Black and White

Let's assume, for a minute, that I'm able to peacefully and without incident create an organization based on color. Say, for the sake of the discussion, The National Conglomerate of White Grocery Store Workers (NCWGSW). We plan some sort of convention, or meeting, or something of the sort, and some black high-profile grocery executive shows up and wants to attend. Of course, being the WHITE Grocery Store Workers meeting, we deny him admittance. How long would it take for the likes of Jesse Jackson, NAACP types, ACLU brass, etc. to show up?

So, how come when it's the other way around, the story's entirely different?

A California man explicitly denied entry to a national conference of social workers because of the color of his skin is not finding many people to champion his cause of discrimination, according to the Bakersfield Californian.

Brian Parnell complained to the IRS and the federal Department of Health and Human Services after he was turned away from a meeting of the National Association of Black Social Workers in New Orleans. Members of the group told him, after he flew across the country, that white folks were not allowed to attend the meeting.

But no one seems to care, he said, and he remains frustrated about his "inability to do anything about what was an obvious instance of racism." He wonders why an organization created to combat racism feels "justified in exercising racism themselves."

Why does it seem that the ACLU is never coming to rescue for people like this? Are "civil liberties" only for one race of people? Some day someone will explain to me why there is Miss Black America, a group for black journalists, and black student alliances on college campuses, yet simple THOUGHTS of white-only groups of the same sort would be deemed racial, insensitive, disrespectful, disenfranchising, and everything in between. If the other race wants to end racism, they need to realize that if the cleaned their windows, then their neighbor's windows might not look so dirty.