(ThyBlackMan.com) A recent Rasmussen poll found that more Americans by a wide margin think blacks are more racist than whites. This also included a significant percent of blacks who according to Rasmussen said that they consider more blacks racist than whites or Hispanics. The poll was sloughed off, mocked, and skewered by some.
But many can and should quibble with the methodology. It was done through a telephone survey and the sample was 1,000 respondents. But the question is how did pollsters define and determine what is “racist“? Still, its conclusion may have some validity. For three decades, the steady drumbeat has been that the avalanche of civil rights and voting rights laws, state and local bars against discrimination, and affirmative action programs has permanently crumbled the nation’s historic racial barriers. The parade of top black appointed and elected officials, including one president, the legions of black mega millionaire CEOs, athletes, entertainers, and the household names of blacks from Oprah to Bob Johnson is repeatedly waved as convincing proof of that.
The ferocious assault by high profile black conservatives, with a certain Supreme Court justice leading the way, have sold millions of Americans that everything from historic voting rights protections to affirmative action are relics of a long by-gone racist past and should be summarily dumped in the historic dust bin. They haven’t stopped at that. They’ve even sold a wide body of the public that to continue to fight for these supposedly unnecessary relics is just a self-serving, greedy grab by the much rivaled “civil rights establishment” to protect its racial turf, and feather its own nest. Those hurt most by this are blacks who they supposedly mire in a semi-permanent state of dependency and entitlement trap.
It matters little that every objective study and survey for the past two decades has consistently shown the gaping racial disparities in health care, education spending, the criminal justice system, employment, the wealth gap, and poverty between blacks and whites has either stagnated or widened. Or that blacks are still largely the invisible men and women in executive management spots at the Fortune 500 corporations. It matters even less that the textbook definition of racism explicitly means not just an individual’s thinking or expressing racially skewed bias and animus toward another group, but having the actual power to exert control and dominance through the mechanisms of law, public policy, and economic dominance over that group. This is the defining point between an individual’s personal prejudices, and there are few individuals who don’t harbor some personal prejudice toward another group, and having the actual power to exercise that prejudice against another group that is deliberately missed or distorted in the futile exercise of trying to say who is a racist and what makes them a racist.
The entrenched notion, however, is that if you’re black, poor, uneducated, or locked in a prison cell, don’t blame social, political or economic iniquities, in short, don’t scream race — blame yourself. This does two things: it provides social and psychic comfort to those individuals who think that they’re bigotry-free, and can finger point blacks as eternal racial crybabies who love to scream racism at every slight or failure. They also pound civil rights leaders for eternally playing the race card on every supposedly imagined or trumped up racial malfeasance.
But the far more insidious thing than accusing blacks of being America’s top bigots is that it makes it much easier to ignore or outright assail laws, statutes, policies and initiatives that were hard fought over to put on the books to protect rights and eliminate discrimination. This ploy was on full display in the Supreme Court debate over the key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that for decades mandated Justice Department approval to prevent registrars in targeted Southern and Southwestern states from using every tact to damp down black and Hispanic votes. It was on display and in the ancient court and public debate over affirmative action which has long been encased in public thinking, as “reverse discrimination.” The real victims of this supposed discrimination are not blacks, Hispanics or women, but white males. This was amply borne out in a Rasmussen poll in May that found only 25 percent of Americans favored affirmative action as part of college admission policies.
The Supreme Court almost certainly will hear yet another affirmative action related case at a future date. And there is talk among some Democrats that Congress should pass some measures to restore the protections that the Court gutted in its decision on the Voting Rights Act. Unfortunately, these polls give those who oppose any more rights initiatives be it court, congressional or from the private sector further ammunition to argue that America has reached a racial nirvana and nothing more need be done to protect or further safeguard racial gains. And the only ones screaming for that to happen are blacks. But then again that’s only to be expected since so many blacks are “racist” anyway.
