Anti-Race Day

When it becomes a sin to say that a black person is black, an Indian is Indian or someone of mixed race is mixed race.

I am writing this article on Martin Luther King Day. We generally identify King as a leader who fought against racial discrimination; in reality, his ideals were social justice and the eradication of poverty. In the United States, where I find myself today, people are dragged down by a historic guilt for their racist past — a situation similar, despite the differences, to that which the Germans suffer from in the aftermath of Nazism. Some Venezuelan friends of mine started their families here, and their children, perfectly bilingual, go to state schools. A few days ago, the mother received a phone call advising her that her son was arrested for expressing racist views. When she, the “light chestnut” Venezuelan type, arrived, she was told that her son had asked that the blacks play on one team and the whites on the other. He had already been “held” for two hours and spoke with a psychologist. The child’s explanation was simple: Break time was short ,and there were equal numbers of blacks and non-blacks, so it was the easiest way to make the teams. The mother tried to explain that the motivations of her child were pragmatic, not racist, because in her house they never are. They did not give much credence to her words until the father arrived. He blacker than Pedro Camejo, who is of African descent in official Venezuelan terms.

I forgot to mention that the black people who had taken offense had given their classmate a beating, with three of them throwing him to the ground, putting a foot on his chest and threatening him before the school authorities arrived at the scene and arrested him… for being racist.

I would like to think that King would not be content with the senselessness we have arrived at today, where it is a sin to say that a black person is black, an Indian is Indian or a person of mixed race is precisely that. This is criminalized by the law of the politically correct with their double standards.