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Racial double standards


By WALTER WILLIAMS

CREATORS SYNDICATE

Back in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we were “a nation of cowards” on matters of race. Permit me to be brave and run a few assertions by you just to see whether we’re on the same page.

There should be two standards for civilized conduct: one for whites, which is higher, and another for blacks, which is lower. In other words, in the name of justice and fair play, blacks should not be held accountable to the same standards that whites are and should not be criticized for conduct that we’d deem disgusting and racist if said or done by whites.

You say, “Williams, what in the world are you talking about?”

Mitt Romney hasn’ t revealed all of his fall campaign strategy yet, but what if he launched a “White Americans for Romney” movement in an effort to get out the white vote? If the Romney campaign did that, there’d be a medialed outcry across the land, with charges ranging from racial insensitivity to outright racism. When President Barack Obama announced his 2012 launch of “African Americans for Obama,” the silence was deafening. Should the same standards be applied to Obama as would be applied to Romney? The answer turns out to be no, because Obama is not held to the same standards as Romney.

Liberals won’ t actually come out and say that criticism of Obama is in and of itself racist, but they come pretty close.

Former President Jimmy Carter said that criticism of Obama shows that there is an “inherent feeling” in America that a black man should not be president. Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’ s “Hardball,” said that critics of Obama are crackers. Morgan Freeman said that the campaign to see that Obama serves one term is a “racist thing.” Former Obama czar Van Jones said that Romney’ s campaign sign “Obama Isn’tWorking” implies Obama is a “lazy, incompetent affirmative action baby.”

Racial double standards also apply to how crime is reported.

I’m betting that if mobs of white youths were going about severely beating and robbing blacks at random and preying on black businesses, it would be major news.

News anchors might open, “Tonight we report on the most recent wave of racist whites organizing unprovoked attacks on innocent black people and their businesses.” If white thugs were actually doing that, politicians would be demanding answers.

Such random attacks do happen, but it’ s blacks preying on whites.

On St. Patrick’ s Day in Baltimore, a 19-year-old white man was viciously attacked by a mob of black thugs. He broke loose, but a second mob of black thugs attacked him, taking all of his belongings. Baltimore County Delegate Pat McDonough demanded the governor send in the Maryland State Police to control “roving mobs of black youths” at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and other activists demanded that McDonough apologize for talking about “black youth mobs.”

Similar episodes of unprovoked violence by black thugs against white people chosen at random on beaches, in shopping malls and at other public places have occurred in Philadelphia, New York, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland, Washington, Los Angeles and other cities. Most of the time, the race of the attackers, euphemistically called flash mobs, is not reported.

Racial double standards are not restricted to the political arena and crime reporting; we see it on college campuses and in the workplace. Black people ought to be offended by the idea that we are held accountable to lower standards of conduct and achievement.

White people ought to be ashamed for permitting and fostering racial double standards that have effects that are in some ways worse than the cruel racism of yesteryear.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

In politically correct American only WHITEY can do any wrong.
Anything that is done by the blacks/minorities is Whiteys fault.

Slavery has been gone for almost 200 years and yet it is still considered a valid excuse for the actions of the blacks and a good reason to blame Whitey today.

Williams sound like the kinda guy who lives with the family he created...

wtf is this reading is for fags

thank you dogcow but i am still mad at ya for liking mings inflamatory post about me
i might have to come to florida and level a marty friedman solo on your ass and break your nose and give you a snot bubble noname style (well except as lame as he is he would have no idea about marty and thinks rap is good music )

thanks for the uncle tom opinion

sorry i call em like i see em

".no one said that the mormon-bot was poor for taking his dog on vacation."

that is completely accurate

I agree with much of what he said. But the fact is that much, if not most, of the hatred of Obama is consciously or subconsciously racist. If a white Republican had the same record of achievement as Obama he would be deified.

You state your conjecture as if its fact, and then assert that it is fact. I think this is what amuses me about you Luther, you have no idea that your opinions are just that.

Then you go on to say something obviously flawed, and have no idea that it is exactly that.

The statement that the Nazis were bad is just an opinion. I am highly confident that you get at least ten million Americans to openly admit that they hate Obama because he is a n*gger. Just because the question was not asked in the most recent census does not mean that it isn't true. It is not an opinion, it is an assertion about public opinion which would be confirmed by a scientific survey.

True but you can actually link proof to something like that which would show basis for your opinion.

All you have is "I know whitey and I knows how he thinks".

I also know what a normal distribution is.

As do I. Now let's see the graph that shows the population of white people who hate Obama and their subconscious reasons for hating Obama by distribution.

Here's your original quote so that you can be sure to pull the correct data from polifact or cato or somewhere:

You call that drivel good writing?

Actually, I dislike Obama more due to the filthy, leftist WHITE people that influenced him. And, I dislike Kerry even more that I dislike Obama, because of the filthy, crooked, backstabbing leftist he is.

why do you hate black journalists?.....what have the New Hampshire blacks ever done to you

Walter Willaims has nothing on this guy:

http://www.sternfannetwork.com/xen/...ghts-on-romney-not-being-a-common-man.664728/

Just to be clear I "liked" your post cuz the rap music part made me laugh but I'm still trying to wrap my mindbaround how you got Romney is poor cuz he took his dog on vacation from that story.