Inventing stories of racism is Big Business.  Think about it...what does Rev Al Sharpton do for a living?  Nothing.  He goes from city to city accusing whites of hate crimes where none exist ( kids at Duke, police officers in NYC, etc).  He makes nearly a million dollars a year doing this, but that is an estimate...no one's sure because he "forgets" to file taxes, and last year owed 1.5 million in back taxes and sanctions.  He charges 20 grand per appearance, that we do know.  He claims to be a Reverend but has no church nor congregation.  He's a Professional Agitator who collects big checks from the low income communities he's constantly grandstanding from.  If I were black, I'd be pretty annoyed at my race's civil rights struggles being used to pay for this guy to live in a multi-million dollar home, but that's just me.

Jesse Jackson.  In all my years, I have never seen him work for an honest day's pay.  He's another Professional Agitator.  He's managed to build up quite a fortune playing jesse-on-the-spot in racially charged situations.  Again, I find it hard to give credence to a man who becomes a millionaire selling the idea of racism.  If he were going into these communities and bettering them without charging an appearance fee (from an already strapped neighborhood), I would admire his activism, but he doesn't.

Professor Gates.  Now, this guy is the newest addition to the wealthy agitators.  He has amassed a small fortune writing books on the subject of racism.  I can bet the farm that he will release a book soon and start touring the Professional Agitator Circuit with Sharpton and Jackson.

Finally, we have our President.  Here is a man who was raised by white women, yet he decided to use his ivy league education (partially funded by his white grandmother) to go into the inner cities and organize the BLACK community.  I won't give my opinion on what it means to be a Community Organizer, but David Dukes was one too.  So President Obama got his jump start into politics by claiming the blacks weren't getting their due from the government.  He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, and within 12 years was elected President of the United States of America, a meteoric rise by any standards.  The fact that he was half black actually helped him accomplish the fast paced political progression.  It was pretty obvious that his white opponents feared challenging him on issues, lest they say anything that could be turned against them as a racist statement. 

Every few months, another close friend (or spouse!) of the President's is discovered to be a racist.  I am not going to outright call our President a racist.  Okay, yes i am, because i'm sick of walking on racial eggshells.  What i really want to stress here is that your friends are usually your friends because of common interests and ideologies.  I live in Alabama.  If my circle of friends included known Klan members, If I attended a Klan member's Sunday sermons for twenty years, or even if I made some off the cuff remark defending the arrest of a Klan member, wouldn't most of you assume I was in the Klan?

It's Big Business and the Black Community is buying it.