“This is a revolution to get in…Revolutions have been centered on destroying something. Whereas in this revolution the quest is for the Negro to get into the stream of American life.”
As much as it has been preached, I just can't even seem to MAKE myself judge anyone based on their skin. I've tried. I can't do it. I treat people like people. If the feeling is reciprocated, we can be friends. For me, this has always been the right way. There are people I don't like or respect, but they come from every race imaginable. So do the people I love dearly. Race will stop mattering to people when race doesn't matter. I'll always be color-indifferent. I'm not blind, I can see you. It just doesn't matter to me.
Can’t believe this has to be said but racist have a way of never letting go of their love for the measure of one’s melanin as a distinguishing characteristic of a human being. Kendi and his ilk are truly disgusting.
One of the most popular brands of anti fungal cream is 1% tolnaftate. That's the *active ingredient.* It's the stuff that, without it, nothing happens. Well, the active ingredient in racism is race-essentialism. Without seeing race as an essential aspect of all interactions, racism can't happen.
"Race-consciousness" is a euphemism for race-essentialism.
The problem with the people Hughes calls "neoracists" is that they somehow think they're going to be able to end racism by drinking race-essentialism by the gallon. "Race is everywhere, this race has too much power, that race does not have enough, we need to take it from this race and give it to that race." It's the exact same monster that the Nazis and the KKK tried to ride.
Watching them get on top is like watching that old horror movie trope - some teenager gets ahold of a copy of the Necronomicon and decides to summon a demon by reciting a spell within it because she has a bully at school that needs to be stopped. The demon comes, bullies the bully, lots of laughs at first, but then it gets out of hand. People start dying at school and now she's got to find a way to send the demon back to Hell.
In our quantum reality, they picked the Jews to scapegoat as oppressor/colonizers with an ethno-state and watching them march against Israel after the vicious attacks of October 7th was - for many - the moment the demon went too far.
I don't think the "neoracists" will know how to get us away from race and their insistence on making it so central to everything has only made everything worse. Thank you to Coleman Hughes for being so brave in his fight against this ideology.
They say the biggest flaw in 'colorblindness' is it can be used to conceal racism.
I say any ideology can be used to conceal racism. In fact, the worst racists (speaking only of powerful Whites prejudiced against PoC) quote the rhetoric while subtly propagating racial inequality.
Now, it has changed: the worst racists actually _use_ the woke ideology to fan the flames of racism among Whites. They can just quote Kendi & Di Angelo to motivate voter turnout. Also, it seems the fanbase of replacement theory grows every time someone brings up reparations.
Either the Social Justice League is over-playing their hand or they are part of a false-flag operation to set back racial equality for generations.
The obfuscation of class as a topic of “social justice” by modern progressives is a fascinating tell. First, “class” automatically invokes the spectre of socialism, which we can’t say in polite conversation, and second, class unites people across racial lines, which is antithetical to the project of equity, with its mandatory victims and oppressors.
One of the reasons that Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs singing together at the Grammys was so moving is that in addition to “Fast Car” being a work of art, it brought people together across both race and class lines. The country is sick, fed up, and in a state of mourning over the race hatred and paranoia that critical race theory stirs up.
We want to love each other. We want a country. As Rodney King once pleaded, can’t we just get along?
I agree that '[...] people opposed to "antiracism" are [not] "the worst racists"' (egad that was a lot of single & double quotes for what is a fairly simple statement). The worst bad actors (of all stripes) are methodical and act subtly so they do not show their hand. More damage can be done slowly if unnoticed.
I am cynical so I am not sure that anti-racists, like Kendi, are all useful idiots - some are, but the leaders may be more complicit than we think: after all, they make a LOT of money fighting racism and if racism goes away so does all that income. This is not a new phenomenon or limited to them ... Trump is trying to do something similar by asking GOP politicians to defeat the new border law so he can use it for his campaign.
Still, I agree with most of what you say... you bring up other points that complement that ones I made.
