IF AMERICA IS SO RACIST
THEN HOW DID OPRAH BECOME A BILLIONAIRE AND BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, A MAN WHO
NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA, GET ELECTED TWICE?
Compared with the
percentage of blacks in the U.S. population, that figure looks
disproportionate—but black people commit a disproportionate amount of violent
crime and thus tend to have more interactions with the police.
EYE ON THE NEWS
White Wokeness
It’s the new factor in
our national life.
Charles Love
Over the
past month, protests against racism have taken place daily in America’s largest
cities. They started out as a black movement against police brutality, but they
have a different look now. In many cases, whites have taken over. They make
conciliatory gestures, apologizing for their “white privilege,” and, in at
least one case, washing black people’s feet to expiate themselves
of their collective sins. Celebrities, athletes, and corporate America followed
suit. Portland’s police chief resigned, asking to be replaced by a black man, and the CEO of
Chick-fil-A urged whites to shine the shoes of black people to show a “sense of shame.” Countless others have pledged millions
of dollars to end racism. Seeing all this, one wonders: Why now?
To find out what was moving the conversation on race in America, I
had to hear what whites were saying. I listened to the protesters, talked with
my white friends, and read articles and social media posts from those
supporting the movement. Two things started to bring the issue into focus for
me. The first was a video I’ve seen retweeted and forwarded on
social media, explaining “systemic racism.” The video compares two
friends—Jamal, who is black, and Kevin, who is white. “This is Jamal,” the
narrator begins. “Jamal is a boy who lives in a poor neighborhood. He has a
friend named Kevin who lives in a wealthy neighborhood. All of Jamal’s
neighbors are African-American and all of Kevin’s neighbors are white.” The
video opens with an image of Jamal standing in front of a boarded-up home with
broken windows. This seemed overly simplistic, designed to make an extreme
point.
Then I heard the news about universities deciding to stop using
the ACT or SAT in consideration for admissions because the tests are biased
against blacks. The schools don’t say that blacks aren’t smart enough to score
well on the test—that would be vulgar racism—but that black kids cannot afford
tutors or the prep classes the white kids use to increase their scores. This
sounded as reductive in its assumptions about black economic life as the video
about Jamal and Kevin. In each case, black people are depicted as desperate and
defeated, with nothing in the way of material or personal resources to pull
themselves out of their misery.
“I understand your point,” a white friend said, “but don’t you
think blacks are being oppressed?”
That’s when I realized that white wokeness is the new factor in
our national life. It has been embedded into the consciousness of whites that
all blacks are the same and that they all face impossible barriers to
improvement—from fictional Jamal to the standardized tests to the black men
being arrested on the nightly news. A growing number of whites believe that
these episodes are typical of everyday black life.
Most whites don’t have many black friends who can give them
firsthand accounts of what their experiences are with racism. While most blacks
do experience some discrimination or racial prejudice, it is rarely
violent, and it does not hold them back in a significant sense. Is racism a
“systemic” or “institutional” force? For more than half a century, the United
States has had no laws preventing black people from doing anything that white
people can do, and government agencies and courts closely monitor socioeconomic
life for any vestiges of discrimination in housing, employment, or public
accommodations.
The media give a distorted view of black life. We see this in the
stories they decide to report—and not to report. In 2018, police shot and
killed 54 unarmed men; 22 were black. Compared with the percentage of blacks in the
U.S. population, that figure looks disproportionate—but black people commit a
disproportionate amount of violent crime and thus tend to have more
interactions with the police. Every police shooting must be investigated thoroughly
and fairly, but we should also demand fair and thorough media coverage of these
shootings. It’s telling that so many people can name some of the unarmed black
men killed by police, but few can name any of the white men.
Blacks do lag whites in many socioeconomic indicators—but most
blacks do not live in poverty, do not have constant run-ins with law
enforcement, and are not uneducated. It’s important to look at racial
disparities in context. Though blacks commit more violent crime than whites in
relative terms, in absolute terms, the percentage of people who commit any
violent crime is tiny. The white violent-crime rate is 0.12 percent; for
blacks, it is 0.44 percent. By any standard, most people are not violent
criminals, regardless of their race. The black unemployment rate has averaged
between 7 percent and 12 percent since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started keeping records in 1954—except for a high of
19.5 percent in 1983—while for whites, the average has been between 4 percent
and 7 percent. This disparity holds for poverty as well. As of 2018, the
poverty rate for blacks was 20.8 percent, while the rate for whites was 8.1
percent. Though a persistently poor black underclass has emerged since the
civil rights era, the underclass experience does not describe the lives of tens
of millions of black people. While efforts should be made to close the
black-white poverty gap, the numbers are not consistent with the assumption
that American blacks are broadly impoverished.
