RACISM

There is a word that the liberal media uses way too often; racism. Nobody likes racism but it’s always been a part of life and always will be. The problem is that nobody likes to admit to being racist, yet each is racist to some extent.

and he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit any one of another nation; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Acts 10:28

I saw an interview on the news this morning that illustrated my point. A woman on Fox News was interviewing a man who worked for the New York Times. The man labeled the police investigating the bomb attempt in Times Square as being all racists because they were investigating an Arab man even though sources lead them to that very man. The man from the Times said they were profiling (another over-used word) and even implied that the interviewer was being racist by defending the police. Then, the man from the Times said that the police should be looking at someone from the Tea Party movement or someone who “hates” President Obama. The interviewer got flustered and apologized for racism. The man from the Times smiled smugly and sat back in his chair thinking that he’d won his argument simply because he used the word, racist against the police and her. Yet, wasn’t he being racist by insisting the police look elsewhere?

In another story, as soon as the Arizona governor announced the law enabling police to ask suspicious characters to show proper ID’s of citizenship, the media compared all citizens of Arizona to Nazi Germany. Protests demanding amnesty for all illegal aliens began immediately and were quickly organized by unions. The need for the law was started when a man was shot in his front yard by a Mexican drug dealer in the country illegally. Within a few days of the start of the law, a policeman pulled over a vehicle for a traffic violation. The driver fled the scene and when police opened the vehicle, he found people that were being smuggled into the country illegally. One of them was a girl that had been kidnapped for prostitution. The media stood by their words and called the policeman a racist and said he was profiling. Nobody defended the citizens of Arizona who have a serious problem. Nobody defended the kidnap, murder or rape victims done by illegal aliens. Nobody mentioned the serious rise in drug trafficking by illegal aliens during the past few years. The citizens of Arizona, many of which are Mexicans that entered the country legally and became U.S. citizens are under siege. Rather than have anyone offer help, they are pointing fingers and calling names.

Racism has always divided our nation. Slavery was despicable but in those times it was accepted. 100 years after the Civil War, brave men and women still fought for civil rights for blacks. I would have loved to have been old enough to stand with Martin Luther King, Jr. in his battles. He was truly a brave and honorable man. But his heart would break if

he saw the black on black crimes and the drugs and illiteracy among those he tried to free. The media finds a way to put the blame on whites for those crimes however. They say the blacks are frustrated because the white owned businesses aren’t hiring enough blacks to positions of authority. They need an outlet for frustration. Racial profiling run amok, I guess. Yet, I remember all too well being turned down for jobs in the 70’s because I was a Nam vet and white. I was strong and bounced back but the discrimination and racism was there, none the less, and it was a learning experience. Racism is a point of view and the term is wielded like a sword.

In this country, racism is used only when it’s convenient and usually called out by unions or politicians looking for a vote. Every country has decimated a culture throughout history in the name of racism. Just ask a Native American how well they melted into the American “Melting Pot”. I once had Mexicans and Puerto Ricans working for me and I found out both groups hated each other with no real reason except that they always “hated them”. When I served in Vietnam, the Vietnamese told me they hated Chinese and Japanese people for things that happened hundreds of years ago. Everywhere I’ve traveled, I’ve seen bizarre extremes of hatred simply because of color, speech or whatever. It starts with name calling because the names imply the other person is less than human and it ends in violence and a closed mind on both sides. Nobody looks to the source of in issue if they think they can win an argument simply by calling someone a racist but they will never look within and consider all points of view. It’s so much easier calling someone names. That is a constant that has always been there and probably always will.

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord [is] the maker of them all.
Proverbs 22:2

Prejudice has always been a part of racism which explains why people of the same skin color show the same traits as racists towards each other. One only has to look at Europeans, Africans, Arabs, and Asians or anywhere in the world to see that. Sometimes languages are the only barriers between neighbors who live next door to each other and yet each one sees the other as inferior. Wars and genocide have been a part of life for centuries and even today genocide is being attempted simply for difference of religion and race.

My parents were English and Irish on my father’s side and German on my mother’s side. I’m German, English and Irish so I’m allowed to hate myself, according to history. Others aren’t so lucky and don’t learn from history. Throw the history books out of the window, ignore unions and politicians and ask what would Jesus do?

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28

Remember that in any conversation or confrontation, there are at least three participants; you, your opponent and God.