The Difference Betwixt Black and White
While Oprah Winfrey wined about being racially profiled
over a designer purse she was told she couldn’t afford by a shopkeeper in
Switzerland, Jase Robertson took it in stride as he was profiled as a white
trash homeless street bum wandering into Trump International Hotel in New York
City.
Opinion
By de Andréa
August 17, 2013
One will more likely see others as others see
themselves.
In light of all the recurrence of racial tensions
in the U.S. One must pause and think, just who are the
racists?
Duck
Dynasty’s star Jase Robertson admittedly looking like white trash as much as
Oprah looks black, was kicked out of New
York City ’s Trump International Hotel after a staff
member apparently thought he was homeless.
Robertson laughed it off and said he was likely the victim of “facial
profiling.” Note, he didn’t say,
“racial
profiling”
Robertson and other members of his family were in New York City promoting
the fourth season of their hit A&E reality show. The network put the family up in the swanky Trump
hotel across from Central Park .
Apparently one Trump International Hotel staff
member was not accustomed to seeing a fully bearded guest wearing camouflage
pants.
Robertson said “I asked him where the bathroom was and he
said, ‘Right this way, sir,’” Robertson told the hosts of the
television show ‘Live with Kelly and Michael.’ “He said, ‘Right this way, sir,’
as he walked me outside, pointed down the road and said, ‘Good luck.’”
The TV show hosts appeared stunned by the story –
but Robertson smiled and said he took it in stride. “I think it was a facial profiling deal,”
he said.
Robertson’s brother, Al, told Fox News the family
is getting a good laugh out of the case of mistaken identity. “He assumed Jase was some homeless guy,”
he said. “This is not our first rodeo —
which is another reason I stay beardless.”
Ironically, it’s not the first time the men of the Louisiana family have
been mistaken for homeless people. “One
time, we were in New York City
and people put money in Willie’s coffee cup,” he said. And then there was the time, “Dad
was speaking at a church, and one of the members showed him where the homeless
shelter was.”
The Robertson’s said they were
“absolutely not offended” by the incident and said they loved staying at the Trump
Hotel. “We were laughing — wait until
the Donald hears about this,” he said.
And for what it’s worth, they hope the staff member doesn’t get in
trouble. “He was just as nice as he could
be — escorting Jase to the park,” Al said.
“And honestly, if I was in his shoes — I’d have done the same thing.”
THE BOTTOM LINE: What a sharp contrast between the reactions of two
television stars. Oprah
sporting an Afro hair do, the more well known of the two stars,
although maybe not as well known in Switzerland, automatically assumed the profiling was
because of her race and it likely was, but I am talking about the reaction of
the victims here, not the perpetrators of the profiling. Robertson didn’t automatically assume the
profiling was because he looked like white trash. He said he thought he was a victim of Facial
Profiling because of his beard, not Racial Profiling because he was white.
The equal reaction to this would have been if Oprah
had laughed it off by saying the profiler probably was not use to seeing
someone with this much curly hair.
Is it blacks, or African Americans, as they seem to
prefer, still’ living in slavery? Or is
it really the white race that still thinks of them as slaves.
Should I refer to myself as a ‘White European
American’ instead of just an American? Why
would I do that, even though my parents were not even born in America ? I doubt that Oprah or most African Americans
can even trace their heritage to any ware except America , then why do they separate
them selves from the rest of Americans by calling themselves African Americans
instead of just American.
Could it be because they are in denial of having
kept themselves in the bondage of slavery and by blaming white society for the
hatred and shame they have for themselves that they don’t have to face the
truth. They should be proud that they as
a people survived the horrible treatment by the ignorance of a historically dominant
supremacist society.
Is the problem with racism, how African Americans
think European Americans perceive them’, or is it how they perceive themselves.
It is just psychology 101 my
friend. If you an American?
Then see yourself as an American
I hope this is taken in the context in which it was written...
Thanks for listening – de Andréa
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