No matter how many nonwhite politicians white folks elect, including senators, governors, and presidents ...
No matter how many trillions (yes, trillions) of dollars whites transfer to nonwhites through massive government programs meant to somehow make up for the effects of past discrimination ...
No matter how completely and thoroughly American government is scoured of discrimination against nonwhites ...
No matter how much national and state governments change their laws to address all kinds of discrimination (real or imagined) ...
No matter how much whites change their ways of life and internalize the shame of actions they probably never committed ...
It will never, never, NEVER be enough to satisfy the distressingly large number of nonwhites -- the Joseph Lowerys, Louis Farakhans and Jesse Jacksons of the world, as well as their followers -- who will remain forever convinced that the problems in America are and always will be primarily the fault of white people.
Watch it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmbj5be-Dr8.
It's never enough. It will never be enough. That's the lesson of Lowery's vapid travesty of a benediction:
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.Judging by the vast numbers of folks mindlessly chuckling at that horrible closing "prayer", it's a lesson that too many people seem culturally programmed to ignore, or seem literally incapable of even intellectually accepting that such is the case -- or, perhaps worst of all, recognize and accept as the inevitable way things have to be.
I'm already despairing for the fate of my country and the Obama presidency isn't even 24 hours old.
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