by johndobee » Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:48 pm
There ya go. Now that I think of it, I didn't receive a single thin dime to correct that title! I demand my reparations!!
Seriously though, does any person of color REALLY feel they deserve to receive monetary damages for a wrong perpetrated against an ancestor that's been dead over 100 years? Really?
Institutional racism wasn't a result of the sin of slavery. Folks, it's been around since societies began to gather in groups. Racism has so much less to do with a persons color than it does about their culture. Study the tribes of the great plains. Many of them hated each other for no other reason than they weren't like each other in how they lived. It's simply human nature. It's part of being human. We group up, and point fingers at each other and scream, "well will you look at that Myrna, those dayum idgets next door have pink flamingos on their yard. How we ever gonna live next to them degenerates?".
If you look hard enough you'll usually see that those screaming the loudest for reparations, or crying racism, have a vested interest in keeping people from ever living with their pink flamingo neighbors. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the grand dragon of the KKK (whoever that may be now), all have a livelihood attached to keeping people seperate.
Sooner or later people have to just accept that their neighbors don't live the same lives they do, and move on. Until that happens there's always going to be an "ism" to point to and exploit.
The NEA has an interest in exploiting the "isms" keeping people apart. It gives them another tool in their toolbox whenever things don't go their way. Cry racism. Cry sexism. Pick your poison, it's all the same really. Us against them, and that's just how they like it (need it).
Conservative Union Member (yes, there are lots of us).