Collins Report

By Bruce Karlson

For the past several decades we’ve been hearing about racism. It’s ever present; its practitioners are legion; it’s the prime reason blacks are wildly over represented in prison; and it’s responsible for the great disparity in per capita income. The list is both elastic and infinite. All of this is, of course total bunk.

It is espoused by various pitchmen who have very vested interests in promoting the idea that failure to compete by a black is always someone else’s fault.

Invariably that impediment is white or, occasionally, a black who dares to disagree with the politically accepted “truth”. If a black kills a policeman, the immediate outcry is “police brutality”. If a black doesn’t get some government or private sector job, and a white does, the idea of differences of qualification is dismissed. It was clearly racism.

Meanwhile, these “saviors” of the non white races maintain a royal existence. Jesse Jackson is fiercely opposed to school vouchers, which would begin to get poor inner city black students out of their disgraceful excuse for government schools. Jackson, Obama, et al. send their children to upscale private schools while those they “help” wallow in hopelessness, “taught” by overpaid time servers immune from firing.
President Obama tried hard to have the very small DC voucher program abolished, but was forced to relent. He was probably a bit uncomfortable with the likelihood of his daughters rubbing elbows with a poor child. Jesse Jackson made sure his children avoided government schools and managed to get a Bud distributorship for one of them.

All of us have read about or witnessed the ascension of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Somehow Robinson made it, in a decidedly more racist country ( the armed forces were still segregated), without any Jacksons, Obamas, or Sharptons.

While Branch Rickey likely hoped to spike attendance, no one could doubt that Robinson was a great asset to the team. There was huffing and puffing but in short order it was back to baseball.

When is the last time one heard any of these self promoters and liars reference Jackie? “Never!” is the obvious answer. He made it on talent, guts, and perseverance so his story doesn’t “fit”. Ergo, when racism was a legitimate issue, he ignored it. Now when racism is no longer a genuine factor in America’s daily life, whites have our faces rubbed in it constantly, while black racism is perfectly acceptable if it is acknowledged at all. Last fall many blacks ( fully 95%) voted for Barack Obama for reasons of racial solidarity. Not a word of protest came from the mainstream media. Suppose whites admitted they were voting for John McCain because he is white or, conversely, not black. String them up! Hate crime! Rampant racism! There is, of course, no logical difference but we are apparently too cowed to point this out.
There is a double standard that requires all of us to suspend disbelief and accede to the idea that racism is rampant in this country. I must admit that I, who live in the “Red Neck Riviera”, do not know one racist and I cannot remember ever hearing a disparaging remark based solely on race.
There are rumored to be some back woods enclaves that may still cling to racist ideas, but none I’ve ever been to. The race mongers need them as they occasionally need to trot someone out who remains a racist, the less educated the better.

The question is, if I do not know any racists, and you “the reader” do not know any, WHERE ARE THEY??

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