http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2009/11/04/bey-firm-awarded-bart-contract-for-up-to-1-million/ Investigating the Killing of a Journalist Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:43:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/2009/11/04/bey-firm-awarded-bart-contract-for-up-to-1-million/comment-page-1/#comment-16985 Erich Hayner Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:46:44 +0000 http://www.chaunceybaileyproject.org/?p=3457#comment-16985 Idiots. We are idiots. We will do anything, anything, anything at all to avoid the accusation, even from other idiots, that we are racists. God forbid that we should have to face the stern stentorian voice of Katherine Hepburn roundly and soundly condemning us for our Neanderthal legacy as in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"; Or is it that we fear being hailed and buffooned by our fellow citizens as the new up and coming Archie Bunker? Are we afraid, if we aren't like those sycophants who nervously orbit bullies, that the idiots might turn on us for standing up to them and simply saying, "Race has nothing to do with this issue. I am not, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be the racist who you seem to want me to be. The racists who tortured you and left the unhealed scars that some of you still know first hand- those racist men and women have gone and I don't know who they were or where they went. But I know I am not them. I may look like them, but to assume that I'm racist because my skin is white is, well...racist. In fact, as a man aged fifty, I've been the target of some very violent experiences that were overtly racist, committed by Black people who openly admitted it was because of the color of my skin. When I was a young man, I was dragged down an alley by more than two dozen people who wanted to have some fun with "whitey". I was tortured. Just because I passed the wrong playground at the wrong time. In the ensuing twenty-nine years, I have yet to meet a Black man my age who has had a similar experience, and I've asked around, believe me. I deserve to be a racist, I have every right to be one, I earned it with every beating that I took back then, and there's a lot of people who would go that way I guess. But you do know? I'm not. I admire African American culture and I've lived in and around integrated neighborhoods my entire life. Why? The only racists that I ever met don't know a damn thing about the folks they hate, and that's what makes them idiots. When people get so caught up in their self constructed worlds, that they no longer have even any common vocabulary to confer rationally with others on the outside their own, it's not stupid, Stupid, it's idiotic, and we're idiots for putting up with this obvious conman, Nedir Bey. Idiots. We are idiots. We will do anything, anything, anything at all to avoid the accusation, even from other idiots, that we are racists. God forbid that we should have to face the stern stentorian voice of Katherine Hepburn roundly and soundly condemning us for our Neanderthal legacy as in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”; Or is it that we fear being hailed and buffooned by our fellow citizens as the new up and coming Archie Bunker? Are we afraid, if we aren’t like those sycophants who nervously orbit bullies, that the idiots might turn on us for standing up to them and simply saying, “Race has nothing to do with this issue. I am not, nor have I ever been, nor will I ever be the racist who you seem to want me to be. The racists who tortured you and left the unhealed scars that some of you still know first hand- those racist men and women have gone and I don’t know who they were or where they went. But I know I am not them. I may look like them, but to assume that I’m racist because my skin is white is, well…racist. In fact, as a man aged fifty, I’ve been the target of some very violent experiences that were overtly racist, committed by Black people who openly admitted it was because of the color of my skin. When I was a young man, I was dragged down an alley by more than two dozen people who wanted to have some fun with “whitey”. I was tortured. Just because I passed the wrong playground at the wrong time. In the ensuing twenty-nine years, I have yet to meet a Black man my age who has had a similar experience, and I’ve asked around, believe me.
I deserve to be a racist, I have every right to be one, I earned it with every beating that I took back then, and there’s a lot of people who would go that way I guess. But you do know? I’m not. I admire African American culture and I’ve lived in and around integrated neighborhoods my entire life. Why? The only racists that I ever met don’t know a damn thing about the folks they hate, and that’s what makes them idiots. When people get so caught up in their self constructed worlds, that they no longer have even any common vocabulary to confer rationally with others on the outside their own, it’s not stupid, Stupid, it’s idiotic, and we’re idiots for putting up with this obvious conman, Nedir Bey.

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