Guest Post by John Stossel
Are you a racist?
All white people are, says “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo.
Race explains everything, says bestselling “How to Be an Antiracist” author Ibram X. Kendi. “Every policy is either racist or anti-racist.”
Kendi’s and DiAngelo’s books are now recommended reading at schools, corporations and in the military. Both authors command high speaking fees.
Isn’t that good? It’s important to educate people about racism.
But John McWhorter, author of “Woke Racism,” says, “The way we’re being encouraged to think, hurts Black people.”
In my new video, he gives this example: “There is a disproportionate number of suspensions of Black boys in schools for violence. (Kendi says) that must be racist … a stereotype of Black men as violent. But … the data makes it very clear that Black boys do commit more violent acts in schools. If you don’t suspend those boys, the violence is being perpetrated (mostly) against other Black kids.”
Kendi’s positions “leave Black kids in the lurch,” says McWhorter.
Kendi and DiAngelo call most every disparity between races “systemic racism.”
White people live longer than Black people? Racism.
Income inequality? Racism.
White and Asian students get higher test scores? Systemic racism.
In the past, says McWhorter, civil rights leaders asked, “How can we make it so that Black kids are better at the test?” Now they want to “eliminate the tests” because they “make Black people unhappy.”
This just makes the problem worse, he says, because it encourages people to think of themselves as victims. If you believe you are a helpless victim of racism, why study?
The idea that it is “unreasonable to expect Black kids to use analytical thinking in a rigorous way. … This is a new way of thinking. It’s a religious way of thinking.”
Blaming racism for low test scores ignores “aspects of Black culture that don’t stress getting good at those tests – the way that South Asian immigrant culture clearly does.”
Nigerian and Caribbean culture, too. People from those places are often just as dark or darker than Black Americans. They “come here and deal with the same racism that everybody else does. Yet they make the best of the worst. That means: so could Black Americans.”
The media label Kendi and DiAngelo “leading scholars,” but their arguments are rarely tested in the marketplace of ideas. Both refuse to debate opponents. McWhorter calls their work far from scholarly – “more like a toxic religion, a cult.”
In fact, he adds, “Kendi is dim.”
I argue that, even if Kendi is “dim,” he’s winning hearts and minds. Companies now donate millions to his Center for Antiracist Research. His book sales and success with students show that his arguments convince people.
McWhorter disagrees. “As we come out of the pandemic and we’re less bored, less anxious, I suspect that a lot of the extremes that we saw are going to start retreating because there’s going to be pushback.”
The idea of anti-racism is “charismatic,” he adds. “It makes it seem like you’ve got one answer to a bunch of things that look disparate and difficult. But all disparities between white people and Black people are not due to something unfair that was driven by whites.”
I’m puzzled that DiAngelo’s and Kendi’s message is so popular today, when life for racial minorities seems to be better than ever before. With some exceptions, there’s less racism, more intermarriage, more opportunities for minorities, etc.
“Why now?” I ask.
There’s an advantage to being identified as a victim, says McWhorter. “An emotional balm to be treated as this victimized person. The problem is that it’s anti-Black.”
Anti-white too.
If the “systemic racism” cult wins, says McWhorter, “we all lose.”
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Who cares? Leave all lazy ass malcontents in the dust.
“All white people are racists.”
OK.
McWhorter say Kendi is dim. I think he means dum. Ibram X. Kendi is dum. A moran.
It’s worth mentioning that McWhorter is a Democrat. ……. I’ve listened to advocates of critical race theory to learn why they buy into it. I’ve heard various rationales such as learning uncomfortable US historical facts and anecdotes of white women crossing the street to avoid young black women…………..Constant hectoring to be anti-racist doesn’t change people’s hearts, assuming they’re racist (A stretch to begin with. Even Jesse Jackson once expressed relief when he realized a pedestrian walking behind him was white). There is a widespread support for learning uncomfortable history short of constant hectoring to be anti-racist. History is something to accept and learn from, not fight.
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” kendi’s center for anti-racism research” when all you do is go on about the color of some ones skin you are the racist. News flash for all you black folk out there white people don’t sit around thinking about how to screw black people over, we’ve got our own problems also.
Dats called white fragility. ;0
According to their rules, then guilty and don’t give a shit anymore.
ETA: Embrace the suck. Live up to their expectations. Cuz I’m fed up with most coons and all liberal honkies anywho
Stossel is dead to me after his pro-vaccine preaching.
I think, if you make generalizations about people based on colour, you are a racist. ANY colour.
Someone, somewhere will say “That is only because you are white!”, without even the slightest hint of understanding what they just did.
It is a clown world, full of really stupid clowns.
Then there is nothing wrong with racism. Or are you trying to have it both ways?
so if I generalize about taking a leisurely stroll through the black ghetto as being dangerous/deadly I’m racist?
#White Pride World Wide….
“So whose car are we gonna take?”
…………………….. The Town, film.
So what happens to all the “good” whites when all the “bad” whites are gone?
Do they get honored and live in their new found inter-racial Utopia?
Or do they get two .38 slugs behind the right ear?
My guess is number two.
And you’re a winner!