Monday, November 20, 2006

CM PRESS # 6


WHITE GUILT DOESN'T HELP BLACKS [OR ANYONE ELSE]

John Stossel has a column in the OC REGISTER today with the above title.

In his column, Stossel points out that some black intellectuals, such as Shelby Steele (who has written a book on the subject of white guilt), are now saying that many people are stuck in old thinking from the '50's and that big discussions on so-called "white privilege" simply mask what blacks themselves are doing and that when whites go along with supposed white guilt and try to compensate blacks with things such as affirmative action that this is actually a subtle form of racism.

"They [whites]," writes Steele, "make the argument that whites can solve [black people's] problems. ...The problem with that is...you reinforce white supremacy all over again. And black dependency."

Steele gets it right.

However, both Stossel and Steele could have saved a lot of words if they had simply used a term that I coined and have used for several years in some of my national columns and in my own books: "Noblesse Oblige Racism."

This term covers what these two are saying and then some. I've also broken down this term into three major subcategories, but there is no need to discuss them at length here, so I'll just mention them in passing: Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers, Lord Jims, and Mother Teresas.

Why is any of this important for Costa Mesa?

It's important for a deeper understanding of some of the dynamics and psychology at work in our city. In Costa Mesa, we have a whole slew of noblesse oblige racists (whose neuroses are often masked with phony compassion), but because of our demographics the recipients of their racist largess are often illegal aliens instead of blacks. Brown skin just substitutes for black skin in Costa Mesa with these neurotics.

Some of these noblesse oblige racists act as though illegal aliens are escaped slaves in the old south and they treat them like helpless children incapable of taking care of themselves and who have to be hidden and protected by the noblesse oblige racists. This dehumanizes people and puts them in an inferior position to the noblesse oblige racist whites.

Some of our local noblesse oblige racists also don't want our local cops to check identification or to turn illegal aliens over to ICE. Unfortunately, some of these noblesse oblige racists may even be in the CMPD--perhaps mostly as holdovers from a past administration. We see them looking the other way when quality of life violations are reported by citizens. This is helping ratchet down the quality of life in our city.

We see such officers bending over backwards in some cases to not see things that our local ordinances prohibit, such as: using hand powered push carts, stealing shopping carts, parking large vending trucks in the wrong places or remaining in the city when they are supposed to be off our streets. We also see this in officers not ticketing suspected illegal aliens for parking in front of red curbs near our schools and other places, not reaching out to merchants to have them post signs that will allow the cops to remove loitering day workers, not stopping team sports that endanger toddlers in parks that aren't sports fields, and more.

The CM PRESS has been contacted by some citizens who believe that they are being treated more harshly by some cops than illegal aliens and that some cops may be racially profiling white citizens (maybe also black and yellow citizens). Consider: If you're a cop and you don't want to turn illegal aliens over to ICE and if your department has some brass who send down subtle messages that illegal aliens are to be given a pass, and if you have to prove that you're doing your job by writing traffic tickets, then who are you going to ticket for minor infractions? Right. White, yellow and black citizens.

After all, if you ticket browns, the odds are higher that they may be illegal aliens. And, if they're illegal aliens they may not have drivers licenses, car registrations, auto insurance. So, if you're a cop and you see browns breaking minor traffic laws, what do you do to keep them from being discovered as being illegal aliens? You don't ticket them.

But, that gives you a problem. Remember, you have to show that you're doing your job by writing a reasonable number of traffic tickets each day. This means that you're going to go after whites, blacks and yellows and ticket them, because you know that most of them are probably citizens.

Is the above going on? Got us. The City Council or the City Manager could ask for statistics on who is ticketed and this might give us some clues. Don't count on this happening, though. If our past experience with the city about such matters is any clue, top administrators will say that they don't keep such statistics. How convenient.

At any rate, the good, decent citizens of this city rejected the divisive and negative nonsense of a small vocal group and sent a message in the election this month that they want our laws enforced fairly and without prejudice for or against anyone and that they want our city improved even if this discomfits those who benefit psychologically or economically from Costa Mesa being downscale.
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