The 'anti-racist' books being pushed by the American Library Association replace history with the politics of resentment and fuel the flames of anger.
As he watched Joseph Stalin’s coffin removed from Red Square in 1961, Yevgeny Yevtushenko asked, “But how to remove Stalin from Stalin’s heirs.” For us, in 2020 the question becomes: “How to remove racism from the anti-racists?”
According to Ibram X. Kendi, a rising scholar of the white disorder called racism, there is no such thing as being non-racist. You are either a purposeful anti-racist or a racist. No neutral ground exists. To be “color-blind” is a ruse. Since racism is the original sin of Euro-Americans, to be anti-racist is to be … well, you finish the sentence.
Even the American Library Association has genuflected to the unspoken substructure of the anti-racist meme. Amid protests following the death of George Floyd, the ALA issued a press release heaving with self-accusation. It confessed:
The American Library Association (ALA) accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems of racism and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) within the association and the profession.
We recognize that the founding of our Association was not built on inclusion and equity, but instead was built on systemic racism and discrimination in many forms. We also recognize the hurt and harm done to BIPOC library workers and communities due to these racist structures.
Penitent librarians rushed to promote “an anti-racist reading list,” a round-up of titles and authors suited to grievance studies seminars and mandatory re-education workshops. The keynote was struck by the collected pensées of former Black Panther and police abolitionist Angela Davis, and Kendi’s instructions to white people on how to disown the racism of good intentions and become...
Let's not forget that Al Gore's daddy was a Dixiecrat segregationist.
ReplyDelete"Antiracist baby is bred not born. Antiracist baby is raised to make society transform."
ReplyDeleteSo, they admit that everyone is born accepting race as a reality. People have to be indoctrinated not to notice that races are different from each other and perform differently. But, the real cognitive dissonance is that these antiracist babies are raised to "transform society". To what? Just like communism, the end result of antiracism is believed to be a utopia in which everyone sings Imagine and is completely unselfish. Since when have people as a whole EVER been unselfish? It is not part of the human condition. And a world where everyone is unselfish would not be a Star Trek type future, but a primitive, poverty stricken future. Like all leftist doctrine, you are not supposed to look at the past that shows that humans are created a certain way and act in discernible patterns. An intelligent person would conclude that it would be best if social constructs based their actions on human nature, and not on an unknowable future that never arrives.