Racism

The ideal of America was for people to be united under the principle of individual rights.

On Martin Luther King Day–and every day–we should focus on the antidote to racism and alternative to racial thinking: individualism.

The truth is that, aside from the plantation owners (a tiny minority), the white population of the South was hurt by slavery—kept poor by it—rather than enriched.

Are you a racist? All white people are, says “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo. Race explains everything, says bestselling “How to Be an Antiracist” author Ibram X. Kendi. “Every policy is either racist or anti-racist.”

It’s as if America is moving toward “1984,” George Orwell’s novel, in which government controls people’s thoughts by creating a new language, Newspeak.

The Leftist feeding frenzy regarding white supremacy is a chimera.

Moral responsibility is individual, not collective. It is volitional, not deterministic. Moral responsibility is based on an individual’s choices, not on one’s racial membership.

Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race.

“Facts don’t stop being facts if you are Black — and you are wrong.”

It is important to recognize that people are not prisoners of their subconscious and have the power to re-program it by correcting false ideas, including racism, through reason.

If as it has now become acceptable to call oneself a woman, when one has the anatomical equipment of a male, then why isn’t it okay to claim that one is black, Latino or Asian when one is really Caucasian?

“It’s time to stop telling black Americans what we’re allowed to believe.”

What explains the fact that over 80% of professional basketball players are black, as are about 70% of professional football players?

what justifies diversity? Nothing but unsupported assertions, repeated endlessly, piously and loudly.

Institutional or systemic racism is enshrined by many of America’s institutions of higher learning, including Harvard and Yale.

Both white supremacists and anti-racists believe “race is an immutable attribute of who we are.”

In recent times, there is an average of 9,252 black-on-black murders every year. Over the past 35 years, that translates into nearly 324,000 blacks murdered at the hands of other blacks. Only a tiny percentage of blacks are killed by police.

If the ideology and policies of “systemic racism,” identity politics, and cancel culture win out in the arena of American politics and cultural acceptance, it will be the end of America.

There is a crisis within the Black community that one cannot pin on racism.

Random Thoughts While Not Out ‘Protesting’

How cultural Marxists coopted the phrase “black lives matter” to instigate protests and riots to push a racist, anti-capitalist narrative to gain political power, while making Americans of all colors worse off.

Only in a society where individual rights are recognized and the government’s sole role is to protect them, will racism be eradicated.

The recent murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis was ghastly and reminds us of the hideous racial injustice directed against black Americans in the nation’s past.

The true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called “systemic racism.” Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.