I saw a sort of reverse discrimination in use at US Air Force Basic Training. It was 1994, so maybe the Clinton Administration ordered it. There was this social actions/sensitivity training we all had to take. And during it, the men of color were encouraged to dish it out on whitey. And they did, with relish in some cases. Up until then, they had been drilling into us how we were all part of the whole. But after the fourth guy in a row called us honky crackers, I realized something else was going on there. I thought then, and still think now, that it was a trap, designed to see which Caucasian was going to lose his fool head, and say the word that must not be uttered. Fortunately, no one took the bait. Basic Training taught me the basics all right. Of the destructiveness that is Political Correctness, especially when it is motivated by those in charge, or used to settle old scores. But it worked; it got me to keep my damn mouth shut. It’s still at work now.

I’ll borrow your tin hat for a second if I may. Look what happened to Michael Richards, aka Seinfeld’s Krammer. I really think that was all a set up, but look what happens to a fellow when he openly shouts ‘that’ word at the top of his lungs. He got the hammer dropped on him for it. Did anyone defend him? How could you. It was something to remind America that the race subject was a live wire, to be touched at the cost of one’s livelihood. So why don’t we just bury the lines, once and for all?

The OJ/Kobe verdicts told us that no matter how white the victim, there weren’t going to be any more lynchings in this country, thank you very much. But there still are lynch gangs, as in the case of the Duke team mentioned above. Then, we see Jesse Jackson, or Al Sharpton appear on the scene to race bait, and do the hustle. How do they even get away with this once, let alone repeatedly?

I keep hoping to see the end of race politics, but it’s never going to end. Not when the other side has so little in the way of compelling arguments. Not when it still works. You saw it when Justice Thomas was called Uncle Tom, or Condoleezza was called an Oreo. It’s supposed to be about content of one’s character, not anyone’s color.

And now, with the Liberal Hispanics making a bold move into the choppy political waters, a new reign of PC thuggery has taken hold. There is only one way to simultaneously defend Judge Sotomayor and attack her opponents. That will twist her own words and doom those who try to reunite her with them. The old ways still work, so go with that. Has she even supported La Rasa, and do you have the guts to even ask her this? She is suppose to be this great thing, from atop Princeton, and Yale–so why can’t she eloquently defend her own positions? That’s not how the game is played. And, she’s a double whammy, Hispanic AND female. That means any detractor of hers gets both barrels of the Lib shotgun. All it really means is she had 30+ years of preferential treatment, was frequent quota-bait, and possibly only excelled in Hispanic and Women’s Studies classes. And yet quixotically she thinks this provides her some enhanced perspective on the world. As if myopia was a superpower.

Does anyone remember a particular ad aired by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, showing parents speaking to themselves in a mirror, steeling themselves for what their children might say. It’s that sort of desensitization that we all must do. They’ve already called us racists, and oppressors. We are ordered to castigate ourselves for past events. But let the words slide off you. They can’t harm as much as our continued silence will.

Warrior