Are Racial Comments Worse than Standard Meanness?

The matters a society is sensitive about speak volumes.  We have just witnessed a witch hunt  wherein Bill O'Reilly was accused of bigotry for the comments he made after eating at Sophia's restaurant in Harlem, NY.  O'Reilly's explanation of his remarks was logical and believable, and, while I find fault with O'Reilly on many issues, he is no bigot.   

I have a question, though: Even if his comments had been racial, so what?

I know, many are scratching their heads, some are screaming.  I'll explain.  Racial comments have become a third rail of American discourse.  Increasingly, people (white people, anyway) are walking on eggs, deathly afraid they'll break one and find it rotten.  You may remember the incident involving Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, who posited a theory as to why blacks are such fine athletes; he was pilloried in the media and his career was over.  But why?  Why were some clumsily rendered (he was drunk) comments about race -- regardless of whether or not they were true -- reason enough to destroy a man?  I think what's truly reprehensible is engaging in character assassination and ruining a man's career and reputation simply because he violated your politically correct orthodoxy.

Moreover, if you view our obsession with all things racial in context, you'll realize that we truly have departed from sanity.  Our society has become so thoroughly coarse that, honestly, it's laughable to think that anyone should shrink from delivering racial commentary or humor. Decadence is ubiquitous, with lewd sexual imagery and messages everywhere; we have parades celebrating perversion and "art" displays centered around it.  Then, not only is the Lord's name regularly taken in vain in movies today (no accident), but our entertainment consistently celebrates the violation of the Commandments.  (Oh, I mentioned religion.  I suppose I'm not even a serious commentator now.)  On top of all this -- and whatever I've forgotten to mention -- profanity is everywhere; it's as if you're not cool if you don't spew four-letter words.

Even more to the point, you can criticize people in the most scandalous ways and no one bats an eye.  You can characterize them using vulgar language, you can mock them in deeply personal ways, and you can even tell lies about them.  You can be downright mean and cruel -- as long as you don't go racial.  That is, unless you say things about whites. Heck, those infernal ice people deserve it.

Now, against this backdrop, we're supposed to be worried about making racial comments?  It's comical.  Why, the social engineers even have us trained to refrain from using the word "nigger" for illustrative purposes.  You can't say, for instance, "He used the word 'nigger'"; now you have to say "the N-word."  Yes, we're like trained little children, and if you're not a good boy, you won't get a cookie.

Of course, the list of those crucified by the new inquisitors is long. There was John Rocker; Al Campanis; the golfer Fuzzy Zoeller; scientist William Shockley; and, of course, Don Imus, just to name a few.  Now, I know this is a motley crew, and I don't place them all in the same category.  Some are intellectual, some aren't; some I have use for, others I don't. 

But that's not the point. 

The point is that we have a destructive, sick obsession with race.  We have lost our sense of proportion and are unable to differentiate between what should be sacred and what shouldn't.  Our society much reminds me of an anorexic: No matter how thin he gets, he looks in the mirror and thinks he needs to lose weight.  And, at the end of the day, on an emotional level he hasn't had the most important realization of all: Even if he is fat, so what?

Comments

[Ray Hicks]

As long as racial comments can be used as a lever by the Jacksons and Sharptons of the country, we are going to have to go on pretending about the offensive power of the racial epithet. I’ve been called a “cracker” before and I didn’t need to go into therapy because of it. Of course racial comments are only exceedingly offensive if they are made by “crackers.” The logic of that goes even further. Latinos can celebrate ‘El Dia de la Raza” (The Day of the Race…their race of course.) Try doing the same thing if you’re white, and see what happens. No, it’s okay to celebrate the day of the race, but in many parts of the country it’s not okay to celebrate Columbus Day. Nope! In the latest revision of history, Columbus is genocidal murderer and the push is to replace Columbus Day with “Indigenous Peoples Day” or some other such nonsense. If I want to celebrate indigenous people’s day….I’ll go to a casino. Otherwise, I’ll just go downtown and enjoy my local Columbus Day parade.

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[Sticks n Stones]

If the blacks and whites in this country would join forces, we could take back the America our ancestors worked so hard to preserve.

How's that for a racial statement? Get rid of the hyphenated Americans!

And let's not go the route of political correctness with food. So much for Italian, German, or French cuisine--let's just chow down on soilent green!

It all looks the same in the pot.

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