Collective discrimination by race, sex, religion, or any other immutable characteristic is evil. Fortunately, hatred of some groups has been completely stigmatized during my lifetime. Today, nobody dare uses the N word for fear of instant and serious repercussions. People today also better understand the depth of discrimination suffered by blacks prior to the 1960s. We cannot imagine a return to such evil practices. Our government and civil institutions have taken countless measures to avoid this national tragedy again. Ordinary folks have gone to lengths to prove they are inoculated against such hatred: please don’t call me racist; let me demonstrate I am not.
While some preventive measures have been counter-productive (e.g. affirmative action) or unnecessary (e.g critical race theory), this stigmatization is clearly the right step.
I learned racial history first from my father; he grew up in remote part of New England, isolated from racial tensions and he described his shock when finally immersed in racism up close in 1950s Georgia. Now, when I read novels written from those times, it is clear prejudices were commonplace and accepted by many. So much progress has been made since. While I saw lingering prejudices during my own youth in 1970s Virginia (the N word did not have the same stigma then), they gradually faded. After sixty years of integration throughout all aspects of our culture and after accomplishments of so many blacks throughout the last sixty years, it has been impossible for our culture to retain those prejudices. The “first” touted in so many fields over the years are commonplace today. I no longer see the prejudices I encountered during my youth, and I see nothing remotely resembling the disgraceful practices my father encountered. Whatever prejudice and hatred towards blacks still exists, has been driven completely underground.
Unfortunately, hatred and discrimination are never out-of-style. Human nature is undefeated in sinful endeavors. The hatred has simply migrated. Today, there is no stigma for collectivizing whites, males, Christians along with Trump/MAGA supporters (especially if folks belong to one of the first three groups). We have made so much progress on one front only to slip badly on another.
Dr. King envisioned a color blind society. His vision has gradually been adulterated. We began seeking special, not strictly equal, privileges. Throughout the years, companies were extorted for actions remotely racist (appearance matters more than reality in these instances). Today, this attitude is often manifested in outright antipathy for whites; somehow, the further removed from Jim Crowe, the more contemporary whites are blamed for past sins. Dr. King’s original view was inherently just, but today’s interpretation is bizarre.
Leftists fail to acknowledge the negative shift. Perhaps they instinctively believe they are hating the haters, being intolerant of the intolerant. That probably seems just to them. However, if your original characterizations of hatred and intolerance are wrong, you become the very thing you claim to be against.
Experiencing Society
Lady Justice has removed her blindfolds and is clearly influenced by the new tarnished vision of racism:
In 2026, a Louisville jury gave 23-year-old Christopher Thompson a 65 year sentence for robbery, kidnapping, and sexual assault. Judge Tracy Davis reduced his sentence by more than half, in part because the African-American youth: “had experienced this society”. Everyone “experiences society” do they not? This same excuse could be used for anyone miscreant who is young and/or black. Why not reduce everyone’s sentences if this is your logic?
Judge Davis’s point, I suppose, is Mr. Thompson experienced an oppressive white society. She implies privileged whites, oppressive colonizers still, have established a gauntlet for black men.
Still, I will concede, everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps there were others reasons to offer Mr. Thompson clemency:
During his February 2, 2026 sentencing hearing, Thompson erupted in profanity and threats toward Judge Tracy Davis, telling her to “eat my d**k” and repeatedly stating he “didn’t care” about his sentence or victims. Despite his complete lack of remorse and a pending charge for assaulting a corrections officer while in custody, Judge Davis sentenced Thompson to only 30 years in prison. Davis cited his difficult upbringing, lack of mental health treatment, and juvenile criminal record, saying Thompson “fell through the cracks” and deserved a chance at rehabilitation since his brain had not yet fully developed.
In exchange for mercy, Mr. Thompson shows lack of remorse, lack of respect for the judicial process, and unapologetically mocks the judge. Shouldn’t those who “fall through the cracks” and “experience society” show possibility of rehabilitation? How much rehabilitation should we expect when Mr. Thompson returns to society in his early fifties (or possibly forties if he doesn’t serve the entire sentence)?
Judge Davis, who calls herself “Diversity Davis”, treats racism today as if it were sixty years ago. We all wish a level playing field for young black men, but leniency for this miscreant does not benefit any of his peers.
