To the Editor:
At a time when Metty Pellicer is releasing a book about growing up black in Cape Charles, we are watching the continuing systemic prejudice against the white male in America, and it matters to hardly anyone.
In fact the law allows it, the law promotes it, and our media is shoving it down our throats.
Affirmative Action has been a government sponsored racist program from it’s very inception about 50 years ago. It is a federal government program that scoffs at the concept where we are all supposedly created equal. Quotas were created where women, minorities, the disabled and veterans were all given quotas of explicit preferential treatment for hiring, housing and government run social programs.
I myself was told several times I could not be hired, federal quotas had to be filled, and I needed to look elsewhere for work. This federal law continues to be enforced to this day. In a very real sense it is the exact same thing as the attitude that put up a “whites only” sign over a public water fountain. I also cannot fix it. I cannot change the color of my skin.
Does the passage of time fix all such dilemmas ? Who knows ? What I do know is that our media and advertising beat such drums and subtly drive the message home. Want some support for that theory ? L.L. Bean. I bet I am not the only person on The Shore who is on their catalogue mailing list. Open it. Look at it. 64 pages. The models inside ? Full body shots head to toe ? Several oriental women, men and women of color, and some white women. There are zero full body shots of white men. There are some white men in the catalogue modeling pants that are headless, and their entire upper torso cut right off.
If you don’t think a statement is being made you are quite blissfully naïve.
Me? I am vociferously fighting back. You can follow my F150 to Church or the boat ramp. It’s the one with the new bumper sticker that “White Boots Matter” on the back.
Paul Plante says
It’s a quota system we are on today in this country.
There are people whose job it is to go through such things as catalogues, and TV shows, and movies, and various awards, and now, even classical music concerts, and to determine the proper ratios so that it is necessary to lose white people in order to get in more Black people.
Ten percent of the classical music played at classical music concerts, for example, has to have been composed by somebody who was Black.
So of course you are seeing less or even no white men in those ads.
WHITE MEN ARE BAD!
Blgjwg says
Amen
Dean says
If it’s truly based on equality
Equality meaning ability to perform the functions either it be a job, acting, musical, etc then race or gender should not enter into the equation.
Scotiagirl says
The WHITE MALE is well represented in TV commercials! They are the ones who cannot figure out how to wipe up a spill with paper towels, cannot figure out what product to use to clean a bathroom, need a woman to tell them which cereal to eat…and on and on! Stupid white men, smarter colored men and brilliant women. These are the role models for us all!
Paul Plante says
An interesting eagle’s eye view here.
Paul Plante says
The main-stream media is stereotyping all white men in America as if all white men in America were liberal Democrats who are the ones who cannot figure out how to wipe up a spill with paper towels, cannot figure out what product to use to clean a bathroom, need a woman to tell them which cereal to eat … and on and on!
Sara says
This is how Michelle (Michael) has stated in a speech and Oprah also.
2 women along with the white are non essentials. Their opinion does not matter
Stuart Bell says
According to FBI statistics, more than 5 thousand white American citizens, including senior citizens, men, women, children, and small babies, were murdered by black terrorists, in the United States, in the ten year period of 2010 to 2020.
I am just so tired of all the hate and destruction then blaming it all on white people and calling it white privilege. Housing projects were built for both black and white by white people but if you have ever seen one after being occupied only one race destroys it. Go to any large city and tell me who lives in the area of burned out garbage ridden destroyed neighborhoods. I have black friends that are happy to work and own a home just like white people but then there are the ones that have been groomed by the democrats to destroy and act oppressed. The killing of George Floyd was wrong but because of one guys actions all white people should pay? I look at the sports figures that have million dollar contracts and ask “where is the oppression?” I look at music with multi-millionaires that are black and ask “where is the oppression?” Seems to me the black people have the same ability as any white person to succeed if they choose but many would rather play the victim and place blame on us white people that pay for their destruction. Why do black celebrities always side with the people that claim to be oppressed instead of telling them they have the same opportunities? Racism will never change because some people will always claim to be victims instead of helping themselves because it’s easier.
For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites.
The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?
The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.
Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedman’s Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.
Their new laws intruded into people’s lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless handwringing to close the “achievement gap.” To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate Diversity!” and “Say No to Racism.” Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.
Some thought that what W.E.B. Du Bois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.
Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.
Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn’t mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.
