The Hatred In The Heart Of White America

Mona Charen's column is released once a week.
By Mona Charen- April 26, 2013
It was cool and rainy Sunday morning when the bomb ripped through the building. At 10:22, a group of children was just heading into the basement to hear a sermon at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. According to a Washington Post account at the time: Dozens of survivors, their faces dripping blood from the glass that flew out of the church's stained glass windows, staggered around the building in a cloud of white dust raised by the explosion.
Four girls were killed. The head of one little girl was found far from her body. Twenty-two others were injured. Wandering through his devastated church, the Rev. John H. Cross found a megaphone and asked the enraged and stunned crowd to disperse. "The Lord is our shepherd," he sobbed, "we shall not want."
This week, Congress marked the 50th anniversary of that terror attack by posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley.
We Americans are not confused about the morality of what happened in Birmingham that September morning in 1963, nor during the Jim Crow era in America generally. We do not hesitate to condemn utterly the behavior and the beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan (the perpetrators of this bombing and others) and their white supremacist fellow travelers. We do not worry that reviling white supremacists and their grotesque deeds will somehow taint all white people.
But when it comes to other groups and other motives for the same kind of terrorism — we lose our moral focus. Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Kathy Boudin have become honored members of the faculties at leading universities. Ayers is even the friend of the president of the United States. Regarding his own record of setting bombs that kill and dismember innocent people, Ayers told The New York Times on the ironic date of Sept. 11, 2001 that "I feel we didn't do enough ... (there's) a certain eloquence to bombs, a poetry and a pattern from a safe distance." So says a retired "distinguished professor" at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Today, American liberals are obsessed not with terrorism but with the color and ethnicity of terrorists. They can readily enough attribute violent tendencies to groups they dislike — the tea party, for example, which hasn't committed so much as a littering offense. But when it comes to Islamic terrorism, their voices falter.
Attorney General Eric Holder, asked whether three attacks on the United States (the underwear bomber, the Times Square bomber and Maj. Nidal Hassan) could be attributed to "Islamic" radicalism, refused to say so. Asked repeatedly whether religious motives played a role, Holder would say only, "there are a variety of reasons why people have taken these actions." Janet Napolitano has been quick to dismiss terror attempts as "one offs." Would Holder and Napolitano say the same about white supremacists? Each one had his own motivations and we can't surmise what those factors were?
There is a tendency among many on the left to temper their disgust and indignation at political violence (i.e. terror) if the terrorist is from the "correct" group. "Muslim ... means not being white" Peter Beinert writes in the Daily Beast. Beinert and other liberals imagine that the U.S. is a cauldron of teeming racism with the lid barely kept down. At the first acknowledgment that Islamists (some, but by no means, all of whom are dark skinned) present a continuing threat, the lid will fly off and white American vigilantes, given permission, will start shooting black and brown people on the streets, burning their shops, and bombing mosques.
The hatred that Islamism preaches lauds and inspires is a nuisance, liberals may concede. But the hatred in the heart of "white America" is the greater danger.
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MTW-This article is very offensive to us all, no matter what color your skin is. It is also very wrong. We are all the same Race, the HUMAN Race, and yet we have differences; but any difference between any of us, is ridiculous to be used in an article of such ignorance to further someone’s agenda. For one, the events discussed in the beginning happened 50 YEARS AGO. Before Civil Rights. A lot of us were not alive then. How are we (white folks) to blame for the wrong actions taken by our dead elders? What about the Black Panthers openly placing bounties on WHITE people and intimidating voters at polling places. Obama is a White-Black man, or a White man wrapped in the color you wanted in this case, simply to call us "racist" if we disagree with the president; it does not seem to matter if we voted for the man or hold the same socialist ideology. The Dems sure did not hesitate to demonize GW Bush, but it is alright because he is white!? I am white, and there is no hatred in my heart for another Human Being for any reason. Something that really bothers me is when the term “African American” is used. If you are an American Citizen that is what you call yourself. An American. This- the United States used to be a melting pot. Now, everybody wants to be labeled as this or that rather than simply be an American. I do not wish to even go into Islam, after Boston’s tragic bombing; however, after Obama has given billions in aid to Muslim countries, as the Citizens of the U.S. are forced into poverty by the same man, I will. You need to be removed from office sir. Why did you have Eric Holder put an end to the interrogation of the younger bomber Tsarnaev? Did you have something you needed to hide, just as in the Fort Hood TERROR attack by Major Nidal Hassan which YOU Mr. President deemed "workplace violence? Muslims hate us and are taught to KILL US for NO REASON. I find that this should be an exception to Freedom of Religion in our Constitution, if not an Amendment. There is nothing anywhere close to freedom in sharia law. The Muslims in America right now are being stereotyped even worse to their own detriment. That is not my intention. This is simply my honest opinion. Tell Mr. Obama our history; I do not think he knows it. Yet another liberal propaganda article on Yahoo, distorting the facts. Jim Crow Laws- Enacted by Democrats; Ku Klux Klan- started by Democrats who lost the Civil War which they started, as they were against the abolishment of slavery. Democrats were against de-segregation and shortly thereafter Civil Rights. Can we get some accurate information from the liberals? What about the so-called "Affordable Care Act" or Obamacare? It is not affordable or rolling out very well, nor has he kept any of his promises about keeping your plan, your doctor or the dramatic savings of $2500 per family per year. More folks have lost their coverage than have signed up for that atrocious law- mainly due to the awesome $600 million dollar website that does not work. The enrollees are a fraction of those who lost coverage- over 5 million so far. This is redistribution of wealth- or SOCIALISM. Not Capitalism. Where did the United States of America go? Free speech zones? Unconstitutional. Gun-free zones? Unconstitutional. Changing parts of a law as he pleases (Obama-ACA)- Unconstitutional and exceeding his authority. We sure got the "Change" he promised. $17 trillion for the worse. We are becoming the new USSR- United States Socialism Redux.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
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