The Preservation of Racism... From the voice inside a black man’s head
Everything happens for a reason.
Much of this began as a post I drafted over a year ago in response to an online discussion that arose after a former colleague shared her reactions to the news of a black reality TV star who made headlines for calling a white co-star “mediocre.”
The discussion sparked by my former colleague’s commentary was mostly in a business-corporate context – my response centering around a phrase she coined: ’Fallacy of Meritocracy’.
Revisiting this more than a year later I realized that I had (sarcastically) written:
A New Treatise for Perpetuating Racism Successfully in 21st Century, Post Racial America
I've edited the original post, eliminating the original backstory and setup and adding a few minor tweaks. What remains is Racism's mantra - personified as the voice in my head – or as the voice in my head giving the comprehensive speech back to all those who've deposited their support of the American way (or racism, if you really mean it).
Like this if you support racism… or… if sarcasm is beyond you…
Any republican and, or tea-party candidates found plagiarizing this in speeches will be dealt with accordingly.
Upward mobility is an individual enterprise.
Even in a society as progressive as ours is today, freedom and democracy are at risk – meaning that our way of life is at risk. Everything that we do – everything that our forefathers did – protects our way of life.
To continue protecting our way of life we have to refute any notion that assails the sanctity of individualism and personal responsibility. These are the devices of our forefathers and the backbone of our exceptionalism. We must let no men convince other men that there are impediments put upon these devices aside from those that may reside within themselves.
Not history, nor politics, nor poverty, or anything the like shall be accepted by any individual who believes in our ideal. Group dynamics are a myth if you believe in Freedom – if you believe in our way of life. We shall remain dismayed and bewildered in the eyes of those claiming there are disparities caused by our ideal – we must never offer concession or admonishment to them – in fact, we must not even acquiesce that there is a “them” in this context.
Adherence to this treatise is license and rationale for dismissing all suitors who want the fruits of our way of life without accepting its ideal. No biases shall be held against us – or be defined as biases for that matter – because the attribution and definition of our “biases” may be discredited on the grounds that they are simply an inverted view of our ideal – the ideal interpreted in the absence of acceptance.
Remain steadfast that our ideal is infallible and most critical to sustaining our way of life – our way of life being beneficial to those who falsely claim they are better than they can possibly ascend in our society. The core principles supporting our ideal shall be defended as serving an accepted moral authority and those aspiring to reach higher ground shall be reminded that it could be worse.
No credit or merit shall be given to those who define us and our ideal as unjust or partial – we only care about the best. Therefore, all systems, institutions, or beliefs to which we ascribe and, or supply our support may not be credibly labeled as unjust or partial, because:
1. It is bias against Freedom and Democracy – an unjust and undue claim against our way of life – that gives rise to discontent among men who would perceive this great freedom as part and parcel to an institutionalized or systemic device, solely designed to give partial treatment and undue access to individuals on a preconceived basis.
Furthermore such a 'machine’ shall forever be regarded as wholly imperceptible to those who believe in Freedom and Democracy; therefore creating further evidence with which to invalidate the notion that those who live in support of our way life are, or could be, unjustly positioned, especially not in a way that is affective to other individuals.
–AND– 2. As perpetuating Freedom and Democracy are irreproachable, so too then are the means with which we ensure such perpetuation. The perceptions held among those men claiming that their personal freedom is somehow an unjust enterprise - and that which they would use to characterize this phantom injustice – are, by extension, no more than an elaborate attempt to subjugate Freedom’s protectors (you and me) to their own means for exerting power unfairly. It’s better to be called a victimizer - if in the name of our way of life – than it is to become a victim. Sticks and stones…
–AND– 3. The words of men who seek to convince other men that Freedom and Democracy are impure or unjust, shall be rebuked by those who believe in our way life, for these assailants are to be treated as cloaked assassins – believers in anarchy – who are merely engaging in an attempt to project, externalize and be rid of the responsibility to care for this great freedom they have been given as a citizen of our society.
