Learned helplessness is the No. 1 thing liberals promote and attempt to instill in black Americans. This remained true even when we had a black president. It continues now that we have a black vice president. And heaven help the black man, Republican Sen. Tim Scott in particular, who fails to obey.

Vice President Kamala Harris last week made what would have not long ago been a very uncontroversial remark when she said that the United States was not a racist country. Such a statement is now heresy in the social justice-controlled Democratic Party because it robs black Democratic voters of the ultimate excuse — that their personal circumstances are not their own responsibility, that anything wrong in their lives is the fault of someone else, just blame the nearest white person.