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Leftists Are Destroying Black Upward Mobility, Not Racism

The rioting and looting across the United States is universally condemned. The “peaceful protests,” on the other hand, are universally praised. But is this appropriate? Wouldn’t a broader and more balanced discussion be more constructive, rather than praise without reservations?

Obviously people have the right to peacefully protest injustice, and obviously incidents of murderous police brutality are more than sufficient justification for protests. But that’s as far as it goes. The scope of these protests is disproportionate to the offense, not because it isn’t hideously wrong, but because there are far worse challenges facing black Americans. The biggest challenge of all; leftists who indoctrinate blacks to think they are victims of racism.

Debunking this narrative of racism can start with the allegation that a disproportionate number of blacks are victims of police brutality, which itself is extremely rare.

To put this into context, there are over 800,000 sworn police officers in America, authorized to make arrests and use deadly force. Over 50 million Americans have at least one encounter with a police officer per year, usually for something minor such as a traffic stop. Police make over 10 million arrests each year. On average, just over 1,000 Americans each year are killed by police, but nearly all of them were armed. In confrontations with unarmed people over the past decade, only between 50 and 100 have been shot per year by police, about the same number as police who are killed in hostile encounters per year.

These are big denominators, yielding infinitesimally are small fractions of tragedy. Over 50 million police encounters, less than 100 unarmed people killed. It is statistically impossible to root out every single incident of misconduct in a group that large. Social media makes it easy to collect and aggregate tragic incidents and make them appear to be epidemic, and the leftist media amplifies every incident. It is grossly misleading. But whether police misconduct is epidemic or incredibly rare, are blacks disproportionately targeted?

In a word: No. It is true that the number of blacks killed by police is consistently disproportionate to their share of the U.S. population. Over the three year period from 2017 through 2019, blacks represented 27 percent of all people shot to death by police, yet they only comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population. On the surface, this looks pretty bad. But there is a lot more to this story.

When considering any case of disproportion, you have to examine the underlying facts. In an unvarnished analysis recently published in the Wall Street Journal, Manhattan Institute fellow and author Heather Mac Donald presents some inconvenient facts: Blacks are indeed twice as likely to be fatally shot by police than whites, but, “in 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.”

These facts are well known, but they’re ignored.When crime rates are taken into account, it turns out that blacks are not disproportionately killed by police, and in fact the opposite is true. In a recent study that even NPR reporters acknowledged was peer reviewed and published by the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers concluded “We find no evidence, at the national level, that officers show racial bias against Blacks in the decision to use deadly force,” and “We found no evidence that the race of a police officer related to the race of a citizen shot.”

The Obsession With Disproportionate Outcomes

Like many civilizations throughout human history, the southern states in America had black slaves. This is an indefensible legacy. But the same time the northern states had millions of white abolitionists who viewed slavery for the abomination it was and were willing to fight and die to end it. Moreover, prejudice and discrimination has never been limited to race. Immigrants to America from Ireland and Eastern Europe were white as snow, yet encountered discrimination to rival what blacks endured.

When you examine why some groups in America succeeded and assimilated in spite of discrimination, and others did not, one quality surfaces again and again: They did not think of themselves as victims. Maybe it was easier for white immigrants to adopt a positive mindset because they could blend in more easily. But was it easier for orthodox Jews with their exotic attire? Was it easier for Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese, or Nigerians? All of those groups outperform whites in academic and economic achievement. So what else explains their success?

The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining, obviously accounts for some of the challenges facing American blacks, even today. But how much? Slavery was abolished 157 years ago, Jim Crow laws were completely eradicated by 1965, redlining by 1968. Most American blacks of working age were not even born during the era of Jim Crow and redlining.

And what has happened since the 1960s civil rights era? Americans have gone, if anything, to the other extreme, with mandatory racial quotas now applied to college admissions, corporate hiring and promotions, and awarding of government contracts. In every American institution, the “institutional racism” in effect is most assuredly directed against whites, in favor of blacks.

At the same time, the “War on Poverty” has showered hundreds of billions of dollars into black communities over the past half-century, providing food and shelter in the form of food stamps, welfare, and subsidized housing. And despite all of this effort and expense, blacks continue to lag behind every other ethnic group in America in household income and household wealth, at the same time as they are the most likely to be convicted of crimes, imprisoned, or killed by police.