Written By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
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hey,earl,is the white man bothering you again?what did the white man do to you this time?did he take you’r sheep skin from you?did the white man keep you from progressing?did the white man take away everything you earned?did the white cracker as you say make you feel uneasy?in what way did the white cracker hurt you in the past 40 years of you’r life?he probubly dragged you to this country so you couldnt get an education.
Let the negro kill himself Hassan….I’m learning Spanish (moorish latin) as we speak….I have no problems with Aztecs, Incans, Mayans, etc. at all. At least they contribute. What do negroes contribute besides BS rap music and reality shows? The fact these shows stay on let’s me know that the negro is finished as a collective. People who lack culture (womb) is not fit to exist and as we see, the negro is showing that he/she does not want to exist. You’re better off marrying a latina and considering yourself Hispanic than trying to wake Wily B (the negro) up from his stupor. The “black” experiment ended when negroes killed malcolm. Malcolm was our Jesus Christ figure and his death revealed who the real devil was back then and is now: the negro. I told this young brother yesterday to let that “black” stuff go and form a family with a woman outside these polluted lands. He really appreciated what I had to say because he had never had anyone to give him the perspective I gave him before. Brother is Muslim, getting his master’s in Math, positive, yet is unmarried. I told him “you’re not the problem. your people are.”
Like they say you can’t fix stupid….. And it is too much fun to hate this proverbial, and distant white man to use him as a crutch and blame him for every short coming, or injustice you have had to ever face. Believe me, once we become a Latin American country (and it will happen, the U.S. is the 5th largest Spanish speaking country in the world and Spanish is not our official language) we will look back at whitey and laugh to ourselves.
Most whites that don’t like black people do not hunt them down, kill them, and brag about how they will “take over”. But, it doesn’t matter to most on here, anything is good as long as we can poke at or knife whitey. I won’t believe in or subscribe to the fairytale that some distant racist white guy is out to get me, if anything, my contact with white people has been positive, and the majority is not interested in keeping anyone down or depriving anyone of anything. Worst case scenario, the ones that did not like me, shunned me and left me alone.
What blew the whole idea of systemic and institutional racism apart was the fact when I went to college I was the only “American” there. Most came from South America, Cuba, Africa, and or Haiti. They were darker than me, did not speak English, and were poor. All did not get any financial assistance as many were outstaying their tourist visas and had no promise of residency and or work upon graduation. Meanwhile the men in my neighborhood continued to sire children out of wedlock, commit crimes, dress like buffoons, and exhibit behaviors that are less than civilized.
Another “cracker” that I enjoy listening to is Alex Jones; he had Professor Griff, Chuck D, and Larry Pinckney on his show, along with Pastor Childress, who discussed the “negro project” where the so called liberals would infiltrate political parties and government institutions to exterminate the “black weeds”. Another issue I find strange is the fact that this filthy abortion doctor, Dr. Gosnell had minimal coverage in Mainstream Media, while we are consumed with Zimmerman, no one wants to talk about the thousands of black children this filthy, bucket of puss killed. At least the cracker conservatives are more disgusted and enraged than we are, from what I can gather, they want a standard of living, life, and moral to increase and be enjoyed bay all regardless of race, ethnicity, or political affiliation.
http://www.blackbluedog.com/2013/07/news/4-year-old-son-begged-shooter-stop-hurting-my-mom/
Marcus I don’t get on here to perform verbal gymnastic with you nor anyone else…..even Henry Louis gates said that the face of America in the next 50 years will be “Polynesian” because of the intermixing going on in America…..in terms of birth rates, Hispanics are outpacing Black people at a high rate….every time I say something concerning about black people, I’m not comparing them to whites because whites don’t haunt me like they do you’ll like they are ghosts or something.
Do you all go to bed and have nightmares about white people every night you’ll go to bed? Caucasians are really your for real the way you all feel the need to compare yourselves to them as if every Caucasian in America is wealthy and perfect. Like they don’t cook meth, rob banks, shoot up heroine, etc. They have issues amongst themselves. I made a statement about negroes, who murdered an innocent black man who was conducting business, and you bring up Caucasian birth rates? For freaking what?
