I cannot say there is no racism in America – because there is.
Tons of it, manufactured fresh every day.
As a matter of fact, under the Biden administration, and with their sanction and imprimatur, racism has become national policy.
No doubt everyone remembers the old half glass of water idiom, the one where the pessimist observes the glass as half empty and the optimist sees it as half full. You know the thing. It seems all too obvious this idiom now applies to current issues and situations where racial identification is a component (or can be made one through twisted logic) - and we have arrived at such a point of severe intellectual, political, and social polarization, the “glass half empty/half full” idiomatic dichotomy is now applied to everything, all the time.
It has now become canon law in leftist theology that if a black person and white person are equally impacted by some issue, action, or policy, the black person is a victim of racism and the white person is advantaged by white privilege. Given this perspective, it is entirely unsurprising that the American left redefines equality as racist.
Enter the concept of “equity” from stage left. If you accept that an equal division of water in the glass is racist, the political left believes the only solution is to fill the glass more to the advantage of the black person, leaving less for the white person. That is the basic theory behind reparations for slavery, an institution dead for a century and a half, and the developing inequality under law. One societal group must pay another for some historical inequity, and in this irrational scenario, the group divisions are to be solely based on race. It does not matter that neither the payee nor payor has any ancestral connection to the inequity, their status as plaintiff or defendant is to be determined simply by their skin color.
In a saner time, the concept of assigning guilt or innocence based on skin color would be recognized as the textbook definition of racism.
But these are not sane times.
If the proposition that all white people are irredeemably racist, which seems to be the consensus of the avatars of American left, the Democrat Party, then all whites are racist, regardless of political belief. Of course, powerful white Democrats, while excusing themselves (“We are the good whites”, they say) and claiming to be colorblind as they accuse other whites of being “white supremacists”, is the pinnacle of rank hypocrisy – but even hypocrisy has a purpose.
Knowingly, maliciously, and falsely accusing innocents of the crime of racism, to maliciously speak untruths to the injury and detriment of another, is calumny.
Once again, the Party of Slavery, the Democrat Party, is using black people to achieve their most desired goals. This time, rather than picking cotton, the primary goals are the achievement and retention of power. That is the truth of our times - none of this calumny is about racial equality or equity, it is about power – the power to rule and the power to punish the opposition.
In 1689, John Locke wrote: “Where-ever Law ends, tyranny begins.”
In the tumultuous times of the late 1600’s and early 1700’s, the concept of equality of all citizens under the law was a unique and revolutionary concept. The idea that that even rulers and their magistrates were also under the "sovereignty of the law" was a tectonic shift, so much so, it became the linchpin of the modern notion of the rule of law in a democratic state.
By any definition, it certainly seems the rule of law is ending. With the end of law comes arbitrary and capricious creation, meaning, and application of laws…and as Locke noted – tyranny. Social, economic, and legal instability will result, creating an unsettled populace governed by mob rule, a society dominated by the Various Angry Aggrieved Groups that are less interested in achieving their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment or social cohesion than they are in reward or reparation via terror and retribution. None of this is about “fairness”, it is all about payback.
Such is the guaranteed death spiral that plays directly into the hands of the American left – it supports their thesis that the more chaos created, the more government control is needed. This all too predictable process is as close to a perpetual motion machine as we will ever experience.
It seems self-evident that the Democrat Party is willing to destroy they very foundations of America to achieve power and believes they will deliver the death blow, the coup de grâce, with the righteous sword of “racism”.
Racism is their Excalibur.
While this is real life and not a Monty Python movie, something still holds true.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony and you cannot expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!