...On his Monday show, Rush Limbaugh ranted against “white guilt” and “Caucasians” getting “blamed for slavery when they’ve done more to end it than any other race, and within the bounds of the Constitution to boot.”
“White guilt is doing nothing for anybody, and white guilt is not solving anything,” Limbaugh said. “And besides that, a little history lesson for you. If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it’s Caucasians. The white race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer period of time than any other in the history of the world...”
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Things We Can't Talk About
Limbaugh: “White race” should not “have guilt about slavery” - Salon.com:
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i'm not a rush fan but i can relate to the white guilt concept. i have several friends that try to make me feel guilty for not feeling guilty.
damnit, i don't feel it either and i get the same thing. the Bible says seven generations for the sins of the fathers but i feel my time has been up because none of ancestors ever had anything to do with slavery.
I hate nothing worse than to agree with the the giant screaming ego that is Rush, but - no guilt here, either. Like many, many other whites, I have have done my best to support civil and equal rights for blacks, and to actively work for equal treatment for the race as a whole, and for individuals, when the situation demanded. I'm not saying I deserve to be queen of the NAACP or anything, just that like everyone else, I felt a responsibility to do what I could and tried to live up to it.
Maybe that fixed nothing. Possibly, it made some things worse - I don't know. But no one can change the past, or devote a lifetime to regretting the actions of others, particularly those who lived and died well more than a century ago.
To see the kind of hostility of blacks toward whites that has been apparent in recent years, particularly since Obama's election, provokes sadness, but also anger, and the recognition that there is a desire on the parts of a significant number of blacks, to hold onto their hatred, to continue to blame whites for problems which clearly, originate within the black community, and which can be successfully addressed only if that community assumes responsibility for them.
As has been noted by a few thinking people with access to a microphone or other public platforms, the black leaders, especially our half-black president really did a disservice to the black community in the way in which they addressed the Trayvon Martin case. Rather than to use the opportunity and the tragedy to encourage black youth to reject violence and the gangsta mindset, the old opportunists like Jackson and Sharpton, as well as Obama and his racist Attorney General worked overtime to conjure up racism where none existed. With black violent crime at an all time high, and black youths, children, and adults being killed every day by other blacks, the so-called civil rights leaders and pot stirrers felt no compunction to address Trayvon Martin's history of juvenile delinquency, and the problems within the black community from which these kinds of behaviors developed. In displaying the negligence, irresponsibility, and opportunism that the black leadership did in the Martin case, they set an example for black youths that will encourage more violence, less accountability, and little progress.
And, the responsibility for future Trayvon's will, to a significant degree, rest with these selfish, attention-seeking, African-American leaders who had the opportunity to use their influence to uplift and empower, but who chose not to do so. They chose, instead, to promote a culture of victim-hood.
free (and billy)-- thanks for not making me feel not so alone in my position. I think where we're walking right now is in the Giant Liberal Blindspot, which I think has a great deal to do with carpetbagger mentalities emanating from outside of the South. They still don't get it that Clinton's landslides in WVA and other places had nothing to do with racism; all they can see is the Confederacy. I wonder when they will get over the Civil War.
The Obama libs should be careful. Their racism is showing. They have such a romanticized view of the "black experience", learned from some out-dated sociology text from back in the 60s, and have refused to allow blacks, as individuals within that race, to assume responsibility for their own problems, behaviors issues, etc. These Latte-Libs need to flush the rest of that weed they're holdin', throw those old books away, and get a new clue about what's happening. People deserve to be accountable. When you refuse to allow that, you thwart their growth.
Most blacks will continue to take their cues from their half-black savior, apparently, which means they will continue to be exploited and turned into victims in order to advance Barack's political and social agenda. Sadly, they will be no better off if Barack succeeds in "transforming America".
I think the slavery issue does cloud all the reverence we place on our own constitution, since the issue was apparently avoided at all costs.
However, once a slave....then what? There would have had to be a former slave state where those who served their time could go to. However, that would have just broken up the families.
Once slavery was introduced, it became almost impossible to figure out a logical way out of it.
However, I don't think that means we shouldn't feel guilty about slavery.
There is another reason to not feel guilty about slavery. You or I would probably not exist if the past had been altered prior to our own conception. So anyone who carries a chip on their shoulder is not being fair. They only exist because slavery existed in the past.
Just as anyone who was conceived after Hitler came to power only exists because of Hitler. It would be someone else, not you, who was born into the world had Hitler been thwarted before gaining power.
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