“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.”
Does anyone ever blame himself or herself for failure to succeed anymore? Or is it too easy to say it’s because of reverse racism and a cockamamie Great Replacement theory?
I know someone who has applied for hundreds of jobs he hasn’t gotten. I have never once heard him say he didn’t get the job because he wasn’t good enough. He’s no better or no worse than the average guy when it comes to taking responsibility, and I would never call him a racist.
But there are far too many people who blame their own failures on having to compete with people of other races or ethnicities.
That’s not the worst of it, though.
Far worse than people being unwilling to accept their own failures are the people getting rich by feeding their paranoia. Whether it’s politicians like the Klan Mom or media figures like Tucker Carlson, or as high up the ladder as Donald Trump, people are making the situation far worse.
I have lived in nine different states as an adult and there has never been one day in half a century when it was a handicap for me to be white. And while five of those nine states were part of the old Confederacy, the other four weren’t.
Is America changing? Of course it is. I was in my 20s before I heard anyone speaking a language other than English in day-to-day interactions. I was 21 before I came into contact with African-Americans on a daily basis.
I had a truly fascinating experience in the summer of 1972 when I went to a party in Washington, D.C., with a girl I was dating. She had been invited, so I didn’t know what to expect. As it turned out, at a party of 25-30 people, my date and I were the only white people there.
I enjoyed the conversation and the music. The only thing painful about it was the smell of one of the dishes served — chitterlings. I have to admit I didn’t have the nerve to try them.
I live just outside a small city that is 50 percent African-American. I literally cannot imagine anything happening in Griffin remotely like what happened in Buffalo, where an 18-year-old white kid went into a grocery store and started shooting black people.
I don’t believe in capital punishment, but I am more than a little offended that the shooter was detained without a scratch.
Yes, being white is very much a privilege, no matter what America’s Losers say.
I’ll believe it isn’t when the victims are white.