If you want to identify real racism to fight, you need look no farther than the current resident of the United States. Joe Biden's history of blatantly racist comments is long and undeniable. Google Joe's classics, like his "racial jungle" or "poor kids are just as smart as White kids" remarks. Then imagine the reaction if President Trump had made any of those comments. Biden gets a pass because he's a leftist.
Biden Administration Repeatedly Claims America Is Racist
By Bill Donohue | July 2, 2021 | 10:07am EDT
Never before in American history have there been as many members of a presidential administration who have openly declared the United States to be a racist nation. Here is a sample from the Biden administration.
President Joe Biden: "Systemic racism that is a stain our nation’s soul; the knee on the neck of justice for Black Americans; the profound fear and trauma, the pain, the exhaustion that Black and brown Americans experience every single day... this takes acknowledging and confronting, head on, systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly."
Vice President Kamala Harris: "America has a long history of systemic racism. Black Americans — and Black men, in particular — have been treated, throughout the course of our history, as less than human."
Sec. Antony Blinken, Department of State: "'We believe that it is important for the United States to change its own image and to stop advancing its own democracy in the rest of the world,' he said. 'Many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States.'"
Sec. Janet Yellen, Department of the Treasury: "The country is also facing a climate crisis, a crisis of systemic racism, and an economic crisis that has been building for fifty years.... I believe economic policy can be a potent tool to improve society. We can – and should – use it to address inequality, racism, and climate change."
Sec. Lloyd Austin, Department of Defense: "'If confirmed, I will fight hard to stamp out sexual assault, to rid our ranks of racists and extremists, and to create a climate where everyone fit and willing has the opportunity to serve this country with dignity,' Austin, 67, said at his confirmation hearing." "'The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks,' Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee."
AG Merrick Garland, Department of Justice: "'I think it is plain to me that there is discrimination and widespread disparate treatment of communities of color and other ethnic minorities in this country,' Judge Garland says when asked to define systemic racism."
Sec. Deb Haaland, Department of the Interior: "We must acknowledge the pain that African American communities across the nation and around the world are feeling during these turbulent times and commit ourselves to real progress."
"Serious inequities exist in this country. We cannot continue with business as normal. We must tackle these issues and build a country where race doesn't determine access to opportunity, justice, and accountability."
Sec. Tom Vilsack, Department of Agriculture: "'We'll have an equity commission, which will begin the process of investigating all of the programs at USDA to make sure that we identify and root out any systemic racism that may exist in those programs,' said Vilsack. 'Now, the reality is that we’ve not only had discrimination in the past but we’ve had the cumulative effect of that discrimination, which needs to be addressed.'"
Sec. Gina Raimondo, Department of Commerce: "Our work to dismantle systemic racism in Rhode Island did not start today and it will not end today, but we can rise together and make meaningful progress toward racial equity now."
"And the fact of the matter is, we know that lack of investment, particularly in public transportation, transit, water, housing, has hurt low-income folks and people of color the most. And it’s time to finally rectify that systemic inequality and build back better and more equally."
Sec. Marty Walsh, Department of Labor: "You have to be very intentional about dealing with systemic racism. Systemic racism just didn’t come in since May of last year. Systemic racism has been here forever, if you want to be honest about it. But we have a unique opportunity when we talk about recovering from covid-19 to be able to really focus on the issue of systemic racism, also inequality, gender inequality and all kinds of other types of inequality."
"White people shouldn’t be afraid of the word white privilege. It can be a complicated conversation to have, but we can’t run away from it."
Sec. Xavier Becerra, Department of Health and Human Services: "We must meet the challenge to further justice and equity. At HHS, I will do everything I can to tackle racism as a serious public health threat that affects our mental and physical well-being." "We at the Department of Health and Human Services stand with marginalized communities to provide support and do our part to ensure that health and well-being are treated as a right and our systems are actively furthering justice."
Sec. Marcia Fudge, Department of Housing and Urban Development: "'Black people have always been aware of systemic and institutional racism. COVID-19 just proved to the rest of the country that it exists."
Sec. Pete Buttigieg, Department of Transportation: "'Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources,' Mr. Buttigieg tweeted in December. In an interview earlier this month, he reiterated that 'there is racism physically built into some of our highways” and said the infrastructure program includes money “specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars.'"
Sec. Jennifer Granholm, Department of Energy: "Her voice wavered as she compared her own son to Martin. 'I have a wonderful teenage son too and he wears hoodies and he carries his cellphone and he likes skittles and if this were my son, my God,' she continued. 'But let's face it. This is not something that would happen to my son or many other sons. This happened because Trayvon was black.'"
