Identity politics is a bottomless sewer pit of racism. A victimhood Olympics whose only purpose is feigning weakness to exercise strength. An endless racist pile-on in the name of fighting racism.
A random case in point from a letter to the Santa Cruz Lookout.
Congratulations to Martine Watkins on being the first biracial mayor in Santa Cruz. I hope she will step aside so we can also congratulate our first Black mayor, Justin Cummings.
How sad that Watkins hasn’t done the work to understand her position and privilege as a light-skinned biracial person in America. How sad that with her privilege and her platform, she chooses to say, “What about me?”
To society at large, she appears to be a white woman. Though her father is Black, I’m confused why she mentions “colorism” while also denying that she benefits from it. Maybe we can call it “light privilege,” since it would appear that she cannot accept that she benefits from white privilege.
Forget white privilege, we can all usher in light privilege. Except for those of us who live in black holes and fall past the event horizon from which no light can possibly escape.
The good news is that society has advanced so far that race is now a confused pyramid upholding a caste system at the peak of which is crazy racism.
I have a Black dad, too, and most people think I’m white mixed with something they can’t put their finger on. I understood my privilege at a young age, while my father also taught me to “never forget that you’re Black.” I’m sorry this lesson was never taught to Watkins, since she also walks the complicated line of being biracial
Biracial privilege is of course a thing now because society is hopelessly racist and broken.
As a caucasian-passing college student who identifies as mixed-race, I must also be critical of my white privilege while challenging the stereotypes of mixed-race people.
Or, and this is madness, we could try relating to each other as human beings again. Crazy, I know.
Do better.
Crazy. A bottomless pit, as you said.
The solution to racism is to become hyper-racist and incoherent to the point you make absolutely no sense. That is the path of racial nihilism. The goal is the total destruction of the human race. This is what the eschatological struggle comes down to for the left. The destruction of God’s creation — humanity — destroyed in mindless, obsessive attempt to find virtue in shades of black. It doesn’t get more idiotic than this.
This is all about the black fascist criminals bullying everybody else. Their main goal is to get away with their crimes and rip off every working person to the point of total destruction.
That is their goal. But who are the bosses. Check out the black terrorist organizations connection to islamic groups. That’s where they get their orders and training. And the islmists have foreign enemy masters.
In order to save the nation and the world for that matter. The head of the snake should be cut off. And it should be done quickly, before all of LEO, the military, the politicians and Judicial system is replaced with complete slaves to their evil islamsit masters.
See, Daniel Greenfield? These are the people who read and approve of your columns. And you claim leftist are a bunch of crazy racists (with a random letter to the editor as sole evidence).
It’s SOOOOOOO much fun to watch you braindead, bedwetting useful idiots seethe and squirm in desperation and fear. Go change your pampers.
Not all leftists are crazy. Many are just evil and many more are profoundly stupid.
Good to see you again, Foghorn.
You are correct. At the top of the left are the elites – if crazy it’s like a fox. Some others also benefit from spouting leftism, making money in non profits&grants, race baiting, suing, etc. Theses may or may not be true believers. Then there are the young and the duped.
Good to see you again too, truebearing. Have you been away or am I not 0nline as much as I used to be?
Good to see you, as well. I’ve always enjoyed reading your comments and exchanging thoughts with you. This nation needs more people like you.
I haven’t been nearly as active on the internet since the 2022 coup. I had a mild stroke in the wee hours of the morning of the disastrous election day that put a child molester, serial liar, thief, and traitor in the Whitehouse, instead of Donald Trump, the clear winner
I’ve recovered quite well, thankfully, but have realized that you can’t save the world by writing on comment sections on the internet. In fact, I have come to the conclusion that we may all be making a mistake by sharing actionable ideas publicly because it gives the left too much insight and opportunity to counter us and defend themselves. On the other hand, it is healthy for us to share insights and feel some camaraderie in an increasingly hostile, selfish and self-destructive culture.
When working as the only white man you become invisible, and you can hear the most interesting things. Once, doing paperwork the gals were going on about one particular male co-employee; ‘He’s so yellow.’ In other words, the gals thought him an prize. Yellow? Well, a moment and I understood that he was light-skinned. Like I said – when working as the only white man you become invisible – and hear the most amazing things. In the weird that always comes with the left – ‘Biracial privilege’ is built on an old system in place, and running without any need for BLM – but will be enriched for future enrage.
And I and the gals? I just kept doing my paperwork, and ‘seemed’ to neither hear nor understand. Identity politics is the endless pit from reach all evil comes.
colorism is a reality in the black community
Based on my thirteen years experience across several work sites – it truly is. It was quite the experience for me in the way the world really turns. And I could say more than several reasons that I know this – but not here or now. Too bad more don’t know this truth.
Identity politics may be a bottomless sewer. This is true. But so far it is a sewer which the West is completely incapable of extracting itself from without pathetic compromises which make the whole exercise pointless.
Dems have only one message which broadcast across the world on all frequencies. America is over. It can’t even live up to its own plastic plant ideals.
Oh no! This means Barry Soetoro is not America’s first black president and we’re going to have to go through 4 to 8 years of “America’s first black president” crap all over again.
I always knew Barry was passing for black just to get that black privilege.
Barry knows Trump Groundhog day when sees it
Only this isn’t a Hollywood production in terms of endings we’d all like to see. Because they hacked you before you were born. Still too clueless to know it.
Just Trump Groundhog day all over again. The only difference is the GOP gets more liberal with every iteration. The GOP is retarded enough to buy into the Hollywood idea this goes on indefinitely. Actually it has a very definite ending.
I’ve recognized variations on this since the 70s. Some black people are bigoted towards other black people with lighter skin, and some will even display bigotry towards those with darker skin. It’s a symptom of being fixated on race, and comes from the same mentality of racists of any other race.
“…we could try relating to each other as human beings again.” Wise words, I thought we’d be there long ago, but there’s too much money, privilege, and excuse, in racial spoils. That’s also another reason the left is so set against meritocracy.
Relating to one another as human beings! What a genius concept! Why hasn’t anyone ever thought about this before?
I am 100% Celt, born in Scotland… I have lived on every Continent and with the main Races of Planet Earth and the one thing I have found that we all have in common is that we are ALL messed up, no Race is superior or inferior to another and ALL the Races of people commit racism.
In most Countries Traitors and shot at dawn in America they join the Democrat Party
Ive never really understood why when a person has a white parent and a black parent that this person is now classified as black even if their skin is very white, take Hallie Berry for instance her Mother is ethic English from Liverpool, her Father a black American who abandoned her as a baby, never paid her Mother a Dime and he ended up on Skid Row until appearing before her when she became famous, she gave him 5 grand and told him never to appear again… But she refers to herself as black, Colin Powell, born of two Mixed Racial parents in the Caribbean, called black, and of course that Born Again Christian that changed his name from Barry Sothero to Barack Hussien Obama once he embraced Christianity, by giving himself an islamic name, his Father a worthless Bum from Kenya and his Mother a bleeding heart Uber Liberal white American, but folks say he is the first black President, no he is not, he is the first Bi Racial President so I suggest if the Race of the person is that important to you then at least get the Race correct.