For the American Left, there is only one explanation. Racism. Endemic, systemic, conscious, unconscious, full-spectrum white racism. A virus in the brain of every white person in America.

Maybe Treating People As Victims Makes Them Victims

But what if the Left is wrong about everything? What if the reason blacks have lower academic and economic achievement, and wind up on the wrong side of the law more than other groups is because of welfare and affirmative action?

How does it benefit anyone’s character to be told they’re victims, that they can’t achieve because of their skin color? That they live in a hostile nation and cannot succeed without the government subsidizing their lives and forcing people to hire them? Why shouldn’t we draw a direct line of causation between the rate of broken homes in black communities, and the rate of high school dropouts and criminal convictions? Why are these obvious, common sense connections ignored by leftist politicians and community leaders and the left-wing press?

One reason is because the Left feeds on the victim narrative. It is the currency of their political power. It is a seductive message with a destructive impact, but while the target of the message is destroyed, the purveyor of the message collects another paycheck. It is a tool of big government, at the same time as it is parroted by every pernicious special interest and fringe element that would see us tear ourselves apart as a nation. It has nothing to do with helping black people get ahead in life.

Charlie Kirk, despite mixed reviews from many conservatives, gets it right at least as often as he gets it wrong, and he outdid himself in a recent video. Kirk not only debunked the whole police-are-racist lie, but also steadfastly asserted his right to discuss these issues despite his pale skin. Bravo for that. Everyone in America loses if black Americans don’t succeed, so everyone needs stand up and be counted – especially if they’re being told to sit down and shut up because they’re white.

When it comes to members of the black community who will challenge the victim narrative, however, they are not in short supply. They just find themselves cut out of the mainstream conversation. Here are just a few of them:

Justin WilsonAntonia OkaforCandace OwensDr. Carol SwainChandler CrumpCJ PearsonAnthony Brian LoganDavid J Harris Jr.Lynnett Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson (Diamond and Silk), Jesse Lee PetersonKingFaceLarry ElderMike NificentAllen WestPastor Mark BurnsPatricia DicksonHorace Cooper (Project 21), Shekinah GeistStacy DashStar ParkerTerrence K WilliamsTaleed BrownKeith Hodge and Kevin HodgeBrandon TatumWill JohnsonWayne DupreeJon MillerJamarcus Dove-SimmonsDerrick BlackmanJoy VillaMind of JamalJermain BotsioJay McCaney.

For a stirring recapitulation of why blacks are not, and should never consider themselves, as victims, watch this video by the Hodge Twins. If the media adopted a healthier bias – perhaps encouraging people to not think of themselves as victims – these brothers would be world famous super stars.

For a critical insight that you’ll never get from ABC’s David Muir or CNN’s Anderson Cooper, or any member of the Democratic party, watch this video by Candace Owens, where, quoting Shelby Steele, she makes this unforgettable observation: “the black community is unique from other communities because we are the only community that caters to the bottom denominator of our society.”

The point Owens is making is incendiary, but maybe it shouldn’t be. Why, she is asking, are blacks uplifting a man who at the time of his arrest was high on methamphetamine and fentanyl, a man who was convicted of armed robbery, a man who was imprisoned five times? Why are leftists making a martyr out of this man? Owens isn’t saying this man deserved to die, nor is she defending the rogue cops who killed him. But why is he being held up as someone who led a heroic life, in defense of the lie that police are systemically racist?

If you want to know why blacks in America, in aggregate, have lagged behind other groups, don’t look to racism from whites. Instead look to the Left. You will find a kaleidoscopic melange of media deities from Stacy Abrams to Joe Biden, spanning the color wheel, making their money and careers by spinning endless, useless lies. Want to assign blame for black underachievement? Look to the Left. Blame them, and walk away.

This article originally appeared on the website American Greatness.

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The Delusional Premises of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

“Do we see largely that it’s the global south and communities of color that may be bearing the brunt of the initial havoc from climate change? – Without a doubt. – And in terms of that wealth, the people that are producing climate change, the folks that are responsible for the largest amount of emissions, or communities or corporations, they tend to be predominantly white, correct? – Yes, and every study backs that up.”
– Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Congressional Hearings on Climate and Race, October 2019

Welcome to yet another example of the nexus between climate change alarm and a socialist redistribution agenda that relies on fueling racial resentment. That may be old news to those of us paying attention, but thanks to birdbrained stooges like “AOC,” the blatant race baiting rhetoric is being turned up a notch.

