Nearly every day, we hear of some idiot who says something should be changed or removed due to its implicit racism. The claims of racism continue nearly unabated. It's annoying and unrealistic. To hear the left tell it, anything that smacks of even a smidgen of racism should not be given any attention in society except the attention that seeks to remove it from public sight.
The latest case has to do with a NAACP chapter in Florida whose president of that local chapter is now demanding that a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee is racist. Because of this, "James Muwakkil, President of the Lee County, FL chapter of the NAACP, has petitioned the local commission to remove a portrait of General Robert E. Lee from their chambers."
What is even more interesting is that Lee County itself was named after Gen. Robert E. Lee, but first things first. Muwakkil says, "That painting is a symbol of racism...It’s a symbol of divisiveness, and it doesn’t unify Lee County. It divides Lee County."
Actually, in my view, a portrait of President Obama is far more divisive to this country than a portrait of a 3-star general. But maybe we should do some research on Gen. Lee before we decide to agree with Muwakkil's disproving attitude toward him.
There are numerous quotes and letters attributed to Gen. Lee in which he was, at first, completely in favor of slavery as an institution. After the Civil War, it also appears as though this attitude changed so that he became opposed to it. Then again, when Lee defended slavery as an institution, he also noted that (he believed) blacks were far better off in America than in Africa where tribal warfare often left many either slaves or dead by other tribes. Apparently, he may have even run an illegal school on his property for his slaves.
Certainly, all of this is up for debate and because of community organizers today, who (as David Risselada has already stated) use their position to inflict "hateful sermons designed specifically to rally the uninformed to a certain cause." In another article, Risselada states, "The very purpose of community organizing is to rally people around these concepts of oppression and unfairness and we all know Barack Obama began his career as a community organizer."
Community organizers (and I consider the NAACP to be part of that category) does its job by keeping people in the throes of discontent and then providing a target for that growing resentment. All too often, for the black community, community organizers turn the attention of those blacks against whites, telling them that America is so deeply entrenched in racism by whites, that it will never change unless and until a revolution occurs. Because of this system that exists, blacks are also taught that it is impossible for them to be racist (thanks to people like Dr. Derek Bell and others who pushed the Critical Race Theory of the 1970s). If they're not racist (because they do not have the alleged power that whites do), then when they commit crimes against white people, those crimes are not automatically charged as hate crimes. In fact, rarely are they so charged. Yet, if/when a white person attacks a black, it is - without question - charged as a hate crime.
But getting back to Muwakkil's expressed opinion about Gen. Lee, whose portrait he believes to be a divisive symbol of racism, one can only wonder what's next? Would the left like to rewrite and redact history until the only statues or portraits that appear are those of leftwing whites and blacks?
The same thing happened in Atlanta, GA not long ago when local NAACP chapters demanded the removal of a senator from the past - Thomas Watson - who was recognized as being racist. But with ever-changing mores these days, one wonders what actually constitutes racism today? So many definitions have changed due to emotional virtue and the work of community organizers that everyone is simply on edge.
But let's say that Muwakkil is correct and because of the potential division that the continued presence of the portrait might cause, it's best to remove it. Okay, but here is another question that I think trumps Muwakkil's concern over an old painting of Gen. Lee that most people likely don't even notice anymore because it's been there so long.
Here's the question: why is the leader of a local chapter of the NAACP so concerned about a painting that could offend a few blacks and other leftist, but has nothing to say about the FACT that the influx of illegal aliens into this country will be further devastating to black communities throughout America?
Blacks are already among the hardest hit under President Obama due to his economic policies (such as they are). It is very clear that Barack Obama is far more concerned about stressing America's economic system to the point of overload and adding more democrats to the voting roles than in doing anything at all to help the very high unemployment numbers among blacks. President Obama's polices have done nothing to help the black community. In fact, it appears that he has simply continued the polices originally put in place by President Lyndon B. Johnson who swore to have black folks voting democrat for two hundred years and that has been done through Welfare and other entitlements. Of course, do we ever hear the left referring to Johnson as a racist even though he is known to have used the "N" word to describe blacks?
It became the NEW slavery system but too many like Muwakkil can't see that at all. They are secure in their own personal position as a local chapter president of NAACP, just like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are secure in their positions. These people do not want to help anyone at all, much less blacks. They simply want to line their own pockets and make a name for themselves all the while making others believe that their main concern is for other black folks.
The fact that too many black leaders are concerned with issues such as the one surrounding a portrait of Gen. Lee hanging in some building in Florida and are not concerned for black communities and upward mobility tells me that their scruples are in the wrong place.
Rallying against racism is certainly a good thing where and when it actually exists, but too often it is a one-way street and focused on minutiae. The problem that seems to exist in too many black communities (and with too many black leaders) is that racism is all they seem to care about. While they're chasing it
underground or removing public symbols of racism, they have not changed one thing for blacks. In fact, they continue to do everything they can to keep blacks dependent upon the federal government.
(This article has been reblogged from For Truth's Sake!)
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