In 2006, media and politicians salivated upon finding the quintessential narrative: a struggling black mom victimized by privileged white men on the Duke University lacrosse team. The legal system pounced. Duke University as well immediately punished the accused players and canceled the team’s season. However, from its inception the story never fit the narrative. Durham police on the very night of incident doubted the witness’s credibility, but it would still take years to unravel the truth. In 2007, the prosecutor was disbarred for his unscrupulous actions and later Duke’s president apologized to the players, acknowledging his own rush to judgment. Finally, eighteen years later, the supposed victim admitted it was always a hoax. can-we-all-get-along
Michael Brown’s death in 2014 led to the creation of BLM (Black Lives Matter) and the famous line: “Hands up. Don’t shoot” echoed by pro football teams, politicians, and media for the next year. This was supposedly a demonstration of a white police officer targeting another innocent black man. Yet again, there were doubts initially; several eyewitnesses said Mr. Brown violently assaulted the officer, an action contributing to his death, but that alternative narrative could not be heard among the reverberating echoes of racism.
One-hundred FBI officers traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to investigate this national outrage. It was investigated multiple times the next eighteen months, the last time by the Obama Administration. The officer was cleared in every instance. The final DOJ report did not support the “Hands up. Don’t shoot” narrative that had outraged America. https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2015/03/ferguson_police_officer_cleared_michael_brown_killing_darren_wilson_eric_holder.html
Nor were there reliable witness accounts to establish that Brown had his hands up in surrender when he was shot, Justice Department lawyers said.
More Weak Narratives
The stories of Tyree Nichols and Freddie Gray, two more black men supposedly victimized by white supremacy were also stretched to fit the narrative everything-is-white-supremacy-even-when-it-is-not. Columnist Jamele Hill wrote in Atlantic Magazine:
“I need so many people to understand this regarding Tyre Nichols. Several of the police officers who murdered Freddie Gray were Black. The entire system of policing is based on white supremacist violence. We see people under the boot of oppression carry its water all the time.”
How interesting policing can be deemed white supremacist even when the officers are not white. U.S. Representative Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y echoed this thought:
“If you think the Memphis police officers had to be white in order to exhibit anti-Blackness, you need to take that AP African American Studies course Ron DeSantis just banned.”
By the way, another lie–African American studies were banned–is thrown in.
U.S. Representative Cori Bush also claimed white supremacy is practiced by non-whites:
And let’s be clear: merely diversifying police forces will never address the violent, racist architecture that underpins our entire criminal legal system. The mere presence of Black officers does not stop policing from being a tool of white supremacy.
One-channel media publicly tried officer Derek Chauvin regarding George Floyd’s death, but offered no proof the encounter was racist (it was also not alleged during the criminal trial). Racism was supposed to be evident by the races of the individuals. Yet, in the Gray and Nichols cases even the officers races doesn’t matter. Is there any standard of proof whatsoever? If it feels like racism, it must be racist?
The many weak examples highlighted leads to the conclusion that the demand for racism in America dramatically outpaces the supply of actual racism. The narrative periodically needs these stories to sustain itself. If racism towards blacks were systemic, could we not highlight better examples?
These days we also have “environmental racism”. Apparently, hurricanes and climate change are racist. The New England Journal of Medicine recently made such claims regarding Jackson, Mississippi’s water safety:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2212978
Jackson’s water crisis has been a “slow-moving disaster,” a result of decades of anti-Blackness, environmental racism, and historical inaction.
Jackson is governed by people who look like 81% of city residents. How come we are still talking about white racism in Jackson?
Thirty years ago, Denny’s restaurant was fined $54 million because black patrons received poor service. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-25-mn-61982-story.html
The Maryland lawsuit was filed by six U.S. Secret Service officers who stopped at a Denny’s in Annapolis in May, 1993, amid preparations for a speech by President Clinton at the U.S. Naval Academy. The black agents said that they sat for nearly an hour without being served, even as they watched white colleagues served several times. Their lawsuit was expanded to include claimants in 48 other states.
I too have suffered bad restaurant service. Who hasn’t? I have suffered far worse indignities and not cashed in. Why sue for millions for this pedestrian incident? Should folks even cash in on racism? That makes their motivation suspect. Should we instead push to institute Dr. King’s vision of a color-blind society?
Perhaps Denny’s acted prejudicially or perhaps we should consider explanations other than racism. My liberal friend says I deny the obvious: “What do you think racism looks like? . . . I doubt you would know it if it came up to you and tapped you on your shoulder. You also don’t want to see it.”
