A Gentleman’s view.

There must first be an admitting to this particular problem before we can move forward.

All around the globe, racism exists against different peoples for varying reasons. Usually, a perception exaggerated tribal rumors or habits about the differences between cultures. For example; in countries with warmer climates, many activities are relegated to the later part of the day as a practicality of human condition, as a result some time during the day people slow down or rest. On steroids with bad intent that can translate into being non-productive to those working 16 hours a day and used against that particular culture for any number of derogatory false statements about a people. The point being that we all have known behaviors that identify us as a people to others around the world that can bring good or bad perceptions to any situation. The displacement of and total loss of communication with the people of their origin has affected the black people brought to America to become slaves in a way that separates them as a group that has no equals.

This statement is made not to give ignorance to the plight of the American indigenous population commonly referred to as Indians, but good or bad, their holocaust happened to them at home. This place was never ours, we had nothing here and there was never any accommodation made to even offer anything to us for the work we most obviously provided in the contribution of the building and development of this now very proud American Nation. That lack of recognition remains in place to this date, we had a sorry or two from a couple of high positioned politicians making some statement or another, but let’s be honest, the free labor given to America, was just that, free. With all the death, breaking up of families with sales for profit and/or greed that went on during slavery, with all the rapes of men, woman and children on top of the lynching done just to make a point, in building this America for “Real Americans”, Proud Americans”, “Hard Working Americans”, no one ever said “thank you”. Dr. King’s birthday recognizes that the man moved beyond his people doesn’t recognize black people’s contributions themselves.

But, I digress, being black as I am, understand, there is no other group having this full a human resume of experience of loyalty and hard work in spite of treatment with no appreciation ever shown, expressed or ever acknowledged anywhere on the planet. The Mexicans, those who migrate as with most people who migrate do, get to come up from their country next door, the Canadians come down with no complaints against them I might add, and those seeking to end immigration can at least point to those countries and complain. Blacks in America have nowhere to look back to, no natural connection we can even look around and point to, no quick link icon on our desktops of our lives. All others including the “Indians” have a people they can connect back with, because of our unique experience, Blacks in America never had that and that is why whites don’t have to respect us because they can look and see the connection between every other group living here in this country. They also can see a disconnect worked on so hard by a people, whether or not participated in actively or passively by Americans against a people; Black Americans and know we have nothing and nowhere to go, and know we can never threaten them so why acknowledge us when they don’t have to. Any people, any group is only as powerful as the soul of its core and we lost our umbilical cord long, long ago. People are not feared by other people when they know no is worried that you have not returned home yet. It is the nature of predatory man. The whites of this country have always been aware of this fact as a matter of dealing with blacks here as citizens. The Jim Crow laws developed by the George Lynch lessons were well taught and executed all across this land and most effectively in the South.  The decedents of that generation are the hearts and souls of today who cannot accept Barack Obama as President of any real United States of America, democrat, republican, independent, modern or otherwise.

These are the people being called ‘Real Americans’, ‘Hard Working Americans’, True Patriotic Americans’, people with ‘Real American Values’ who understand what it means to be American. These are the minds being reached out for and touched by the Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sara Palin, and Rush Limbaugh Angels of real America. These are the Americans who feel their country has been hijacked and they are angry as hell at the very notion that a Black man is residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They want their country back! Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck dangerously stoke the fires of this anger every opportunity they get and blacks still have nowhere to go and know they will never ever be appreciated by these very ‘American’ of American people. I suggest that element of the American population is not quite as fringe as Jon Stewart and others might think, though I am still optimistic about us as a country, concerned but. I feel we as a country need to recognize these issues publicly in some kind of public discourse in order to possibly begin to move forward, but until we admit the truth…..

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