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Racists: The New Media Darlings
INTRO
To keep it equal I will start this by a quote spoken by two important leaders of our government on the very important topic of race.
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." -- Charles Barron, a New York City councilman at a reparations rally, 2002.
This intellectual choice of words was spoken at a tax payer sponsored reparations event in New York City to a group of ecstatic black people and even more elated and guilt ridden white people. Not to leave out the respected and current Democratic Senator Robert Byrd when he so elegantly stated
"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time." -- A Former Klansman, also a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" in March of 2001,
Establish goodwill
I have lived on both sides of the coin - and have come away with the rather astonished amusement from the antics and the racial tip toeing of both races. I learned a lot through the cliché' "life's lessons".
Michelle Obama said in an interview with Brzezinski about the polls that were showing her husband trailing Hillary at 46% to 37% in the African-American community. Her response was a shrill
"First of all, I think that's not going to hold. I'm completely confident. Black America will wake up and get it, but what we're dealing with in the Black community is just the natural fear of possibility. You know, when I look at my life, you know, the stuff that we're seeing in these polls has played out my whole life. Always been told by somebody that I'm not ready, you know, I can't do something. My scores weren't high enough.
There's always that doubt in the back of the minds of people of color. People who have been oppressed and haven't been given real opportunities that you never really, that you believe somehow, someone is better than you. You know, deep down inside you doubt whether you can do it because that's all you've been told is, no, wait. That's all you hear. And you hear it from people who love you, not because they don't care about you, but they're afraid. They're afraid that something might happen."
At this very moment there are civil rights groups and civil rights activists dedicated to pointing out the differences of their race as well as the faults of others. From racists like Michelle Obama to Hillary Clinton, to racists like US Senator Robert Byrd to Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights; race has been the center of politics, love, and a definition of people that has cause a rift to be made in the hypothetical realm of acceptance and tolerance.
Credibility
I will show instances in media where racism is treated differently and the effects of this massive difference.
I am going to persuade only the two races to stop playing victim versus appeasers; and start the hard work of equal expectation.
Punishment and rewards are different within the two races; this simple idea of equal justice has added to the destruction of almost an entire race and added to the guilt of another.
I will use the Presidential candidates, and others, are taking advantage of "affirmative action" babies and thereby undermine the entire movement of equality.
I will explain how the government keeps the races separated and subjected through pointless exploits like the "War on drugs" and entitlements.
I will explain how media perpetuates that victimization of both races - not just black people, but white people also.
I want to extend this point out to the audience; I am very bias about this subject; in the most objective of ways. To explain my choice of this hot topic - is in my life a very cold explanation. I am both races equally at the same, all of the time. Moreover from my hotel industry experience as I openly talked to people about what was going on in their mind as it pertained to race - I was astonished by the fear of "rich white men" and the entitlement encrusted attitude of black men and women.
Media
I spoke to Tony Macrini; on his WNIS 790am Radio show, as it pertained to Don Imus's remark, about that team that no one really cared about until those meaningless words were spoken. I was appalled that a man's career was destroyed over a remark that my black relatives use to refer to hair before they slap on some Cholesterol on your head and pick it out. I am also going to be the first in line when Halle Barry's new movie comes out - "Nappily Ever After". I want to make sure her roots are not split. That one blip in our history of black relations between the two races disgusted me, and even more so the black community. Not at the nappy headed hoes comment; it was that his firing adds to the victimhood that plagues the black community today. This constant tip toeing and ACTING like pointless remarks like the one made by Don Imus are contributing to the racial divide.
The media took this remark and had on panel after panel of biased and racists people of both races, had editorial reviews replace journalism, and had pundits make the moral judgment call on whether a man who said something that was NEVER intended to be a racist comment in the first place redefine the comment into something so sinister it should of had a commandment banning it. Many black people within my family and within my eclectic circle of friends thought the comment was too petty to comment to. One even comment that he could do better - and then proceeded to rattle off obscenities that Boondocks wouldn't air. In reality, as my little sister said Don Imus should have never been fired for saying something racist, but should have been fired for being stupid.
