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Racism is a problem in the United States.   I never realized how significant the divide between races has become.    

The real problem here is that racism is no longer a one way street.

It has become a racism super highway.  All races are now guilty of inflicting racism upon others.   Some reports are rational.   Some reports are wolf-crying.   And for decades, we've had plenty of wolf crying.   And it should surprise no one that some of us are sick of being blamed.  Repeatedly blamed.

I've been on this earth for nearly six decades.    My life experience has been crafted through living in Maryland as race riots were happening in Washington, D.C. in the 1960's.   I remember being able to see fires in the night skies as protesters were setting fire to the outskirts of the Nation's Capitol.    Such an image still smolders in my mind.

My family was not well off.   Dad worked several jobs while being in the Navy as an enlisted man in order to provide my sister and I with a life that was above water.   We were never given anything by virtue of our skin color.   I know this to be true as the sun rises each day across the world.   I have no life experience that would suggest that what I received since my first breath was ever because of my skin color.   

My family history dates back to the 1680's where we fled religious persecution in England.   Our
family name derives from a parish in England that we can trace to the 1250's.   And judging by the lineage that I see, our family has never been much of anything until we arrived here in the colonies.   As the ships that we sailed across the Atlantic arrived to this new land, we were met with a hurricane that caused the ships to be separated.   There was a rocky coast of Maine that my family's ancestors met and shipwrecked; several other ships ended up south in what is now Massachusetts.

Because of the skilled and tireless work of my Aunt in the 1970's where she had nothing like the internet to do research, she discovered that the humble people who begat my American roots ended up fighting against the British in what is now New England.   A humble general fought at Bunker Hill and is infamous for the whites of their eyes notation.   Another relative completed the ride of Paul Revere who is falsely given credit for much of that ride.   Through marriage, Daniel Webster shares the seminal seed of our family's near tragedy at Pemaquid Point in Maine in the 1680's.   He needs no introduction as to his significance in America's fight.   

6th Vermont

In the Civil War, the men from Vermont and New Hampshire who fought on the side of the Union and who ultimately were either killed or injured shed blood for more freedom.   Our family's dog in the hunt of slavery was to free men, not to enslave them.   My family's blood is our reparation toward what Southerners did to exploit another man for profit.    And through work of my father in conjunction with my aunt, we found the place where one of my ancestors still rests - underneath a crossroads in Maryland.

I  have no history for which to be ashamed.   I shall not carry a burden that those put upon me because they see my skin color first and inflict a racist charge of white privilege upon me all while they opine their state of racist victimhood.    It may sound caustic or uncaring, but I'll be damned to assume a role in the persecution of others even as my family has for hundreds of years shed blood for this country.   I shall never feel the obligation of "white guilt" or ever recognize the racist and false narrative of "white privilege".    I can assure you that those who claim such against me have not risen up to the forces of tyranny like my family and who should never a point a finger toward me without first getting on your damned knees and thanking us for being here to free your sorry asses.

With that said, I don't get racism at all.   I see no color bar - but I do see lazy.   I do smell a sense of entitlement.   I do loathe those who use excuses to not become the best version of themselves.

I also do know as a fact as pure as the love of my country and my God, that racism to exists in order to elevate political forces into power - a battle of the two evils - left and right - and as a libertarian who bleeds the blood of "live free or die", I shall rebuke all use of the excuse of racism to advance a political perspective.    And while the right is so insidious in their 1980's clinging to fundamentalist Christian ideology, today's left is a Godless evil that seeks to enslave us all in order for them to get power and to dictate who the winners and losers are.

But make no mistake, today's America is in a Civil War where both sides are playing us - and enjoying us - as we seek to cut each other's throats in racial hatred.

How is it that America managed to elect a half black President and record numbers of blacks voted, but we still have claims that blacks are denied the right to vote?     We also have early voting where you can discover any problems.    So how is it that blacks are denied the vote in a systematic way?  Explain that to me?    IAnd isolated issues with voting are not indicative of RACIAL issues.   Why is it that people don't make sure they have an active voter ID card?   I know in Virginia they issue us voter information cards that even tell us where our precinct is.

It is not racist to demand you produce a state-issued ID to prove that you are the fucking person you claim to be.   And with the ability to uber to a state facility to procure that ID, it is not ever and won't ever be a racist law to ask you to get off your fucking couch to get such an ID.   But someone always contrives such a law to protect the value of one man and one vote as racist.

