Before I get started, I want to apologize to first time visitors or friends visiting in response to my morning e-mail. This rant is brought on by some of the derogatory and disparaging comments I’ve been reading about myself on other blogs and from those who e-mail me or come onto my blog to insult me. Pardon this post, and thank you for your kind words of support.
At least once a year, I think I’m going to publicly blow off steam and address liberals who seem to resent my very existence. First of all, this blog is a not a democracy; it’s a dictatorship and I’m a benevolent dictator. Absolute freedom of speech doesn’t exist anywhere, except maybe on a deserted island, and freedom of speech in the constitutional sense doesn’t exist on this blog for anyone but me.
It takes a lot for me to lose my temper. Surrounded by liberals, I’ve had little choice but to develop a thick skin. I take the ad hominem for what it’s worth, and I welcome civil dialogue with all.
I know what liberals say about me. Sometimes the bloggers link to a specific post and end up in my referrer’s list, sometimes they don’t link at all. I find these by googling myself from time to time. Some of the posts are laden with emotion and boiling over with intense dislike for me and what I have to say; others respectfully disagree. As I am free to write what I want, they are free to criticize.
A few times I found outright lies. One person in particular roams through the blogosphere operating under at least three different aliases and has at least three different blogs. A frequent blog commenter, the person’s writing style is unique. I know it’s coming from the same mind. The individual has been banned from my site and many others for personal attacks, outrageous accusations and lies.
Mama said there’d be days like this. Since starting my column, I’ve experienced what I’d been warned would happen: venom. For a long time, it’s been taboo in the black community to talk/write publicly about what ails us.
I’ve read/heard what liberals of any color have to say about Ward Connerly, Justice Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice. Just yesterday, I found out about a disgusting cartoon put out by Ted Rall. According to Rall, who is a white liberal, Rice is a “House Nigga.” I’ll let Baldilocks, Michael and Molotov fill you in on the details.
I’m not above criticism and I don’t abhor dissent. I have commenters on this blog right now whose sole purpose is to disagree with everything I have to say. As long as they don’t call me names or insult me, I put up with it because they sometimes have valid arguments.
So if anyone out there is compelled to trash me, please read my blog and column archives. It may help you understand where I’m coming from or it may not, I don’t know. Do what you want.
If you see inaccuracies in my writing or flaws in my argument, tell me about it. Besides making you feel better, calling me names advances nothing. If you don’t have your own blog, start one. They’re free! You can hang up your shingle today, this very minute, and rant about whatever you want (but be mindful of laws against defamation).
If you can’t deal with me now, you better stop reading this blog and my articles, because as long as liberalism continues to erode society, my voice will only get louder. This a free country. Go read someone else’s blog and don’t even think of trying to comment on this one unless you’re willing to treat me and my commenters with respect.
I have my own mind, my own beliefs and my own opinions. My skin color does not require me to abide by an unwritten code of conduct. Blacks are not a homogeneous entity moving in lockstep toward some phantom destination.
We are a sub-culture of the American culture with diverse interests and opinions. Some of us even express those opinions publicly. Blacks are not special in the sense that we are above comment, criticism or chastisement. We are not required to refrain from speaking out against someone just because they or we are black. We have the same rights as any other American, and it is a privilege to be able to hold different views and freely share them as we see fit.
I will exercise that right as long as God sees fit to let me live.
