When Racism Isn’t



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The word «racism» seems to be bandied about with such frequency in America that it’s as if at least every third word emanating from some communities is either the charge of racism or the epithet, racist. I think that since it’s almost as commonplace as the use of the N-word in rap lyrics and since it’s so often misused, racism should be banished like the N-word has been from the American lexicon, even in rap lyrics.

To my knowledge, no other word but that N-word has ever been deemed so repulsive that it was considered necessary to forbid its use, under penalty of law in some jurisdictions, and dispatched to the depths of a new Dantesque circle of Hell.

Granted, the N-word isn’t a very pleasant word, but nor are flatulence, vomit, and thousands of other English words. The terms «AOL» and «politics» are almost equivalently unpleasant to millions of people, to students the initials «SAT’s» can evoke tremors of disgust and trepidation, and to the Irish the word «British» can have comparable effects.

The preceding excursion into reductio ad absurdam is meant to accent the absurdity of the overreaction to the N-word and to emphasize the overuse and selective use of the charge of racism in our society. Very often it is applied to crimes committed against Hispanics by Whites which cannot be termed racism since both Whites and (most) Hispanics are Caucasians. If anything, that could be called, «ethnicism.»

As kids, we used to chant, «Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never harm me,» in a lame response to verbal harassment. Today, the school harasser would be accused of bullying or worse and probably be consigned to detention or sent home on suspension. More absurdity in a nation committed to overreaction to perceived insults. It seems that if one perceives a hurt, real or not, it thereby becomes an honest to goodness, undeniable slur, insult, attack, whatever you wish to call it, whether or not it has any basis in reality.

The banning of the N-word is made conspicuously more ridiculous by virtue of the fact that equally mean-spirited and derogatory ethnic terms which I am allowed to use without fear of legal repercussions are permissible even if not condoned. They certainly do not raise hackles like the use of the N-word does.

While I don’t endorse or advocate the use of any such references in writing or in social discourse, I also don’t endorse or advocate the actions of today’s PC mentality which makes their use tantamount to screaming, «Fire!» in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire and when the results could be catastrophic.

We Americans of Irish descent have gotten over being treated like dirt and being avoided like the plague by «polite» society. We ignored the ubiquitous, dismissive warning signs that «Irish Need Not Apply» which were prevalent in that society even until the middle of the last century. We applied nevertheless and when we were rejected as unfit because of our Irish surnames or because we lived In Irish neighborhoods, we moved on and secured other jobs. Sometimes they were better jobs, sometimes worse, but our forebears knew that complaining was counterproductive so they just worked harder.

We elected an Irish-American president in 1960 and, if we ever had any doubts, Irish Americans forever abandoned any thoughts that we were second class, or permanently steerage class, American citizens. Like George Jefferson, we had moved on up and we have never looked back.

I understand the emotional trauma associated with the N-word which conjures up within the Black community visions of slavery, discrimination, Jim Crow Laws, etc. However, slavery is long gone in our world, except in Black Muslim Sudan and in a rare few other places outside the U.S, and systemic, legalized racism has been legislated out of existence for generations in America. That legislation, literally thousands of federal, state, and local statutes which make racial discrimination criminal acts, was passed by White legislators, hardly testimony to the idea of America as a racist nation.

When Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States last November 4th, millions of Americans assumed that would serve as the final nail in the coffin of alleged or actual racism against Blacks. Forty three percent of White Americans voted for him, which seemed proof positive that Jim Crow was dead and America could finally move on as a racially unified nation.

Unfortunately, that was not to be, mainly because Black Americans effectively voted for racism by almost unaninimously casting their ballots against the White candidate, John McCain. The math is pretty simple: 57% of Whites «voted White» while 95% of Blacks «voted Black.»

Obama’s new Black Attorney General later reinforced the feeling that his administration was far more interested in racial division than in racial healing, in keeping the racial fires burning rather than quenching them.

AG Eric Holder said that he believed America had to go far beyond mere legislated integration and suggested that White Joe Six-Pack should demonstrate his lack of bias in other ways. In effect, Holder said that if Joe didn’t invite Black people to his next family BBQ or golf outing, then Joe was evidently a racist. In addition, adding grave insult to a stupid demand, Holder indicated that if poor Joe didn’t comply, he would be a coward to boot: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=847.

The latest example of Black racism run amok are the protests against White, Jewish comedian Jackie Mason’s use of the yiddish word, «schwartza,» in reference to Blacks: http://www.popeater.com/movies/article/jackie-mason-racism-charges/383621.

Mason retaliated by contending that white people are more persecuted when it comes to civil rights: «If it’s a racist society, the white people are the ones being persecuted because they have to defend themselves.» He referred to Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson as «professional racists.» I dare not say that that’s a given.

See the above Popeater website for a video of an infuriated Jackie reacting to a Black reporter’s trying to paint him as a racist. Jackie Mason is not only a funny guy but an honest guy, even when he’s furious, although there, for good reason, he lost his cool and his sense of humor.

There is a great deal of racism that still exists in America but it is not White racism directed at Blacks. It is the precise opposite as seen here:

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