Sec. Miguel Cardona, Department of Education: "Our country faces multiple crises – including a health pandemic & a pandemic of hate & racism that has been prevalent for centuries."
Sec. Denis McDonough, Department of Veteran Affairs: "'Confronting this question of racial inequity will be a fundamental part of my tenure here, not least because the president is demanding it,'
Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, Department of Homeland Security: "DHS will continue to lawfully monitor threats posed by foreign terrorist organizations. But we also know that the threat posed by domestic violent extremism will remain persistent. We have witnessed an increase in domestic attacks, particularly by white-supremacist, anti-government and anti-authority extremists. The majority of these attacks have targeted communities of color and other minority groups."
Shalanda Young, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget: "America is confronting four compounding crises of unprecedented scope," including "a national reckoning on racial inequity centuries in the making."
Office of Management and Budget: "'The moment has come for the nation to deal with systemic racism and to ensure the promise of America is finally and fully open to all — not just some — Americans.'"
Susan Rice Domestic Policy Council chief: "I'd say better late than never. You know, to serve an administration which has been racist to its core for the last three and a half years, from comparing the peaceful protesters at Charlottesville to white supremacists, calling white supremacists very fine people, all the way through to the recent weeks where the administration has disparaged the Black Lives Matter movement, disparaged the peaceful protesters, and basically made plain that they prefer to stand by a Confederate legacy than a modern America, it's been an administration whose record on race is just disgraceful," Rice said
"For too many American families, systemic racism and inequality in our economy, laws and institutions, still put the American Dream far out of reach," she said.
Michael S. Regan Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: "We must strengthen our state laws and regulations to be more inclusive of communities of color and tribal concerns before a location is chosen and well before a permit application is submitted. This process highlights the allegations of systemic racism that zoning and business-friendly regulations perpetuate against communities of color."
Linda Thomas-Greenfield United States Ambassador to the United Nations: "I have seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles."
"Racism is the problem of the racist. And it is the problem of the society that produces the racist. And in today’s world, that is every society."
Isabel Guzman Administrator of the Small Business Administration: "Systemic racism is a persistent roadblock for women and minority small business owners. This was true before the pandemic, and unfortunately, it’s even more true now."
Ron Klain White House Chief of Staff: "We face four overlapping and compounding crises, including "a racial equity crisis." "Much more will need to be done to... combat systemic racism and inequality."
Cecilia Rouse Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors: "Racism in the justice system and discrimination in the labor market and health care system are not new, but the death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police, and the disparate impacts of Covid-19 and the economic crisis on black and brown communities have laid bare how racism permeates every facet of American life."
(Bill Donohue is president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is the author of eight books and many articles.)
We see constant examples of real racism, largely against White people. The evidence is indisputable. Along with the racism comes a colossal double-standard, which should be enough to make your blood boil. In America today, anti-White racism is not only accepted but even fashionable!
Has there ever been a nation in history with more opportunities for Black people than the USA?
We hear a lot about Critical Race Theory and how America is a systemically racist country. Everything is all about skin color and which group — oppressor or oppressed — you belong to. I hesitate to write this article because to even broach the topic of race these days or to offer an honest critique runs the risk of being labeled a racist and being canceled.
We see constant examples of real racism, largely against White people. The evidence is indisputable. Along with the racism comes a colossal double-standard, which should be enough to make your blood boil. In America today, anti-White racism is not only accepted but even fashionable!
Take, for example, recent statements made by Jalen Rose, a Black former professional basketball player, about current NBA player Kevin Love, who is White, being included on the Olympic basketball team. Rose said, "Kevin Love is on the team because of tokenism."
Rose is upset that Love was the lone White player selected on an otherwise all-Black team. I thought liberals were all about "Inclusion!" Does Jalen Rose still have his commentator job? Yup.
Now just imagine for a moment that some retired White NHL player came out with the exact same comment about a Black hockey player being included on the Olympic hockey team. It would be utter chaos. He would be branded a racist for life and almost certainly lose his job with whatever sports network he worked for.
But that's only the tip of the racist iceberg! What about the recent story about a New York psychiatrist (POC) who told a Yale audience about her fantasies of killing White people and then doubled down on it when asked to clarify? How does she still have her job or credibility?
How about Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot's recent announcement that she was going to resume giving interviews to the press, but not to any White reporters? What if Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida came out and said he wouldn't give interviews to Black reporters? How long do you think it would take for him to be (rightfully) out of a job?
On a weekly basis, I see reports of attacks by young Black people against Whites and Asians, usually in Democrat-run utopias like New York City and Philadelphia. These attacks are intentional, targeted, and often accompanied by anti-White racist slurs. Where is the outrage?
