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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
Progressivism is a house of cards built precariously on a foundation of sand. It hinges entirely on demonstrably false narratives intentionally designed to sow division and to “rub raw the resentments of the people,” as Luciferian Left-wing strategist Saul Alinsky put it. One of those narratives is that America was founded as, and continues to be, a systemically racist, white supremacist nation in which the purported “Land of Opportunity” excludes the awkwardly termed “people of color” from its promises and prosperity. Racism resides in our country’s very DNA, claimed Barack Obama.
Obama’s condemnation of the country that twice elected him President of the United States and enabled him to build a net worth that tops $70 million (along with his incredibly privileged wife Michelle, who has also been known to grouse that America remains racist) is common among other black elites, as has been demonstrated several times in the last week alone.
Multi-millionaire journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates has built his lucrative career as a leading black intellectual on the back of this Progressive narrative that the country which rewarded him with a National Book Award and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant is infected with white supremacy. Recently he had the tone-deaf nerve to smear murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, assassinated by a Leftist for daring to challenge Progressive orthodoxy in peaceful debate, as a hate-mongering, “unreconstructed white supremacist.”
Multi-millionaire political commentator and former MSNBC host Joy Reid too has built a career on the assertion that, “Yes, this is a racist country,” a claim she believes is proven because “racial disparity” exists. During a recent BET Talks interview, she fear-mongered that “we are in a fascist moment,” one in which her Republican opponents want to take us back to “a right-wing, White nationalist, White supremacist moment that is centered around hierarchy.” Her evidence is that Republicans are contemplating doing away with income tax. She believes this is fascist – even though fascism is all about state power, and abolishing income tax would reduce that – and racist – even though blacks too would not owe income tax.
This past March, Reid engaged Coates in conversation at a public event in which she shared that her mother immigrated to the U.S. from Guyana despite her realization that the U.S. was an “evil” place. “My father was from the Congo and my mother was from Guyana and so they were the immigrants who came here on purpose and they got the rude awakening” that “this is the land of opportunity but not for me.” [Emphasis added]
Black comedian and actress Leslie Jones went on the Left-wing propaganda outlet The Daily Show a few days ago and ranted about why America harbors “so much hatred for black people.” The relentlessly unfunny Jones, with a net worth estimated at over $8 million from a career which includes gigs on Saturday Night Live and in the failed, all-female Ghostbusters reboot, had the gall to demand reparations from her fellow Americans: “Forty acres and a mule is not enough anymore. I want 40 acres and a trust fund, how about that?” She added, “Matter of fact, throw in the mule if you want to. I need something to carry my money.”
Former tennis superstar Serena Williams sparked a minor controversy days ago when she posted to Instagram an odd short video in which she expresses discomfort at the sight of a New York City hotel hallway decoration displaying a cotton plant. “All right, everyone,” she says in the video. “How do we feel about cotton as decoration? Personally for me, it doesn’t feel great.” In a second post, she holds a piece of the cotton from the decoration and tells viewers it “feels like nail polish remover cotton.” She touches it, cringes a little, and exits the frame.
Williams, whose wavy blonde tresses are an appropriation of white culture, did not elaborate on why the hotel décor “doesn’t feel great,” but the widespread assumption about this viral video is that she was hinting at the historical association of cotton plants with slavery in the southern United States. She has not subsequently denied this in the ensuing controversy – nor did her white husband when he posted a defense of his wife on social media – so it is reasonable to assume that this is not a misinterpretation.
“Great example of celebrity millionaire using victimhood for currency,” wrote one social media commentator.
Serena Williams’ net worth hovers around $300 million. Are we supposed to believe that she is so traumatized by the sight of a cotton plant that she has to share a video about it with her 18+ million Instagram followers? Does the shadow of the slavery which white Americans ended over 150 years ago, and which everyone today condemns as a moral evil, still darken her consciousness? Yes, in fact, it does. “Black people have been out of slavery now for just over a hundred years…” she said once, “It hasn’t been that long.” How long does it need to be, to let go of the false notion that America is inherently racist and oppressive?
Intellectuals, political commentators, celebrities, sports legends – wealthy and respected black elites all, and yet they cling to the ideological insistence, utterly divorced from reality, that America is uniquely in world history bigoted toward blacks and denies them the opportunities freely granted to all white people – opportunities they themselves took advantage of to rise to fame and fortune. And now they use their prominent platforms to perpetuate the lie that white America actively oppresses “people of color.”
I was a guest on a local Los Angeles morning TV program a few years ago to debate the notion that America is systemically racist, and the first question I was asked was, “Does racism exist in America?” “Of course,” I replied, but “on all sides” – meaning that non-whites can be racist too. Racism, like murder, poverty, and other ills we would love to eradicate, will always be with us – people of all colors – because humans are broken, fallen beings.
