Charles Blow at the New York Times wouldn’t be so bummed out if he and other liberals in the media hadn’t interpreted the immediate outrage following the death of George Floyd as a license to go nuts with a list of demands that had nothing to do with Floyd.
Blow wrote Sunday: “Much of what we saw in response to protests amounted to performative gestures, symbolism that cost nothing and shifted no power. We must come to the conclusion that some of what we saw as a racial awakening was prone to whither. Some of what we saw was people cosplaying consciousness, immersing themselves in the issue of the moment.”
He added that it appeared that there had been “illusions of progress as the system holds fast.”
By “the system,” he presumably means “white supremacy” because that’s what all his columns are about. Elimination of white supremacy, according to Blow, means fully submitting to everything that the Black Lives Matter movement demands.
For example, back in June, he said righting all of America’s wrongs “would deal in some way with wealth redistribution.”
Ah, right. How could anyone have been so silly as to think Floyd’s death was about anything less than reparations? But it turns out that most people are just more comfortable affirming that they’re not racist so long as it doesn’t mean taking their money and giving it to people whose only right to it would come by nature of their skin color.
Reparations are still unpopular. So is the “defund the police” movement — a resounding majority of black people reject it.
It’s not really “progress” that people such as Blow are after. It’s control over what other people do and possession of other people’s money.
