Imagine that you discovered the following facts about a stranger.<\/p>\n
First, for roughly two decades, he not only attended a church, but donated thousands and thousands of dollars to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Second, this stranger\u2019s church is presided over by a pastor who the stranger regards as his \u201cspiritual mentor,\u201d the person who he credits with leading him to salvation.\u00a0 It is this pastor who married him to his wife and baptized his children.<\/p>\n
Third, this pastor is an unapologetic, unabashed supporter of a racially themed theology.\u00a0 From this perspective, unless God is a being who aids whites in their campaign to subvert all things black, he is nothing but the worst of ideological fictions by which blacks have sought to manipulate whites into conceding to their own dispossession.\u00a0 On at least one occasion, during a particularly fiery sermon, he boiled this theology down into one succinct exclamatory line: \u201cGod DAMN <\/em>\u2018Black America!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Fourth, the stranger\u2019s beloved pastor once granted a \u201clifetime achievement award\u201d to a man who has repeatedly derided Christianity as \u201cthe Black Man\u2019s religion\u201d and a \u201cslave morality.\u201d\u00a0 This same person believes, or at least claims to believe, that the black race is the creation of an evil white scientist. He further believes that all blacks are \u201cdevils.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Fifth, the stranger has authored a memoir that he himself characterizes as \u201ca story of race.\u201d\u00a0 Even though he is biracial\u2014half black and half white\u2014and even though he was raised by his black family after his white father abandoned him at the age of two, the stranger identifies himself as white <\/em>only.\u00a0 In it, the stranger relays the hardships that blacks inflicted upon him throughout his life.\u00a0 The stranger is biracial, but he admits that by the time he was 13 or so, from the fear of appearing that he was trying to \u201cingratiate\u201d himself to blacks, he quit referring to his Negroid ancestry.\u00a0<\/p>\n The stranger\u2019s memoir is chockfull of one indignity after the other that he claims to have suffered at the hands of blacks\u2014including those blacks in his immediate family, like his grandparents, who sacrificed all to make for him a life that was as materially comfortable as it was emotionally supportive.\u00a0 For instance, once, upon being harassed by an unusually aggressive white panhandler while waiting for the bus that she would regularly ride to work, the stranger\u2019s grandmother indicated a fearfulness that she had never exhibited prior to this episode.\u00a0 This fear, the stranger wasted no time in concluding, stemmed not from any danger posed by this specific panhandler.\u00a0 The fear, he remains convinced, stemmed from his black grandmother\u2019s bigotry toward whites. <\/em><\/p>\n Yet it isn\u2019t just his irrational, racist old grandmother who hurt him so.\u00a0 His black high school friends dished out their share of pain as well.\u00a0 After he took his friends to an overwhelmingly white party, the stranger\u2019s one black friend made an expression of empathy with him.\u00a0 The young black man explained to the stranger that he now has a better appreciation for the self-consciousness that the stranger experiences being a minority amongst a mostly black population.\u00a0 This<\/em>, the stranger says, induced in him a nearly irresistible urge to punch his black friend in the face.\u00a0<\/p>\n The stranger\u2019s memoir is replete with other stories of black insensitivity and white suffering.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sixth, the stranger does not refuse to associate with all blacks. There are some blacks for whom he feels considerable affection.\u00a0 But they are blacks who share his conviction that Black America is a bastion of racial oppression that needs to be \u201cfundamentally transformed.\u201d\u00a0 A couple of these blacks are terrorists who have actually bombed<\/em> black institutions.\u00a0 Years later, they openly lamented not having detonated more <\/em>black institutions.<\/p>\n Seventh, the stranger is friends with several high profile white academics who have routinely, tirelessly, written and spoken of the systemic and systematic abuses to which whites have been subjected by blacks.\u00a0 In fact, he isn\u2019t only friends with them; they were his own mentors during his time in college. \u00a0One of them has even gone so far as to say that he lives \u201cto harass black people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Now, suppose you know all of this about this stranger.\u00a0 The stranger becomes the President of theUnited States.\u00a0 If, per impossible, Rip Van Winkle-like, you were to fall into a long, deep sleep, upon awakening years later, what do you think you would discover about the manner in which President Stranger governed?\u00a0 Consider the following scenarios.<\/p>\n In the first scenario, President Stranger does his best to encourage the elimination of all policies that dispense upon whites preferential treatment so as to insure a race-neutral legal system that treated all citizens impartially.<\/p>\n In the second scenario, President Stranger not only furthers the system in place, but expands<\/em> it.\u00a0 He promotes policies that disadvantage blacks at the cost of privileging whites; refers to blacks as \u201cour enemies\u201d while addressing white crowds; and appoints a white man to preside over his Department of Justice who orders his attorneys to prosecute only<\/em> those potential civil rights violators who are black<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Given what you know of the stranger, there is no doubt that it is the second scenario that will resonate most with you.\u00a0 The first will have no resonance at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n The reason for this is obvious: it is by now clear to you that, at a bare minimum, the stranger is a white person who has no small measure of animosity toward blacks.<\/p>\n But if any fool can deduce this about this hypothetical stranger, why is it that when we switch the races around, we refuse to recognize that it is our own President who has\u2014again, at a bare minimum\u2014an animus toward whiteAmerica?<\/p>\n Think about it.<\/p>\n Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine that you discovered the following facts about a stranger. 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