I recognize racism is a bad thing. I recognize media highlights unproven marginal or completely suspect examples. I recognize media pounces when there is the slightest possibility of racism, however remote, always interpreting actions in a special light with special racist glasses, generally excusing actions from favored people while pouncing immediately and ruthlessly on President Trump for any action which can be twisted to fit the narrative. I recognize many fabrications flood one-channel media. I recognize the lack of condemnation for any of these shameful actions.
Racism is racism is bad, whether directed against white, blacks, or others. If all instances were equally castigated, I would not have reason to complain.
Unite the Oppressed
There is political advantage in continually re-iterating racism has not abated for sixty years. Sure, racists no longer openly display their hatred by burning crosses on lawns, but my liberal friends say they are now more crafty and subtle (are strident cross burners truly capable of subtlety?).
In any case, this legislator’s racism is hardly subtle.
Speaking on Define American podcast, Gene Wu, Texas House minority leader, said minorities must unite against “the same oppressor” to “take over this country” and “make things fairer.” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/02/08/rep_gene_wu_latinos_african-americans_asians_are_the_majority_now_we_can_take_over_this_country.html
“The scary thing for me is that what is driving this newest round of anti-immigrant sentiment is purely a sense of White nationalism,” Wu started off saying. “That there is a sense of, ‘America really just belongs to White people,’ that this was that a lot of people believe that God gave America to White people to rule, and that any time that immigrants, minorities make progress in this country, that that is seen as a slight against them,” he continued.
I am not a colonist nor an oppressor. I never thought America belongs to whites. I have never heard these sentiments from conservative media or anyone I know. Rep Wu’s characterizations are hateful. He portrays whites as victimizers to unite “the oppressed” (i.e. all nonwhites) behind his party.
Senator Ted Cruz aptly summarized this comment: “The Democrat party is built on bigotry.”
Senator Chuck Schumer delivered a similar message, labeling the 2026 SAVE Act: “Jim Crowe 2.0”. This bill has no complex language or misdirection, but simply requires voters to prove citizenship. Even friendly media (MS Now) challenged his interpretation: https://www.foxnews.com/media/chuck-schumer-under-fire-after-brazenly-calling-voter-id-jim-crow-2-0
“Proponents of it say that it’s — you know, to have ID you have to prove U.S. citizenship to be able to vote, though some of the claims they make, to be clear, are overstated. We know there’s not widespread election fraud. But polling does suggest — there’s a new Pew Research poll — that 95% of Republicans, but also 71% of Democrats, like this idea,” Lemire added. “So, why do you not?
He says anything his party opposes is tantamount to racism. Despite the pushback, he has effectively reached his base with this message.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett says fat, dumb, and happy white people know nothing about the hardships of life (she herself grew up middle class attending private schools throughout her youth):
“There has been no oppression for the White man in this country. You tell me which White men were dragged out of their homes. You tell me which one of them got dragged all the way across an ocean and told that ‘You are going to go to work. We are going to steal your wives. We are going to rape your wives.’ That didn’t happen. That is oppression,”
Irish, Italians, Jews, and other ethnicities were openly discriminated against in the 20th century. Per Rep. Crockett, however, only black people understand discrimination.
Boston mayor, Michelle Wu, promoted an “Elected of Color” party.
“There are many, many events that are private events for all different sorts of groups, and so we’ve clarified that and look forward to seeing everyone at one of the other dozens of opportunities to celebrate the holidays together,” Wu said.
It is now acceptable to exclude an entire racial group from events? Perhaps, if it garners more votes.
U.S. Representative Charles Barron bragged about excluding whites, not just from an event, but from his entire district. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/flashback-when-a-black-lawmaker-bragged-about-getting-rid-of-whites-in-his-district/ar-AA1WnYWE
I have the distinct honor to be able to come before you and say I actually lost white population in my community.
Per the article, folks in the room: “thought that was commendable as the event’s discussion centered around so-call gentrification — a term used by black racial identitarians to bemoan the free movement of whites specifically to black areas.
“They left. They left,” Barron said irreverently. “I didn’t ask them why. They left.”
He added, “So, if you see one or two or three or four or five whites in my neighborhood, they’re passing through.”
I am glad my representative doesn’t openly mock those who “looks like me”. Change this representative’s words from “white” to “black” and gauge the response.
