Just wanted to let you know.
Thought you should hear it direct from the horse’s mouth, so to speak (although there are some who insist it’s comin’ from the other end of the horse).
I’m a racist.
Now unlike most folks today, what get all uppity and politically correct and knot their knickers when someone calls them that, I’m actually pretty damned proud of it.
I wasn’t always a racist.
Seems I became one about the time Obama started running for office.
I was a lot of things ‘fore racist.
Once, I was just an American that watched and evaluated what was happening in his country, and when I disagreed with it, said so.
Back then, some called people like me the “loyal opposition”.
When Jimmy Carter, a white peanut rancher from Georgia, gave away the Panama Canal, I thought it was stupid, and said so.
He was a Dem and a Lib, and I’m not. So, I was “the opposing party”.
When Bill Clinton tried to convince us all that something that even kids know is sex wasn’t, I said he was stupid.
Since I said so, I was now part of the “vast right wing conspiracy”.
When George bush the elder said “Read my lips” and then raised taxes anyway, I said he was stupid, and became a “disaffected Republican”.
But tellingly, I weren’t called racist for saying these white men were stupid.
Neither were any of my colored friends (hey, it’s called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…. I didn’t name it) who thought and said the same things.
But like I said, I watch and evaluate what goes on in my country. Regardless of who’s holding the reins.
When Obama became a candidate for President, after serving only a little more than two years in the US Senate (elected November 2, 2004, declared as a presidential candidate February 10, 2007), I said it was stupid, because he didn’t have any significant experience at a national level, and because he hadn’t been a Senator long enough to have a voting history.
Hell, he didn’t even have any dust on his hat or scuffs on his boots.
When, during the campaign, Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, was exposed as a lunatic, I said Obama’s explanation of being unaware of Wright’s statements was stupid.
After his election, I called many of his appointments, actions, policies and initiatives stupid. And, as time goes on, it becomes apparent that maybe this oldtimer knew what he was talking about.
But in Obama’s case, unlike with Carter, Clinton, Bush, or anyone before, I’m no longer the “loyal opposition”, or a “disaffected Republican”, or even a member of the “vast right wing conspiracy”.
Nope. I’m a racist.
Hell, up to now, I never thought stupid was a race, even though there’s a bunch of people tryin’ to finish in first place, if ya know what I mean.
I thought race was based on somebody’s ethnicity. On the color of their hide.
Not what was in their head. Or what they did.
I thought those were called character or integrity or some other old time thing.
But obviously, I was guilty of some wrong thinkin’. ‘Cause now I got a whole bunch of folks tellin’ me I’m racist.
Black folks.
White folks.
A whole passel of folks sayin’ that I can’t disagree with Obama without it bein’ ‘cause of the color of his skin.
That he should get a pass on his stupid words, stupid acts, and stupid policies. That I either shouldn’t notice, or shouldn’t speak out.
According to these folks, the only reason Obama’s doing stupid things and saying stupid things, and following stupid paths, is because he’s not white.
I guess they’re sayin’ he’s stupid ‘cause he’s black.
Which I guess means that all colored people are stupid.
That, I reckon means that it’s not about character or ideas or principles, but about the color of someone’s skin.
Which, up to now, I always thought was the definition of racism.
Again, more wrong thinkin’, I reckon.
But since I’m now a racist, I figure it’s probably somethin’ I should try to do well. Do it the best I can.
It’s the cowboy way.
So I’m gonna give ya some words on other stuff as well.
As a racist, I’m thinkin’ that anybody that’s one of them “hyphenated Americans” is stupid. I don’t much care whether it’s Irish-American, Afro-American, Latin-American, or Left Handed-American.
You’re here? You’re living in this country? You’re an American.
And if you’re not here legally, you’re not an American or an “undocumented worker”. You’re an illegal. You’re breaking the law, and that makes you a criminal. So cowboy up and if you want to be a hyphenated American, be honest and call yourself a “criminal-American” or an “illegal-American”.
If you’re an American, and have been for more than a month, then you don’t get to have your special rules. You play by the same rules as every other American.
You don’t get to have a “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People”. I don’t get to have a “National Association for the Advancement of White People”. Try becoming truly integrated and working for the advancement of all Americans.
You don’t get to have a “United Negro College Fund”. I don’t get to have a “United White College Fund”. “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” no matter what color the packaging is.
You don’t get to have a “Black Congressional Caucus”. A “White Congressional Caucus” wouldn’t be tolerated. Play by the same rules as all Americans.
If you want to be here, be an American. Learn the language. Become part of the culture.
Our country’s great strength has always been the melding of cultures of our population. Bringing the strengths of each individual into our country, into our society.
Becoming integrated based on ability and effort, not segregated by skin color or place of birth.
Great Americans like Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln risked much to give you the opportunity to become fully integrated.
Stop trying to reverse their efforts through self-imposed segregation, regardless of your country of origin or ethnic heritage.
Stupid ideas and stupid actions are not the exclusive property of any race. They’re stupid because they’re stupid, not because the person sayin’ them is white, black, or purple.
But what do I know? I’m a racist.
Just thought you should know.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. --- Woodrow Wilson.
