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America Is Better than This
Some black Americans love to rail about white privilege and the systemic racism that they claim permeates America even now. They are busy promoting Critical Race Theory in our schools, removing historical statues, and working to rewrite our national story through the lens of irredeemable racism. To the most radical, rejecting any of their initiatives is all the proof needed to confirm how racist you are, whether you are aware of it or not.
For decades, America has worked to integrate communities and the workplace, and silently endured the racist attacks in hopes that all would gradually appreciate the progress made.
Yes, it is true that there are racist whites, and there are racist blacks who have committed hate crimes. Even though few in number, no matter what the race of perpetrator, racism of any kind should be condemned by all responsible citizens. The L.A. County Human Relation’s Commission’s annual Hate Crime Report for 2021 reports a significant increase in hate crimes. In 2020, there were fewer hate crimes against whites reported (50) than blacks (169). But between 2016 and 2020, the report notes that the average rates of violence against whites (67%) and blacks (65%) were very close. Hate isn’t limited to any one race, and the numbers are not as large as the race baiters would have us believe.
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Far too many blacks want to put the sole focus on white racism. In a way, claiming victimhood status seems to bring with it a “black privilege.” Blacks can make blatantly racist comments about whites without cost or condemnation. The media gives them platforms to express their hateful words, and they never even have to apologize.
You don’t have to look far to find examples. Rep. Keith Ellison, congressman from Minnesota and Democratic National Committee deputy chairman, is known for his extreme comments: “You hear Republicans say, ‘We’re the party of Lincoln.’ He wouldn’t recognize these people. The fact is that the Republican Party today is the party of racism. Now I’m not saying every Republican is a racist, but I’m saying their party does hold that up. … It is the Republican Party in 2017 that says, ‘wall them off, ban them out, no transgender in the military.’ If it’s mean, if it’s racist, if it’s greedy, it’s coming from them.”
Even in the sports world, ESPN and HBO personality Bomani Jones recently blamed white people for the firing of the Dolphins’ Coach Flores: “I just don’t know why people try to make this far more complex than it is. What’s the problem? White people. Who are the ones that are making these decisions? White people. Who are the ones that won’t change their decision making? White people. Who are the ones that only do anything in a different way when it comes these matters at the threat of litigation? White people.”
These accusations have no facts to back them up. Now, if you want to find racist quotations by whites against blacks, a search will show plenty. Maybe such racist statements and video clips make for prime-time fodder for partisan talk shows, but it is not the real America.
But let’s be honest, the vast majority of all Americans reject such comments. Is it not time for us to once again focus on where we want to be instead of dwelling on a racist past we want to leave behind? There is too much good to build on to let the race baiters have their way.
Racism and special privilege are wrong no matter what the race. America was founded on the affirmation of equal rights for all. We have never fully lived up to that promise, but to deny we have not made progress is a perpetuate a divisive lie. The few racists that do exist are routinely criticized by responsible blacks and whites alike.
America fought a war to end slavery, and we must continue the work of living out our cherished values. We can’t let race baiters of any race stop us from continuing to make progress in living into our hard-fought ideals. Let’s stop the blaming and the name calling. Let us all work to judge others by their character and how they treat their fellow man, not the color of their skin. May we never forget to cherish the shared privilege of living in this great country were freedom and opportunity still reign supreme for all the citizens willing to live out their own pursuit of happiness.
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Mainstream Media: Intentionally and Diabolically Unfair and Unbalanced
All pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone
by Jay DeLancey and Jeff Davidson
The grandest mistake the American populace committed in the last half-century was assuming that our media was even somewhat fair and balanced. Likewise proceeding in the last two decades as if the Internet giants had no dog in the political arena proved to be a mistake of historical proportions.
Today because so many people, still, are conditioned as such, the mere fact that say, a CNN, has a website prompts some people to believe that the network have something of value to offer. Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, whose focus is classics and military history, says that the New York Times is “a shell of what it used to be.”
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Nothing Objective to Offer
The paper always leaned to the left, since it’s founding, but it did an intermittently semi-decent job in reporting the facts. The Times sent their reporters out to the streets to do hard-core reporting. The mission was to gather relevant data, identify sources, talk to people, find eye witnesses, speak to bonafide experts, attain corroboration, and then when they were sure of what they had written, submit the story or feature.
Their articles probably never represented a 50-50 balance – perhaps 55-45 or 60-40 in favor of the left. Today, no rational media observer would contend that the balance is 70-30, or even 80-20. Study after study reveals, say, in the case of covering Donald Trump, that 92% of all features are negative, and that is not to say the remaining 8% are positive. Mostly, they’re neutral.
If you are a Trump or DeSantis supporter, or a Republican running for Senate or the House of Representatives, for governor in your state, or for any other position of prominence, you simply cannot expect a fair shake from the press, nationally, and in most cases locally. Indeed, you’re likely to be demonized, endlessly, over issues for which Democrats receive a free pass.
Compromised to the Breaking Point
The New York Times and The Washington Post of old, as biased as they might’ve been, at least offered some semblance of up-to-date information, with facts and figures when they had them, and timely reporting as situations unfolded. Hansen remarked that today the people who run these newspapers are trading on the decades of hard work and the reputations built up over more than 100 years.
Those who put in the seed work are dead and gone and thus, obviously, have no say about what’s going on today. The Times and the Post, in less than a generation, are destroying their own reputations. The people who currently run these ‘news’ organizations are dragging them down at warp speed and don’t even recognize the damage that they are doing.
By 2030, what is now a shell of an organization will be less so, and it wouldn’t be too wild to predict that the Times could totally morph into something else. The Post is not far behind in devising its own demise.
The Pretense is Gone
Each of the countless newspapers that feed off of these two publishing giants suffer as well. All such pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone. The good news, if you could call it that, is everyone on the right is now vitally all aware that this has happened.
Those who strive for integrity in elections, those who are on the right, and those who are routinely demonized by the left, understand what’s occurring to the nth degree. It’s not fair, but to know what you face is a benefit of sorts.
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