Rant #1,548: Another Cautionary Tale

Just to follow up on yesterday's Rant, there are more cautionary tales to tell about Facebook.

I really have to wonder about the executives who run Facebook. Don't they police their site at all?

I have noticed a rising undercurrent of anti-white postings recently, and I have to tell you, I have made it my personal mission to at least answer back to such posts.

Of course, the racists will continue to post this garbage, mainly memes--already set up messages from other sites, usually with photos--to their heart's content, because Facebook believes in free speech.

But often, posting these things is like yelling fire in a crowded theater, electronically, of course.

Recently, one person who was a "friend" of mine changed her tack in her postings.

They used to be light and airy, but all of a sudden, out of the blue, she began posting things that were, well, anti-Caucasian.

Oh no, she didn't come right out and say "I don't like white people," but her mission was clearly to discredit whites, and sorry, I won't stand for that.

Her latest bit of nonsense was a post that since white kids are into heroin now, people are taking notice. When just blacks were using the drug, nobody cared.

This is a bunch of malarkey, of course.

Heroin has been the scourge of both the black and white communities for decades.

Two of the three people I know who have overdosed were white, by the way.

What is happening now is that--and it is not as if it hasn't happened already, by the way, decades ago--heroin use has moved to the suburbs, and more kids outside of the inner city--both black and white--are using the drug.

Of course, she conveniently misses that point, and it really isn't much of a story, because as I have said, heroin use, let's say on Long Island, did not just come here the past few years. It was here even when I was in high school in the 1970s.

But she goes on and on, basically stating that nobody cared about the poor black kids that were using the drug until the poor white kids jumped on the bandwagon, too.

Hogwash.

Isn't the more important story here simply "Why?" Why are kids of all races, nationalities and backgrounds turning to this garbage when they should be enjoying the best times of their lives?

She has put up other ridiculous memes. One that I remember said that color film was created to bring out the best features of whites, but not of blacks.

These posts just get on my nerves, and I have told her on numerous occasions that these are racist rants.

Finally, yesterday, I guess she had had enough of me telling her that she was race baiting by putting up these posts, and she blocked me.

Another person who somehow I am "friends" with, put up a post congratulating a black woman for being the first of her race to have won election to her post.

Now, I know that this one wasn't done purposely, but let's be honest about it: would the woman have even put up the post if the person were white and a male?

I did take her to task about it, and she said it was more gender based than anything else.

So I said to her, "So, you would rather go for someone who fits your agenda rather than someone who is best for the position?"

Of course, she did not answer, because she knows that I am right.

She did contact me with a Facebook message, and we had a nice discussion about this.

I think a lot of people believe it is something of "payback" time, with whites now having to make way for others because of past indiscretions in this country.

It is called "white guilt," and a lot of high profile people have expressed such "remorse," for some unknown reason, including most recently actor-driector Quentin Tarrantino, who protested against police.

Funny, I don't have the least bit of guilt in me at all.

Heck, my ancestors were slaves, too, and when my family came here in the early 20th century, they were open to persecution of the worst kind, too, and I don't expect others to have guilt over this in 2015.

It's the PC Police at it again, and sorry, I don't buy into their mind control.

However, so many others do, and I think it makes others expect that we all do.

I don't. Sorry.

So again, watch who you "friend" and what you read on Facebook.

As I have now been on it for several years, it is clearly a nice place to visit, but unlike some people whose very lives seemingly depend on their presence on the social networking site, I wouldn't want to live there.

Speak to you again on Monday.