Thursday, November 25, 2021

 

Race Fact & Fiction

Three white men murdered a black man in Brunswick. And three black kids murdered a white girl in New York. Are either of these because of the race of the people killed or doing the killing?

Are black kids taught from childhood that "white people hate you" just look at history. 

If so, why would anyone want to work for people who hate you. And why would anyone want to hire people who believe that you hate them? Or more specifically, why would anyone want to teach kids that they are hated?

You can't have any respect for a society that doesn't value your life. And you can't possibly respect the law, if you think "law and order" is how society keeps you oppressed. So if Bell and Crenshaw are correct, laws are the enemy of black people in America. 

One solution is to admit that America is an evil racist country built on the oppression of black people through slavery and Jim Crow laws; and the systematic killing of Native people so their land could be stolen and given to white colonizers. 

Then we could start dismantling this "systemic oppression" of "white supremacy" by teaching children the evil truth of America so that everyone's aware of what this nation really is. And we can all be "Woke" to what "whiteness" really means.

We could teach school kids that Lincoln didn't free the slaves, Frederick Douglass did that. And that the Civil War was won when black soldiers led by Shaka Zulu defeated the evil Southern slave holders.

We could teach kids that Native Americans never enslaved people; and Native tribes never fought each other for control of the land. And once we've convinced people (since childhood) that these are facts, we can then replace all white business executives with black people (preferably women), and all elected officials with black people (preferably women). Then defund the police and do away with all jails and prisons.

But of course, there're obstacles to this approach. For one, nearly 90% of Americans aren't black. So it's a hard sell to suggest that the concerns of this small minority should be the focus of American life. And for another, it's simply not true: Lincoln actually did "free the slaves" and white Yankee soldiers actually did win the Civil War. And while Jim Crow laws oppressed black people for a century, it was white US Congressmen who passed Civil Rights laws to end Jim Crow.

And the most basic of lies is that "all white people hate blacks." Because factual history (and everyday experience) prove otherwise.