A rose by any other name...
Yesterday afternoon delegates to the NAACP's 98th annual convention held a mock funeral for the "N-word". Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick proclaimed, "Today we're not just burying the N-word, we're taking it out of our spirit. We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the 'pimps' and the 'hos' that go with it. Die N-word, and we don't want to see you 'round here no more."
They just don't get it.
That word never had any more power than the person hearing it, bestowed on it. By making such a big stink about it, Liberal Blacks have empowered the word long past the time it should have vanished into obscurity. The NAACP isn't "burying" the word, they are resuscitating it.
A large section of our population relishes irreverence. The more offensive the term, the more they like it. As long as that word is treated as a magic spell that give the speaker powers, it will continue to be used. Look at the most prolific slur in our language, the initials of which are MF. That same slur is common to almost every language I'm familiar with, and I bet it's common to every language, because the insult touches on a matter of irreverence and offensiveness that transcends language and culture. When some people want to offend, they grab whatever is available that is the most offensive.
But there's another problem. I know of very few white people under the age of 50 who are truly racist, but also know of few white people that don't fear being called racist by virtue of their skin color. Those rare times the "N-word" is used by white people, it invariably is used to refer to the type of Black person that uses race as a tool to get something for nothing and to also rationalize their own racism. I can't remember the last time it was used in such a way as to refer to all Black people. Most Black people don't exploit racism for their own benefit, but there are enough that do, that many white people feel the word still is useful for that purpose, albeit hushed and behind closed doors.
During yesterday's festivities NAACP National Board Chairman Julian Bond said referring to Don Imus, "While we are happy to have sent a certain radio cowboy back to his ranch, we ought to hold ourselves to the same standard."
We "ought"?!?
That attitude that Blacks should not be held to the same standards as other races is exactly what the "N-word" represents. Liberals will offer token support for symbolic gestures, but any real change in attitude among the overall population will only follow American Blacks holding themselves to the standard they demand from others.
I used to make my teachers furious in elementary school because I didn't take school work serious. I only later found out that they saw my elevated scores on the standardized tests, and couldn't understand why I could score miles ahead of the rest of the class on the yearly tests, yet stumble along in class with B's and Cs. The reason was that A. nobody told me I scored so high and B. early on a few teachers tried to "encourage" me to work harder by giving me harder work, I grew discouraged and stopped trying. After that most teachers simply tolerated mediocrity.
Black Americans are in exactly the same boat. They are capable of astounding things in every area of life and culture, but are told they can't do it with out government help, and are convinced that the walls of the past remain to prevent them from even starting. They have bought the lie so much that they actually think having a mock funeral for a word will somehow improve their lives.
Forget the word, bury the attitude.
Someone can invent a new word tomorrow that can take the place of the one they pretend to bury, but until Black Americans wake up and realize they live in a nation most of the rest of the world would risk their lives to touch foot in, they'll still be in the same boat. Until Black American wake up and realize the chains that bind them are of their own invention, and are more often than not secured by the very Liberal Democrat that pretend to be their friend, they'll remain in bondage to illegitimacy, poverty and crime.
Julian Bond also took the opportunity yesterday to blame virtually all problems that plague Blacks, on President Bush. What good is it to bury the "N-word" when people like Bond work feverishly to maintain the "N-attitude"? President Bush didn't make one single Black man father a baby without first marrying the woman he had sex with. Individuals chose to do that, and had complete power to choose not to. President Bush didn't force one single Black man to not stick around and be a daddy to the kids he's fathered. And it's with mixed emotions that I see so many more Black men with their families as I go shopping. I'm glad that I see that trend, but it's sad that there needed to have been that trend in the first place. So many Black men over the past decades missed the joys of real fatherhood, because Liberals created a situation in which they were considered superfluous and unneeded, and rather than fight it, so many Black men simply went along, and played the role.
President Bush didn't force one single Black teenager to ignore academics because making good grades was "too white." President Bush didn't force one single Black person to rationalize that society was too unfair, so they had the "right" to steal from the Black neighbor. For that matter President Bush never forced one Black family to live only in a Black neighborhood, and the majority of Blacks in America do today. Wonder why the NAACP never notices or comments on that? How can you carry on the fight Martin Luther King started, when you ignore the single most important issue he spoke on—segregation?
Want to end the "N-attitude? Start by burying the NAACP, an anachronistic and racist institution that's been nothing more than the DNC's grinning Uncle Tom for the past three decades.
Posted by Danny Carlton at July 10, 2007 7:30 AM