Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a journalist and writer of Op-Eds in several news papers, home based with The Miami Herald.  He is one of several journalist I read regularly and one best described, in my opinion, as a "race baiter".  As I have previously stated many times, I am not a racist and I truly consider the content of a man's character rather than the color of his skin in all cases.  I have also previously expressed my disgust with the constant playing of the "race card" by people of color and most Democrats.  My issue today is one of this week's expressions by Mr. Pitts of an incident with his mother back in the "40s or 50s" as he relays in the article. 

It seems his mother was employed as a domestic in the home of a Memphis doctor during the said time period and was confronted by a child trying to rub the "dark" off Ms. Pitts' arm because the child was led to believe "dark" was dirt.  Leonard fails to state the child's age but goes on to elaborate how this left a lifelong scar on his mother's feelings  and how relating the story to him years later,  his mother would still show the humiliation from the child's question.  All of this was brought to the pages of the newspapers to which Leonard has access in response to the opening of the movie "The Help".  I have not yet seen the movie but from what I understand from Leonard's interpretation, it is another effort of a white writer which has resulted in a movie which depicts people of color in a sub-serviant position. 

I would agree with Leonard that if the child trying to rub the "dirt" off his mother was above the age of 10, then that child should have been taken to the woodshed by the good doctor. However, if that child is the naturally curious, inquisitive youngster, then it's a different story. I could go back to the day which I was in law enforcement and was serving a warrant on a woman of color with five children under the age of 7 and she herself was no more than 25. One of the little boys kept pulling on my pants leg while I was talking to his mother and kept saying "white man, white man".  When I finally looked down at the kid, probably four, he extended his middle fingers on both hands and then walked away.  What am I to take from that?  That all kids of color are antagonistic little bastards?  That all women of color train their kids to be disrespectful of law enforcement?  I got over that long ago, but Leonard did bring that back to my memory today.

Get over it Leonard!  Stop the race baiting.  I have expressed the opinion, before, that Barack Obama is the President of the United States solely and simply because he is half-black but appears fully black.  Take the "man on the street" interviews from across the country taken before and after the election when people of color were interviewed.  They were clueless, for the most part, as to anything Barack stood for, anything he had accomplished (which was nothing at the time), or anything other than he was a man of color and could speak well.  Little was known at the time that he is lost without a teleprompter but that is not important to this discussion.  Barack Obama is President because almost every person of color in the country, along with the bleeding heart liberals, chose to put him in there.  Democrats have been courting and using the people of color for so long now to gain their offices that the people of color don't even realize they are being used.

I have said before, and reiterate here, that Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and people like them use the race card as an issue for power.  Without their insistence that there is a racial issue, they would have no control over their minons and believe me, that is what it is. Total control of thoughts, words and deeds. 

In fairness to Leonard, he ends his article with the ascertion that he believes the movie "The Help" is an "imperfect triumph" of understanding the plight of the domestic servants of color back in the 40s and 50s.  He fails to state, however, that there are still domestic servants of color, and of not, today. He fails to recognize that people with money employ people looking for work in such capacities as the individuals' talents allow.  But I still object to Leonard, or anyone else, using a movie of any type as a racial composite of any substance.  If so, let's look at the "Big Momma" movies.  Stereotyping?  Hell yeah.  Remember Amos and Andy from back in the 50s.  That was insulting to people of color, so it was determined, and away it went.  Along comes Sanford and Son.  Look at the comedians of color on tv or anywhere else and the "N" word is thrown about with abandon.  What is this saying to American youth who are the ones mostly patronizing such trash head comedians?  Not anything that will alleviate racial issues in this country.

This blog will not get into the racial profiling, the welfare state, the total disregard of certain individuals of color for truth and honor.  I will  end this here by saying that I wish there was no racial issue before this country. That could happen, in my opinion, if folks like Leonard Pitts, Jr. and others of color would stop with the constant complaining about things that happened in the 40s, 50s, 60s, or in the 1800s.  Get over it and let us all move forward.  There is now a huge block of granite on The Mall in D.C. to honor the man of color who had a dream.  That dream will remain a dream until all you people wake up and realize you have to be honorable to accepted as honorable.  That comes with progress, NOT with recalling the efforts of a child to rub the "dirt" off your Mama.

D.C. Hammer