Clean Old-Fashioned Hate?

I would like to first issue a warning for this article. This is a racially charged blog based on my beliefs about race relations as they pertain to government and not how I personally feel about other races. I have never been a racist and will never participate in racist activities, but I do have strong convictions pertaining to how government attempts to regulate race relations. This blog is dedicated to those convictions.



The Reparations for Slavery bill, after 143 years of freedom for black Americans, is still looming over our great country. Sherman, after obliterating the South in his march, initiated Special Field Orders, Number 15, which gave 40,000 newly freed slaves and their families 40 acress of land, notably privately owned, around the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina and a mule, notably federally owned. What Sherman attempted to do after the abolition of slavery was, on the one hand, generous to the newly aquired free people of our country, and, on the other hand, inequitable to the landowners whose property was stolen. Press the fast forward button to modern society. The campaign launched by Deadria Farmer-Paellmann to coerce private organizations with historical links to slavery started in 2000, and by 2005, corporations, including J P Morgan, Wachovia, and Aetna, had issued public apologies for their part, over 100 years prior, to propogate slavery. Dorothy Tillman, an alderman in Chicago, has stated that one idea for acceptable Reparations could be governments increased funding for restrooms, movie theatres, and restaurants that are used dominantly by the black community rather than fiscal giveaways. Some perpetuators of this idea of reparations call for government owned public land to be handed over to the black community for the possibility of increased equality. On July 29th, 2008, the American House of Representatives issued a formal apology to the descendants of slaves and those who were negatively affected by Jim Crow laws and other forms of segregation. This superfluous action was initiated by Steve Cohen, a white Representative, as a measure to perpetuate his tenure in office for his 60% black constiuency. This extra strike on the spike that already exists in the heart of race relations in order to maintain public office is thoroughly immature, irresponsible, and irrational. Our government now has issued a formal apology for something that occurred between 1619 and 1865 to which none of us is directly connected. We are currently in the fifth generation removed from slavery, which means that black people born in America who are in my age range (between 25 & 35) haven't even experienced slavery or Jim Crow laws. Racism exists and will always exist. All humans differ in many ways from race to race, and we will exploit those racial differences. We will, out of anger, frustration, and ignorance, blame race for traits or occurrences that honestly have no directly correlation to race. This fact renders the belief that we can "overcome racism" foolish because it will never truly go away. Petition government to push "hate crime" laws which increase the severity of punishment for crimes committed across races, genders, sexual preferences, or nationality. Ask for money, land, recreational equipment, restaurants, and tax breaks as a repayment for what your great great great grandparents had to endure in the fields. Deliver orations, write songs, publish poetry, and protest peacefully about the way that another race is holding you down. Go ahead and drive a campaign against those who have no power to suppress you anymore, and we who would receive the punishment as a result of the success of your campaign will shake our heads in disappointment. We will eat our popcorn and sip our soda as though at a movie while you foolishly chase your tails on this issue. Regardless of whether you obtain your jewel encrusted bauble or tumble painfully down the hill you sit atop, your endeavor is invalid. After I have dictated all of this detail on the bleeding-heart-liberal cry for help in this alleged white male bent country, I have to respond with a hearty "NO". Please quit bludgeoning a deceased equine. Just as a police officer does not give a citizen a ticket for not wearing his seat belt unless his car is in motion, do not punish a people who are not promoting, perpetuating, or calling for the reinstatement of slavery. Use the current law system, put in place over the last 143 years to protect civil rights, to defend the honor of being human with "certain inalienable rights", but do not call for exaggerated compensation for an act that the current denizens of our country had absolutely no hand in performing. Now, I would like to dissect the loosely and incorrectly used term "reverse racism". First of all, Webster's dictionary defines racism as "hatred or intolerance of another race or races", which applies to everyone, even black people. So, what could reverse racism mean if racism is a term to describe a person of any color who has intolerance for a person that does not share the same ethnicity? Reverse, in Webster's world, means "opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character", which lends itself to a less liberal usage as that which is abused by supporters of black Americans in politics. If one is opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character to hatred or intolerance of another race or races, then, by that very definition, one is not racist. When one uses the term reverse racism, he is stating that the occurence, person, law, or other target accused of this alleged act is actually not acting in a racist manner at all. To use this term is ignorant, and, if one enjoys the position of ignorant, which equates to educational neutral in the gearbox of intelligence, then he should definitely stay out of positions of power, stay away from the microphones of the media, and stay away from those who are gullible and seeking someone who will validate ignorant beliefs.