And why not? If you’re a socialist, or a globalist, there is only upside to tagging nations of European heritage with guilt for the problems facing their “communities of color,” or the problems in the rest of the non-European world. It would be far too painful to consider the alternative explanation, which is that socialism, in all of its antecedents and derivatives, is the primary cause of the societal afflictions that plague “people of color” both in America and abroad.

Deconstructing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s convoluted logic isn’t intellectually hard, but the implications are hard indeed, at least for anyone who shares her delusional world view. Her arguments rest on three premises that build upon one another, and all of them are easily shattered by hard facts. Those premises are the following: White racism is pervasive and explains income inequality, climate change is an ongoing catastrophe that primarily harms “people of color,” and socialism is the solution.

To get the most obviously flawed premise out of the way first, examine the plight of “communities of color” both locally and globally. The immediate fact that destroys this premise is that there are examples of “communities of color” that are prosperous and thriving. Most of East Asia falls into that category. As for the “global south,” Singapore comes to mind. Sitting just one degree north of the equator, it is a sun drenched, monsoon swept city, situated in the absolute heart of the tropics.

Singapore’s success comes despite it being a multicultural nation overwhelmingly populated by “people of color, coping with a supposedly hideous legacy of colonial oppression; its territory is a steaming jungle with no natural resources. Yet it is one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.

You can look to communities within America and make the same myth busting observations. According to a 2018 study conducted by Pew Research, the richest ethnic group in the United States are Indian Americans, with a median household income just over $100,000 per year. And according to U.S. Census Bureau data, “the median income for households led by someone of Nigerian ancestry, for example, was $68,658 in 2018, compared with $61,937 for U.S. households overall.”

Why? Why do some “communities of color” thrive, outpacing whites in education and income, while others do not? Could it be that those communities that are relatively unsuccessful are not victims of racism? After all, if that were true, why in America are people of Asian, East Indian, and Nigerian descent, along with many other ” communities of color,” evidently exempt from the impact of racism?

Could it be that socialism, or its antecedents – welfare, unionized public education, affirmative action, leftist indoctrination, a victim mentality, and the pure, venal corruption that plagues big Democrat ran cities in America – have combined to all but destroy these “communities of color?” Destroyed their families. Destroyed their work ethic. Destroyed their faith in themselves, their faith in their community, their faith in America itself? There is no “racism” in any of that. Or to put it more precisely: in all these policies promoted by or associated with Democrats, there is none of the white, conservative, Republican sort of racism that seems to concern AOC.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez may look at her reflection in the mirror, and believe herself to be a crusader for social justice and a “green new deal,” but in fact she is becoming part of a rich, grasping, inter-generational gang of parasites who build their careers and their bureaucratic empires by spouting racist, quasi-Marxist trash to keep down the people they claim to care about. AOC’s predecessors have not only created the poverty they claim they’re fighting, they need that poverty the way a virus needs a host.

The other flawed premise, fundamental to the socialist goal of global redistribution of wealth, is “climate change,” once known as global warming. The “climate crisis” is the boogeyman that AOC hopes to ride into the White House with president-elect Biden. Heading up his “climate task force,” she has made demagogic fearmongering in the name of the planet a big part of her act. But it’s wearing thin, because unlike the far more convenient threat of imminent death from a global pandemic (however overhyped that may or may not be), anyone with an IQ north of room temperature realizes by now that the climate apocalypse deadlines have come and gone, and come and gone, and come and gone.

As an aside, how sad it has become that the corporate Left, in its odd marriage with hardcore socialists like AOC, have managed to intimidate conservatives into silence on the issue of climate change. Conservatives are so scared of being targeted as “deniers” that they’ll challenge the economics, but not the science. They stammer diffidently about the vast economic costs, the sheer impracticality of shutting down the entire fossil fuel and nuclear energy industries, fearing for their careers if they become too outspoken. They lack the enraged indignation that is appropriate and necessary when challenging these devastating lies. Don’t they understand that if their warnings go unheeded, politicians really will destroy the global economy – permanently – to save the planet. Don’t doubt that they’ll do it. They’re engaged in a dry run for that right now.

