It seems the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) believes Maine's new Republican governor, LePage, is racist because he won't be attending Martin Luther King celebrations today.
A couple of things...
1) Governor LePage has a colored son, Devon, a young Jamaican that LePage adopted. Somehow that does not seem to relate to LePage being racist in any way. In fact, it would appear to be the other way around - the NAACP is racist for labeling LePage as racist.
2) As Governor, LePage is scheduled to attend the funeral of a Maine State Trooper today, which is of greater importance than celebrating MLK day. But again, the NAACP does not care about that - all they care about is labeling people as racist if they do not bow to the special interests of the NAACP
Here's my take, if you haven't already guessed it - there is no place in our society for those who earn their livings by playing the race card, keeping racism alive and well. This includes race-baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright. It also includes any organization dedicated SOLELY to one ethnic group, since setting oneself up to be separate only actually creates division. This includes the Black Caucus, black church, and the NAACP. America will be better off without those who insist on divisions rather than coming together. It also includes any organization dedicated solely to any one race, whether black, latino, white, Indian or Asian. If someone's concern is for one race over all others, then that person is a racist. Period.
After all, think about it - what do you suppose would be the public outcry from those same people and organizations if someone were to create a WHITE church, a WHITE caucus or the National Association for the Advancement of WHITE People" They would srceam "racism" all day long. But when they do it, suddenly it is not racist.
Well, it IS racist. Anything that sets one race apart from another; anything or anyone who inserts a wedge between races; anyone or any organization that treats one race better than another - all of them are racist. The Ku Klux Klan is racist, and so is the NAACP. We do not need any of them.
And the sooner that all good Americans rise up and insist on tearing down these walls and ridding ourselves of race-baiting organizations - only then will America become color blind.
But the NAACP, Sharpton, Jackson and the Black Caucus and Black Churches do not WANT the walls torn down, as that would result in them losing their power over people, and they would need to find a legitimate way of earning a living. As long as racism thrives, so will they.
If the man we honor on this day, Martin Luther King Jr., is the hero he is portrayed as, and if he were alive today, I strongly suspect he would be calling for the same thing - dissolution of anything that causes division and the shunning of those who earn their livings playing the race card.
We need to cut the crap. There should not be any "African-Americans", "Native Americans", "Irish-Americans", "Asian-Americans (Amer-Asians)" or any other type of "American." There should only be "AMERICANS". Period. If a person feels a need to set himself apart by adding an ethnicity, then that person is simply being racist. It has been said the racist is the person who brings race into any discussion that is not about race.
And being American is not about race.
As far as the NAACP, Sharpton or Jackson are concerned, it is up to us to take away their self-serving power and put an end to their racism and race-baiting once and for all.
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