Within the past few years, as privilege theory took hold, many whites began to think that no matter what they did they would be called racist, because, in fact, that was happening. Previously there were rules. They shifted at times, but if adhered to they largely protected one from the charge of racism. It’s like the Morrissey lyric: “is evil just something you are, or something you do.” Under the détente, racism was something you did; under privilege theory it is something you are.
Put another way...they let loose the snake, and it slowly turned and bit them in the ass. And they never would have seen it coming, their blinders are so tight. Much thanks has to go to Obama, we really need to give credit where credit is due...and few have had a larger say in setting back race relations in this nation than B Hussein O...his rhetoric, his looking the other way to blacks behaving badly...bringing in BLM terrorists to the White House dozens of times...the message was loud and clear - all white people are racists and anything blacks do is because of that not because who they are.
Whether the old détente was better or worse than current conditions is probably a purely academic question. It is not coming back.
No, it's not coming back. Fool me once...
If a generation of Americans who lived through the racism, riots, anguish, and terror of the civil rights movement were able to trust each other’s decency and create cultural codes and norms to punish abject racism, we should be able to do it, too. But the truly scary thing is that, at this moment, it doesn’t appear we want to.
Dude, you just went to great lengths to show us how the militants became the mainstream and destroyed any hope of people thinking white people are anything but racist devils...just wtf is going to change them? From where is this epiphany going to come from that the true message of Dr King was right..."a color-blind society"...people "judged on the content of their character"? Obama? Jackson? Sharpton? OWS terrorist leader D-Bag McKrackin'? How do you reconcile with people this insane and who demonize you at every turn? You cannot.
What horrors may come...did not come because of us...they came right at us.