Today’s mass hysteria over race became the Democrats No. 2 issue in tahe 2020 cmpaign against 75-year-old President Donald Trump. No. 1 issue being Covid.19. Capitalizing on the regrettable death of George Floyd May 25, 2020 and nationwide riots over last summer, the leftist PR ;machine exploited Floyd’s death to sell Critical Race Theory [CRT] to the public, giving African Americans leverage heading into the Nov. 8, 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden, 78, was the beneficiary and the victim of race hysteria sweeping over the liberal press and over a wide swath of public and private U.S institutions. Bidenj said Nov 14, 2020, only days after winning the presidency, that the U.S. was a “systemically racist” country, a label often used by so-called anti-racists led by best-selling author 38-year-old Boston University Prof. Ibrahim X. Kendi [formerly Henry Rogers].
Rogers rode a fashionable wave all the way to the bank with his book, “How to Become and Anti-Racist,” something now sold to public and private institutions around the country. If you don’t follow Kendi’s prescription, White people are branded racists, something that carries economic consequences, like job loss, demotions maybe total ocial ostracism. When the U.S. Army Service Academy at West Point offered a seminar of “White Rage,” it infuriated certain conservative members of Congress. Meeting in the House Armed Services Committee June 23, 63-year-old Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley defended West Point as just providing university education. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fl.) questioned 68-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about teaching Critical Race Theory [CRT] at U.S. service academies, brainwashing cadets.
What irked Waltz was the fact that U.S. service academies indoctrinated young recruits with Critical Race Theory, attributing systemic racism, as Biden said Nov. 16, 2020, to institutions like the U.S. military. Unlike Miley who supported the practice of teaching CRT, Austin said the Pentagon took no position as to the correctness or factual basis only exposing service academy recruits to the ideas. CRT emerged from legal scholars out of the 1970s studying the way the law interacts with social, political and cultural institutions as it relates to race. CRT looks at institutions as they interact with civil rights, not individual racist attitudes. So when Biden said the country is “systemically racist,” he was repeating the prevailing mantra pushed by Kendi and other anti-racist authors that jumped on the bandwagon. Since George Floyd’s death and last summer’s race riots, Black Lives Matter has set the national agenda.
After Biden won the Nov. 8, 2020 residential election, 40-year-old Black Lives Founder Alicia Garza said she would demand Biden give her a seat at the table. Garza pushed hard to de-fund the police to redirect funds to BLM and other community groups. Since last summer, violent crime has risen dramatically, as the police have been demonized as racist organizations. Law enforcement agencies around the country are afraid to do their jobs, especially in high-crime areas of inner cities where black-on-black violence is far worse than anything done by white police departments. Yet Garza, like Kendi, capitalized on the national wave giving more political clout to black groups, especially since Biden and 56-year-old African American Kamal Harris took office. In the hot seat yesterday, Miley went over the top defending CRT curriculum at U.S. service academies.
Biden found out how parroting the views of BLM hurt U.S. foreign policy when 58-uear-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 44-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met in Anchorage, Alaska for a get-to-know you summit with China. After blasted by Blinken and Sullivan for committing genocide on Muslim Uyghurs, Senior Chinese Diplomat Yang Jiechi told Blinken and Sullivan they had no right to lecture Chinas on human rights when Biden admitted the U.S. was a “systemically racist” country. With hard fought civil rights laws in place since the 1960s, the U.S. government protects African Americans and other minorities with comprehensive federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination in educational institutions and the workplace. Yet if ask BLM or other pro-black advocacy groups, the U.S. still practices Jim Crow or even slavery.
Waltz and other Republicans don[‘t want reverse bigotry inside the Pentagon, where White privilege and guilt permeate classroom discussions about race. How ironic that Austin, who happens to be black, rose to the top of the Pentagon, currently service as the nation’s first defense secretary. Race ceilings have been broken by former Secretaries of State Gen. Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, under a White former President George W. Bush. Former President Barack Obama enjoyed two terms in office. Yet to BLM America is a “systemically racist” country, with police signaling out blacks. Today’s anti-racist agenda is not about civil rights, it’s about getting African Americans reparations for slavery. New York Times writer Nicole Hannah-Jones wrote 1619 Project in Aug. 2019 to demand that African Americans be compensated for the U.S. history of slavery.