Why don’t conservatives also challenge the scientific theory that anthropogenic CO2 is causing catastrophic climate change? Because the “science is settled” and “science” is sacred? “Science” has become so sacred, in fact, it’s become like an Aztec God that must be appeased. Cut a beating human heart out on the altar of Huitzilopochtli. Or throw a human sacrifice into the cauldron of Pele. Or bash in someone’s skull and bury them in a Polynesian pit. The God of Science must never be questioned, and AOC is a high priestess.

This preposterous paradox remains more or less unexamined, that “science” has become weaponized by a gang of green theocrats. But science is no longer science when it is “settled” and is instead used to stifle scientific inquiry and debate and healthy skepticism.

Just as “racism” does not explain disparate outcomes for people of varying ethnicities, “climate change” is not conclusively demonstrated to be associated with burning of fossil fuel, and what climate change we do observe is not demonstrated to be catastrophic. In fact, the net effect of increased concentrations of CO2 may be mostly positive both for humans and ecosystems.

And climate change policies, misguided and misanthropic, have lowered the credibility of environmentalists at the same time as they have flattened the trajectory of solutions to genuine environmental challenges. Clean up the filthy air in New Delhi, for example. The unhealthy pollution has nothing to do with CO2, and everything to do high-sulfur fuel and inadequate exhaust controls. Quit incinerating rainforests to monocrop ethanol from sugar cane and diesel fuel from palm oil. Quit asphyxiating women across the global south who have to cook with wood because natural gas is not “carbon neutral.” Quit pouring finite resources into crony green corporate boondoggles.

Finally, to shatter the core premise of the Left: socialism is obviously not the cure for racism, nor is it the cure for economic inequality. AOC is invited to identify one nation or society, today or throughout history, where socialism delivered freedom, prosperity and social justice. She’ll find instead a hideous legacy of tyranny, poverty, and murder. Even those wonderful Scandinavian economies, held up as examples, do not qualify. They are mixed capitalist economies with (until recently) culturally homogeneous populations. They don’t count. They’re not socialist.

Capitalism, despite its flaws, and requiring judicious regulating, is the only system that can provide equal opportunity. But it cannot provide equal outcomes, nor should it. Because without private property, which is guaranteed in a capitalist system, nobody tries, nobody cares, competence doesn’t matter, effort and ability don’t matter, all that matters is who you know and who you bribe. Socialism, at its core, nurtures resentment, cynicism, corruption, dissipation, decay, despair, and despotism. It is a seductive illusion, promising everything in exchange for nothing. Its adherents are a perilous mixture of the evil and the naive.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is not evil. She is an ignorant, mostly unwitting demagogue, and she is a puppet. The premises that underlie the world view she promotes – racism, socialism, and climate “science” – are dangerous deceptions. They will deliver the most harm to the people they rhetorically aim to help the most. All three of these premises must be challenged without apology, without rest, without quarter.

This article originally appeared on the website American Greatness.

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Racism in America Today

AUDIO:  A discussion on the very sensitive issue of racism in America, and the Democratic party strategy that depends on portraying America as a racist nation – 8 minutes on KNRS Salt Lake City – Edward Ring on the Rod Arquette Show.

What is Racism?

The recent Democratic presidential primary debate in New Hampshire offered another glimpse into the core strategy of the Democratic party – increase the percentages of nonwhite voters by any means necessary, and convince all of them that Republicans are racists.

Every candidate was on board with the message. As Bernie Sanders thundered when it was his turn, “We have a racist society from top to bottom.” Elizabeth Warren sounded almost sinister when she called for “race-conscious laws in education, in employment, in entrepreneurship.” Billionaire Tom Steyer called for “reparations.”

Elsewhere in America, candidate and billionaire Michael Bloomberg has apologized for his previous honesty about crime in New York City. All of these candidates agree: whites are racists, whites must be penitent, whites must make amends. They all have a plan.

Rather than highlight further examples of Democrats trying to outdo each other in trashing Americans as inveterate racists, much less exposing their hypocrisy, why not step back and examine the entire concept of racism. What is it? When is it truly deplorable, and when is it just a rhetorical bludgeon to attract naïve voters?

The reason racism is such a preoccupation for Democrats is so much because it still exists, but because by claiming it is a pervasive threat, they can manipulate voters. The following are common types of racism according to Democrats. Given the creativity of the racial justice warriors, this list is undoubtedly incomplete.

