Got an Advocacy Group?

Justice is an illusion, at least in the contemporary world.  Although regularly promised to all, it is dispensed only to few.  Consider the ultimate justice: respect for human life.  Is one group more deserving of living than another one?  National leaders make such choices as a regular feature of their commander-in-chief positions. For example, on March 18, 2011, Barack Obama rationalized the United States' bombing of Libya by sanctimoniously asserting, "For decades, he's [Moammar Gadhafi has] demonstrated his willingness to use brute force. Here's why this matters to us: Left unchecked, we have every reason to believe Gadhafi would commit atrocities against his own people. Many thousands could die."   Yet, as I write this blog, to date Obama has done nothing substantive to prevent the deaths of approximately 40,000 Syrian civilians. Are Syrians less worthy of protection than are Libyans?

Libyans were protected because they had vociferous advocates who tirelessly fought for them. The Syrians had anemic supporters and learned the hard but simple lesson that everyone who wants American help needs a powerful advocacy group in America.

In the United States, lobbyists provide professional advocacy for social organizations, interest groups of all sorts, and businesses: cajoling, wining and dining, or bribing officials to ensure that laws, grants, and other government benefits accrue to the lobbyists' employers.  Almost every racial group has lobbyists, too. Below  is a very small sample of some of the lobbies.

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (Asian, etc.), Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights (Black), Council on American-Islamic Relations (Arab, etc), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Hispanic), NAACP (Black), NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Black), National Action Network (Black), National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (Asian, etc.) National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities (Black), National Council of La Raza (Hispanic), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Hispanic), NAACP (Black), NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Black), National Action Network (Black), National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (Asian), National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities (Black), National Council of La Raza (Hispanic), National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce (Gay, etc),  National Urban League (Black), Native American Rights Fund (American Indian), Rainbow/PUSH Coalition (Black).

Just like the Syrians, white Americans have no viable advocacy group.  If a serious attempt was made to form one, a furor would result with those in opposition calling the proposed white group “racist” and equating it to the Ku Klux Klan.

We hear loud and clear from Barack Obama who regularly conducts his own personal and White House staff racial lobbying, such as when he publicly and passionately argued for two  black citizens: Barack's friend Henry Louis Gates Junior, and Barack's “he could have been my son” Trayvon Martin.  But Obama has said not one single word about the recent epidemic of black-on-white assaults referred to as the “knock-out game.”  In fact, the President never has commented on any white-only victimization, not even when whites were threatened with violence when they went to vote in Philadelphia during the 2008 presidential election when the New Black Panther Party stationed armed thugs at polling places

Without an effective advocacy group, white citizens are powerless to assert their group-relevant rights, not even able to assert their right to bodily protection from physical assault, rape and homicide.  Therefore, no one hears about or openly talks about the statistically documented fact that black-on-white crime is exponentially higher than white-on-black crime.  Unlike blacks, white people have no advocacy group to organize a protest campaign. So whites never march in the street, sit-in, or otherwise effectively unite when they are racially victimized.  One must conclude that there is no advocacy and no justice for whites where race is concerned and that white lives and safety are less valued than are the lives and safety of non-white Americans.