The question should not be Does racism exist in America? but Is America systemically racist? Is racism in our DNA? Does America hate black people? Are we a white supremacist nation? The answer to all these is a resounding no, and the most privileged black beneficiaries of American opportunity, freedom, and equality must stop flogging a lie that fosters a victim mentality in their fellow blacks and that stokes in them a bitter, racist resentment.
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There is a myth that elephants are afraid of mice. Now another. Silverbacks are afraid of flowers.
If they keep on Crying Wolf like their doing their going to cause a whole lot of problems for everybody else Sharpton and Jackson are notorious for this
Are Q-Tips offensive too?
There’s a guy on MSLSD that looks like a human Q-Tip. I find his very existence offensive.
Dems have something to tempt every black voter, whatever their class. Life long welfare for those who don’t want to work. Affirmative action slingshotting those who want to work into schools and jobs for which they are not the best qualified. And for those who achieve great success on their own, Dems tell them they have overcome systemic racism so they are extra special heroic.
Dems also reassure blacks from richest to poorest that any unflattering differences between them and EVERY other race are due to white racism keeping blacks down. Yet there is not a single neighborhood, city, state, country or even continent that is improved when blacks dominate. So what Dems sell blacks is a comforting fairytale that they are not responsible for their low academics and high crime. Too many buy it whereas a minority made of stronger stuff like Dr. Sowell look facts in the face and prescribe real cures that whites cannot make happen for them.
Black elites are like the Kings and Queens of past history.
Once the downtrodden folks find out the emperor has no clothes the common folks no longer admire them.
This house of cards of racial oppression is the only reason why blacks are still ghetto dwellers while Spanish, Asian and even African speaking folks come to America and achieve the American dream.
The Democrat party has indoctrinated Black Americans into a disastrous and failing life.
Here in the USA, blacks went from a past of hardship to the present of being welcomed (too often unappreciated.)
In Zimbabwe, white farmers that fed the country were systematically murdered & driven out (resulting in famine).
The inverse is telling.
America improved with time, while racist African countries declined.
$300 Milligan and this Williams still hates herself for having black skin, maybe she should do the Beyonce self hatefest and start bleaching her skin
A wealthy Black woman married to a wealthy white man whining about a hallway decoration while wearing her white-appropriated blonde wig!
Apparently, her wealthy mixed-race daughters are getting quite an education in being ungrateful.
Let her take her family to the continent of Africa and her daughters will get a HUGE education in tribalism, white hatred and the Muslim invasion against Christians. Let their mom explain it to them and then try to justify her tantrum. Last I checked hotel interior designers aren’t paid to ask her for an opinion on what they create.
Such absolute, self-centered, holier-than-thou nonsense.
If she visits Nigeria, she’ll learn she have to run for her life.
Many blacks that went to Africa, came back with that education you eluded to (one wrote a book about it).
Funniest example is when Cassius Clay returned from the “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman.
When a reporter asked him what he thought of Africa, he replied “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”
I use that quote quite often.
Thank God ALLL of our grand daddies (black, white and indeterminate) got on that boat.
You know, if it wasn’t for slavery (as terrible as it was), they would be all living in Africa now.
…and enslaved THERE!
Yeah, it’s truly amazing how someone worth 300 million still has that lust for victimhood. When you retire young with enormous wealth, just go live your life. Nobody want to hear complain.
Serena Williams oversharing the First World problems of the very wealthy … I have no more words.
I do get tired of black, millionaire rappers decrying racism from the back of their white gold AMG MB’s.
Black fatigue is real. Just ask Carnival Cruise Lines. They just adopted new rules to discourage black clients from cruising with them.
People are getting fed up.
Black fatigue. Phew.
BIack fatigue is growing daily in this country. If you see a white supremacist behind every corner, how can you enjoy the blessing that you have been given? The comforts that these black celebrities enjoy is ignored because they carry the race card in their wallets. Since when do whiners appear to be attractive? By joining the white race antagonism, these blacks appear to be ungrateful and are sabotaging their happiness. I think there is much guilt behind some of these lies because the celebs see themselves as undeserving of the wealth that they have acquired and see so many black people struggling. If all blacks were millionaires, they would still bitch about the boogey man white supremacist. They are not intelligent enough to realize that they are the black privileged. They also don’t realize that they are abject racists, but they don’t see themselves that way. This is how separated from reality.
A racist is a person that holds prejudice against a person. Prejudice conflates reality. The only relationship with logic is the constant use of logical fallacies or generalizations.
Thankfully this good article exposes the insanity of the black privilege.
