Part Three: Playing The Race Card Game

If you think that today's video games are now the number one American pastime, think again. The number one game being played in America today is The Race Card Game.

The Race Card Game (RCG) is played by more people than any and all video games, which comes in at number two on our list. This game is played by those of us who know they are playing and by those of us who do not know they are playing but are unwittingly caught up in it. The RCG is played on a daily basis in every aspect of our society; in the work place, in education, at social gatherings, in politics, in religion, in our entertainment or even while we are just driving down the street. At this very moment somewhere in America someone is laying down that old Race Card on someone else, and the one who it is being laid upon may not even have realized that they were playing the game until they had already lost.

Of course the national media never reports most of this game, as it is all just to commonplace and inane. A schoolteacher addressing five female students who are being unruly as a class begins tells them, "You people quiet down and take your seats." The three non-minority students take their seats while the two minority female students come face to face with the teacher to demand, "What do you mean 'you people'?"

A school bus driver, whose main responsibility is the safety of her students, confronts two male students who are causing a disturbance as she is trying to drive, one student is black, and the other is white. They are not fighting, but are just two friends horsing around. Stopping the bus to separate them, the bus driver first points to the black student, then to the white student, as she states, "You sit there, and you sit over there." The white student sits where he is directed while the black student angrily accuses, "You pointed at me first because I'm black!"

But of course it is not just young people who play the Race Card Game. They didn't make this game up or decide on the rules. The young people who are playing are only following the examples of their community leaders and their families. Leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are masters of the RCG. For such leaders this game is an important tool in their daily lives because the RCG is the intricate component to insuring that Black America maintains its status as a victim culture. This idea that Black Americans are singled out in every way, shape and form in our daily lives must be continuously perpetrated forward to future generations so that some members of the Black community can always claim that it is the racism in this country that continues to hold them back.

All it takes to play the RCG is for someone to utter a simple phrase accusing someone else of being a racist. In many instances there is no need for proof of this accusation, just someone's personal opinion. This personal opinion is often based on self-perceived stereotypes, or on past deeds committed by someone else upon someone else, mistakenly assumed insults, or on the accusers own racism. The opinions may even be based on urban legend type recollections wherein some where in our collective past someone knew a guy who knew a guy, who had a cousin who knew a guy, who had an ex-brother-in-law who said that he knew a guy, who said he saw an act of racism committed by yet another guy against still yet another guy.

The person being accused does not even have to offend with a racial slur; just the inflection of their words, or their perceived attitudes or motives, are enough for them to be deemed a racist by some in our society. It is, after all, a game of words. The results are that no matter how a word may be used in a sentence or to whom all it is being addressed; there seems to always be someone who can claim offense at what or how something was said so that the speaker must have had racist intentions. It has become so ridiculous and so widespread that White America has become leery of using such common everyday words such as: you, boy, girl, people, those, them or anything else that a minority may deem inappropriate at any given moment.

For example, recently Marc Lamont Hill, PhD was disturbed by what he considered racial slurs used by health care protesters while attending a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pa. Hill believes that the White protesters' use of the terms "that guy" and "that man" when referring to Obama was racist. Hill insists that these terms were only used because Obama is a Black man. In his blog former Reagan White House political director, Jeffery Lord points out that many Obama supporters want to compare Obama to FDR. In doing so they should note that during FDR's reign he was often openly referred to by his critics as, "that man in the White House." On a more personal note I distinctly remember hearing people refer to Bush as "that man" and "that guy" during his time in office. Dr. Hill, a very liberal professor at Columbia, seems to be wrapped a little too tight every time he discusses race and his main man Obama. But then that is all just part of the RCG.

Then of course there is "The 'N' Word." Black Americans swear that this word is an abomination and that it should never be spoken in public or in private. I happen to agree. In today's society the vast majority of White Americans do not use this word. This "N" word has become taboo to White America. As a result Black America has White America talking much like a bunch of three-year olds discussing the resulting deposits of bowel movements, discussing the 'S' word, whenever this "N" word is being discussed. However the problem arises in the fact that the only persons that do use it are the very persons who demand that its use in our vocabulary be forever banned and condemned. Black Americans use it as openly and freely as if it was a badge of honor instead of the mean spirited degradation that it is. For years I have not heard this "N" word openly spoken by anyone except members of the Black minority. The word is in their writings, music, and comedy but especially in their cinema.

The English language is a living entity. Words and phrases are its cells. New word and phrase cells are always being created and are then used by our society. Unfortunately, today most of our new words and phrases are coming from TV sitcoms and advertisements. Meanwhile the old word cells and phrases die out as over time people stop using them. Here is just one example:

Jarkman:

"A jarkman was a 16th century "vagabond who used his literary talents underhandedly". Able to read and write, some even knowing Latin, such educated beggars roamed the countryside selling counterfeit passes, licenses and other certificates with official-looking seals appended. The word was still in use in the 1830s."

