I believe the declining scores of black students in dilapidated
schools is directly due to integration. After all, blacks should
not have to compete with their superior counterparts.
Of course, I really don’t believe that, but if I dared
utter such ignorant claptrap, I would immediately be branded a
racist, there would be a public outcry, I would lose the
opportunity to interact in the public forum, and I would be
unilaterally shunned by society. It would be a harsh and probably
undeserved fate for saying a harmless thought.
It is a worse fate by far than one given to a certain man who
got away with the brutal killing of his wife and her
friend.Â
The public response to two recent media events illuminates a
horrid flaw in society’s morality. It has been usurped and
inverted by new doctrines of modern liberalism that hold different
people to different standards.
On one side of the new morality spectrum, we have people like
Trent Lott. Although the year is 2003, Lott has gone back in time
to Orwell’s “1984” and is being punished for the
heinous act of a thoughtcrime. Indeed, Lott made an ignorant
statement, but he is treated as though he committed a crime against
humanity. Lott is not being punished for his actual words. He is
being punished for what the mainstream thought he was thinking.
These terrible words were, “When Strom Thurmond ran for
president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the
rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have
had all these problems over all these years, either.” To
assume Lott was lauding a stance on forced segregation, a wholly
disgusting idea, is not a great leap of logic. But, we do not know
Lott’s thoughts for sure. He could have been referring to the
Dixiecrat stance on strong Federalism and states’ rights that
most Americans probably agree with.
The hatred of bigotry seems a little one-sided too. Where was
the outcry, the demand for resignation, and the public humiliation
when minorities made even worse statements?
Julienne Malveaux, a USA Today columnist, said,
“There’s no great, white bigot; there’s just
about 200 million little white bigots out there.”
Representative Diane Watson lambasted our own UC Regent Ward
Connerly saying, “He’s married to a white woman. He
wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic
pride. He doesn’t want to be black.” Jesse Jackson has
referred to New York City as Hymietown, and Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan has called Judaism a “gutter
religion.”
Not only has modern liberalism turned thought into a crime, but
it has completely destroyed the ideal of being judged by character
instead of the color of one’s skin.
On the other side of the new morality spectrum, we have men like
O.J. Simpson. Simpson brutally killed two people, then used his
money and his race to walk away a free man. At least the civil
trial was missing an inept judge and prosecution team and
thankfully found him responsible for the slayings. To this day,
Simpson has not paid the full amount owed to the families of Nicole
Brown and Ronald Goldman. And instead of searching tirelessly for
the “real killer,” he plays golf, lounges around, and
seems to have enough time to be convicted of battery in 2000.
A quick internet search yields O.J.-signed memorabilia selling
for hundreds of dollars. Also, near the end of the year, Simpson
made a surprise visit to the practice of his alma mater’s
football team, the USC Trojans. But instead of being shunned for
the cold-blooded killer that he is, the team and the coach welcomed
him with open arms, got autographs, brought him into the locker
room, and treated him like a Heisman Trophy-winning hero. Instead
of outrage or cordial rejection, the team gladly accepted
Simpson’s return.
“The first time I got a football uniform, I wanted No. 32
to be like “˜The Juice,'” said tailback Justin
Fargas.
Quarterback Carson Palmer admiringly stated, “I think
everybody recognized him even from that far away. I think everybody
noticed. It’s cool.” And the coach, who should have
been the moral leader of the team, shook Simpson’s hand and
said, “He’s a legend. At ‘SC, our guys hold a
Heisman Trophy winner in high regard.”
And so, thanks to the new subverted morality of the American
left, a man who committed a double homicide is treated with higher
regard than a man who said a few careless remarks. Go team go.