To my countrymen:

I am tired of accusations of racism being levied against anyone who opposes the Democrat agenda. Because I am a white person with a different view on the appropriate direction for the country, I am inherently racist? I identify with the frustration behind the Tea Party Movement. I object to accusations of racism that are supposedly the basis upon which our complaints are launched. Calling us racists does nothing to foster the post-racial society that we are striving for. All this serves to do is to stoke the flames of resentment between whites and minority groups, maintaining racial divisions.

From the New York Times on 1 August 2010:
Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina and the House Whip, defended the two lawmakers' [Rangel and Waters] rights to a trial, but said it was inevitable that some political opponents would try to turn the ethics questions into a race issue. "Those Tea Party people that showed up at the health care debate, they will not hesitate for one moment to racialize something," said Mr. Clyburn, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. "They did, and they will."

First of all, by making the above statement, it is in fact Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina and the House Whip, who has made Representatives Rangel's and Waters's alleged ethics violations about race, rather than guilt or innocence. Secondly, rewards for documented evidence of such racism on the part of the Tea Party protesters have exceeded $10,000, and not one person has been able to find any such footage to claim the reward. Thirdly, the only violence against a minority person at the town hall meetings leading up to the Health Care Law was perpetrated by the SEIU against a black man who opposed the legislation.

The fact of the matter is that Conservatives seldom invoke race on any issue. We have recognized that to do so is polarizing and serves only to fracture the country, rather than unite us. Since we won't, Democrats will and do so in a manner that is accusatory towards us. The more someone denies something, the more guilty they appear. Looking at the above statement from Representative Clyburn, I notice manufactured racism targeting the right.

2009: Representative Joe Wilson, Republican from South Carolina, broke decorum during a Joint Session of Congress and shouted, "You Lie!" to the President. Accusations of racism were delivered throughout the news media, not only against Representative Wilson, but against the Republican Party as a whole, despite the Party's condemnation of his outburst. According to Caroline Myss on 24 September 2009 in her article "Republicans and the Art of Racism," she states, "But the truth is racism is not a problem for the Republicans. In fact, it's just what the doctor ordered." The article was written in response to the events surrounding Wilson's apology.

2008: While campaigning for his current office, President Barack Obama at a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida said, "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?" Neither the McCain Campaign nor the Republican Party ever brought up the issue of race; it was brought up by the Democrats who signed our names to it. In so doing, they made the Republicans out to be a Party of bigots and used the "politics of fear" to scare minority voters into continuing support for the Democrats.

The above are just three examples in as many years of the Democrats' exploitation of race. There have been more before and it is naive to think that they will not happen again. From gaffes regarding a racially charged incident in Massachusetts to remarks made by low-level bureaucrats, from expressed anti-white sentiment from a Supreme Court Nominee to a celebrated Senator who belonged to the KKK; the left has accused Republicans, both in office and their supporters, of being bigots when there is even greater evidence of racial polarization and wrongdoing from their side of the isle. Why then are we the ones being accused and worse, having these false allegations believed?

I, for one, refuse to take it anymore. I oppose Affirmative Action, not because of its intent, rather that its implementation has promoted further racial tensions by way of reverse discrimination. Any system, including "Legacies," which prevents the most qualified from receiving opportunities for success is wrong, regardless of the intention behind it. That does not make me a racist.

I oppose the expansion of government. I believe in the Constitution. I believe that all steps taken by my elected officials to bypass checks and balances, no matter what party does it, is in violation of the trust the American people placed in them. That does not make me a racist.

I believe in the 10th Amendment of the Constitution that is often ignored. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." That does not make me a racist.

Sincerely,

The Next Generation Conservative

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