© 2016 Jim Spence - America began to fix its race problem one hundred
fifty-seven years ago when more than 500,000 white men died in the American
Civil War fighting on the union side. What followed was wonderful. Constitutional amendments were ratified
by the states providing for equal protections under the law. Jackie Robinson
broke the color barrier in the late 1940’s. In the 1950’s the Supreme Court
ruled in
Brown versus the Board of Education that segregation disguised as "separate
but equal" was not good enough. In the 1960’s, despite the fact that Senate Democrats
attempted a filibuster, the Civil Rights Act was passed and signed into law. It was
Senate GOP leadership that broke the filibuster. In doing so, Republicans insured that one of Martin
Luther King Jr’s chief legislative ambitions became a reality. Um.....that was fifty-two years ago.
The transformation of America's multi-racial culture has moved much faster than the claims of shameless politicians. Inter-marriage between all of the races has continued
to increase non-stop for hundreds of years. Watershed films like Guess Who’s
Coming to Dinner, in the 1960's also helped expose how utterly preposterous racial prejudice was. The film did so in
profound ways. The last time I watched this extraordinary film, I was reminded
that Sidney Poitier’s black father was the last of the four parental holdouts
in approving of the inter-racial marriage that was the heart of the story. Whites didn't have the market cornered on stereotypes, even in the 1960's.
With the increase in television viewership, professional
sports began to dramatically increase its influence on our multi-racial culture in the 60's.
By the early 1960’s all professional sports were integrated. And in 1966, Don Haskins
at UTEP (then Texas Western), taught the Kentucky Wildcats and many other southern
universities how foolish it was to intentionally not recruit the best players from high
school to play on their basketball teams. Haskins won a
national championship with the best players, and the nation received another civics lesson just a year after the Civil Rights Act became law.
In the decades that followed Jackie Robinson’s entry into
Major League Baseball, tens of thousands of great black athletes became
multi-millionaires as America’s free enterprise system rewarded them for being
the very best at what they did. The entertainment industry followed the same path. Sidney
Poitier was joined by thousands of other black entertainers and movie stars, who
like their counterparts in professional sports, became rich beyond their
wildest dreams. Motown music became as much a part of American culture as apple
pie. Fifty years ago America was far along in getting our racial
problems fixed and as recently as forty years ago, we pretty much had the problem solved.
Our wonderful story of national healing was and is still not lost on the rest
of the world. People of color from virtually every country on earth tried
harder than ever to become U.S. citizens, especially people from Africa. This longing by non-Americans of any race to become Americans persists to this day.
What the hell happened?
Politics happened. While white
racists were forced to go underground, which was fantastic, hatred of whites was encouraged and deemed chic in an increasing number of circles. It is like the bloody phase of a revolution. Democrats who filibustered the Civil Rights Act quickly learned that stoking racial division via backlash
against non-socialist whites worked well politically. So instead of declaring
success in the nation's effort to foment racial harmony in America, stoking racial suspicions and paranoia became the Democrat’s favorite “strategy.” Associating whack jobs who hold the illusion of white
supremacy, with anyone's logical support of free market capitalism has been a grand political con job. Long ago those at the very top of the American Democratic
Party decided it was best not to speak of Jackie Robinson, Don Haskins, or the fact that America is minting tens
of thousands of new black millionaires in the sports and entertainment industry every
decade. These powerful TRENDS are swept under the table and out of the discussion. Instead, Democrats continue to sell out to the sham idea that
it is best to pretend the problem with race has never received enough
attention.
Far away from the
fantasies, illusions, and distortions created by Democrat politicians, American culture has been and
continues to be way ahead on race. For decades television commercials and print ads
have been replete with people of all races enjoying themselves……together. The
depiction of inter-racial marriages like the reality of inter-racial marriages in our culture, has been
commonplace for two generations. People of all races play on all sorts of teams. Together they compete against other multi-racial teams. The best players are sought by all who care about winning, which is pretty much everyone.
So how is it that these days we have race riots where fringe
groups line up to throw projectiles at each other? It is because we will never get rid of
all the whack jobs in a nation of 350 million people.
Sadly it is the whack jobs that make the news. Take high
profile, mixed-race, and sub-par NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick
has been made famous for smearing law enforcement officers and refusing to show respect for the nation. Kaepernick is a living symbol for whack jobs
everywhere. His story is a great one that went very bad. Kaepernick was adopted and given a stable childhood by white parents who
cared not what color he was.....or wasn’t. The police Kaepernick has disparaged so
broadly, have provided security for him every time he played a football game. There
is so much more. Kaepernick was made a multi-millionaire by the free market
capitalist system that is the backbone of America. But if you hear Kaepernick talk, you would think that America is the most unfair country on the planet.....instead of the fairest. How do we know America is the fairest country? It is not because anyone says so. It is because millions say so who know tyranny. The same free market that has made America prosper and
Kaepernick fabulously wealthy, tells us all of this phony racial strife is a
sham. Hundreds of millions of Africans would give up just about anything to get
to America. They want to come here because hundreds of millions of them live under the
tyranny and oppression off black dictators in their homelands. These black dictators don't exploit them because they are black. They exploit them because this is what politicians tend to do.
Sorry folks, we had this problem solved forty years ago.
What should America do about the skinheads and Nazi fringe
groups who try to drum up attention for their vile hatred with lame demonstrations? Common sense says we
should ignore these bastards instead of pretending like they have numbers. They
don’t have numbers. But it is in Democrats interest to pretend they do have numbers and more important, pretend they are Republicans.
The group that does have alarming numbers these days is the one that
will destroy the free market system we all enjoy......if it can. This would be
the violent socialists who are nothing more than the other side of the whack
job coin.
The scariest thing going on in America in 2017 is we have whack jobs
embedded in our education system. Each year the system tries to mass produce more whack
jobs, instead of marginalizing them. Accordingly, the greatest threat our country faces comes from the political camp that feels it BENEFITS from dividing us. And so
long as Democrats believe it is in their political interests to divide us, they
will keep doing it.
With Democrats armed with the news media, the education system, and the entertainment industry, there is not much the GOP can do to stop this. And they seem hapless in the efforts to expose the truth. Sadly, when professional athletes, who have been great beneficiaries of America's free market system, insist on
pretending that America is not the place where most of the world wants to be, they create a problem that does not exist. Kaepernick is not the only fool in his field.
The idea that racism is a major problem in America is a home-grown scam. We had this fixed forty years ago.
We had this fixed forty years ago
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