America’s Balkan Values

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431014/race-privilege-america

White liberals and black careerists vigorously reject the MLK ideal of a color-blind society.

The racial spoils industry survives on several requisites.

One, Americans must be readily identifiable as being non-white or white.

Two, once non-white claimants pass the racial litmus test, they must think and speak in a particular progressive manner, in dutiful obeisance to those who set up and perpetuate the racial spoils system.

And three, racialism must remain defined as a one-way bias.

In truth, government efforts to racialize Americans — mostly for the benefit of tribal careerists — have failed and have left behind utter chaos, rank opportunism, and dangerous cynicism.

The wealthy and mostly white cultural elite set up this Byzantine racial-spoils system, and it understandably reflects their prejudices and moral emptiness.

Because the race industry is ideologically driven, its rules are logically inconsistent and ultimately incoherent.

The termite-ridden foundations of the racial-spoils temple are crumbling, as they have dissolved earlier in our 19th- and early-20th-century past.

Soon the entire rotten edifice will collapse under the weight of its own inherent contradictions and illiberal prejudices.

Some truths will never be self evident to some. Never.

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Some say "color blindness" is racism

Feb 9, 2016, 11:51 AM [ in reply to Not saying this is you, but it seems that whenever I hear ]

In fact, in academic circles, color blindness is almost universally treated as a dog whistle for racism. From their point of view (a "balkanized" one), race-blindness ignores the history of oppression for certain groups and it adopts white supremacy as the only objective way of seeing things. They'd tell you that you don't make a race fair by equalizing the rules 3/4 of the way through when you started by telling certain competitors they had to hop on one leg. And they'd also tell you that you won't ever be able to make fair rules because your rules will always favor your own kind. "Race blindness" just leads you to be "racially insensitive" because, in treating everybody "equally," you're really just being "insensitive" to the different realities of people of other races (which might explain why you hear people who say we ought to be color blind say things that sound "pretty racist").

The pretty obvious problem with this criticism is that it commits us to a way of thinking that ensures that we'll be racialized forever. What MLK saw is that as long as people assumed that they could know things about somebody because of their skin color, race could be used to strip people of their individual agency. So, instead of advocating a perpetual racialism based on the idea that black people's reality would always be different than white people's (this is basically the premise of Ta-Nehisi Coate's big prize-winning book Between the World and Me), he called on ideas of universal humanity and Christian charity. From this point of view, differences are subordinated to our brotherhood as creatures, but difference doesn't and shouldn't structure everything.

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This reads exactly like

Do you have any career tips for someone aiming to

Do like Cheney... Invest in the private prison system...***

Re: Do like Cheney... Invest in the private prison system...***

Not saying this is you, but it seems that whenever I hear

Where does cdef say racism doesn't exist?

Re: Where does cdef say racism doesn't exist?

Some say "color blindness" is racism

Transcendentalism without the ancestral angst...***

ie. without the perpetual power struggle and scapegoating

Live and let live.... and don't be so dang greedy. This is

Good thing academic circles are a marginal point of view.

Ta-Nehisi Coates just won the National Book Award

The fact that you have to explain who he is says enough.***

Working in academia is a mess

They're educating people with "real jobs"

It seems as if most people with "real jobs" received most

Re: They're educating people with "real jobs"

Cam, do you get paid for just doing this kinda stuff?

You sound very anti-intellectual

this reads just like a

Some quessssions

Ridiculous

son of tdrake scok?***

So we're Yugoslavia now?

As the father of 2 Bulgarian children, I am offended by this

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