Blatant Black Racists

One thing I find truly sad are black people who are blatantly racist.  Now I know a lot of people will say that I’m a big racist because I adhere to the idea that black people who date outside of the black race exclusively actually help to promote some of the nasty stereotypes most commonly associated with people in the black community.  Others will say that I’m racist because I think that black people should want to support endeavors throughout the black community since few of anybody else really wants to support the black community.  And yes it’s true that I can’t simply endorse some feel good rhetoric that we’re all humans or we’re all Americans and therefore we should work to support everyone.  When people in the black community can honestly enjoy the same status as other communities then we can drop is on par with other communities then we can say things are truly equal and buy the world a Coke.

But until then, as we see instances of intolerance for black people, like when famous black scholars are arrested for being angry in their own home, then it’s pretty obvious that the black community needs more help and support than others.  A lot of people will call me the racist for thinking that racism needs to be confronted and eliminated whenever possible.  Blatant racial prejudices from black people deserve special attention.

I recently had a conversation with a black men who pointed to all the financial problems hitting California during this economic crisis and lay blame squarely on the Mexican community.  This jewel of humanity held the theory that all the budget problems of California could be solved if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would just round up all the illegal aliens and export them back to the south side of the United States’ border with Mexico.  That way, the state wouldn’t have to spend so much on education and on public healthcare and police and other social services.  All Mexicans do is take and take and take and they give nothing, or very little, back in return.

I asked if that’s the case why Texas or New Mexico or Arizona isn’t hurting.  The black man replied that those other states don’t have near the Mexican population of California.  I looked at him incredulously.  I asked if he had ever been to San Antonio or Houston.  I asked if he ever set foot in Brownsville, Texas or ever made a trip to Laredo.  I’ve never been to El Paso but I’m sure there is a strong Mexican community there.  My bottom line point was that I believed Texas is full of Hispanics on par with California.  I’ve never been to California so I wouldn’t know for sure.  But even if California did have a bigger Hispanic population, Texas wasn’t too far behind.  And I don’t know what the populations are in New Mexico and Arizona, but I do believe Hispanics are well represented in those states as well.  No other state even comes close to having the budgeting problems of California.  So chances are to assume that a large Hispanic population automatically drains financial resources is a racist statement without merit.

My associate and I go way back.  I’ve known him practically all my life.  I know for a fact that he is a social and political conservative.  I know for a fact that this particular example of blatant black racism takes advantage of the cheap day labor that having a good size undocumented or unemployed Hispanic population provides.  Whenever he needed to move something heavy or needed to clean something up in a hurry, he knows a corner where he can go and pick up as many Hispanic day laborers he needs in a New York minute.  And whenever that happens, whenever these people provide the service that people need, aren’t they making their own contribution?  True enough they are part of the cash and carry community that avoid paying their full share of income tax, but isn’t the black man who is hiring the day laborer also making the choice not to fully contribute to the tax base?  If a person takes advantage of people who do things on the down low, why complain about them and call them the bane of California’s existence

So this black man wants to take advantage of the Hispanic community that exists under the radar.  But then this same man wants to condemn these people and blames their culture for all our social ills.  They have nothing to offer except for the cheap and ready muscle he needs when he needs it.  The hypocrisy is thick with this one.

California’s budget woes are very similar to our national budget woes that stem from the belief that supply side economics will solve all our problems.  The same economic theories rooted in Reaganomics that plague our national economy were started long before in California.  There is more than enough money in California to solve their budget problems.

But the majority of people in California are so tight fisted against doing anything to help the statewide community through economic hard times that people would rather cut off their nose to spite their social services face.  Raise taxes to help the state through hard times?  Not if state level politicians want to get reelected.  There’s longevity to prolonging the economic crisis and giving people the false impression that watching their state go bankrupt is somehow looking out for their best interest.  And while all of this tight fisted, bankruptcy is better, political maneuvering is going on, we can blame it all on Hispanics.  That’s nothing but blatant racism.  Black people should know better than to make unfounded assumptions based on race.  This was nothing less than a classic example of black pots acting like racist and treating Hispanics kettles the way black pots are treated by others.