RACISM – OFTEN USED, OFTEN MISUSED
As I have often said, I grew up in a Democratic Party family. I guess that was probably due to FDR’s New Deal as many family members were small farmers and families that benefited from New Deal programs. I didn’t pay too much attention to politics until I reached high school and Kennedy was elected President. He was a big change from the old, unfit presidents of the past. I was particularly inspired by his statement, “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
During my junior year in high school President Kennedy was assassinated. It was a shocking event, but perhaps not as shocking as Lyndon B. Johnson becoming president. Although a Democrat, he was probably the most racist man that I had ever heard outside of Governor Wallace of Alabama.
In Flawed Giant, Johnson biographer Robert Dallek writes that Johnson explained his decision to nominate Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court rather than a less famous black judge by saying, "When I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he's a nigger."
Robert Parker, Johnson's sometime chauffeur, described in his memoir Capitol Hill in Black and White a moment when Johnson asked Parker whether he'd prefer to be referred to by his name rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief." When Parker said he would, Johnson grew angry and said, "As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So, no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture."
It was not until I attended college that I became aware of just how racist many Democrats were, including the beloved FDR, who did little to advance civil rights and actually appointed a Ku Klux Klan member, Hugo Black, to the Supreme Court. I learned about J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, who kept files on Martin Luther King Jr. to discredit him, and who worked diligently to destroy the Black Panther Party and many black activists. He was an Independent.
In researching recent history for Republicans that spew racist comments, I only find Democrats constantly accusing Pres. Trump and all who voted for him as racists. I could have dug further, but considering the fact that I am presently registered as a Republican (after being registered Independent and voting for the Constitutional Party) I was offended, especially since I have stood against racism for over 50 years. I wanted some answers as to why people carrying Frank’s Hot Sauce in their purse (trying to prove how “in” they are with black voters) would imply that I was "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it".
The response I experienced after Charlie Kirk’s assassination was interesting as well. He had stated that “I think it’s worth it. It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” Now, the left turned this into “Kirk wants to kill people.” They were unable to see that he was really just supporting our Constitutional right to own a gun for the protection of our home and family. He did say “unfortunately” and for our “protection.”
Then we have the angry response by certain pastors that Kirk shouldn’t be honored with lowering the flag, when he obviously was a racist. The quote they use to prove their point was, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” They take one quote out of context and make it into a race issue without considering the context of the quote or Kirk’s explanation.
The original conversation was about DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and United’s pilot training program. Kirk’s response: "The essence of that clip that was missed by almost everybody— which was I was trying to be, you know, very vulnerable with the audience is that DEI invites unwholesome thinking. … I was saying in the clip, that's not who I am, that's not what I believe. But what it does is it makes us worse versions of ourselves, Megyn. That's the whole point of what I was saying is that I now look at everything through a hyper-racialized diversity-quota lens because of their massive insistence to try to hit these ridiculous racial hiring quotas. Of course, I believe anybody of any skin color can become a qualified pilot."
“When it comes to pilots or surgeons, if I see somebody who is Black, as I said on the show, I'm going to hope that that person is qualified. That's what I said, which of course is legitimate because they're begging the question, we're not hiring based on merit anymore. We're hiring based on race.”
Now does that sound like a racist or just someone elucidating the problems with affirmative action? Many people of all races have problems with affirmative action or DEI but that doesn’t make them racist. I don’t believe that any person would want a job just based on their race. The whole thing is a racist game. A racist past cannot be undone by a racist act.
Unfortunately, the more Democrats and Democratic Christians cry “RACIST” the more racist everything becomes in some people’s eyes. Start looking for TRUTH! Don’t believe everything you are told. People lie for a lot of reasons. I appreciate the words of Tim Scott, Senator from South Carolina. Will you listen to a Republican who is black?
Some in our party wonder why Republicans are constantly accused of racism — it is because of our silence when things like this are said. Immigration is the perfect example, in which somehow our affection for the rule of law has become conflated with a perceived racism against brown and black people. I do support border security not because I want to keep certain ethnicities out of our nation, but because I support enforcing our laws. I do not care if you come from Canada, France or Honduras, if you break our laws, there should be consequences.
We have made significant progress in our nation, and while there is still work to do, we cannot let these intolerant and hateful views hold us back. This is a uniquely fractured time in our nation’s history, not our worst but far from our best, and it is only together that we will rebuild the trust we seem to have lost in each other.
Tim Scott Sen So Carolina
Can we stop labeling our differences as RACIST?! Put the old hateful excuses and rhetoric behind and try to find common ground. It is time to stop being angry and time to start forgiving and loving one another as God demands. You want to call your brother a racist and not like Jesus when, in fact, you are not acting like Jesus either. Too many pastors are more concerned about their political party than the Kingdom of God.
kln
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen,
slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger
does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 1:19-20 NIV