Unconscious Racism: Any negative behavior that is marketed as “unconscious” has to be put into perspective. These actions are either (1) totally innocent remarks and conduct that normal people would brush off without a second thought, (2) gaffes that socially awkward people make out of complete innocence, or (3) remarks and attitudes that are considered rude anyway, don’t require a label, and earn corrective social sanctions without requiring the intervention of intellectual experts and interventionist legislators. Does “unconscious racism” exist? Yes. But is the reality of unconscious racism, along with “microaggressions” (which are “microscopic,” hence, micro-aggression) worth diverting hundreds of millions of dollars to expand departments of “equity, diversity and inclusion” in America’s colleges and universities – and, increasingly, corporate America? No. And it is not racist to say so.

Institutional Racism: There is no debate that institutional racism against blacks and other minorities used to exist in America. But this racism is part of history, not the present. In all its forms, from the “peculiar institution” of slavery, to Jim Crow laws, to redlining, it has been wiped out. The truly institutionalized racism that remains in America is not directed against nonwhites, but against whites. Nowadays, in every American institution from corporations to colleges and universities to government contracting, whites – white men in particular – are the last to be hired, promoted, granted admission, or awarded a contract. In a well-regulated intersectional frenzy, any search for personnel invariably and relentlessly seeks out “people of color,” then women, and last of all, able-bodied, “cis/hetero” white males. Volumes could be written on this travesty (and have), whereby one form of institutional racism has been replaced by another. The idea that institutional racism in America today discriminates against nonwhites is laughable. Calling for this new form of institutional racism which is anti-white (and at times anti-Asian) to be abolished, is not racist.

Racial Profiling: This is a canard disguised as a cause distilled into talking points. The number of police encounters with nonwhites vs whites has to be matched with the number of crimes committed by nonwhites versus whites. And the data is unequivocal. The biggest victims when police are deterred from enforcing the law in nonwhite communities are the law-abiding citizens of those communities. It is true that racist incidents still occur in America between police and nonwhite citizens, sometimes with tragic, fatal results. But there are more than 1 million sworn police officers in America. There are probably over 1 billion police interactions with citizens every year in America. When you have a billion apples in a barrel, a few are going to be rotten. But pointing to a handful of horrific incidents of police racism, many of them based on dubious evidence, is not proof of officially sanctioned police racism. It is not racist to demand law enforcement do their job, “profiling” and all.

Disparate Outcomes/Wealth Inequality: This entire category of “racism” depends on studies, often biased and poorly sourced, that measure various achievements by groups and claim that the achievement gaps are the result of racism. This is a huge leap of logic. Why is it that supposedly white racism has held back black achievement, but has not held back Asian achievement? Why is it that some blacks, notably African immigrants, in some cases outperform whites economically in America? The dirty secret that is getting harder and harder for Democrats to conceal is that it is their own bigotry, in the form of low expectations, welfare, corrupt and mismanaged cities, lax law enforcement, and union-controlled public schools, that has done far more than the legacy of slavery and alleged white racism to deny opportunities to nonwhite communities. Encouraging nonwhites in America to step up, work hard and compete is a sign of respect, not racism.

Environmental Racism: This is one of the more insidious forms of alleged racism because it somehow equates the statistical proximity of America’s polluting infrastructure (what remains of it) to nonwhite neighborhoods as proof of racism. Insidious, because it’s one of the ways Democrats are trying to connect two distinct issues – environmentalism and race. That allows them to amplify both causes, which are already both oversold. We must save the planet, not only because the oceans are rising, but because saving the planet will ameliorate racism. But it’s based on a lie. The real reason for the statistical correlation between nonwhite communities and polluting infrastructure should be obvious. When you destroy the earnings potential of nonwhite communities through the politics of dependency, then they can only afford to purchase or rent inexpensive housing. And those less expensive homes are going to be the ones that happen to be close to polluting infrastructure because there’s less demand for homes near polluting infrastructure.

That’s just basic economics. It has nothing to do with racism.

Racist Voter Suppression: In one of their most brazen inversions of logic, Democrats are selling the idea that if you put in place safeguards to prevent voter fraud, you are conspiring to defraud voters. This is pure chicanery.

While issuing disclaimers every step of the way, Democrats are doing everything in their power to make it easier to commit mass voter fraud, from their flawed voting apps in Iowa to implementation of “motor voter” laws, mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting, automatic registration at age 18, lowering the voting age to 16, and even making it a crime for registered voters not to vote.

