A leading leftist pens a book on White racism in America in which she judges people based on their skin color

American Thinker ^ | 6 Apr, 2023 | Scott Varland

[MtnClimber]

Heather McGhee’s book The Sum of Us reveals her muddled thinking and hypocrisy on race and ethnicity.

Wanting to study modern leftist thought, I decided to read Heather McGhee’s bestseller The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. After all, it was festooned with blurbs by the likes of The New York Times, Oprah Daily, George Saunders, Ibram X. Kendi, Robert B. Reich, and David Axelrod.

In her book, she argues that most American Whites are racists who believe in a zero-sum paradigm: if people of color gain, then Whites lose. As a consequence, Whites prevent POC from succeeding, and the top 1% benefit from racial strife while other Americans of all races and ethnicities lead stunted lives full of misery and woe. Regular Whites can demolish the paradigm and the suffering it causes by joining with POC in social solidarity and spending more government money, especially on POC. (I am not sure how calling someone a racist encourages that person to ally with the name caller, but I will let that pass.)

Has Heather McGhee spent her life staggering through this bleak American landscape that brutalizes almost everyone? Let us see.

McGhee’s parents divorced when she was young — her father started a new family while her mother, her brother, and she lived with financial challenges. She had four strikes against her (one more than in baseball): she was Black; she was female; she was raised in a single-parent household; and she was a member of the “fragile middle class” which lacked “nice things”. But was she out? Not at all.

Her parents sacrificed to pay for her attendance at an outstanding boarding school where she encountered “loving teachers.” After graduating, she earned degrees from Yale and Berkeley Law

[TBP]

And the left eagerly spreads both diseases.

[RoosterRedux]

Yup. And all in the name of equality.

[TBP]

No. They reject equality. In the name of equity, which this isn’t either, really.

[RedMonqey]

Ask pre-WW 2 Jews.

It’s coming, folks. What do you think “open borders” means? Listen the language being used against whites and any Blacks, Latinos who dare insist on a colour blind society. The same language was used against Jews to prime Germans for what was to come.
What do you think replacing “equality” with “equity” means.

They’re coming for you. The ground has been tilled and the poisonous seeds are growing.

But the only thing holding them back is the 2nd amendment.