Posted on 04/04/2015 10:16:10 AM PDT by rightistight
Mychal Smith, writing in PBS’s “Race Today,” has declared that equal opportunity between Americans is racist. The stunning comment came in a piece Smith wrote for PBS titled, “White Millennials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness.”
Smith begins his article by commenting on all of the white protesters that he saw in Ferguson and New York City over the past year. While it would sometimes give him hope, when it comes to white people, he wrote, “I know better than to place too much hope in these optics.”
Indeed, according to Smith, “Millennials are fluent in colorblindness and diversity, while remaining illiterate in the language of anti-racism.”
...One of the major problems, according to Smith, is that it’s nearly impossible for black people to be racist because of the “power dynamics” at play in the United States.
“Millennials have inherited a world in which the idea of “reverse racism” has been legitimized,” he writes, “but “reverse racism” only makes sense through the erasure of the power dynamics of racism, which has been accomplished through the teaching of racism as a strictly interpersonal issue of hatred and intolerance.”
Smith writes that “whites” have been foolishly taught “Everyone is equal… and therefore everyone has equal opportunity for success.” But this is “deficient” according to Smith because strict equal opportunity is racist.
“We have spent the post-Civil Rights era concerned with whether or not there is adequate representation for racial minority groups within our existing institutions,” he writes, “not questioning whether these institutions are fundamentally racist and rely on white supremacy for their very existence.”
...He continues, equal opportunity is racist because it does not eliminate the power structure that white supremacists use to oppress minorities.
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Why is there always this talk of minorities? World wide, whites are a minority, and a very small one compared to the rest of earths population.
Wake me when blacks start protesting the 27 million black slaves in Africa.
That is correct. I've been reading and hearing this same screeds for about fifty years. Back then it was complaints that all whites were racist because they didn't want to treat blacks as equals.
Now, according to this dope, all whites are racist because they want to treat blacks as equals. You can't get any nuttier than that kind of "logic."
At some point a person just wants to throw up their hands and ask for a permanent split. Any blacks who want to live in the sane, conservative country are welcome. Those, like the writer of this screed, are strongly urged to leave and never come back.
Mychal, you still aren’t getting any free s**t. Get a job.
MLK was mistaken?
Little racists like this will just continue to rant, no matter what anyone does to accommodate them. So it is best to just ignore them.
Look at all the job opportunities the Fraud in the WH and his man Holder are opening up for black youts! There is a whole new career path in calling white people racist for attention and profit. Soon colleges will drop the pretext and award a degree in it, the BS in calling white folks racist.
imagine..a Professor..Revrunt Al Sharpton...
And even the Dean of the Department of Studied and Rewarded Fraud.
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