Jim Purcell weighs in on race relations

Read his post here.

UPDATE: Lugar96 weighs in:

He used a lot of words to say almost nothing in that post.

It seems Jim wants to tiptoe around the issue and treat it with kit gloves so as not to upset the "victims." Treating people as victims will ensure they feel inferior and encourage that inferiority.

I think equality is closer than he is willing to think. Look at Barak Obama. Time was only a white double talker could get a major party nomination for the WHite House. Look at Charles Rangel. Time was only a white man could spend such a long period of time in Congress to reach a chairmanship and take advantage of laws that were designed to help his people.

Maybe it's time for leaders in the black community to stop instructing their followers when to be insulted and start leading in a positive direction. If you tell everyone that their problems are due wholly to the members of another race, you can't expect racial harmony.

Racism cuts both ways. If you want to cling to it because it serves as an excuse for not making an effort, that's not society's fault. If you want to cling to it because it's the only way you can get on TV or seem relevant, that's just as pathetic.

I think it's just as racist to be overly afraid of offending black people because it implies that they are too tempermental, too sensitive to handle "certain words or comments." You know, like children. If that's not treating people as if they were inferior, what is?

Lugar96