A black woman who called into the Rush Limbaugh Show earlier this week argued the problem with the civil struggle today is not the politicians and the system, but those who exhibit a “victim mentality.”
“I am so sick and tired of this ‘systemic racism,'” said the woman, who identified herself as Joyce from Houston. “There are no organized conspiracies to keep blacks down. There are pockets of bigotry, for sure. But they’re not powerful enough to keep you down if you have some get-up-and-go about yourself.
The caller then specifically said it was not the “rich, white Republicans” that were getting in the way of real progress, but the people who consistently see themselves as the victims.
“And I hear this constantly. I live in the most dangerous neighborhood in Houston, the sixth in the nation, and we constantly talk about racism. ‘Who is keeping us down?'” she said. “I get so tired of telling my people, ‘The old, rich, white Republicans [are] not our problem. We are our problem’ — and until we face the fact that we are our own worst enemies, nothing is gonna change!”
The caller then pivoted to criticizing her own congresswoman, Democratic Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, whom she claimed is not aware of the number of black people who have been assaulted or killed in her own district.
“Ask my congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee,” she said, adding, “But I tell you one thing, she sure know about Floyd.”
Joyce said people often “fake racism” and needlessly fan the flames of racial tensions.
“I have traveled out of this country several times, and I want to say to the blacks [that are] listening that you’re so angry and you come up with this fake racism and every scene. That’s not our problem. There’s no better place for us, and you’re gonna sit here and allow people to use you as pawns to mess up what’s best for you today,” she said. “There is no better place for us, and I am tired of you blaming someone else.
The caller then pointed to a factor that she attributes to some problems in the country: fatherless homes.
“In our community, one of the main reasons that these young people are getting shot and killed, [is] because they didn’t have, and especially these young black men, they didn’t have no dads in the home,” she said.
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“When Obama was in the White House, all in my community just, ‘Oh, we are so blessed! We have a black man in the White House.’ I said, ‘We need to a black man in the black house!'” she added, referencing homes with black families.
As for a solution, Joyce said more crime is not the answer, and demonizing the police does just that.
“There are few bad policemen, but basically, the policeman is out there to do a job to protect us,” she said. “And I get so tired of, ‘Oh, they arrest more blacks than they do whites.’ Well, hell, we do more crime! So, what are they gonna do, just let us go?”
“We have got to change,” she said.
