Let us all protest
LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson
I want to protest.
I have never been much of a political exhibitionist, but now I have seen how easy it is to adopt a cause.
This new attitude is owed to my “white privilege.” I didn’t know I was such until I read the signs and listened to the wisdom of those marching. Now that I know what I am supposed to be, I need to protest my existence.
I want to despise myself as much as liberals do for the privilege of starting out with nothing and paying my dues.
Silly me, I believed if I developed a plan, I had a shot at success. I didn’t know what I would accomplish in life was due to my race.
Why didn’t liberal elitists tell me if everything didn’t come my way as quickly as I wanted, I could march and chant in unison with other victims? Maybe “white privilege” is a new propaganda tool. Could that be it?
Where are my signs and mask? I’m ready!
I am being facetious, of course. I am not ridiculing the fact whites in general have had an easier time in America than minorities. That is historically true. I am objecting to the “white privilege” label which is political. Isn’t everything these days?
It has become too easy to accept labels thrown about. To say all whites are privileged is a lie. To say whites are responsible solely for the social or economic condition of non-whites is absurd. To argue the conduct of people 150 years ago is somehow the responsibility of people trying to get ahead today is illogical.
That’s my protest, but I’m merely presenting an argument. I’m not going to get in anyone’s face over it nor will I destroy someone else’s property while claiming racial privilege. That is the work of the left.
I want everyone to get ahead. I want people to get along. I just don’t believe if those things don’t happen, it is the fault of whites alone. Social justice isn’t accomplished by embracing victimization; it is achieved by the defeat of it.
Blaming others is an effective liberal tool. It has become a substitute for the solutions they don’t have and don’t seek. Solutions end need and interest on the part of those objecting, but a cause perpetuated keeps white liberals in power.
Does that last remark describe more “white privilege”? Seems so. Is the “white privilege” label a form of racism? Yup, sure is. It just isn’t framed that way.
Perhaps you have noticed the “white privilege” tag is argued as much by white liberals as by minority spokespersons. I just hope minorities understand white liberal establishment pols exploit minority populations for political gain. Indeed, they depend on it.
Perhaps you have noticed how protests have gradually shifted from broader points to Donald Trump. For example, football players aren’t disrespecting the national anthem now because of a personal grievance concerning the country as a whole. No sir, they are protesting Donald Trump for being who he is and for his pointed remarks in defense of anthem and flag.
That is how the left operates. They have effectively nudged the grievance presentation to Trump whom they abhor and want to defeat. Lies and labels follow.
What is Trump according to the left? White privilege. White supremacy. Racist. All lies, but easy if one knows how to frame them. And the left does.
There. I have had my protest which, you can see, isn’t about other protestors‘ rights, but about the politically immoral who seek power at the expense of truth and other people.
I have put my sign and marching shoes aside for now, but I know where they are.
Don’t make me come out there.
Especially on Sunday. Football at high noon. When most people, black and white, still respect flag and country and resent being told how to think by those self-serving.
Larry W. Anderson is a retired educator, author and Bearcat.
