POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, WHITE PRIVILEGE, AND
BORDERS…
Phillip Hodges reports on April 15, 2016, in
Constitution.com.
In an effort to raise awareness of the university’s anti-gun
policies, a student participated in a protest in which he wore an empty
holster, emphasizing the fact that he and his fellow students are defenseless.
Two campus police officers confronted him and another participating student,
and their encounter was caught on video.
D. J. Parten is president of Students for Concealed Carry in Alabama. He told Campus
Reform, “This week is the empty holster protest for Students for Concealed
Carry in Alabama
to demonstrate that students are defenseless on campus.” Following Parten’s encounter with campus
police, the officers cited the University
of South Alabama student
for wearing an empty holster, as it was “causing alarm.” While the university
prohibits weapons of all sorts, its rules say nothing about empty
holsters. The university’s policy lists the prohibited
items, which “includes, but is not limited to, bullets, ball bearing bullets,
bullet balls, pellets, firearms, guns, knives, paintball guns, air guns,
hunting bows, archery bows, swords, martial arts weapons, and replicas of such
weapons. Toy and water guns are prohibited.”
In spite of the policy’s silence on empty holsters, the two campus
police officers insisted that students must obtain permission from the
university to wear them. The officers
repeatedly asked where Parten’s weapon was. From their perspective, since he
was wearing an empty holster, he was obviously hiding a gun somewhere. Parten tried explaining that it was a
protest – an empty holster protest. But the officers said that it didn’t
matter. Apparently, someone had called the police when the empty holster was
spotted, and because someone was “alarmed” by it, the police had to
respond. At one point in the video, one
of the officers even admitted to Parten that wearing an empty holster was not
breaking campus rules, nor was it breaking any law. However, Parten was still
cited for “causing alarm.” Folks,
where are we going with political correctness?
Newt Gingrich
said, during the Outnumbered program on April 15th, that the “white
privilege” was an industry of idiots, and he certainly hit the nail on the
head. It is not by design that a person
is born black, white, brown, yellow or whatever other color there might be. You are what you are and you make the best of
it. Personally, I don’t think there’s
any so-called white privilege, but then, I’m white so maybe I haven’t noticed
it. In my lifetime there have been wars
fought over very tiny things…the atom, a drop of pigment and eggs…and nobody
mentions that these things have nothing to do with anybody’s privilege. Maybe I live in the past, but it seems to me
that America
went through a decade of looking inward, to find out what we were doing wrong,
and to fix it. We were well on the road
to human equality and then…what happened?
We lost a great leader in Dr. King, a president in JFK and his brother,
RFK. Top that with the more recent
events, like Ferguson and Baltimore, and you have the makings of a
great divide in the country. Abraham
Lincoln, who took a giant step to heal the country with the Emancipation
Proclamation once said “A house divided against itself cannot stand."
We are a house divided.
As regards
a border, that is what designates a country, and without a border, there cannot
be a country. So, what’s to be
done? Walls, fences, natural borders
such as rivers or mountain ranges sometimes serve to define where the
sovereignty of a country is, or isn’t.
Recently, at John
Carroll University
in Ohio, a
fence, of sorts, was erected. The
fence, which was actually just two sections of a chain-link fence, had been
approved by the university but that didn’t stop the fracas that it brought on. The fence was supposed to show the students
that favored Trump that they were behind him, but it sort of backfired. Similar and less threatening, at least in my
estimation, were the chalk writings for Trump that caused students to seek
counseling for trauma. Getting back to
the fence, and apparently the physical presence of a bob-tailed fence also
caused great trauma among the students at the Ohio school. This dovetails right in with what I’ve been
saying for years…not only are the students being dumbed-down, they are being
spoon-fed a one-sided view of the world, which makes them totally unprepared
for the real world that’s waiting.
A parting
shot. Events taking place in the world
now and in the near future lead me, and have led me, to believe that another
global conflict is on the way. Contrary
to popular opinion, and to my original thinking, it will not be a nuclear
war. No, that would destroy everything
and everyone, which is not what the enemy will want. Urban warfare is what this country is
preparing to fight, and it may very well be our government against our
citizens. Wake up America, your
country needs you…desperately.
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