BLACK SUPREMACY

Perhaps there's something in the American water supply that turns otherwise righteous human beings into blind fools?

For too many years, this nation has had to tolerate the poison of white supremacists. It still plagues us.  From the garden variety skinheads to the duly elected politicians, these are folks who claim exclusive rights to an Aryan Amerika. And they mostly build their house on the notion that white America is under attack by seditious sub-human minorities including blacks, Hispanics and Jews.

And now, in the new "everybody's equal Obama-America", some of these seditious minorities are themselves jumping on the supremacy bandwagon. 

So I suppose "equality" and affirmative action would eventually produce the black equivalent of "white supremacy".  And with a black man in the White House, increasing numbers of black supremacists are coming out of the closet and laying claim to an America defined exclusively according to their own narrow, hate-fueled and desperately bigoted world view.

White supremacists portray Jesus as a blond-haired, blue-eyed goose-stepping neo nazi.  Black supremacists portray Jesus as a Nubian prince.  In both cases, the truth has obviously no part.  Assuming Jesus ever existed, the one fact we do have about him was that he was a Jew and certainly looked more like Woody Allen than either Bjorn Bork or Snoop Dog.

And speaking of Jews....black supremacists have decided that civil rights is the exclusive property of African Americans.  Nothing even remotely compares to the plight of the black man in America and absolutely no one but a black man has a right to define the struggle for civil rights.

We see this from Washington State to New York to South Carolina to Tennessee to the District of Columbia.

As I've said before, if any one group of people can claim ownership of discrimination and persecution, it would be the Jews.  American blacks are rank amateurs in this game.  Slavery and Jim Crow on the table?  I'll match your slavery and anti-Jewish laws and raise you 2,000 years of cultural genocide, the Spanish Inquisition, Eastern European Pogroms and the Holocaust

And with those credentials under my belt, the claim made by members of the black American leadership and the black clergy that only they can judge what is a civil rights issue seems ridiculous and stupid at best and racist and disgusting at worst.

The Rev. William Gillison, pastor of Mount Olive Baptist Church, a large African-American congregation in upstate New York says he is insulted by the comparison of gay rights to "civil rights."

“We know what we have gone through as an ethnic group. We feel the terminology, the definition itself, has really been hijacked,” he said. “Unfortunately, it’s just another ploy to garner more support from people who may not understand what the civil rights struggle was all about.”

Bishop Michael A. Badger, pastor of Bethesda World Harvest International Church also in upstate New York explains that he doesn’t doubt there is discrimination against gay people but that it is hardly on the order of what African-Americans have encountered and still face.  I suppose Bishop Badger thinks being legally at risk of an involuntary lobotomy is a walk in the park.

“As an African-American, I don’t have a choice in the color of my skin. I have a choice in whether I’m abstinent or not,” Badger said. “I don’t think you can compare the two.”

The head of yet another African American congregation, Pastor Jeffery Bowens, who leads Love Alive Christian Fellowship, also disagrees with the comparison.

“It doesn’t add up to me,” Bowens said. “It’s really attempting to get empathy more than anything else.”

Make no mistake about it, there are plenty of African Americans who see the common ground between the black civil rights movement and the gay civil rights movement--New York's governor David A. Paterson, Coretta Scott King and Barack Obama among them.

Governor Paterson recently compared the fight to eliminate slavery in the 1800s to the current effort to legalize gay marriage. He later chided religious leaders for not having spoken out against discrimination of gays.

But what Paterson and others are failing to recognize and condemn is the rise of a black supremacist movement, led by a racist and fundamentalist clergy very much akin to the American white supremacist movement.

Another member of the black clergy, Ralph Chittams has been turned out of restaurants, denied jobs and called unprintable names because he is black. He says he understands discrimination. So forgive him if he doesn’t believe that denying a marriage license to a gay couple is morally equivalent to denying fellow black men the right to sit at a lunch counter.

Characteristic of both black and white supremacists, Chittams makes an argument that is so offensive and so profoundly ridiculous that one can only stand and wonder at the idea that someone this stupid can even craft a complete sentence.

Oof course, I agree with Chittams.  Denying a black man the right to sit at a lunch counter can't possibly be compared to denying a gay man the right to build and protect a family, especially when that gay man can order a tuna salad sandwich wherever and whenever he so pleases. 

Obama is right when he says that we need to open a more candid dialog on the subject of racism and bigotry in America; and that means overcoming our fear of condemning black supremacy--which is as disgusting and as American and as morally, ethically and intellectually as bankrupt as white supremacy.

Comments

[Jim]

all a$$holes are pink.

remember the paperbag test, the blatant discrimination of some black Americans against any black with skin darker than a brown grocery bag

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/31/Columns/The_paper_bag_test.shtml