I believe both the "color blind" goal and the "anti-racists" goals are both overly idealistic in a country as diverse as the divided states.
So many in the country believe the goal is to establish their beliefs at the federal level. That certainly rouses those that feel the federal government is not address their grievances. But should the federal government be the place that grievances should be addressed?
The country is falling apart because there is no real community focus any more. What happened to all politics is local? The mainstream news and social media have made all politics federal.
Since the over 60 years since Dr King launched his ministry, can Black people point to a single community that aligns with their interpretation of Dr King's message?
There is much anger in the Black community. That anger would be better focused on building up the community than airing grievances at the national level. I would be very motivated to see a Black community recreate Black wallstreet.
Its natural for humans to create communities of like mindedness and like lookedness. It's idealistic to believe that the divided states will ever be a color-blind heaven. Its pragmatic to create the vision at the community level. Both Dr King and the Black power movement inspired idealism. They didn't inspire local pragmatism.
I agree. And in fact, there are pragmatic black entrepreneurs, people like Ian Rowe, Rev. Cory Brooks, and Bob Woodson, whose mission is to elevate the black community through education. training, and self-reliance. There are scholars who support this mission, such as Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, Shelby Steele, and Wilfred Reilly, to name just a few. They view affirmative action as a form of infantilization and disrespect for the achievements of black people.
These activists and intellectuals are conservatives, so they are ignored by the mainstream media and progressive black community. (When Larry Elder ran for governor of California, he was labeled the black face of white supremacy.) Progressive politics has fostered the same ideological divide among whites.
I’m not hopeful that things will improve anytime soon, given the fear and loathing that progressives of all races have for Trump voters or people who are slightly to the right of center in general.
Count me in for 'colorblind', since I'm a relic from the King years ;) I'm quite fed up with 'antiracist' racism and the blinding lack of self-awareness with what passes for modern-day 'antiracists'. I s'pose no one is ever really 100% colorblind, not in today's world, but living in Canada I can afford to be more colorblind, in the sense that I worry less about saying and doing the wrong thing. In Toronto, people just act more normal with each other. What I'm trying to do with everybody, since my prejudice tends toward different political views rather than skin color, is to just see the *person* in front of me without judgement. I'd even do it if I met Kendi and I already can't stand him, lol...but if I met him I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.
Then when he said something stupid....that would be the end of it ;)
Racism is a competitive relationship between groups for ownership and control of resources for wealth and power. Europeans got the headstart with genocide, free black labor, apartheid, and Jim Crow which mal-distributed massive generational wealth and power to whites. The pathologies in the inner cities are significantly correlated to poverty. Social integration isn't measurable; can't be deposited into the bank to compound interest. There used to be more black-owned businesses in black communities because they were compelled to do so by Jim Crow segregation. Now, immigrant small businesses have moved in and transferred wealth from black communities into theirs. There used to be one million black farmers in this country. Now, it's down to 40 thousand black farmers. Blacks increasingly depending on whites and their *buffer class* for necessities to sustain life is illogical, especially if the shit hits the fan in this country. Racism is a team sport as repeatedly demonstrated around the world daily. It's naive to think otherwise. Ideas and realities are two distinct things. Hope and change? Lol! Black folks need to get into the race and better compete as a group or become the most permanent underclass at the bottom. Immigrants coming into this country are an existential threat to black progress. More access to interracial sex is not going to improve the black group's wealth and power. Blacks need to redirect most of their spending to black-owned businesses. The Asians bounce around money in their communities 12 times before it leaves. Blacks: zero. MLK was assassinated after advocating for reparations.
I am truly saddened by the state of today's race ideology.
I have a lot of anger toward President Lyndon Johnson for knowingly creating a perpetual (dependent) Democrat constituency that robbed the Black community of continuing a great legacy of family values with its increased opportunity for success.
I have a lot of anger toward the race hustlers, starting with Jesse Jackson, for putting their personal financial gain first and directing Blacks to be an angry government dependent culture and to reject even the better parts of White culture with its increased opportunities for success as being not Black.
