Our
founding fathers, in their ultimate wisdom, designed our Constitution to be
molded along with the needs of the American people. Anyone with the will, drive
and desire can become that certain person who represents the people in local,
state, and federal governments.
Most any elected official or politically
active person will tell you if you want to change the laws and policies in your
community, getting elected to a city council or school board is a great way to
start. This fall that very thing happened in Houston, Texas. Dave Wilson claimed
he was tired of “all the shenanigans", according to www.khou.com, and wanted to change some things
at the Houston Community College System. Mr. Wilson was faced with a major
challenge. He is an older white conservative Republican in a predominately
black Democrat area. To help with the campaign he had printed up fliers that
some called questionable at best.
The mailer featured anonymous photos
of black people and an endorsement from Ron Wilson, a long time black
representative in the Houston area. Unfortunately, the Ron Wilson the flier was
referring to was Dave Wilson’s cousin and not the respected representative.
That information was noted on the flier in small print. The flier also begged the
voter to “Please vote for our friend and neighbor Dave Wilson.” According to www.politico.com
Mr. Wilson claimed “It’s a sales job. I’m trying to get votes and trying to get
people to support me and I wanted to focus on the issues.”
Maybe Dave Wilson shouldn’t have
used random faces on his fliers or lead people to assume that he meant a
different endorsement, but was his campaign as “pathetic” as www.chron.com, a local Houston paper, called
it?
If Mr. Wilson’s campaign was racist,
what is more racist, a white man trying to connect to his future constituents
who happen to be a black majority, or a community who have a black majority and
may not vote for a candidate because of the color of his skin? Maybe the people
of Houston aren’t as racist as they appear. Mr. Wilson won the seat on the
board by 26 votes. Perhaps the people of Houston voted on the issues and not
Wilson’s race. The local TV station, www.khou.com,
reported Mr. Wilson as saying, "I'd always said it was a long shot,"
Wilson says. "No, I didn't expect to win."
Was Dave Wilson’s campaign wrong and
racist? Perhaps he could have been a bit more honest regarding his endorsement,
but does that make him a racist? Some
may consider his actions morally wrong, however, no more wrong than other
political and social leaders.
Calif., Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters screamed out
“The tea party can go to hell!” during a town hall meeting in 2011. According
to www.americanthinker.com, Texas
Democrat congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said "Differ with Barack Obama
and you’re a Racist". Even during the 2008 and 2012 elections members of
the Black Panthers intimidated white voters by deploying themselves outside of
voting booths according to www.wnd.com. We have gotten over black racism enough to
elect a black man to the highest office in the land twice even with a long list
of scandals including fast and furious, Benghazi, the IRS targeting
conservative groups and many more.
In a way of speaking, yes, racism is
alive and well in America, and the President help cement the division between
the skin color of our fellow countrymen with his assessment of the Trayvon
Martin case. You can see the racist views in many people when a hoodlum in a
hoody violently attacked a Hispanic neighborhood watchman who tried to defend
himself and was called the racist term, “crazy-ass cracker”, for trying save
his own life.
On November 11 of this year Oprah
Winfrey said in a BBC interview that whites hate Obama because he’s black. She
went on to say that “racists need to die”.
A few days later she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That
is one heck of an award for such a hateful statement.
There was ugly time in our past when
we judged people by how dark their skin is. There may be some white people who
still do, however, when was the last time you saw a life ruined due to being
racist to a black person? Today being labeled a racist against blacks is like
putting a target on your forehead. Groups like the NAACP and “civil rights”
leaders like Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson seem to make it a point to only
target white people even if they are not completely Caucasian.
Today’s world seems backwards from
even 30 years ago. It seems as though we have went from discriminating against
blacks to blaming whites for being racists. It is a shame, even after all these
years we still can’t look past our skin to find the goodness in people. In the
immortal words Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we need to “not be judged by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character.” I believe also
applies to everyone.
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