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C’mon, Admit It: This Column Is Racist

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By Allan  Erickson / 7 December  2013

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a  nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the  content of their character.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

An NFL player says team owners treat players like slaves. The player,  a Black man, will make $10 million this year. He could not be reached for  clarification. He is touring Africa on a goodwill trip. A little good will goes  a long way.

According to Obama, the Cambridge Police “acted  stupidly” trying to protect a homeowner’s property. When the homeowner showed  up, a Black professor, he turned on the police, refused to obey orders, then  insulted them. Acting strictly according to procedure, they arrested the guy,  but the President said they acted stupidly. Once Obama finally obtained the  facts, he seemed to back down, but never apologized.

According to  the President and his friends, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan are heroes,  but George Bush and his kind are criminals. Just ask Percy Sutton, attorney for  Malcolm X, and big Obama cheerleader. Just ask Khalid al-Mansour, mentor to  Black Panthers, Jew hater, Christian hater, so-called professor who encourages  Muslims to attack and maim white people, and big Obama cheerleader, one who  helped Obama get into Harvard, a real boy scout. (Jihadwatch.org, “The  Obama-Mansour Connection.”)

Jesse Jackson calls for war in Madison,  Wisconsin, after fomenting racial tensions in Portland, Oregon last year, but  it’s all about the colors of the rainbow. A black “professor” out  of North Carolina actually says the only solution is killing all white people.  No kidding. (WND.com, “Professor: exterminate the white people,” Oct. 22, 2005)

Al Sharpton says school choice is racist.  Of course. You can’t be allowing people the freedom to use their own tax money  to educate their own children as they see fit. How blatantly un-American can you  be to suggest such a thing? Obviously racist. (The latest in Sharpton shooting  blanks.)

Speaking of Sharpton and Jackson, who could forget a few  years back the Duke University lacrosse players accused of rape and racism and  raked over the coals by the mainstream media for at least a year, only to be  exonerated by DNA evidence in the end? (AmericanThinker.com, “Racism 101 at Duke,” April 12, 2006)

Remember  this gem: Black Panthers standing outside a polling place during  the 2008 presidential election in Philadelphia. One has a truncheon.  Its only purpose is cracking skulls. The Panthers taunt voters. One says: “That’s why you’re gonna be ruled by a black man, Cracka!” (BigGovernment.com, “New Black Panther Party President admits to  Philadelphia voter intimidation,” July 9, 2010).

The Panthers were convicted. Obama’s AG Eric Holder declined to follow  through with the penalty phase. Holder says enforcing the law without regard to  race, his sworn duty, would demean “his people,” in this case, and, he says,  it’s a lie his Justice Department is racially motivated. Really? A  civil rights lawyer weighs in decrying the incident and criticizing Holder and  the Obama administration. He must be a racist. Anyone who highlights the  incident is a racist, a mere political opportunist. (Fox video on YouTube, “Eric Holder Drops Charges on Black Panthers for Voter  Intimidation.”)

• Notice, the civil rights attorney identifies the  Black Panther Party as a hate organization, so designated by the Anti-Defamation  League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Black Panther Party, dating from  the 1960s, has always been a Marxist group promoting violent overthrow of  the U.S. government. Saying so makes you a racist.
• In the wake of  Katrina a Black singer said, “Bush doesn’t care about black people,” accusing  Bush of being a racist.
• If you opposed the power of public employee  unions and their unholy alliance with radical leftists using tax revenue to  finance political activism, well, you are obviously a racist according to  Charles Rangel. (TheHill.com, “Rangle Abolishing collective bargaining  akin to slavery,” March 1, 2011)
• If you want to hold  hearings to determine the threat level posed by radical Islam domestically,  you’re a racist, according to Black legislators weighing in at the hearings  recently.
• If you suggest government affirmative action housing  programs interfering with the private mortgage industry led to the financial  meltdown, you are a racist.
• If you suggest universal healthcare is  not a constitutional right: racist.
• If you think turning a blind  eye toward illegal immigration is not such a great idea: racist.
• If  you suggest we must reform welfare and entitlement spending if the nation is to  survive: racist.
• If you don’t swing with the green agenda promoted  by Van Jones: racist.
• If you suggest affirmative action actually  works against the best interests of Black Americans: racist.
• Anyone  who levels legitimate criticism of President Obama is a racist.
• Anyone who hits the streets to protest government spending, waste, fraud and  mismanagement is a racist.
• Write a column like this: racist.

You know, it is difficult to  extend the hand of friendship when it keeps getting chopped off. Haven’t we learned by now that playing the race card indiscriminately only stirs  up violence and resentment, the exact opposite of what Dr. King would have us do? So then, who is the real racist?

Bonus material: a  real solution from a black man who experienced real slavery, Frederick  Douglass: “I have one great political idea … the best expression of  it I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, ‘Righteousness exalteth a  nation; sin is a reproach to any people’ [Proverbs 14.34]. This constitutes  my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my  politics.”

Parting shot: So-called “progressives” attending a  recent Common Cause event said Justice Clarence Thomas should be “sent back to  the fields”, or should be “strung up.”

Now, now. These were not  racist comments. They weren’t even reported in the MSM. No. These were merely  the statements of frustration uttered by enlightened citizens concerned about  social justice and the plight of all oppressed people. (Christian Hartsock, ‘“Progressive Ralliers Call for Lynching of Clarence Thomas,” YouTube  video, Feb. 2, 2011)

Ask these people about the vicious,  insulting treatment they’ve received, not so much for being black as for being  black and Conservative:

• Larry Elder
• Janice Rogers Brown
• Walter Williams
• Alphonso Rachel
• Condoleezza Rice
• Thomas Sowell
• Anne  Wortham
• Ken Blackwell
• Lt. Col. Allen West
• Michael Steele
• Herman  Cain
• Shelby Steele
• J.C. Watts
• Armstrong Williams
• Star Parker

[From the book, The Cross & the Constitution in the Age of  Incoherence, 2012, Tate Publishing]

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About the author: Allan Erickson

 Allan Erickson enjoyed an 11-year career in radio, television and print  journalism as a reporter, talk show host, and operations manager. He then turned  to sales and marketing for a decade. Ten years ago he started his own training  and recruitment company in the Pacific Northwest.  Allan & wife Jodi have  four children and live in California. He is also the author of “The  Cross & the Constitution in the Age of Incoherence,” Tate Publishing,  2012. He is available to speak in churches addressing the topics of faith and  freedom.  To contact him, email:  allanlerickson@gmail.com

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