It’s Time To Admit The Social Justice Movement Is Founded On Racism

We are supposed to be living in a post-racism United States. That’s what the Civil Rights movement was supposed to have accomplished; an invitation for all to shed the shallow practice of seeing skin color in all things. It’s what the whole of the country embraced in the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; that people should be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

But today, 56 years on from the assassination of Dr. King, it appears the radically far-Left demographic of the American people – the Woke – have abandoned Dr. King’s teachings and returned to the depthlessness of only seeing skin color; of superficially judging people en masse by the color of their skin.

And while opportunistic politicians are culpable in the return to this Neanderthalic mindset – all to achieve power through the divide-and-conquer Machiavellian tactic – in the end, the full brunt of the blame has to rest with the people who are blind to only see skin color when seeing others.

Sadly, the Woke have embraced the judgment of others through skin color as a religion; a social science. They call this special brand of ignorance “social justice.”

The Most Woke Of All Are The Most Racist

The University of California at Berkeley – self-admittedly one of the most far-Left institutions of higher education in both the United States and the world (a designation that over the decades has facilitated a complete lack of objectivity and tolerance) – is currently embroiled in litigation that is calling that institution out on its overtly racist policies.

As reported by the New York Post’s Carl Campanile:

“The University of California at Berkeley is under fire for allegedly banning white residents from using a community farm on Saturdays in a move one critic slammed as ‘systemic racism.’

“The university told The Post it is investigating claims that the ‘Gill Tract Community Farm’ in nearby Albany offered its space on Saturday exclusively to ‘Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC),’ after a complaint with the US Department of Education by the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

“‘UC-Berkeley thinks that racial segregation is progressive now, but it’s no different than segregation of the past,’ said William Trachman, general counsel for the group.

“‘Preventing Caucasians from accessing Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources Farm on Saturdays is a clear violation of Title VI, which bars educational institutions from engaging in or allowing race discrimination,’ added Trachman, a UC-Berkeley alumnus himself.”

This lawsuit has merit because a group of people – based solely on the color of their skin – is being purposely prevented from accessing the Gill Tract Community Farm when it is available to every other racial demographic. In fact, Berkeley’s exclusion of the White demographic from access to the farm is no less racist than the racist designated drinking fountains of the pre-Civil Rights Era South.

What Is Old Is New Again…And Just As Wrong

The Woke masses of the far-Left, while guilty of employing racism in their daily lives through their capitulation to the narrative creators, are less reprehensible than the opportunistic narrative creators themselves.

Social justice “warriors” like Ibram X. Kendi have been exposed as nothing more than race-baiting profiteers.

As The Washington Post’s Tyler Austin Harper reports:

“Perhaps the leading figure of the contemporary ‘anti-racism’ movement, Kendi has faced new scrutiny after he recently laid off more than half of the staff at his Center for Antiracist Research. Boston University, where the center is housed, has now opened an inquiry into how it was run. Allegations include poor pay, employee exploitation, the failure to produce any significant research, and the mismanagement of $43 million in donations.”

And truthtellers, like Heather MacDonald – who routinely expose the lie that is systemic racism against minorities by our law enforcement community, are routinely labeled as racists by the likes of Kendi and his community of anti-racist profiteers.

As Mac Donald wrote at the Manhattan Institute for The Wall Street Journal in 2020:

“In 2019, police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of Black victims is less than what the Black crime rate would predict since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the US and committed about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. 

“The police fatally shot nine unarmed Blacks and 19 unarmed Whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015…Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed Black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a Black male than an unarmed Black male is to be killed by a police officer…

“The latest in a series of studies undercutting the claim of systemic police bias was published in August 2019 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer. There is ‘no significant evidence of anti-Black disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police,’ they concluded.”

So, according to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and FBI crime statistics data, the very basis for any claim to existing systemic racism in the law enforcement community is nothing more than a preferred narrative based on zero tangible proof.

The Lie That Is DEI

The anti-racism movement spawned a racially discriminatory policy movement called “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI).” This movement sought to navigate upstream from the decades-old paradigm of instituting color-blindness in deference to merit; in judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

The Woke of the far-Left like to sugar-coat this institutionalization of racism by describing DEI as, “ organizational frameworks which seek to promote ‘the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability.”

One former Black Lives Matter activist, Xaviaer DuRousseau, went as far as to call DEI “anti-white,” and rightfully so. At every turn, the victims of this special interest ideology come from the White demographic, especially the White males in that demographic.

DuRousseau explains his metamorphosis from Black activist to anti-DEI activist:

But the fact of the matter is this. When you look at the policies DEI facilitates in society all it does is facilitate the judgment of people based on the color of their skin and not the content of their character or their abilities. The entire DEI movement is based on racism. It is a racist movement. To that end, the entire social justice movement is nothing more than an exercise in racism that insists that one demographic with a certain skin color is more deserving than another; that one race should receive special treatment simply because of their skin color.

That special treatment; that false sense of entitlement – regardless of the “sins of our Fathers – only serves to fuel the fires of racism, allowing that evil; that intellectual defect, to extend into the future. These are the poison “gifts” that DEI and the anti-racism movements deliver to humanity.

Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right

Just because the targets of racism may have changed from the pre-Civil Rights Era to the present doesn’t mean the underlying racism is any less abhorrent and unacceptable. It is the same evil that our nation struggled to expunge during the Civil Rights movement.

The University of California at Berkeley deserves to lose the lawsuit leveled against them. They are discriminating based on race and, thus, perpetuating the evil of racism. It matters not that the target of their racism is the White demographic

Racism is racism. No contemporary gerrymandering of the definition (a far-Leftist tactic) can change that and no racial demographic is exempt from the temptations of racism, no matter what Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, or George Yancy insist.

If you are making decisions based on skin color you are a racist.

On this anniversary of an ultimate racist act – the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – it is time we call out the social justice warriors for what they are: racists.

“Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone
Didn't you love the things that he stood for?
Didn't he try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free”

 – Dion, Abraham, Martin & John

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