Posted by
Dave Kooker on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:13:13 AM
I was born after the Equal Rights Amendment and the Civil Rights Amendment. I was raised to be an equal opportunity offender by judging everyone by one’s merit and moral fiber. I am a Generation X’er. I am a Caucasian and an American citizen. I had no choice in the matter. That is how God made me.
The basis of the Civil Rights Amendment was to reinforce the Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The Equal Protection Clause can be seen as an attempt to secure the promise of the United States' professed commitment to the proposition that "all men are created equal" by empowering the judiciary to enforce that principle against the states.
As a Caucasian today, just try to apply equality in all aspects of one’s life and just see how many times you hear the word ‘Racist’. Anyone who is non-Caucasian who simply does not get their way has a temper tamptrum and screams ‘Racism’. I seriously question if America even knows the meaning of racism.
The Civil Rights Admendment as it is applied these days is the total opposite of its original intent. Un-equal standards applied with a overtone of 'White Guilt' to produce equal results now means Equal Opportunity. Race baiters like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton desire to bring the Civil Rights movement back to the point in time which started the Civil Rights movement into action in the first place, separate but equal. No intergration.
I under no circumstances endorse forced intergration like school busing. Every person has the choice how much intergration they feel comfortable with. I choose to separate myself from groups of individuals based on social-economic guidelines. If an individual doesn’t want to speak business English and wears thier pants below thier buttock, fine I will treat you like dirt.
Yes cultures and existing civilizations were not treated with the kindest curiosity as America developed into a strong Federal Republic. Name me one growing civilization on this earth, which treated its competitive neighbors as a respected equal. That is the nature of competition that someone wins and the other must acknowledge defeat & adjust or fight back another day. 43 years has past since the enactment of the Civil Rights Amendment. That is two generations. How many future generations who never committed the offenses of the past must pay to the offended generations of individuals who never experienced the offense?
If my father commits murder before I am born should I go to jail as a child or adult to pay for the justice of my father? The answer is No. Why should it apply to race relations?
The current generations should be kissing their fore-father’s gravestones and thanking them for paying the heavy price of injustices for today’s generation enjoyment of freedom and affluence.
There is an active Islamic slave trade in Africa now. I certainly do not see like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton actively persuing justice and starting a Civil Rights movement over there.
I am not guilty of any crimes against humanity. It is beyond me why Caucasians have this continued ‘White Guilt’. More than enough government effort has been made to right a sin of the past.
I progressed in life as a successful American citizen without:
Employment and contract Quotas
Set-asides for college entrance numbers
No entitlements
Socially accepted double standards how laws are applied i.e. ‘Hate Crimes’
Why can’t anyone else?
I want to be on the record of announcing my Emancipation Proclamation from White Guilt. I am simply an American citizen with a clean slate. Use your phony baloney guilt on someone else.