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Judging Blacks, Whites By Sliding Scale Is Racist
Posted 06/19/2012 06:20 PM ET
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in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we were "a nation of
cowards" on matters of race. Permit me to be brave and run a few
assertions by you just to see whether we're on the same page.
There should be two standards for civilized conduct: one for whites,
which is higher, and another for blacks, which is lower. In other words,
in the name of justice and fair play, blacks should not be held
accountable to the same standards that whites are and should not be
criticized for conduct that we'd deem disgusting and racist if said or
done by whites.
You say, "Williams, what in the world are you talking about?"
Mitt Romney hasn't revealed all of his fall campaign strategy yet,
but what if he launched a "White Americans for Romney" movement in an
effort to get out the white vote? If the Romney campaign did that,
there'd be a media-led outcry across the land, with charges ranging from
racial insensitivity to outright racism.
When President Obama announced his 2012 launch of "African Americans for Obama" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjoHA5ocwU),
the silence was deafening.
Criticism Equals Racism?
Should the same standards be applied to Obama as would be applied to
Romney? The answer turns out to be no, because Obama is not held to the
same standards as Romney.
Liberals won't actually come out and say that criticism of Obama is in and of itself racist, but they come pretty close.
Former President Jimmy Carter said that criticism of Obama shows that
there is an "inherent feeling" in America that a black man should not
be president. Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's "Hardball," said that
critics of Obama are crackers.
Morgan Freeman said that the campaign to see that Obama serves one
term is a "racist thing." Former Obama czar Van Jones said that Romney's
campaign sign "Obama Isn't Working" implies Obama is a "lazy,
incompetent affirmative-action baby."
Racial double standards also apply to how crime is reported.
I'm betting that if mobs of white youths were going about severely
beating and robbing blacks at random and preying on black businesses, it
would be major news.
News anchors might open, "Tonight we report on the most recent wave
of racist whites organizing unprovoked attacks on innocent black people
and their businesses."
If white thugs were actually doing that, politicians would be
demanding answers. Such random attacks do happen, but it's blacks
preying on whites.
Apologizing For Reality
On St. Patrick's Day in Baltimore, a 19-year-old white man was
viciously attacked by a mob of black thugs. He broke loose, but a second
mob of black thugs attacked him, taking all of his belongings.
Baltimore County Delegate Pat McDonough demanded the governor send in
the Maryland State Police to control "roving mobs of black youths" at
Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and other
activists demanded that McDonough apologize for talking about "black
youth mobs."
Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by black thugs against white
people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls and at other
public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago,
Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other cities.
Most of the time, the race of the attackers, euphemistically called
flash mobs, is not reported, even though media leftists and their allies
are experts in reporting racial disparities in prison sentencing and
the alleged injustice of the criminal justice system.
Racial double standards are not restricted to the political arena and
crime reporting; we see it on college campuses and in the workplace.
Black people ought to be offended by the idea that we are held
accountable to lower standards of conduct and achievement. White people
ought to be ashamed for permitting and fostering racial double standards
that have effects that are in some ways worse than the cruel racism of
yesteryear.
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