Re: Gato_Solo
You truly believe that white males are being 'picked on'.
No. As I said, you don't get it. What we have is segments of the society being set above the rest of that society due to real or perceived wrongs. The majority clamors to lick their boots because the guilt campaign has been so successful. This divides, or Balkanizes, the nation into the separate factions -- those who are annointed and those who are not.
There are already protections for crimes against the person. There is no need to enhance a crime's punishment due to some prosecutor's perception of what the perpetrator was thinking at the time the crime was committed. Aren't all violent crimes against the person a relative hate crime? The poor rob the rich because they hate their ability to have whatever they want, etc.
The "protected" class starts screaming every time the laws they emplaced for themselves against the "unprotected" class begin to be used against them.
Examples of this would be spousal abuse laws originally enacted against men; sexual harrasment laws originally enacted against men; child custody laws originally enacted against -- you guessed it -- men. Are you starting to see a pattern here?
These same types of laws are being enacted against Whites and are aimed primarily at Whites. There was no outcry of "hate crime" when Colin Ferguson went on his shooting rampage on the Long Island train -- wherein he bypassed Blacks to shoot Whites and Asians. Ferguson was never charged with a hate crime even though he admitted targeting non-Blacks.
How about the guy who went berzerk in Pennsylvania, I believe it was, who actually stated he was "going out to hunt Whites"? Not a hate crime, I'm sure.
How about the guy that barricaded himself in a Harlem clothing store -- Freddie's Fashion Mart -- and shepherded all of the Blacks out of the store while holding all of the Whites at gunpoint? He then set the place on fire killing seven White people. Not a hate crime, I'm sure.
I am stating the deliberate ignorance of
these crimes when they were committed
by those whom they were not enacted against. Those who are of the "protected" class are deemed incapable of hate. Only those in the "unprotected" class are so deemed.
The unwillingness of those who are firmly ensconced in the "Just us" department, to acknowledge that all laws eventually come to affect those who thought they were immune, is legion.
Remember the Brown Shirts? They thought they were the bee's knees until the Night of the Long Knives. Their usefulness had come to an end. The laws from which they thought they were immune came for them, too.
Disproportionate justice is why all of those legislative acts came about in the first place. Not that the lot of the minority has improved, but you can feel free to act as though your applecart has been upset.
There will always be disproportionate justice and it will not be remedied by vaunting one group over another.
Just to give you a good heads-up...Nobody in my life ever gave me anything for my race except derision. I have what I have because I worked hard to get it, and I earned it on my own merits. Not because some Congressmen felt guilty about the sins of their ancestory. None of those laws changed anything except perception.
HEAR! HEAR! And good on ya! But you
do realize that that is how it is
supposed to be, right?
It wouldn't matter if everyone was the same color. There would always be prejudice by the talls against the shorts; the light hair against the dark; the curly hair against the straight; the fat against the skinny. That will never change.
As for me, I have done my part for racial integration.
My wife is Mexican/Yakima Indian and my son had a son by a White/Black woman. So I have a Black/White/Mexican/Indian grandson who we sincerely pray will marry an Oriental Jewish woman so our clan can piss off every bigot out there.
I unflinchingly tell people that I have done far more for racial integration with my penis than the likes of Jesse Jackson, and his ilk, could do with an inexhaustible supply of school buses. In fact, I get the animus of all sides of the racial equation because I am a race mixer. The one thing that Tom Metzger, David Duke, Louis Farrakahn, and the late, and unlamented, Kahlid Abdul Mohammed agreed on is that they all equally hate my guts because I am a race mixer.
I once told the president of the Rhode Island NAACP that while I was truly integrating the races, he and his ilk were shuttling people around on school buses and marrying their own kind. Thus he had actually done NOTHING for racial integration.
For this, he called me a "friendly racist".
I also told him that there would never be racial harmony in America as long as there is a single dollar to be made from racism. His response? He stated that if I truly wanted racial harmony that I should join the NAACP and send my $100 membership fee.
Anyway, good night. We'll talk some more tomorrow.