By Peter Burrows 6/12/20 elburropete@gmail.com - silvercityburro.com
The charge that America is systemically racist is, unfortunately, all too true. I know some of you are thinking, "But Burro, whenever someone who says that is asked to prove it, they can't."
You're right, they can't. No mathematical analysis of racial disparities shows that there is any meaningful racism in America, but those analyses are looking at what racism used to be. The old racism was the majority discriminating against minorities. That's dead. The new racism is the majority discriminating FOR minorities. In addition, and this is a biggie, the new racism has the majority discriminating against ITSELF.
Some of you are thinking, "Burro is off his rocker again," but how else can you explain white people buying into the absurd charge that they have benefited from 'white privilege?' Jordan Peterson, the Candian psychologist, demolishes this argument on You Tube by noting that what is called white privilege is simply majority privilege and has nothing to do with racism. Would white people enjoy white privilege in China? Japan? Zimbabwe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEESNpAu1EU&t=15s
He points out that skin color is not nearly as important as things like intelligence, personality, education, family, character, talent, etc. If you think white privilege trumps all that, then you will believe the following story:
When I was about 12, I discovered Louis Armstrong. My parents bought me a used trumpet and I began practicing. When Louis appeared at a nightclub in nearby Chicago, my parents drove me and my trumpet over to hear him. I wanted to sit in, and Louis made a big mistake by saying, "Sure, kid. Let's hear what 'ya got."
Well, I proceeded to blow poor old Louis off the stand. He was begging me, "Stop white boy, stop! I can't compete against white privilege!" And then there was the time I got in the ring with Ali, and the time I auditioned on SNL against Eddie Murphy and --- you get the point.
Racism, racism, racism. That's all we hear today from the Left side of our political spectrum. The Democratic Party is obsessed with race, defining almost every issue terms of race. For example, I just read that nuclear generated electricity and radioactive waste have a "violent legacy of environmental racism and injustice against indigenous people." This from a leftist group that opposes nuclear power.
This is an example of what I define as systemic racism, and the only place I see it is the left wing of American politics, especially the Democrat Party, not anywhere else. I don't see it in groups like the KKK because the KKK isn't in charge of anything. Democrats and their leftist allies are in charge of the schools, the old media, the social media, the environmentalists, Hollywood, and most of the religious groups in America. It's through those institutions the left spreads its racist lies.
Ironically, the Democratic Party is openly racist in their support for quotas, minimum wage laws, and denying school choice to parents. (See, "Take the 'Who's a racist' quiz," silvercityburro.com, 12/19/2019.) They get away with this because white Republicans are too intimidated to make race an issue even when the facts are on their side.
Black Republicans are another matter, but they lack both credibility and numbers. Black Democrats, however, if they start to see through the BS, could become the catalyst for both the destruction of the Democrat Party and the salvation of America, which are NOT mutually exclusive goals. Whites can help, but far too many whites are blinded by 'white guilt.'
Have you seen those videos of white girls on their knees begging forgiveness for their white privilege? I'm surprised we haven't seen the little dears performing fellacio on the black punks to prove they aren't racists. Those black punks must be laughing their asses off at these stupid white liberals, but the blacks who aren't punks, and that's the great majority, are not laughing as they watch their neighborhoods being destroyed.
In the past, such destruction might have had a glimmer of justification as racial protests, but in today's mayhem there are white punks joining in the fun destroying black neighborhoods, and that may be a bridge too far. When Black Lives Matter teams up with Antifa and this has the approval of Democrat mayors, both black and white, some of the good black people of America are starting to realize they've been had.
I hope it's not too late. Harry Stein, a liberal turned conservative, dedicated a book he wrote thusly: "To black conservatives everywhere, shock troops in the battle for America's soul."
Amen, brother.