If Black Americans had stopped using "The 'N' Word" to the same degree as White Americans have stopped using it, "The 'N' Word" would have most probably been well on its way to being as forgotten as such words as jarkman by now. Instead in watching a modern movie staring Black actors in the lead roles we are constantly being assaulted by "The 'N' Word." If Black America would stop its use there would also come a time when any further discussions of the evil intent of "The 'N' Word" would no longer be necessary.

Likewise this "N" word is a prime example of the racial double standard that is allowed in our society. While any White American who uttered this racial slur would automatically be condemned as a racist, that same swift anti-racist condemnation is not enforced upon Black Americans who use derogatory, racist slurs towards White Americans. Black Americans do not feel the need to pacify their counterparts by using terms like "the 'C' word" for cracker or "the 'W' word" for whitey and so on. But a racial slur by any name is still bigotry.

Frequently the race card is played based entirely on a player’s mere perception of  what the other players are thinking! Self-proclaimed 'Amazing Kreskins' instantly reading the other persons' minds and thus instantaneously knowing their adversary's history, character, thoughts, personal feelings, beliefs, and any personal problems they may be dealing with at the moment, with such frightening clarity that the card layers feel justified in assassinating their opponents' reputations and destroying their lives and careers.

The RCG is not played with intellect, understanding, compassion or common sense. It is purely a game of vengeance and hate. It is a racist game hiding in the guise of correcting the injustice of racism. One must only remember the case of last year's Democratic delegate who lost her place at the National Convention because she wanted someone to get some kids out of a neighbor's tree so that the children would not get hurt. The trouble was that she said the kids were climbing around in the tree like a bunch of monkeys and the kids were minorities. The fact that this woman was Hispanic herself did not did not save her from being labeled a racist and losing her standing in the community. Because another minority woman objected to her use of the word monkeys as being racist, this Democratic delegate was directed by Obama's campaign to step down. Just another of your president's "teaching moment(s)" about our nation's lessons on race relations from "The Great Healer."

In all too many cases it comes down to one person's word against another, and because of past racial wrongdoing in America, in today's liberal society of self-inflicted abuse and governmental mandates that only Whites, or the majority, can be racist it is always the accusing minority player in this game who is automatically given the benefit of the doubt. After all, according to minorities and our liberal governments the White person involved can't help being a racist, for he/she was born that way.

Likewise, as in the recent case of the pompous Harvard professor Gates and Police Sergeant Crowley, who by all rights simply went to Gates' aid by investigating an assumed robbery at Gates' home, it is all too obvious that the race card layer is simply projecting his own racism on the recipient. Because a Black man said so, this White cop was supposed to be immediately condemned as a racist by one and all. Meanwhile many believed, especially Gates himself, that Gates' standing in the liberal academic community should have slammed the door shut on any and all possible arguments in Crawley's defense. After all the Black man, Gates, is this highly honored and respected scholar, a leader in his community, while the White man, Crowley is well, just another ordinary working class citizen. No one seems willing to admit that in a truly racist society those roles could never have been reversed and that Gates would never had been able to reach the level of status that he has attained. Yet even after the facts in this incident have clearly shown that it is the professor who is a bigot, there is a large portion of our society who still holds that the self-righteous Gates was the victim of just another racist cop.

Obama stated that this example was really a "teaching moment" in our Nation's race relations. Finally Obama was right about something, but for all the wrong reasons, as what we were all actually taught was how a man can do nothing but his job and still be branded a racists by those among us who live, breath and teach racism. Likewise don't be surprised that if in the future some ex-con who was once arrested by Sgt. Crowley isn't paraded out before us with accusations of racism by the policeman. That is, after all, how these racists and Liberals 'roll.'

Another "teaching moment" in this case educates us in how this label of "racist" is so easily thrown around today when the innocent woman who called 911 in an effort to protect her neighbor's property is now herself being called a racist! This even after the 911 tapes have been released showing that the woman never mentioned the race of the supposed intruders. What this "lesson" also teaches us is that if you happen upon two white men forcing their way into a house in your neighborhood, call 911. But if the two men breaking into the home belong to a minority, well just keep walking because you don't need the grief.

With Gates now in the spotlight another point that must also be noted is that in today's American society a white person who is a known racist is condemned for that racism by the vast majority of his fellow White Americans. However this negative response towards a person's bigotry does not hold true in the Black community where fellow Blacks who have openly displayed their racism towards White America are often celebrated and revered. In this regard, besides Gates, Obama's mentor and reverend Jeremiah Wright instantly comes to mind.

