In a video, dated May 5, the Reverend Al Sharpton said, “We won’t have true social justice until everything is equal in everybody’s house.” Is that right? Well I wonder if my house is as nice inside as yours, as Jesse Jackson’s, or maybe as nice as the inside of Tiger Woods house. Are you willing to share your wealth with me, or are you all talk to stir up people into demanding that people the have acquired a comfortable lifestyle give up a portion of their comfort to those who have not achieved the same?

That my dear reverend sounds like socialism, and the last time I checked America was not socialist. It is perfectly fine if you preach to your congregation to give up a portion of their wealth to provide for the needy, but to demand it of all people is something you have no right to do.

Wikipedia defines social justice as, “Social justice is also a concept that some use to describe the movement towards a socially just world. In this context, social justice is based on the concepts of human rights and equality and involves a greater degree of economic egalitarianism through progressive taxation, income redistribution, or even property redistribution.”

Egalitarianism, now there is a word most people don’t know the definition for. A quick look at my computer’s onboard dictionary and we find, “egalitarianism-maintaining, relating to, or based on a belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy equal social, political, and economic rights and opportunities.”

Going back to Wikipedia, we find that economic egalitarianism is a state of economic affairs in which equality of outcome has been manufactured for all the participants of a society. It is a founding principle of various forms of socialism, communism and cooperative economic organization.

I don’t think the Reverend Sharpton, or his buddy the Reverend Jackson, give a rat’s ass if the poor blacks they preach to ever rise out of poverty. If they were to do so, those two people would be out of a job. Orlando Patterson, who happens to be black, is a historical and cultural sociologist at Harvard University. He has referred to Sharpton as a ‘racial arsonist.’

Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson as well, are parasites who live off the suffering of others. The talk a good game and have many believing that their problems are caused by the ‘system’, that the ‘system’ is rigged by white folk to ensure that they fail. If that were the case, how do they account for those from the black community who have succeeded.

People like Colin Powell, who rose to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What about yourselves, how do you explain the fact that your net worth’s are estimated to be $5 and $10 million respectively? Or what about Oprah Winfrey. Oh, that’s right, she is just like you in that she believes in the socialist concepts, and even was instrumental in getting a socialist elected as president of these united states.

The principles which people such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson espouse are not the principles that made America this wonderful land of opportunity. When the first settlers at Jamestown got off the boat, or when the pilgrims first landed at Plymouth Rock, there was no such thing as social justice. Those brave men and women had only their skills and their desire to survive to keep them alive. There was no welfare, no food stamps, and especially no parasitic reverends to plead their case when times got tough.

When we became an independent nation, it was because of people who believed in individual rights and liberty. It was not because of people who believed in the redistribution of wealth.

Thomas Jefferson once said, “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”

Those who say society owes something to those less fortunate do not understand that simple principle. The blame is always placed upon society. I will be the first to admit that there still remains a certain level of discrimination and prejudice in this country, but if a person has the desire to succeed they can overcome that.

The problem lies in that when a person does apply themselves, they are told that they are trying to be white, or that they are just a slave to the big white machine. Instead of getting support from their own community, they are denigrated and held back in perpetual poverty.

There are those who claim that the people to whom the Reverend Sharpton preaches are entitled to reparations for the sin of slavery. That is laughable at best. I never owned a slave, and I don’t know anyone who was a slave.

If these people think that we owe them, let me buy them a ticket back to Africa, to the country of their choice. Let them go back to Chad, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, or any of the other countries of Africa and see if they have the same opportunity for success as they do here.

Instead of applying themselves, they seek to place the blame for others upon society, and more specifically, upon the white people of this country. If they want to blame white people, why don’t they blame Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson for instituting the social programs to which they have become addicted to for their sustenance?

No one comes into this world with a guarantee of success, not even white people. I was born into a typical lower middle class home. My dad was a World War II veteran who got a job as a fireman.

He had issues that troubled him due to his upbringing and the events he witnessed in the war. These events led him to drink. For a long time in my childhood my mother and father both fought, both of them drunk, with loaded guns sitting on the table in front of them. I never knew when I went to bed if I would hear a gunshot and awake to find one, or both of my parents dead.

Yet, even with all this adversity, my dad taught me certain work ethics which remain a part of me to this day. He told me that if you are going to work for someone, give them your best effort for the money they pay you. If you don’t like the job, quit and find one you do.

I did my share of rebelling during those troubled times in my life. I turned to drugs and alcohol, and I let my grades slip. I graduated from high school with a C average and had no prospects for a good future. Did I let it get me down? Hell no, I worked a few odd jobs until I decided to enlist in the Air Force.

For thirteen years I served my country, and in it was during this time that I met my wife. When I got out, it was under honorable conditions and with pride for having served. I got a job, and we bought our home. I traveled a lot and with the per diem I made, I saved up and paid off my home in 8 years.

Not once have I applied for assistance, as I was had been taught to rely upon my self for my needs.

So, when these charlatans, such as Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, preach about social justice, let them take their wealth and spread it around. I worked for what little I have, and I do not find it anywhere within the principles upon which this country was founded to justify the principles of wealth redistribution.

There is something that Thomas Jefferson once said that needs to be understood by those who preach this nonsense of social justice. In a letter to John Page, Jefferson once wrote, “The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavours of our lives.”

Yet that is not all that Jefferson said. He continued by saying, “The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under this burthen of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey’s end, when we may deliver up our trust into the hands of him who gave it, and receive such reward as to him shall seem proportioned to our merit.”

Life may be tougher for some than it is for others, but when someone resigns themselves to the fact that whatever problems they face are the result of someone else, and that they should just sit back and complain about it, well that is just pathetic.

In God’s eyes, each of us are equal. Whether or not your face difficulties in your life which make things harder for you to succeed, should not be cause for anyone to give up.

More importantly, to listen to people like Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, who claim to be men of the cloth who preach God’s word, it is unbelievable that anyone can believe the rubbish that they fill peoples minds with.

I see people who get a job where I work and expect to be paid by their very presence. Economist Thomas Sowell once wrote, “One of the consequences of such notions as “entitlements” is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”

Call me cold, call me heartless, but I feel no sympathy whatsoever for anyone who expects someone else to assume the burden of caring for them. Not when these people have refused to put forth the effort to improve their own lives first.

If I were that cold and heartless, I would not have sent almost $40,000 to the Philippines over the course of twenty years to help my wife’s family in their times of need. So the Reverend Al Sharpton can kiss my ass when he talks about social justice, especially when his life is much more comfortable than mine.

~ The Author ~
Neal Ross can be reached for comments at bonsai@syix.com. Visit Neal’s Blog at http://www.zombie-slayer.com/neal