This irony of it all is that, DOG, Duane Chapman was right. If you say that word; and you know what word I am talking about, then your career is going to be destroyed. If I feel that media that is in place now has destroyed the black image and effectively created a void in the white image. Here is proof. BET, created to show the stereotypes that black women are whores and that it is all the white man's fault shows 24/7 365 days a week on this cable channel. After WWI there was a respect for black people as they shared in the responsibility of defending our nation - and others - honorably - until Mammy and "Butterfly" came into the picture. These two Icons denigrated the equality that was fought for and replaced it with the expectation that black people were illiterate and all they were good for was cooking chicken and changing white people's diapers. This is still played out today in shows like show on UPN and BET.
Not to mention that hip-hop has morphed into a commercialized version of soft-core porn and stereotypes; no wonder if someone sag's their pants and walks with a faux-limp they are considered "black". Is that really what it means to be black? I glanced at another questionnaire about Hip Hop and one person wrote in response to the question "Who do you think listens to hip hop?" and the response was "Black people; it is black music". I am afraid I had to paraphrase that last statement as I did not get to hold on and copy down exactly what was said - but the response was according to those lines. The hip-hop community has romanized the ghetto lifestyle so much so that speech with no be-verbs or to refer to a woman by anything other than "bitch" or "yo", you are acting/ talking white.
I spoke to a black news anchor on WTV3 news and he said that in order to succeed you have to talk white. Media lowers that expectation for black men especially.
Just last week on Maury, a black man was praised for "taking responsibility" for the care of a child. He was exalted, and effectively worshiped. This was a major problem for me. According to racerelations.about.com 70% of black births are out of wedlock. This leads right back to media and lowered expectations of black youths - which effect self worth directly. If a young black girl - who has no father figure, is constantly exposed to hip hop moguls who are predominantly male who tell them they are only worth the cup size they can fill - then they will search for that acceptance that the rest of their being needs; and replace that with sexuality. This is cyclical in nature. This behavior is passed from mother to daughter and this sick cycle continues. The only way to stop this is to advocate for black family to unite again, and for black men to take an active role in family rising - not just baby making. Media set the expectations of an entire community by perpetuation of this lifestyle of ghetto fabulous living and such.
There used to be a time when media was a reflection of society - now society is now a reflection of media.
(But no one continues this divide more than the government)
Government
First let me tell you how hard it was to write this portion of the speech. I love the government. Ours is the best government on the planet (For the next year that is) and it is indeed bless by God. I firmly agree with that statement, and stand by with all of my might. However I think that the measures taken by our government, to help ease the burden of race hatred, have done more harm than good.
Affirmative action and civil rights laws itself are racist innovations even spoken by Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights. Spoken by an incumbent of our government, these laws show a blatant disregard for one race in favor for another. The question I have to ask isn't that counterproductive? Is that not what the laws were intended to do? They were supposed to help all people - no matter their race - reach their goals without prejudice stopping them.
Entitlement and wel-fare have crippled black American families. The expectation that the government owes "you" something is absolutely grotesque in nature. As in any socialist regime, the government hands out entitlements to the people, and the people become used to it. The EBT and other such entitlement programs designed to help families have hurt them by stupid rules like - in order to receive food stamps you cannot have a full-time job that makes over a certain amount - thereby hurting the chances of that person ever really getting off of that system. This is a grave problem for black as well as white. When it pertains to the black community where out of wed-lock children as well as HIV AIDS are out of control - a rule that in its very definition denies them the right to grow/ better themselves - that sounds like a latent form of slavery to me.
The socialist school systems themselves are a perpetrator in this horrible act of intolerance - using a smiling face of entitlement will give you an automatic 20 extra points on your SATS if you bubble in the circle claiming that you are black. This is sad to me. This one little point that a child can somehow be entitled to a reward such as a point increase because they are black is going to begin a domino effect of failure for him. Black are among the highest in drop outs in college. Look at it like this - if you cannot score well on a SAT test and you are accepted to a college that you are not ready for - but your test said you were because you were black - your failure will not be your fault - it is rightfully the fault of the test creators who thought you deserved the extra 20 points.
The drug war I can sum up very quickly. I would rather you, the audience to think about it like this. The penalty for having crack is much more harsh that if you had cocaine. Now coke is considered the drug du jor among the rich white community; where as poor people have more access to crack. The poor people of this country are most likely - you guessed it - minorities. So if a black person gets caught with a gram of coke he/ she is going to jail for a much longer time than the more than likely culprit of a white person having a gram of coke. I am not saying that the two races aren't reciprocal, but the laws of averages are on my side here when I say that this war on drugs is racist in its very nature.
