I find it curious that when a black person encounters hypocrisy or what he considers wrongful behaviour on the part of some other blacks...and has the guts to so state publicly...that he is accused of...racism! Wow. Remember that this happened to Chris Darden too, during the O.J. trial, and he wrote a book about it called "In Contempt". He was confronted with some extraordinary racism in action (arranged to protect O.J. and obfuscate the evidence)...pointed it out...and was then called "racist" for so doing by certain people who should have known better. Well, he had seen through the big game, that's all. It must have been quite a revelation to him when he did. When you've been schooled to think of yourself as a "victim", and then realize that your own community is playing a deceitful game...

The game is...even black people are not allowed to point out blatant racism when it is practiced by blacks or supposedly on behalf of blacks by the system in general...usually in order to achieve some larger objective which the system has in mind (which will not benefit blacks or whites or secure social justice).

My, my. Perhaps it is time to change the word "black" to the word "untouchable"...given certain circumstances.

And at the same time, racism against blacks remains a very serious problem. Obviously. And I know it. The trouble is, the scoundrels in this world merrily play it BOTH ways...and if you call them on it, they will call you "racist".

It's doubletalk. It's opportunism. And it is racism.

These are general observations on society, rather than specific comments regarding Harry Belafonte on the Larry King show (I still have not read the whole transcript.).

If you don't like it, and you think I'm "racist" for having said these things, well, too bad. I'm not. I just name hypocrisy when I see it, and I don't care who is doing it...I name it. Doesn't make any damn difference to me what colour their skin is or what religion or culture they belong to or what someone else did to them fifty or five hundred years ago. What they are doing right now is what matters to me.

I castigated the longhaired "hippies" too, back when I was one, for much the same reason. A lot of them were self-indulgent phonies and hypocrites, just riding on what their chosen lifestyle could give them in the way of quick gratification. Their obsession with recreational drugs was self-defeating, their 50-word vocabulary was fatuous, and their self-righteous sense of moral superiority to older people was ill-founded.

If there are any black people out there who are not afraid to point out self-serving hypocrisy when it is practiced by their own community, I salute them!

- LH