There is a quote attributed to the French philosopher Voltaire: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Critique of past monarchs resulted in beheadings; drawing even a smiley face of Allah portends imminent death by assassination; does the black community fear speaking out against whites, or is it in fact just the opposite?
Pop culture is a bastion of debauchery and shamelessness, but it also encapsulates everything wrong with the present-day notion of whites being in control of, well, anything. Assuming white privilege and white supremacist institutions were the norm, we might expect whites to say whatever they wanted and do whatever they wanted, free from punishment. Relatedly, to accept that black victimization occurred every day and twice on Sunday, we might expect that for casting the slightest aspersion toward the ruling class (i.e. white folx, as they now say), or getting uppity, that the blowback would be swift and immediate. In recent weeks, cancel culture has gone from ludicrous speed to plaid in its efforts to silence and shame anyone they deem a threat to The Narrative.
In the case of white people, there is now the requisite demand to speak only in certain terms and regarding certain matters. Asking if defunding the police represents sound policy is rebuked by some nonsensical argument about not knowing what it’s like to have the police patrolling black neighborhoods. At the height of both the riots last summer and human stupidity, Minneapolis City Council chair Lisa Bender declared on national television that her right to basic safety and security from immoral, ruthless, and dangerous thugs was white privilege manifesting itself. No one seems to care that this same city, led by this same loser and the incompetent boy mayor, just asked for and received almost $6.5 million to shore up much-needed police needs. If their hypocrisy didn’t produce such tragedies, then this entire charade would be a comedy.
White people are clearly on the defensive. White opinions matter only if they are parroting approved, and ever-changing, talking points. This leads to the counterargument that, while white privilege is quite false, black privilege is quite real. It has been repeatedly and consistently demonstrated that white people no longer have free speech when it pertains to matters of cultural or political value. Either cozy up or shut up.
There are no such things as “white privilege” and “systemic racism.” They are made up concepts that became necessary when blacks gained full equality and even preference in many circumstances. People started to ask, “Aren’t affirmative action and quotas just reverse racism (ie. racism)?” There was no longer any justification for such programs (if there ever was) so an invisible, unarguable “wrong” had to be created, hence “systemic racism” and “white privilege.” People need to stop apologizing or feeling guilty for something that doesn’t exist, and simply say, “There’s no such thing.” We need to go back to MLK’s vision of a colorblind society.
The other night, I watched the film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” At one point, Sidney Poitier’s character was chastising his father. He said, “You think of yourself as a black man. I think of myself as a man.” Today’s leftists and wokes say the opposite, “Don’t think of yourself as a person, think of yourself as a black person/person of color.” This is destructive, wrong, and evil, and people need to stand up and say so. I believe there are millions of blacks that agree with me, but they (like millions of whites) are just “keeping their heads down.” Well, the Bolsheviks took over Russia, the Nazis took over Germany, and the Communists took over China because most of the people “kept their heads down.” Then millions of people were put to death and untold sorrow was visited on those that lived. Think it can’t happen again? Just watch.
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