By Kevin Grieve | Townhall.com
Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Mea culpa. There is structural and systemic racism in
the United States. The inconvenient truth is that it is perpetrated,
propagated, and perpetuated by the Left. Birthed in the cesspool of radical
Left university departments, demagogic terms like white privilege, whiteness,
or white fragility are part of a poisonous and dangerous ideology that is meant
to divide rather than unite. Critical race theory and racial equality can
be summed up in a single statement: if you are white, you are racist and if you
are a person of color, you are oppressed.
The combination of white guilt plus black victimhood is
especially toxic. Our self-anointed “Uniter-in-Chief” Joe Biden has jumped on
the race hustler bandwagon under the guise of diversity training with his
recent decision to rescind an
executive order from former President Trump that
would have put restrictions on advancing racial equality by limiting diversity
training for federal government employees and its contractors. In other
words, more identity politics. Unfortunately, this isn’t an anomaly for
Democrats. This isn’t a blip on the Democratic arc of history bending
towards justice. Judging people by the color of their skin rather than
the content of their character has a rich history in the Democratic Party.
Democrats have been solely responsible for defending
slavery, starting the Civil War, opposing reconstruction, lynching blacks,
founding the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws and segregation, poll taxes and
literacy tests. The Party voted against the 13th amendment (end slavery),
14th amendment (black citizenship), and 15th amendment (black right to
vote), filibustered the
1960 Civil Rights Act (elimination of poll taxes), and tried to filibuster the
1964 Civil Rights Act for 60 days, the longest filibuster in Senate history.
The Civil War wasn’t North v. South, as highlighted in
the Lincoln-Douglas debates in the northern state of Illinois. It was a
Democrat v. Republican battle. The infamous Dred Scott decision (blacks were
property) in 1857 was a Supreme Court vote of 7 Democrat justices for, and 2
Republican justices against. By 1900, more than 20 black Republicans had served in
Congress. Democrats did not elect a single black congressman until 1935. And
every black senator until 1979 was a Republican. When federal troops withdrew
from the South after reconstruction ended, Democrats’ white supremacy laws
re-emerged with a vengeance enforced by the paramilitary arm of the Democratic
Party, the KKK, which was used to suppress blacks from voting Republican.
Democrats are also the party of abortion. Planned
Parenthood, founded by eugenics racist Margaret Sanger was created to eliminate
the “undesirables” and that continues today where there are more
abortions in NYC of black babies than are born.
Democrat Woodrow Wilson re-segregated many federal
agencies and screened the racist film Birth of a Nation at the White House.
Democrat FDR refused
to invite four-time gold medalist Jessie Owen (a staunch Republican)
to the White House (only invited white athletes) and interned 120,000 Japanese
Americans. Eisenhower re-integrated the military and forced the integration of
schools in Little Rock against the wishes of Democrat governor Orval Faubus.
The racist Democrat LBJ started the welfare state and said “I’ll
have those n#@!rs voting Democrat for the next 200 years,” highlighting the
fact that Democrats care about black votes but not blacks. The welfare state
has decimated the black family with 77
percent of children growing up fatherless. JFK first mentioned
Affirmative Action in 1961 but it was Nixon who passed it in 1971.
Democrat race hustlers Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton
foment black victimhood. The party promotes racial identity politics because of
the abject failure of its policies which continues to hurt black people and
shows its continued contempt for blacks. Opposition to school choice keeps
blacks in failing schools. Politically correct policing has left blacks as
victims to violent crimes. In 2019, 9 unarmed blacks (the number is 19 for
white people) were killed by
police while more than 2,000 blacks were murdered by
other blacks in 2018 and Democrats have had monopoly control of ALL
the cities we hear and see about black plight: Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit...
If Democrats really wanted to help blacks, they would
treat abortion as a tragedy, support school choice, work to end the failed
welfare state, drop the idea of defunding police, promote advancement based on
merit and character not the amount of melanin in your skin, end open borders
which flood the market with cheap labor and steal jobs from black Americans,
end their support of minimum wage laws which lead to higher black unemployment,
and end their social justice mantra which is equality by group not the
individual, anathema to America’s founding principles. I know, wishful
thinking. So, whenever you hear Democrats calling Republicans racists,
just know there is a simple psychological term for this: projection.
