In Florida, a 13 year-old white boy is savagely beaten on a school bus by three black thugs. \u00a0Yet it gains not a fraction of the attention paid by the press of the whole Western world to Oprah Winfrey\u2019s claims to have fallen prey to \u201cracism\u201d while perusing a fancy boutique in Switzerland.<\/p>\n
The racial double standards accentuated by the juxtaposition of these two events couldn\u2019t be more glaring.<\/p>\n
Winfrey is a billionaire, one of the wealthiest, most famous, and, to the extent that she\u2019s done more than rub elbows with the biggest names in Hollywood and American politics, one of the most influential human beings on the planet. If anyone qualifies as \u201cprivileged<\/i>,\u201d to use the left\u2019s lingo, it is Winfrey.<\/p>\n
The Florida boy who was beaten senseless, like the shop clerk whom Winfrey accused of \u201cracism,\u201d is an obscure figure of modest means. Again, parroting the left, he is among the \u201cpowerless\u201d or \u201cvoiceless.\u201d<\/p>\n
The racially-oriented cruelty to which Winfrey\u2019s allegedly been subjected consists in her having been denied the opportunity to inspect a nearly $40,000.00 pocketbook.<\/p>\n
The cruelty to which the 13 year-old from Florida was subjected is a vicious beating by three black cowards.<\/p>\n
Within the last couple of days, Winfrey\u2019s \u201cvictimizer\u201d has staunchly rejected her accusation.\u00a0 Immediately thereafter, Winfrey began backpedaling, going even so far as to apologize for all of the attention that this incident has received.<\/p>\n
Winfrey, you see, was less than fully truthful, if she wasn\u2019t outright dishonest, about her treatment at the proverbial hands of the white shop clerk in Switzerland.<\/p>\n
The 13 year-old, however, really <\/i>did suffer at the literal hands of his assailants: he was beaten mercilessly and then robbed. <\/i>The incident was caught on video and his tormentors have confessed to the charges against them.<\/p>\n
Still, Winfrey\u2019s non-incident throws the world off of its axis while the plight of this poor 13 year-old is neglected. The media rushes to elicit sympathy\u2014and guilt\u2014<\/i>for another alleged black victim, even if she happens to be among the most fortunate human beings to have ever lived, and even if the \u201cindignity\u201d to which she was supposedly subjected is not exactly the stuff of which the annals of human suffering are filled.\u00a0 At the same time, the media rushes just as quickly to suppress the deeds of black victimizers\u2014even when they engage in acts of sheer barbarity.<\/p>\n
Moving beyond these two events, there seems to be no end to the racial double standards.<\/p>\n
First, loudly and proudly, we\u2019re all supposed to decry racial discrimination when the discriminators are white and those discriminated against are black. To do otherwise is to betray one\u2019s \u201cracism.\u201d However, unless one loudly and proudly endorses <\/i>so-called \u201caffirmative action\u201d\u2014racial discrimination in favor of <\/i>blacks\u2014one is \u201cracist.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, the \u201cracist\u201d is he who seeks to place blacks at a disadvantage with respect to whites. No less of a \u201cracist\u201d is the person who refuses to give blacks an advantage<\/i> over whites.<\/p>\n
Second, it is \u201cracist\u201d for a white person to render judgments about \u201cblack America\u201d on the bases of the actions of individual blacks.\u00a0 This explains why, say, \u201cracial profiling\u201d is held by the professional \u201canti-racists\u201d to be morally obscene.<\/p>\n
Yet it is not<\/i> \u201cracist\u201d for blacks (and whites) to complain endlessly about the transgressions of \u201cwhite <\/i>America.\u201d\u00a0 Very few white Americans\u2014including Southerners\u2014owned slaves or had anything but contempt for those whites, like the men who beat and murdered poor Emmet Till, who aspired to treat blacks cruelly.\u00a0\u00a0 Moreover, if not for the gallant efforts of legions of white Americans, the injustices of the past would be the injustices of the present.<\/p>\n
And yet whites are judged collectively while blacks are freed of such an oppressive restraint.<\/p>\n
Third, when whites flee those areas that lower and underclass blacks begin to inhabit, it is called \u201cwhite flight\u201d and chalked up to \u201cracism.\u201d\u00a0 But when blacks <\/i>do the same, it is called \u201cmovin\u2019 on up\u201d and applauded.\u00a0 Though as John Perazzo noted in The Myths that Divide Us, <\/i>at least as many blacks fled the chronic dysfunction of the black underclass in the 1980\u2019s and beyond as did whites in preceding decades.<\/p>\n
Fourth, for the scandalous rate of criminality and violence among blacks, young black men in particular, an explanation in \u201croot causes\u201d is always sought out. Yet \u201croot causes\u201d are never, ever invoked when it comes to accounting for \u201cwhite racism.\u201d\u00a0 It is understandable, even justifiable, that blacks should harbor a violent, even murderous, rage toward whites for centuries of oppression.\u00a0 But that whites may be wary of blacks is chalked up as the species of some raw, uncaused prejudice.<\/p>\n
Finally, blacks commit a vastly larger share of interracial crime than that perpetrated by whites.\u00a0 Relatively rarely are they charged with \u201chate\u201d crimes. For example, five black guttersnipes in Knoxville, Tennessee carjack, abduct, rape, torture, and murder a young white couple, but because some of the assailants had white girlfriends and because, as far as could be determined, none of them had used any racial epithets in connection with their victims, race is deemed not to have played any role whatsoever in this outrage.<\/p>\n
Every effort is made to discern the intentions <\/i>of black perpetrators.<\/p>\n
Such is not the case when it comes to whites.<\/p>\n
According to the doctrine of \u201cinstitutional racism,\u201d white society<\/i> is incorrigibly \u201cracist\u201d\u2014even if white individuals <\/i>have the best of intentions. <\/i>More exactly, even if whites are consciously <\/i>well meaning toward blacks, subconsciously <\/i>they entertain the most degrading of stereotypes concerning them.<\/p>\n
There are more racial double standards that could be listed. Space precludes it here.\u00a0 Still, these five are plenty enough to get going that \u201chonest\u201d discussion of race that Eric Holder says he wants.<\/p>\n
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