As much as it has been preached, I just can't even seem to MAKE myself judge anyone based on their skin. I've tried. I can't do it. I treat people like people. If the feeling is reciprocated, we can be friends. For me, this has always been the right way. There are people I don't like or respect, but they come from every race imaginable. So do the people I love dearly. Race will stop mattering to people when race doesn't matter. I'll always be color-indifferent. I'm not blind, I can see you. It just doesn't matter to me.
Can’t believe this has to be said but racist have a way of never letting go of their love for the measure of one’s melanin as a distinguishing characteristic of a human being. Kendi and his ilk are truly disgusting.
One of the most popular brands of anti fungal cream is 1% tolnaftate. That's the *active ingredient.* It's the stuff that, without it, nothing happens. Well, the active ingredient in racism is race-essentialism. Without seeing race as an essential aspect of all interactions, racism can't happen.
"Race-consciousness" is a euphemism for race-essentialism.
The problem with the people Hughes calls "neoracists" is that they somehow think they're going to be able to end racism by drinking race-essentialism by the gallon. "Race is everywhere, this race has too much power, that race does not have enough, we need to take it from this race and give it to that race." It's the exact same monster that the Nazis and the KKK tried to ride.
Watching them get on top is like watching that old horror movie trope - some teenager gets ahold of a copy of the Necronomicon and decides to summon a demon by reciting a spell within it because she has a bully at school that needs to be stopped. The demon comes, bullies the bully, lots of laughs at first, but then it gets out of hand. People start dying at school and now she's got to find a way to send the demon back to Hell.
In our quantum reality, they picked the Jews to scapegoat as oppressor/colonizers with an ethno-state and watching them march against Israel after the vicious attacks of October 7th was - for many - the moment the demon went too far.
I don't think the "neoracists" will know how to get us away from race and their insistence on making it so central to everything has only made everything worse. Thank you to Coleman Hughes for being so brave in his fight against this ideology.
Very well-written. The Necronomicon is the perfect metaphor.
They say the biggest flaw in 'colorblindness' is it can be used to conceal racism.
I say any ideology can be used to conceal racism. In fact, the worst racists (speaking only of powerful Whites prejudiced against PoC) quote the rhetoric while subtly propagating racial inequality.
Now, it has changed: the worst racists actually _use_ the woke ideology to fan the flames of racism among Whites. They can just quote Kendi & Di Angelo to motivate voter turnout. Also, it seems the fanbase of replacement theory grows every time someone brings up reparations.
Either the Social Justice League is over-playing their hand or they are part of a false-flag operation to set back racial equality for generations.
The obfuscation of class as a topic of “social justice” by modern progressives is a fascinating tell. First, “class” automatically invokes the spectre of socialism, which we can’t say in polite conversation, and second, class unites people across racial lines, which is antithetical to the project of equity, with its mandatory victims and oppressors.
One of the reasons that Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs singing together at the Grammys was so moving is that in addition to “Fast Car” being a work of art, it brought people together across both race and class lines. The country is sick, fed up, and in a state of mourning over the race hatred and paranoia that critical race theory stirs up.
We want to love each other. We want a country. As Rodney King once pleaded, can’t we just get along?
We largely agree.
I agree that '[...] people opposed to "antiracism" are [not] "the worst racists"' (egad that was a lot of single & double quotes for what is a fairly simple statement). The worst bad actors (of all stripes) are methodical and act subtly so they do not show their hand. More damage can be done slowly if unnoticed.
I am cynical so I am not sure that anti-racists, like Kendi, are all useful idiots - some are, but the leaders may be more complicit than we think: after all, they make a LOT of money fighting racism and if racism goes away so does all that income. This is not a new phenomenon or limited to them ... Trump is trying to do something similar by asking GOP politicians to defeat the new border law so he can use it for his campaign.
Still, I agree with most of what you say... you bring up other points that complement that ones I made.
I believe both the "color blind" goal and the "anti-racists" goals are both overly idealistic in a country as diverse as the divided states.
