← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Blond Knight
Thread ID: 18777 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-06-23
2005-06-23 01:52 | User Profile
In case you have not checked lately, Charlie has been writing some good stuff as of late.
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Baloney Apologies
Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Sen. George Allen of Virginia have continued the modern tradition of institutionalized stupidity by leading their fellow senators in a formal apology for lynching.
What, you might ask, is wrong with that? Plenty.
For starters, the dead past cannot be changed, and so commentary about it has all the value of someone breaking wind. The past, like the present, is full of tragedies and triumphs, injustices and heroism, atrocities and self-sacrifices. As the Persian poet Omar Khayyam wrote, "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it."
Apologizing for something in the past is a meaningless gesture. One can truly apologize only for something one did, or for something that was done in one's presence or by someone one had responsibility for. Apologies for something a person had nothing to do with are a modern form of demagogy. If Landrieu and Allen are really interested in correcting injustices, there are plenty occurring today they should work on.
As a further observation on the decline of quality in American public life, these two senators did not arrive at their decision after deep thought or study. No, they were moved by a book of pictures. Perhaps if they look at a book of war pictures, they will become pacifists. It is appalling to think of minds so shallow that a commercial picture book can cause waves in them. It's been reported that the first President Bush sent troops to Somalia because he was moved by television pictures of starving Somalis. We know how that thoughtless gesture turned out.
[B]To condemn lynching, you would have to examine each individual case. Many of the people lynched were guilty of the crimes for which they were executed. In those cases, you have only a violation of procedure. This often occurred in a time or place where there was little or no formal justice available[/B]. Of course, the trouble with Judge Lynch was that he did not always get the right person. That defect, however, continues in the present judicial system. As we all know, even correct judicial procedures can end up executing an innocent person. Eureka! Once again we run into human fallibility.
The final problem with this stupid gesture is that it aggravates the problem of racism in its present form. I once had a friend who spent his career working for Jewish organizations and laughingly called himself a "PJ" ââ¬â a professional Jew.[B] Well, today there are PRs ââ¬â professional racists. Some are white, but most are black these days.[/B]
[B]The problem the professional racists today have is that most of the misery of black Americans is self-inflicted. Slavery doesn't exist. Segregation doesn't exist. There is nowhere in the federal or state statutes a single law that discriminates against black people. On the contrary, there are plenty of laws that protect them or even grant them a favored position.[/B]
It's true that many blacks are poor. The homicide rate, the venereal-disease rate and the illegitimacy rate among blacks are higher than among whites. As a whole, blacks score lower on almost any standardized test you can think of (and whites score lower than Asians). Blacks commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes. Black neighborhoods have more drugs than white neighborhoods.
[B]But none of those problems is caused by white people or by racism or by the past. The professional racists use the past as an excuse for not dealing with the present. When a genuine black leader like Bill Cosby addresses the real problem, the professional racists attack him. All you have to do is listen to some of the worst of the black comedians and gangster rappers to know that white racism is the least of a modern black kid's problems toda[/B][B]y[/B].
Low-watt demagogues like Landrieu and Allen put themselves on the side of the professional racists by focusing on the past instead of the present. Black children need the same things white children need ââ¬â good, two-parent homes, moral training, motivation for study and good behavior, and good role models. Those are things not even the most compassionate white person can provide for them. Wallowing in the past, which is always imaginary for those who weren't there, is not a solution for self-destructive behavior.
2005-06-23 02:01 | User Profile
And to think, there are people in the Stupid Party that think Allen would make a fine president.
2005-06-23 02:03 | User Profile
He'd make a fine Stupid Party president.
2005-06-23 02:18 | User Profile
Lynching was less a function of Race hatred and more a function of the difficulties involved in bringing formal justice to isolated rural areas. I remember seeing some statistics that most lynchings were of white people before the 1880's. Lynchings of whites were still common after the 1880's.
I would say that it is better that formal justice reigns, however, in the absence of formal justice, a kind of crude justice is better than none at all.
2005-06-23 13:20 | User Profile
Great article from Charley. More people must know the truth that Negroes are all openly racist filth operating full steam in Amerikwa today. Look at OJ Simpson. Didn't matter to the nigs if he committed murder or not, they were ALL on his side.
That's the difference between White and black.