Racism in the USA

Things have changed in the US. My father told me that when he was growing up in Pennsylvania, there were separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites. Neighborhoods were totally segregated as well. This was not the South, but racism was rampant. When I was in school, there was little integration since the neighborhoods were still very segregated. My daughters graduated from a high school in an upscale suburb that is about 20% minority students. Both had many friends of different races and religions. Other than handwringing about racism elsewhere, there is little consideration of racism in my town in Connecticut, not because no one cares, but rather because there is no racism apparent in the town.

Despite the dramatic decline and near disappearance of racism in America, there is a simultaneous explosion of charges of racism. Some people (like Al sharpton) make their living from leveling such charges. Others gain political power from the constant drone of such claims. Indeed, there is such an effort to make charges of racism that many Democrats believe that America is a racist society.

In the 1980's, the Communist government of Poland conducted a campaign of anti-semitism even though there were essentially no Jews left in Poland. It was called Anti-semitism without Jews. Now the left wing of the Democrats and other leftists are conducting a campaign of purported anti-racisim without racists.

The sad thing is that there are many in our society who cannot discern the level of racism or compare it to the past. Thus, when the race baiters from the left start leveling their charges, these folks believe what they are hearing. America is racist. All problems of the minority communities are due to racism. Reparations are needed for the slavery practiced by people 150 years ago, even though most of the people in the US are not even descendants of slave owners.

Things have now gotten out of hand in my opinion. So long as the race baiting industry was limited to people like Al Sharpton or Jeremiah Wright, the hurtful and harmful message stayed on the periphery of society. Now, however, the race baiters have take over in the government. Thus, an Arizona law which does no more than to give state police the same ability to stop illegal aliens that the federal officials already have is denounced as racist. People in the government who do not even bother to find out what the law says are prepared to solemnly announce that racism has taken hold in Arizona. Indeed, even the Attorney General of the US, a man who should know that laws are judged by what they say, finds no problem in condemning the law as racist without even reading it. Does the AG also condemn the actions of the INS in dealing with aliens (since they do essentially the same thing)? We do not know because the complicit and complacent media does not bother to ask. Indeed, even when questions like that do get asked, the government officials just sidestep them and go on claiming racism.

Today, we hit a new low when Felipe Calderon, president of Mexico announced in front of president Obama that the Arizona law was racist and discriminatory and obama just smiled and nodded his agreement. President Obama certainly knows better; yet, Obama is prepared to castigate our country as racist on the world stage just so that he can stir up Hispanic voters to come to the polls in November. Shame!!

During the Nazi era, their propaganda minister developed the technique of the big lie. One could take any position, but so long as it was repeated often and loudly enough by people in authority, it would be believed. It seems to me that this is the plan of the Obamacrats. Their plan is simply to repeat over and over again that the Arizona law is racist even though it is not. If they can get Arizona to roll back the law, the Obamacrats will succeed in cementing the loyalties of Hispanics, the poor victims of discrimination, for decades.

It is imperative that all Americans stand up for the truth. This is not a racist country. That is not to say that there are no racists left; there are and they should not be tolerated. The principal group generating racial hatred in America today, however, are President Obama and his party. It is hard to imagine that a man billed as the first "post racial" president is instead the "most racial" president in a century. Unless Obama and the Obamacrats are stopped, the cause of racial tolerance and harmony will be set back in this country for a generation. Unfortunately, that seems to be the goal of Obama and his minions, since such divisions will allow the Democrats to continue to hold the unquestioned allegiance of their minority supporters.