- "The modern definition of a racist: someone who
is winning an argument with a liberal."
- --- Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation (1996)
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- Imagine that you are talented, Black and truly deserving
of all that has come your way in life. How can you ever know whether your
achievements were born of merit or skin color?
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- Imagine yourself a Black doctor, every bit as talented
as White doctors on staff with you at the hospital at which you practice
medicine. Now imagine the rage you feel when both Blacks and Whites express
a preference for "another" (White) doctor because of their unstated
belief that you couldn't have earned your position and therefore are not
qualified to minister to their needs.
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- Now imagine yourself untalented and Black, knowing that
you don't deserve that which has come your way in life, yet resenting having
it handed to you in so patronizing a fashion. Can the resentment of the
undeserving somehow be denied the same gravity as that possessed by the
unrecognized but deserving?
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- And the racism of the politically correct now has become
institutionalized throughout America, such that Blacks are never expected
to comport themselves properly, learn adequately or compete without the
fix being in.
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- There are no teachers and no students in America today
who are unaware of the intellectual disparity between White and Black (and,
to only a slightly less degree, Mexican) students, save those yet to occupy
integrated classrooms.
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- Now schools are resegregating, a result that both Blacks
and Whites desire. Yet, America does nothing to address the real problems
with Black educational shortfalls, just as it does nothing to deal with
the real problems of Black underachievement in all areas of life.
- We do not demand that Blacks actually do the homework
that Whites regularly turn in. We do not demand that Blacks achieve test
scores which show that material has been learned and retained. We do not
demand that Blacks comport themselves properly, treating others with respect.
No longer, even, do we require that Blacks speak understandable English.
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- Instead, we provide Blacks with the bare necessities
of life, much as we do the family dog, and expect nothing in return except
that they lick society's hand. We implicitly expect only second-rate performance
of Blacks at home, at school and in the workplace. Blacks know this and
have come to expect it of themselves, as well. Is it any wonder that our
hands get bitten, not licked?
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- How demeaning it must be for Blacks of every stripe in
today's society, which refuses to expect excellence in minority performance,
a refusal born of a very real racist belief in the inherent inferiority
of Blacks. A belief held by the very people who claim to be concerned
for Black interests.
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- And the resentment isn't confined to Blacks. Imagine
being White and coming to a hospital emergency room, only to find that
your attending physician is Black. You don't know if he is qualified to
operate on your badly-injured child, yet they refuse your request for another
doctor. Your child's life hangs in the balance. What will you do?
- Imagine your resentment if your store-clerk son just
missed out on a spot in the freshman class of medical school because several
less academically-qualified minority students were admitted.
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- Many Blacks, both talented and untalented, are awakening
to the legacy of affirmative action and they don't like it. Some Blacks
today speak of the creation, in a single generation, of an entire subculture
that cannot stand on its own, so crippled by handouts has it become.
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- What's more, those Blacks who are awakening resent White
America for what has been wrought in the name of equality. They scarcely
can be blamed. They wanted equal opportunity. We gave them equal outcome.
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- And we provide equal outcomes with mechanisms that reek
of an expectation of failure and inferiority on the part of Blacks. Relative
merit is disregarded in favor of skin color. No attempt whatsoever is
made to limit society's largesse, either quantitatively or temporally,
implying a belief in perpetual, inbred inferiority. All this and more
is put in place by the politically correct, who universally accuse others
of being racist, all the while showing favoritism in a way that belies
their own truly racist beliefs that Blacks are too inferior to earn their
own way.
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