bigotry in honesty

Sometimes, when I am trying to find quotes for this category, I have to dig pretty far, or stretch the original meaning of the quote a bit much for even my tastes… but sometimes, a person’s comment is just so blatantly bigoted, so absurdly narrow-minded, and so obviously antagonistic that it is almost like the author was volunteering to be featured here. 

Today’s quote is one of the latter. 

Below is a slightly-modified quote from a certain Donna Davis; however, I have altered two words in the entire quote.  Only two.  You should be able to pick them out pretty easily, but, tell me, does my changing those two specific words appreciably alter the nature of her comment? 

There are too many blacks around already; we don’t need more, and in a public place like that, I’d like to feel safe if I’m going to the park. If there’s a black there, I don’t want to be there. 

Again, the above quote is not exactly what Donna Davis wrote, but I contend that the core message remains identical. 

By the same token, you could easily substitute “Jew”, “homosexual”, “Irishman”, “Gypsy”, and countless other groups, individuals, ethnicities, and cultures that have been discriminated against throughout history. 

So, tell me – if it is unacceptable to discriminate against “persons of color” in this particular fashion, then why is it acceptable to discriminate against law-abiding, repeatedly-background-checked, trained American citizens who just happen to be lawfully bearing arms?  On average, permitted firearm carriers are more-law-abiding than their “regular” fellow citizens, thus Donna’s entire position is one based on irrational fear and palpable hatred… both of which accurately describe the reasons that people of darker skin tones have been – and still are in places – so unjustly persecuted. 

But, hey, persecuting other people just because they choose to lawfully exercise their Constitutionally-protected rights to self-defense and bearing arms?  That is A-OK! 

One would think we were past that point of all that animosity, no matter the target involved.  I guess one would be wrong. 

(By the same token, if Donna does not want to associate with firearm-carriers (or blacks, or Jews, or Irish, or whatever), that is her choice, and she is welcome to it.  She has no right, however, to dictate who other people should associate with, however…) 

(Courtesy of The View From North Central Idaho.)