Lately, I have been called racist ad nauseum. In fact, the racial accusations seemed to start as soon as soon as I really became an outspoken conservative and have only gotten worse thereafter. Strangely, I have never considered myself a racist. I have always found the accusations to be a mystery, because they seem to stem simply from the fact that I: a) Take pride in being a white American; and b) Don’t believe there should be any racial separations.

As to how those two things make me racist is beyond me, yet the lefterds out there feel the bizarre compulsion to accuse me anyway. Yet, turn the finger around and call them racist and see what happens. It’s always an ugly scene, which tells me that perhaps they’re the ones who are racist and are in such denial that the mere hint of an accusation ignites the usual democrat flareup of hate and anger.

So, here I go again. The liberal left - those liberal democrats who pride themselves on being so open minded to everything - are the racist bastards out there who are working every day to keep the racial divide alive and well in America.

Personally, I’m sick to death of it. I’m sick of all of the forced separation by race, sexual preference, religious affiliation or how you wear your hair on the third Tuesday of odd months. Ask yourself this: What’s a more racist way to be? Forcibly separating people by these factors or demanding that these factors be dropped and people treated equally?

Interestingly, I am the one who demands a color blind society and yet I’m the one who gets called racist. How messed up is that? Is this all a by product of the left’s self-loathing and self-hatred? Do they hate themselves (and by extension the rest of us) so much that they truly believe that the only way to not be racist is to put minorities on a pedestal over the rest of us? It would certainly seem so since any call for true equality is deemed as racist.

Of course, this rant stems from something that recently reared its head and really pissed me off. It seems that the Attorney General for Wisconsin has ruled that it is perfectly acceptable for the University of Wisconsin system to use race as a deciding factor in admissions. This was originally covered by Jessica McBride, and brought about some retorts from liberals who firmly believe that applicants must be separated by race in order to make things “fair.” What amazed me, however, was  that the concept of fair simply meant making sure that nobody of color is left out. For example, I asked one of these lefties why they can’t eliminate race from the application, and here was one answer I got:

“Say you have three applicants for two spots. All the same as in your scenario, but two are black and one white. One of the blacks gets left out because of his race. That’s not fair either.”

How is that not fair? Is it fair to the white to disqualify him simply because he is white? That certainly seems to be what this guy is advocating for. He never did answer me as to why we couldn’t eliminate race from the process. He was too hung up on making sure the process was “fair” to the black applicant.

This is also on the heels of the recent Supreme Court decision that race can’t be used when placing children in public schools - a decision that helps to move society towards a more colorblind future - that has been called racist by the left. Again, how is stopping the process of separating children by race a racist action?

Here’s some more food for thought. A press release from the United Council of UW Students was released in praise of the AG’s decision. Once again, I can’t help but to question the logic of this, since once again it seems that the people in support of this action are supporting continued separation and classification of people by race. The student diversity chair, an obviously clueless Junior by the name of Hannah Buck, summed up the ignorance of a policy such as this by saying:

“Race is too much of a factor to ignore, as is access to college preparatory resources and family income level. Holistic admissions give UW system the opportunity to empower the state educationally, not simply for those who can afford it or have a legacy within it.”

This is all about race. I live in rural Wisconsin where white poverty is a fact of life, yet we don’t see anybody chomping at the bit to give them an advantage in the UW system. Yet, take that same situation and apply it to an urban minority and the schools can’t do enough to offer them every advantage. What’s the difference? A box checked on application where one checks white and another checks black? I guess this is why I get called racist, because I say that the block shouldn’t be there at all and the schools should not be able to tell the difference between an impoverished white applicant and an impoverished black applicant. It sounds fair to me, yet I’m constantly being told that it’s not fair and I’m just a racist conservative.

But who’s really the racist? To me, the biggest step in overcoming racism would be to move towards a colorblind society, where nobody gets specific advantages or disadvantages due to their race (or creed/sexual preference/etc). So how does that make me a racist? The left’s desire to perpetuate the separation of people by race (and any other factor that might differentiate people from one another) is by far a much more racist way if being, because it forces people to acknowledge and accept the fact that people of different races are in fact different and unequal (inferior?).

Is is right to have people in government institutions forcing us to believe that there are in fact differences between the races - so much so that there needs to be rules and laws in place to make sure we remember it? Who’s really the 800 pound racist gorilla out there? You can go ahead and call me anything you want, but the truth of the matter is that I support true equality between people - regardless of their race - and would love nothing more than to see a colorblind society. Is that really such a bad thing?

If you ask the left, the answer is yes… But then again, these are the same people who firmly believe that “equality” does not mean equal. Equality means that they want the same rights plus additional privileges that will keep minorities separated from the rest of us… It’s weird. Yet I’m the racist.

Cross posted from "A [sometimes] Logical View of the Illogical"