We Americans are all racial cowards - Granite Grok

We Americans are all racial cowards

Update:  So, being against the Stimulus Bill is now racist?

See what I mean!  Do or be against anything the Liberals want and it gets you labeled as a racist….sheesh!

The highest-ranking black congressman said Thursday that opposition to the federal stimulus package by southern GOP governors is "a slap in the face of African-Americans."

U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said he was insulted when the governors of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and his home state, which have large black populations, said they might not accept some of the money from the $787 billion stimulus package.

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Or so says Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General.

Nice.

Nice to see such stereotyping going on at the highest levels of our government.  Nice to see that the top law enforcement dude, other than Obama, is calling me a racist. Well, tell you what.  First thing this AM I looked at CNN:

Latest News

  • Holder: U.S. a ‘nation of cowards’ on talking race
  • Brown: Holde’s speech cuts through bull
  • Martin: NY Post’s chimp cartoon is racist

Look at that last line – it says it all.  Let me be blunt.  When old fuddy duddy middle-class white dudes like me and talk openly and honestly about race without being denigrated, called out, campaigned against, and castigated as the lower than the lowest scum of the earth, then and only then will the discussion proceed.  When all of the political correctness is cast aside, when the reverse racism is done and over with, then perhaps we’ll talk.  Because it seems as soon as we do, someone stands ready to lower the proverbial ton of bricks upon our heads for almost any perceived slight.

And until the race-baiters (e.g., people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) are silenced by public acclamaition, then and only then will we be able to discuss race in a civil manner and without rancour.

And hopefully, blacks will see the problems in their own community and fix them.  And whites can look at their own problems and fix them.  Pick a color – extrapolate.

And then, can we just forget about the color?

Mr. Holder, don’t accuse me of something that I am not.  While there certainly are those that are still rascist on all sides of the color line, I believe we live in a time that is far better than in the 50s and 60s and 70s when I grew up.  But to do what you did only raises defenses.

And casts doubts on your ability to be neutral.

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