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Let’s see, what else? In the pursuit of “equity,” we either decriminalized actions that were heretofore clearly criminal or elected not to prosecute them- not just robbery and property crimes, but crimes of violence as well. It was decided that bail is a privilege afforded white lawbreakers, so “equity” was advanced by simply releasing criminals, who are disproportionately black, and especially young black males. Just recently a person in this demographic, Quintez Brown, a BLM activist (and, ironically, an anti-gun zealot), shot at a political candidate in Kentucky. The violence of that crime was actually enough that he was held for bail, but elite caste’s friends at BLM came up with the money to get him released. Cities where these “equity” practices have been put in place have experienced large increases in property, as well as violent, crimes, and of course the victims are disproportionately non-white people.

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BLM has not just left violence and death in the wake of their demands for “social justice,” but a bit of sardonic humor. In the name of some bizarre quest for “racial justice,” over 100 volunteers at a Chicago art museum were summarily discharged due to the preponderance of  “whiteness” among them. This followed the recommendation of “consultants” from the race/diversity industry as a way to achieve racial equity, or something. Of course, the white CEO and Chairman of the Board retained their positions and privilege, which is usually part of the deal: use less powerful people to appease the angry and rarefied racialist caste while maintaining white privilege for themselves.

How about this for amusing: avowed socialist and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors purchased four high-end homes for $3.2 million. Now she has real estate equity with the woke affluent of America; clear evicence that demanding “justice” can be profitable. Speaking of real estate, in Minnesota several realtor organizations have decreed the term “master bedroom” to be offensive and not “inclusive” and have banned its use.  Fortunately, in neighboring Wisconsin a large boulder was excavated from a college campus because 100 years ago someone referred to it using a racist epithet.

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Thanks to the elite at BLM and their privileged supporters, we’ve learned that statues of Abraham Lincoln and Robert Gould Shaw are racist and must be vandalized or removed. Other things declared to be racist include arithmetic, music theory, and traditional families, the kind with mothers and fathers. The racialist elite and their wealthy sycophants have declared that, like the Christian concept of original sin, simply being white carries the stain of racism (though ironically original sin is actually inclusive of all people). Indeed, America from it’s founding to the present is to be reviled as inherently racist and we should all be ashamed, and of course keep shoveling money to the Patrisse Cullors of the world.

America is unique in world history not because it allowed slavery- pretty much every nation, society, culture throughout the globe and throughout time allowed it- but because it tore itself apart to be rid of slavery. Once free of the abomination, America could finally set itself on the path of realizing its founding principles. There is no question that for too long truly vile racists held political and cultural power, but in my lifetime (born in the late 1950s) they went from a malevolent force able to impose their hatred- and loathing of American values of equality under the law and of opportunity- to pariahs. Finally people could be judged not on the color of their skin but the content of their character. Indeed, the “white supremacist” today is fully marginalized and properly viewed as a malevolent loser.

Yet, almost as filling a vacuum, there seems to be among some a compulsion for racism: that inferior people must exist so as to permit others to feel superior. This is a gentler and kinder type of racism, a paternalistic version where the liberal white elite regards black people as hapless, helpless, and dependent, and need the guidance and beneficence of the privileged white class to make it in the world. In their view, for example, black people are incapable of obeying the law so laws must be diminished or rescinded to accommodate their innate criminal nature. Black people must be told that they should feel perpetually outraged, and are offered an ever-growing list of things, ideas, and words that should outrage them. Black people are told that they can’t compete with others in education, so standards must be lowered and tailored to allow for their intellectual failings. They are told they are incapable of going through the simple process of obtaining an ID, and that to require such a document, especially for voting, is racist. Perhaps most of all, black people are inculcated with the belief that they cannot think conceptually and abstractly, and are therefore unable to put historical and ordinary life events in any context.

There are many similarities between modern paternalistic racism and a certain class of slave owners of long ago, those that didn’t view their slaves as sub-human animals, per se, but rather as mischievous children who needed to be treated with kindness and patient indulgence, kind of like a family pet, as long as they understood their subservient place in society. I cannot imagine the insulated world of the leftist elites, and their belief in the stereotype that black people are by nature feckless and incompetent; this goes directly against my personal experience, which includes the military and many years living and doing volunteer charity work among impoverished “people of color” in Central America and Africa. “White privilege” apparently involves subtle, and sometimes overt, degradation of black people, all while chanting “diversity, equity, inclusion.” It’s truly a scam and a shame.

A reasonable and prudent person should not be surprised that BLM has proven itself not to have the benevolent and noble goal of opposing racism, but rather a “movement” steeped in corruption and greed that feeds on division and racism, real, or most commonly, fabricated. The consequences of the demands of BLM- chaos, destruction, and too often violence and death among black people and communities- is, paradoxically, fully consistent with the objectives of theoretical “white supremacists.” In a country and culture influenced by actual rational and compassionate people it would be reasonable to expect elected officials, CEO’s of massive corporations, academics, etc to acknowledge they have been seduced into abandoning traditional liberal values for a cultural fad, and disassociate from BLM and all the pernicious “diversity, equity, and inclusion” nonsense. But greed and vanity are powerful influences, and in the world of elite white privilege being part of the radical chic is too socially, psychologically, and financially rewarding: what do 1,000’s of black lives lost to violence matter when your country club existence is filled with kudos from your fellow elites. That’s what really matters.