  Am I correct in my belief, based on what I see and hear, that many minorities in this country define themselves culturally by their reactions to and relationships with white males? Or is it simply that the modern defenders of minorities protect their positions of influence by constantly railing against white racism? Do these self-appointed saints justify themselves by trying to convince minorities that they are all that stands between non-whites and a return to oppression? I’m not asking rhetorically. Not entirely, anyway. The truth is, I simply don’t know for sure.
But I have some ideas. As a white male (a white southern male at that) I often wonder how I’m perceived by the black people who know me. Do they judge me based on my character or do they prejudge me based on the color of my skin and my sex? Are their interactions with me genuine or do they handle me with kid-gloves? The non-whites I know probably wonder the same things about me. In this day and age, that’s probably natural.
Race relations in this country simply aren't where they ought to be. White racism certainly isn’t dead, but it’s no longer a politically viable threat to minorities. White racism is a dirty little secret, kept alive by a smaller and smaller percentage of whites who are small-minded, xenophobic, and lack self confidence. If you’re white, you know the people I’m talking about. You may work with them, live with them, or be related to them. These are the people who can’t wait to make a racist remark as soon as a black person leaves the room.
These are the people who expect complicity out of all of us who happen to be white like them. Put simply, they’re morons. Their racism reveals their stupidity, and so does most of what they say and do. They’re pitiful, but it’s hard to pity them because they’re so damned repellant. They’re small, they’re usually old, and they’re weak. They are the dying remnants of bad habits.
They are all that remains of white racism today. So it bothers me that white racism is still seen as this ever-present, powerful, universally destructive force. It bothers me because, for the most part, the myth of all-powerful white racism is kept alive by white liberals. White liberals are probably the biggest betrayer of the civil rights movement today. It hasn’t always been that way, of course. Liberals were the first whites to recognize the importance and the value of the civil rights movement in it’s infancy.
Liberals embraced and welcomed the changes asked for and demanded by men like Martin Luther King, and gradually those changes were won by the minority members who fought hard for them. Along the way, white liberals won the friendship of blacks by proving to them that they weren’t like the powerful, racist whites who wanted to keep America divided. As those powerful, racist whites fell from power and died off, the country changed. White liberals didn’t change at all, though. Today we live in a society where black people have all the rights and privileges of white people. A society where white racism is seen for what it is; weak and stupid.
Today’s America is an even playing field and white racism is under the watchful eye of the government, the culture, and the media. It’s a dying snake in it’s death throes, it’s head chopped off long ago. Nonetheless, white liberals, in their typical short sightedness, haven’t changed their position one bit. In a world full of black executives, black congressmen and senators, black celebrities and councilors and doctors and writers, white liberals still preach that white racism is the world’s biggest threat and that they are the only true friend that the black man has. Bill Cosby’s remarks at the 50th anniversary celebration marking Brown v. the Board of Education delighted me to no end. I’ll admit that right out front.
I believe, and have believed for some time now, that personal accountability is a dead issue in today’s society. So for Bill Cosby to hold each poor black person accountable for his or her own actions seemed like a rare moment of common sense in a society dominated by white liberals and their claims that the white male is responsible for all the evil in the world. Of course, the crap hit the fan following Cosby’s remarks, and it was thrown from all directions. Writing for the Washington Post, the NAACP’s Theodore M. Shaw agreed with Cosby that people are accountable for their actions, but pointed to two different brutal murders of blacks as evidence that white racism is urlLink still a major oppressor . Of course, those arguments could be balanced with evidence of black-on-black crime, but in the end, neither side of that argument accomplishes anything. In a piece for Knight Ridder, Alvin Williams of urlLink Black America’s Political Action Committee expressed hope that Cosby’s skills at selling Coke and Jello Pudding would help sell the notion of responsible behavior to poor blacks.
I hope so, too. God knows that there are plenty of people trying to sell horrible ideas to poor blacks. Consider John McWhorter’s urlLink indictment of gangsta rap as more than just culturally vacuous, but also terribly destructive. Of course Cosby didn’t say that white racism no longer exists. I believe that a form of it still does, and that it is a bigger threat to blacks than ever, because it has camouflaged itself in liberalism. White liberals teach poor blacks that they aren’t capable of making their own way in life, that they need to rely on social programs for as long as possible, and that those programs simply don’t do enough for the poor blacks who depend on them.
White liberals also teach poor blacks that they can’t find their own place in the business world or in colleges based on their own merit, and that they can only succeed if whites make an exception and allow them in simply because they are black. White liberals call this affirmative action. Conservatives call it quotas. No matter what you call it, it boils down to racism. By offering blacks a hand up, white liberals are asking blacks to acknowledge that they are below them. Maybe whites should rally around Cosby.
Not to defend his remarks, they don't need defending. Rather, to use him as a catalyst to call our own subversive elements to task. Let's start with the same scum balls that Cosby pointed out. Petty thieves, killers, and low-lifes must be held accountable for their actions, and that goes for low-lifes with white skin, black skin, Latinos, what have you. Let's not stop there, though. Let's hold white liberals accountable for their actions, too.
For too long now, they've stood with arms outstretched between minorities and the rest of the white population. For too long they've kept us apart. We shouldn't stand for it any longer. America is too great a nation to be split in half by the paranoia and self-aggrandizing of a few whites with an axe to grind. Brown v. the Board of Education was 50 years ago, and that isn’t that long a period of time. We are still blessed today with the presence of black people who are old enough to remember real segregation, real racism, real oppression.
It is incumbent upon all of us that we learn from their experiences, and that we make their work and sacrifices worth while. The way to do that is by working together, not separately. By being inclusive, not divisive. By having open and frank dialogue, not by encouraging a one-sided exchange wherein people of a certain race are encouraged to speak their minds and people of another are discouraged from speaking at all. America can become colorblind. We can get there by judging each other by the content of our characters and not by the color of our skin.
Thanks to white liberals, Martin Luther King’s dream is as far out of reach today as it ever was. 
