The Race Lady, as Tucker used to call Joy Reid, claims that the Dollar General shooting in Jacksonville is directly related to Ron DeSantis erasing black history in the Florida educational curriculum. Of course, her angry black guests agreed.
Except none of that is objectively true.
We have entered a period when racial extortion is not only acceptable, but also expected.
If I want to know the opposite of the truth, I can count on the good folks at MSNBC and CNN to let me know what that is because they will always have people on who have a very loose acquaintance with the truth.
Anything white liberals and angry black activists don’t like or doesn’t fit their narrative; they just lie about to keep the race hatred fires burning. It is a self-anointed moral triumphalism where one person or group declares themselves as holding the moral high ground and then proceeds to dismiss reality in celebration of themselves. These are not people looking for civility and reasoned discourse, they are angry people who just want to be angry. I don’t think there is anything that would mollify them, even if they were given everything they demanded. Their purpose is not to advance toward any sort of common understanding because their identity is wrapped up in constantly being mad.
I know this because I lived during the racial strife of the 60’s when black Americans were truly fighting to be seen as people. There is no doubt that the racism present in American society was real and a serious social problem. Blacks were being killed, attacked with firehoses and dogs as they fought to exercise their civil rights as citizens, equal to any other citizen regardless of skin color. That is all the Civil Rights leaders of the time asked, that we live up to our stated belief that “all men are created equal”.
But then is not now.
Right now, even today, is the most racially accepting of any time in my life. Several years ago, America reached a point where most Americans didn’t care about race. Of course, like lowering the water level in a river reveals the rocks, lowering the racial strife revealed the extremist cliques, black AND white, who were never going to accept racial equality no matter what.
I said yesterday that the formulation of their disagreement is “you are white and therefore always a racist, everything I believe is based on that and nothing will ever change my mind”. There is literally no answer for that, no possible way to reconcile or come to détente with a person who holds that position. Not even surrender will satisfy them.
Like the environmental whack jobs who throw paint and fake blood on paintings, block roads and glue themselves to the pavement, there are factions that are absolutely convinced they are entitled to a piece of you and/or your money and property, even if it is just stealing your time by making you late for work.
They all call for “peace” and yet, they constantly accuse others of fomenting division and hatred.
For decades, every disparate grievance group claimed they only wanted “to be seen as a person”.
Finally, when they are “seen as a person”, we see that, in person, they are simply assholes and just not very nice people. Aggressively and angrily pursuing a cause makes neither the cause nor the person noble or righteous, especially when that aggression and anger is based on half-truths or outright lies.
And the south you grew up in was not a stand alone area. Consider during those same days, South Boston.
AMEN