OPINION: A racist is a racist regardless of color

A black news operation, a racist organization, held a debate for candidates in Georgia’s 4th Congressional District. This is one of several districts in Georgia with carefully drawn borders to assure a large black majority of voters, also a racist program. Three black Democrats and one black Republican were invited.

When the one white candidate with measurable support, Republican Liz Carter, asked to take part, she was denied. Newsmaker Lives’ event moderator, Maynard Eaton, told the campaign that because Carter is white, she’s only allowed to sit in the audience and not participate.
After local news reported the event, they relented and gave her a seat at the table.

I have two problems with this story. First, the idea that blacks can be as racist as they wish without being criticized, and second, the fact that this story was ignored by the national media.

We will never solve the race problems in this nation by only attacking one side and ignoring the other. Black racism is rampant, and it is seldom addressed. Black commentators who object to racism in their own community are roundly branded as “betrayers of their race,” while whites who dare defy the leftist politics of so called “black leaders” are branded “racist.”

Can you imagine a debate in mostly-white Gwinnett County where only white candidates are invited? National media trucks would line the streets of Lawrenceville. The sidewalks would be filled with sign waving protesters. You see, it is not racism that draws the crowds, it is the politics. The people who organized the all-black Atlanta debate are politically left wingers. They all support big government, high taxes and uncontrolled government spending. Blacks who oppose big government are condemned by their peers. But white voters, the majority of whom support conservative values, are deemed racist simply because of their political beliefs.

To the left, blacks have earned the right to hold racist views as long as they vote for leftist candidates. And any whites who object to left-wing politics are proclaimed to be racist no matter what their true feelings are. People on the radical left are convinced that they are superior to the rest of us and have the right, even an obligation, to force their opinions on the rest of us. To make that easy, they routinely try to force us into boxes.

We are black or white, rich or poor, northern or southern. We are expected to get into our assigned box and stay there. The left-wingers use such words as “racist,” “bigotry” and “hatred” to force us into our boxes. That makes it much easier for our masters to exercise the kind of control they lust after. But we are all unique individuals. My freedom to be myself should never be considered a threat to anyone else’s freedom. Just get big government and big media off my back and let me be me.

Frank Gillispie is founder of The Madison County Journal. His e-mail address is frank@frankgillispie.com. His website can be accessed at http://www.frankgillispie.com/gillispieonline.