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Fixing Racism from the Wrong End

   Written by on June 16, 2021 at 1:50 pm

I just helped a friend of mine upgrade his electrical service. His electrical system was old, outdated and outright dangerous.

First I repaired the current issues. Then I fixed the major problems, and then helped him upgrade the entire system.

I did NOT suggest he burn his house down and rebuild from scratch. I did not complain about the original job or the condition. I did not lecture him on how his problems occurred. 

I started with the present and fixed everything. 

This is the issue with many of the people who are activists regarding race issues. They want to burn down the system and start over. Keep in mind not one of these people is capable of building anything from scratch.  They have never built anything. 

As one pundit says, “They are standing on the shoulders of giants and think they are flying.”

They attack our founding fathers and harbor a list of complaints that have occurred since 1619. They don’t care that some of the problems have already been repaired. They don’t care what is happening today. 

Most importantly they absolutely ignore current issues that result from their own actions and from their own supporters. 

They attack people for real and imagined racist incidents but only those who are on the other side of the political aisle. 

They “cancel” people who made a single racist comment 50 years ago yet ignore President Biden’s son Hunter’s racist emails from last year. 

“How much money do I owe you, because [N-word] you better not be charging me Hennessy rates,” Hunter said in one exchange.

In another conversation, Hunter made a joke about his genitals before closing with, “I only love you because you are Black,” and “true dat, [N-word].” Mesires is White.

They ignore President Biden’s own racist history, his friendship and support of Senator Robert Byrd, who started his own clan chapter and recruited over 150 members. Biden helped filibuster the civil rights act in 1964 and warned in 1977 that unless there was “orderly integration,” “my children are going to grow up in a jungle — the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.”

So where is the condemnation of these acts?  I hear nothing but crickets. 

But back to my electrical analogy. Instead of repairing the system they just hung a picture over the faulty issues and pretend they aren’t there while continuing to blame innocent people for the problems. 

We can fix any problem in America. BUT we have to address the issues TODAY and we have to fix them. 

By the way, rhetoric doesn’t fix anything. Complaining doesn’t fix anything. The only way to fix something is to get to work.

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