A liberal friend of mine posted this. I commented with this:


This is well written; successfully manipulative. I find myself identifying with Mr. Metta's white aunt. By the end I feel sorry for being white. Either I have to admit to being racist, or I deny it and confirm being ignorant about being racist (kind of like the accusation that "you are being defensive": any reply confirms the claim).

And he is right: he does come across angry. I would have just said bitter, until he started cussing over casting decisions in some movies.

He calls her upwardly mobile; well so is he. She racially profiles? That is what he just did to her. She lives in a white neighborhood; many blacks live in neighborhoods with mostly blacks, and some blacks live in neighborhoods with mostly whites. Does this have to be called racism, rather than, say, individual choices for financial or location reasons or to be near friends? This is not good reasoning; maybe it's projection.

He makes some sweeping generalizations about police officers. No doubt there is some injustice that happens, but I suspect it is not caused merely by racial prejudice as much as he thinks. Perhaps there is more justification than he is willing to admit (i.e., maybe there really is a disproportionately higher percentage of black criminals than white; you can't apply affirmative action to the criminal justice system). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTUcS-...

Is he really denying that minorities can be racist too (by the way, his preemptive ad hominem, "any intelligent person," can go both ways)? Racism is simply judging and treating people according to their skin color or ancestry, rather than on his individual merits. You do not have to be the majority oppressor to operate on racist principles. You can be an individual making private racist decisions, or you can be a minority who has the coercive Government's ear.

The solution to racism, which is nothing but a crude form of collectivism, is to champion individual rights. Government enforced racism was wrong when it violated the rights of blacks, and the same principle is not less wrong when it violates the rights of whites. Law-enforced racism is wrong even despite good intentions.

Initially, the argument against slavery was based on equal individual rights. Slavery was wrong because no man has the right to violate another man's rights. Now they are not fighting for individual rights, but more racism, just in their favor this time. They have forsaken that moral argument, and now are pushing for the same principle that kept them in bondage for so long: racial quotas (racism) enforced by the State's gun.

This is where I initially thought the article was going, when I saw the title and the opening parable. "I, Racist," I thought he was going to say, "Yes, racism is a problem, and I am being racist when I judge everyone (blacks and whites) as a big collective." That vision did not last long.

On another note, this same concept applies to homosexual non-discrimination laws. They don't want just equal rights; they want to violate the religious rights of Christians. Just ask the numerous bakers, photographers, planners, facility owners, even pastors, who are being sued and fined (and more) for refusing to participate in these religious ceremonies. (And this affects me personally.) And that's what they want. Probably not all. But a few activists, which is enough. They'd rather have us out of business (and worse) than be allowed to discriminate based on our values.

I believe that private citizens ought to be allowed to discriminate with how they use their property (including their business), even over race or religion or sexual orientation. Refusing to serve someone does not violate their right. If people don't like this discrimination, they should resort to social ostracizing or boycotting. Instead, most people are only too eager to appeal Government and its guns to enforce their own version of discrimination.

I am tired of all this race stuff. I say to black people- GET OVER WHAT HAPPENED 200 YEARS AGO. I didnt ship your great grand daddy tight pack on a boat from Africa, so get off my case. You are who you are NOW, and I am who I am NOW. I dont owe you anything, and you dont owe me anything either.

Well said. +1.

The only reason this perceived racial inequality exists is because the race hustlers won't let it die. They continue to inflame the passions by inventing circumstances which don't exist. Know why they love situations like Ferguson? Because the dead person can't talk and tell them they are stupid and it's easy to persecute a single person because you can assassinate their character by mob!

Wow. This guy is really hung up on the fallacy of the racial divide. He invents and twists the situation to fit his own narrative and then attempts to superimpose that on everyone else - especially those whom he prejudges because of the color of their skin. Instead of taking people as they are, he assumes an ulterior motive to be inborn in them as a result of their skin tone.

In short, this man has persuaded himself that the colored glasses he wears are representative of reality. Won't it be a shock to him when the glasses come off.

Yes, and you are an oppressor of the world since you are a US person, benefit from it, and even as an "abused" minority live better than 99% of the planet's population.

The sooner people stop talking about this, the sooner it will go away...assuming one really wants the excuse to go away.

Pull your pants up, put your hat on straight, stop talking like you had a stroke and participating in other intentionally polarizing culture.

Notice the Asian minorities that are in the US, fewer generations than you, are the highest earning ethnic group in the US, higher than whites! How did they do it? By hard work, education and participation in the system, not by fighting the system and complaining.

From my point of view, the only people benefitting from racism are people of color.

Thumbs up on that one.

Complicity is a choice. By his definition he is complicit in slavery because somebody somewhere is being forced to make some product that impacts the world economy. I wonder if his frustration is not better aimed at crony capitalism and the world of political favor. I have witnessed first hand active racism. It still exists(As being aimed at Blacks and Hispanics), but the same attitude follows class divisions. The plantation mentality is alive and well in the old south whether you are black or white. It all gets down to forgetting that we are individuals, not part of a group. Why can't the author see that saying all whites are racist is racist. We can't act as a group only as an individual. Recognizing that is what made America great to start with. It was recognized fully, but imagine if it were. We can not begin to fathom the heights we as a species could reach if individuals were free to follow our own path and create what we want to create. The American Experiment was only a laboratory example compared to what the world could become with the freeing of the human mind.

What do I think? I think it's an enormous steaming pile of horseshit, that's what I think.

Yes, Obama always blames whitey, why shouldn't other racists of color do the same?
No rational thought required.
Choosing employees on the basis of ability is racist.
Choosing friends, neighbors on the basis of individual traits is racist.
Racism is the answer for all the plights of the non white.
(sarcasm)

Typical statement from a looter trying to make sure the GQ (Guilt Quotient) remains high, to keep the back bent and the head hung low...

Having known (and having worked with) a high per-capita percentage of Racists (impossible not to do so in Oakland) I read racist crapola like this and dismiss it out of hand.

It's blatantly apparent these looters have no clue what racism really is, and assign their own self-aggrandizing superiority-based bully-pulpit daffynition to it.