I think I’m getting a handle on how this ‘White Guilt’ mentality works – and why it works on some people and not on others. And quite frankly, I’m tired of getting beat over the head with this stuff.
Let’s start with an explanation of what I’m taking about. ‘White Guilt’ is the premise that White America has collectively done something 'wrong' and OWES a debt of some sort to other defined groups of the country – currently the named group is Black America. The way it works is based on the theory that White America buys into the notion that they are responsible for actions taken 150-250 years ago and White Americans have done NOTHING to change their mindsets over all the intervening years. Actions like voting for Barac Obama help the 'guilty' absolve their guilt.
For MOST Americans that 'guilt' is recognized for the ludicrous ploy it is. There are NO Americans left alive today who owned slaves - nor anyone who was a slave - likewise, there are an ever-shrinking number alive who knew the active segregations prior to the Civil Rights Act. Most Americans today want to see 'hypenated America' disappear and for Americans to be Americans without divisions. Granted, for those who want to USE race as a political chip or to squeeze money from people it is convenient to keep race boiling on a front burner.
Did segregation and racism disappear with the passing of the Civil Rights Act? No. That’s just where we started. But where racism runs rampant today is in the people who treat minorities as their own personal 'pets' rather than as Americans of equal status. Where does THAT happen - you ask? Who thinks of people as their pets?? It’s in the hearts and minds of those who claim they have done the most for minorities. It is in those who have HATE in their hearts and actions. They are mad at themselves for feeling that way and feel that everyone shares their feelings. THOSE people are the ones who keep throwing social programs at minorities rather than get government out of their way so these Americans can become successes. It's those who slice the American political landscape into voting segments based on the color of their skin or their sexual orientation or their religion or any of a group of other classifications they use to tear American society apart - which are unconstitutional prejudices – who are the REAL racists today… but I digress. All those programs do is drive us apart for the gain of politicians rather than let us all be Americans together and enjoy our culture together. They WANT to keep groups down and take away incentives for them to get ahead - keeping minorities as 'pets' of the State and those running the State to keep their votes under control. And it has worked well for the last sixty years.
And THAT is why "White Guilt' continues to work. It’s the 'guilt' of those who continue to find ways to hold down segments of American society in their 'War on Minorities.'
As an example of this 'hatred' in the minds of some - in her interview with the New York Times Magazine Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsberg admitted her own bias against ‘elements of society’ by stating that Roe v. Wade was to have allowed 'elements of society' to eradicate themselves through abortions – further sited a 1980 decision that should have helped by allowing Medicare and Medicaid money be used to forward that agenda of eradication. It is that very 'progressive' line of thinking that has worked AGAINST minorities of this country for decades - and continues to keep a heavy boot on minorities holding them down. The 'progressive thinkers' espouse compassion while their actions have exactly the opposite outcome - which begs the question: Was that their original intention? For as long as these actions have been going on getting these results the answer would HAVE to be YES! That is EXACTLY their intention. These 'progressives' INTEND to attack and destroy Americans!!!
Interestingly enough, it is President Obama who is running around the world apologizing for the sins of White America against the world while telling the world in the next breath that he nor HIS administration should be held accountable for actions that were taken before he came to office. Huh?? In one fell swoop he is apologizing for the perceived sins of White America and offering – indirectly and he would NEVER knowingly allow White America off the hook – absolution for those sins at the same time. He lords that 'guilt' over America and uses it to his advantage at his every opportunity. Yet, it is HIS associates who are responsible for these very policies!!!What America - not 'White America' because anyone who reads my posts knows I reject a divided America - needs to look seriously at apologizing for is the 'New Deal' and 'Great Society' along with a seemingly endless laundry list of bills over the years which have done so much grave damage to the family unit of Americans in the lower economic strata. Family units – sociologists agree – are a common denominator in the advancement of social groups as they advance into the mainstream society. These bills to help low income Americans have failed miserably through their ‘unintended consequences’ creating a dependent mentality among their recipients. For THAT America should apologize – the ONGOING poorly planned ‘help,’ not history that happened long before any of us were born.
