T.J. McCormack

This article is being written on November 9, 2009. It is the 71st anniversary of  Kristallnacht, which was the unofficial kickoff of Germany’s greatest hit, the Holocaust. I hate even typing that awful word. Of all the world’s events, that is the “n-word” of slaughters. Funny, that reference should come up, given the message of this posting…we’ll get to that.  Today is also the anniversary of  taking down the Berlin Wall, which was the unofficial kickoff of the end of the Cold War, WON by the former good-guy white hat-wearing United States of America. It took the USA to close the death camps of two regimes: The Nazis and the USSR. You’re welcome, world.

Knowing these milestones were coming up, it dawned on me just how far Germany has been allowed to move on from the horrors of World War Two, and how much America is held back from moving past the horrors of slavery.

The Thirteenth Amendment was enacted in December 1865, finally and forever freeing all slaves. Although the civil rights struggles ever since are well-noted, slavery in America ended on 12-18-1865.

The point I’m making is this: Slavery ended 144 years ago, and America is being held hostage on many levels by those who profit from racial disharmony. Our government, businesses, entertainment, education and minorities themselves are in the stranglehold of political correctness, quotas and affirmative action. No one who profited from, nor was a victim of slavery has been alive for decades…the last known living slave was Charlie Smith, who died in 1979, allegedly aged 137 years, rest his soul. Yet America lives on one perpetually-bent knee, looking over her shoulder, asking forgiveness and claiming ignorance at every turn for any word uttered and idea thought. Meanwhile, sixty-four years removed from the murder of more than six million souls, and Germany is running at full strength and sitting high in her Ivory tower; always one of the first to judge us for our awful ways.

I’m not going to genuflect here and go on and on with the obligatory list of sins of our great, yet imperfect nation. We all know what happened, and those who miss the good old days of lynching and whippings will find no friend in me or anybody I associate with. All that being said, why is it, HOW is it that we continue to pay penance for crimes committed almost a century and a half ago, yet Germany is not only welcomed but glorified by the rest of the world. The ovens are still warm, and this once-mighty nation frighteningly is now mighty again! A liberal bastion in Europe. The yardstick of civilization, whose people are praised by our progressive leaders for their leadership in environmental and social pursuits.

Not only are there living victims bearing the scars of the holocaust, but the savages who scarred them are living as well. And let us not kid ourselves, this was not carried out clandestinely by a few henchmen. Many thousands of civilians knew what was going on at the end of the train tracks behind the gates of the camps just outside their villages and cities. There are many people living and breathing who never wore a uniform, but have blood on their hands and in their souls.

What a disparity, what a double standard. By the way, don’t think you’ll win this one with a reference to voting rights or segregation. Not only have both of those wrongs been righted, but how dare you sully the memory of those murdered with those whose feelings were hurt, who were not allowed to pull a lever. I’m not discounting any of that, of course. However, I am saying I’ll take disenfranchisement over mass murder any day. I’ll take a separate lunch counter and mean words instead of Anne Frank’s fate, thank you very much.

If the true racists of this country, namely the likes of the Congressional Black Caucus et al want to secure racial harmony they should do the right thing, and let this nation once and for all live freely and fairly; unencumbered by a perpetual state of apology for sins committed hundreds of years ago and reconciled over and over. If they refuse to do that, then they should do the honorable thing and refuse to acknowledge the reunification of Germany. They should denounce THAT nation and scold them on a daily basis for the next 90 years. THEN I would agree with those racists about something.