Crutches Of My Ancestors

Today I heard a story of black America. It was the story of two friends, one black, the other white, with the black friend always making reference to racial problems and the great injustices endured by black America in cracker-land. Well, cracker-land is my terminology, but I can say it since I’m white.

The people in this story will remain anonymous. What is compelling though is the genuine nature of their friendship and their ability to discuss racial issues openly and honestly. The impression from my white friend is the black friend is living a life of total apathy. Blacks have had it so hard, that unless you are black, you will never know how hard they have had it.

Really? This is news to me. Does one need to be Daniel in the lions den to appreciate God’s mercy? Does one need to be a Jew to understand the holocaust?

So, to blacks-living-in-apathy everywhere, this is my letter to you.

Dear black american,

America inherited the slavery problem.   We didn’t create it…. we abolished it.

Jamestown predated slavery in North America.   In 1607, 104 men landed in Virginia at a place they named Jamestown, marking the first permanent English settlement in North America.   These men sailed aboard three ships; Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery.  No blacks were among them.

Thirteen years later, 102 white settlers arrived at Plymouth Rock aboard the Mayflower.  They were fleeing institutionalized religious persecution at the hand of the Church of England.  Again, no blacks were among them.

The Pilgrims didn’t own slaves.

The first blacks didn’t arrive until 1619 aboard Dutch and English Privateer ships.  They were traded for food, and were subjected to limited servitude, along with white and indian servants, a legalized status imposed by England.   At the time, anyone who was poor could be placed into involuntary servitude (not just blacks).  Race-based slavery didn’t come about until the 1680’s.

Modern slavery predated America.  My pilgrim ancestors did not bring slavery to North America.

From that point in history, it took 200 years for a teaspoon full of determined blacks and a barrel full of determined whites to abolish slavery in America, at enormous costs.   This nation endured a civil war to make it happen.  100 years later, a barrel full of black Americans lead this nation through the civil rights movement.

Democrats were heavily pro-slavery, anti-civil rights, and wrote Jim Crow laws in the South.  Democrat governors forcibly enforced pro-segregation laws.

Nigga.  Yes, I said it.  Grow up and join the real world.  It’s OK for others to joke about your race.   The problem is, you have become so extremely sensitive about your race, that the only race jokes are told by you within your own group, and by everyone else outside of your group.   You have excluded yourself from normal human interaction.   Need examples?

Listen to Sarah Silverman….

Were you offended?   Odds are you were, since blacks are taught that ethnic slurs under any setting (outside of your own circle)  are a bad thing.   But most Asians were not offended.    Actress Anne-Marie Johnson took offense to the Silverman joke, and she is… you guessed it… black.

Here is another example of how blacks have excluded themselves from normal human interaction.   This dialogue is from the movie Gran Tornino;

Martin: That’ll be ten bucks, Walt.

Walt: 10 bucks? Jesus Christ! What are you, half Jew or something? You keep raising the prices.

Martin: It’s been 10 bucks the last 5 years, you hard-nosed, cheap, Polack son of a bitch.

(Watch it here)

There was a reason nobody in the Barber Shop scene was black (Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, NAACP…). Without blacks in the scene we were able to see ‘real people’ interact about race. Did you hear the Polacks and Jews screaming about it the next day? No. (sorry)

Black America has put themselves into a box and nailed the lid shut.  The box is chained to racist organizations by name:  NAACP, BET, BlackNews.com, eBlackStudies Organization, the Internet Black pages, Black Career Women, Blacks In Government, Black Data Processing Associates, Congressional Black Caucus, Malcom X Institute For Black Studies, National Association Of Black Journalist, National Brotherhood Of (Black) Skiers, National Society Of Black Engineers, Organization Of Black Airline Pilots, Organization Of Black Designers, Union Of Black Episcopalians, United Negro College Fund… (to name just a few) Black this group, black that org, black this, black that….

Number of ‘White’ professional organizations by name:  zero.

You can continue to segregate yourselves from the very segregation your grandparents rallied and marched against.   Ironic that you would exchange one form of segregation for another of your own making.

As a white man who is routinely labeled a ‘racist’ by you for my political views, my support of Arizona’s law to enforce Federal Immigration Law, and for my support of the Tea Party movement, allow me to make one final point.   Have you, or any of your black friends adopted a child outside of your own race?    Is there a black Madonna or a black Angelina Jolie among you?   Have you ever considered using the term ’American-of African Descent’ instead of ‘African-American’ as a ethnic label?     Have you ever admired America for abolishing slavery?  Or for conquering pro-segregation southern democrats? Or for producing the greatest document of governance, our Constitution? To those that openly do (the few black conservatives) thank you. I admire your courage for enduring cries of ‘uncle tom’ from the black liberal left.

The great melting pot that is America will always be off kilter until you wake up and join the rest of us.  We’ll be waiting.   Until then, keep hobbling along on those pathetic crutches.  And please, take a tissue…

White Tissues For Black America

One day… with any luck that your children will leave your apathy behind…. America will be united in race, speaking as one, transparent in the blackness of newsprint and whiteness of newspaper.   Not afraid of words.  Able to laugh at a racial joke.  Able to get along as real men should.  When we are all one another’s brother.

Will that day ever happen in America?  Hard to imagine it ever will in the race-baiting society of what (once was) the land of the free and the home of the brave.  For in the words of one honest, hard working and respected black American…. ‘this ain’t America no more….”

Now you tell me.  If it ain’t America no more, then what is it?

(Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight)