"Victimology!"

What is self esteem? I believe self-esteem means how one feels about himself. If someone has supportive friends and parents, it will help him to have good feelings about himself. Sometimes a coach or teacher can have an influence on an individual’s self esteem. The words “good job” can go a long way to a child or student.

Conversely, if any group or individual is told they aren’t worth very much, that person or group will begin to believe that they aren’t worth very much. If you constantly tell a group that they are continually being oppressed in all situations, they will believe that too. This is the beginning of the “Oh poor me” syndrome, a belief that everything that happens to me is somebody else’s responsibility. Sometimes bad things that happen are the fault of somebody else, sometimes they are not.

For many years now, there has been an unspoken doctrine that has been used by political demigods referred to as “Black victimology”. It has been used to influence the black population of America to subscribe to a philosophy that all of their problems are the fault of a racist conspiracy against them. Don’t misunderstand me; I know there are racists in America, and other places around the world, and they do hate people just because of their skin color. What I’m talking about is the calculated manipulation of Black Americans to achieve a political goal by shouting the term “racism” at every occasion.

Men like Lewis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Charlie Rangel do their level best to manipulate the Black population with incendiary rhetoric and spurious accusations at the drop of a hat. The Republican Party has been demonized by all of these men as a party of racists and haters. Strangely, the Democrats have also had their share of racists and Klansmen on their rolls too. Morons come in all political parties!

Last week, Newt Gingrich called Barack Obama the “Food Stamp President”, and he was immediately labeled as a racist. The sad fact is that since Barack Obama took office, our food stamp recipients have risen dramatically, and the majority of them are actually Caucasian, not Black! Mr. Gingrich made a suggestion in which students could take on janitorial jobs at high schools to both reduce budget costs and bring income into their homes. This was also said to be insulting “particularly” to Black families. I failed to see the racism in Mr. Gingrich’s statement; all he advocated was a chance for gainful employment and budget reduction; by the way, all of the janitors I knew while in school were white!

We are doing a great disservice to America’s black population by continuing this “victimology” philosophy upon them: all this does is reinforce the idea that a black American will always need welfare and never be given a “fair shake” on merit alone.

By all means, racism must be rooted out of our society, yet racism isn’t the cause of all the problems we have in America. We must have better insight when we make our choice next November. If you choose to vote for someone other than Barack Obama, it won’t make you a racist, even though some around you will say that. When you vote next November, you must remember this color; RED, the color of the ink the American economy is in. If you are a victim, you are a victim of circumstance, not color! Judge your next choice as an individual, not as a tool for someone who feels he can play on your emotions. You are part of a group; American citizens, be proud of that one!