It used to be Louis Farrakhan’s schtick to call the entire United States, its foundation and institutions, racist.
Now it’s not just his.
It’s now the assumption under which mainstream Democrats and liberals operate. Not only do they think you’re crazy for taking offense, but they also think — of course! — you’re a racist.
“It is time for us to simply call a thing a thing,” liberal New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote Wednesday. “White supremacy is the biggest racial problem this country faces, and has faced. It is almost always the cause of unrest around race. It has been used to slaughter and destroy, to oppress and imprison. It manifests in every segment of American life.”
A piece published in the Washington Post on Independence Day — a news article, not an op-ed — was only slightly more subtle, referring to America’s “legacy of white domination.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, was a serious contender for the Democratic nomination. At the presidential primary debate on Feb. 7, he swung for the fences, declaring the U.S. “a racist society from top to bottom.” He went on to win seven state primaries. For a moment, it looked like he might even become the nominee.
The Democrats who used to be vague about it, muttering things such as, “We have a lot more work to do on racial equality” or talking about “fulfilling America’s promise,” are a dying breed. They now just say this whole place is racist and that it sucks.
It’s not so much a new thought they’ve had as it is that, since 2014, all of our leaders have grown increasingly afraid of the Black Lives Matter mob.
America is a racist country, they now say with zeal. That’s the new normal.
