If you're an average white racist bigot you might be asking yourself when's it gonna end? I mean the whole race-hustling business that maintains the idea of white guilt. For white guilt, we know, must be requited by affirmative action, quotas, and reparations.
The corollary is the idea that blacks can't be racist because they are oppressed. You can only be racist if you have the Power.
So the question is: when would we be able to tell that blacks were no longer oppressed, assuming that there is some objective criterion for such a judgment. Assuming that there is some criterion other than: because left-wing activists say so.
I would say that if it ever happened in America that a black defendant that murdered a white girl got off because a black jury refused to convict then you would start wondering if the worm had turned.
I would say that if it ever happened in America that black activists and the mainstream media could force the government to prosecute a white man who pretty obviously had killed a black man in self defense then you would have some justification for saying that the age of Jim Crow was over.
That's why I say that OJ + Zimmerman = The End of Oppression.
The point of the OJ criminal trial, when O.J. Simpson was tried for the murder of his white wife and acquitted by a black jury, was this. The trial advertised to the world that blacks had the Power. They had the power to say to the criminal justice system: we ain't gonna convict one of our own.
The point of the Zimmerman prosecution, when "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman was prosecuted for the second-degree murder of black Trayvon Martin, was this. The fact of the prosecution advertised to the world that blacks had the Power. They could rise up and protest and demand that a white guy be put on trial even though police had judged he had acted in self-defense. They had the power to say to the state government in Florida that we demand you put one of the "other" on trial.
You can see where I am going with this. If blacks now have the Power -- the power to act on a modest scale more or less as white southerners did back in the days of Jim Crow -- then maybe they aren't oppressed any more.
And if blacks aren't oppressed any more, maybe it's possible for blacks to be racists.
In fact, it turns out that blacks think that blacks are more racist than whites, according to a recent poll.
The corollary is the idea that blacks can't be racist because they are oppressed. You can only be racist if you have the Power.
So the question is: when would we be able to tell that blacks were no longer oppressed, assuming that there is some objective criterion for such a judgment. Assuming that there is some criterion other than: because left-wing activists say so.
I would say that if it ever happened in America that a black defendant that murdered a white girl got off because a black jury refused to convict then you would start wondering if the worm had turned.
I would say that if it ever happened in America that black activists and the mainstream media could force the government to prosecute a white man who pretty obviously had killed a black man in self defense then you would have some justification for saying that the age of Jim Crow was over.
That's why I say that OJ + Zimmerman = The End of Oppression.
The point of the OJ criminal trial, when O.J. Simpson was tried for the murder of his white wife and acquitted by a black jury, was this. The trial advertised to the world that blacks had the Power. They had the power to say to the criminal justice system: we ain't gonna convict one of our own.
The point of the Zimmerman prosecution, when "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman was prosecuted for the second-degree murder of black Trayvon Martin, was this. The fact of the prosecution advertised to the world that blacks had the Power. They could rise up and protest and demand that a white guy be put on trial even though police had judged he had acted in self-defense. They had the power to say to the state government in Florida that we demand you put one of the "other" on trial.
You can see where I am going with this. If blacks now have the Power -- the power to act on a modest scale more or less as white southerners did back in the days of Jim Crow -- then maybe they aren't oppressed any more.
And if blacks aren't oppressed any more, maybe it's possible for blacks to be racists.
In fact, it turns out that blacks think that blacks are more racist than whites, according to a recent poll.
Among black Americans, 31% think most blacks are racist, while 24% consider most whites racist and 15% view most Hispanics that way.But that is another story.
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