If I Were A Racist

Posted by Frankly Francis on January 18, 2010 under Social Issues/Politics | Read the First Comment

I’m thinking that if I were a racist, these would still be some pretty good days.  And from the Emancipation Proclamation forward, here’s how I reach that conclusion:

Following the Civil War, I would terrorize newly freed slaves – they would know that nothing really changed and if indeed it had, that they were going to suffer for it.  There would be no practical equality regardless of what the U.S. Constitution said. 

I would do my best to prevent interference from the federal and state governments.

Making voting registration difficult, if not impossible, through every conceivable legal or illegal means, I would minimize representation and participation in government.

Of course Segregation would be one of my most effective tools.  Through the philosophy of “Separate, but Equal” I could ensure that things would certainly be separate, but just as certainly not equal.

I would make a common practice of community lynchings.  It would send a strong message.  Milder forms of torture and humiliation would be even more routinely dished out.

Of course there would be losses along the way, as Adolph Hitler found out at the Munich Olympics when Jesse Owens made a statement.  The sports world followed with openness that could not have been expected.

Racism is remarkably strong and can take many turns.  When the “form” loses its direct appeal because of greater understanding and tolerance, the next thing is to hit the “substance” even harder.  When the foregoing started producing diminishing returns, I’d turn it up a notch and start playing the really big cards…

I’d establish a “White Man’s Burden” program and give it a well meaning title, such as “The War on Poverty” – a political/socialist system to eliminate the poor in America.  Of course it wouldn’t work because I never intended it to work.  What I intended was to keep people in their place.

Welfare & social programs would be designed to encourage the break-up of the nuclear family and promote soaring birth rates, thus lowering traditional community values.  And the programs would provide just enough to reduce the advantages of becoming employed.

Applying the death penalty disproportionally would be a useful tool.

To put the icing on the proverbial cake, I would next create a “War on Drugs.”  This would drive the street value of drugs higher and create a more lucrative market in the inner-cities.  That would produce a lot of violence – they’d be killing each other in their own neighborhoods.

In an effort to avoid equal opportunity at all costs, a program like “Affirmative Action” could be used to place less qualified people into jobs.  That would further cause racial tensions to increase and be a superb cover for the continuing underlying lack of equality.

It goes without saying that the schools that “they” would go to would be grossly inferior.

Yeah, this would still be a good time to be a racist.

But, I am not a racist.  I am big on equal opportunity.  And I think that we will eventually get there…just wish that it would not take so long.

In closing, the words Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.

Hate multiplies hate,
violence multiplies violence,
and toughness multiplies toughness
in a descending spiral of destruction…

The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars -
must be broken,
or we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss
of annihilation.