Read the first comment on American Thinker, about bikes.
Thanks for highlighting the first comment at the article link. You are right, very poignant and a worthwhile read.
That was a great comment.
Cleetus
Years ago I had a ministry where I took bikes in all sorts of condition from rusting pieces of junk to near pristine, fixed them up like new, and then worked with the church to distribute them to low income families with kids. I typically fixed up around 75-95 bikes every year that started in March (when it became warm enough to work in the garage) until Thanksgiving when the church came by to pick the bikes up for distribution.
I did this for many years and I learned many lessons. One was that I could not stand to go to Appalachia to help distribute the bikes for the poverty there was terrible and the people were so thankful that it was too embarrassing for me. I guess I am one who is embarrassed by strong displays of gratitude so I avoided those trips.
Trips to the inner city were totally different. While many there were very nice and grateful, I was spit upon, threatened with violence and such for such sins as not having the right color bike available by others. One lady became extremely hateful because she had one child but was demanding half a dozen bikes (that we knew she was going to sell from previous experience) and I refused to give the extras. While many in the inner city were very kind people and were grateful for what we were able to give them, there were a great many who were hateful and resentful by this. It was apparent that they hated you because you were successful, because you had a good job, and so forth, while they did not. Most with this kind of attitude had no decent job or much else and it was clear this was largely because of their attitude.
What I came away with was that there are a large number of minorities that really dislike white people simply because we are successful. Likewise they did not like those successful black people who were with us distributing stuff as well. How dare other blacks be successful. There was an anger about how they deserved to have all sorts of stuff just because and they were not getting it. They refused to believe that people like myself worked multiple jobs to get through college, that people like me worked 60+ hour work weeks for decades to be come successful, and so forth. They demanded they believe that we were simply given our jobs, our salaries, and so forth, because we were white. I think they believed this because to think that we earned what we had meant that their failure was their own fault which was, to them, unthinkable.
What I learned was that today the thinking in this nation has been transformed for a great many. Previously it was a belief that if you worked hard, then you would succeed and that everyone had equal opportunity. Today it is more of envy where "others have the job I covet therefore I hate them". Not only that, but there is a thinking of "these people with the job I covet did nothing to get that job and I can do their job just as well despite having no experience or education because all they do is BS anyway". These are lies sold to them every day by agitators and activists. These are lies that are easily believed because it means they don't have to face the reality of their own failure. These are the real lies tearing this country apart.