Remember John Podesta, late on election night back in 2016, speaking in code to his operatives in the back rooms of precinct houses in Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia? “They’re still counting votes, and every vote should count. Several states are too close to call.” The system wasn’t quite rigged enough back then. But they’re working overtime to fix that. And they have the nerve to claim that requiring a valid form of identification to vote is “racist.” It’s not.

Democrats are the Party Guilty of Racial Abuse

There can be endless debate over whether any of these forms of white racism still exist, and if so, still exist in sufficient measure to require even more laws, regulations, or even reparations. But citing examples of racism, and arguing over how prevalent they are, doesn’t get to the heart of the accusation. “America is a racist society from top to bottom.” These examples allege the how, but what is the why? What is the essence of racism?

To answer, it is first necessary to assert that racism, despite the wails of the Democrats, is not something that is exclusively practiced by whites against nonwhites. Plenty of nonwhite individuals harbor racist attitudes towards whites.

Nor do whites even have to be part of the racist equation. There are ample cases of racially motivated Hispanic antipathy toward blacks, and vise versa. The essence of racism is when anyone, no matter what their ethnicity, harbors automatic negative, prejudicial attitudes towards individuals of a different ethnicity.

This sort of racism barely exists in America today. It would be someone who believes that interracial marriage should be illegal, or who believes that the best person for a job should not be hired if they’re of a certain race. Apart from anti-white racism, which has taken over America’s institutions, that sort of racism is long gone. But there are other forms of racial abuses that are alive and well in America, growing all the time.

This racial abuse isn’t practiced by white Republicans, but by Democrats, backed by corporate socialists and globalist oligarchs. These special interests have to resort to race baiting demagoguery – as exemplified by today’s Democratic presidential primary candidates – because they cannot rely on facts and logic to justify what has become an intolerable political agenda. Their case is cynical but effective – America equals white equals racist. America is racist, therefore America must be “fundamentally transformed.”

The true agenda? Turn national citizens into global commodities.

This racial abuse practiced by Democrats, broadly defined, is the act of destroying an intact nation – borders, language, culture – in order to enhance the power, profit, and privilege of a small elite.

The strategy the Democrats are using to accomplish this, as already noted, is to increase the percentages of nonwhite voters by any means necessary, and convince all of them that Republicans hate them. The American patriots who resist the attempts by Democrats (and useless, phony opposition Republicans like Mitt Romney) to destroy their nation are not racists, they’re the ones insisting the nation be protected from those cynically working to divide and conquer us. And there are plenty of nonwhites among them.

As for America’s nonwhites who Democrats claim to protect, it is towards them that Democrats practice the most unforgivable racial abuse of all. It is obscene racial abuse for Democrats to nurture a victim mentality in the hearts of nonwhite voters, and shower them with preferences and entitlements and giveaways that take away their incentive to achieve. It is patronizing in a manner reminiscent of slavery, and perhaps actually worse, to destroy families with welfare, to destroy work ethics with impossible socialist fantasies, to destroy character with a narrative of bitterness and oppression.

Democratic momentum in America today is fueled by a marriage of convenience between diehard socialists and Communists and corporate globalists. Both of these groups are smart enough to know that their marriage of convenience is headed for an inevitable and very bloody divorce, but they hope that before that happens their alliance will be strong enough to erase America’s core traditions and historical pride. Both view the millions of people who still love American culture as obstacles to their taking complete control of the electorate, and hence the political destiny of the nation.

Before that happens, how many white Democrats may finally decide they’ve had enough of taking part in this abuse? How many nonwhite voters will realize that identity politics is a dead end putting them to work against their own interests? How many will realize the obvious connection between the redistributionist agenda of identity politics and straight-up communism? How many will realize that for nearly a half-century, Democrats have used accusations of “racism” as a way to silence dissent?

Racism has little to do anymore with actual white racism against nonwhites. Of course, a small amount of it still exists in America, as it exists wherever humans encounter others who they consider different from themselves.

But the far more significant racial abuse that threatens to destroy America transcends mere ethnicity, by weaponizing it to attack our way of life, our faith, our culture and traditions, our institutions, everything that has made us a great people and everything we cherish.

An edited version of this article originally appeared on the website American Greatness.

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