Viewing race relations over
the past fifty years causes any objective observer to note the great progress
which has occurred. Racial prejudice,
though still a factor, has greatly reduced in terms of practical significance. Look around.
Whether in politics, business or general society, people of different
races are to be found in prominent positions.
The melting pot in America still functions. In fact, the election of a bi-racial
president in 2008 would seem to have been the exclamation point on the subject.
Yet perceptions on the left
of what is obviously had occurred ironically shifted in the early years of
Barak Obama’s presidency.
Consider: in 2008, under 45% of white Democrats blamed
inequality between blacks and whites on
discrimination (nearly half disagreed).
By the end of Obama’s second
term, the number blaming discrimination had risen to 54%.
In 2011, 48% of white
liberals blamed discrimination for “holding back blacks”. Five years later, the number was 63%.
Plainly, white liberals were
living in a different world from the rest of America, including blacks. Thus, in 2016, white liberals were more
likely than African Americans to believe that the latter deserved special
favors to make up for prejudice. (46% to
33%)
Think about the arrogance,
the patronization in that attitude.
White liberals believe they know better than the objects of their pity
what is best for them. Non-leftists can be excused
for not understanding such attitudes. Do
white liberals/ leftists wallow in their perception that America remains – or
is now even worse- a racist society?
Why? Do they deep down hate the
land in which they reside?
The recently concluded
presidential campaigns of Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke – with their
constant attacks on the supposed racism that is rampant everywhere
(“institutional racism”) – give credence to that thought.
