So much for post-racialism. A contry club in Pennsylvania is being accused of kicking out a group of children from a pool when their racial makeup was noticed by the members. Now, complaints are running through the community.
I blame the kids. They’ve been taught that white people don’t like them and are hypersensitive to the discomfort of parents who wonder why a group of non-members are in their pool. It’s up to them to be the outstanding citizens who sympathize with the people who have had their life interrupted.
That sounded pretty stupid, huh? If someone is doing wrong, they are doing wrong. Understanding isn’t going to do a damn thing to help unreasonable idiots. Still, we take that attitude toward terrorists and the communist countries that seek to end our way of life.
At the recent G8 meeting, China and India still refused to reduce carbon emissions even though the United States plans to do so. US non-compliance is the reason they gave last year for doing nothing. The path to US compliance will be to push more and more manufacturing overseas. The carbon will still be emitted, but our balance sheet will look good. Just ignore that plastic now being made with Iranian oil.
Caving in seems like an easy way to cool down tensions. Jackass goes on an apology tour to make himself look gracious. Instead, it makes the rest of us look like bastards. The US didn’t go after the Taliban when they blew up 2000 year old Tibetan statues or subjugated their female population. They knocked down the World Trade Center anyway. Maybe we should fight for our human rights along with everyone else’s instead of getting out of the pool and going home in defeat.
