BLACKS’ INFERIORITY COMPLEX? EUGENE ROBINSON, ETC
Mr. Eugene Robinson, a Black columnist with “The Washington Post,” seems like all what he writes about are Black issues. There is a Black lady columnist in the newspaper’s Metro section that seems to do the same.
I am not sure whether this is good or bad. But, since my mantra has recently been that “my color doesn’t have anything to do with my identity,” and since, therefore, I am critical of Black Americans who seem to be so pre-occupied with their color, I would frankly call his attitude an “inferiority complex.”
Mr. Robinson, from what I remember, was one of those Black Americans who were not sure Obama represented Black Americans (because of his White mother and Kenyan father). After Obama was nominated by his party, Mr. Robinson wasn’t sure many Whites would vote for him. At least, he applauded his Obama’s victory.
And now, he seems to have mellowed a little. He recently wrote: “Not even three months have passed since President Obama's historic inauguration, and already it tends to slip the nation's collective mind that the first black president of the United States is, in fact, black. There may be hope for us after all.”
He added: “Watching him in action, as he shoves out the chief executive of General Motors or exchanges small talk with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, we witness a daily demonstration of the irrelevance of race. And that, potentially, is nothing short of transformative.”
But Mr. Robinson still has a long way to go. Probably he will never be like me and say that his color is not part of his identity.
He seems like Eric Holder, the first African American attorney general, who recently said that Americans are “a nation of cowards,” because they are hesitant to speak frankly about race.
Both men are pre-occupied with:
(A) The past: slavery, segregation and civil right marches.
(B) The present, not because of open discrimination, but because of subtle racial attitudes and social segregation.
Holder said America has become “positively race conscious and yet is voluntarily socially segregated."
So, what these two men, and mostly other Black Americans, seem to say is that unless all Blacks are equal to all Whites, there will be a race problem, if not “racism.”
But, even God Almighty created people to be different in color, income, status, knowledge, i.e. some are more educated and civilized than others. Unfortunately, Blacks, not only in American, but all over the World, as less educated and less civilized than Whites.
I, a Muslim and an African, have repeatedly said that it took me twenty years in America to reach the conclusion that this American Civilization is, basically, White and Christian.
It is nice to read that Mr. Robinson is mellowing, but he may never be realistic when it comes to Whites-Blacks relations.