(Y)ou may one day findyourself at the mercy of a statist bureaucrat, a far lesser person whoat best will be a mindless cog in the machinery of government, at worsta vindictive social engineer bent on your destruction.
by Selwyn Duke
Recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with “racial harassment” for reading an anti-KuKlux Klan book. Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response,including emails from those with their own stories to tell aboutpersecution inspired by what I will call caucaphobia. A couple ofthese accounts are so compelling — compared to one even Sampson’sproblems pale — I’ve decided to publish them in this piece (bothreaders allowed me to use their names; their correspondence has beenedited for punctuation, grammar and style). These are the stories themainstream media won’t tell, straight from the front lines of theculture war. They give voice to a persecution whose name most dare notutter.First we have Mr. David Gonzalez of Illinois. He wrote:
Dear Mr. Duke,
Ican empathize with Mr. Sampson. I’ve been through the same sort ofordeal. After retiring from the U.S. Navy, I accepted a position withChicago’s Museum of Science and Industry as its Manager of Safety (I’ma safety engineer). After four years there, a female (black-militant)employee noticed my tie bar (Celtic knot-work with the emblem of myCeltic family – despite my Iberian surname, gained by being adopted, mygenetic heritage is Scot/Irish) and asked me what it was. Stupidly, Iresponded, ‘This? Oh, it’s just my clan badge [referring to theScottish clan from which he was descended].’
I’llleave it to you to guess what ensued. I’ll tell you this: by the nextmorning, the rumor that I had been ‘outed’ as a Klansman had spread,like wildfire, through the ranks of the museum’s black employees (~60%). Two security officers frog-marched me out of a class I had beenteaching (with every black person in the room glaring at me, with utter loathing!)and escorted me to my boss’s office — there to be grilled by him. Later in the day, I was called back in and fired from my position.As I said, I can empathize.