For the past couple of weeks the whining from my own has reached to a level that has become too sickening for me to ignore any longer. While we have made great strides in just about every area in society imaginable, many of us still fixated in keeping the fight against “racism” alive by magnifying the “sins” of white people.
If the whole truth be told, part of the “black experience” is our desire to continually rehearse our bad experiences with white people. All of us have an elder in our family who will always bring up the time when Joe Whitey refused to serve them at the lunch counter as if it happened yesterday (when really it happened 50+ years ago–but don’t tell them that). While some of us may roll our eyes every time this story comes up at family gatherings, the apples don’t fall far from the tree. We too from time to time bring up stories in our conversations with fellow black folks about instances where a white man or woman “dissed” us. If the race of the person is not given, the question is always bound to come up:”Were they white?”
I bring this up because it proves one thing: White people will NEVER be trusted by the black community. If trust was to ever be re-established, THEY win and WE loose–so we think.
When the news first hit the airwaves that a black stripper had accused a predominately-white Duke Lacrosse team of raping her, it did not take long for the pundits to stir up their simmering cauldrons of victimhood. Protesters took to the streets while bloggers took to the net demanding for their pound of flesh–all without waiting for all the facts around the case. Some of these people should have known better, but in the end their own bigotry came to light. Many of the very same Negroes who wanted the justice system to closely analyze every fragment of potential vindicating evidence for people like Stanley “Tookie” Williams, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and others do not apply the same standard when a white person is the accused.
At the time of this writing, DNA test results in the Duke rape case came back negative making the strong case that this stripper was not even raped. Of course the details surrounding this case are still coming in, but it does not look good for this alleged victim.
If in fact the members of the Duke lacrosse team had nothing to do with the physical condition of this young woman, there will be a whole lot of explaining to do on the part of the accusers of this team (don’t hold your breath). While I agree that these young men should be punished for having a stripper on campus in the first place, what was completely uncalled for was the black community’s (with some exceptions) rush to judgement on such little accurate information. All that was needed to satisfy our suspicions was the claim from one person.
Here is what Chancellor Dr. James Ammons of North Carolina Central University had to say on the situation prior to the DNA results being made public:
”These allegations of what occurred at the Duke University lacrosse team’s party are disturbing, inhumane and insensitive,†the statement read. ”Further, we stand against the use of racial slurs and the vilification of anyone. Every human being has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. Our students, faculty and staff are outraged by what has been alleged, but are also mindful of the fact that an investigation is still under way and no charges have been filed.”
Now I wonder if this Chancellor was concerned about the dignity of this woman when she made the decision to become a stripper in the first place?
Let me share with you a quick true story…
Last year a man that I knew who worked as a security guard at a local hotel my area told me that on one of his hourly patrols he was approached by two black men (the security guard was white) who asked him if he wanted to see a naked black woman. The guard told them “yes” and proceeded to follow them to their room. When they opened the door, sure enough there was a black woman doing what strippers do. Now I know this guy pretty well enough to know that he was telling me the truth.
After he finished telling me this story, I didn’t know weather to slap him, the two guys that took him to the room, or this girl who was willing to show her body to literally anybody that walked into the room. Needless to say I was very angry for a large portion of that day.
The question I am leading to here is why does it take an alleged rape by a group of white men for the black community to become fully engaged in such an important issue?
And yes, the color of the accused DOES matter to us. Last year I talked about the following case:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Witnesses said several students saw a girl being punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in the Mifflin High School auditorium.
According to witness accounts given to school investigators, a 16-year-old developmentally-delayed student claimed she was dragged into the auditorium and was forced to perform oral sex on at least two boys, while more than a dozen other students were called to watch. (more…)
And guess what? The victim and the accused in this case were black. Was there outrage in the black community surrounding this issue? Not at the level that we seen with this particular issue in North Carolina. Don’t even ask me the few clicks I get for my weekly missing child postings. If the abductor was white…well you know the rest. There are plenty other similar cases that I could point to, but I think that you get the idea. Just as we accuse whites of having double standards, so do we.
If it turns out that the members of this lacrosse team are innocent of what happened to this young woman, will that be enough to satisfy those black activists who seek justice? No! Will they be men and women enough to admit that they were wrong for smearing the reputations of these young men? Probably not. More than likely what will happen is the creation of yet another baseless conspiracy theory will emerge from this band of racist bigots that will quickly spread across the black community–shrouding all the real facts around this case in one big cloud of speculation.ÂÂ
