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Ward Connerly stated:

“You know, it pains me to say that within the past year, I have experienced more hate from my fellow black Americans than I have seen in the previous 55 1/2 years of my life. For example, a black state senator, Diane Watson, recently said that I want to be white, that I consider myself colorless, that I have no racial pride — all because my wife is white and because I oppose racial discrimination and racial preferences.

The one thing that I have learned from this experience is that bigots come in all shapes and colors. Despite their physical differences, they have one thing in common; they all reside in the same intellectual sewer.

The senator is right about several things. First, I do want to be colorless in the eyes of my government. I thought that was a goal to which we all subscribed. Second, I am lacking in racial pride. I have self-pride. I am proud to be an American. I am proud to be a Rotarian. I am proud of my family. I am proud to own my own business. But I am racially indifferent, not racially proud.

Those who proclaim pride in their color or race trouble me, unless they have earned that color lying on the beach or in front of a sun lamp. To any of you who want to travel down that road of racial pride, leave me out of the vehicle. But I urge you to be attentive for those signs which read, “slippery road ahead.”

Just wanted to make that clear so that you did not think I was speaking of you.

People turn to using this kind of diatribe because they haven’t any ideas of actual value.

So what do you do when you ideas are feeble and flimsy? You redirect so that the focus is not on your ideas and you run those you stand against through the mud without ever actually debating the value of their ideas and instead you attack their characther because you know that that your ideas, your values cannot stand on their own.