Lend Me Your Ears…
This post isn’t addressing anyone in specific. It’s just a collection of thoughts that have accumulated in my head during this extremely busy day. Don’t take it personally.
Some bloggers focus on Supreme Court hearings or Treo smartphones or cars or politics in Washington or knitting or homeschooling. Some bloggers tighten their focus and blog about Supreme Court hearings related to a specific legal topic or Treo smartphone hacks or the Mercedes AMG or pork barrel politics in Washington or knitting without needles or homeschooling as a single parent.
I blog about the politics of race, which includes liberals’ obsession with skin deep-diversity and America’s overall dishonesty in dealing with and discussing race. That bothers the heck out of some people. They just can’t understand why a black person would want say “bad” things (i.e., anything that considers factors other than white racism) about other black people.
The way I see it, somebody has to say it, and since very few do, I volunteered.
I started writing about race and politics because I couldn’t stand the milquetoast, soft-pedaling prose I was reading. I figured there was somebody out there who wanted to read the truth, needed to hear the truth. I volunteered.
Many people, mostly blacks, resent me because my blog’s subject matter appeals to white conservatives. Some say it even appeals to white supremacists. As I’ve blogged numerous times, that’s not my problem. When you express yourself in a society that protects free speech, that’s the risk you take. White supremacists may twist my words, but I know for a fact some blacks do.
I won’t police my words or thoughts, especially for a bunch of fools I don’t even know.
I occupy a small space in the blogosphere, even though I’m probably the most well known black political blogger. One purpose of my existence in the online world is to provide a balance to standard-issue race-focused journalism. I’m so used to reading left-leaning race-related news articles from so-called objective journalists, who can’t seem to find any conservative blacks to interview for their stories, I no longer cringe. It’s just the way it is. That’s why I blog.
Most mainstream media articles that cover or touch on race are condescending and play to other liberals. But I’m not complaining. Instead, I’m blogging.
As long as the media and race hustlers paint blacks as victims of the “legacy of slavery” who just can’t help committing crimes or slaughtering people or having babies without the benefit of matrimony (setting their kids up for all sorts of problems, subsequently blamed on — you guessed it — racism) or complaining about phantom racism, you’ll find me right here, telling you what’s really going on. At LBC, you’ll read euphemism-free commentary on how people ruin their own lives with dumb decisions, and you’ll get it how I want to give it to you, not how others think I should give it to you.
My intent is not to be anyone’s mentor or role model or, necessarily, friend. I intend to use this blog to share my ideas and my work. If people like it, great! If they hate it, wonderful!
I suspect that part of the frustration people feel toward me is based on envy. This blog has gotten the attention of “big” bloggers, the media, editors, and others who’ve helped me build an audience. I notice that “big” conservative bloggers seem to do a lot more linking to smaller conservative bloggers than “big” liberal bloggers link to smaller liberal bloggers. I think it drives certain readers and bloggers crazy that I, of all people, have become a well-known blogger in the political blogosphere. Again, I can’t help that. I’m overjoyed that so many influential people visit this site – CNN producers, print editors, book publishers, agents, conservative writers and bloggers I admire – and that I’ve finally found something I’m good at and enjoy. If you’re not enjoying your life and what you do for a living, it’s got nothing to do with me.
Now, on to the state of Virginia!
Slavery Apologies and Diversity Pledges
I’m sure you’ve heard about apology-for-slavery resolutions in the Virginia legislature. I’m sorry, but I question the intelligence of anyone, black or white, who would even waste time with tripe like this, let alone taxpayers’ money. Raise your hand if you or anyone you know was a slave. Raise your hand if you or anyone you know owned slaves.
If an apology for slavery would bring down black-on-black crime rates, I’m cool with that. If an apology for slavery would mean an end to black race hustlers’ race hustles, then by all means, get on your knees and grovel, white man!
But it won’t make an iota of difference. It’s all a hustle. Certain blacks in America will never – and I mean never – be satisfied with apologies for slavery or lynching or for Jim Crow or from that sales clerk in the fancy department store who followed them around. Nothing will keep certain black folks – unfortunately, the ones who make the most noise – from bit**ing and moaning about “racism.”
Fellow conservative and friend Mychal Massie, who’s probably the only black person more conservative than I am – and that’s saying something – says this about the proposed slavery apology:
Blacks do not own the market on past suffering and injustice – yet today, blacks disproportionately (we are led to believe) suffer the effects of a rocky beginning in America. I submit alleged suffering has nothing to do with slavery, but rather, everything to do with one’s mental outlook and approach to life’s consequences, based in large part on decision making
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“The average white person” doesn’t owe blacks special dispensation – in fact, no white person does. Blacks owe it to themselves to stop trying to extort benefit out of the past and grasp the overwhelming opportunity of the present. Slavery has nothing to do with not having better homes, better jobs or better lifestyles – but purpose and goals do. Low graduation rates have nothing to do with slavery – but purposefully failing, so as not to be “white,” and nonexistent parents do. (Source)
Just for telling the truth, Mychal gets the nastiest e-mails. 
And this too-childish-for-words diversity pledge thing at the University of Virginia…I… just don’t know what to say. But I’ll think of something.
The student council proposed a so-called diversity pledge to…who knows? Someone tell me what is a “diversity pledge?” A promise to always consider the skin color of fellow students? Hmm…content of character, and all that, doesn’t apply. Is it a promise not to notice differences like skin color? Wait a minute. You can notice differences if doing so is beneficial but not detrimental, right? Isn’t that inconsistent and a bit…hypocritical?
Apparently, there were some “incidents” of a “prejudice” nature at the school. In one such incident, some idiot spit on two homosexual students, and the student council came up with a “pledge” to…what? What does spitting on someone have to do with diversity, for crying out loud? Call the campus police and file assault charges! Why does a nasty incident like that change just because the “spitees” are homosexuals? Will freshman have to sign a piece of paper promising not to spit on homosexuals? Would the campus police or faculty deal with it differently because the people spat upon are homosexuals or black? If so, why?
Because of Orwellian, thought police hate crime laws, that’s why. I guess I answered my own question. Such inane college resolutions are not that big a deal in the long run, just kids stuff, I suppose, unless the intent is to stigmatize freshmen who don’t sign it or agree to it by publishing the list? The list: what does that remind you of? Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Black List, maybe? It’s insanity. It’s stupid, and somebody needs to say so. I volunteer.
If you need a “diversity pledge” to act like a responsible, courteous adult, no matter what color skin someone is born with or who they have sex with (besides a child), a diversity pledge ain’t going to help you.
This is why I blog about the dumb obsession liberals have with skin deep-only diversity, thought policing (which applies mostly to white straight male thinkers), and other silliness. Covering racial politics from an angle you don’t find in mainstream media or in “polite” conversation are two of the many reasons why I blog the way I do. I take the heat because what I do is necessary. God willing, I’ll be around for a long time to do it.
And if you don’t like it and can’t deal with it, then for the sake of your mental health, stop reading the blog!
