Remembering the past to heal for the future
Nearly 50 years ago, Elwin Wilson, a young white Southerner, led an attack on a group of civil rights “freedom riders” in the whites-only waiting room of a South Carolina bus station. A week ago, in a meeting arranged with some help from “Good Morning America,” Wilson apologized for the long-ago incident to one of the young black men, John Lewis, who went on to become a U.S. Representative from Georgia. The two men embraced and Lewis offered his forgiveness to Wilson.
Wilson said his hatred of blacks had been slowly dissolving over time, and the final push for his apology was the election of Barack Obama as president.
“I never thought this would happen,” Lewis told “GMA.” “It says something about the power of love, of grace, the power of the people being able to say, ‘I’m sorry,’ and move on. And I deeply appreciate it. It’s very meaningful for me.”
Can openly acknowledging our painful past relations and the damage they did help us move forward toward better racial relations?




Ron is in charge of the main news sections of the Sunday Post-Dispatch and supervises newsroom production of the daily paper several nights a week. He has worked at newspapers since 1976 as a reporter, copy editor, layout editor, deputy sports editor and news editor. He has been at the Post-Dispatch since 2006.
This is all well and good.
I want to see an apology of the African American Community
For destroying every school district every major city I mean the brick and mortor in this country.
Then and only then will I see movement in Race relationships start to take hold. The blame game has to stop.
It seems to me this “conversation” is very one sided,as in every topic submitted for discussion deals with the hardships of the black race. As a young white male, I feel ike my race has pretty well been swept under the rug as of late. Believe me, I do not receive any special treatment in any facet of life based on my race. This is not 1950. It hasnt been for almost 60 years. I have never,ever done any wrong toward someone based on their race and am getting quite sick of being treated as though I have. Untill the blacks can stop harping on things many of them never experienced or even witnessed they will NEVER move forward. My family came from France. They left because they were being tortured and slaughtered because of their religous beliefs. If I went through life obsessing over it and demanding apologies from the French, well, I doubt I’d have the time or gumption to do much with my life. I would demand to be helped along by the French people that never did anything personal to me. Wouldnt make alot of sense, would it?
God……I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO tired of this. Will the whining stop in 100 years? 200 years? 500 years?
Mr. Wilson’s apology is appropriate and necessary because he is apologizing for his own actions. His apology has no broader implications for the public at large. People with white skin color are not any more responsible for the actions of a bigot like Mr. Wilson than a person with black skin is for the actions of black criminals. Blanket apologies by those who have committed no wrong against those who have not suffered any wrong cheapen the meaning of a true apology.
The only real key to moving forward past racial strife is to have everyone treat others as individuals and not as members of some arbitrary group. This country has had a long history of racism. However, people of all colors have contributed to reducing racism. It is an undisputed fact that the only current state supported race based policies (“affirmative actions”, etc.) discriminate against white men. The inaccurately self described “liberals” need to come the understanding that these types of policies diminish us all and make true racial reconciliation impossible.
Wilson had nothing to apologize for. His action was not an individual action–the story states he lead an attack, not that he individually attacked.
Wilson and his crew were the true freedom riders–trying to free their nation of the neo-bolshevist carpetbagger thugs coming down from areas full of nignorance to impose their nignorant views based entirely upon Hegelian dialectical sophistries upon those intimately familiar with the negro.
I can only guess Mr. Wilson has become senile or otherwise soft-in-the-head in his old age. Perhaps he’s looking forward to a time when he’s going to be confined in a skilled care facility and he knows many (if not most) of those charged with his care and feeding will be of the negro race, and perhaps he fears some sort of best-served-cold dish of revenge for his daring to stand up on his hind legs and to resist the neo-bolshevist/kibbutzunist carpetbagging being foist upon his region by those not having to deal with the results of it themselves.
Whether you think so or not, his apology will be taken as a collective apology for a collective wrong, and it will also be judged inadequate, as there is just simply no pleasing these people.
They have their very own President now. It won’t take a whole year before they’ll have something to complain of regarding “racism” stemming from that—Obama won’t be negro enough for them or something–they’ll find something, they always do.
I declare this a no-pandering zone. Stop whining about “racism’ and dredging up the “bad old days”. I can guarantee you there have been more outright racist-motivated killings of caucasians by negroes in nthe last twenty years now than there ever were of negroes by supposedly racism-mostivated whites in the entire history of the nation before.
I will never forget or forgive the outburst of Alvin Reed on
Donnybrook on KETC, on the eve of the national day of mourning for recently-died Rondald Reagan. The only thing Reed could think to say was that Reagan (supposedly) announced his Presidential campaign at a site remembered as a site of a racist atrocity in order to make a sign to racist white voters that he was the candidate-of-choice of white racists.
Yes, Alvin said it. There’s no going back. Never mind that the negro racists can find a “racist atrocity” at any location you care to announce your candidacy from…
That’s the kind of crap which will forever brand these negro racists as what they are–they can never rise above using the excuse of “racism” for every failure their group experiences when compared to the general population as a group–which it ought never to be, as per the wonderful reading of The Hyphen for which John Wayne is famous.
