Are
Black and White Conservatives Racist?
Townhall – Armstrong
Williams – 9/21/2012
What
you’ll often hear from conservatives like me is that the left’s solutions to the
problems that ail minority communities are themselves racist, since they operate
on the fundamental premise that minorities are incapable. There’s almost
nothing, according to Democrats, that minorities are cable of accomplishing
without the help of the government. To hear some Democrats speak, minorities are
incapable of doing just about anything without a handout or a leg up.
Black
and white Republicans find ourselves labeled racist, Uncle Toms, race traitors,
and for daring to say no, no, no, they don’t need anyone’s – much less the
government’s – help to get ahead in life. We live in a world where saying that
we’re all equal and no one deserves a handout more than the person sitting next
to us makes us a racist.
It
all gets back to the lack of tolerance of others’ beliefs regardless of race,
and the failure to exercise patience in order to understand why Republicans of
all colors believe as they do.
Tolerance, or rather
the lack thereof is my point. By automatically labeling one whole segment of the
political spectrum as racist, the left has attempted to de legitimize all
conservative thought. It’s a red herring. Every idea is labeled as racially
insensitive and therefore, inherently bad.
The
virtue of tolerance demands that you check your prejudices at the door and
consider the person and their beliefs based on their merits. We ask that all
people do this when dealing with someone of a different race, yet how quickly we
forget to exercise the same ideal when discussing politics.
COMMENT: Considering
that you get what you tolerate, should we tolerate the accusations of the
Congressional Black Caucus that all Conservatives are
racist?
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