One issue that I can’t help coming back to is the problem of race relations in our country, especially between black and white Americans.  Discussion over the ‘N’ word arose again recently after Jesse Jackson used the term in a derogatory way toward Barack Obama.  The word was also debated on an episode of “The View” with Elisabeth Hasselbeck arguing against Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd.  While racism of any kind is a huge problem for any society, the double standard that seems to exist in America dealing with black racism presents a huge problem. 

In listening to part of Hasselbeck’s comments on YouTube, she seemed to make perfect logical sense.  If the ‘N’ word is so offensive, then its use should not be accepted by anyone.  Goldberg and Shepherd contended that Blacks could use the ‘N’ word as much as they wanted, even as a term of endearment, while Whites should not be allowed to use the word under any circumstances.  I’ve heard this argument before, and it makes no sense whatsoever.  There are derogatory words for every race and people in the world, yet black Americans seem to be the only ones so freely using these words. 

What if all the white people in America decided that only they could use the word ‘cracker.’  We could force Nabisco and all the other food companies to change the name of the food product known as the cracker because it offends white people.  All white people would then start referring to each other as ‘crackers.’  “Yo, what’s up cracker?”  “You’re one funny cracker.”  And any time black people said the word, all white people could attack them as being racists.  Now does this sound completely absurd?

Whoopi’s argument that black people have taken the ‘N’ word back after it was used against them is absolutely ridiculous.  The Jewish people were enslaved and mistreated for a much greater span of history than black people in America, but I don’t hear them using derogatory words amongst each other as terms of endearment.  I’ve never heard of them asking for reparations for their slavery either.

There are members of the Black Community who realize that there is a double standard concerning race.  The most well known to me is Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who I have seen numerous times on Fox News talking about the subject.

My employees, the majority of whom are black, throw the ‘N’ word around constantly.  I have told them several times in the past not to use the word around customers because I consider it profanity.  I still hear it quite frequently, but sometimes I will get an, “Oh, sorry.”

The most prominent example of the double standard can be seen in the rise in popularity of Barack Obama.  Two of my columns (Part I, Part II) exposed the Black Liberation Theology that Sen. Obama has supported for the past twenty years. 

The views of James Cone and Jeremiah Wright, and the mission of Trinity United Church of Christ, are no secret.  I did not have to look hard to reveal the racist nature of their belief system.  Barack Obama has publicly stated his support of this “church” and its leader for the past twenty years.  He defended Trinity and Wright several times during the Democratic primaries, and broke with both only when people just started learning what Black Liberation Theology was all about, and then the media dropped the issue.

I never saw James Cone interviewed on CNN or Fox News.  I never heard reporters asking Sen. Obama about Black Liberation Theology and how it preaches an ideology of hate against white people.  The media, and many Americans, have chosen to ignore that Sen. Obama has supported racism against white people his entire adult life.  If it was revealed that John McCain had even went to one KKK meeting in his life, his political career would be over, yet Obama could be ushered in as President with a twenty year history of supporting racism against Whites.

Racism, by any race, is not acceptable.  The use of derogatory words, by any race, is not acceptable.  Electing a President with a history of supporting racism is definitely not acceptable.