The fact is, most blacks who are raped, robbed and murdered, are the victims, not
of white bigots or white cops, but of black thugs.
But some people find it easier to play the race card, to pretend every time black
celebrities are arrested, it’s because rotten white society is out to get them. Funny how
that works, though. The same society that arrested O.J. Simpson had first given him a
college education and then handed him millions of dollars to play football, make movies,
and run through airports in TV commercials.
The very same society that arrested Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson and Kobe
Bryant, first made them kazillionaires.
It’s the same society that has made icons of Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Michael
Jordan, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Tiger Woods, Quincy Jones, Alice Walker,
Beyonce Knowles, Toni Morrison, Barry Bonds, Shaquille O’Neal, Colin Powell, Will
Smith, Condoleezza Rice and, most recently, Barack Obama.
If this were a racist society, believe me, we would not know any of those names.
Those people would be working in the fields or doing time in the gulags or they’d be
dead. That’s the way it works in racist societies.
I do not happen to believe that most white Americans in 2007 are bigots. I think,
by and large, we judge blacks exactly the way that Dr. King suggested -- by their
character and their intelligence and their ability. It’s the same way we judge each other.
However, we don’t have a lot of sympathy for those who claim to be victims of
racial oppression. We can’t stomach those who wallow in self-pity, demanding
everything from reparations to college degrees as birthrights.
We have no patience with those who blame their lack of ambition in school or the
work place on people they don’t even know. And we certainly have no use for the creeps
who spawn all those millions of children, condemning them to be raised in fatherless
homes, simultaneously condemning the rest of us to live with the violent, illiterate
thugs so many of them will inevitably grow up to be. And who then, for good measure,
blame white society when these punks eventually wind up in jail.
Needless to say, the lady on the radio took strong exception to my words.
I simply couldn’t get through to her. It must be a white thing.