Yet sympathetic non-blacks often see blacks as oppressed victims
with limited opportunities. Since the killing of George Floyd, I’ve had many
conversations with whites, mostly centered around my own well-being. Many of my
black friends relate stories of management at their companies telling employees
to “check on” their black co-workers. Messages abound of white guilt or white
privilege, with people tearfully listing the things that they can do that
blacks allegedly can’t do, such as go shopping without being followed around,
or be served food before paying for it, or buy candy while wearing a hoodie—all
things that blacks do every day.
Everywhere one looks, organizations are showing their solidarity
with “black lives matter”—both the motto and the organization. Uber Eats canceled its delivery fees for black
businesses. Turn on YouTube TV or order from Amazon, and you’ll see messages of support for “the
black community.” Nike, the NFL, and others have made Juneteenth a paid holiday
for all employees. Scroll through the categories on Netflix and you’ll find one
updated to say, “Black History, Hardship, and Hope.” Who else, besides blacks,
would get “hardship” as a characteristic? These gestures, mostly symbolic, suggest
what whites believe blacks are concerned about. They seem insincere.
Since the protests began, woke whites have clamored to find a way
to do their part. Since they don’t have many blacks in their social circles,
and having conversations with blacks—the most constructive course of action—is
awkward and can take time, they opt for easy, feel-good actions, most of which
will have no effect on police brutality, on the quality of black schools or
neighborhoods, or on black lives generally.
When actress Julianne Moore says that black people are being
slaughtered in the streets, killed in their own homes, it sounds clueless. She
may care, but these types of assertions—delivered as fact—are not helping,
because they just aren’t true. Efforts to stop discrimination and stereotyping
perpetuate the perception that black lives really are inferior. The implication
is that black life is hard, black life is poverty, black life is scary, and
black life is sad. Woke whites aren’t saying that black lives matter. They’re
saying that it’s up to them to make black lives matter.
Blacks themselves are not exempt from these beliefs. When Gary
Clark, Jr., a Grammy-winning recording artist, says that he’s worried he could
die walking out of the house, and NBA superstar Lebron
James, who has been glorified since he was 15 years old, says that blacks are “literally
hunted every day,” they are telling black people that things are
hopeless. If a black teen is struggling and looks up to Lebron, hearing
Lebron’s proclamation can only make him feel worse.
It appears that a sleeping giant has been awakened in white
America. Most woke whites probably have good intentions, but their symbolic
gestures will at best have little effect and at worst do real harm. The
campaign against police is a good example. Broad anti-police sentiment has
already caused cops to become less proactive in high-crime neighborhoods, with
the predictable result that shootings have spiked around the country. Whites
are engaging in activism motivated by a misperception about black life that
does not comport with reality for most blacks. With their views of blacks as
wounded and perpetually oppressed, woke whites would do more good by doing
nothing.
Leftist Minstrel Show: Self-abasing protesters mostly white, and
blacks are starting to laugh
Anti-racism protests, which form the
backdrop of the violence, desecration and looting going on around the U.S., are
starting to look just a little bit strange to some black people.
Made up almost solely of whites, they
feature kneeling, self-abasement, calls for absolution, and vows of reparation.
There have been celebrities declaring they 'take responsibility,' Congress
members bowing in Kente cloth stoles, ritual kneelings in the street, uplifted
fists of ecstasy, and in one particularly ridiculous instance, thick,
pasty white protestors dancing
around a fallen Columbus statue as Indian drums beat, oblivous to the logic of
their declaration, in that they best go back to Europe to atone. They've
actually become religious rituals for white people with no religion
and in need of one, what with global warming not coming through on its promises
of Armaggedon. National Review calls them the "white guilt cult"
To black people though, they're
starting to get ridiculous, according to self-made tycoon Robert Johnson,
founder of BET, who's probably one of the sanest voices in the so-called black
community. He's had about all a body can stand of them, doesn't like
them, and calls them laughable:
"You
know black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do
this, the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV
shows," he said mentioning the "Dukes of Hazard," a decades-old
television program that has come under fire for featuring a car
emblazoned with a Confederate flag graphic.
He pointed
out that knocking over a statue will not "close the wealth gap,"
"give a kid whose parent's can't afford a college money to go to
college," "close the labor gap between what white workers are paid
and what black workers are paid" or "take people off welfare or food
stamps."
Johnson said
that whites who seek to "assuage guilt by doing things that make them
feel good" would be much more reluctant to support payments for
blacks.
Maybe that's because most of these white
protests, supposedly on behalf of backs, don't actually do anything useful for
black people. White leftists, in fact, can be pretty bossy to black people about
what their interests actually are, as this disgusting video of a white protestor lecturing a black police officer on
racism shows. Because surprise, surprise, it turns out these self-abasing
feel-good protests are led by white people, and mainly participated in by
white people.
