Racism in the 21st Century

Michelle Malkin wrote a brilliant column yesterday called "Whitewashing Black Racism." By discussing it, I am, of course, going to be called a racist. That's the typical response whenever a non-black brings up racial arguments. I've been called that before .... during the election by a then dear friend who spun my sports analogy into something ugly and proclaimed me racist. It was wrong and hurtful and destroyed our friendship. And it never occurred to her that her voting for Obama because he was black was more racist than anything I supposedly said. In fact few people mention the overwhelming racism implied in 90% of blacks voting for Obama in the election.

Today if one questions a decision our President makes, "racist" is one of the first things to come from his supporters' mouths. We hear television interviewees constantly regurgitate crap like, "Some Americans just can't tolerate the idea of a black man in the White House." That is absolutely asinine. I don't know ANYONE who says that, and I've never even seen any evidence of it. No video clips, no audio clips, no media articles. No doubt there are some extremists somewhere, but I don't know any and the vast majority of white Americans could care less what color our President is. We just want him to lead effectively and make good decisions for the betterment of our country. Strangely, this pre-occupation with the President's color appears to emanate primarily from the black community, specifically that 90% who voted for him.

That brings us back to Malkin's article. She is specific about the violence-promoting racism of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), she quotes its leaders. Then she points out that our own Department of Justice has decided that it wasn't voter intimidation for two NBPP members dressed in paramilitary garb and carrying billy clubs while blocking white people from entering to vote and saying, "You're about to be ruled by the black man, cracker." Right. Remember how the black community claimed voter intimidation in Florida in 2000 because there was a police car parked two blocks from a polling place? That claim was given legitimacy. Yet little old white ladies were deliberately frightened away in 2008 and our own DOJ says men with clubs didn't constitute intimidation.

Now we hear from a former DOJ employee (who has a 20 year history of supporting blacks in voter intimidation cases) that no intimidation suits against blacks by whites will be entertained. That the Obama Administration's stand on this is that racism only goes one way .... that blacks intimidating or threatening whites, even with violence, isn't really racism. It's like we've fallen through the rabbit hole and landed in Wonderland.

To complicate matters our mainstream media is not reporting this story at all. Not the intimidation, not the DOJ dropping the case, not the Obama Administration's stand on one-sided racism, not the whistle-blower revelation. You won't find an article in the NY Times or a piece about this on CNN. Fox News and a few conservative columnists (like Malkin) are the only news sources informing the American people of the DOJ's decision. Everyone else pretends it isn't happening.

Not legitimate news? Do the test ..... reverse the situation, imagine if white thugs held sticks and frightened little old black ladies away from voting. Imagine if a white administration dropped charges and said it's not intimidation. Then it would be front page news and the lead story on every broadcast. Deservedly so. However, why isn't this current situation met with the same outrage?

Now also look at the inflammatory things said by these NBPP members....

I'm about the total destruction of white people. I'm about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy... The only thing the cracker understands is violence... The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder. You got to take violence to violence.

You want freedom? You're gonna have to kill some crackers! You're gonna have to kill some of their babies!

Can you imagine the condemnation and outcry from the media, all Americans, and the White House if these things had been said by whites about blacks? Is this the Golden Age of unity President Obama promised? Is this the color neutrality that Martin Luther King said would one day come and candidate Obama claimed victory about?

A thug is a thug and a racist is a racist no matter what color they are. The NBPP members should be prosecuted for what they did, and the Obama Administration and DOJ owe Americans a very large apology for the continued promotion of their own personal brand of racism.