Victor Davis Hanson
Instead, our elite social engineers focus on the black upper-middle class through vastly expanding affirmative action and recalibrating college admissions as reparatory rather than proportionally representative (i.e., 16 percent rather than the old 11 or 12 percent of a college’s new enrollment now shall be black).
They capitalize Black. The bicoastal elite seeks to “overrepresent” (a good progressive word) black commercial actors, from a proportional 12 percent to a reparatory 50-60 percent, and they envision blanket state reparations in California. They insist that we do not mention that Barack Obama is a narcissistic grifter who leveraged his wounded-fawn persona and racialist accusations into a three-mansion 100-million-dollar fortune (forgetting that Obama campaigned in 2008 on trashing a supposedly out-of-touch multi-mansioned John McCain), or that Kamala Harris is as incoherent as Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi but without the excuse of age-induced senility. There is a taboo, then, about leveling the sort of criticism toward black public figures on grounds other than race that are routinely applied to white shysters, frauds, fakes, and incompetents.
Think of the logic. The more the compensation and reparation to middle-class African Americans by Ivy League admissions and by hiring more privileged diversity czars, the more one is excused from addressing the reasons why nearly half the black population is in dire straits, or why five percent of the black population is proving dangerous to big-city dwellers, and will prove more dangerous until society simply finds the courage to help the helpless, pass on helping the already privileged, and speak the truth about the deadly dangers that criminals now pose to anyone anytime.
The final irony? All this tragedy was years ago brilliantly analyzed by black scholars. Bayard Rustin at the dawn of affirmative action and black separatism predicated exactly what we are now suffering once the federal government undermined the once stable black family.
Shelby Steele and Tom Sowell outlined in detail how the guilt of white protected elites led to disastrous experiments—on the black community—as they made fathers irrelevant and substituted in their place the federal entitlement industry.
A Jackie Robinson knew that integration was the cure for racism, in his case by proving he was the superior athlete and sportsman. In comparison, a pampered NBA star or a Colin Kaepernick, a one percenter of the one percenters, expands his privileges by claiming perennial victim status.
Read the lyrics of our most successful rappers—so often misogynist, anti-police, racist, and homophobic—and compare such mediocrity to the genius of an Otis Redding or the brilliance of Ray Charles. It is the same as the decline in acting and music among the so-called white community, but the latter had a larger margin of error.
To sum up. The current crime wave will increase and intensify. Those who dare not speak of its characteristics are most likely to scream “Racism!” and will be the most likely to adjust accordingly: avoiding downtowns, avoiding the night, avoiding walking alone, while considering private security patrols, more cameras, more fences or moving to a red state—or screaming ever more “Racist!” against those who are articulating what they are thinking and for what they are largely culpable.
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The only hope we have is the bankruptcy of all major legacy media (ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.) Reading this site and other similar sites and comparing the information to the continuous mass propaganda being fed to the population by the legacy media is disorienting to the consumers of the latter. It is drug addition that is hard to kick. They will have withdrawals. It will be like unplugging people form the Matrix. Like telling a life-long Christian that Jesus is not real and you have been lied to all your life. I know many of them. You cannot have a reasonable conversation without being called the name of the day.. racist, homophobe, misogynist, etc. And if they lived in Florida and avoided the hell of the blue state lockdowns, they have no perspective. Everything is memory-holed.
Professor VDH: I have listened to your wise voice and read your profound thoughts. My adoration (I thought) knew no bounds. But now I sing ever louder hosannas of praise for what I consider as your true poetic genius in beautifully and accurately categorizing Obama's "wounded-fawn persona."
Dear Mr. Swanson: I hope you are right; however, I guess the questions is, "do blue voters keep voting blue once they move to red states?" From what I have seen anecdotally, they seem to keep the same party affiliation. I truly hope my observations are incorrect.
The emptying of blue states toward red states is not, I don’t believe , a pre-meditated ,orchestrated move by millions to dis-enfranchise the vote of those in red states. I believe it to be a repudiation of the failed left-wing policies from which they came and that which may indeed strengthen red voting blocks wherever they may go.. Because they are leaving “blue” states does not make those individuals members of the left. More, they are completely fed up with the leftist demo machines that are killing them with tax burdens. These people have seen the social experimentation and how it has failed them.
Victor, please write about hope. I'm getting depressed.
Wes, I hear you, but I so hope you're wrong. Then I look at the totally uninformed general public that neither reads or researches much of anything, only what the talking heads in the box tell them! We are in a very scary place now and just to think of what 2024 will look like,yikes! Will they do what needs to be done and destroy the infestation of the C.C.P. within all our institutions or business as usual? Time will tell.......
As these nihilistic indoctrinates flee the consequences of their actions, they inevitably vote and loudly proclaim their leftist fides. What a plan, and my how it is working. Empty blue states into red states, red states then become blue states. If only there was an opposition party, instead of the bribed, compromised, and sleeper WEF phonies. Speaking of which, Tulsi Gabbard is a plant and a globalist puppet. She is Ross Perot 2.0, and as such will run as an "independent" in '24 to split the idiot middle and throw it to the Five-I approved communist.