In a very "teaching moment" video, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AR9MycHnGg) Gates is shown telling how he came to realize that his mother hated white people and did not want to live among them. He examines this without shame or guilt but instead with an almost gleeful joy. This joyous occasion was apparently brought forth by the revelation that his dear mother felt that same way about those white devils as he did.

Recently Brit Hume summed up what race relations have become to many Americans in today's society.

"It is testament to the American peoples' beliefs that racism is a bad and evil thing. That racism is such an insult, such a dirty word. It is really quite a terrible thing in contemporary America to be labeled a racist, or to be thought a racist, because the judgment on that is virtually unanimous. It is unacceptable behavior and it is unfortunately that fact, as placed into the hands of certain people, a weapon. That word itself is a weapon. Note how quickly this professor (Gates) was to hurl it at this police officer and his continued complaint that racial profiling, his insistence that racial profiling was involved here. He continues to wield this weapon."

Now the people of this country are not as stupid as Michael Moore and Bill Maher insist that we are. For one we all know that what Brit Hume has stated here is correct. But if anyone of us stated this ourselves, or even admitted that we agreed with what Mr. Hume has said, we would be labeled a racist. Just as surely as Mr. Hume has already been so labeled by many in this country for speaking so honestly.

So what we really have here is a Catch 22. For while the majority of our nation's people are diligently working to rid our nation of racial inequality and racism we are only allowed to address half of the racism that exists in America, the White, or majority half. Meanwhile the minorities' racism against the majority is largely excused, ignored and even defended. So while under the pretext of condemning racism of any diversity, we are in fact only condemning the majority's racism against minorities and we are not allowed to address the minorities' racism against the majority. Still yet, we are not even allowed to suggest that this minority racism exits. To point out racism by a minority results in the speaker to be deemed as being racist! Catch 22.

Either way it goes, racism against one only breeds racism against the other. So in our present mindset of not equally condemning all racism we will reach racial harmony in this nation about the same time those supposedly melting ice caps raise the sea levels to the city limits of Chicago.

This 'weapon' has been so copiously abused lately that one would think it should have become obsolete by now just in view of the fact that we all know what it is and how often it so unjustly being thrown about. But it is because of the one directional liberal view of racism, and the laws that have been set in place to punish anyone accused of racism only towards a minority that it remains such a vicious weapon. Otherwise, just from its blatant misuse and the so frequently frivolous, petty complaints, the use of this race card weapon would often be laughable. As it is this weapon is now being so freely tossed about that it is no longer just minorities who wield it. With a minority president now in office Liberals have taken up this 'axe' to chop away at the character and ideals of any and all who opposes them and Obama's policies.

During the last election anyone who opposed Obama's politics, questioned his lack of experience or his past anti-American associations was called a racist. What! You didn't vote for Obama? You're a racist!

But what was truly racist in this last election was that 97% of the Black Americans, who voted, voted for Obama. Now you can argue that this high percentage was due to the historical significance of the first Black man to run for president. One can also certainly understand how some Black Americans would be swayed by this significance, but not 97%! If an historical precedent was the only reason in this the case, why didn't 97% of all women, who voted, vote for Palin in this last election, or for Geraldine Ferraro in 1984? It can certainly be said that the women's fight for equality in this country has been a long and tedious affair, so why did they not turn out to vote for these two women in the same manner? Likewise, as the first Catholic president, JFK did not come close to receiving 97% of the Catholic vote in 1960. It also needs to be noted that if this nation was so vehemently racist as many Liberals and minorities insist, McCain would have gotten 97% of the White vote and won in a landslide.

As it is Black America could not have agreed that wholeheartedly with Obama's qualifications, personal history or purposed policies. In the end one must surmise that for many voters this abnormally high percentage of Black American votes for Obama came down to race. Yet the racist label was raised only at White Americans who questioned Obama and did not vote for him. With the country's White majority disappearing, the issue in future elections now becomes will the minorities voters continue to cast their votes for candidates based on their race?

Now that Obama is in office this playing of the race card trend continues to include everyone from Tea Partiers protesting the Obama administration's insane spending sprees, opponents of his socialist ObamaCare, to those who want to see his birth certificate. Disagree with his stand on abortion, especially full term abortion? Racist! Got a problem with the unconstitutionality of our government taking over GM, banks, hijacking the census, with bailouts, amnesty for illegal aliens, bigger government, trillions of dollars of generational debt, or the threatening Chicago style politics? Well you must be a racist! Troubled by his use of un-vetted czars? His fuzzy, mixed up, view of American history and his apologetic, our enemies are now our friends and visa versa, foreign policy? Racist! And on and on… With the Liberal Democrats and Obama in office, politics have never been so dirty, and that's really saying something.

