Yeah, more on that race thing. I can beat this one to death, too bad others just can’t let it die the death it deserves. Race is merely the luck of the draw. You are what you are. Your character is what I am going to judge you on.
While on the Subject: A Personal Look at Racial Preferences
Posted by Bobby Eberle
In the previous administration, America had two black secretaries of state. In this administration, we have a black president and a black attorney general. Yet, when these officials talk about race, rather than uniting the country, they seek to look backward. Our esteemed attorney general even called us a nation of cowards? Is he for real?
Despite President Obama’s assertions that he’s “moved beyond race,” he was quick to throw in reminders in his campaign of his racial background… or at least half of it. These comments and the fact that race has been in the news lately reminded me of the fact that I’m as much of a “minority” as our fine president is. I’m also just as “white” as he is. But rather than embracing a particular ethnic “identity” and using it to score points, what I’m most proud of is being an American.
In looking through some of my old writings, I found a column from five years ago. It sums up my thoughts on race — in this case, racial preferences — and my feelings that we in order to move forward, we must embrace being an American.
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Except for the last two stanzas of the “National Negro Anthem” in this piece, it is good article. I think the anthem in and of itself is racist, but that’s just my opinion.
AG Holder Bombs in First Speech
by Harry R. Jackson, Jr.
This past week, Eric Holder, the nation’s first black Attorney General, got off to a rocky start. What could he be thinking, I asked myself as I watched the speech on C-Span. As he read his speech without the use of teleprompters or the dramatic flair of his friend, President Obama, Holder fumbled in his attempt to draw upon knowledge of history and instruct his fellow citizens about how to overcome the problem of race in our land. His timing and his delivery made me cringe as I watched his remarks. I knew instantly that Holder’s ineptness would reflect badly on his boss and the entire Obama administration.
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The Groves of Hackademe
by Burt Prelutsky
Down through the years, there have been a great many movies in which school teachers have been portrayed as decent and hard-working, even heroic. Just a handful that come to mind are “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” “Holland’s Opus,” “This Land is Mine,” “Up the Down Staircase,” “Good Morning, Miss Dove,” “Cheers for Miss Bishop,” “The School of Rock,” “Dangerous Minds,” “Blackboard Jungle,” “Stand and Deliver” and “Dead Poet’s Society.”
But when it comes to college and university professors, they tend to be portrayed either as comical buffoons (“The Nutty Professor,” “Monkey Business,” “Son of Flubber,” “The Absent Minded Professor,” “It Happens Every Spring,” “Horse Feathers”) or as petty, demented and, often as not, alcoholics (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “People Will Talk,” “The Squid and the Whale”). In fact, the last time I recall a movie about a professor that any normal person would wish to spend time with was the 1948 release, “Apartment for Peggy,” and even in that one, Edmund Gwenn spent most of his time planning to commit suicide.
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Racism, Eric Holder, my Son and Me
By Larrey Anderson
Enough is enough. I have had thirty plus years of enough. I have had enough of being called a “racist.” I will not sit here and be called a racist and a coward by a self-serving, race-baiting politician like Eric Holder.
You wanna talk racism, Mr. Holder? Okay. It’s time we talked. In fact, we should have had this talk thirty years ago. It’s time someone like me talked to someone like you about race.
Why am I qualified to talk about racism? Simple: I am a middle-aged white American male — this fact alone qualifies me as a racist in this Wonderland of political correctness that is the United States.
But my “racism” goes much deeper than particulars of gender and skin color. In fact, as a working writer and a retired politician, I have a lifelong pattern of “racism.” I was called a “racist” twenty-five years ago when I voted against “hate crimes” legislation in the Idaho State Senate. I had this insane notion that all violent crimes were hate crimes — clearly a racist thought (no doubt instilled by the white culture of hate that surrounded me).
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I got yer “Frank Conversation” about race.
Allrighty, Holder – you want a “Frank Conversation about race?” You got it.
How come since I am part Indian do I have to answer for the sins of my white ancestors? How come only if you have some black ancestor are you exempted from being counted as “white?” How come I am more Indian than Barack Obama is black, and yet he is counted as fully black?
How come in my years of teaching I constantly heard that behaving with decorum and achieving were “Acting white?” Why do you have to be an underachieving gangsta to be “authentically” black?
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