As President Obama prepares to make his merciful exit from office
writes
Benny Huang incredulously over at the Constitution website,
he’s taken time to tell a Chicago reporter that race relations have improved on his watch.
He spoke these words in the same city where four young blacks recently kidnapped and tortured
a mentally retarded white man while shouting “F**k white people!” and
“F**k Donald Trump!” as they livestreamed the whole thing on Facebook.
And he did all of this with a straight face.
“The good news is that the next generation that’s coming behind
us…have smarter, better, more thoughtful attitudes about race,” said the
failed president. What he means by this is that an entire multiracial
generation of Americans has been raised on lessons about white privilege
and minority victimhood. They’ve internalized this ideology so
completely that they simply can’t interact with people who don’t share
it.
Barack Obama’s historic presidency was supposed to unite us. I don’t
think his “failure” to do so is an accident. He spent eight years
agitating just like his hero Saul Alinsky and his mentor Frank Marshall
Davis did. The results were predictable—anger, chaos, and violence. Cops
have been murdered, neighborhoods have been torched, and innocent
people have had their lives ruined. Before Barack Obama came along we
were making progress in this country toward demoting race to a nonissue.
Now it’s the issue, the all-consuming concern that supersedes all others. Race is everything and everything is racial.
It’s killing our nation.
President Obama’s remarks remind me of a creeping feeling I’ve had of
late that I write entirely too many columns about race. It wasn’t
always this way. Back when I was in college I made a name for myself on
the staff of the student newspaper as a rabid “anti-choice” activist
because I wrote regularly about our on-going baby holocaust. These days I
rarely address the subject and I feel a little guilty about it. Planned
Parenthood is still running its Murder, Inc., so why aren’t I writing
more about it?
The answer is that I, like too many other conservatives, play defense. I respond
to what’s happening in the political realm. In my college years I wrote
so much about the evils of the abortion industry because race was not
nearly as important as it is now. These days, with so much emphasis on
race, I feel compelled to respond to the all the idiocy that people
spout about “white privilege” and our poor, maligned president who just
can’t catch a break because no black man can in this horrible, racist
country. I want to point out that white-on-black crime is exceedingly
rare, that no one cares when cops shoot white people, and that the
Department of Justice does not dispense equal justice under the law but
instead prefers blacks above all others.
And yet here I am writing another column about race. It’s very
difficult to write about anything else when every issue has been
racialized. Race and racism are inescapable.
There isn’t a word, thought, deed, symbol, piece of legislation, or
news item that cannot be imbued with a racial angle when there’s a
determined race hustler around.
Gun control? You betcha. Michael Moore, producer of the anti-second
amendment “Bowling for Columbine,” racialized that issue in 2012. Said
Moore:
“We’ve got over a quarter-billion guns in people’s homes. And
they’re mostly in the suburbs and rural areas where there is virtually
no crime and no murder. So why is that? What are they really afraid of?
What do they think of — who’s going to break into the house? Do they
think it’s little freckled-face Jimmy down the street? I don’t think so.
I don’t think that’s who they’re afraid of. And it cuts down to the
heart of our race problem that we still haven’t resolved.”
Moore’s argument is self-defeating. For starters, he’s essentially
admitting the validity of the “more guns less crime” argument advanced
by John Lott in his book by the same name. Furthermore, does it make any
sense to believe that people who live far away from blacks are really
afraid that blacks are going to break into their homes? No, those are
the worries of urban dwellers, many of whom favor gun control because
they don’t want blacks to have them. No matter, Michael Moore has
declared the exercise of our right under the US Constitution to be a
form of racist neuroticism. End of discussion.
The issue of illegal immigration (often called just “immigration”)
has become so intertwined with race that it’s hard to believe that
anyone ever saw it through any other lens. I recall being a soldier
stationed in Germany in 2002 when I met a Bulgarian girl who flippantly
mentioned that her best friend from Bulgaria was living as an illegal
alien in Chicago. (Bulgarians are white Eastern Europeans, by the way.) I
was shocked. At the time I didn’t consider any racial dimension to the
illegal immigration issue. I didn’t care then, just as I don’t care now,
what color the illegal immigrants are. They should come in the right
way or not at all. It’s not a racial issue, it’s a rule of law issue.
But there I go again using those racial dog whistles. My “law and
order” rhetoric is racist according to National Public Radio. During the
2016 campaign NPR ran an outlandish piece
entitled “Is Trump’s Call For ‘Law and Order’ a Coded Racial Message?”
Apparently only a racist could want that. Non-racists prefer lawlessness
and disorder—which happens to be what Barack Obama has wrought.
Just when I thought that the constant racialization of everything couldn’t get any worse, it did.
Even I was taken aback when New York City legalized (or “decriminalized”) public urination because those kind of laws are raaaaaaacist!
“We know that the system has been really rigged against communities
of color in particular,” city council member Melissa Mark-Viverito, a
Democrat, told the New York Times. “So the question has always been,
what can we do in this job to minimize unnecessary interaction with the
criminal justice system, so that these young people can really fulfill
their potential?”
My guess is that minorities are disproportionately punished for
public urination because they disproportionately offend just as they
disproportionately violate most other laws—except Asians of course, but I
guess the system isn’t “rigged” against yellow people.
We’re living in a racial bonfire and our public officials just keep
pouring gasoline on it. Speaking in defense of the Black Lives Matter
movement, President Obama bemoaned the problem
of the unfair treatment blacks receive at the hands of police. “The
African-American community is not just making this up…It’s real.” Well
yes they are making it up and Obama should acknowledge this if he wants
to be called a leader. They made up the Ferguson narrative which was a
complete fabrication. They tried to railroad the cops in Baltimore
before the prosecution disintegrated in court. They made up a ridiculous
story about a supposed unarmed black man in Charlotte, Keith Scott,
reading a book in his car before being besieged by racist cops. The
officer who shot him, by the way, was black. He also wasn’t charged with anything because he did nothing wrong.
… But that’s what scummy race-baiters like Eric Holder do. They tell
lies to agitate, to divide, to make this group of people resentful and
that group of people defensive. There’s no excuse for it. Let’s hope
that this kind of poison politics goes out with Obama.
