America is strong enough to face criticism. Indeed, a measure of it's strength will be its ability to face itself in this way.
And America must exist in a larger context, have a higher ideal and a future goal beyond what it is today. There is room for growth.
Criticism is fine. Criticism is necessary. Criticism is helpful and suggestive. Criticism starts discussion.
Condemnation, on the other hand, leaves no room for negotiation or detente because it is ultimate Judgement!
Think about what is wonderful in America for a moment. Reverend Wright doesn't go to prison or face a firing squad or beheading for reviling the most important leaders in our Government! In Muslim countries, you can lose your life whispering such things or even drawing cartoons!
The only context in which Truth can exist begins with an honest debate. Honest debate cannot find its beginning in words that start: "God Damn ____".
Within the last hundred years, we went from a nation where women couldn't vote or have credit, where blacks had to pay a poll tax to vote and were segregated to a country where a women or a black person can be President! This is definite progress no matter how you slice it.
When I was going to Junior High School I was seen playing in my (black) neighborhood with a young black boy. I was called "N**ger Lover" by the kid who saw me at school. (Jay Rich, you bastard!!)
Today, you are more likely to be condemned by your peers for uttering the "N" word than ever before. White people are on the downlow when it comes to any word critical of a black person. Cries of "racist" are easily attached to white people whith even the most considered utterance of disapproval. This could never have happened even fifty years ago!
Progress such as this is everywhere evident. Opportunity is the foundation of achievement in America for any person of any color, background or religion.
Why is it--I must ask you--that Viet Namese, Japanese, Chinese, Serbian, etc. immigrants come to America, learn English and end up becoming citizens, starting their own family business and achieving the American Dream while Black people continue to lick their wounds, utter contempt for education "You tryin' to be white?" and ask for handouts in the form of reparation, entitlements and such?
I put the blame squarely on Black Leaders who sell them out by making them all victims who must gnash their collective teeth at wounds only suffered hundreds of years ago as though no progress has been made.
Jews are uniformly hated by the Black community when it was Jewish leaders who marched along side black people during the Civil Rights Era demonstrations and Jewish attorneys who donated their time and money for free to secure equal rights for persons of color.
Why? Because the feckless Black leaders fill them with hateful, spiteful and damnable rhetoric blaming Jews for every conceivable ill in society just as Hitler did in the 30's!
If any chickens have come home to roost it is the despicable, feckless liars who claim to have the black community's interests at heart, but, who only line their own pockets at their expense by filling them with inexcusable hatred and blame for the white man.
