Racialism
Recently, a friend sent me a video clip from a podcast where Barack Obama is interviewing Bruce Springsteen. The topic is racism. At one point, Obama asks Springsteen how difficult it was to have an integrated band in the 1970s. After a gratuitous and self-serving response, Springsteen and Obama talk solemnly about the ongoing issue of racism in America. They are honest men searching desperately to uncover the answer to the problem that bewilders them. If their conversation wasn’t so filled with irony and sanctimonious drivel, it would be funny. Unfortunately, in an era where critical thinking has been eliminated from our consciousness, I fear many people will take their repulsive dialogue as genuine and heartfelt.
Before examining the issue of perpetuating racism through racialism, it is important to identify the players in the conversation.
Barack Obama was twice elected president of a country that at the time of his election had a white majority. Never mind that he had little experience. Never mind that he took every opportunity to use his “blackness” as a tool. Never mind that his presidency can easily be argued to be among the least effective in the history of the republic. Never mind that he twice received more than 90 percent of the black vote while doing virtually nothing to help the black community. Never mind that Obama used his black privilege to amass a not-so-small fortune and buy an envious property on Cape Cod when he left office.
Bruce Springsteen, “the boss” as his fans so passionately refer to him, portrays himself as a man of the people, a working-class guy facing the same struggles and issues as every blue-collar stiff in America. (As an aside, I dare you to find any song by “the boss” that doesn’t employ this overused theme.) In reality, he is as average as virtually every other multi-millionaire, living in one of the most expensive houses in New Jersey, paying more than $100,000 for a horse for his daughter, and globetrotting and hobnobbing with equally the well-healed.
Okay, they’re charlatans capitalizing on their fame to expound their false virtues. But the issue they discuss is real, isn’t it? Before answering the question, it would wise to explore the reasons why racism has become such a hot topic in recent years and why it is being used a tool to pit Americans against each other. There is no doubt that racists, true racists, exist in America – spoiler alert, they exist in every corner of the world and they come in every race, color and creed!
But is racism endemic in American society? The answer is likely elusive, but most people without political or social motivation would probably say the issue of racism is at or near an all-time low in this country. More important than the precision of this assessment is the fact that as presented by the media and people like Obama and Springsteen, racism in America is the sole province of white people, more specifically white men. Critical race theory (CRT), perhaps the single most preposterous and ludicrous idea ever perpetrated on the “intelligence” of the American people, proposes that white people are inherently evil and are the cause of all the suffering endured by blacks and other minorities. To help explain and support this idiocy, proponents have introduced “white privilege” and “white guilt” into the modern vernacular. If only white people would stop being so “white,” people of other races could achieve so much more.
Beyond, or maybe beneath, this ridiculous and evil argument, lies the true crux of what Victor Davis Hanson so wisely termed “racialism.” Racialism has nothing to do with racism but everything to do with division. To the “useful idiots” who promote this insipid nonsense, racism is as much a genetic trait of white people as blonde hair or blue eyes. In their vapid interpretation, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, etc., all helpless victims, and the only way to address the issue is by marginalizing white people through the confiscation of earned wealth and other forms of unwarranted harassment. Further, this idiotic “theory” proports that minorities are incapable of being racist. What? Isn’t it racist to tell an entire class of people that they are genetically incapable of something?
And as inane as this sounds, many supposedly non-racist, supposedly educated white people buy into this tripe!
How absurd is this problem and how far are the subversives willing to go to pursue their agenda of societal division and the destruction of white people? The Biden Department of Justice would label parents and other concerned citizens who attend local school board meetings and voice opposition to teaching the hateful CRT agenda as “domestic terrorists!” Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the other radical organizations that burned American cities, attacked and killed innocent people and assaulted law enforcement officers throughout the summer of 2020 in “mostly peaceful” protests were not branded domestic terrorists. But concerned parents who want to shield their children and communities from the racist propaganda of CRT are deemed to be a grave threat to society.
At the heart of this abomination are the core factions that are working together on this and other incendiary ideas to destroy America for their own gain. The mainstream corporate media, social networking corporations and the essentially useless “education” systems support and propagandize racialism as a means of demonizing the vast swatch of multi-colored, multi-ethnic, people who over decades and centuries have worked tirelessly to achieve their dreams and succeed in the land that welcomed and valued their accomplishments.
If we are as a nation going to continue to flourish, we must recognize that there are forces at play that wish to destroy the very fabric of America. As the most charitable, welcoming and successful nation that has ever blessed this planet, its citizens must begin to think independently and challenge the hurtful and dangerous rhetoric of the oligarchy that is trying to ruin us.