By Aubrey Vaughan
The problem with the black race is that they continue to see themselves as African Americans, not as Americans. Do I request to be called European American? Never. I love learning about my Irish, English, and German heritage, but I don’t live in those countries. I live in America, and as long as I do, I pride myself on being plain and simply American.
Slavery ended in 1865. As conniving as trial lawyers may be, I don’t even think a slime ball like John Edwards would have the political might to convince a judge that a person is suffering damages from nearly 150 years ago. Impoverished blacks can’t keep depending on excuses to get them their next welfare check to pay for their airbrushed nails, gaudy hairstyles, or the newest Sidekick phone. If they want to be treated like everyone else, they need to become everyone else, not a stuck up group of people who believes in entitlement to the harvest of hard-working Americans without sowing a single seed. To keep blaming their problems on white people and the government will get them nowhere. All impoverished people have problems, but very rarely is it anyone’s fault but their own. Anyone can go to college, work their way through graduate school, and support even a rather lavish lifestyle. It just requires a lot of time and hard work.
In calling Obama our first “black” president, we are only furthering the racial divide. By the principle we are using to call him our first black president, we could just as easily call him our 44th white president. In case anyone has forgotten how genetics work, Obama has just as much “white blood” in him as he has “black.” To have to label him as anything perpetuates the idea that there are innate differences among races, which is completely untrue.
I would never in my life support any form of racism. That is why it is such an oxymoron to me that the biggest racists in our country are the ones who complain of it the most: blacks. They insist on privileges like affirmative action, race bubbles on standardized testing materials, denunciation of any pro-white movements, and celebration of pro-black movements. Could there ever be a White History Month? No, and neither should there be a Black History Month. We should celebrate people solely because of their accomplishments, not because they have an accomplishments and they’re black. It is putting down the entire black race to say that they are typically incapable of great feats, so when they can accomplish something, it requires additional celebration accompanied by the headline “FIRST BLACK PERSON TO ________.” Newsflash: we are all humans, we are all capable of anything if we put our minds to it. Just because a person is East Asian does not mean he is smart. Just because a person is Mexican does not mean he is an illegal immigrant. Just because a person is an American Indian does not mean he is a gambling alcoholic. Just because a person is White does not mean he is rich. Just because a person is Black does not mean he is an athlete, a rapper, a dancer, or religious. He is whatever he wants to be, as long as he embraces his fellow Americans as the equals that they are.
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