Pure Antipathy
The rhetoric only gets worse.
Dr Donald Moss teaches psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. on having whiteness by Donald Moss – Bing
Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.
We are parasites? Really?
Nicole Hannah-Jones, New York Times journalist who gained prominence with her “1619 project” (endorsed by Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey and more) called white people “barbaric devils”:
“The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.” Not only were the white people in America’s past “barbaric devils,” but the “descendants of these savage people” continue to harm “the Black community” to this day. Non-white peoples, by contrast, were uniformly portrayed as both virtuous and victimized.
All of us are evil? Can this be true?
In the movie “Am I Racist?” Dr. Sara Tekola succinctly sums up the white problem: “I believe we need to abolish whiteness”.
What!? How do I process that?
In a minute-and-a-half interview, Dr. Tekola dismantles whiteness altogether. When asked: “What is the problem with white people?” Tekola compares whites to Nazi doctors. According to her, both rationalized the awful actions of their own kind while absolving themselves of any wrongdoing.
We certainly have injustices in America still, but are they exclusively white problems?
Dr. Tekola’s interview ends with: “The only thing about white culture is buying things and stealing things.”
There is nothing good about white people? Who exactly is the racist here?
Dr. Tekola first surfaced as a college student who confronted two white students for invading her school’s multi-cultural center while brandishing the obviously evil slogan: “Police Lives Matter”. https://youtu.be/-BYB_w_B0mQ
Nick Canon, a former American Idol host, summarizes the race problem uniquely:
“Our melanin is so power[ful] and it connects us in a way that the reason why [White people] fear us is because of the lack that they have of it,” Nick explains. “When you have a person that has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin, they know that they will be annihilated. So, therefore, however they got the power, they have the lack of compassion. Melanin comes with compassion, melanin comes with soul.”
We drift further away from the vision of a color-blind society.
Solutions?
Dr. Vanita Gupta who served in the Department of Justice affirmed the following during congressional testimony:
- every American suffers from unconscious bias
- every institution suffers from institutional racism
She was asked to defend these comments when nominated by President Biden for another position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuRV49dhHyo.
Ms. Gupta seems nice and sincere; however, during this five minute exchange she was unable to present any examples of how she herself, an expert in the field, suffers from unconscious bias. Nor could she list any racist practices of institutions in the administration she sought to join.
She not only has no solutions, but she cannot adequately define the problem. Her testimony demonstrates claims of racism are not as broad as we are led to believe; instead, they are a convenience to accuse others for political advantage.
Dr. Ibrahim Kendi, another racial expert who served as Director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, says:
‘The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.’ Dr. Ibrahim X Kendi,
His solution to racism is more racism. What!?
Diversity is another supposedly can’t miss solution to discrimination. However, in practice, diversity has meant excluding less favored groups to achieve parity (equal outcomes should not be the goal!). Higher education institutions routinely set barriers for Asian students to keep their numbers proportional. harvards-gatekeeper-reveals-sat-cutoff-scores-based-on-race
Harvard sends recruitment letters to African-American, Native American and Hispanic high schoolers with mid-range SAT scores, around 1100 on math and verbal combined out of a possible 1600, CNN reported.
Asian-Americans only receive a recruitment letter if they score at least 250 points higher — 1350 for women, and 1380 for men.
In 2021, Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill to protect Asians against such discrimination. It failed with every single Democrat voting against it. https://www.congress.gov/amendment/117th-congress/senate-amendment/1456.
Are we opposed to injustice or not? America cannot have a color blind meritocracy when we demand equal results instead of equal opportunities. We should focus on injustices no matter the group.
A University of Minnesota professor’s solution is to: “decolonize” and “dismantle the United States”. Forget the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, along with the progressive change in attitudes the last sixty years. Start over with folks like nit-wit leading us. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-professor-calls-decolonize-dismantle-us-go-hard-possible
How can I decide from among so many wonderful solutions?
But, wait. There is one more.
My liberal friends respond to my examples by re-directing to President Trump. They say he is the true racist, leading followers into more racism, and brainwashing them to ignore real problems. My examples are dismissed as “one off examples or quotes from marginal people”. Yet, there are countless more quotes to choose from, and the folks are not marginal; they have power. I am told to focus on the real problem, instead (I thought I was). Their simple (and facile) solution is, of course, to remove Trump.
My liberal friends and I have a long way to go bridge the gap.
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