According to a new study from Pew
Research, blacks are far from the top racial minority group involved in these
protests.
Only about
one-in-six protesters over the last month are black Americans, while the
plurality are white, according to Pew Research Center analysis.
Though recent
protests and riots have been centered around racial tensions with law
enforcement, only 17 percent of protesters have been black, while 46 percent
are white, 22 percent are Hispanic, and eight percent are Asian, the
analysis shows.
Wow. Only one in six protestors is
actually black, and based on the photos seen of anti-racism protests, it's a
lot less than that, except of course, if they've put blacks at the back of the
line or something. But in reality, it sounds like Johnson is right in that
Blacks would rather not get involved. This is whitey's show:
Call it a minstrel show of whites,
designed to win redemption from blacks, but in reality, ending up entertaining
blacks, or at least making them laug.
He points out that it's actually its own
form of racism.
Referring
to actions such as "changing names, toppling statues, [and]
firing professors because they said all lives matter," Johnson explained
that "it just shows to me that white America is continually
... incapable of recognizing that black people have their own ideas and
thought about what's in their best interests."
He suggested
that black people should be consulted before people take actions like tearing
down statues or firing someone for a comment they have made.
"Give us
the belief that you respect our opinion. You go out and do something and
destroy something, fire somebody because you think it hurts us. Why don't
you ask us first if it hurts us before you go and say 'Oh, I gotta do
something for the negroes to make them feel better.' Well ask us if we want you
to do that to make us feel better," he said.
Johnson, of course, is a Trump supporter,
and doesn't care if any leftist doesn't like it. He didn't become a billionaire
by following the herd. What he's saying is that making moves to help people
escape poverty and powerlessness is a lot more important than white ablutions
and abasements.
In the National Review story on the white
guilt cult, black people are rather stunned at the sheer ridiculousness of
whites, thinking they are all helpless babies and throwing $20 bills at
them.
Parker
Gillian, a young black college graduate in Chicago who is in no need of
financial support (she grew up in affluence, she told the Washington
Post), says that someone from work texted out of nowhere to ask, “What’s
your cash app?” and then pinged $20 into her account, unasked. “It is so
exhausting being everybody’s one black friend right now,” tweeted a comedian
named Sarah Cooper. Black people observing such displays by their white
acquaintances can be forgiven for wondering: Is it really a friendship if one
party is groveling, throwing money, and begging to wash the other party’s feet?
If anything, the Great Awokening’s response to the George Floyd killing seems
to be bolstering racial barriers rather than eradicating them. By making a
religion of anti-racism, white people carry on with the longstanding project of
“othering” black folks
If you were black, wouldn't you be grossed
out by this obeisance? It just goes to show that white liberal culture has a
sort of racism all its own even as it begs for absolution from Black people.
The natural response from Black people, or anyone in a comparable situation
would indeed be contempt and laughter, how could it not be? What this shows is
that the white liberal virtue-signalers are the mirror image of their
Democratic Party racist forebears, the people who held slaves, introduced Jim
Crow, counted bloodlines, resisted the Civil Rights measures of the 1960s, and
now abase themselves for absolution, tearing down statues and skipping idea of
jobs, intact families, and security that provably benefit Black people, same as
whites. To white liberals, Blacks will always be 'other.' Now they're getting
ridiculous.
Image
credit: Photo montage by Monica Showalter with
use of screen shots from shareable YouTube videos, from Bloomberg Markets and Finance, Clevver News, NBC New York 4, Evening Standard, ABC7 New York, and WCCO Minneapolis.
Pew
Research: Only 1-in-6 Protesters Are Black, 46 Percent Are White
24 Jun 20201,670
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Only about one-in-six protesters
over the last month are black Americans, while the plurality are white,
according to Pew Research Center analysis.
Though recent
protests and riots have been centered around racial tensions with law
enforcement, only 17 percent of protesters have been black, while 46 percent
are white, 22 percent are Hispanic, and eight percent are Asian, the analysis shows.
The data
reveals that black Americans are not the largest minority group represented in
the protests.
(Pew Research Center)
The
protesters are overwhelmingly Democrats as well. Almost four-in-five of the
protesters said they are Democrats or Democrat-leaning voters. Less than 17
percent of the protesters said they are Republicans.
Protests in
Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon; Washington, D.C.; and New York City, New
York have been dominated by Antifa members and Black Lives Matter activists. In
one recent incident, a white woman can be seen yelling and shouting at two
black police officers.
White woman yelling at black officers. pic.twitter.com/dEdfTf0Dgw
THE OBAMA MARXIST-MUSLIM BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for
life:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor goes deeply
into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama
into power." Karin McQuillan
"We know
that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan and execute resistance to
the Trump administration and his legislative agenda. None
of these people care about the American people, or the fact
that Trump won the election because millions of people voted
for him." Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
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