Just for the record and before you read any further my purpose in this article is to address that person who blames everyone else for what is wrong in their life especially with regard to race. If you identify with that portion of this article, check yourself.

I resent so called African Americans who base the quality of their life on the lack of opportunity because of what a white man did or didn’t do or because the Jew is the root of all evil. Discrimination and poverty are not an American or Jewish invention meant to keep your life oppressed. I have had my fill with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright Jr, Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Eric Lee and anyone else that exists for the expressed purpose of decrying racism as opposed to encouraging empowerment.

I am fed up to my eyeballs with the poor me, pathetic mantra of how black America must constantly be vigilant, on guard, forever insecure because white America or the Jew is never going to stop injecting their supposed racial superiority into the soul of black America.

I am so tired of the pervasive ignorance that is rampant in my community or the hatred towards me and others like me because of our refusal to be identified as Black or African or any other social group. I am an American, born in these United States who acknowledges the horror of segregation, slavery and racial injustice. I simple do not languish in the bitterness and anger of the failure of humanity over the ongoing oppression inflicted on people by people. Incidentally, this is not unique to black folk.
I am not a victim of what continues to happened around the globe and I am not trying to find some sort of identity in order to justify who I am because of some sort of self realized arrival or accomplishment.

I do not hate my Jewish brothers and sisters and anyone who does is an idiot! Likewise, if the Jew hates me because of my race, that Jewish individual is a monumental idiot!
A note to the Reverend Eric Lee: Sir, how you treated Daphna Edwards Ziman, founder of Children Uniting Nations (www.childrenunitingnations.org) is just stupid. The hatred flowing in your spirit can only be the result of hell itself (www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzYrkVaUYc&feature). You and others like you are repulsive to me. How you addressed this woman as she was being honored for her amazing body of work is embarrassing. “You just dump” as my grandmother would say!
The Jewish people could have obliterated the Palestinian people, wiped them off the face of the earth and yet they have not done so. With the unholy hatred of the Jewish people and Israel ever present, I admire these people for not being consumed with racial hatred. Let’s talk about that for a change or what this people, not unlike the slave who died so that I could LIVE free contribute to this world.

The late Richard Prior made a joke about the fact that so many black Americans were in prison. He said that the white man’s form of justice was to put “just us” black folk (he used the N-word) in prison. He was telling the truth, I certainly don’t disagree with his statement. I simply would assert that many these days…belong there.

The new joke in my opinion is black liberation theology. What you trying to be liberated from? Clean up you own house first. If you don’t want your son or daughter going to prison raise them in a marriage and do the hard and very difficult thing, I did! Give them something to believe in. God knew what he was doing when he instituted marriage.

The men and women who have decided to rise above the idiocy of racial hatred, be them red , yellow, black, white or brown what classification do they fall under? How should they (we) be identified? To those of you who have a problem with our decision to be all that we can be because of who we are (let me break this down for you and type very, very slowly) “WE ARE SICK OF YOU!”
We accepted our American heritage and fight racism and every other ill in our society. Our poverty did not dictate the terms of who we wanted to be and Dred Scott was wrong then and wrong now. Our conviction is not based on how to overcome America but rather on how to take advantage of what America has to offer. We want to be a part of the story as it unfolds. We choose not to be a whiney, miserable, and complaining, societal pain in the butt!

Our outstretched hand is reaching for something better as opposed to waiting for someone to put reparations in the palm of our hand. The welfare system destroys the human spirit, just look at the hopelessness it fed. I have met amazing people who have done unbelievable things in order to feed their families or to build a life. They in turn hand those lessons down to their children. I meet those people daily many of whom are black. Our news media portrays us as gang members or unintelligent, suspicious unfortunates or worse, Democrats! That black mother or father who stayed married and raised their kids rarely gets the light shown in on their contribution.

My story was one of poverty, my father was a twisted, psychologically screwed up homosexual who was an embarrassment to me and my four brothers and two sisters. I grew up with rats and cockroaches in the ghettos of Rochester, NY. One day my father decided to let the truth be known as he was packing his clothes for another life. What a guy, he destroyed my mother’s life but not her spirit. Mom would just be damned if one of her “chillren” was going to hate anybody. I have never had my father hand me a Christmas present or birthday gift. I like many kids didn’t have much when I was growing up. I have had help along the way to which I am grateful. The folks who helped me were and are, Americans!I wanted to be like them. Today, I am one of them!

If you are a black father and you don’t take care of your kids blame yourself. If you rob steal and kill from the people in your community, you belong in jail. If you eat sleep and live only for your next cocaine or meth-amphetamine high, you chose to do drugs. I hope and pray you choose to get help, it’s up to you! If you are an alcoholic, you did this to yourself. If you made the choice to have child after child that you could not take care of, you are pathetic. It’s just that simple, it really is. You are a criminal and deserve to be brought up on every child abuse law known. If you abort your baby simply because you can’t keep your legs closed, I pray that I am not standing next to you on judgment day!

Personal responsibility and accountability along with character truly do go along way in any society. Excuses on the other hand, never amount to much. Ask Bin Laden as he destroys everyone that has wronged him. He is a wealthy man who blames everyone else for what is wrong in his world.

In the mean time, I am amazing! It is this single most amazing attribute that our creator gave to me, I simply recognize it as such. What an amazing thing to be part of the whole thing. It’s what drives me to see the best in people. I exemplify this every day. In fact, the most amazing aspect of this life is the people. Many of us decided to take advantage of the beauty in this world. It really is better to give than to receive. To those of you, who insist on selfish pride and self righteousness, tomorrow is not promised and nothing is owed you. The greatest of all of our ability is to choose life and to live it abundantly…that is the gift! Don’t base who you are by the situations you face. Our creator created adversity and white people are not immune to this human condition so quit blaming and start claiming your vision. For those of you who don’t get it, I really am quite sick of you, stop looking backwards but if you must, at least be honest with yourself!

Jeff Morton is a former business owner and staunch supporter of conservatism in the mold of Frederick Douglass Jr. and Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Regan. Mr. Morton, originally from Rochester, NY currently resides in the Pacific Northwest. He is one of the assistant producers of a regional game show that promotes "good kids" at the high school level. Mr. Morton is the driving force behind CONSERVATISM Speaks To America.