Where Will It End?

The French fleur de lis (see left) is now being called a racist symbol, a symbol of slavery.

This raises in my mind just one question: Is there anything left that people are not claiming to be racist? Where will this end?

There is still racism in America

. . . and it's almost entirely in the black community and its Leftist overseers.

Just a few examples, collected in just a few minutes:

• BLACK YOUTH MOB Attacks Woman Near University of Chicago Campus With Kids in Back Seat — "[T]hey were ... telling me that I didn’t belong in their neighborhood because I was white."
• Hate Crime Charges Now Being Sought for Cincinnati Black Mob Attack on White Male — an attack categorized as an anti-white hate crime.
• Black Youths Mock and Laugh at Unconscious and Bloody Victim After July 4th Beatdown (VIDEO) — police had to rescue the man from an attacking mob of about forty Black people.
• Man hit with milk crate, called 'white bread' by group of black men in anti-white attack on Staten Island — Seven black men called a 28-year-old man “white bread” and other insults ... The group then chased after the white victim, punching and kicking him. They struck him with a milk crate, a fluorescent light bulb, a bottle and other garbage they picked up
• Black Councilman On Black On White Violence: ‘Blacks Purposefully Beating Up Whites’
• Black-on-white Violence Rampant, Ignored by Authorities and Media — "Ignoring racial violence only guarantees that it will get worse."
• College Group Warns Whites: “Your Race Is Taking Up Space And Silencing Others”… — the new racism characterized by this poster (just one of many such instances now)
  
• Black-on-white crime in America — Sadly, when it comes to interracial crime, the reverse [black on white crime] is anything but rare.
• Progressive Professor Urges White Male Students to Commit Suicide During Class — “If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world! They only murder, exploit and oppress non-whites! At least a white woman can have sex with a black man and make a brown baby but what can a white male do? He’s good for nothing.” — multiple kinds of bigotry all rolled into one
• Should Black Bigots Be Tolerated? — “Why are so many Black Americans racist toward whites?”
• Three Arrested, One Sought in Bloody Beating of White Tourist — Three arrests have been made in the shocking beating of a white male tourist in Cincinnati by a mob of Black men on the Fourth of July during a race riot.
• Jamie Foxx and the rise of black bigotry — Age of Obama viewed as payback for slavery — this may be why any criticism of Obama or his policies is attacked as racist, "just because he's black." (for accuracy, half black and half white — half African but not at all African-American)

This pervasive discrimination against whites has become not only institutionalized but ossified. Affirmative action, racial set-asides, university quotas, the relentless push for “diversity” and the constant drive to purge our European Judeo-Christian roots from the public square amount to a liberal campaign of anti-white racism.

In this context, it would also be worthwhile to look at this and this.

Last Thoughts for 2014

. . . from Thomas Sowell. He has a real knack for encapsulating complex circumstances and making them eminently understandable. As, for example, his comment on a recent statement from the former Secretary of State:

Hillary Clinton's idea that we have to see the world from our adversaries' point of view — and even "empathize" with it — is not new. Back in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said, "I have realized vividly how Herr Hitler feels." Ronald Reagan, however, made sure our adversaries understood how we felt. Reagan's approach turned out a lot better than Chamberlain's.

And that should be no surprise to anyone — except, maybe, for those on the "squishy Left". Sowell also makes a broader point:

There are few modest talents so richly rewarded — especially in politics and the media — as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

Sowell also comments that Republicans, as a group, are far too gentlemanly. Especially when they should be slapping down the demagogues.

Republicans complain when Democrats call them racists. But when have you ever heard a Republican counterattack? You don't win by protesting your innocence or whining about the unfairness of the charge. Yet when have you heard a Republican reply by saying, "You're a lying demagogue without a speck of evidence. Put up or shut up!"

I agree with that. Strongly. The Democrats' (mis-)leadership really needs to be called out on their continuing dishonesty in this and in so many other areas.

These are just a few of Sowell's "random thoughts" at the end of the year. There are some additional good ones at the link above. I can't wait to see what he says in 2015.