Charles Barkley Always Spurs Interesting Discussions on Race

“Listen, what I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what’s appropriate and inappropriate.”

Fair enough.  Now, let me ask a question.

Is what I do with my white friends up to black America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate?

I suspect Charles would agree, but alas, most of elitist society doesn't.  They absolutely want to determine to what extent your private conduct is appropriate.  That is what the whole Paula Dean thing was about.  Imagine if Paula had said, "what I do white my white friends is not up to black America to dictate to me what’s appropriate and inappropriate."  An epic public skewering would have been inevitable.

As it turns out, she did the opposite, she self-flagellated herself quite publicly, and got the skewering anyway.

See the dilemma here for white America?  It's a double standard with increasingly brutal consequences.  Frankly we're pretty sick of it.  This annoyance is expressed in multiple ways.  Buying Paula's book in solidarity for instance.  Another is retreating from this ridiculous phony "conversation on race" that the elite racialists keep insisting we have.  The only way to not lose the game is not to play, which is why in multiple subtle ways much of white America has checked out of the discussion.  Concern about race relations and mutual well-being is just not that high on the priority list because the elite opinion-makers have rigged the game.  So don't bitch to me about the lack of progress on race relations in America.  Progress requires willing parties, and the racialists have created a massive unwilling party by setting up lose-lose rules of public discourse.

Sorry, but I'm afraid unless you unrig the rules of engagement, it's going to stay this way.