But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue it’s a problem of “culture,” as if culture creates people’s behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame “white privilege.”
But since 1965, when the elites opened America’s doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India–people who are not white, not rich, and not “connected”–have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black “youths” are committing half the country’s violent crime–crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.
The experiment has failed. Not because of culture, or white privilege, or racism. The fundamental problem is that white people and black people are different. They differ intellectually and temperamentally. These differences result in permanent social incompatibility.
Our rulers don’t seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don’t understand that white people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity.
The elites explain everything with “racism,” and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point.
YT says
I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the many great contributions of the Black community and their culture to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture. Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real Estate values are fueled by the influx of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation.
Presently enriching the cities of Spokane WA, Chicago IL, Philadelphia PA, Washington D.C., St. Louis MO, New Orleans LA, Los Angeles CA, Flint MI, Baltimore MD, Pontiac MI, Gary Ind., Newark NJ, Cleveland OH, Atlanta GA, Richmond VA, Memphis TN, Birmingham AL, Camden NJ;
and let’s not forget Detroit, the tourism capital of the world!
WLM says
Blacks vs. Whites in a nutshell.
Whites are only 10% of the world’s population, yet are the most industrious, ingenious, and innovative race the world has known. Whites have formed nations, built civilizations, assumed and administrated power, created the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, the Industrial Revolution, automation, technology, the space program which landed men on the moon and launched probes exploring beyond the solar system, discovered electricity, created wonder drugs and architecture and have harnessed nuclear power, have unlocked the secrets of DNA and relativity, created computer science and the internet age…… sub-Saharan Africans still cannot even feed themselves.
No pre-contact sub-Saharan African society ever created a written language, or weaved cloth, or forged steel, invented the wheel or plow, or devised a calendar, or code of laws, or any social organization, or formal religion. or system of measurement, or math, or built a multi-story structure or bridge or sewer, or infrastructure of any kind, and they never harnessed a river, or even drilled well or irrigated, or built a road or railway or sea-worthy vessel, they never domesticated animals, or exploited underground natural resources, or produced anything that could be considered a mechanical device.
Blacks are the only race incapable of caring for themselves. Whites still have to provide food, medical, financial and engineering aid to Africans. They couldn’t survive without White charity. Blacks became an out-of-control invasive species after Whites domesticated them.
Blacks lived alone in sub-Saharan Africa, a vast continent with temperate climates and abundant resources for 60,000 years; so they cannot blame racism, poverty, imperialism or anything else for their failures. How could they live with all that shoreline and never contemplate putting a sail on a ship like every other culture did?
Blacks are the oldest race, they had a huge head-start so they should be the most advanced race; but they are the least advanced race. And in fact they never did develop until they were domesticated by Whites.
19 of the 20 poorest countries are sub-Saharan African (Haiti). There has never been a successful Black country. No modern creations or civilization exists in sub-Saharan Africa that was not brought there by Whites.
There are no White Third-World nations, but all Black ones are.
Put Whites on an island and you get England; put Asians on an island and you get Japan; put Blacks on an island and you get Haiti.
Nowhere Blacks live are they considered achievers. In fact they are universally viewed as unproductive and disruptive to society.
Simply, life is an IQ test.
Sorin Varzaru says
Let me guess, you are a trump fan
WLM says
Go on home, your Mamma’s calling you.
A Friend says
Is their anyone who can contest WLM’s statements? i don’t think so…
Sorin Varzaru says
I don’t have the time to dismantle the web of lies and misleading statements, here is an answer to an equally racist question on Quora.
https://qr.ae/pNbxhc
A Friend says
So, you got nothing!
MJM says
this will surprise some of you out there, but YEAH I will contest some of that. I’m not going to address any of it head on because so much of it is such a general statement. I’ll go this way. Dr. Shirley Jackson created the touch tone phone, caller i.d. and fiber optic cable. Y’all got any use for any of that crap ? Lewis Lattimer invented carbon filament and worked with Edison and Alex. Graham Bell on their telephones. Marie Ban Brittan Brown created CCTV security. Otis Boykin invented the IBM computer and the pacemaker. Any of you got one of them in your chest keeping you alive ? Have you thanked him yet ? Lonnie Johnson invented The Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Converter. Who cares, right ? What’s that ? But he also invented the super soaker y’all bought all your kids that makes them laugh and laugh. How about Charles Drew ? He invented the blood bank. Anybody out there ever receive a pint of blood at surgery ?
