Black is a Lifestyle Choice for many African-Americans

Our culture is structured to encourage people to classify themselves as black. They get minority preference for jobs, benefits and housing.

They get scholarships and apprenticeships. They become a vaunted member of a close group of historically underprivileged (and increasingly under performing) individuals.

Many black celebrities are whiter than whites. Mariah Carry, Soledad Obrien (who also claims Hispanic ancestry, so anybody who hires her gets points for hiring a black, a Hispanic and a female), and countless other sports, music and entertainment types.

It’s cool to be black. Juan Williams is another multiracial type who flaunts his credentials at every opportunity.

The liberals are using this whole financial cliff situation to drive a wedge into the GOP, pitting conservatives against Republicans.

How come we can’t stir the liberal pot and establish criteria that allow people to get minority job preference? If you go strictly by shades of color, John Boehner (his perennial suntan) is blacker than many blacks.

How long must a Hispanic be in America before he or she starts being American? Forever!

When will blacks stop demanding compensation for slavery? Never!

When will we say that generations of welfare, Medicaid and overpopulating our prison systems is payment enough? Never!

America is a nation of immigrants. Yet, Irish-Americans don’t still form their own little clique. Italian-Americans and every other group eventually reached a point where they stopped identifying with their land of origin and became Americans.

Why don’t blacks or hispanics do that? Because our tax and benefit structure encourages them to retain their racial identity.

The system requires them to remain unAmerican. Obama and the Democrats and the NAACP and the labor unions all use this divisiveness to keep blacks and hispanics from self identifying as Americans.

It doesn’t matter how watered down their genes are, how pale their skin or how Americanized their lifestyle – if being black or hispanic gives you an edge over everybody else, you’re damn right they will use that for all it’s worth.

In this hyper competitive world? Doh!

As far as that goes, whites are a minority in many states and municipalities. How come blacks and hispanics still get minority preference there?

One big carrot that keeps the Democrats in power is their ability to play the race card to keep their base at the front of the line for benefits and jobs. That’s unAmerican.

If the government doesn’t treat all people alike, we will never resolve our differences.

It’ll be another Civil War.

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