The RCG is so common anymore that it jumps out at us from the most idiotic and mundane places. As an example take the nonsense of some celebrities claiming alleged racism aimed at Michael Jackson in the aftermath of his death, by of all people, the Liberal talking heads in the mainstream media. While the previously mentioned Dr. Hill also weighed in on this disrespect of Jackson due to race it was rap artist P-Diddy who caught my attention the most.

According to Sean 'Puff Daddy/P-Diddy' Combs, and a few others, because of race the media mistreated Jackson by too quickly speculating that drugs were involved in his untimely death and by referring to his 'assumed' sexual misconduct with young boys. Combs stated that the media did not announce any such drug related suspicions so soon after the demise of white entertainers like Elvis when they died. But yes, excuse me, they most certainly did. In fact when some one dies unexpectedly in the drug absorbed cultures of our music and entertainment communities, drugs are always automatically suspected as the cause, and unfortunately it is almost always the correct diagnosis. Jackson's case was no different in the cause or in the timing of the media's drug speculations from that of a long list of celebrities from Hank Williams, Lenny Bruce and Marilyn Monroe to Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Keith Moon, to John Belushi, Chris Farley, River Phoenix and Heath Ledger. Now since Combs was only ten years old when Elvis died one might excuse his ignorance for not knowing that the cause of The King's death was at once speculated to be drug related. But since Combs is now all grown up and a successful businessman what one cannot excuse is Comb's ignorance for playing the race card in such an obviously stupid manner.

As far as the discussions on Jackson's dubious sexual habits, for which he was charged and acquitted, that would have been trying to ignore that five hundred pound gorilla sitting in the corner. Besides anyone who was even remotely familiar with Jackson knew about these charges and how the families of these children were paid millions by Jackson to go away and shut up.

Meanwhile most everyone in America knew that Jackson's race had nothing to do with the drug speculations. But that did not stop the race card from being played. The media and the public's drug related suspicions were historically well founded in light of the long list of celebrities who have died prematurely from the misuse of illegal and prescription drugs. But then Combs and the others were just simply playing America's favorite game, and they were not about to miss an opportunity to lay that race card down. Especially when every news channel in the universe was covering Jackson's death around the clock. The idiocy of such a racist charge is only magnified when everyone watching could clearly see that Jackson was not only being honored but also even glorified by the same media that was now being charged with racism. But then as previously stated the RCG is not played with intellect or even common sense.

The results of this game are far-reaching and costly. In our communities citizens are branded and condemned as racists simply for saying everyday words or phrases like "you people" or "that guy." Some of these so-called offenders even lose their jobs. The previously mentioned teacher and bus driver were both warned by their superiors about what they had said to the students, while the students were reinforced with the belief that they had been right to claim racism! This type of nonsense happens everyday as in our society common sense is as dead as a doornail and political correctness has gone berserk.

Congress has passed 'Hate Crime' laws, which are strictly understood to be used against the majority, whether anyone will admit that or not, and are thus rarely pursued against any members of a minority. After all, everyone knows that a Black person would never assault a White person because of racial hatred, a Muslim would never attack a Christian because of a difference in religious beliefs and of course a homosexual would never assault a heterosexual. Meanwhile our courts are being filled with frivolous lawsuits filed for any and all racial and discriminatory complaints.

Our governments, businesses and civic organizations have taken steps to stop the bigotry and to punish any offenders by spending billions of dollars every year for sensitivity training so that the majority members learn how to interact with minorities. Yet no one questions why minorities are not being taught how to interact with the majority? Millions more are spent to insure that tests are not racially biased and on studies to insure that minorities are not left behind in the work place. And almost every police department in the United States now has extensive sensitivity training to improve community relations with minorities. Meanwhile minorities still feel that every cop is a racist and that every time they are stopped by the police it must be because of their race, as White people are never pulled over by the police.

The bottom line is that while racial equality is coming closer to reality, racial harmony in this country is getting worse. We cannot continue to ignore that racism is a two way street and that bigotry by a minority is just as evil and wrong as racism by a majority. Until we address all racism on equal grounds we will never solve the problem of racism in America. When a member of the Black Panthers is looked upon in the Black community with the same disdain as a member of the KKK is in the White community, then we may have a chance for racial harmony.

As it is we have a President who sat in a church for twenty years listening to the hate filled racial slander of the white race by his Reverend, but uttered no objections. We have an Attorney General who called us all racial cowards but did not have the courage himself to prosecute members of the Black Panthers who illegally intimidated voters in Philadelphia during a national election, a federal offense. We have just selected a new Supreme Court judge who displayed her racism many times in repeating her statements describing her belief that "a wise Latino woman" could make better decisions "than a white man" and who worked diligently for twelve years for La Raza (The Race). Many of you who read this would not object to any of what these three members of minorities have done, or failed to do and you will not call it racism. Yet for writing this article you will call me a racist , and that my friends is the problem.

God Bless All Of America

Semper Fi,
Mike

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