If you want to identify real racism to fight, you need look no farther than the current resident of the United States. Joe Biden's history of blatantly racist comments is long and undeniable. Google Joe's classics, like his "racial jungle" or "poor kids are just as smart as White kids" remarks. Then imagine the reaction if President Trump had made any of those comments. Biden gets a pass because he's a leftist.
At least the old standard racist organizations — the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, the United Negro College Fund, BET, and Ebony Magazine How — could claim to be trying to help Black people in some way. (But just imagine if there were "White Entertainment TV" or "Ivory Magazine"!)
So we're to the point where White people are fair game, and our kids are being taught that they are racists simply because they were born White. Even if they are not consciously aware of their alleged racism, they are still racist because they are White. The solution to racism is...apparently...stronger and even more blatant racism? Gotcha.
Moving on, let's talk a little about how terrible it is in America today (and for the last several decades) to be Black. There are simply no opportunities for Black Americans; no jobs; no career paths; no ability to get an education. Nothing. I don't know how they get by! Oh, I guess you have to exclude the preferential treatment given to black applicants over Whites and Asians at nearly every major university in the country. How about the many government loan programs that are exclusively for Black-owned businesses? Or scholarships that exist exclusively for Black students? How about the fact that grading standards at many colleges have been lowered, which in and of itself is racist and does far more harm than good to those who are accepted? Lowering the bar does not raise anyone up; it only brings us all down.
Most decent people are all for equality of opportunity. They just don't buy into the equity of outcome nonsense. If a student or job applicant is qualified, most don't care what color he is. No one wins when the standards are ignored or lowered just to check off a box that says, "Yup, we've got some of those. We're woke!"
Nowhere on Earth or in history does there exist a place or a time where Black people have had more opportunities than they do right here and right now. The true outrage should be toward those people and policies that espouse the belief that Black people can't succeed without the help of others, that they can't achieve at the same level, that they're not good enough without help from Whites. Black people being fed a constant diet of victimhood and "Us versus Them" is what holds them back.
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Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age
A generation doesn’t remember life before the crises he created.
Fri Jun 25, 2021
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer. The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn’t read can’t be too far away.
Once the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures “young people” on what they should be doing. His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi. That’s above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership.
The average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump’s cabinet.
The gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC as its younger foil, but she’s been a stalking horse for Bernie Sanders who will hit the big 80 in the fall. The big donors behind the American Left are even older with George Soros due to hit 90 the same month Obama gets to 60. The even bigger reservoirs of cash flowing into the leftist machine are coming from the foundations of men who were born in the 19th century like Henry Ford, John D. MacArthur, and John D. Rockefeller.
That’s about right for a 19th century ideology whose followers keep trying to make it look young.
Youthful leftism is anarchic. It’s CHAZ, BLM, and Antifa. It’s open air heroin markets, smashed store windows, and political assassinations. Turning that anarchy into collectivism requires hysterical propaganda and rallies that appear anarchic, but are actually tightly controlled, ideas that seem edgy, but are actually the work of men who were born during the age of the steam.
If you think Bernie’s old, Karl Marx celebrated his 203rd birthday in May.
Obama’s policies have aged as badly as Marx, Biden, or their front man. But instead of moderating as they grow older, they only grow more radical. Obama equivocated on gay marriage, while Biden entirely erases the existence of women by calling them “birthing people”. Obama covertly weaponized the government against conservatives, while Biden is doing it openly. Everything from election rigging through H.R.1 to indoctrinating every government employee with critical race theory is happening more openly and blatantly under Biden.
Youthful leftist revolutions break the system while leftist gerentocrats impose the tyranny.
Making tyranny look like freedom requires hefty doses of chaos and outrage that make it appear that the system is being broken when it’s actually being built up. Or as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The revolution is the thing it’s revolting against.
The end of history keeps arriving only to vanish like a mirage when the youth reach for it.
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," Obama told his followers. Two years later, he privately snapped, "What does he think I'm supposed to do? Put on my f------ Aquaman gear and swim down there myself with a wrench?"
Thirteen years have passed and if the planet has begun to heal, Democrats won’t admit it.
The moment of epochal change can never be allowed to arrive because it would interrupt the permanent crisis. Salvation is always here and also always out of reach. But there’s always a new generation available to be fooled again because they know the past doesn’t matter.
History is radically revised every generation not just for what it teaches, but for what it doesn’t.
