A Nation Of Cowards - Road to the Middle Class

For over thirty years, ordinary Americans have been afraid to talk about race for a very simple reason. Americans want to avoid being stigmatized as racists. But why? Aren’t we all Americans? Can’t we just get along? No, senator. Because there’s a problem.

In America today, if you disagree with a liberal on race, the liberal will call you a racist. If you disagree with a liberal on women’s issues, the liberal will call you a sexist. And if you disagree with a liberal on gay rights, the liberal will call you a homophobe.

There is a reason why liberals do this. They do it to shut people up. And we let them.

So I take up the challenge issued by the nation’s first black Attorney General. I will not be cowed. I will not be silent. I will not truckle to liberals that call me racist. I will stand up to them. I believe that people should be judged upon the content of their character, not upon the color of their skin. And I believe that, in America, in the 21st century everyone should be equal under law.

I believe that:

If you support affirmative action you are a racist.
If you talk about “diversity” you are probably a racist.
If you talk about “underserved communities” you are probably a racist.
If you want to curb “hate speech” you are probably a racist.

Yes, you could say I’m mad as hell and and I’m not going to take it any more.

I notice in your speech, Mr. Attorney General that you deplore that an America with integrated workplaces is still “voluntarily socially segregated.” You recommend:

As a nation we should use Black History month as a means to deal with this continuing problem. By creating what will admittedly be, at first, artificial opportunities to engage one another we can hasten the day when the dream of individual, character based, acceptance can actually be realized.

Then you go on to say that we will need Black History until “until black history is included in the standard curriculum in our schools.”

Oh really. The reports that I get is that the schools discuss almost nothing else, unless they are talking about feminist history.

If America is socially segregated, then I suggest that government officials should stay out of it. Politicians, are after all, the masters of division. That is what they do. They get up on the hustings and they endeavor to carve out 50 percent plus one of the voters. They divide people into Us and Them. They conduct civil war by other means.

We will never solve America’s race problem until we take race out of poliltics.

And we can, because while discrimination surely still exists, it is a hurdle to jump, not an impassable barrier.

So go ahead, Mr. Attorney General. Make my day. We, the American people, woujld be delighted to stop being cowards, and instead risk our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor fighting against the liberal race bullies.

We look forward to the day when, after putting the nation through decade after decade of confflict over race, the average American just gets fed up with liberals and completely refuses to listen to another word on race.

We know what will happen next. It will be like a scene in a movie.

Racist Liberal (pouting): [I]f you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?

Ordinary American (shrugging): Frankly, my dear. I don’t give a damn.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

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