Racism in America

I watched in horror the incident in Toledo,Ohio Saturday. Between gulps of cheap beer, I felt waves of nausea wash over me. The news footage was disgusting.I take the chance of being flamed as a racist with this post, but I am ill from watching the riots of Toledo and felt like addressing them.

On one hand you have a bunch of crazy Neo-Nazi racist freaks. But..... And there is a big BUT.... they, unfortunately have a right to gather, and they have a right to their opinion. The event was planned and the event was also policed. The Roanoke group gathered permits and as much as they make me sick, did the whole protest thing on the up and up.

Not that I ever want to/or have condone(d) what a group of White Power freaks do, there were 14 of them. Only 14 of them. They held up a few signs and acted like 2 year olds making ridiculous arm signals that we all know and loathe.

Now, instead of being met with a counter protest, or even a few people gathering and yelling at them, we end up with the L.A. riots part deux.

I was up and around during the L.A. riots. While L.A. flamed like Armageddon, the Bay Area wasn't immune. Large groups of blacks gathered on street corners and threw bottles and rocks. They screamed epitaphs at anyone (white) who drove by. I remember watching them pull Reginald Denny from his truck and smashing his skull in on the news. I think I was sick. It was a bad day, a bad day in support of a scum bag who happened to get beat by equally scummy police officers.

Ever heard the term: TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.

The problem with race relations, well, at least the black/white race relations these days is these few things.

1)Just because a black American was involved in a situation with white police officers, doesn't mean it was a race "thing". The race card is a cheap escape route. If, everytime someone, or something, pissed me off,and I cried !!!RACISM!!!, I would expect to be looked at as an ass.

2) As proud black Americans can attest, throwing rocks and shooting people and looting, will not win the support of other races, and the hearts of the American people.

3) You are no longer the only minority. Whitey's day's are over. I currently am a minority in California.

4) I stubbed my toe.... got to blame it on Whitey.... won't work anymore.

I could go on and on.

There is no excuse for the horrible violence on Saturday. Even the most uneducated rube on the planet KNOWS that throwing bricks and rocks at an ambulance is WRONG. Looting stores of hard working people who are trying to give back to society is wrong, they knew it too, as they ran like gazelle from a lion when the "auth-or-a-ta" showed up.

It is time for the black leaders in this country to stop making excuses.Where is the anger and outrage at what happened on Saturday, those that were quick to judge Katrina's response as racist, are silent today.Time for black leaders to stop preaching that this behavior is O.K. Time for the voices in the black community that can be heard to actually speak to the people and tell them, help them and teach them, that this kind of thing does nothing to bring peace. Does nothing to bring harmony and does nothing to better their cause.Poverty is not an excuse. It's time to stop giving people like Bill Cosby sh*t. He speaks the truth. It's time to stop calling people like Condi Rice an "Uncle Tom", because she is educated and has a good job. It's time to move forward as a country, as a whole entity, not a race, or a color.

Race relations will never be solved,if one race blames another for every wrong in their life.

I dream of the day when EVERY American calls themselves AMERICAN.