So many in the country believe the goal is to establish their beliefs at the federal level. That certainly rouses those that feel the federal government is not address their grievances. But should the federal government be the place that grievances should be addressed?
The country is falling apart because there is no real community focus any more. What happened to all politics is local? The mainstream news and social media have made all politics federal.
Since the over 60 years since Dr King launched his ministry, can Black people point to a single community that aligns with their interpretation of Dr King's message?
There is much anger in the Black community. That anger would be better focused on building up the community than airing grievances at the national level. I would be very motivated to see a Black community recreate Black wallstreet.
Its natural for humans to create communities of like mindedness and like lookedness. It's idealistic to believe that the divided states will ever be a color-blind heaven. Its pragmatic to create the vision at the community level. Both Dr King and the Black power movement inspired idealism. They didn't inspire local pragmatism.
I agree. And in fact, there are pragmatic black entrepreneurs, people like Ian Rowe, Rev. Cory Brooks, and Bob Woodson, whose mission is to elevate the black community through education. training, and self-reliance. There are scholars who support this mission, such as Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, Shelby Steele, and Wilfred Reilly, to name just a few. They view affirmative action as a form of infantilization and disrespect for the achievements of black people.
These activists and intellectuals are conservatives, so they are ignored by the mainstream media and progressive black community. (When Larry Elder ran for governor of California, he was labeled the black face of white supremacy.) Progressive politics has fostered the same ideological divide among whites.
I’m not hopeful that things will improve anytime soon, given the fear and loathing that progressives of all races have for Trump voters or people who are slightly to the right of center in general.
Count me in for 'colorblind', since I'm a relic from the King years ;) I'm quite fed up with 'antiracist' racism and the blinding lack of self-awareness with what passes for modern-day 'antiracists'. I s'pose no one is ever really 100% colorblind, not in today's world, but living in Canada I can afford to be more colorblind, in the sense that I worry less about saying and doing the wrong thing. In Toronto, people just act more normal with each other. What I'm trying to do with everybody, since my prejudice tends toward different political views rather than skin color, is to just see the *person* in front of me without judgement. I'd even do it if I met Kendi and I already can't stand him, lol...but if I met him I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.
Then when he said something stupid....that would be the end of it ;)
Racism is a competitive relationship between groups for ownership and control of resources for wealth and power. Europeans got the headstart with genocide, free black labor, apartheid, and Jim Crow which mal-distributed massive generational wealth and power to whites. The pathologies in the inner cities are significantly correlated to poverty. Social integration isn't measurable; can't be deposited into the bank to compound interest. There used to be more black-owned businesses in black communities because they were compelled to do so by Jim Crow segregation. Now, immigrant small businesses have moved in and transferred wealth from black communities into theirs. There used to be one million black farmers in this country. Now, it's down to 40 thousand black farmers. Blacks increasingly depending on whites and their *buffer class* for necessities to sustain life is illogical, especially if the shit hits the fan in this country. Racism is a team sport as repeatedly demonstrated around the world daily. It's naive to think otherwise. Ideas and realities are two distinct things. Hope and change? Lol! Black folks need to get into the race and better compete as a group or become the most permanent underclass at the bottom. Immigrants coming into this country are an existential threat to black progress. More access to interracial sex is not going to improve the black group's wealth and power. Blacks need to redirect most of their spending to black-owned businesses. The Asians bounce around money in their communities 12 times before it leaves. Blacks: zero. MLK was assassinated after advocating for reparations.
I am truly saddened by the state of today's race ideology.
I have a lot of anger toward President Lyndon Johnson for knowingly creating a perpetual (dependent) Democrat constituency that robbed the Black community of continuing a great legacy of family values with its increased opportunity for success.
I have a lot of anger toward the race hustlers, starting with Jesse Jackson, for putting their personal financial gain first and directing Blacks to be an angry government dependent culture and to reject even the better parts of White culture with its increased opportunities for success as being not Black.
And on and on to today.