My wife is not a racist

Recently, it has come to my attention that my wife's oldest daughter is a racist. This accusation has been leveled at her by her own life mate. I suppose it is true, considering I respect this man's judgment concerning lots of things.

But of course, this revelation begs the question: how does a young impressionable mind end up in this state? Some would look to influences in her life, such as school or friends. Considering she had neither growing up, this is unlikely to have been the case. Others would look to her parents. This assertion has more merit bearing in mind the poor unfortunate lass has two.

Examining her parents, we find that one deals with a lot of foreign individuals in his work. He returns to this work, year after year, so it can probably be implied that he doesn't really harbor ill-will towards people of a different ethnicity than himself. No, this gal's problem probably doesn't rest with her bio-dad.

Her mother, on the other hand, probably needs analysis at length. She, I would probably term as a statistics type of person. She does indeed group people into general statistical subsets and so forth. For instance, it is an established fact that 90% of African Americans (actually, I wasn't aware of the U.S. annexing any part of the continent of Africa, but new things are happening every day at the federal level) are recipients, or have in the past been recipients, or will at some time in their lives be recipients, of Federal welfare programs. So, therefore, it is highly likely that the reason that person behind you in line at the grocery is buying $9/pound steaks, the highest quality milk and juice, and ten frozen dinners is because they are receiving Federal dollars. You might be able to tell this because of her ethnicity...and the fact that her boyfriend is wearing his hat totally sideways and has really bad fashion sense. Conversely, when the person is wearing a conservative suit or other business attire, you might be able to assume fairly safely that he or she will not pay for the same fare with the Oregon Trail Card or other food subsidy program.

I learned a lot about this kind of thing from her mother while living in Kentucky. This was an interesting place where there were two black cultures in the area. City folk and country folk. The black country folk tended to be Republicans, worked for a living, and generally seemed productive. The black city folk conversely were part of that current 90% on the Government dole. When I was in the grocery line, the city folk were buying T-bone steaks whilst I (being poor) was buying a bag of granulated sugar because I had found that sugar was far cheaper by the pound than say, broccoli or other healthier fare.

Now, these folks could have worked for their food, too. One might have thought that if one didn't know that my food budget was based off an income that probably wasn't far too much different than what was probably the lower mean available income in the area. Sure, we could afford the expensive steaks once or twice, but not in the amount that was routinely being purchased and certainly not coupled with the expensive brand milk and juice purchased in the quantities accompanying the steak (not to mention so many boxes of the name brand cereals). No, the vast majority were sadly on Government "assistance".

I use the word "sadly" to describe Government programs because who would call it good that these very programs have trapped generations of recipients into their use? I would say, sorry is he whom the Government has deigned its help is necessary in his life. I am glad that so far, white guys aren't in need of Government help yet. I am sure things will change now that we have a socialist in office.

And so, my wife isn't a racist. Her daughter must have gotten such ideas from elsewhere. I am not sure from whence. I suppose it could have come from the evil which emanates from her own heart. We certainly have evil bound up in all of us. Besides, everyone knows step-parents have excessively small influence in the lives of children.