When the government creates policies and programs designed
specifically to benefit one group over another purely on the basis of skin
color, that’s the definition of systemic racism.
Doesn’t anyone else see this? It’s so obvious.
It surprises me that this is ignored all the time. Maybe I shouldn’t be.
Democrats and the left have a long history of overt institutionalized
racism.
Racial segregation before and after the Civil War was always
a Democrat thing. Jim Crow laws came
from Democrats. So did poll taxes and
tests. The Klan was essentially a
Democrat social club. The Democrats’
abortion-rights hero – Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood –
specifically set up her clinics in poor black neighborhoods to minimize the
number of black babies born. Democrats,
led by former Klan recruiter Robert C. Byrd, filibustered the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 in an attempt to keep it from passing. Even the current President, Joe
Biden, was opposed to desegregation because, in his own words, he didn’t want
his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle.”
So you can spare me and the rest of America the BS that
Democrats have always been on the side of blacks and other minorities. Nope,
they haven’t. And while they – along with the progressives and other leftists –
like to huff and puff about the need to address our “systemic racism” they’re
actually the ones promoting and instituting what can only be called systemic
racism throughout our nation.
Here's the thing: anytime you have elected politicians
supporting quotas and preferences based on race, that’s automatically
racist. They are defining who gets what,
and who doesn’t, based on skin color. When
government incorporates those quotas and preferences into laws and regulations,
it becomes institutionalized racism. In
other words, systemic racism. Got it?
That’s what Democrats, the progressives, the left, and
committed racists like BLM and the SPLC claim to be trying to eliminate. They
have a curious strategy, however.
They want to end systemic racism by making more of it.
The key for them is codifying preferences and quotas to
reward one racial group over another. If
it were about equality, everybody would be treated the same. But they don’t
want equality; they now claim they want “equity.” That means they are still discriminating
by race, yet not because they’re racists, which they are, but because they claim
they want a level playing field.
Which, of course, they don’t really want. If they wanted a truly level playing field
everybody would be treated equally and play by the same rules. That would eliminate their leverage to raise money, appease their constituencies, and demand allegiance from affected minority blocs.
There already are real and implicit government quotas by race for all kinds of
things. Who gets government contracts. Who gets promoted in the military. Who gets a mortgage, bank loan or a loan
guarantee. Who gets research grants and
funding. Who gets hired in any company
that gets Federal money. Who gets a
board seat in publicly traded companies.
Most recently, the Biden administration, in the name of addressing
systemic racism, pushed through a program that disproportionately rewards black
farmers over farmers of other races.
Thereby promoting more systemic racism. Thanks, Joe.
Our government’s not the only one pushing racist quotas.
Our colleges and universities are happily enforcing quotas
of their own. They are quietly discriminating on the basis of race; when they
are caught, they plead that they must, to ensure “diversity” on their
campuses.
The truth is, based only on
pure test scores and performance, Asians would beat out most other applicants
at many of our premier academic institutions. So, much like the days when
Harvard discriminated against more qualified Jewish applicants, the admissions
departments at Harvard and other top universities have been penalizing Asian
applicants and giving extra points toward acceptance to black and Hispanic
applicants. That’s racist, regardless of
who is doing it.
But no one in power is brave enough to say the blindingly obvious. They know if they did, they'd be branded a racist, which, at the very least, is ironic.
The discrimination in academia by race alone is illegal, no matter the
rationale. In fact, any discrimination
by race alone is illegal under our laws.
No ifs, ands, or buts, about it.
Think about this: if colleges and universities started discriminating
against black or Hispanic applicants based solely on race, the ACLU and pretty
much everybody else would be appalled. Lawsuits would fly and the Supreme Court
would be involved.
No, in our current political and cultural environment it’s
okay to discriminate by race as long as it’s at the expense of races that aren’t
black, or to a lesser extent Hispanic.
It’s a bizarre world we live in. Consider that there’s a
Black Entertainment Network, a BET Awards Show, an Essence Black Women in Hollywood
Awards Show, a Black Film Festival, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a Black Caucus in Congress. There are also demands today on many campuses by
blacks for black-only segregated dorms. Some “black-only” protests demand that when
these occur all whites, including white students, faculty, and staff must leave
campus.
Somehow, all those
are perfectly fine. Laudatory, even, by
the liberal Democrats, progressives, the left, and their friends in the media. Yet
if you substituted “white” for “black” in all of the above, they’d be screaming
that you’re a racist bigot. A white supremacist, too. Perhaps a Nazi.
Not them, of course.
Whether they’re cognizant of it or not, they’re using government policies and
laws to institutionalize systemic racism to fight against systemic racism. Weird, huh?
Talk about a lack of
self-awareness.
They can call it “equity,”
“leveling the playing field,” “addressing historic wrongs” or whatever they
like, but the reason there’s systemic racism here is because they continue to
create more of it.
Intentionally.
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