So this weekend I saw a Facebook link to web article expressing outrage at a video in which Oprah purportedly makes the comment portrayed in the graphic above. Well, that’s provocative. While it’s implying something she didn’t mean, it also highlights something that Oprah isn’t counting on. First, let’s point out what even the article admits she said:
“There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die,” she proclaimed.
So what Oprah isn’t saying is that all white people should just die. We get that. But she’s still tragically mistaken.
What she’s saying is that there are generations of people alive right now who grew up with racism, and that they’re probably never going to see things differently. Her hope, as I infer from the quote, is that when those people eventually pass away that racism will die with them. Sounds like a plausible idea and a reasonable hope. But there’s a problem.
Liberal progressive leftist Democrats have instituted a replacement for that racism in the form of modern day Racism™. Race is an industry now, and business is booming. These days, simply disagreeing with a leftist of any origin is immediately Racist™, and actual race doesn’t even need to be involved. It’s gotten so bad that Godwin’s Law may have to be clarified to add “Racist” alongside “Nazi” as a reflexive insult when someone is losing an argument.
The generation(s) to which Oprah is referring will be gone someday. Unfortunately they will have been replaced with a battered and fatigued generation of Racists™ who may not even understand the history of race relations in the United States. They certainly won’t be living in realization of Dr. King’s dream, where people are “judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”. Sadly, you can thank the left for that…the very people who claim to be the most compassionate and the most color blind. From inside Oprah’s bubble, I doubt she’s got the slightest clue what’s coming.
I couldn’t resist. I felt like the last time I was here, the time was too short. I’d visited once with my cameras and once with my boys, but I never really felt like I got to bond with the spinning ice disc on the Heart River. So, after work on Monday I decided to bolt over and grab some stills and video of it at dusk.
I got the perfect match of dusk and cloud cover, bathing everything in very nice, flat, even light. The absence of hard shadows allowed me to capture detail that would otherwise be lost in glare or contrast.