Caucasian America has rolled over and offered it’s soft underbelly to the true racist wolves to tear at in a gesture of reconciliation like none other in the history of the world. It will reap the whirlwind for it’s thanks.
Any caucasian who voted for Obama is a race traitor. Anyone who lauds the apology of the former southern race-patriot described in the above article is evil and needs to be ostracized by other caucasians.
At the very least negroes need to slave un-paid for this nation for 400 years to undo the damage they’ve done since WW II, with the well-meant assistance of the caucasian “useful idiots” who enabled them.
Then they should be invited to leave and go somewhere else. As suggested before, “israel” would be a great choice. The were so welcoming of the falashahim, after all, it would be a natural.
And, as stated before, the kibbutzunist ability to go to their local police stationn and borrow a 9mm carbine-length machine pistol would uniquely situate them to be able to successfully play nursmaid to these shambling abominations with little danger to themselves and their lovely young daughters.
David H,
“The only real key to moving forward past racial strife is to have everyone treat others as individuals and not as members of some arbitrary group”.
What is treating others as individuals?
The wisest solution would be for all people to treat every individual that they come into contact with as they would want to be treated under the exact same circumstances or as each one would want their loved ones to be treated, you know, “ The Golden Rule”?
We would have an almost perfect world if people would follow this simple rule, but, we all know that that will never be upon this present earth. So, knowing that too large of a percentage of mankind is unwilling to behave in such a good and honorable way, what would be the right solution to this fact in your opinion?
The repentance witnesses by all from Mr. Wilson is something that must be done in order for people to have peace of mind, peace of heart and peace in their spirit. Those who do not come into repentance over the sins in their lives will never find peace and certainly not eternal life. I am so happy that this man did not ignore the Spirit of God that had been tugging at his heart and conscience because it would have been a grave mistake to do such. At age 73, not long left on this earth for this man, hopefully when his time come, he will now pass on in peace because it certainly sounds as though he has been transformed.
His friend asked him before he repented, if he were to die today, where did he think that he would go and this man Elwin Wilson stated, “Hell”.
This is something we all need to ask ourselves, if you were to die today, where do we think we would go?
UBL
Wooooo! Tell us what you really think.
I guess that your ditty will be history if history repeats itself.
Free speech is one commodity that is lacking when a post it directed at a Blacks employee of the post -disgrace .
Just. Simply. Amazing. Thank you to the Post-Dispatch for placing this blog on-line. I truly did not know that there were people such as UBL and yes we can still out there. When I read your posts (UBL/yes we can), know that I am filled with a deep sense of compassion and sorrow for your inability to let go of your anger.
Back on topic, though, things can never be made worse by acknoweldging our painful past relations. The truth, while it can hurt in the immediate, is always the best. Just think of the inverse question: can keeping our painful past relations repressed help us move forward? Of course not.
“Still out there”?
Unfortunately the thought-police here at the Red Star decided to delete my first post, or you would have read that originally my views were in total opposition to those of Wilson the Bootlicker (at the time before he began suffering his shoe-polish tongue syndrome). When he was leading the charge against the bolshevist agitators at the bus station and their “useful idiot” fool self-flagellating do-gooder cadres (as well as the self-serving race-wolves who were only too glad to “stick it out” and grab all the gusto they could) I too was a confirmed self-hating white idiot.
Of course, I did have the excuse of being an impressionable little child under the tutelage of liberal dweebs (who styled themselves as conseratives because they didn’t like to pay tax and didn’t like the direction they saw their nation headed, though they understood nothing of why it was). I wonder what Wilson’s excuse is now. I’ve speculated.
Oh, I was a right-regular Useful Idiot myself, on up into latter middle-age, whereupon I got a double heapin’ helpin’ of what my hospitality could and did bring me—vile arrogant rude insufferable negroes who are so insufferably rude they don’t even realize they are and can’t believe everyone else isn’t (because some kibbutzunist assured them of this).
No, I’m not “still” around, and I didn’t acquire my current state of high dudgeon at the inheritors of King’s legacy, those who have let down everyone who actually believed in what he claimed he did–though it seems what he actually believed in was chasing lily-white prostitutes around the halls of norse-land hotels while dressed mainly in his birthday suit while there to collect his Bolshevist Award–at the knee of racist old Grandad. The fact is, I barely ever met any of my grandparents who might have held racist ideas and those amongst my parents siblings knew to keep their ideas to themselves in my presence. None ever uttered what they really thought until dementia loosened their tongues near the end of life and the ability to inhibit socially-unacceptable thoughts failed them. And at that time I felt embarrassed for them. If only I knew then what I know now…
I’ve come by “it” recently and honestly.
And to Mr. Golden Rule, let me say only that a kick-me sign by any other name will get you taken advantage of just as badly.