We also have the whinings of those who say that those who commit a felony should not lose their right to vote.   Well, laws can be changed.   Unless you fucking get off your couch and start to either demand change or to run for office where your vote is amplified, then felons should lose their right to vote.   It is not a bad law per se - I think if you do the crime and time, then you should pay a price.   Should you have a life time ban?  I am open to a decade of you proving you are now law abiding to satisfy any question of your conversion from evil to being positive.   Until then, reap what you sew, mofo.

What infuriates me and has changed me from being one of those whites who would once listen to black cries for help is that racism in this country is now an eight lane super highway in each direction of evil and vicious actions.   And while I find it impossible to be pulled over because you are black while driving, some contend you are.   Operationally, with blacked out windows, the use of SUV's which put your head out of the direct line of sight from a police car, and the physical impossibility of telling skin color at night from being followed by a police car, I don't buy driving while black anymore than I buy that Hillary Clinton was an honest woman.    What I do know is that when anyone is pulled over and they start running their big ass pie hole and acting all indignant toward the police officer, you aren't going to get off with a warning no matter how you feel.   

Do I think there is police brutality - fucking yes.   But this is not a one way street toward one race.   Brutality is happening by police to EVERYONE.   Your black life is less than half as likely to be capped by police than a white person.   The facts are out there if you would stop to look it up.   That does not make brutality by police permissible, but it does remove the racist stench of it.   The racial angle if fabricated and is a myth.   When you factor in the "contacts with police" by race, you will find more black run ins with the law as a percentage of your population make up.   That isn't racist.  That is just what is - the reality of life - where men of the same age but different in race commit more violent crimes and murders as a percentage of their population.    Quite simply, you don't get put in handcuffs because you were playing Monopoly with your wife; yet get them because you were doing things that are ILLEGAL and YOUR ASS SHOULD BE IN JAIL.

Anyone who thinks blacks have it bad now should get into a time machine (that means do your research) and revisit the 1940's and 1950's and the 1960's.   If you want your eyes opened, look at the awful things that were ACTUALLY DONE TO BLACK PEOPLE.   If you want systemic racism, America has a past that ain't so pretty.    But in the almost sixty years since, we've done everything possible to change direction and to make America better.   We've had insidious actions of racial quotas that placed blacks ahead of more qualified other racial candidates, but our heart was in the right place.

But to whine now that there is systemic racism?    You fucking liars.    I want you to recite the laws that are systemically racist toward blacks.   Go ahead.  Get off your couch and do your research.

First Black Congressmen and Senators Were Republicans

I've done some research and did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican?   Did you know that the KKK was founded by southern Democrats?   Did you know the NRA was founded to make sure blacks could arm themselves against Southern Democrats?    Did you know the first black person to be seated at a Republican National Convention was in 1868?   Did you know the first black person to be able to be seated at a Democrat National Convention was 70 YEARS LATER?    Did you know that the 1960's Civil Rights Acts would not have passed if only Democrats had voted for it?   Without Republican votes, there would be none of these laws protecting you.

Become educated on how Republicans, not Democrats were progressive toward former slaves and blacks and elected them to National Office.   Read here.

I'm not promoting Republicans here - I'm just pointing out Democrats are the last people that black folk should trust with racial equality.   That party is a day late and a dollar short on racial issues.   And if my ancestors and Republicans had not fought in the Civil War, you'd all be picking cotton for nothing.   Yes, I'm being snarky.   But you need to open your minds.

So how do we get past this shit we are seeing with lawlessness and Black Lies Matter - ah, yes - BLM.   I want you to go to the BLM website and to read what that movement is about.  It has nothing to do with racism.   I had to chuckle at their contempt for the "western nuclear family" - obviously if more men stayed with the women in the black community after knocking them up, we might have fewer out of control young black men who eschew professional careers and upward mobility and education and instead go for the quick pleasure and quick buck of crime!    When this organization says they promote homosexuals, I have to pick myself off the floor.   In my experience there has been no community more homophobic than the black community and my life experience with threats of violence by black men just crystalizes the bullshit of BLM's statements.

We get past this by truly eliminating racial programs and societies and separate racial organizations; we get past this by stopping jumping to racial conclusions; and we stop supporting race baiters who exist for profit by stirring up shit.    Unless we are serious to promoting the individual over the group they belong to, we will not do anything but to make this cold Civil War break into a hot one where manifold numbers of people die.