It’s ridiculous that nearly 35 years after the civil rights movement Americans still have to deal with racially charged, prejudicial thoughts and actions. Only now it’s gone the other direction. Today, reverse racism is becoming increasingly prevalent.
Generally speaking, reverse racism is a theory that minorities and minority action groups have a tendency to overreact in racial situations. This “overreaction” can come in the form of violence, excess protest, defamation and pork barrel legislation that gives unfair advantages to ethnic minorities.
Here is a modern-day example of a victim of reverse racism. William Bennett is a high-profile radio talk show host. He used to be the Secretary of Education under the Reagan administration.
Bennett made a comment on his show, “Morning In America,” responding to a caller’s question regarding a book that suggested an increase in the abortion rate has helped reduce the crime rate.
“I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,” Bennett said.
Bennett, who is an abortion opponent, went on to say that such abortions would be “an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.”
Ever since Bennett made this insensitive comment nearly every major news network has aired recordings of him saying, “You could abort every black baby.” They tend to leave out the part where he says that the abortions would be “an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.”
Now, we’ve got the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People calling him a racist; Louis Farrakhan, a Black Islamic leader, calling him a white supremacist; and Harry Reid, the senate minority leader, calling for his removal as a radio talk show host. All of this because he made a stupid and insensitive comment. But is Bennett really a racist, or are people just over-reacting?
Another thing the media have failed to mention is that among Bennett’s many failings he is also a philanthropist. For many years, Bennett and his wife have been involved in a charity called Best Friends. The charity sets up mentors for black inner-city kids. It could be compared to the Boys and Girls Club of America and has benefited thousands of black children. Bennett has poured time and money into Best Friends, but the media don’t like to report that.
If Bennett was a racist, would he have donated money to the very people he hates? Of course not, so why then is Bennett being called a bigot? Bennett is being oppressed for making an insensitive comment that was not racist. This is reverse racism.
It’s evident that because of the history of the treatment of blacks by whites that Black Americans would be sensitive to any racial comment made by a Caucasian.
Slavery and the unequal treatment of minorities has been a plague to the United States that must be brought to light and learned from. But then we must move on. We have to get up off the ground and press forward.
But we’re not pressing forward. Today, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report, 90 percent of the victims of interracial crimes are white, and yet the amount of hate crime coverage by the media would have you believe that it was the opposite.
If we are to move away from racism in this country we must stop the disproportional over-consideration of race and adopt the attitude of equal rights for all and special privileges for none.
Fair-minded citizens should write to their leaders, both local and national, asking them to eliminate or oppose any legislation that would benefit one ethnic group over another.
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