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| 2014-12-13 |
| Ben Stein: A disturbing conversation with one of my smartest, most astute friends who is from a border state but has been observing race relations for a long time now. He is white. He is definitely idiosyncratic. This, in paraphrase, is what he said: “I keep reading in the newspapers and seeing in the mainstream media how angry blacks are at whites over the Trayvon Martin case, the Ferguson case and the Staten Island case. And what the media is missing is that as angry as the blacks are at the whites, that’s how angry many — not all — whites are at the blacks. Blacks ask for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, as if paying today’s twenty-year-old crack addict had anything to do with his ten times removed grandfather being a slave or could make any difference at all to the soul of that slave. “What I wonder is when white people are going to start asking black people for reparations for wrecking the public schools, for destroying urban life in many cities, for the insanely disproportionate share of armed robberies, homicides, and rapes they commit? When are black people going to pay reparations for putting the whole nation in fear?” I heard this from a man about my age and I would chalk it up to one person’s oddness except that I hear words a bit like these constantly these days from white people. Except during the era of school busing in the seventies, I have never heard or seen whites so angry at blacks. Al Sharpton has done what he set out to do and so has Eric Holder. They have fanned the flames of racial anger to a white hot pitch. It is a scary situation, and what I keep thinking is that the only solution for angry people of both races is a spiritual solution: turn the anger and fear over to God. Stop looting. Stop whipping up hate. Stop play acting by affluent white college kids who pretend to be black revolutionaries. Turn it over to God and pray for forgiveness and understanding among men of all races and faiths. I have seen this work miracles and this, I am sure, is the direction we need to go. Only God’s love can solve this problem. |
| Posted by:Gromotch Flemp2098 |
| #14 Human? Although if we use the same expansive definition of species (bone, color, et al variations and differences rather than reproduction of viable offsprings) that government uses to shut things down these days, there's a case for a differing classification. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-12-13 21:25 |
| #13 There is only One Race. |
| Posted by: newc 2014-12-13 18:27 |
| #12 I've heard the condition described as negro fatigue. |
| Posted by: Nate 2014-12-13 11:23 |
| #11 OS, they are being judged on their character and they don't like it. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2014-12-13 09:50 |
| #10 Whatever happened to I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Obama and Holder, their progressive henchmen, and the big media outlets have been focused almost exclusively on skin color to the exclusion of character. Prime examples: Trayvon Martin thug. Michael Brown thug. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-12-13 09:42 |
| #9 If you had a student who was black and worked a less than motivated C- in class, and then you rode that student up to B performance, then you didn't let up the continuing criticism but no praise, you'd be called a racist. If you had a society that on race relations had been doing a C- job, then you rode it up to a B performance, then you didn't let up on the criticism and not praise, you'd be called a Democrat. Knowing human behavior, the subject will come to the conclusion 'why bother' there's nothing to make these people happy. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-12-13 08:12 |
| #8 I'm hearing - as well as feeling myself - pretty much the same things that Mr. Stein is hearing. Being accused of being a racist every time one turns around is pretty well guaranteed to begin thinking that one may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Especially when it comes to black crime against whites. The numbers and the crimes themselves are horrific, and the US media seems bound and determined to sweep them under the rug. Lest it set off a resurgence of the KKK or something. And Obama, Holder and the CBC seem absolutely determined to pour gasoline on the bonfire already. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2014-12-13 08:00 |
| #7 Way to go Shipman!! Ban that damn racist snow. How dare anyone sing about racism?? This is really the fault of the Greenies, cleaning up the air in Pittsburgh and now their ain't no black snow for balance. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-12-13 07:55 |
| #6 I'm screaming at whites this Christmas /Bang Crosby |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-12-13 07:17 |
| #5 Yea, well, "feel good" policies always end in bloodshed. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-13 04:28 |
| #4 The founders clearly foresaw the obvious conflict of cultures, hence the creation of Liberia. The great hope was that the scourge of slavery and cheap labor could somehow be rectified without bloodshed. It was not to be. The Weaver Bird does not nest with the Fish Eagle. Each has their purpose in the vast scheme of nature, and neither is greater than the other. Each has it's domain as was intended by the creator. Multiculturalism is a tragic myth. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-12-13 02:51 |
| #3 Obama/Holder's radical dividing of America is well on track. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-12-13 00:58 |
| #2 Ben Stein talks of prayer TO God. I would suggest just listen to what God said TO people. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make idols. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain. Work 6 days a week but remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet. You know, rules of life that progressive libs have been successfully fighting to ban from "civilization" since the 50's. |
| Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-12-13 00:40 |
| #1 I visited the guys buried at Andersonville National Cemetery in 2009. They told me they had paid all reparations due, and then some. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-12-13 00:16 |