America: A Nation of Cowards

Most people have, at some point in their life, stared at passing
clouds and recognized, in their view, various shapes. Rarely do two
people agree on what shape a cloud represents. One person could see an
angel, and their cloud-observing antagonist may see an evil spirit in
the same cloud. Perhaps their visual perceptions are caused by a
psychological predilection. Psychologists believe this is so.

The Rorschach inkblot test is one form of administering a
psychological evaluation for diagnosing underlying thought disorders.
After staring at an array of ink blots, the testee describes what the
shapes represent. This test was played out in real life yesterday as a
political cartoon in the New York Post.

Perhaps a preamble is necessary in order to make manifest the
various dynamics surrounding the political cartoon. Two events were
headline news earlier this week: the signing of the spending package by
President Hope and Change; and the pet chimpanzee that went on a
maniacal rampage, almost killing his owner’s friend, and was
subsequently killed by the police. Two hundred pound pet monkey
violently attacking the owner’s friend= monkey bad; President Hope and
Change signing an $800 billion defective spending bill that no one has
read, including Hope and Change = leaders stupid. For these two events
to occur simultaneously is manna from heaven for a political cartoonist.

The cartoon:

Any observer with a passable intellect, common sense, and a
semi-workable sense of cerebral balance, would know that the cartoon
referenced the monkey attack, and the verbiage from the officers
represented an intellectual view of the spending package. But Post Haste was
the ignorant reaction from the visceral in regard to the cartoon.
Leading the charge was race baiter and racial opportunist, Al Sharpton.

Sharpton said the cartoon…."invokes historically racist images in suggesting an ape wrote President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package." Sharpton also stated, "The
cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best, given the racist
attacks throughout history that have made African-Americans synonymous
with monkeys." The spending bill was written by congressional
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (a white woman), and Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, (a white man). I personally don’t find it
objectionable that Sharpton referred to Pelosi and Reid as monkeys, but
I am sure there are plenty of monkeys that would be highly offended by
the comparison.

Also chiming in from the peanut gallery is Rolland Martin, a
syndicated columnist who on a good day is limited to just being a
racial bigot. Martin gleefully celebrates the death of anyone he has
anointed as racist. Referencing the deaths of Georgia Gov. Lester
Maddox and Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, and speaking shortly
after the death of Sen. Jesse Helms, Roland glibly stated, "Death
has a way of sanitizing the most virulent and despicable aspects of
prominent lives, especially those who trafficked in racial bigotry. Now they are joined in the conservative wing of heaven by former Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina." Perhaps
Martin should re-read–assuming he has read it once–the Bible, as
there is very little compassion for the type of liberalism that is
pervasive in our society today, much less accommodating a liberal wing
in heaven. Martin called the cartoon offensive, careless and racist , and also said the cartoon was clearly comparing President Obama to a chimpanzee.

The cartoonist, Sean Delonas, in his defense said, "It’s
absolutely friggin ridiculous. Do you really think I’m saying Obama
should be shot? I didn’t see that in the cartoon. The chimpanzee was a
major story in the Post. Every paper in New York, except The New York
Times, covered the chimpanzee story. It’s just ridiculous. It’s about
the economic stimulus bill. If you’re going to make that about anybody,
it would be Nancy, Pelosi, which it’s not." As the York Post said in its defense of running the cartoon, "Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else."

Quite serendipitously, Eric Holder, the Attorney General of the
United States, and one of Obama’s more deplorable picks, stated quite
analogously yesterday, "Though this nation has proudly thought of
itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been
and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of
our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved
racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk
enough with each other about things racial."

Eric Holder is correct: we are a nation of cowards because we cannot
discuss the issue of race. The reason being because Eric Holder, Roland
Martin, Al Sharpton, NAACP, New Black Panthers, et al, are ardent
racists, and, as demonstrated during the Obama campaign, all criticism
of Obama was rooted in racism. There was plenty of dialog about race,
and it usually went as so:

Smart person, "Obama is not qualified."

Racist, "That’s a racist statement."

Smart person,"Was Obama born here?"

Racist, "That’s a racist question."

Smart person, "Obama is a Socialist."

Racist, "That’s a racist statement."

Smart person, "I don’ agree with Obama’s liberal ideology."

Racist, "That’s a racist attitude."

And on and on and on with the same old race baiting poppycock.
Indeed, there was plenty of race dialog during the campaign, and it has
not abated one iota. Case in point is the statement by black South
Carolina Congressman James Clyburn that, "southern governors opposing
the stimulus package is a slap in the face of African-Americans. Folks, it does not get any more racist than this in the 21st century."

Until the multitudes of simple-minded apostles resist being led down
the path of philistinism by these sectarian, intolerant, and
self-serving provocateurs, no honest dialog will happen.

This cartoon, this ink blot, this litmus test of common sense, was
an unwitting test of one’s propensity for racism. Whoever was offended
by this cartoon is a racist because of his projection bias. Their
projection bias of racism will always be attributed to something or
someone else as long as they harbor their disfigured disposition.
Whatever one’s inclination happens to be, will be found in what they
have contact with: if good, then good will be reflected back; if
hateful, hate will be reflected back; if racist, racism is reflected
back.

Have we, as a country, achieved a point where the word "monkey" is now deemed racist? Should we refer to the hairy creatures as macaca fascicularies-Americans? Is this the point we have arrived at?

Yes, indeed, we are a country of cowards. Al Sharpton, Rolland
Martin, James Clyburn, and Eric Holder, and their ilk are the
cowards–Americans only in the academic sense: they are unfit to be
considered my countrymen; they are unfit to be considered patriots of
this country. Indeed, Mr. Holder, you are a coward, and as far as there
not being enough dialog about race, you are a liar; in fact, there has
been so much talk about race this past year, I am quite frankly sick of
it, especially the racist dialog coming from your side of the aisle.