“”As you learn to stand against power, here are some practical strategies and suggestions to help you in your time of greatest need.” –Chauncey DeVega

If anyone is going to “take back the civil rights movement” as has vowed Mr. Beck and the Holy Spirit, what follows is the implication and price the taker-backers  will be asked to pay.

This Week in White Victimology

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We do live in troubled times. I have been doing my best to help white folks adjust to the Age of Obama. I have confessed my shame at how the Age of Obama has ushered in an era of black privilege. I have empathized with the struggles of white folks as they face bullying from the New Black Panthers, being beaten up on school buses, faced with a Supreme Court that does not reflect them, and subject to discrimination in all things and in every area of life. I have hoped and prayed that a leader would emerge--a Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, or Pat Buchanan--to lead my white American brothers and sisters to the promised land as they face a frightening world where they will one day be only a plurality of the population in this country by the year 2050.

I feel for you my white brothers and sisters. Because I empathize with your victimization, the lion must lay down with the sheep and share some of his wisdom. Black Americans and others have long ago learned to negotiate inequalities of power in order to survive in this country. As you learn to stand against power, here are some practical strategies and suggestions to help you in your time of greatest need.

History is the greatest of teachers. As many Americans know, the Freedom Riders and other civil rights demonstrators were met with violent resistance in the South (and parts of the North as well) that resulted in death and serious physical injury. Those who are going to fight for a return to a pre-Obama America and the glory days of Leave it to Beaver must be prepared to die for their beliefs. For example, those brave souls who marched with King and the movement were commonly subjected to:

• Verbal abuse
• Spitting on
• Kicking and stepping on
• Beatings with fists, chains, and police billy-clubs
• Dragging female protesters across a room by the hair
• Throwing manure, eggs, tomatoes, exploding firecrackers, rocks, & bricks at us
• Knocking sit-ins over and rolling them down a flight of stairs
• Chokings by police (the infamous "choke hold")
• Attacks with home-made flame-throwers (hairspray ignited with a cigarette lighter)
• Pouring hot tar over heads Cars attempting to run over pickets
• Stabbing with a knife

Do besieged white Americans, and conservatives in particular, have the courage to stand up for their beliefs? Is there a leader with the moral vision to organize them so that justice will flow down from the mountaintops?

Ultimately, these are indeed perilous times. I hope this list is of help to those brave souls attending Glenn Beck's rally this weekend, joining the Tea Parties, and fighting the good fight in such places as Texas and Arizona, or picketing against the "Ground Zero Mosque."

They only want to return America to greatness and restore her ideals for "real Americans."