[Justin26882]

It seems to me that the average white image of black America is informed by white liberals more than by direct encounters with blacks or white racists. That is why you see a self-contradictory portrait. Blacks are perceived as feral, ignorant people who can express themselves only through violence or gutteral wailing and require a ‘good’ white person to mediate their issues to the mainstream.

At the same time, blacks are perceived to hold middle-class liberal values on everything from gay rights to our involvement in the U.N. Quite often, the result is that a backlash against what Ted Kennedy says becomes a backlash against black America. There is also a perception that blacks would vote for Tom Metzger if he were to run as a Democrat. Consider the white man driving in the city who sees a black man get into the same model of car he drives. It p****s him off: ‘I thought blacks were supposed to be poverty-stricken refugees entitled only to a chunk of my hard-earned money because people who look like me made slaves of them 300 years back, and here one of them is driving a late-model Cutlas!’ Of course, it never occurs to him that the black gent purchased the car with money he earned at a job that requires a degree, which he also earned at a college, the tuition having been paid for by his father, who used the money he scraped together from one of the first decent jobs availible to blacks post-Civil Rights. This doesn’t occur to him, because the last time he was casually talking issues with his liberal friend, likely the only one he knows who actually ‘has a black friend,’ and stated that blacks can take care of themselves, his liberal friend admonished him, saying that that statement would be racist if he ‘didn’t know that it was rooted in simple ignorance of the crippling poverty and despair that the vast majority of African Americans are born into, and by the way, there’s never been a family like the Cosbys in reality.’

White liberals (and I’m saying this as a socialist who happens to be white) seem to feel they own the black agenda. I was shocked and dismayed when some friends who generally hold political correctness to be the law of the land presume to use the terms ‘Uncle Tom’ and ‘house nigger’ in reference to Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas. One gets the feeling that whites in general have never heard the viewpoints of blacks, but only what viewpoints white liberals agree with.

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Name : Justin26882, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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