For anyone who hasn’t had enough of “systemic racism,” a phrase that Democrats now toss out anytime something’s not going their way, get ready to hear a lot more of it when Joe Biden gets elected. A lot more.
The Washington Post on Wednesday published a draft of the Democrats’ new platform, which the party will vote to adopt at the convention next month. “Racism” and “systemic racism” appear 12 times in the document, touching on the economy, healthcare, immigration, the justice system, and even Biden’s corny “soul of America” theme.
It’s all mostly worthy of a massive eye roll, but then, it gets terrifying as the document makes clear that the party is ready to pass a bunch of policies that are for the specific benefit of different minorities.
“Historic wrongs and abuses perpetrated against Native Americans, two and a half centuries of slavery, a hundred years of Jim Crow segregation, and a history of exclusionary immigration policies have created profound and lasting inequities in income, wealth, education, employment, housing, environmental quality, and health care for communities of color,” reads the cheerful platform. “Democrats are committed to standing up to racism and bigotry in our laws, in our culture, in our politics, and in our society, and recognize that race-neutral policies are not sufficient to rectify race-based disparities.”
It continues to say that Democrats will “take a comprehensive approach to embed racial justice in every element of our governing agenda.”
It’s as if someone said, “Can we put in there somewhere, ‘We’re coming for you, white people’?” And the answer was, “Yeah, but let’s tone it down a little.”
Because that’s exactly what it translates to. They honestly believe that today’s whites, as far removed from those events as everyone else, will have to give something up in order for non-whites to make advancements in their lives. That’s a step toward quotas in the private sector, still more worthless government welfare programs, and an elimination of the police, given that law and order “disproportionately affect minorities.”
Under President Biden, every single day will begin with the question, “Have you checked your white privilege today?”
Traditionally, we have worked to make the nation fairer through policies intended to protect minorities and ensure that they’re guaranteed the same chance at success. But that tradition is being cast aside as a part of systemic racism, and Biden will put an end to it for good with policies that demand the absurd without providing any legitimate path for America to finally say, “OK, now we’ve righted the wrongs of our past.”
That’s the Democratic platform, and when Biden is elected, it’s the new America.
