The Racists Are Coming

If you want to know what's up with racists, ask a white man. Not just any white man - it's got to be one who'll tell you the truth. This, of course, eliminates most politicians and so-called journalists. You have to find a white guy with a history of speaking the truth, even when it's not popular; one who's old enough to speak his mind and not give a darn what others think.

Be warned: People will tell you that this man doesn't know what he's talking about. But unless you've been living comfortably under a rock of delusion, you know those people are trying to protect their own comfort zone. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM.

When a good 'ol white Georgia boy like President Jimmy Carter says, "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African American should not be president," you can believe him. When Mr. Carter says, "I think it's based on racism," you can trust he's got the inside scoop. The fact that he was born into the white race gives him automatic access to white racists, and the ability to keep us updated on their agenda. IGNORE HIM AT YOUR OWN PERIL. (Those who ignored Paul Revere when he warned, "The British are coming" lost more than a good night's sleep.)

If you won't believe Jimmy's pronouncement of racism, then perhaps you'll listen to the friend of a racist. Even Dick Harpootlian, who has known Representative Joe Wilson for a decade said, "You have a bunch of folks out there looking for some comfort in their racial issues. They have a problem with an African-American president."

If you want to know who the racists are, simply listen to what they say and watch what they do - before publicly dissing President Obama, Wilson fought to keep the Confederate flag flying high at the South Carolina Statehouse. For some, identifying racists can be difficult, especially if your brain has been whitewashed, or your senses numbed by cash injections, so I offer a few hints:

If a white man yells something to a black president that he would never, ever consider saying to a white president, then he's probably racist.

If a white person beats the crap out of a black female Army reservist while calling her a nigger, for no other reason than she spoke to him, then he is a racist.

If a white person writes that the black president, "is not a full American, only 3/5's like the constitution states. Go back to Kenya and let flies nest on you like the rest of the Africans," (as appeared on an Atlanta Journal Constitution blog), then that person is definitely a racist.

And finally, if you still refuse to believe that having a black man as president of the United States hasn't made some folks as mad as a Klansman who can't 'go to meeting' cause his wife forgot to wash his only robe, then listen to what Laurence Fishburne said in the movie School Daze, "WAAAAAAKE UUUUUUP!

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Tara Coyt is a speaker and writer living in Atlanta Georgia. She's the host of Newsmakers Live! and has been featured in Ebony magazine, on the cover of the Atlanta Tribune magazine, and in Procter & Gamble's My Black is Beautiful video.

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