Soap Box

One of the most overused and misused words in the English language these days is racism. It's bandied about by people who don't even know the real meaning of the word, people who have the misconception that any criticism against a person of color, justified or unjustified is racist.

Barack Obama has done some of the most outlandish things ever done by any president and his administration has been one gigantic boondoggle after another, actions that leave the door wide open for valid and even constructive criticism.

Yet even any well-meaning critiques of the shortcomings of Obama and his minions are invariably met with indictments of racism and implications that the critical words are said only because Obama is black, his supporters in the media and his party issuing scathing accusations, never even attempting to evaluate the critique.

Back during the tragic Trayvon Martin incident, Al Sharpton and his ilk were chasing the TV cameras to tell anybody who would listen that this was a blatant white on black crime, basically trying the defendant, George Zimmerman, in the media even before a full investigation had taken place and all the facts exposed.

The same thing is happening in Ferguson, Missouri, the mad rush to judgment, rioting in the streets, destroying property and disrupting the lives of innocent people, actions based on nothing more than supposition and racial distrust.

Basing the assumption of guilt on someone's race or skin color is racism in it's purest form and those who make a habit of showing up and condemning someone on nothing more than the color of their skin are guilty of it.

These people are more interested in furthering their own cause than in justice being done and are always the first one to arrive on the scene of any racial situation and stay around until the TV cameras leave, fanning the flames and leaving behind heightened hostility and volatile racial tension.

What about the people who live in the towns where these massive demonstrations take place aren't their civil rights being trampled by those who deface their property and set their cars on fire?

And all this time a president who had a golden opportunity to truly bring the races together, to work to promote trust among them, to promote meaningful dialogue and inner action among the races, bring leaders from both sides to the table to work our differences of opinion rather than letting them take it to the streets, this presidents tacitly condones the action by either steering clear of it or making statements like "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon.�

This nation needs leadership, leadership in Washington and the state capitols, leadership in the minorities, leaders that we can look up to and trust, leaders who would come forth in times of stress and persuade people that the surest path to justice is to let the judicial system take its course, to ignore the troublemakers and look at both sides of the issue.
This nation needs leaders in the minority communities who have the guts to tell the people that their real enemies are not the other races, but the drug dealers, and the gangs that corrupt their children and terrorize their neighborhoods, and the absentee fathers who leave teenage girls to a life of government dependence.

And finally expose the race baiters and rabble rousers for what they are, those who know that their plush way of life and notoriety depends on racial strife.

Without it they have nothing to offer.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops me the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels​