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Father"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003EI\u003C\/span\u003Ejeoma Oluo spends a lot of time complaining about her single white mother who took care of her when her black father returned to Nigeria and never came back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s568\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"476\" data-original-width=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELike Obama and Kamala, Ijeoma built a marketable identity by identifying with a father who abandoned her. But the author of such racist texts as\u003Ci\u003E So You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E takes it even further by identifying as Nigerian-American. The Nigerian part is very hypothetical as she was born and raised in America, and her Nigerian father left when she was a year old and broke his promise to return.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people are absolutely terrible, Ijeoma, who is half-white, insists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have never been able to escape the fact that I am a black woman in a white supremacist country,\" Oluo declaimed at the beginning of \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E. The ugly racialist book never broke through the way that Robin DiAngelo or Ibram X. Kendi did, but it was a modest success and is regularly featured at corporate critical race indoctrination sessions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike other pop critical race theory texts, Oluo began the book by berating the leftist white women who were its target audience. It’s a topic she had practiced with her mother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe woman who raised her and her brother, when they were abandoned by their black father, is a favorite topic for both siblings. But where Ahamefule Oluo, a jazz player and comedian, has done shows honoring his mother while emphasizing the subjective nature of race as he found that people in Nigeria saw him as white, Ijeoma Oluo has taken the opposite approach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma’s mother is a popular topic and punching bag. In essays and books, she decries her mother’s ‘whiteness’. “Our mom never thought that our blackness would hold us back in life—she thought we could rule the world. But that optimism and starry-eyed love was, in fact, born from her whiteness,” she complains in \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen her mother asks, “How come you never identify as white, too? I mean, you’re half white”, she retorts that \"I did not feel that whiteness was something that any person with brown skin and kinky hair could inherit\". Lots of white people have kinky hair. Certainly plenty of half-white people, like Ijeoma, do. And Ijeoma is obsessed with white supremacy’s threat to her hair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETouching her hair, she rants, \"is a continuation of the lack of respect for the basic humanity and bodily autonomy of black Americans that is endemic throughout White Supremacy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour average white supremacist probably doesn’t want to touch non-white people’s hair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut for all the attention that Ijeoma lavishes on complaining about her mother’s insufficiently woke views on race, she never mentions her father in \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E. At one point she rants, “If our mothers were raped by white men and we were born with lighter skin, we could almost be seen as attractive.” But her mother was white and married an African student.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma’s father was 53, but apparently told her mother he was 30 years old. After abandoning the mother of his children with a toddler and a one-month old baby, the African chief and doctoral student went back to his own country and promptly impregnated a woman there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer brother describes \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/my-father-is-an-african-immigrant-and-my-mother-is-a-white-girl-from-kansas-and-i-am-not-the-president-of-the-united-states\/Content?oid=8932130\"\u003Ehim\u003C\/a\u003E as a “selfish and contemptible man”. Ijeoma instead wrote her second book, \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E. Her first book is full of shots at her present mother while her second book attacks an imaginary white father.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre was released by a Hachette imprint, alongside such critical race theory rants as Vicky Osterweil's \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/09\/rich-white-leftists-are-encouraging-black-people-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EIn Defense of Looting\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E(The French publishing giant also suppressed Julie Burchill's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/publisher-cancels-book-decrying-cancel-culture-robert-spencer\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWelcome to the Woke Trials \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/02\/new-york-times-publishers-banning-conservatives-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efired Kate Hartson\u003C\/a\u003E who had published pro-Trump books.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn imprint named after a 19th century upstart French leftist publisher, Louis Hachette, a white man, released a mediocre book claiming that there was a crisis of white male mediocrity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incredible mediocrity of Moses, Hippocrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein might give some people pause, but Ijeoma explains that, “when I talk about mediocrity, I talk about success that is measured only by how much better white men are faring than people who aren’t white men”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuccess becomes mediocrity, and mediocrity becomes success.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESadly for Ijeoma, Mediocre was mediocre and failed to match the success of So You Want to Talk About Race. Ijeoma had gambled that there was an audience of white leftist women who wanted to hear that white men were awful without enduring attacks on themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma had underestimated the masochistic tendencies of the average white leftist woman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre’s author imagines that she’s an “exceptional talent”, writing that, “most women and people of color have to claw their way to any chance at success or power, have to work twice as hard as white men and prove themselves to be exceptional talents before we begin to entertain discussions of truly equal representation in our workplaces or government.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat exceptional talents has Ijeoma shown beyond bashing white people on the internet?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre is a random mess of intersectional clichés and historical sketches from periods that she clearly doesn’t understand as tries to roll them into her argument. “Stalin ended up being another white man who would distort entire movements to serve his purposes,” she insists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s almost coherent compared to chapters where Ijeoma leaps from attacks on cowboys to complaining about Bernie Sanders supporters on Facebook. None of this has much to do with the book’s supposed theme of white male mediocrity. The only common thread is that white men are terrible because they’re white and they’re men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite male conservatives are evil, but so are white male leftists who only join causes to maintain their power. White men are locked “into cycles of fear and violence” and the “white male glorification of violence has saturated our action films”. It’s a curious claim for a woman whose African father wrote his thesis on the Biafra-Nigerian Civil War and whose country, which she identifies with, has been in the middle of one kind of civil war or another for generations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWomen have to “divorce ourselves from the lure of proximity to white male power” even “when those white men are our friends, our husbands, our fathers, or our sons,” Ijeoma Oluo argues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet Ijeoma followed her father, the “Honorable Chief Dr. Sam Oluo”, into political science. While her brother courted her father’s disapproval by playing music, she tried to imitate her absent father. And has spent her life making excuses for him and his culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen as a teenager she contacted Nigerians on the internet and they began to scam her, she processed it as the \"legacy of colonialism\" so that \"every white person scammed out of their life savings felt, in a way, like a bit of retribution for the ravages of colonization and slavery.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcept that the Nigerian scam artists were just as happy to scam her as they were anyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“My Nigerian father was Catholic for the same reason why he spoke with a British accent,”  Ijeoma snapped on Twitter. “Because his oppressors forced him to.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did he abandon her? Probably because of those white oppressors. Like her mother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s a story there about racial identity and hatred, gratitude and ingratitude, and the primal way that children can identify with a father who isn’t there while hating the mother who is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s not a story that Hachette would publish or Ijeoma Olou would be likely to write.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Ijeoma \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBs-drKpGEE\/?hl=en\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E a tribute to the white grandfather who had not abandoned her when her black father had. \"My father returned to Nigeria when I was two and was more of a story than an actual person in my life. But my grandfather, my Bob Bob, loved me so completely that I never felt lacking.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe photo that came with it showed an older white man holding a young black girl in his arms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater that year, she published \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1661651304725260368\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/white-men-are-terrible-insists-author.html#comment-form","title":"15 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1661651304725260368"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1661651304725260368"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/white-men-are-terrible-insists-author.html","title":"White Men are Terrible, Insists Author Abandoned by Her Black Father"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"15"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6441229114177587878"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-27T16:05:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-27T16:05:01.030-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big Tech"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Did Amazon’s Critical Race Theory Push Lead to a Racist Assault on a Customer?"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ever since Amazon created its own delivery service, the blue vests of its drivers and the dark blue trucks with the monopolistic giant’s arrow have become as ubiquitous as UPS brown or FedEx purple and orange on every street and highway in America. And with good reason.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s package volume is expected to surpass UPS and FedEx as a host of men and women in blue rush to deliver orders from Chinese third party sellers and drop shippers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut on the first Friday of June, a delivery in California instead ended in a violent assault.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s491\/amazon%2Bassault.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"334\" data-original-width=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/amazon%2Bassault.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EUsually Amazon rips off customers, companies, and entire countries, but it doesn’t beat them. This time there was an exception as Itzel Ramirez, an Amazon driver in her twenties, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/critical-race-theory-violence-woke-amazon-driver-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ecaught on video\u003C\/a\u003E violently \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/amazon-delivery-driver-arrested-for-assault-says-she-punched-67-year-old-in-self-defense\"\u003Eassaulting\u003C\/a\u003E a 67-year-old woman who had asked about her package.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Ramirez claimed self-defense, the video shows her assaulting the elderly woman from behind, punching her in the back of the head, and seemingly using a key ring in the assault. The beating caused the victim to collide with the door and reportedly left her with a broken nose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was not the first assault by an Amazon driver on an elderly person caught on video. An Amazon driver had previously assaulted a 73-year-old man in Miami Beach. But this time the Amazon delivery person had used a politically correct slur thereby turning it into a hate crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERamirez had accused her victim of “white privilege”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite that slur, she has not been charged with a hate crime. In a state where critical race theory is being forced into schools and on employees of major corporations, it’s not likely that a violent racist echoing an official dogma that demonizes white people would be held accountable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon claimed that the violent assault on one of its customers “does not reflect the high standards we have for drivers\" and assured everyone that \"this individual is no longer delivering Amazon packages.” But it may be worth examining what Amazon’s standards really are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike every Silicon Valley company, Amazon has gone all in on critical race theory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Amazon assault happened the same year that Jeff Bezos, the company's founder and CEO, announced that he was stepping down. Bezos was ruthless, cruel, and amoral, but beyond using the Washington Post to become a D.C. power broker had less interest in conventional corporate virtue signaling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAndy Jassy, his right-hand man who will replace him as CEO after being in charge of Amazon's cloud platform, is a more traditional Big Tech wokester.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJassy falsely \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/06\/whiteness-woke-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eaccused\u003C\/a\u003E police departments of \"murdering black people\", supported illegal aliens, and made the decision to shut down Parler. His wife is a Bernie Sanders donor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incoming Big Tech CEO has vowed to focus the company on “diversity and more inclusion.” If its employees weren't feeling abused enough by having to pee into cups, Amazon mandated that all employees complete a 90-minute \"Strengthening Our Culture of Inclusion\" program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon had already banned non-inclusive language like \"blacklists\" (which didn't stop it from blacklisting all sorts of people), but now it was going further with identity politics affinity groups and its Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) events featuring extremists and racists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECORE events packed thousands of Amazon employees into massive meetings to be accused of racism by a series of racist and extreme leftist speakers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech monopoly’s first CORE event had already featured Robin DiAngelo, whose famous idea is that white people are all racist and evil, as well as Carmen Perez, the Farrakhan supporter who served as one of the leaders of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/womens-march-organizer-and-farrakhan-fan-tamika-mallory-attacks-the-anti-defamation-league\"\u003Ethe Women's March\u003C\/a\u003E before being forced out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon also invited Ijeoma Oluo, a self-described “internet yeller” who had written a book arguing that “white male mediocrity” is a theme throughout history. That’s exactly the message that a company of white male engineers needed to hear. Oluo had berated her own mother, who raised her after being abandoned by her Nigerian academic father, over her “white privilege”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso at Amazon’s first CORE was Michael Welp whose White Men As Full Diversity Partners stirred \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/lockheed-martins-woke-industrial-complex\"\u003Ea backlash\u003C\/a\u003E when its training at Lockheed described white men as racists and privileged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWelp was also present at the second CORE event while stigmatizing white people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlicia Garza, a co-founder of the racist black nationalist hate group Black Lives Matter, appeared on a CORE panel together with DiAngelo and Perez.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso there was Latasha Gillespie, the head of global diversity and inclusion at Amazon Studios, who has claimed that police murder black people while ranting about \"white privilege\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe second CORE event also included rabid hatred for America with Edgar Villanueva showing a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sultanknish\/status\/1405648637342801921\"\u003Eslide\u003C\/a\u003E that described America as being based on colonization and genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat impact did all of these racist and hateful ideas have on Amazon employees?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon, like many other major corporations, has submerged its employees in the dogma of critical race theory. And while this is meant to lead to the discrimination and mistreatment of white employees in the name of equity, could it also lead to violence against white people?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech monopoly has relied on independent contractors to build its delivery network. However Amazon also exercises a great deal of control over these drivers. And as its statement after the “white privilege” assault in California shows, it ultimately controls their employment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon has embedded equity into its Delivery Service Partner push and encouraged existing employees to become DSPs. Did any of its existing racist CORE programming have an influence on the cultural ecosystem of the DSP that employed Itzel Ramirez?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is unfortunately a question that no one in the media appears to be asking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe rise of the DSP system paralleled the rise of critical race theory at Amazon. Even while Amazon was finding new ways to virtue signal, it was also finding new ways to exploit workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s DSP program evades accountability for delivery drivers like Ramirez who wear its blue vests and drive its vans, but who are actually working for small contractors, many of them minorities, who are being deliberately kept small so they can never compete for a better deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Big Tech giant will insist that it had no responsibility for the assault on one of its customers by a racist driver who had absorbed the critical race theory slur of “white privilege” that Amazon had endorsed by featuring racist figures and rhetoric at its CORE inclusion events.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon’s white leadership encourages racism against white people while remaining insulated from minority workers who might want to lash out at the nearest white person they can find.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen BLM and Antifa created CHAZ in their Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, the epicenter was about a dozen blocks away from Andy Jassy's 1906 mansion on the outskirts of Capitol Hill. But there's a world of differences between the local small businesses that were terrorized by black nationalists and anarchists in CHAZ and the sedate tree-lined street of multi-million dollar Victorian homes where Jassy and his pro-Sanders designer wife comfortably reside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incoming Amazon CEO may rant about the police and his home may boast the ubiquitous \"Black Lives Matter\" \"No Human is Illegal\", and \"Science is Real\" lawn sign prefered by wealthy woke suburbanites, but his estate is protected by a spiked gate and high walls disguised by massive hedges. Defunding the police is an experience to be lived out by other, poorer people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome people may be beaten by Amazon’s critical race theory drivers over their white privilege, but Amazon executives have spiked gates to make certain they’re not the ones being beaten.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6441229114177587878\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/did-amazons-critical-race-theory-push.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6441229114177587878"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6441229114177587878"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/did-amazons-critical-race-theory-push.html","title":"Did Amazon’s Critical Race Theory Push Lead to a Racist Assault on a Customer?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vPP5_pjj8uU\/YNjZ400gL8I\/AAAAAAAATUo\/BWx6jcP6Z_UM_lvMl5hxvxPmp2N2b9KvQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/amazon%2Bassault.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1176742657441154296"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T15:59:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T15:59:12.742-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Whiteness of Woke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention” the bumper stickers on a thousand SUVs in the upscale bedroom communities of dysfunctional cities read. “Deutschland Erwache,” the National Socialists used to shout in the streets of Munich. Woke compresses it all to one word.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWokeness means believing that politics is all there is to life. And nothing is whiter than that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThose minorities who form the backbone of the activists and voting blocs of identity politics don’t care about politics. Identity politics is politics to white wokes and identitarianism to minorities. Critical race theory is only a theory to white people. To everyone else, it’s tribal hatred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolitical theories are abstractions. Tribal identity is very real. Wokeness is concerned with getting white people to buy into tribal identity as a political abstraction rather than a real force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes turned race into the abstraction that is whiteness. What is whiteness? It’s unconscious cultural habits and ways of thinking. The notion that race is a set of ideas rather than a tangible reality would be vocally denied by both white and black racial identitarians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe consequence of race as an abstraction is the transracial idea that minorities can become infected with internalized whiteness and the spread of multiracial whiteness. If minorities can become white, it follows that white wokes can become minorities by shedding their whiteness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhiteness is a racial consciousness, but based on Marxist power relations, not blood and soil, or genetics, let alone the crude resentment of the ‘other’ that lurks at the heart of raw tribalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory hijacks racism and racial identity to replace it with Marxist theories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes use critical race theory the way that elites always used Marxist theories to compete with more successful people of their own upper class. Class warfare was never about the rise of the oppressed: Lenin was a member of the nobility, Mao’s father was a landlord and a money lender, and Castro was a wealthy law student whose father owned a plantation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is designed to thin out the overproduction of elites. It’s a weapon against meritocracy by the same mediocre cliques looking for a shortcut in the competition. Executives force critical race theory into workplaces to shut down ambitious younger rivals. Suburban soccer moms of dumber kids go woke and push it into schools to even the playing field.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat's whiteness? As the Smithsonian Museum of African-American Culture's chart of \"white culture\" put it, whiteness covers everything from a serious work ethic to self-reliance, rational thinking, delayed gratification, achieving goals, being on time, and, finally, \"competition\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGet rid of academic standards, intellectual seriousness, punish success, and the mediocre woke white elites who first created quota systems a century ago have much more of a shot at the top.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inherent assumption of class warfare was that the proles were too backward to be a competitive threat. The racist assumption behind critical race theory is that black people can’t compete. If the wokes thought otherwise, they would be denouncing black people as racist the way that Asian-Americans and Jews are repeatedly accused of racism and privilege.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing accused of group privilege isn’t an insult: it’s a backhanded compliment. Wokes pander to those groups they think of as inferior and attack those groups they see as competition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes embrace anti-white racism the way that wealthy white lefties championed class warfare. It’s not self-hatred, but hatred of more successful members of their group by enlisting those below them whom they don’t see as competitors to bring down more successful rivals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the identitarian racism they’re cultivating among minorities is not theoretical or hypothetical. And neither is the response among working class whites whom they once courted and abandoned. Racial consciousness may only be a theory to woke elites, but it’s not theoretical to the people they’re pitting against each other. Identity politics is only politics to elites, it’s identity to everyone else, and in a country losing the commonalities of religion and patriotism, it’s lethal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBuilding a Marxist flavor of racism makes elites Marxists and everyone else racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is meant to force white people to see themselves as an ‘other’ and to legitimize the idea of minorities viewing white people that way. Whiteness studies as an academic discipline exists to ‘other’ white people and minorities who can be accused of suffering from multiracial whiteness on account of their success or resistance to dogma.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherness undermines empathy and ethics. It licenses everything from hatred to violence to genocide. The more we view people as less than human, the more likely we are to do everything from cut them off in traffic to steal from them and even kill them. National media narratives demand sympathy for George Floyd or Breonna Taylor while refusing to cover the victims of crime because critical race theory denies that they deserve sympathy or humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIdeas have horrifying consequences and leftists have a long history of failing to understand the murderous implications of their self-serving abstract intellectualizations. Only when millions of bodies start piling up do they occasionally begin to wrestle with some sort of moral reckoning. And even then, the reckoning is quickly shelved before it ever really comes into being.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome Communists turned on the Soviet Union after the Hitler-Stalin pact and the revelations of Stalin’s crimes. Fewer have accepted any kind of moral reckoning for the millions killed by Mao, or the Cambodian genocide, not to mention generations of massacres in Latin America. Nearer to our own time, you won’t find a proponent of Obama’s foreign policy who has even dared to suggest that the Arab Spring was a catastrophic disaster that may have killed a million people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe body count for Black Lives Matter is estimated as at least 4,000 when you account for the massive increase in murder and crime rates. Most of those would likely be of black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing recruited into a war of liberation by white wokes comes with a high body count. And the blood price isn’t being paid by corporations who sent out emails about George Floyd or sorority sisters holding up ACAB signs. Just as they’re not the ones who paid the price for the collapse of the family or the social structure of both black and white working class communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, \"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.\" But there are fewer places to retreat to in a completely polarized society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElites retreat into abstractions. They buy a copy of Robin DiAngelo’s book and Zoom into the latest call of the white allies caucus at their workplace knowing that they may not be good at much, but they are good at undermining those who are actually good at something. But the rising tide of tribalism is not an abstraction for those for whom identity becomes humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWoke is very white, but its vastness is illusory. The woke elites control corporations and institutions, but what woke is feeding isn’t abstract discrimination, but violent racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn California, an Amazon driver beat an older lady who asked her about a package. The minority driver had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/critical-race-theory-violence-woke-amazon-driver-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eaccused her victim\u003C\/a\u003E of possessing \"white privilege\" before attacking her from behind. This is what critical race theory actually looks like outside the suburban bubble of social justice dinners and struggle sessions which, grueling as they are, are at least non-violent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Amazon forced every employee to take diversity and inclusion training. Even as the Big Tech monopoly is looting the American economy by selling it out to China, it's doubled down on virtue signaling, promising to go 'green' by 2025 and building an HR infrastructure of 'equity'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon's new CEO Andy Jassy is a militant leftist who had previously \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajassy\/status\/1309176233117257728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1309176233117257728%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_\u0026amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fnew-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-on-immigration-black-lives-matter-2021-2\"\u003Eranted that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"If you don't hold police depts accountable for murdering black people, we will never have justice and change.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe monopolistic tech giant subjects workers to Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) when it isn’t forcing them to urinate into cups. The speakers at a Big Tech CORE hatefest \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/amazons-inaugural-coreconversations-race-ethnicity-events-maxine-gray\/\"\u003Eincluded \u003C\/a\u003EBLM co-founder Alicia Garza, Farrakhan fan \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/carmen-perez\/\"\u003ECarmen Perez\u003C\/a\u003E, and Robin DiAngelo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut critical race theory looks very different in the conference room of a monopoly trying to launder its destruction of the country’s economy so that its former CEO can go off into space by bringing in a few racism profiteers to berate managers about their white privilege than on the street where abstractions of whiteness give way to vicious beatings of elderly white women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond academic wokeness is the gritty racial identitarian reality of tribal violence and murder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Amazon and other Big Tech monopolies compete with each other on woke virtue signaling, and Robin DiAngelo adds another million to her bank account, people are being beaten and murdered in the streets of American cities. While Jeff Bezos and other woke elites go off to space, woke translates into tribal hatred and violence down here on earth.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1176742657441154296\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-whiteness-of-woke.html#comment-form","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1176742657441154296"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1176742657441154296"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-whiteness-of-woke.html","title":"The Whiteness of Woke"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"10"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3852885410518744631"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-22T04:46:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-22T04:46:00.494-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"illegal aliens"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Puts Specialist in Illegal Aliens in Charge of Census"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The media is touting Biden’s pick of Robert Santos as historic because he would be the first “census director of color”. Emphasizing the race or ethnicity of Biden’s nominees has become the media’s usual tactic for obscuring their radicalism while accusing their critics of racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a third-generation American whose grandparents came to this country over a century ago, whose parents raised him not to speak Spanish, Santos is hardly an oppressed minority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kZP8Ph1J7eA\/YH-ZPEo7JBI\/AAAAAAAATBg\/sm78bbSJEgcwpx5rYydlboULoJxUX3mKgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s530\/image_2021-04-20_201717.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"495\" data-original-width=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kZP8Ph1J7eA\/YH-ZPEo7JBI\/AAAAAAAATBg\/sm78bbSJEgcwpx5rYydlboULoJxUX3mKgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-20_201717.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EDuring the census, the media repeatedly trotted Santos out to warn that minorities would be undercounted and that the citizenship question would suppress minority participation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If the administration tries to take out undocumented folks, that’s going to lead to lot of litigation,” Santos warned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There is no question that in my mind that the citizenship question would deter participation by some parts of the public,” he told NPR.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd for a nominee to head the Census Bureau, Santos has a curious specialty: illegal aliens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Urban Institute, where he serves as Vice President, stated that his, \"specialty areas include undocumented immigrants and other disadvantaged populations\". Santos’ first publication was for a partnership between the Urban Institute and the National Council of La Raza.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe La Raza report, partly authored by Santos, was titled, “Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children”. La Raza, meaning The Race. The term is based on La Raza Cosmica, an essay by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's leftist Minister of Education, whose racist obsession with creating a mixed master race led him to eugenics and Nazi Germany.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVasconcelos believed that mestizos would form a new fifth race that would be superior to Europeans and Africans whom he deemed inferior. While pushing a combined race\/ethnicity \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/news\/2019-07-11\/2020-census-while-critical-is-facing-more-obstacles-than-usual\"\u003Ecensus question\u003C\/a\u003E in an interview, Santos said, “When I fill out the census form, I check the Latino-Hispanic-Mexican American box and when it comes to race I mark 'other' an insert 'mestizo' because that's how I feel about race and ethnicity.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/7906cf17-9203-41f4-afc2-0566df8672d9\/downloads\/Santos%20--BLS%20Keynote%20--%20From%20Chicano%20to%20Latinx.pdf?ver=1615661954458\"\u003E got involved\u003C\/a\u003E in the Raza Unida party when he was in college. The name means, “The Race United”. Its racial nationalism envisioned Aztlan, a new Aztec homeland carved out of America. Its famous chant, \"Viva La Raza!\" meant \"Hail the Race\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to worst, we have got to kill him,” Jose Angel Gutierrez, a founder and leader of the racist Raza Unida Party, had declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing a member of a racist hate group would normally preclude any kind of major political post, but leftist racist hate groups are a different story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Raza Unida party gained some popularity and I was able to meet some of the principals in the city that included poets, musicians, political scientists, activists and so on.  I quickly embraced being a Chicano, a Mestizo…  I was Raza!” Santos cheerfully recollected his racial awakening. “They were more concerned with building political power and civic engagement.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos then went to college on a Ford Foundation fellowship. The Ford Foundation had been the financial backer behind Gutierrez’s Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and later funded\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/government-regulation\/commentary\/getting-rid-la-raza\"\u003E the\u003C\/a\u003E National Council of La Raza.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ford Foundation also provided support to the Urban Institute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I was among the last cohorts to benefit from Affirmative Action,” Santos noted. He joined the Association for Critical Social Studies, a radical leftist group whose only surviving mention is a mural that it sponsored entitled, ‘Struggle of the Classes’ by a Mexican Communist artist who had previously drawn pictures of Marx and Lenin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis career continues to reflect the use of statistics for political goals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos’ publications emphasize claims of discrimination. His policy areas include “immigration and refugees, environmental issues, housing discrimination”. No one was expecting Biden to put forward a moderate, but even his bio makes little effort to present Santos as anything other than an activist on a mission. And activists shouldn’t be in charge of the Census Bureau.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the census, his proposals, a combined race and ethnicity question, and adding a transgender category, have been heavy on identity politics. And identity politics is politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats claimed that President Trump was politicising the census, and now they’ve made it abundantly clear that they intend to politicise it by appointing a specialist in illegal aliens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Santos was fear mongering about the census, the media took pains to describe his Urban Institute as “non-partisan”. But it’s financed by the usual slate of lefty non-profit donors like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefellers, and Bloomberg's Everytown. Its political goals, especially when it comes to immigration, are quite familiar, and involved fighting against any effort to reform immigration even through the public charge rule.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next census is a decade away, but Santos can help shape the statistical priorities of a radical movement that loves the idea of gaining data for its extreme political agendas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd in Santos they have a political activist with a history of radicalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe census is meant to measure the population of the United States, but Robert Santos, like most leftists besotted with identity politics, is only interested in narrow parts of that population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat alone is reason enough why he doesn’t belong at the head of the Census Bureau.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos’ leftist racial nationalism is bad enough. In a lecture, he claims that, “just as Latino young adults embraced the terms Chicano and Mestizo in the 1970s, today’s Latino Millennials are drawn to the term Latinx which is gender neutral.” Latinx is as popular as Mestizo ever was. Few Latinos want to identify themselves through the ideas of radical leftist theorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Santos can’t envision Latino identity except through a leftist paradigm. Latinos, like the United States of America, must be broken and remade into a progressive new form.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELooking at a photo of himself as a child, he can \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/7906cf17-9203-41f4-afc2-0566df8672d9\/downloads\/Santos%20--BLS%20Keynote%20--%20From%20Chicano%20to%20Latinx.pdf?ver=1615661954458\"\u003Eonly think\u003C\/a\u003E, “It’s a Davy Crockett shirt!  The same Davy Crockett that helped take Texas away from my Mexican ancestors.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not a man who can take America’s measure. And yet he’s Biden’s choice.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3852885410518744631\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/biden-puts-specialist-in-illegal-aliens.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3852885410518744631"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3852885410518744631"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/biden-puts-specialist-in-illegal-aliens.html","title":"Biden Puts Specialist in Illegal Aliens in Charge of Census"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kZP8Ph1J7eA\/YH-ZPEo7JBI\/AAAAAAAATBg\/sm78bbSJEgcwpx5rYydlboULoJxUX3mKgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-20_201717.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2694448907539449226"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-31T23:58:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-31T23:58:01.239-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"When Black Mass Shooters Kill Asians, It’s Not a Hate Crime"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"Those Asian officers who stand by and observe everything I previously mentioned,\" Christopher Dorner wrote in his manifesto. \"You are a high value target as well.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe black mass shooter's first target was Monica Quan, the Asian-American daughter of Randall Quan, the first Chinese-American to become an LAPD captain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S5o8sEtHL9U\/YGPzq7-l-FI\/AAAAAAAAS9M\/smoeGWl5chk207VF0cHanetrlmghVWVogCNcBGAsYHQ\/s564\/image_2021-03-30_205938.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"420\" data-original-width=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S5o8sEtHL9U\/YGPzq7-l-FI\/AAAAAAAAS9M\/smoeGWl5chk207VF0cHanetrlmghVWVogCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-03-30_205938.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EMonica was shot three times in the back of the head. Afterward, Dorner called her father and told him that he \"should have done a better job of protecting his daughter.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media coverage of Dorner’s shooting spree focused on the racist rants about white police officers (or caucasians) in his manifesto, but there was very little discussion of his hatred for Asian-Americans even though he had named them as targets in his hateful screed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen black mass shooters kill Asian people, the media tries to gloss over it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EColin Ferguson's mass shooting in the 90s on a New York train is remembered largely for the decision by his radical leftist lawyers, William Kunstler and Ron Kuby to use the “Black Rage” defense. Shortly before his death, Kunstler argued that black people are entitled to rage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what is often forgotten is that two of the six people whom Ferguson murdered were Asian.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaria Theresa Tumangan Magtoto was the daughter of an official with the Philippine Senate. Mi Kyung Kim, a Korean-American, had been working as a library assistant at Columbia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA third of the men and women whom Ferguson killed were Asians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis wasn't a coincidence. Notes in Ferguson's pockets were scribbled with rants about white people, \"Uncle Toms\", and \"Chinese\" people. None of the Asian-Americans he shot were actually Chinese, but the racist gunman didn't seem to care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“When Louis Farrakhan mentioned Mr. Ferguson at a New York rally on Dec. 18, his audience erupted in an ovation”, “The Hate That Hate Begot”, a New York Daily News article, noted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“God spoke to Colin Ferguson and said, 'Catch the train, Colin, catch the train’”, the Nation of Islam’s Khalid Abdul Muhammad declared at Howard University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen John Allen Muhammad went on his rampage, his victims included Hong Im Ballenger, a Korean immigrant who ran a beauty supply store. As the D.C. sniper’s last name showed, he had been a member of Farrakhan’s black supremacist Nation of Islam hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Nation of Islam believes that non-black people were created through a eugenics program by a mad scientist from the original black race. “Asians want to know if we are targeting all Asian business. We know Asians have targeted Black communities to exploit. The JIG IS UP,\" Jeffery Muhammad, the Nation of Islam leader in Dallas, had warned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis sort of anti-Asian hate extends into the highest reaches of the Democrats and the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore Al Sharpton was an MSNBC host, a Democrat presidential candidate with a DNC speaking slot, and a Democrat kingmaker, he was leading boycotts of Korean stores.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESharpton had supported \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/1995\/05\/07\/their-american-nightmare\/\"\u003Ethe\u003C\/a\u003E infamous Family Red Apple boycott at which racist mobs had called the owners, \"yellow monkeys\" and chanted, \"Koreans, go home.\" The \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/americas-black-racist-hypocrisy-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EFreddy’s Fashion Mart protests\u003C\/a\u003E, led by Morris Powell, head of the Buy Black Committee at Sharpton’s National Action Network, later turned lethal, culminating in the murders of seven people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the motive there was antisemitism and the victims were mostly young Latino women, the fire was followed by \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/4EClp\"\u003Ethreats of violence\u003C\/a\u003E against Korean stores in Harlem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Powell had cut his teeth on black supremacist boycotts of Asian businesses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a previous boycott incident at the Victory Fish Market, he had allegedly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/newspage\/473595764\/\"\u003Efractured \u003C\/a\u003Ethe skull of Kim Soo Yea: the wife of the store owner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Action Network has since been addressed by every top Democrat from Obama to Biden to Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats have jumped eagerly on the spa shootings. Their media insists that the shooter could not have been a sex addict motivated by his own disorder, as he said, but that he must be a racist who hated Asian people, while refusing to make a reckoning with the publicly stated hatred for Asian people of black mass shooters like Colin Ferguson and Christopher Dorner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe spa shootings emerged as a convenient distraction from the protests over the escalating criminal assaults on Asian people in California and New York by mostly black perpetrators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The perpetrator in some cases has been African American,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed had said. “And as an African American woman, as the mayor of your city, I am here to hold everyone accountable.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was not the media’s agenda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack in February, Time was scolding Asian-American victims and telling them that they needed to figure out “how to tackle anti-Asian violence without relying on law enforcement institutions that have historically targeted Black and brown communities”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the spa shootings, headlines like \"Advocates Discourage Anti-Black Sentiment Amid Violence Against Asians\" and the clumsy attempts to falsely ascribe attacks by black men on elderly Asian people to President Trump and whiteness (\"This violence is caused by a system that makes working people compete against each other for scraps of what the wealthy possess,\" Oakland City Councilwoman Carroll Fife) gave way to political relief for Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media spread the false claim that a police spokesman had dismissed the attack as a case of the perpetrator having a “bad day”. Even though neither the police nor the FBI had found a racial motive, the media spread its racism narrative without even the tiniest trace of evidence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt makes little difference to the actual case. Even now, at the peak of the Democrat pro-crime policy wave where criminals are let loose for slashings and robberies, a mass murderer is never going to set foot outside the prison system whether or not he’s charged with a hate crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut there’s a great deal politically at stake for the Democrat media which is seizing the opportunity to deflect a politically problematic crisis back into politically safe waters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERacist killers don’t make a big secret of their hate. White supremacist mass shooters like Dylann Roof at the Mother Emanuel church in Charleston and Robert Bowers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, or black supremacist shooters, like Micah X. Johnson in Dallas or David Anderson at the Kosher market in Jersey City, left their ugly beliefs in public view.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDorner and Ferguson had notes and manifestos.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media spends a lot more time talking about politically convenient mass killers than inconvenient ones. It’s why Robert Bowers got so much more coverage than David Anderson. It’s also why Colin Ferguson and Dylann Roof received a very different reception.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is wholly possible to be an evil person without being a bigot. The average serial killer is not a racist. He’s just wholly devoid of empathy and enjoys the pain and suffering of others. Not every crime needs to be viewed through the narrow academic lens of prejudice: let alone ‘whiteness’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut much as Communists couldn’t see the world in any terms other than class, Wokies can’t  understand any event except by shoving it into their identity politics prism. Some things fit into that prism, others can be made to fit with enough fake news, and still others will never fit and have to be ignored, covered up, and buried at midnight in the media graveyard of dead stories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media is no longer in the business of reporting stories, but of politically reconciling them in the same way that Pravda reporters had to reconcile events with Marxism-Leninism. The media politically confronts events, and tries to understand them, before distilling their understanding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJournalism has become an academic enterprise of grad students treating every event like an opportunity to unload critical race theory lectures so that the public can be properly educated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut now that the media is suddenly interested in mass shooters who target Asians, it might want to revisit Ferguson and Dorner who actually targeted Asians and wrote about doing it, instead of trying to ascribe a racial motive to a monster who left behind no evidence of being a bigot.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2694448907539449226\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/when-black-mass-shooters-kill-asians.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2694448907539449226"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2694448907539449226"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/when-black-mass-shooters-kill-asians.html","title":"When Black Mass Shooters Kill Asians, It’s Not a Hate Crime"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S5o8sEtHL9U\/YGPzq7-l-FI\/AAAAAAAAS9M\/smoeGWl5chk207VF0cHanetrlmghVWVogCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-03-30_205938.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}}]}});