Does anyone remember the organization that went by the name, "Promise Keepers?"
It used to be a thing. It used to be a big thing.
I went to one of their ginormous meetings once. It was a big thing. It was held in Mile High Stadium in Denver. I went with my church's mens' group. The thing was sold out. I even remember that there was a pack of unusually unattractive women who were standing outside and protesting the thing.
Promise Keepers stopped being a thing after that, though. I don't remember hearing a single thing about the organization after that Denver meeting.
I don't know exactly what killed off the Promise Keepers movement. But I think I know what might have. Was it the feminist movement's loud protestations? No. I suspect that the men who attended the Denver meeting and probably all the other meetings across the country that summer left with the same feeling that I had and determined that Promise Keepers was not an organization worth bothering with ever again.
So...what happened that summer?
I went to that meeting with a preconceived notion about what I would experience. I thought that I was going to learn about how to be a better husband and father. I thought that I was going to re-commit myself to my marriage...you know, the kind of thing that Promise Keepers was known for and what was driving all of those homely feminists to distraction.
Well, imagine my surprise when I experienced a two day whine-fest and mega guilt trip about...wait for it...race relations. One speaker after another walked onto that stage in Denver and browbeat the men in the audience about their real and imagined racial hatred. Had I come by myself I would have left sometime after mid-day on Saturday. But since I came with a group I left with the group and that meant going to the whole damned thing. The trip back home was extremely quiet. No one wanted to talk about the meeting. I think that there was an overall feeling of mutual disgust. I don't remember anyone in my church group EVER talking about that Promise Keepers weekend.
And no one ever wanted to go to another one of their meetings again, either.
Seriously, who wants to pay to go to a meeting and hear one speaker after another tell you that you are a racist and that you need to confess your sins of racism and learn to love blacks. The presumption that everyone in attendance, that even most in attendance were racists, had racist leanings and "hated" blacks was a disgusting affront. Was there any attempt to explore black racism at this conference? I shouldn't have to ask and I'm sure that everyone knows the answer to that question. The only kind of racism is white racism. Always has been and always will be.
But, anyway, that was over fifteen years ago. That racism conference killed Promise Keepers, in my opinion. It killed it because they were preaching to a whole frickin' stadium about a problem that, again in my opinion, affected less than half of the attendees and none of them were expecting to be talked to like that.
And this is what Ferguson is. Ferguson is yet another in a long and never ending lineup of opportunities to beat white people over the head with racial accusations. And I am pretty sure that white people are picking up on this, they are catching on to the con and are beginning to not take it seriously. We see an entire community of black people acting like animals, destroying their own neighborhoods and businesses and we now just shake our heads. Some of us laugh at them. But we don't take them seriously anymore.
I am not a racist. I never have been. I have always treated all people with respect and politeness. I have also been on the receiving end of horrible racist treatment by blacks. I shrugged it off, assuming it was their problem. And it is their problem. I will not and never will give in to the liberal white guilt BS. Ferguson means nothing to me. It does not affect me in the slightest. At least not in the way that the libs would have me be affected.
I pity the black community. I pity them that they are led around by the nose by one race hustler after another, that they are played. I pity them for being used over and over again by the Democrat party. Ferguson and any and all such "occurrences" mean nothing to me.
I am just astounded at the depth and breadth of human ignorance and ineptitude. Even after all these years I am amazed at it.
Rant over.
