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No White Males Need Apply

“Stupid people are ruining America.”   —Herman Cain

Mecklenburg NC Commissioner Kim Ratliff: "White Males need not apply."
Mecklenburg NC Commissioner Kim Ratliff: “White Males need not apply.”

You just cannot make this stuff up.  Kim Ratliff is the Mecklenburg County North Carolina  board’s Democratic vice chairwoman. Presently in Charlotte- Mecklenburg, there is a vacancy for the position of County Manager. who told WBTV that

In commenting on the county manager vacancy Friday, Commissioner Ratliff, who is black, told local CBS affiliate WBTV, she’d prefer commissioners not choose a “white male” to fill the position. “The county needs a manager who is “a nonwhite male who can have good working relations with all people,” Ratliff says.

How could they run this story? “Is WBTV Channel 3 merely a mouthpiece for angry white males in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg market?”  Somebody somewhere must be asserting this because this station is being racist for reporting this. Are they not? Is that not the present-day template in the lame stream media?

Second, Is WBTV reporter Colleen Harry an, “Uncle Tom,” or a, “Sell-out,” for breaking this story?  Is Colleen Harry throwing Kim Ratliff under the bus as a media career stepping stone? These are important questions!

Well…not really…. After reading this story, I was cracking up laughing. [insert the finger-wagging hissing liberal who chides me with, “Racism is no laughing matter!”] Actually, yes it is… in this context. Here we have a black woman, a local government official… essentially saying, “White Men need not apply.”

The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as, the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.” 

There presently exists in America a group…a demographic of people who make their livelihoods race-baiting. America had serious racism up into the 1960’s and a small part of the 70’s and as a nation we sought to right the wrong with all sorts of things like affirmative action, legislation and every kind of social engineering imaginable to change the trajectory of American conversation to one of more reflective and tolerant of all, regardless of skin color.

It was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who spoke these words on August 28, 1963…

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

and,

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Since that time, so much has changed. Black people have  been elected to the U.S. Congress and the Senate; States have elected Black Mayors to Governorships; Major cities in the U.S. have elected mayors.  and in 2008, the nation elected its first Black President.

Despite those changes in a nation that tries so hard and so diligently to right its wrongs, we live in a time never more racially divided than when our nation had a society where Jim Crow laws existed.

In this nation the Oxford English dictionary definition of racism has been all but invalidated…sent to the ash heap where much logic lay cast aside.

“Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.”

Shout_RacistToday, racism in America is the, “accusation du jour,” cast upon those who engage in public dialogue, by liberal Black, white and Hispanic alike when they find the particular point being made disagreeable to them. When they are losing the argument.

Commissioner Ratliff in a follow-up, sticks by her position, adding only, “I could have expressed this better.”  There is nothing surprising or new about Commissioner Ratliff or her viewpoint. But one could be labelled a racist for disagreeing with her.

 

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