‘Wilkow!’: Race, Marriage, and Politics

Feb. 25, 2013 7:46pm Christopher Santarelli

With Black History month upon us, Americans reflect on the mistakes of generations past and progress that has been made to secure equal rights and freedoms for all Americans. FreedomWorks fellow Rev. CL Bryant writes in a column on TheBlaze contributors page that race and the uglier segments of American history should not be used as a tool for politicians to open up old wounds and reinforce a sense of entitlement, but rather inspire African-Americans to honor their predecessors’ by showing strong character and contributing greatly to society:

Minorities of all races and religions are blessed to share in the American freedoms we have today, whether it’s running a company or becoming president of the United States. The overwhelming support for Barack Obama in 2008 shows how far America has come in believing in equality and putting race barriers to rest. Even so, the errant analysis on the lips of many black leaders today is that African Americans have not yet been set free.

Freedom, they believe, is government doing more to overcompensate for wrongdoings during the pre-civil rights era. Instead of touting the individual achievement, autonomy, and freedom from government that would lead to true equal opportunity, they demand that government give handouts, not a hand up. These handouts weaken us and, in Obama’s own words, encourage dependency and diminish motivation.

Rev. C.L. Bryant and Senior Fellow at Freedomworks Tom Borelli talked with Andrew Wilkow on TheBlaze TV Monday about how race is viewed today in its relation to politics and social institutions like marriage. Watch a clip from Monday’s show below:

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Charles321123
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:33pm
The majority of black’s in the USA hate other races. It’s not quiet as bad overseas though it seems to be a tendency everywhere. There is no more racist people on to my experience than the blacks in the USA. By the way part native American here and married to a lady from Indonesia so if you call me a racist and I will call you a fool. Race riots will come before Obama leaves office. The ones that have been happening so far will seem tame by comparison. All major cities in the USA will be burnt down. I believe blacks will kill a lot of whites before the back lash near wipes them out in the USA.

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TEUFELHUNDENUSMC
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:27am
I an a white male but I have lived in the minority here in the United States. From the early to mid-eighty’s I lived in a small town in Southern Georgia. At that time the town was segregated, it had a white section of town and a black section of town. This was not done by mandate but because that is the way that everyone liked it. We were from the north west and didn’t know the difference and bought a nice home in the black section of town. As a result, I went to a predominantly black school. I do not think that a single day went by that I did not get in to a fight. I was the “white boy” and was expected to give way and “watch myself”. Even then I was not a go along to get along type of guy and expected to be treated like everyone else. As a result, had to fight for every bit of respect I received. Some of my worst tormentors later became my friends because I was something of an oddity, I was a white boy that didn’t know his place and wouldn’t learn it and refused to back down.
There is a misconception in this country about racism, it is that only a white person can be racist. Racism exists when anyone is treated differently because of their skin color or ethnicity. That includes favoritism. If you get or are denied something strictly based on your ethnicity, if you are treated better or worse because of your skin color that is racism. We have to stop the double standard. Dumb white sheet wearers and black militants need to be judged by the same standa

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shorelineliz
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 1:25am
I grew up in Seattle, Washington and went to Lincoln High School between 1974-1977. Blacks from South Seattle were forcibly bused into our predominantly Caucasian school. They were angry and started fights. If you looked at them the wrong way they started a fight with you. My neighbor who was on the football team accidentally bumped into a Black girl and her boyfriend took umbrage with the accidental bump and started to threaten him. When my neighbor told him to back off he threw a punch which my neighbor answered. The entire lunchroom erupted in a food and fist fight. A few years later I attended the same school. Every day a 9th grade Black boy would hit me in the arm as I passed him. It only took me a few times before I told him if he touched me again I would kick his A$$. He never touched me again. In the athletic locker the Black girls were fierce and segregated themselves. If you bumped into them, even accidentally on the gymnasium floor there was trouble. The entire Black student body was HOSTILE to being in our Caucasian school. They did NOT want to be bused into our affluent Caucasian neighborhood. They RESENTED being bused into our neighborhoods. None of us cared whether they were there or not. But, they seemed to HATE US just for being Caucasian. The WORST 4 years of my life in an inner city high school ever. I believe that Black children want Black teachers in their own neighborhoods and resent having to be forced to “get alone” with whites. “F” For Failure.

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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 2:38am
  I went to high school at the same time — western suburbs of Boston. My town PAID to bring in Black students from Boston. They did sort of “segregate” themselves — but I think that was understandable: they not only shared their ethnicity, they took the same bus to and from school and they lived near each other. We didn’t have any big issues as you describe. Big difference I can see is that the busing you dealt with was FORCED, but the busing at my school was all VOLUNTARY.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:11pm
Growing up, a neighbor family were black. Their son was my age, and we were friends, walked to school together, hung out after school.

Only years later did I learn that the reason my sister and her friend walked a block behind us on the way to school was because my sister’s friend’s parents did not want her walking with my friend, purely because of his skin color.

Racism exists. On both sides of whatever color line you want to describe. Giving racism a larger role than it truly holds in our society, though, gives prejudice and bias a greater influence then it deserves.

The vast majority of people of all colors recognize that we are human beings, not different species, not so dissimilar that we should not all be able to get along.

Today, the handful who advocate racism where it does not exist, who forment distrust and hate of ‘otherness’ for personal gain, are the real problems.

How else can you explain Jesse and Al supporting the party of Bird, the party that opposed civil rights law.

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Leveraction3030
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 10:29pm
It is about time conversation like this came to the forefront. I live in the South and have gotten along with Black people for over 50+ years. We went to school together in my very rural area in the early 1960′s because we only had enough kids for one small school. Most of us were farmer kids and a few town kids. Everyone was no different then the other because everyone I knew had a Mom and Dad at home and we all worked the fields, cows, hogs, chickens the same. Some of our parents worked in the school and some of theirs did as well. We all ate at the same places when we could afford to go out. Parades, festivals, the county fair we all went to together. The only thing I remember being different was church. All were Baptist or Methodist mostly but we went to separate churches. I remember my friends telling me that was because us white folks just could not last long enough waiting on lunch to stay until 2:00 or 3:00 o’clock to go home. We always joked they sinned more and needed to stay longer. We all got along and never worried or talked much about politics. We all also worked and if someone needed help everyone chipped in to help.
I don’t remember any problems really until the sit ins started in the big cities and we heard about it in the paper or on the radio. No TV in most houses back then because we were to far out to get reception. I really don’t remember problems that we had until the inner city stuff came out to the country and caused t problems.

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