Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Racism is alive and well

Here is a troubling article about the state of race relations in our society. From LewRockwell.com:
"America's New Racists" by Walter E. Williams
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams86.1.html

You can see where this article is going right from the start:
"The late South African economist William Hutt, in his 1964 book, The Economics of the Colour Bar, said that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is that those who have been the victims of injustices and oppression 'can often be observed to be inflicting not dissimilar injustices upon other races.'"

Williams observes that, "Today all that has changed. Most racist assaults are committed by blacks. What's worse is there're blacks, still alive, who lived through the times of lynching, Jim Crow laws and open racism who remain silent in the face of it."

Not surprisingly, the media don't care to report politically inconvenient facts. Reminds us of how they "report" terror attacks, somehow omitting the religion of many perpetrators.
"In many of these brutal attacks, the news media make no mention of the race of the perpetrators. If it were white racist gangs randomly attacking blacks, the mainstream media would have no hesitation reporting the race of the perps. Editors for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune admitted to deliberately censoring information about black crime for political reasons. Chicago Tribune Editor Gerould Kern recently said that the paper's reason for censorship was to 'guard against subjecting an entire group of people to suspicion.'"

"These racist attacks can, at least in part, be attributed to the black elite, who have a vested interest in racial paranoia."

Williams makes a great point with with this statement:
"Tragically, black youngsters – who are seething with resentments, refusing to accept educational and other opportunities unknown to blacks yesteryear – will turn out to be the larger victims in the long run."

The final observation in the article is also sobering:
"Black silence in the face of black racism has to be one of the biggest betrayals of the civil rights struggle that included black and white Americans."

Is racism okay or not? Why the double standard?

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