I could go on and on and on folks. I have told y’all before that I am not great at statistics, but google and wikepedia are. Just google black inventors and you may surprise yourselves.
I don’t like racism from either side. I don’t like anger and I don’t like negativity. It is easy to justify anything negative if we want to, and I’d just rather promote honesty and integrity and the positive things in all of us. I don’t complain about those things. I complain about negativity. It never helps a damn thing.
and yeah I’m a Trump fan.
And I think D. Snyder needs to name his old Redskins team The Swamp Creatures
WLM says
Got a little White Guilt on your conscience this morning? The diatribe reads that in africa they created nothing.
You are speaking of Americans that are black. Just look at the names you listed, they are all White English names.
When have you ever seen a real african named Shirley Jackson or Lewis Lattimer or Marie Ban Brittan Brown or Otis Boykin or Lonnie Johnson or Charles Drew????
What is wrong with you?
MJM says
White guilt ? That’s funny. I see, because I disagree and point out some positive things blacks have done I’m ignorant, feeling guilty and probably need a shrink. Nice try. The diatribe says blacks invented nothing in Africa ? No sh*t Sherlock. In doing so, as a diatribe it infers that nothing has changed, they continue to be of little value, and I disagree with that. And just as my insulting you convinces no one, your insulting me provides no answer either. I’m also too busy wondering what’s going to happen tomorrow. I’m in the clam business and buyers aren’t buying this week because restaurants in the big cities are boarding themselves up because they are afraid of riots because people are insulting one another and angry and threatening violence. I continue to say the same thing. anger solves nothing. So now you’re probably ready to insult me and say my clams are outsmarting me. Bickering over this crap fixes nothing. If you’re married you didn’t get there by arguing with your mate and picking at all their shortcomings. What’s wrong with me ? I’m imperfect just like everyone else. Or, if I am wrong please let me know who out there is perfect. I’d like to meet them. It’s just that I choose to take this subject and point out how it could have gone in a positive manner.
As far as pure DNA goes and the mixture of races……… hmmmmm….. Who has pure DNA of one race ? Really ? Ae we looking for, or have we found a superior race ? Didn’t we fight Adolph about that 70 years ago ? On one level Jesse sure embarrassed him at the Olympics, eh ? Then thousands of our soldiers banded together and bled together to show him he was wrong, wipe out his idea, and we’re still bickering over that ? OMG the brilliant inventers I’ve mentioned and the ones I’ve left out have white slave names taken since they came here ? I see, and none of the Lewinskis that came here, became Lewins, or Kashinskys became Kash, or Weisse became White. Very, very few of us are unchanged in this melting pot process.
As far as me seeing any “real Africans” with a genuine African name….., What ? Here on The Eastern Shore ? That’s funnier yet. Yeah. Lots of them vacation here and I buy them ice cream at The Brown Dog every time I do. Yeah. I can be flippant too.
My entire point is that I don’t see referring back many years or to another continent to insult blacks accomplishes anything, unless you want to keep helping create trauma in our lives. If that opinion means there is something wrong with me, so be it.
Scotiagirl says
So Jesse was a sub Saharan black? Where did he get the name “Owens”? Could there be some white blood in there somewhere?
Scotiagirl says
But aren’t those blacks you’ve listed of MIXED race? Are they from sub-Saharan Africa?
I realize that, for reasons unclear to me, people with ANY “black” heritage always seem to identify as “black” (to wit, Obama), but the fact is, isn’t their DNA a composite of races?
Sorin Varzaru says
Didn’t mean to suggest that all Trump fans are white supremacists, but it is worth noting that all white supremacists seem to be Trump supporters.
Ray Otton says
Glad you recognize that we’re regular folks with different political opinions.
The thing is, white supremacists are actually a Democrat Party problem going back centuries. From the Civil War, to the formation of the KKK to Jim Crow laws to Richard Spencer endorsing Joe Biden.
Anyhow, using the same meme I’d like to point out that:
– All Democrats didn’t try a slow motion coup through impeachment but all those pushing for impeachment were Democrats.
– All Democrats didn’t join in the character assassination of Justice Kavanaugh but all those that did were Democrats.
– All Democrats don’t believe that Trump said to drink bleach but all those who believe he did say it are Democrats.