Been there, done that.
When you say “golden rule” maybe you ought to say Goldstein Rule
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-atrocities-hebron.html#anchor213748
“after” one of the kibbutzunists who showed so graphically and bloodily how they actually feel about the “Goldstein Rule” the judaism 2nd-class they have insinuated into northern european societies so as to be able to vaunt those society’s cultural immune systems as the first step to easy control and use of them and their power and abilities has taught the caucasians to believe in.
Evidently it works well to this day, 20 centuries later. At the first suggestion of the caucasian cultural immune system reasserting itself anywhere, one of the trained caucasian thralls, or “noachides”, immediately pukes it up onto the offending cultural/racial “white blood cell”.
Kill it before it grows (I Shot the Sheriff lyric).
No, dredging up the official neo-bolshevist/revisonist version of post War Between the States race relations serves no useful purpose. It’s mainly revisionist, and ignores such “inconvenient truths” as that the vast majority of people “lynched” in this nation were not of the minority coloration but where merely just “people”—people suspected of some crime or outrage in a community which felt it had neither time nor inclination for the niceties of constitutional law extended to those who had no economic ability to invoke it on their own behalves.
See how that works?
It certainly is amusing to read professed pretenses of “compassion” submitted for our approval in the Twighlight Zone’s Last Gleaming of self-excoriating United Suicide America. Keep ‘em coming Ubangi cannibal. I need a good laugh while I’m slowly simmering in your stew melting-pot.
What might do some good in this nation would be an HONEST discussion of race, racial characteristics as revealed by objectively collected and published data from government organizations which are officially constituted to be against the caucasian racial/cultural immune system, but still reveal a story of racial inferiority of the minority groups so charitably treated as they always–that’s ALWAYS–have been in this nation since it’s inception as a nation.
There are always two ways of looking at objective historical data.
Creationists look at a fossil record which clearly shows a layered record of life progressing from less to more sophisticated forms and a variety of solutions to varying environmental challenges, they take the raw data and rearrange it into some sort of tripe about how the “great flood” obviously agitated the sediments of 6,000 years and sorted the smaller particles to the bottom and the larger particles to the top.
Never mind that some of the more ancient forms were quite large and that most sedimentary rock records of communities of life after vertebrates crawled out of the seas and swamps onto land show as great (or greater) of a diversity of sizes in life forms as would modern bogs and sea beds.
Aryan-haters look at the fact that hitler’s minions went into recently conquered lands looking for the dread threat of communism (kibbutzunism) and always came back with a bunch of juden to execute as a sure sign of “anti-semitism”. Never mind that all the early zionazis who settled in Palestine were a bunch of of kibbutzunists (communists). That’s just some sort of coincidence. Never mind that “zionism” in the modern sense grew out of a movement close-linked to the bolshevist “revolution” in Czarist Russia.
And the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is just a hoax too.
Now, if you had some similar document waved around by the “israeli” secret police claiming to be minutes from a meeting of the Thule society delineating everything which subsequently took place in WW II Germany, that would be reproduced in every single “holocaust” museum on every major metropolitan streetcorner…
As true “gospel”. Honest Injun!
It’s all in who’s ox is getting Gored these days—and the Devil that’s in the Details (the truth, in other words) take the hindmost.
The truth is, when Barack Who Is Insane Obama was sworn in as the most recent President, any further need to beat our white backs with a flail with broken glass woven into it’s lashes was instantly and forever-after rendered counter-productive. The ball’s in their court now and it needs to be a color-blind court which examines the true content of their characters and upon coming up with the inevitable logical conclusion does not erase it with the dutifully-chanted mantra “racism”.
The negroes in this nation need to take a good long hard look at themselves and assess their group character. They have so long amalgamated themselves into a group that they cannot function otherwise, no matter what Martin King claimed he wanted to see. Caucasians could only take him and his half-way to that goal, they have to start taking the first tottering baby-steps the rest of the way themselves. Only they can institute the needed remedial animal-husbandry/breeding or “eugenics” programs in a free society with a constitution affording everyone equality–not equality of value or merit, but equality of protection from government legal sanction. Only they can fix their problem, and they have one.
They better fix it, because all claims to mercy has been vitiated in the last general election. They’re playing in the Big Leagues now and they’re not even sand-lot quality. There’s only one outcome as things currently stand, and the non-slavery-guilty hispanics both this nation’s major parties have been loading in here–responsible for most of it’s current “baby boom” recently will show them this in no merciful or uncertain terms.
They don’t have much sympathy for me either, but it will be worth suffering their outrageous slings and arrows to see the beautiful thing which will soon unfold if nothing is done–and I have no fear from what I’ve been reading here that anything of any substantive or useful nature will be done.
More’s the pity… I guess.
Mr. UBL
I do think there’s a book somewhere in your post! I will look at your link and do some searching in what you have said.
The bottom line is these sites will/maybe remove your post. I’ve copy and pasted it into a program and will dissect it later.