Unrecognized victimology racism is a dangerous media precedent. Current troubling times make old time slavery look like a picnic. Existing international slave trade is a growing problem with annual estimates over 200 million women and children in slavery in the world. This dreadful condition is occurring while millions make a profession out of victimology and what happened centuries before.

We can not approve of race-baiting hypocrites making their living on perpetuation of racism claims for injustices occurring years earlier. “The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection! But roots of our individualism remind us what we are is inseparable from the source from which all others derive; coercive practices that threaten our neighbor also threaten us.”-Butler Shaffer

Politics of victimology for groups living in free societies and complaining about 400 years of injustices to excuse lack of success only serves to drag ethnic groups to the bottom of the social order. It creates special privilege groups which further divide and create hostilities. Some estimates indicate approximately 60% of the black race in the United States is living in the middle income group now. It is hard to take someone seriously when they claim of being held out of the American Dream when they are millionaires wearing $1,000 suits and $500 pairs of shoes.

Coaches of winning teams rarely emphasize their losses and expect to win in the future if they report they can’t win because the other team is holding them back from winning. They are by definition giving insurmountable personal power to another group and relinquishing ability to take success they suggest they want.

The first reaction of “get over it”; by those tired of the old victim speeches to explain inability of one race or another to not be able to succeed, may have been too strong. It is ok to keep past injustices to a specific group in institutional memory but it is ridiculous to keep it as a “cause celebre.”

Emphasis for all poor must be redirected to economic and social circumstances of today instead of injustices that occurred over 200 years ago. Failure to emphasize successes of and what can be done where people cry wolf once too often, is causing problems of real civil rights violations, regardless of race.

Living in the past will not help anyone adapt to the future. We must arise from a society of continuing “oh woe is me”, “you owe me an apology” “I am justified in exacting my revenge on you” victims and emphasize positive of what has occurred and what can be accomplished by taking responsibility for one's actions instead of blaming their plight on the white, Korean, black or any other boogeyman. We used to say we don’t have any black actors playing the role of KKK members, but that has been accomplished too.

It is getting harder and harder to find the “first,” black, Korean, Japanese, Mexican, or any other self proclaimed depressed minority who has not accomplished a specific success level in American life. We are now given the opportunity to elect the “first Black” President.

That very distinction is an attempt to classify the individual as a specific race instead of a man capable of running the country. It may be a historical event that many people are hoping will succeed. Oddly enough it is white people who seem more interested in his success because of his abilities and programs.

Self-proclaimed black community leaders who have made a living off spreading the doctrine of victimology do not want to see a black person elected president, apparently because that would detract from their ability to continue living the high life on the victimology gravy train. They claim Obama is not black enough. He is not born of the true heritage of slavery. The problem with that argument is that millions of “black enough” blacks in America were not born of the true heritage of slavery.

Failure to publicly recognize what is obvious to most Americans serves to divide and institutionalize hatred of one group against the selected boogeyman. Apologist enablers must understand the more they blame ethnic group failure on actions of others, the more it serves to create more hatred backlash. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

"Ignorance is a dangerous thing. But ignorance and greed for special privilege is a recipe for catastrophe and continuation of the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton gravy trains at the rest of society’s expense. Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination." Thomas Sowell -Random Thoughts January 09, 2007 the conservative voice.