Liberals Love Racism
By Lawrence Sellin, PhD
FamilySecurityMatters.org
Racism has been such a successful political and money-making tool for the left that liberals are willing to invent it where it does not exist, conceive new forms of racism when it is in decline, and to sustain it, even become racists themselves.
In regard to race, there are two inhabitants of Liberal Land: (1) the white liberal ethno-masochist , whose self-hatred manifests itself politically by identifying with groups that he or she deems equally hated as a desperate plea for acceptance and love and (2) the race opportunists, whose ethnocentric positions are simply an element of a political campaign or business plan, where there are votes to be had or money to be made by prolonging an imaginary problem.
Liberals practice the politics of pretense, the inventors of facts, whose intellectual dishonesty and pathological guilt hustling about race began in earnest with the vilification of Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1965 Moynihan Report). He was berated as a "racist" for suggesting that liberal policies would weaken the black family and lead to social chaos.
A long misused measure of alleged "institutional" racism is the large black prison incarceration rate relative to whites. In actuality, it is an indictment of the fifty years of liberal race policies, when black crime should be falling to the levels of white crime, but we find the opposite (National prison census data):
Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated his 2009 claim that Americans are a "nation of cowards" on racial issues.
"Certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment, and at worst, the questioning of one's character."
Indeed, Mr. Holder, as John T. Bennett describes, the topic of race and crime, for example, is off-limits, unless you want to be called a racist by a liberal.
"The trend of racial "flash
mob" violence by black teens against
"random" non-black victims has gone relatively
unnoticed, when it should be a national scandal.
Several people have died in separate incidents of
the "knock-out
game," a race-based and unmentioned
disgrace. As for crime rates overall, the picture
is stark: the CDC's National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control lists the
homicide rate per
100,000 as 23.1 for blacks, 7.8 for
Native Americans, 7.6 for Hispanics, 2.7 for whites,
and 2.4 for Asians. The reality of crime in
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 93% of black American murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks.
The problems of Black America are not caused by white racism, but by the soft racism of low expectations perpetrated by liberals. More often than not, it is the wealthy and fortunate that are the prime purveyors of white guilt, but who seldom repent of "white privilege" by giving up their jobs to minorities or "celebrate diversity" in their own lives.
It is the same misplaced racial hypersensitivity, hypocrisy and liberal racism that can, at once, ruin Paula Deen for a thirty-year-old racial slur, but unfailingly label black conservatives as "Uncle Toms".
Contrary to the protestations of liberals, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was right - the weakening of the family structure does lead to social chaos, regardless of race, as a recent French study of two- and one-parent families found:
But evidence is irrelevant in
And, after all, blame whitey has been a thriving business for them.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel
with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and
a veteran of