Posted on 06/30/2020 4:30:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
According to the make-believe world of the left, we are experiencing a great moment in American racial history. For the first time, the story goes, more whites than ever are coming to realize how racist America is, how racist cops are and how systemically racist everything in America is. Only now do many Americans understand just how racist Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Ulysses Grant, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, "whitening" agents, meritocracy, Western culture, Christianity, jailing blacks and the NFL are. The bestselling book in America is about alleged "white fragility" -- the term for any rational response to the irrational charge that all whites are racist.
All this is supposed to be good for America's blacks.
But none of it is. In fact, it is all destructive.
Take the movement to defund police departments and the incessant charges of "police brutality" and "racist police." Only those who don't care about blacks other than using them to advance their power -- Democrats and the rest of the left, both black and white -- argue this war against the police is good for blacks. Already the increase in the number of blacks murdered, not to mention injured, is reaching levels unseen in decades. And there is every reason to assume, as police pull back from high-crime areas, it will get worse.
Take the left-wing mantra that all whites are racist. If I wanted to obstruct black progress, and especially damage black children, I couldn't come up with a more effective idea. To believe from early childhood that you walk through life held in contempt by all of your fellow citizens who are white is to walk through life with much more than a chip on your shoulder. It is more like a heavy boulder.
It means that you will walk through life with two paralyzing burdens: anger and victimhood. Either one is enough to ruin your life. Combined they're devastating. It gives one an idea of how cynical the left is that it would want to cultivate both of these life-ruining emotions in as many blacks as possible.
Anger and victimhood not only ruin the individual's life but also destroy one's relationships with others. Everyone who has an angry individual in their family knows not only how unhappy that person is but also how much havoc they wreak on the rest of the family. The same holds true for the relative who sees him or herself as a perpetual victim. Such people are both miserable and miserable to be around. And since victimhood is a major cause of evil -- people who see themselves as victims usually think they are not nearly as bound by moral rules as others are -- they are more likely to hurt others.
The "protesters" who destroy and loot think their victim status allows them to destroy and loot. The man identified as the president of the greater New York Black Lives Matter, Hawk Newsome, recently told Fox News: "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking ... figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It's a matter of interpretation."
In a report yesterday on a police shooting of a robber who resisted arrest and reached for an object in his waistband, the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted a protest organizer: "If this young man was robbing, that means his state and his government failed to provide him with the resources he needs." When you feel you are a victim, you are allowed to rob.
Take the constant, often absurd, charges of racism at the most benign comments. If you say, for example, that you see nothing wrong with the picture of Uncle Ben on a box of rice, you will be accused of racism. As a result, most whites understand they can no longer speak truthfully or from the heart in the presence of a black American. It is hard to imagine a worse recipe for genuine relationships between the races. Whereas the great majority of whites, and even most blacks, thought white-black relations were good and improving when Barack Obama assumed office, a minority of both groups think so today.
Take the assault on merit-based advancement in the name of racial equality. Will this help or hinder blacks? It will obviously help some blacks in the short run. But over the long term, telling any group they needn't meet a universal standard of excellence can only harm that group -- not to mention harm the way their success will be viewed by others. Moreover, it is difficult to imagine a more condescending view of a group than to argue that standards must be lowered for them to succeed.
The damage the left is doing to America may be mortal. When it is widely deemed OK to destroy statues of Abraham Lincoln, society is experiencing a moral earthquake which may eventually destroy it. But the damage the left is doing to so many blacks -- to their moral compass, to their happiness and to their relations with their white fellow citizens -- is not in the realm of "may do." It is done.
Blacks are where they are because of themselves.
White Commies suck too.
BS. They haven’t gone back 50 years. The Democrats have reminded blacks that LBJ was right. It was all a fraud. It wasn’t about justice and equal rights for blacks. It was about votes for the democratic party. As far as the Democrats are concerned blacks are no more now than they were then.
It is Republicans who have believed that either all of us have rights and opportunities or they can be taken away from any of us. Flynn’s case reminds us of that. It’s not about keeping blacks in line. It is about keeping everyone in line.
What happened to George Floyd should never happen to anyone...never. However, what’s happening now has nothing to do with the death of Mr. Floyd. This is all about a socialist/communist coup. The good news is, their constant harping about “systemic racism” will turn decent, patriotic Americans against them. I don’t give a d*mn what your color is. Work hard, play by the rules, love your country and family, and you’re OK in my book.
Next week it will be objectionable to use bleach when laundering clothes because it acts as a whitening agent.
An object lesson in why to NOT vote based on skin color, but on policies and intents of the candidate.
Don’t care.
Yeah, but, from the POV of the Democrats, devastated Blacks will still vote "Democrat" but liberated Blacks (liberated from the Left's plantation) will not.
I know we’re not invading Poland or gassing the Jews, but this country has gone insane like Nazi Germany. At some point people will look back at the past few decades and say “What the hell were they thinking??”
It’s very sad. I do think countries can suffer from what amounts to a mental illness. And America has gone crazy.
That’s the entire point.
Unmitigated Bullshit.
Absolutely.
I could not agree any more with you. You are absolutely correct.
A. Show up on time, every time.
B. Do high quality work.
C. Develop people skills, be pleasant to be with and work with (stop complaining).
D. Start a family and make their well-being the purpose of your life.
Problem of systemic racism solved.
More promotion of the myth of "racial progress" (of which Dennis Prager is a leading exponent).
Face facts. Most things don't change.
If whites and blacks exist in 1000 years, things between them will be substantially as they are now. "Racial progress" people explain blacks as a byproduct of what whites do, or don't do.
This is very appealing to whites, because it gives them a sense of control (pass this law, do this program, send my kids to this seminar) over something that is both threatening and out of their control.
And, of course, this "we control you, we are responsible for you" attitude is ACTUAL white supremacy, and I can't imagine blacks like it very well.
Getting sick and tired of blacks.
Yep. 2020 is like 1969 all over again. The Left has pushed everything back 50+ years.
Yeah—2020 is so much like 1968-1970 I thought I was having senile flashbacks.
Same f&^%ing leftists doing the same f&^%ing stuff.
In 1970 they rioted outside my dorm room.
I learned my lesson—live far far away from any leftist infested urban area.
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