Black Students,” and of course there’s the “United Negro College Fund.” There’s a “Black Writers Collective,” a “Black Publishers & Writers Association,” a “Black Artists & Designer’s Guild” and even a “Black Rodeo Association.” There’s a “Miss Black USA” pageant and a “National Registry of Black Baby Names.”

We have the “Black Congressional Caucus,” in Washington D. C., the “African American Mayors Association, a “National Black Police Officer Organization” with like-named chapters city and statewide. There a “National Black Chamber of Commerce”, the “National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators and Developers,” a “National Society of Black Engineers,” the “African American Planning Commission”, “Black Women In Sisterhood For Action”, “Black Wall Street USA” and the “African American Speaker Bureau.”

There’s a “Black Entertainment Television” network, a “Black Reel Awards” ceremony, a “Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film” and an “American Black Film Festival.” There are magazines like “Ebony,” “Jet,” Black Enterprise,” and “The Black EOE Journal.” According to Blacknews,com “there are currently about 200 different black newspapers in about 150 different cities across the United States—newspapers with names like “African American News & Issues” and “The Washington Afro American.” Then, there are similar online publications such as the “Daily Digest for Black Americans,” “Black Star News Online” and “Black Voices.” The strictly black online sites are innumerable.

There’s a “National Conference of Black Lawyers and an “Association of Black Lawyers” in nearly every state, the “African American Health Professional Organization,” the “Association of Black Women Physicians” and “The National Black Nurses Association” are listed online as well as “The National Association of Negro and Business and Professional Women’s Club Inc.” In addition, there are religious denominations and innumerable churches that have officially designated, and advertise themselves, as “African” or “Black.” There are organizations such as “The National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus,” “The Coalition of African American Pastors,” etc.

This is all fine. But connecting the words “White” or “Caucasian” with any publication, union, guilds, association, scholarship, conference, council, caucus or churches today would produce immediate outrage and outcry. Think of the boycotting and bad-mouthing that would ensue and the accusations of racism and possible violence that would erupt. Is there any hypocrisy, any double standard, any racism perceivable at all here? I think so.

Imagine the offense that would  be taken by those who believe that the their particular  skin pigmentation entitles them to hold a monopoly on being the victims of racism.   Imagine how many public apologies would be demanded, etc., etc.

Only a tiny, minute sampling of the countless entities in the United States of America that identify and advertise themselves as being “Black” or African-American, etc. have been referenced above; and people have their right and their reasons for doing this. But the obvious double standard, hypocrisy, unfairness, discrimination, bigotry, bias and suggestion of unabashed racism in all this couldn't be clearer.

Racism in America is a classic example of the projection of guilt by the guilty onto the guiltless. It’s an embarrassment to honest, hardworking, moral and self-respecting Americans of every color. The real racism going on in America is a twisted, reversed version of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow.

The real racism in America is that which percolates in ignorant, sick, stupid minds that would favor dotting the American landscape with signs saying “People of Color Only” and “No Whites Allowed.” There is only one thing as sick or stupid; that is, that anyone living since over 500,000 white soldiers were slaughtered in the Civil War owes one penny of “reparations” to anyone, or should feel an ounce of guilt about anything, that took place hundreds of years before they were born.

In particular, no American today of any color needs to assume any responsibility relative to people of any color who were enslaving and being enslaved centuries before the first foot of any color stepped ashore of what is now known as North America. People need to stop playing cards with the race card players.