– All Democrats don’t believe he said that Nazis were very fine people but all those who do are Democrats.
– There isn’t a website for tallying violence BY Trump supporters but there is one tallying violence ON Trump supporters.
https://www.attacksontrumpsupporters.com/
Just some food for thought.
MJM says
Then don’t suggest it. And NO it’s not worth noting. You’ve polled every white supremacist in America ? As if you could or they’d tell you.
gheeezus……..
It seemed all Nazis were German, but were all Germans Nazis ?
Ray Otton says
Not exactly police related but still relevant to the discussion:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/2/blacks-now-less-likely-be-violent-crime-victims-wh/
Sorin Varzaru says
“Not exactly police related but still relevant to the discussion:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/2/blacks-now-less-likely-be-violent-crime-victims-wh/”
Were you trying to reply to the other thread? 🙂 If you did, here is my answer 🙂
Not really relevant to my point that police in US is killing a lot of people, of all colors. A lot more then police forces in other countries (per capita). So, it’s unclear to me why you keep bringing race in the conversation. The
Ray Otton says
“It’s unclear to me why you keep bringing race in the conversation.”
Not trying to catch you out but race is right there in the title of the article.
And you did make a comment about not all Trump supporters being white supremacist.
So it seems that race is baked into the conversation.
As for the article I posted, I thought it was an interesting fact seeing as the narrative has always been that blacks suffer the most from violence, whether inflicted by police or each other.
A Friend says
You’ve got nothing (either)!
David Muir says
Awww, a little white snowflake.
MJM says
hmmmmm……..well I guess I’m not the only one who wonders how all this nonsense could be going on. The Last U.S. census says 76% of America is white, 18% Hispanic, 13.5% black and 1% American Indian. All figures close but not exact. from 2010 census.
“They” say they are making us live with a fair quota system, but it’s a lie. They tell us that and then do what they want with the numbers and promote a confusing and racist agenda.
We live in a time when a white female politician claimed to be American Indian for it’s benefit, and she was proven to be a liar; we have a man elected to the presidency who claimed to be black and he was only 50%, his mother being Hawaiian, we have a woman running for vice president who claims to be black and we all know she is 1/2 Jamaican and 1/2 Asian Indian, not black at all, and she used her sex to gain prominence in California politics. They lied for years that our white president is a Russian asset when they purchased Russian interference. It’s all being spun and covered up by big California tech and promoted by our press and Hollywood.
Personally I believe that those who think they are America’s elite are race baiting us all and occupying the time of many of us with this scrap while they carve up America for their own ill gotten gain. They are creating a richer and soupier swamp while beginning to deny us the rights in our Constitution. Just for affect they continue to allow as many illegal narcotics as they can into the country for the profit and to get as many of us hooked on that crap as possible in order to make us harmless to their cause and occupy us with that problem.
They didn’t like the Kennedys because of the way they challenged the system, and MLK because he was so non violent, and I am surprised they have yet to assassinate Trump. I think the only reason they haven’t tried is because of the steadfast loyalty of The Secret Service.
No wonder so many don’t even bother to vote.
God Help Us All.
Blue Hoss says
It is time to get rid of whoever ‘THEY’ are, by any means necessary.
Steve Parks says
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2015/12/13/Why-can-t-African-Americans-be-as-successful-as-immigrants/stories/201512130142
Blgjwg says
The African American race is unique in the modern world. Those African Americans who rose above “victim hood” have made wonderful contributions to world history. Thank you for Dr. Carson. They have a history to be proud of. Mostly. They are given the same opportunities as everyone else (in many cases, as referenced earlier, even more so). Asian Americans have done very well in the same environment over the last sixty years. Let’s deal with where we are and remember where we were.
Stuart Bell says
‘So Jesse was a sub Saharan black? Where did he get the name “Owens”? Could there be some white blood in there somewhere?’
They have, in most cases, taken the last name of the people that owned them. In a small area like the shore. It is easy to see this. Just take a look at the colored folks with the names…Walker, Upsher, Tankard, Kellam, ect. How else did they get these white, English last names. They claim to be hurt by the memory of slavery, but pass master’s last name along to every child they have…then dye their hair blond.
Sad.
Scotiagirl says
Yes, and in so many cases as we have been told, they’ve been raped by “owners”, hence the white blood.
Slide Easy says
Liberals, today, are sweating like Al Sharpton at a Spelling Bee.