Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations
When I heard Rev. Wright speak yesterday about the “different learning styles” of black people, the true definition of racism was the first thought that came into my mind.
Except for maybe love, there isn’t another word in the English language misused more often than racism. More often than not, when people say racism or racist, they should be using the word bigot. You might say this is splitting hairs and that it doesn’t matter, but I think it matters a lot. Why? Because if you really know what the word means, then you will know that the biggest racists in the United States today are liberals.
George Will said it best today.
On Monday, Wright also espoused the racialist doctrine that blacks have “different” learning styles than do others. This doctrine of racially different brains, or of an unalterably different black culture, is a doctrine today used to justify various soft bigotries of low expectations regarding blacks, and especially black children. It has a long pedigree as a rationalization for injustices. Slaveholders and, later, segregationists loved it.
The main thing that conservatives like me are guilty of, in regards to the issue of race, is that we treat black people as if they are equals. We treat them as if they are just as capable as anybody else. We treat them as if they have the ability to learn and prosper just like anybody else. Modern liberalism is opposed to this, because in order to survive, there must be victims, there must be a downtrodden group that is easily identifiable.
I disagree with people like Reverend Wright because I have the audacity to believe that black children can accomplish just as much as white children. I have the audacity to believe that they are equal. Obviously Reverend Wright disagrees with me, and so do most white elitist, guilt ridden, liberals. Otherwise, how could they justify their bigotry of low expectations.
[…] ~ Glen Dean […]
You wouldn’t care what this guy Wright had to say if it were positive. You champion him because he’s said negative things and you cling to the hope that it may drag down Obama.
No, people are not created equal and it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with economics and opportunities and the social environment in which they are raised. Sure, many overcome great obtacles and beat the odds but more than not, you have kids raised in privileged high society that are mediocre students of average achievement, average intelligence, never wanting for anything that end up becoming “successful,” they were born into it and never really worked very hard. Our president is a shining example.
So is Barack Obama’s children. Heck, how about Jesse Jackson jr, for that matter?
Glen,
That is why at the debate Barack Obama said that his children shouldn’t be given special treatment…its not just about race, its about socio-economic backgrounds.
Alright, socio-economic backgrounds. We are making progress here. Good.
We’ve been making progress for some time, some people are just stuck in the arguments of the 1990s.
That’s not what I was talking about. I meant our conversation. Oh never mind.
So, equalizing socio-economics will make everyone equal, huh? From those who have and work, to those who don’t have, and won’t work?
Problem with that is our Constitution doesn’t provide for a socialist state. We have a constitution that encourages those who want to achieve and will work to do so. The socialist additions are drags, really, and eventually those drags will come home to roost.
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Cow sex….