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I Will Not Be Assimilated
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 3:18 AM EDT, 3:18 AM EDT from Ron Miller
If you want to deliberately get yourself agitated, read the comments sections after any political news item or commentary on the Web. I usually hope against hope to gain some insight I didn't have before, but most comments are rude, ignorant or downright violent. Take as an example the comments I read after the transcript of an interview with Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele. I was reminded of the lyrics of a song: "Some people act like crabs in a bucket, scramblin' over each other so none of them ever get out."
With Mr. Steele's ascension to the RNC chairmanship, "House Negro" is the slur of the moment on the liberal talking points laundry list, and that's as kind as it gets. It makes my blood boil to see black people stand by or join in while whites make racist comments about Mr. Steele, and I feel so strongly about this that I'm willing to risk making a lot of people angry with what I'm about to say.
Racism and bigotry are never justifiable regardless of time, place, person or circumstance, and no one should know this better than black people. The liberals' tacit approval of racial attacks when directed toward a black conservative is a directive originating from the very pit of hell itself and all who follow it, particularly other blacks, are either indescribably mindless or morally bankrupt.
Of course, this liberal directive comes from the same slime pool as legalized abortion, another evil which affects blacks more than any other demographic group but which they allow to continue. I pondered the senselessness of black people hurling racial slurs at their own kind, or accommodating the murder of 17 million-plus innocent unborn black people, all the while twisting their integrity into a knot to justify themselves, and a phrase popped into my head that explained everything:
"You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
Only the subjugation of an entire race by a collective force operating with one mind could explain how a proud, resilient and morally upright people could become practitioners of the same racism that was once used against them, and accessories to the murder of millions of their own innocents. Only the Borg could convert them into automatons voting en masse for one political party despite the lack of evidence their lot has improved.
For those of you who don't follow Star Trek, the most fearsome enemy ever faced by the United Federation of Planets was the Borg, a race of cybernetic beings whose sole purpose was to forcibly assimilate entire species and their technology into a collective hive. Formerly vibrant, intelligent races throughout the galaxy were transformed into mindless, soulless drones directed by a hive mind, a single consciousness occupying many bodies. In the Star Trek series, the hive mind was personified by the Borg Queen. I don't recall her ever being called by a name but I had to squelch the temptation to yell out "Madame Speaker!" at the TV or movie screen to see if she responded.
"We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours."
Growing up, I was a Democrat just like my parents. After I turned eighteen and was out on my own, I realized nothing my parents taught me bore any resemblance to the liberal political ideology of the Democratic Party. My parents instilled in me the primacy of Jesus Christ, the sacredness of human life, the treasure of liberty, the dignity and reward of work, and making my way in the world by being responsible and accountable for my actions, and getting back up when I fall rather than staying down waiting for someone to save me. In other words, they raised me to be a conservative. I declared myself a conservative Republican at nineteen and I've never looked back.
Sociologist Shelby Steele, a black man, put it most eloquently:
"The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity. I always secretly loved Malcolm X more than Martin Luther King Jr. because Malcolm wanted a fuller human dignity for blacks -- one independent of white moral wrestling. In a liberalism that wants to redeem the nation of its past, minorities can only be ciphers in white struggles of conscience."
I've never been a follower unless it made sense to me, and conservatism's advocacy of the individual rather than the collective gives me real freedom rather than the groupthink which seeks to pull me back down into the crab bucket. Resistance isn't futile after all.
Thanks for your column, and your integrity and courage.
Ron, thanks so much for such an outstanding post! It boggles my mind that I may come across as racist if I don't agree with a black on some issues, but I surely don't have a clue or pretend to understand what it's like being black and then ridiculed like I'm sure you get alot of because you don't agree w/ BHO, or any other black that doesn't show the values they surely do have somewhere hidden in them. Stay strong Ron, and God bless you too!
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