Systemic racism

Clever term. Very common today.

All encompassing if it's a system. That means we're all a part, even liberals and leftists . . . whether black, Hispanic, Asian and white.

Even if your 19th Irish and German ancestors or your post WWII immigrant Baltic or Jewish grandparents had no part in slavery or Jim Crow;

even if your parents came here from Nigeria or Kenya or Somalia along with a few million other African immigrants in the last two decades;

even if you live below the poverty line.

That means any one of the 130 income transfer programs--TANF, Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, housing, utilities, CSFP, school breakfast, lunch and snacks--of the last 55 years of the so-called "War on Poverty" are racist in intent, design and outcome. Both parties. They were totally bi-partisan.

If racism is systemic, that's you. Right? You haven't been living off the grid in a cabin in the Rockies with no internet, running water or electricity, not if you're reading Facebook or Twitter or the Washington Post.

So if you've been marching smugly expressing your first amendment rights while denying me mine, or posting blather banners and yard signs about racism and how much you care, pointing fingers with 4 pointing back at you--

Ask what has

• your union,
• your academic department
• your "woke" corporation,
• your bank,
• the real estate firm you hired,
• the church you belong to,
• your profession,
• your pension plan,
• your state and local government,
• your candidates and PAC,
• your apartment management firm,
• your senator or representative,
• your gardener or house cleaner,
• your favorite restaurant,
• your investments manager,
• your whole/organic market,
• your elitist club that only the best people belong to. . .

done to contribute to the system.

Of course, to do that, you'd have to be self reflective. You'd have to toss out some of the Kool-Aid you've been swallowing from the very people who have used these programs to lie to you. There is no growing income inequality; there is no rampant racism from the police; black people are not being slaughtered by white people; and under Trump, minorities were making huge strides. You'd have to acknowledge that something or someone, call it the swamp dwellers if you wish or blame George Soros or the Communist underbelly of this country, it really doesn't matter. You've been poisoned, and it is like sepsis, and that poison is systemic, and you're doing it to yourselves if you're allowing these groups to make you grovel, wear African stoles, kneel, toss bricks and riot.

Yes, let's have that "conversation." Tell us what you have done that was racist and how you personally plan to change. I'll wait.

The evolving narrative

The narrative changes to fit the politics of the racialist pimps. In Ferguson it was a white racist cop and an innocent teen-ager; but then a Department of Justice investigation found nothing criminal and there was no, "hands up don't shoot." Michael Brown had just robbed a minority owned store, and he reached in the policeman's car when being questioned.

Then in Baltimore six police, three of them black, were arrested in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died being transported after a struggle; again no evidence to convict and it was clearly a reflexive racial action by Marilyn Mosby, the black female city State's Attorney. The police involved were black, white and one female with a total of about 50 years employment by the city which takes millions every year from the state and federal governments to just stay open and fix poverty. Narrative began to shift--it's not just racism, it's police wanting to kill black people.

Killing the Dallas police is a different story, it was a peaceful protest, and at least some in the Black Lives Matter movement claimed it was justified and in retaliation, but to my knowledge no one has been arrested as the narrative is that police lives don't matter even if protecting blacks from criminal elements.

Then Tulsa and Charlotte. The policeman in Charlotte was black and the one in Tulsa was a woman; so the racist angle was totally destroyed even though Hillary Clinton ran with it, after she urged patience in the NYC bombing until more investigation was finished. Shouting racism is OK; suspecting terrorism is not. 70% of the people arrested during the Charlotte riots are said to have ID from out of state (I haven't checked that figure--just saw a news item). We know the Charlotte conflagration is not grass roots, but who ginned up the hate is not known. It looks suspiciously like a Soros sorry soiree. But now the narrative is changing to it's "pent up rage going back to slavery days and Jim Crow"--and for that WalMart must be looted and Air Jordans stolen. For that another black man who was rioting was killed by another black. Who will put those black families on TV, or doesn't their grief matter?

Meanwhile in the same two year time frame from Michael Brown in August 2014 to Keith Scott in September 2016, statistically we know that twice as many whites were shot by police, most for good cause because they were committing a crime like holding up a small store and fleeing or resisting arrest or grabbing a policeman's gun or something else stupid. And we know from Heather MacDonald's excellent crunching of numbers for her book War on Cops that a police officer has 18.5X the risk of being killed by a black man as an unarmed black has of being killed by police.

 Again, the actual facts do not benefit any black congressman, or president, or attorney general, or Black Lives Matter leader, so the facts will be ignored and more hate will be dumped on police, and more white college students must take mandatory classes on why they are bad people because of their race.

This is Obama's legacy.