I grew up on the north side of Fort Worth, Texas. Our community was a mixture of white, black, brown, a few yellow and red. There were also Mexicans, Pollocks, Frogs, Cherokee and others. First and foremost, we were all Americans. But the ethnic differences were key to understanding the cultures and differences between us and our ancestors. There was no malice associated with the words, we would laugh. We would throw out our chests and tell “Your Mommy” jokes. And there were always the blonde jokes.
It was a different time. We were raised in the era of “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me!” We lived by that mantra.
We recognized that everyone was different, everyone had different talents, everyone had different issues. And everyone was created by God, so each was special and unique. No one was the same, and that was great. It was as simple as that, we were kids.
Our parents worked hard, usually, our Mothers stayed at home – and they worked. We went to each other’s homes. We told jokes, we laughed, we played tricks, nothing was sacred except God. Every day we honed our “equal opportunity offender” banners.
Maybe it was the attitude coming out of a World War. Some of the Dads showed the scars of that war. No one ever spoke of what they did, but we knew they did something. What we realized was that every color, creed and nationality fought in that war, and all the blood was red.
Was that racism noticing all those differences? It was not at the time. And I stand by the notion that noticing differences today is not racist but judging someone solely by the color of their skin, now that is racist.
What is systemic racism? What does it mean? Does it really exist, or is it a word to deflect attention from the root causes of people not achieving their true happiness?
I have driven though the government housing projects of the Bronx, St Louis, Chicago and other metropolitan areas. They are terrible. They are dirty and they lack life. They lack happiness, they lack energy.
But what was more shocking to me was when I took my family on an RV vacation and we drove through the Lakota and Sioux Reservation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. I had never seen such poverty, depression and sorrow. There were no kids running and laughing, none!
And then, a few years ago, I travelled to India. The tarp city outside the Hyderabad Airport in India, erected for the outcasts of civilization, it was worse, but it was not part of the federal housing program. It makes one cry.
What is systemic racism? From the choice of the words, systemic must mean that there is an organization behind the racism, and it is built into the fabric of our society.
What does the government housing and the funded Native American reservations have in common? The obvious answer is that they are both targeted federal funded projects. Tax dollars are stolen from some and then used to solve a problem. In this case, the federal government has no expertise. Building housing was never considered a Constitutional federal responsibility.
There is an adage that problems are best solved at the local level. The Framers understood, why can’t todays’ leaders? The Framers created a government to protect the freedoms of the citizens. Today, the behemoth federal government wants more power.
Is systemic racism creating a program targeted at a certain group based upon the color of their skin? I believe that it is. The living and breathing Constitutional experts such as former Presidents Obama and Johnson would say that housing falls under the General Welfare clause. Nothing could be farther from the truth. General Welfare is for the benefit of ALL, not a single group.
Instead of concentrating on the explicit powers given to the federal government, the government strays from the mandate of the Constitution which limits the power of the Federal Government. Instead of protecting the God-given rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the government embarks on what they believe will create happiness!! How do they know what makes you happy? Was that a question on the census?
The Framers understood poverty, but they did not grant the Federal government the power to end poverty. That power remained at the State and local level, where it was most cost effective to solve a community problem.
Today, “Helping the Oppressed” is a weapon in the federal government arsenal. It allows government to grow and expand. Now they erroneously demand equity! Citizens are no longer allowed to be different; all results must be normalized.
Equity is the new answer to all problems. I understand equity. Our beef farm was adjacent to a dairy farm. There is equity in a dairy farm. The cows were milked twice per day at the same time and they were fed three times per day at the same time. They were forced to have sex once per year whether they wanted it or not. When a cow was too old to produce milk, they produced hamburger.
Today, the elixir of the progressive socialist liberals is EQUITY. Equity is a cancer. Equity promotes systemic racism by allowing people to believe that life is rigged against them, simply due to the color of their skin.
The quest to define systemic racism has not been answered. Systemic racism appears to be a shadow, an evil accusation intended to divide this great Nation along lines of color, when this Nation IS NOT divided!
Contact your State and Federal representatives. Tell them to promote life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, and leave the rest to us, regardless of color.
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Mr Weaver began:
Welp, you’re already raaaaacist, since you cannot refer to “yellow” and “red” as colors referring to race.