Serena, as a mother has two daughters who are half white. How does a mother act so superficially and callously toward part of her children’s heritage especially when she is worth over $350 M and showed her athletic prowess in a sport predominately white and was celebrated by America for her talent! Truly sickening.
As a card-carrying 100% white supremacist whose wife of very many years is black (and whose children are mixed race), I am very conflicted by my white family which has accepted my wife and kids unconditionally as well as my black in-laws with whom we frequently meet for dinner, social occasions and just to talk. The black elitists(?) who have reduced all human interactions into Black vs White are even more confusing. I guess it is better not to confuse adjectives like “elite” with those like “intelligent”.
I am sick of black fatigue. There are many good ones, like Sowell, Carson, etc.,but a 10 percent population responsible for most of the crime has to stop. It’s a cultural thing coupled with entitlement due to the stupidity of whit guilt.
There are many good ones? You dare to diminish the great Thomas Sowell in such a dismissive manner?
That’s like saying there many good Jews and Albert Einstein is one of them.
Thomas Sowell is the greatest living intellectual in America today and has been the greatest living intellectual in America for the last forty years.
In college had a fellow student in my research group who was here on a student visa. He was from Africa. He despised American blacks because of their victim mentality crying racism when life didn’t go their way. He said he wished American blacks would move to Africa. In Africa they would find out that skin color didn’t matter as much as what tribe you were from. Everything in Africa was predicated on what tribe one was affiliated with, tribalism pure and simple. His goal was to become a citizen of America because he saw freedom and opportunity regardless of what ‘tribe’ you were from, unlike in Africa.
I had many hardworking black teammates from various African countries and Jamaica on my college soccer team 50 years ago. They had nothing to do with black American students. They justifiably viewed the U.S. as a wealth of opportunity.
The Hobby Lobby artificial flower aisles must be lit these days. Imagine a person as accomplished as Serena deciding to go for idiocy for relevance.
Your blond hair offends me. Cultural appropriation! Cut it off.
I was born poor white in the late 50s last by 6 years. Grew up in SoCal, we all worked from when we were 4 years old until we graduated HS and then we had to leave to find life. The town I grew up in was split equally between White, Mexican, and Asian but there was no racism.
I found a job with the phone company to live and pay for college in the 70s. The job was 4 years in the Black Slums of South Central Los Angeles on a multi-racial crew doing installations, repair, and cable work. The area was highly dangerous and there was daily shootings and weekly killings. The area was all Black and highly racists to anyone including Blacks. I almost was killed as I ate lunch at a fast food when a gang did a drive-by to kill another gang member and killed 5 and wounded many in the fast food. My boss, who was Black, was shot while talking at a connection box. All of our people were attacked at one time or another.
I wonder how many black Americans are tainted by evil white DNA.
it is very important that blacks MUST complain about something to remain in the public eye, lest they be forgotten!
like toddlers!
and like toddlers they MUST obey their WHITE parents !
ask obama kam-kam sharptone jackson blm etc!
Hey Serena….whoever told you that you are some kind of sex symbol, especially with all of that stupid bottle blonde hair. But a cotton plant triggers you.
So you are worth 300 million, but you hate yourself so much you straighten and dolly up that pile of hair. Hypocrite.
She’s offended by a cotton plant while wearing blonde hair and a cotton blend suit.
Eso si es muy comico.
Solo en America, mami.
Mark…do you EVER write an original thought or just this rehashed drivel? Embarassing.
Oh, poor Janie need a trigger warning? “Well done refuting Mark’s points” said no one ever.
The Williams sisters honed their skills on a public tennis court in a park in Houston that became part of a black neighborhood due to white flight in the 1960s. Houston quietly desegregated in 1962, but the “blockbuster” phenomenon led to rapid relocation of whites to the West and movement of blacks from the near west side to formerly upper middle class neighborhoods southeast of downtown. I am sure the young women felt themselves mistreated when young. As champions who prospered in an era when race barriers had already been broken in Tennis and actual segregation was a thing of the past, it’s sad that Serena harbors ill will toward harmless, durable, and attractive decoration in a hotel room. Does she also eschew sweet tea, fried chicken, and watermelon? If so, she is missing pleasures that people enjoy without evoking any racial animus.
Great article!! Tapson fearlessly debunks the racism trope!
Great article! Tapson boldly debunks the racism trope
Mathematically it is almost certain that there will be disparity between racial groups.
Anyway there are so many flaws in the leftist arguments against slavery one doesn’t know where to begin.
america doan like black people? might be due to joy reid, decarlos b., arthur bomar, david a. burke, jay jones & millions of other assholes like them.
Go to any large city and visit any of the local state, county or federal government offices and you’ll see who holds most of the employment positions in these jobs that pay well and have great benefits.