The Blindness of Bigotry

One of my Facebook friends recently shared the following.

"PROUD TO BE WHITE" 

This is great. I have been wondering about why Whites are racists, and no other race is......
Michael Richards makes his point........................ 
Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TVs Seinfeld does make a good point.

This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his comedy act. He makes some very interesting points...

Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to this? There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc. 

And then there are just Americans. 

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you.. so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day. 

You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day. 

You have Yom Hashoah. You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi. 

You have the NAACP. You have BET. If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we'd be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists. 

If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that??

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships... You know we'd be racists.

There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US ... Yet if there were 'White colleges', that would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud...... But you call me a racist.
Why is it that only whites can be racists??

There is nothing improper about this message.. Let's see which of you are proud enough to send it on. I sadly don't think many will. That's why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS in this country. We won't stand up for ourselves!

BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!

It's not a crime YET... but getting very close!

I always find it interesting how majority ethnic groups can find phrases, behavior and history to support their biased notions when they see minorities getting a voice. They’re like good Christians, cherry picking the scripture that supports their bias and interpreting it to benefit their own argument. It is amazing what they forget about so much of the past or simply leave it out.

When white people whine about Martin Luther King Day, they forget about President’s Day.

When white people whine about Black History Month, they forget about all of the whiteness in their history books when they were in school.

How many white children learned about George Washington Carver in school but didn’t know that he was a black man?

How many of white people know of the Black Sheep Squadron of WWII but have never heard of the Tuskegee Airmen?

When was a white man ever lynched by a mob of angry black men on Saturday night for raping his family’s black housekeeper?

Do you know why many Native Americans avoid circulating twenty dollar bills?

How many of you have ever even tried to empathize with the suffering on the Trail of Tears? Better yet, how many of you know what the Trail of Tears was?

Why don’t we have currency carrying images of Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse? Certainly, they were among the greatest of American leaders. They stood against impossible odds and were murdered for it just like Abraham Lincoln. Oh, but you probably didn’t know that the most effective of Native American leaders were murdered, did you?

I’ll bet that all of you good white folks know that Audie Murphy was the most decorated American war hero of WWII. How many of you know that the most decorated ethnic group of WWII were Americans with Spanish surnanes?

When the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted, there were riots in the streets of East Los Angeles. Did you ever wonder why the residents of Beverly Hills didn’t riot when OJ Simpson was acquitted? I’ll bet not, but then, you’ve also have never felt the internal raging anger of generations upon generations of oppression.

The person that originated this selected opinion on Facebook challenged readers to have the guts to send it on. I reiterate that challenge. However, the people with real guts will send it on with my comments also attached.