I don’t care about their birth rates in terms of how it relates to negroes murdering an innocent brother. I don’t know who’s worse: you or eric wattree. I know the stats concerning whites not having children across the world. I know in places like Russia and France, they were paying Caucasians to have children. I’m not a new jack dude. You’re not schooling me with your stats and liberal education. Michael Eric Dyson does not impress me with his verbal wizadry either. Neither does Cornel West.
Why? Cause I’m my own MAN, who needs no other man to ok wtf I write on here. Period. WTF are you to tell me what I wirte is terrible? Are you approving me for a degree or something? DO I need you for something? Do I need your approval to put money in my pocket? I’m up for a debate any day: but this “I don’t like your argument so I don’t like you” mentality you monkeys display on here is annoying to say the least. Who cares if you thought it was terrible. What does that have to do with the gist of what I said? Not a Damn thing!!! What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to say “I’m sorry Mr. Vessey.
I’ll rewrite what I wrote and submit it to you when it’s more to your liking.” Is that what’s supposed to happen since you feel the need to approve what I write? Dude you’re not my professor, father, mentor, father figure, etc. I don’t need your approval for a damn thing. Go back and forth with Eric who seems to be much more on your level. I’ve had better back and forth with women on here than the likes of dudes like you and Eric.
Man you dudes annoying as hell with your emotional responses to things you don’t agree with. I didn’t know arguments centered around whether someone liked them or not. I thought they centered around whether you disagreed with them and once presented an opportunity to refute it, you put forth a sound response to it. Not whether you like it or not. But I forgot, like the white man you people are so preoccupied with said about you’ll “you think with a child’s mind. Instead of using logic, you use emotionalism instead.” So I get it. You can’t help it. It’s in your DNA. It’s called the “:Curse of Ham.” lol
Ramses, that is terrible argument. The population of Black folks is projected to grow by 2050 not decline. Whites are actually declining across the world due to low birth rate.
In regard to self-racism that is an oxymoron. There can be self-hatred, but not self-racism because racism is rooted in a power dynamic.
That is problem I mentioned previously about how the word has changed to mean something that it was never intended to mean or communicate.
http://www.yourblackworld.net/2013/07/black-news/young-chicago-father-murdered-while-selling-fruit-on-the-corner/
Here’s proof that the real racists towards blacks are each other……at this rate, in 50 years, there will be no trace of what we call “black people.” Especially with the way they murder one another, and kill themselves with poor health. But like I always say, nature has a way of weeding out the weak people in a gene pool. Always has and always will. No matter how much black people go against “nature” (God, Divine Architect of The Univers, Allah, Yahweh, Ogun, Ra, etc) they will never win. Rappers in the 80’s warned black people with the song “Self Destruction.” They forewarned what is taking place now. Black people are headed for self-destruction and maybe it should be that way since they have turned away from the Godliness they used to claim that gave them a direct connection to God himself. This “father” was shot by gang members as he stood on the corner trying to provide for his family and fiancee. But I’m sure some liberal negroes will show more concern for the broken home these muts came from instead of the Man who in spite of probably coming from the same background, at least tried to run his own business instead of becoming a criminal. But we know how that “thug life” is celebrated by negroes including women cause we all know these women gotta have that “thug love.” Utter foolishness
I think it goes back to what I have been talking about for a while now. The term racists has been so over used, misdefined, and misappropriated that its use becomes functionally useless in adequately summarizing activities that negatively impact folks of a particular racial class.
Earl made the point in his article of “Gaping Disparities” and “Blacks more racist according to poll” show this. The fact that in modern American racism has been disconnected from the huge social disparities that break down along clearly along racial lines is indicative of this.
For my part, I now think the word is a waste of time. It has been so beat up and misused that there is no way to return it as an adequate description of oppression by virtue of race.