Why are We Talking About Race?

 Whoopie Goldberg should be among the happiest black people in the country. She said white people need to stop making race an issue and we did that over a hundred and fifty years ago, and we've been trying to achieve race equality ever since the Civil War ended. It took a long time to get the Southern states to stop their murderous rage against black people, but that was less about being white than about the political make up of the South. They were pretty upset about losing the war and they didn't like having to do their own chores very much. In order to be able to even have the stomach to buy and sell human beings they had to convince themselves that black people weren't truly human beings, they were somehow a sub species, a lower form of human being I guess. Southerners were a very sick portion of our population who somehow desensitized themselves to the extent that they truly believed they weren't doing anything wrong by selling people, oftentimes breaking up families. Any normal person would have to ask themselves, "What's wrong with these people?" 

Whoopie Goldberg is still trying to put black people back in chains on the auction block I guess. Why else would she make such a stupid statement? She's a multimillionaire; a privileged member of our society and she got there because white people thought she was funny and a decent actress, which she was until she decided that race trumped all else and black people need to continue to be angry over past misdeeds. All Americans need to get move past the race issue and make it become a non issue. 

If Whoopie is sad about being black she needs to get over it. She is a member of the American privileged class and she is a black woman. I hope she is doing something meaningful for the black community and not just trying to make them feel bad about the color of their skin. America is a land of opportunity for anyone with the desire to succeed and that includes the black communities. We all know dozens of examples of very successful black Americans and they couldn't' have achieved that status in such large numbers anywhere else in the world. 

So wake up Whoopie! There was a time when I was a fan of hers, but I don't have any use for the David Dukes or the Whoopie Goldbergs of the world. There is no difference between the two of them.