When Are WE Going to Get Over It?

[deepdiver32073]

Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State College in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon Telegraph.


Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?

For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?
Now I want to ask:
"When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?
Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats, Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "Bombingham," Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than "talk the talk."

Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.


We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.
Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.
Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.


But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we've proven what conservatives are always saying -- that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.
But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."
Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"
How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us?
How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?
How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior?
How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?


How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin?
How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?

I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?
How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?


How long before we start "living out the true meaning" of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that "red and yellow, black and white" all are precious in God's sight?
Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't believe I'll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.

But here's my three-point plan:

First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that Black Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.

Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama.

Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise the world once again, when white people can "in spirit and in truth" sing of our damnable color prejudice,

"We HAVE overcome."
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It takes a Village to protect our President!!!

[darklighter1]

This is complete and utter bullshit from the left. They are always looking for controversy when there is absolutely nothing there and it's terrifying that leftys like this guy and SOOOO many other far left professors and MSNBC are preaching this crap to kids all over the county. When has a serious and I mean serious attempt on Obama's life happened? And when did any other President not hear assasination threats from wacko hardliners? Oh so some body ACTUALLY did attempt to kill Reagen but that doesn't count cause it doesn't fit into this clown's argument?

Never heard anyone threaten George W's life? Really? Oh how bout if an ACTUAL movie was made about him being killed? How flagrent was this? http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi664863001/

Liberals and Democrats forget fast how they treat others when they're not in power but when anyone questions someone on there side over policies, instantly we're accused of being a racist...it's insane. This "professor" is negligent and a race baiter just for the sake of doing so. Makes me sick.

[AYHJA]

I agree with a little of what he said and what you said too dl1, I'm sure that there are some really shitty things being done on both sides, and with both attitudes, but the real wash is knowing that many more people have done a ton more with a lot more than this kind of adversity...

[Dietrich]

:think: I wonder: When was the last time a senator shouted "you lie!" (or something similar) at the president when he was in the middle of a speech?

[darklighter1]

:think: I wonder: When was the last time a senator shouted "you lie!" (or something similar) at the president when he was in the middle of a speech?

Couple months ago why?

[Dietrich]

Pardon me; I meant: I wonder when was the last time a senator shouted "you lie!" (or something similar) at any of the preceding presidents when he was in the middle of a speech?

[darklighter1]

Pardon me; I meant: I wonder when was the last time a senator shouted "you lie!" (or something similar) at any of the preceding presidents when he was in the middle of a speech?

Ok but what does that have to do with what we are talking about here?

[Dietrich]

My two bits (two cents adjusted for inflation):

Racism is no less a factor in social and political matters in the US than before the Civil Rights movement. Purveyors of politically correct thinking will say or just imply that the Civil Rights movement in effect made racism go away. I think people generally are more or less as racist as they were before the Civil Rights movement, but because expressions of racism are socially unacceptable, this gives the appearance that people are no longer racist.

The above-quoted article is yet another example that the left -- just like the right -- is not shy from controversy-mongering. I may shake my head in disagreement and even disgust at the right's ruthless fear-mongering and propaganda, but I likewise recognize that the various factions of the left have their own agendas.

For the record, there are some things about which I agree with those who are generally labeled "liberals", and there are some things about which I agree with those who are generally labeled "conservatives". But I refuse to align myself with either "camp", because both have shown themselves willing to engage in tactics which I abhor.

With that, I humbly bow out of this discussion.

[darklighter1]

Oh ok...I thought you were going to imply that that shithead Joe Wilson was yelling at Obama cause he was racist which he could be but I believe he was just rude and dumb. Back to the nude Asian chicks my friend!

Oh and great points in your post. You too Ube.

[raum]

I'd like to say this guy should be no where teaching anyone anything.

1. The builders of the White House were paid 5 dollars a month for construction efforts. It was not revealed they were slaves, nor that their wages were taken from them. The building company was British, and was chosen because Britain has abolished slavery already. This British company held slaves offshore. If anything it is a demonstration of what large projects do with they hire foreign cruely treated workforces. Don't outsource America! THAT is the moral of the story...

2. Every president since Roosevelt has had a death threat. Reagan was the last one shot, and there were VERY vocal threats against him.

3. Obama identifies himself as black. Fine and dandy. But when it comes to most people, it is not his "blackness" that threatens him... it is the suspicion they have that he is a Muslim. Muslims have provision to do EVERYTHING to dissuade people from thinking they are Muslims, to promote their interstest, and therefore, word and act is not enough to dissuade them. I think this is actually promoted by many Muslims as well. For example, they call the new Health Tax a Dhimmitude, or a tax Mulims impose on non-muslims in Muslim nations. This is because they are religiously exempt from "gambling" which is what healthcare amounts to. Therefore, they show a benefit and do not have to pay for it. THEY say he did that because he is a Muslim in MANY mosques. No one knows, frankly, but Muslims are getting much more consideration than ever - something that has BOTH parties who know he could deny it till his dying day, suspicious.

4. This race-baiter is a moron for thinking he can make some call for "white humans" as though we all have the same tendancies and sensiblities. Those calls of solidarity are indicative of Liberal grandstanding, and amount to attempts to getting a blowjob from a doey-eyed co-ed with a clipboard full of voter registrations who can't pronounce the names of the nations he or she is trying to help.

As for Liberal and Conservative: they are accounting terms not political. Let me illustrate:

A. Do you adjust your home budgets for possible raises you *might get*? Do you make sure everyone in your neighborhood is eating right? Do you take all your savings and invest it into a high risk high gain endeavor?


B. Do you make proivision in your budget for if you lose your job, or accrue an unexpected expense? Do you make sure everyone in your home is well fed, with what part of your budget can be allocated to food? Do you NOT factor savings into your budget?

A. Liberal
B. Conservative

Usually when people start getting upset at a NEo-Con, it is because they are fiscally liberal.