All White people are racists, whose very existence is brightened by the opportunity to keep Black people in their place. They also hate gays, anyone who is non-Christian, and routinely seek ways to oppress women. They are the originators of the slave trade and could not have succeeded in America, or elsewhere without the wholesale subjugation and exploitation of “uncivilized” nations. Whites stole America from the Indians, and where they could not steal what they wanted they engaged in Wholesale slaughter of those that opposed them---remember Wounded Knee Creek?

Whites have sought to disenfranchise Blacks and in recent elections have engaged in massive voter fraud and intimidation to elect the person that they wanted to see as President. From the end of the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, White men led a massive campaign to discourage Blacks from exercising the very rights guaranteed to them by the United States Constitution. And they are still at it today.

White people have also never been above using the race card in the criminal justice system, either. From the acquittals for mass murder in the South during the 1960’s, to the cases of Charles Stewart and Susan Smith, Whites have systematically been allowed to kidnap, bomb, maim, torture, or kill
Blacks with near impunity because they owned the system.

And every White man, woman, and child---8 to 80, blind, cripple, or crazy is guilty of those offenses because they are White---and all Whites think that way. Well, nearly all Whites anyway. Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Ronald Reagan are really credits to their race. I may not have agreed with them on everything they did, but they are a real credit to the White race.

Is your breathing heavy yet? Is your pulse pounding in your ears? Have you hands started to shake with the adrenaline rush that anger---nearly rage---brings with it? Are you wondering what type of idiot would write such inflammatory garbage? Are you wondering why it is showing up at a Townhall blog, written by someone who calls himself a conservative?

Well now you have a small glimpse of how I feel whenever the subject of race comes up on nearly any of the Townhall threads. Now you have a small taste of the anger and disbelief that I have to deal with when I hear conservatives tell me or others that race is not a factor in anything in life. Or when I read that Blacks are this entire thing, that entire thing, or another thing entirely. I get sick to death of it, and damn it you would too if you had to deal with it.

I am sick of conservatives telling me whom I should admire, how I should feel, and if I am not squarely in their camp on every issue then I am wrong. I am tired of reading that Blacks always seek a pass on their wrongdoing, or that all Blacks have a slave/plantation mentality, or that Blacks are the only ones---besides Mexicans, of course---who are a “burden” on the social safety net. I’m sick of hearing that garbage---and you should be too!

I am weary of feeling like I have to defend Black people whenever the subject of race comes up. I am sick of having people say that Blacks are the real racists because they have their own institutions, pageants, and entertainment venues. I am tired of being told that Blacks have to assimilate into the dominant culture, or they are some type of fifth column that is trying to undermine America. I am tired of hearing how BET or the Miss Black America pageant is somehow an affront to the American people that should be abandoned in the grand quest for assimilation. So let me give you a synopsis of why we have BET and the Miss Black America Pageant to begin with. The MBA Pageant was started because Blacks were effectively shut out of the Miss America Pageant and so a pageant for Black contestants was started. It allowed for little Black girls who wanted to become beauty queens something to aspire to, and to be judged by people whose ideas of what is beautiful does not stop at the Euro-American ideal. BET was started in the 1980s because MTV had a corporate policy that they were not going to show any music videos by ANY Black artists. Think about that: an entertainment medium, whose biggest star at the time was the most non threatening Black man alive—Michael Jackson—decided to shut him out of their fledgling business because he was Black. And remember, this was not the 1950s or 60s, this was the 1980s. So Robert Johnson, being the entrepreneur that he is, decided to start his own cable network to bring music videos made by Black artists to a Black audience. But somehow this does not denote the entrepreneurial spirit that conservatism claims to love, but somehow it is a testament to “Black racism”? And because the words Black Entertainment Television bothers some segment of the White populace, it should be shut down? How about this: BET shuts down right at the time that CMT shuts down. Fair enough?

There’s an old song that states “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child”, and that is the way I feel sometimes as a conservative. It’s tough being a Black man who holds conservative political views in this country: you know that the left is going to come after you because you don’t reside on the liberal plantation anymore, but it’s even worse when you have to deal with the uninformed attitudes among too many conservatives as well.

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Judge me, and every other Black person you meet as an individual. No one group of people are all of one mind on any subject, so stop assuming that Blacks are. Stop with the blanket statements and indictments of all Blacks because of the actions of some. Would any of you like it if we Blacks decided that Jeffrey Dahmer, Bill Clinton, or Tim McVeigh was “just how White people are”? And please stop pointing out only conservative Blacks as what Black people should be; it smacks too much of the whole “credit to their race” idea that should have been put to bed long ago. We are free to look back at history and decide that we admire Malcolm X or Booker Washington, just as you are free to decide that George Washington or John Kennedy are worthy of admiration.

And please stop treating Blacks as if we are the “other” that sociology speaks of. We are people just like you, with many of the same hopes, dreams, fears, and aspirations that you have. We are Americans, just like anyone else---so treat us like it.

Judge us, truly, by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin.