Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Back in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we
were "a nation of cowards" on matters of race. Permit me to be brave
and run a few assertions by you just to see whether we're on the same page.
There should be two standards for civilized conduct: one for whites, which is
higher, and another for blacks, which is lower. In other words, in the name of
justice and fair play, blacks should not be held accountable to the same standards
that whites are and should not be criticized for conduct that we'd deem
disgusting and racist if said or done by whites.
You say, "Williams, what in the world are you
talking about?" Mitt Romney hasn't revealed all of his fall campaign
strategy yet, but what if he launched a "White Americans for Romney"
movement in an effort to get out the white vote? If the Romney campaign did
that, there'd be a media-led outcry across the land, with charges ranging from
racial insensitivity to outright racism. When President Barack Obama announced
his 2012 launch of "African Americans for Obama", the silence was
deafening. Should the same standards be applied to Obama as would be applied to
Romney? The answer turns out to be no, because Obama is not held to the same
standards as Romney.
Liberals won't actually come out and say that criticism
of Obama is in and of itself racist, but they come pretty close. Former
President Jimmy Carter said that criticism of Obama shows that there is an
"inherent feeling" in America that a black man should not be
president. Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's "Hardball," said that
critics of Obama are crackers. Morgan Freeman said that the campaign to see
that Obama serves one term is a "racist thing." Former Obama czar Van
Jones said that Romney's campaign sign "Obama Isn't Working" implies
Obama is a "lazy, incompetent affirmative action baby."
Racial double standards also apply to how crime is
reported. I'm betting that if mobs of white youths were going about severely
beating and robbing blacks at random and preying on black businesses, it would
be major news. News anchors might open, "Tonight we report on the most
recent wave of racist whites organizing unprovoked attacks on innocent black
people and their businesses." If white thugs were actually doing that,
politicians would be demanding answers. Such random attacks do happen, but it's
blacks preying on whites.
On St. Patrick's Day in Baltimore, a 19-year-old white
man was viciously attacked by a mob of black thugs. He broke loose, but a
second mob of black thugs attacked him, taking all of his belongings. Baltimore
County Delegate Pat McDonough demanded the governor send in the Maryland State
Police to control "roving mobs of black youths" at Baltimore's Inner
Harbor. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and other activists demanded that
McDonough apologize for talking about "black youth mobs."
Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by black thugs
against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls and at
other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago,
Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other cities. Most of the time, the race
of the attackers, euphemistically called flash mobs, is not reported, even
though media leftists and their allies are experts in reporting racial
disparities in prison sentencing and the alleged injustice of the criminal justice
system.
Racial double standards are not restricted to the
political arena and crime reporting; we see it on college campuses and in the
workplace. Black people ought to be offended by the idea that we are held
accountable to lower standards of conduct and achievement. White people ought
to be ashamed for permitting and fostering racial double standards that have
effects that are in some ways worse than the cruel racism of yesteryear.
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