“Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a
different race based on the unwarranted belief that one’s own race is superior.”
'Unwarranted'
my edit. If one, in ignorance, considers assumes superiority of the
Caucasian over the Asian, say, then he, in his ignorance, is wrong.
One
lacking experience, knowledge, objectivity making such judgement proves
the validity of the ASS of U + ME trope. Being ignorant is not in
itself a sin, I myself am ignorant of too many things to list, and I
lack interest and ambition to study Turkish Literature of the Nineteenth
Century, for example.
Many people hate and despise Pit
Bull dogs, with no experience or knowledge of the breed. They "heard'
things. We are free to be stupid, and many luxuriate in their
stupidity.
BUT, one has a responsibility to
know, to seek knowledge and experience, to form his opinions and
judgements. Failing that, one forfeits his right to expound on his beliefs or act on his opinions. In essence, "Shut Up and Sit Down!" He is unwarranted in his assumptions and presumptions.
In short, you can't go around shooting Pit Bulls because of shit you "heard".
BUT,
let's say one has personal observation, experience, objective
knowledge. You have spent time, money, energy, effort, and good will on
a project, all to no avail. You now know that the subject is not
amenable to training, discipline, is ill behaved, and hardly civilized.
Is your bad opinion now justified?
In the specific case,
I say 'yes', but in general, I say never generalize. Individuals
differ. Each should have his fair chance at proving up.
BUT,
at what point do we recognize the point of diminishing returns. 98% of
your effort is spent on 6% of your subjects. Hardly seems a profitable
exercise. You are close to bankruptcy, when is it permissible to throw
in the towel and accept failure, and make the necessary accommodations.
Shooting
all the Pit Bulls is a non-starter. 'Just not done, old man!' Not in a
pseudo-Christian society. Muslims and Communists can get away with it,
and do. Genocide is their most favored tactic.
OK,
so, I've called my subjects Pit Bulls to illustrate my point and to
avoid the usual histrionics and fist shaking. I hope it worked. The
subject is racism, and racism can and does only affect blacks, according
to their own edicts.
I say, we have four
hundred years' experience of negroes in this country. Two hundred years
of that was, for the majority, in bonded servitude. Slavery for
those in Rio Vista. The very word raises the temperature in the room,
but hear me out. The truth matters, and the truth is that American
Slavery wasquite benign. Let me expound on this a bit, while you sharpen your blades.
American
Slavery held sway in milder climates, no one froze to death. American
Slavery was Agricultural, outdoor, physical labor. Supposed to be good
for one, I hear from the doctors.
Generally, Plantations worked a ten
hour day, from first light to approximately 1500, with lunch and rest
breaks. The work varied; field work, logging, ditching, building,
livestock, poultry, fishing. Some drove wagons, others manned boats,
some served the House, some served the Quarters.
Understand this, and it's key, every Plantation was a self sustaining
unit. They ate what they grew, wore what they made, lived where they
built.
Women were taught to spin, weave,
sew, make and mend, and to manage their enterprise. Women were taught
to cook, and to manage her kitchens, gardens, and logistics; Women were
taught to keep house, organize and manage a household. Women were
taught to care for the young, ill, elderly & infirm. They were
generally left to their own devices in planning and executing their
work. Women not capable or not willing of learning worked in the fields
and gardens.
Men were taught every
trade needful to the operation . . . Sawyer, Wheelwright, Blacksmith,
Boat and Wagon builder, Plumber, Carpenter, Tiler, Roofer, Hunter,
Fisher, Horses, Dogs, Timber and forest management, Tinker, Glazier,
Field Foremen, Section Supervisors. Crop managers, Factors and Agents.
Some served the House, others served the Quarters, all served the 'Homeplace'.
The
Owner and his family kept a general oversight, but the 'people' managed
the operations. Owners were known to tour Europe 'in season' while thePlantation
forged along, managed by the 'people'.
Consider this . . . when the
War came, most white men went to fight, yet the business continued.
'Massa;
left his family, property and worldly goods to the care and keeping of
the 'people'. Not one instance is ever recorded of the 'people'
violating that trust. Even when 'Massa' was killed, they stayed, loyal
to their 'people'. (Both sides had 'people' and all were the Homeplace
people.)
Nathan Bedford Forrest, the
Archdemon of Yankee imagination, bragged that his black soldiers were
the best Confederates he ever saw, and with 3000 of them, he could have
taken Chicago. Forrest's funeral was attended by many hundreds of black
southerners, and they raised a monument to him.
More truth for another day, perhaps.
All
the foregoing by way of saying those who knew blacks best, knew most
were unready for freedom, and when it was forced at bayonet point,
warned of exactly what we see today. A reversion to the
primitive state. Which by the way, is exactly the case in Africa.
South Africa is a basket case, and a genocide is underway against white
South Africans, Zimbabe nee' Rhodesia,went the same way, now begs white
farmers to come back, after murdering hundreds, and
destroying properties worth millions, they want 'Massa' back. The
Congo, Chad, Nigeria, anywhere in black Africa; Haiti, Brazil, black
crime and violence abounds. The old Planters were right, the black man
is not ready for self governance. Detroit, Atlanta, Memphis, Baltimore,
Chicago, the litany rolls on.
No
one knows how many blacks there are in the US. Estimates run about
30,000,000 or 13% of the total. My guess is that 15,000,000 of those
are good folks doing the best they can, or so I'd like to believe. The
rest are the 6% consuming 98% of our effort.
One
cannot countenance 'racism' applied to innocents, good people, but we
need another 'ism' to describe the not innocent, the not good people.
I
remember once, a rattler appeared in a corner of a crowded hall, and
that one beady eyed buzzer had the full attention of a hall full of
people, the preacher finally tailed off, when he realized
he'd lost his crowd. Nobody breathed. nobody moved. An Usher thought
to take broom and trash can, and sweep Mr Snek away. I
can see, in my mind's eye how well that went, and hear the 'thud' when
Ol' Slither dropped out of that bucket in the middle of the aisle. Mad
rush to the walls and exits. Girls jumping flatfooted onto the
benches, upsetting a few of them, causing even more panic.
So we are fascinated with our 6%.
I'm
concerned because we crackers are no longer the majority, and the
rising cohort has little love for D'hood and its denizens. That's the
race war I would not want to see.
~~4Branch
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