A revisionist history work like the 1619 Project doesn’t just impose a radical new racist history, it displaces the past. Another revisionist history will come along to displace the 1619 Project because manufacturing history churn is vital to destroying any continuity with the past. All the academic lenses being swapped one for the other like a mad ophthalmologist leaves a new generation with a lot of theories, but no clue that they’re being indoctrinated into a lost cause.
The Left has no new ideas. Like Hollywood, it makes old ideas seem new by rebooting them, by making them appear hip and trendy, and by destroying a meaningful connection with the past. And that way audiences don’t realize they’re just seeing the same movie remade over again. What might be creative bankruptcy in a movie theater is a more seriously sisyphean problem described by Churchill as, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
But how does a new generation learn from a past that isn’t allowed to exist on its own terms?
Demonizing the past is a convenient way of obscuring it. The only thing students are taught about the past is that it was a horrible time, its people backward, its customs savage, its learning wicked, its institutions racist, and its ideas horrifying. In postmodern history, the past exists only as a cautionary tale gleaned for historical struggles that fit into the new narrative.
History is an incomplete present whose revolutions were never fully fulfilled. It’s a revolutionary story of a world ruled by villains until they were overthrown by the forces of good. And this revolution against history must continue until all of the past is negated by the present.
The destruction of statues and burning of books forces ‘presentism’ for the past to conform to the dogmas of the moment. The biggest problem with the past isn’t that it’s politically incorrect, but that it’s repeating itself. The Black Lives Matter movement transparently harkens back to the 70s. So do most of the radical social impulses in which the Left cloaks its real power agenda.
The revolutionary chaos is doomed to fail again, but each oscillation breaks the country more.
The social activism is window dressing. A proper Marxist regime has little use for militant minorities, feminism, gay rights, police defunding, transgender bathrooms, pipeline protests, abortion, or any of the other issues the radicals have been using to waste our time. If you doubt that, go look at how many of any of the above you can find in China, Cuba, or North Korea.
The Russian Futurists vowed to throw the art and literature of the past overboard from the “steamship of modernity”. But the Bolsheviks were not looking for disruptive art and when the revolution arrived, modern art was tossed overboard and the former revolutionaries settled down to producing socialist realism and recreating the art of the past for the Soviet Union.
After a brief permissive period, the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality and insisted on traditional marriages and roles for women. Those feminists who resisted were soon shown their place with one of the more notorious free love figures being forcibly married off by Lenin.
The dictatorship had eclipsed the revolution and the past was quickly rewritten all over again.
As Obama approaches his sixtieth birthday, the age at which Khrushchev struggled for control of the USSR and Mao launched his Great Leap Forward, two events that would require a good deal of historical editing, our American past is already being rewritten. Only those who are at least in their thirties will remember that there wasn’t a racial crisis before Barack Obama.
And there hadn’t been such a crisis for a generation before he took power.
Our racial crisis is not a legacy of 1619, but of 2008. Obama’s victory was not a revolution against a crisis, but the revolution that created the crisis. To a new generation, the racial crisis is a permanent feature of life. They have always lived under the crisis and expect to always live under it. That is why critical race theory and white privilege rants have become so pervasive.
Without a generation coming of age in a world shaped by the toxic idea that all white people are evil and all minorities are victims, no one outside academic circles would have willingly accepted them. And if that generation seems all too easy to radicalize into supporting the most insane policies, that’s because it grew up in a world defined by the hysteria of manufactured crises.
The world as they know it is doomed by melting ice caps, the rich getting richer, and the genocide of black people at the hands of the police. Every radical program is backed by a sense of urgent crisis which is killing people and destroying the future. They can’t imagine a present without the crisis and don’t remember ever living in a world not defined by crisis.
As Obama gets closer to his AARP cover, a generation lives in the world that he made.
Like Obama, his radical political movement speaks endlessly about the past, but has no actual past. Its past is always being reinvented and retold through new narratives, but with no facts.
The Obama revolution has come and gone. We have skipped past it to the Soviet Union of Chernenko and Andropov, of gerontocrats building the tyranny with the beams of revolution. The decline is everywhere as the theories fail, the factories close, and the stores stand empty.
The youth are being rallied to cheer for the revolutionary tyranny of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer who are promising a new era in history no one believes in anymore. Since the election their cause is no longer free college, it’s federalizing elections through H.R.1.
Federalizing elections, eliminating the filibuster, and packing the Supreme Court are compelling issues in Washington D.C., but the regime plotting new coups has little to say to the ordinary people facing high prices for gas and bread. Land, Bread, and Peace has given way to a race for total power over the country as the revolution of Hope, Crisis and Change comes of age.
There’s no change without crisis, and without hope, there’s only hate.
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