Wokeism is Doomed

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David Barrett CEO of Expensify.Com thinks White people
are worth $0.75 to the $1.00 that all other people are worth, and
promulgates both that and performs illegal racially biased hiring
practices beyond the pool... that's definition of a systemic racist.


The Myth Of Systemic Racism

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/the_myth_of_systemic_racism.html
Authored by Ed Brodow via AmericanThinker.com,

An isolated incidence of police brutality in Minneapolis gave the left
an excuse to scream about systemic racism.  The death of George Floyd
at the hands of Minneapolis police was a tragedy, but it cannot prove
the existence of institutionalized racist activity.

The Floyd incident raises two critical questions: (1) Is America
plagued with systemic racism that justifies the dismantling of our
social and political institutions?  (2) Do racist police and justice
systems deliberately discriminate against black Americans?

Systemic racism no longer exists in the United States.  Individual
instances of racism are occurring and always will occur — against both
blacks and whites — but to argue that racism is institutionalized
ignores the changes that have occurred in the last 60 years.  "America
is now the least racist white-majority society in the world," said
black Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson.

    "The false charge of systemic racism," said author David Horowitz,
"is a convenient cover for the Left's inability to identify actual
racists directly responsible for inequalities in American life.  It is
unable to do so because America's culture is so egalitarian and
anti-racist that the numbers of actual racists are so few, and their
impact so inconsequential, that they don't amount to a national
problem."

Systemic racism is a myth invented by the left to create division and
political chaos.

When people say America is plagued by systemic racism, says black
author Shelby Steele, they are simply expanding the territory of
entitlement.  Black Americans are accorded special privileges in every
nook and cranny of our society.  We elected a black president — twice.

    "Blacks have never been less oppressed than they are today," says Steele.

     "If you are black and want to be a poet, or a doctor, or a
corporate executive, or a movie star, there will surely be barriers to
overcome, but white racism will be among the least of them.  You will
be far more likely to receive racial preferences than to suffer racial
discrimination."

The term "systemic racism" has "no meaning," said black economist
Thomas Sowell.  "It's one of many words that I don't think even the
people who use it have any clear idea what they are saying.  Their
purpose served is to have other people cave in."

    "I don't know what systemic racism is," said black civil rights
activist Bob Woodson.

     "After 50 years of liberal Democrats running the inner cities,
where we have all these inequities, race is being used as a ruse, as a
means of deflecting attention away from critical questions such as,
why are poor blacks failing in systems run by their own people?"

To be truthful about the causes of social disruption in the U.S., we
must point a finger not at white America, but rather at the black
community.  What we are experiencing is not systemic racism from
whites. It is systemic violence, mostly from black people, who "commit
murder eight times more per capita than any other group," in the words
of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.  The leftist canard that
racist police and the justice system deliberately discriminate against
black Americans is a lie.

In spite of a continuing history of violence, blacks are not being
held responsible for their behavior.  Black men make up six percent of
the U.S. population but account for a majority of all violent crime,
said Heather Mac Donald in The War on Cops.  Ignoring the obvious
connection between black criminality and black incarceration, the left
continues to blame the police.

     "Numerical disparities result from differences of offending,"
said black talk show host Larry Elder, "not because of racism."

Blacks lag behind other groups in economic success, safe
neighborhoods, and family cohesiveness.  Addressing the question of
who or what is responsible, Heather Mac Donald contends that blacks
must be held responsible for their own negative behaviors.  The notion
that blacks are victims of a racist society may have been true prior
to the 1960s, she says, but this is a half-century after the civil
rights movement.

    "When Americans are viewed as individuals responsible for their
decisions," says David Horowitz, "it is apparent that disparities in
income, education, and even susceptibility to diseases flow
principally from poor choices made by individuals who fail to take
advantage of the opportunities available to them in a country where
discrimination by race or gender is illegal."

America has come a long way from my childhood on the issue of race.  I
remember the separate drinking fountains labeled "white" and
"colored."  That is unthinkable today.  White bullies are no longer
running around oppressing everyone else.  White institutional racism
is an anachronism.