B-Man Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 The Antiracist Racket And its mind-forg’d manacles. by Myron Magnet Beyond its falsity, there is no current idea so destructive as the fiction that America is systemically racist. It harms black Americans by shrinking their horizons and stoking their resentment; it has fueled crime and disorder in our cities; and by replacing our national faith in the unique excellence of our self-governing republic with a sense of its pervasive injustice and oppression, it makes us more vulnerable in a dangerous world. Confidence that we have a civilization worth defending is vital to our future. After all, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s succeeded. In what was the defining political experience of a generation, that movement turned the nation inside out in order to remedy the overt racism that then marred America’s promise of civil equality. Two decades of sit-ins and marches, of sermons and voter registrations, yielded changes that fully opened political, educational, and employment opportunities to blacks, while society grew dramatically more welcoming. Just compare the advertisements or movies—or college alumni magazines—of the 1950s to today’s to get a sense of the revolution in racial attitudes that occurred. Or consider the change in the percentage of Americans who tell pollsters they approve of interracial marriage—4% in 1958 versus 94% in 2021. But as the number of Americans who remember the civil rights era dwindles, the harangues of Black Lives Matter and the critical race theorists have obscured that era’s accomplishment. The Gallup Poll tracks this trend: in 2014, respondents’ satisfaction with U.S. race relations reached a high of 55%, versus 35% dissatisfied, but it began dropping thereafter, in the wake of Eric Garner’s death in July of that year. Only 28% expressed satisfaction in 2022. Because what people believe affects their actions as much as their real circumstances do, the imaginary world these propagandists have conjured up—in which racial injustice pervades everything, racist insults wound blacks at every turn, racism closes off advancement and shuts out fellowship—really does constrict black opportunity by denying it exists. By and large, the civil rights pioneers assumed that, once their movement succeeded, black Americans would gear up to seize the new opportunity, especially through wider educational choices. But the schools and colleges that were to arm black Americans for success now teach systemic racism, infusing a strange mix of suspicious resentment, fatalistic victimology, and aggrieved entitlement that doesn’t fuel initiative but instead feeds a resentment or hostility that hinders advancement and poisons race relations again. The poet William Blake wrote strikingly of “mind-forg’d manacles”; for many black Americans, the schools rivet them on, and BLM reinforces the chains. https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-antiracist-racket/ . 1 1
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 16, 2023 Author Posted July 16, 2023 2 hours ago, BillStime said: Can you do your own research for your book report? Thank you for proving right again, you can't come up with one thing.
BillStime Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 21 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said: Thank you for proving right again, you can't come up with one thing. But here is the thing - I can if I wanted to and you know it - but why don’t you google and finish your own book report?
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 16, 2023 Author Posted July 16, 2023 19 minutes ago, BillStime said: But here is the thing - I can if I wanted to and you know it - but why don’t you google and finish your own book report? Google has nothing, what you sitting on? 2
BillStime Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Orlando Tim said: Google has nothing, what you sitting on? Show us - show us your google search. 1
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 16, 2023 Author Posted July 16, 2023 2 hours ago, BillStime said: Show us - show us your google search. I can't believe you actually need someone to show you how to google something, how sad.
BillStime Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 6 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said: I can't believe you actually need someone to show you how to google something, how sad. Yeah, let's see the results - share the Google link. You can do it Buffalo Timmy. Let's go.
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 16, 2023 Author Posted July 16, 2023 17 minutes ago, BillStime said: Yeah, let's see the results - share the Google link. You can do it Buffalo Timmy. Let's go. The fact that you can't show me one specific thing is acknowledgement enough for me.
BillStime Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 3 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said: The fact that you can't show me one specific thing is acknowledgement enough for me. The fact that you won't share your Google link suggests you don't want others to see what the results are... lol
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 16, 2023 Author Posted July 16, 2023 11 minutes ago, BillStime said: The fact that you won't share your Google link suggests you don't want others to see what the results are... lol When I Google it is a bunch of puff pieces and none tell anything specific.
BillStime Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 7 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said: When I Google it is a bunch of puff pieces and none tell anything specific. You're so biased it wouldn't matter.
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 16, 2023 Author Posted July 16, 2023 42 minutes ago, BillStime said: You're so biased it wouldn't matter. I appreciate your acknowledgement that I am correct.
BillStime Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 Just now, Orlando Tim said: I appreciate your acknowledgement that I am correct. You are never - ever correct.
Unforgiven Posted July 16, 2023 Posted July 16, 2023 Blm won what? All I hear about BLM was corruption and stolen money, and lots of property damage in rioting. 1
JaCrispy Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) Any momentum BLM once had is dead, now that people have had time to see that they really don’t care about black lives, but rather enriching themselves… After receiving overwhelming support following George Floyd, less than half the country supports them now, according to polls… Edited July 17, 2023 by JaCrispy 1
Doc Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 26 minutes ago, JaCrispy said: Any momentum BLM once had is dead, now that people had time to see that they really don’t care about black lives, but rather enriching themselves… After receiving overwhelming support follow George Floyd, less than half the country supports them now… There's your Google answer...
ALF Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 On 7/16/2023 at 9:22 AM, Orlando Tim said: @Tiberius, @BillStime, @nedboy7, @ALF BLM has now had three years to spend their 100million to benefit humanity and Black people in particular, is there anything they have done specifically you can point at? Show me anytime I supported BLM
Joe Ferguson forever Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 On 7/16/2023 at 3:13 PM, BillStime said: Show us - show us your google search. Ok Billsy... a bit much. But I admire the effort.
Orlando Buffalo Posted July 18, 2023 Author Posted July 18, 2023 9 minutes ago, ALF said: Show me anytime I supported BLM I just grabbed the first three liberal names I saw on the 3rd pages, if your comment was not pro BLM then so be it. So you have been against them from the begining?
ALF Posted July 18, 2023 Posted July 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said: I just grabbed the first three liberal names I saw on the 3rd pages, if your comment was not pro BLM then so be it. So you have been against them from the begining? I'm all for justice for black people just not the BLM organization which I think is corrupt.
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