(This makes both races victims of a government that is run by people who don't understand cause and effect - but rather effect of a cause)
Victimization
Slaves. Look, they said they were sorry; can we get over it PLEASE? I guess not according to Harry Belafonte. He said
"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."
Within the own race these are dividends that mystify even myself. Who is Harry Belafonte anyways? Was he that one hit wonder with that song about that phallic shaped fruit that annoyed people in elevators? I think he was. Now I don't mean to be rude; or rather I mean to be critical to a man that has demoralized American culture with his outrageous remarks about the status, and ridiculous ideas of the past of American black men and women. I personally have witnessed black men and women blame white people for their negative situation; claimed that a black man wanted to be white because he took a white wife; and I myself have been accused of thinking that I was better than someone because I was a lighter shade than they were. I promptly told them that I was better than they are for a whole set of other reasons; but even I know within all of my narcissism my race or hue has little to do if I am better than someone.
One day while eating lunch at the mall I was approached by a black man looking for change to collect enough to get a one way ticket to Africa to live amongst "his" people. I thought how incredibly stupid to say something as pointless as that. This boy who does not know anything about Africa; and I know this because I quizzed him - and equally nothing about his country, America, yet another test of mine he failed - I asked him why he was using leaving America because America is being mean to you routine to get money to get something to eat from the food court. He replied "That is what's easiest to get money. People believe you if you are black and you don't like America." I was instantly intrigued and peppered him with more questions about being black in America and what that meant to him - he me the premeditated responses that America is run by rich white folks that never give a black man a chance and how white people gave black people AIDS to kill them off. It was interesting and disturbing. He was using the victimhood of his own people to get money to feed himself. He was also complete with the imbedded hatred of white people, enough so to give me a rundown of history of his twisted view of the civil rights movement. He spoke it to me as if he believed he lived in that era - the man could not have been any older than I was. The irony of this is that he is using black victimhood to advance himself as much as the people he says that are exploiting him. The same politicians that change their accents to appeal to a crowd like Hillary Clinton, to people like Al Sharpton who uses victimhood to raise money for his lobby groups, who pay Al ridiculous amounts of money to say racist comments and bill them as progress, these people are the ones that he advocates for and idolize. This dichotomy is interesting to me.
Conclusion
Speech Summary – It is interesting to me how these two races interact with one another. How much is exactly the same within each of the races and now desperately they both want to feel different. Yeah sure one side has a different history in treatment in this country - it doesn't change the fact that race is truly of the mind. This separation needs to stop; most importantly at the school level. I am going to close with a story followed by a cliché' of a quote. The story is of my favorite subject; me.
I was getting ready to take a standardized test in school and it was time to bubble in one race. I refused to say I was white and I refused to say I was black. I did not want to circle "other" because I was not "other". I made a little box and put down that I was Klingon. The teacher became angry towards me, and told me that if I did not pick a race that I was going to go to detention. Well come 3:45pm my bus had came and when and I was sitting there, in Ms. Kriemer's class, with my hands in my lap with a smirk on my face. Because I was taught at a very young age that Klingons do not take orders from Hu-mans. Now the purpose of that story was to show that the pressure to chose is the root of this strife amongst the races. Klingon or not victimhood should not be taught or expected, government institutions should not expect failure or have low expectations, and the media should not dictate how you should act based on your skin or how you may look – even if you are a Klingon.
.~ To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ~
William Faulkner
Work Cited
Victimization:
Eggen, Dan. "Study: Almost Half of Murder Victims Black." washintonpost. 10 August 2007. Washington Post Staff Writer. 14 Nov 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/09/AR2007080901964_pf.html>.
Family:
Marchetti, John. "Opportunity, Migration, and the Black Family." Havard College Student Employment office. April 1998. THE HARVARD COLLEGE. 14 Nov 2007 <http://www.seo.harvard.edu/news/1998-04.html>.
Media:
Morano, Marc. "Bill Cosby to Blacks: Stop Blaming 'The White Man'." Special Report. July 02, 2004. CNS. 14 Nov 2007 <http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200407/SPE20040702a.html>.
MARRIOTT, MICHEL . "The New York Times." Rap. The New York Times. 14 Nov 2007 <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE1D81F38F937A15752C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print>.
Govenernment/ schools:
Kouri, Jim. "The New York Times." Renew America. September 18, 2007. renewamerica.us. 14 Nov 2007 <http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/kouri/070918
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