Make no apology for the circumstances and conditions experienced by discontentment – an untenable enemy of our way of life. Deny all claimants, as no requester of shared responsibility shall be honored above individualism’s champions, especially those of whom claim that the effort of other men are by design responsible for their circumstances and conditions.
Refute all such claims and deny all opportunities to cast Freedom and Democracy - our way of life – as scapegoat. Let not the mouths of men abuse those who believe in our ideal with their claims of victimization at the hands of some 'collective’ to which they shall also claim Freedom and Democracy provide you and I exclusive access and membership.
Let it be confounding and unfathomable to you that any such ‘collective’ could exist amidst the purity of our Freedom and Democracy. How can one perceive that which is imaginary? Freedom and Democracy – nor their champions – may be described as excluding – all individuals are welcomed to excel, even those men who presently seek to assail our way life.
Heretofore it is decreed that claims made of the existence of some force – seen or unseen – shall not be allowed in the presence of those who accept our ideal – nor will such claims be allowed to desecrate Freedom and Democracy, in such a way to describe the plane upon which the efforts of our citizens manifest as imbalanced or unjst.
The efforts, skills and talents-in-life possessed by individuals living within the reach of our way of life serve only to propel those individuals to the ends of their desires and aspirations. Certainly the attributes of individuals must be set forth on the platforms of work ethic and personal enterprise, and consequently our defenders may cite the absence of any, or all such attributes when those seeking to assail Freedom and Democracy make claims that they have been impeded or denied in spite of their subset of wonderful attributes.
Those who would deny that our way is as pure and as just as we know it to be, will double down on their libelous claims that there is a collective fueled by the prejudices of specific individuals, and that this collective and its prejudices are responsible for the undesirable conditions and circumstances experienced by the discontent – by the would be assassins of Freedom and Democracy.
Beware of the individual that would generalize the defenders of Freedom and Democracy as synonymous with the phantom collective upon which they project their malaise. Those who ascribe to our way of life will be accused of gaining access to the fruits of Freedom and Democracy only by right of birth. We know this to be untrue as our undying individualism and personal responsibility are the lighted path to fully realizing the benefit of Freedom and Democracy.
Your accuser will seek to limit Freedom and Democracy’s defenders by claiming that any and all ascension, achievement and triumphs belonging to us are singularly defined by our membership to the collective of their imaginations.
Cast them out as Christ would a demon; lamenting that they would blaspheme against Freedom and Democracy. Remind them that individualism and personal responsibility, each of tremendous purity and grace, exclude no one! Reverse their ilk by shedding light upon them and their tendency to shrink, fail, and retreat as defined only by their self-diagnosed lack of access to this phantom collective – or even worse and perhaps representative that some are a lost cause – as a direct result of the actions carried out by this non-existence collective.
Maintain extreme disbelief that any soul within the reach of Freedom and Democracy might perceive this (imaginary) collective – as an entity unaware of itself yet intentionally limiting the existence and causing the perceived impediment of individuals – individuals who strangely have in common, disdain of their position or station within our society – a society that we know provides unfettered access to all things deserved.
As a preserver of the ideal, the point of view held by the assailant is everything in life to which we are categorically opposed. The assailant provides a definitive illustration of the truly dire consequences awaiting us if we ever acquiesce that a better could be undone or denied by a lesser.
He who believes what the assailants believe is foreshadowing the lack of capacity and moral fiber and high character – inherent among those who defend the ideal, as evidenced by [INSERT ANECDOTAL EXPERIENCE/ACHIEVEMENT HERE]. Our fall from grace – if we allow subversion by those who would destroy our way of life – will dismantle the work we have done and that our forefathers did to ensure that all souls in the care of Freedom and Democracy would enjoy the fruits of great effort.
Gone will be the abundance of wonderful innate traits working in concert to bring about desirable outcomes – that we the defenders of Freedom and Democracy celebrate – even when we must do so in the face of [INSERT HARDSHIP THAT INTERSECTED MAJOR TRIUMPH HERE] – a trial that may have likely destroyed a lesser person (and let it remain unsaid, that this be especially true of those who refuse personal responsibility and denies the truth that freedom is mankind’s greatest equalizer)."
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