Let’s start with an explanation of what I’m taking about. ‘White Guilt’ is the premise that White America has collectively done something 'wrong' and OWES a debt of some sort to other defined groups of the country – currently the named group is Black America. The way it works is based on the theory that White America buys into the notion that they are responsible for actions taken 150-250 years ago and White Americans have done NOTHING to change their mindsets over all the intervening years. Actions like voting for Barac Obama help the 'guilty' absolve their guilt.
For MOST Americans that 'guilt' is recognized for the ludicrous ploy it is. There are NO Americans left alive today who owned slaves - nor anyone who was a slave - likewise, there are an ever-shrinking number alive who knew the active segregations prior to the Civil Rights Act. Most Americans today want to see 'hypenated America' disappear and for Americans to be Americans without divisions. Granted, for those who want to USE race as a political chip or to squeeze money from people it is convenient to keep race boiling on a front burner.
Did segregation and racism disappear with the passing of the Civil Rights Act? No. That’s just where we started. But where racism runs rampant today is in the people who treat minorities as their own personal 'pets' rather than as Americans of equal status. Where does THAT happen - you ask? Who thinks of people as their pets?? It’s in the hearts and minds of those who claim they have done the most for minorities. It is in those who have HATE in their hearts and actions. They are mad at themselves for feeling that way and feel that everyone shares their feelings. THOSE people are the ones who keep throwing social programs at minorities rather than get government out of their way so these Americans can become successes. It's those who slice the American political landscape into voting segments based on the color of their skin or their sexual orientation or their religion or any of a group of other classifications they use to tear American society apart - which are unconstitutional prejudices – who are the REAL racists today… but I digress. All those programs do is drive us apart for the gain of politicians rather than let us all be Americans together and enjoy our culture together. They WANT to keep groups down and take away incentives for them to get ahead - keeping minorities as 'pets' of the State and those running the State to keep their votes under control. And it has worked well for the last sixty years.
And THAT is why "White Guilt' continues to work. It’s the 'guilt' of those who continue to find ways to hold down segments of American society in their 'War on Minorities.'
As an example of this 'hatred' in the minds of some - in her interview with the New York Times Magazine Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsberg admitted her own bias against ‘elements of society’ by stating that Roe v. Wade was to have allowed 'elements of society' to eradicate themselves through abortions – further sited a 1980 decision that should have helped by allowing Medicare and Medicaid money be used to forward that agenda of eradication. It is that very 'progressive' line of thinking that has worked AGAINST minorities of this country for decades - and continues to keep a heavy boot on minorities holding them down. The 'progressive thinkers' espouse compassion while their actions have exactly the opposite outcome - which begs the question: Was that their original intention? For as long as these actions have been going on getting these results the answer would HAVE to be YES! That is EXACTLY their intention. These 'progressives' INTEND to attack and destroy Americans!!!
Interestingly enough, it is President Obama who is running around the world apologizing for the sins of White America against the world while telling the world in the next breath that he nor HIS administration should be held accountable for actions that were taken before he came to office. Huh?? In one fell swoop he is apologizing for the perceived sins of White America and offering – indirectly and he would NEVER knowingly allow White America off the hook – absolution for those sins at the same time. He lords that 'guilt' over America and uses it to his advantage at his every opportunity. Yet, it is HIS associates who are responsible for these very policies!!!What America - not 'White America' because anyone who reads my posts knows I reject a divided America - needs to look seriously at apologizing for is the 'New Deal' and 'Great Society' along with a seemingly endless laundry list of bills over the years which have done so much grave damage to the family unit of Americans in the lower economic strata. Family units – sociologists agree – are a common denominator in the advancement of social groups as they advance into the mainstream society. These bills to help low income Americans have failed miserably through their ‘unintended consequences’ creating a dependent mentality among their recipients. For THAT America should apologize – the ONGOING poorly planned ‘help,’ not history that happened long before any of us were born.
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