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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"44"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2151237929217476000"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-04T17:35:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-04T17:35:12.700-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Lives Matter Led to a 62% Increase in Black Murders"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Black Lives Matter movement and the allied criminal justice reform movement which opened jails and decriminalized crimes led to a nearly 30% surge in murders in 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 29.4% increase is historically unprecedented.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.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\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe worst one-year percentage jump in murders was a 12.7% increase in 1968 during a crime wave that led Democrats and Republicans to embrace tough on crime policies. 1968 was the year that LBJ signed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act into law. But the opposite happened in 2020 as Democrats and some libertarian Republicans colluded to dismantle the criminal justice system, open up the jails, and endorse Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pro-crimers have the blood of thousands on their hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FBI’s numbers are in and they show that Black Lives Matter and its corporate backers killed more black people in one year than anything short of an African civil war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's an additional 2,244 black people killed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E56% of the murder victims of 2020 were black.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile people of all races were more likely to be murdered in the year of Black Lives Matter, black people were disproportionately likely to be killed as a result of police defunding and the George Floyd Effect, as well as the pressure on the justice system to open up prisons, free criminals, and stop arresting new criminals in the name of fighting for the big lie of racial justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020. The 36% increase is devastating, but the number of black people murdered in 2020 shot up 62%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 62% increase in the murders of black people should be the headline in every single media outlet which currently treats the lack of black classical musicians or chefs as a major crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile statistics like 135 \"unarmed\" black people being shot by police in 5 years becomes a cause for massive riots, violent assaults on innocent people, and the defunding of the police, a 62% increase in the murders of black people won’t even get a mention from the same media which regales us with claims that car accidents are racist because of disproportionate impact.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 62% increase in the murders of black people is the biggest disproportionate impact statistic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the 2,244 black people had been shot by white people, Asian people, or Republicans, we could talk about it. Indeed, the odds are that we would never talk about anything else. Ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut unfortunately it’s the devastating result of black-on-black crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of the population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people and Latinos who make up 76% of the country accounted for 3,981 homicides or 34%. American Indians were responsible for 116 murders and Asians for only 65 murders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack people both commit murders and are the victims of murders at disproportionate rates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no escaping these facts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoddling criminals and defunding police hurts people of all races, but black people are the ones suffering the worst from the gang members and criminals in their communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe number of black murderers rose 38% from 4,208 to 5,832. That’s a sharp increase in black murderers, but it’s dwarfed by the 62% increase in black murders. The number of black crime victims is rising much faster than the number of black criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack people are becoming victims at higher rates than they are becoming criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is exactly why it was black communities who originally championed a crackdown on crime, why the NAACP had originally demanded the death penalty for drug dealers, and why black people are still far more likely to oppose police defunding and other pro-crime measures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven in the one category of violent crime, rape, that decreased overall in 2020, that was true of every group except one where the number of black rape victims defied the trend.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut black rape victims, like black lives, don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Israel, the hashtag Arab Lives Matter took off after the rise in arab-on-arab crime to demand that Israeli police stop the criminals. In the United States, Black Lives Matter is a demand that the police allow gang members to shoot up black neighborhoods with no interference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe additional 2,244 dead black people are a tribute to Black Lives Matter’s efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Robin DiAngelo cashes in preaching the cult of anti-racism, and suburban white liberals search their souls for systemic racism, what’s really destroying black people is in the numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E5,839 black people were murdered in one year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHomicide doesn't even make the CDC's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthequity\/lcod\/men\/2017\/nonhispanic-black\/index.htm\"\u003Etop 10 causes \u003C\/a\u003Eof death for men in America, but it's number four for black men. In 2017, it caused 5% of the deaths of black men, more than strokes, diabetes, or most diseases. The only things more likely to kill black men than black-on-black crime are heart disease, cancer, and accidents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Those were 2017 numbers, the 2020 numbers, if they’re released, will be much worse.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly at the age of 65 does homicide drop out of the top 10 causes of death for black men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are no such numbers among any other group, including black women. They reflect a high rate of gang violence, drug dealing, and violent crime among a subset of black men. This crisis is not news. There has been ample research on the subject going back generations that the new wokeness decided to shut down, suppress, and penalize anyone who mentioned it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2020, the Left used George Floyd’s overdose death to initiate a massive cultural revolution, supposedly on behalf of black people, but in reality to spread terror and seize power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust as the proletariat paid the price for the leftist revolutions conducted on behalf of the working class, black men are paying the price for the latest revolution being waged on their behalf. The people paying the price may be ordinary, or they may be gang members themselves. The dismantling of the criminal justice system also led to an unprecedented expansion in crime that recruited a generation of black teens into drug dealing, robbery, and carjacking. The police now routinely arrest armed carjackers as young as twelve years old as part of the new crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if a new anti-crime consensus is forged between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats who shed the madness of criminal justice reform, the damage will be hard to fix.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECracking down on crime increased property values in black areas, led to a growth in black small businesses, and made it more possible for black teens to go to college, and earn higher incomes. Black Lives Matter calculatedly undermined many of those achievements. The teens whom teachers’ unions kept out of school, joined gangs, and began to deal and steal will find it much harder to build stable lives. The women they might have married and the families they might have built are more casualties. It is hard to build things, but all too easy to break them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 5,839 dead black people are just the most obvious sign of the social wreckage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile black people are the biggest victims of black crime, they are not alone. As these statistics show, we all pay a price. Some pay it directly in the forms of murders, muggings, and assaults. But we all pay for the social cost indirectly through our taxes, the price of goods and services, the cost of insurance, the broken social compact and lack of trust, and the diminished future of our cities and our country. The criminal justice reform movement, like all leftist propositions, was based on ignoring everything we had learned from the past about crime and how to fight it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter movement terrorized cities and became the official dogma of Corporate America. Every major institution began accusing itself of systemic racism and purging itself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile thousands of black men died in the streets of major cities. The CEOs and university presidents heard the death toll reported on the evening news and paid no attention because it was taking place in neighborhoods and housing projects that they would never set foot into.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the sum total of the carnage is in. 5,839 black people killed. 2021 is on track to see more elevated murder rates. The question is how many black people have to die until the big lie of systemic racism, the scam of anti-racism, and the criminal justice reform killing fields end.\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\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2151237929217476000\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/black-lives-matter-led-to-62-increase.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2151237929217476000"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2151237929217476000"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/black-lives-matter-led-to-62-increase.html","title":"Black Lives Matter Led to a 62% Increase in Black Murders"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1551630191420551360"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-11T14:26:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-11T14:26:29.124-04:00"},"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","$t":"Ibram X. Kendi’s Parents Worked to Give Him a Good Life. He Called Them Racists."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ibram X. Kendi, the critical race theory prophet of his own twisted brand of antiracism, has become mandatory reading material at colleges, corporations, and in the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow to Be an Antiracist topped the New York Times bestseller list. Any of the progressive housewives, Fortune 500 executives, and assorted people being forced to page through the book would learn by the second chapter how Kendi’s middle-class black parents were racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oflx7UPHoJU\/YOs3qAOq7hI\/AAAAAAAATWI\/kunNGHC0UAwD_06XqtjQpUKB0g-l6sZQQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s668\/ibram%2Bx%2Bkendi%2Bframe.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"481\" data-original-width=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oflx7UPHoJU\/YOs3qAOq7hI\/AAAAAAAATWI\/kunNGHC0UAwD_06XqtjQpUKB0g-l6sZQQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/ibram%2Bx%2Bkendi%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E“Both of my parents emerged from poor families, one from Northern urban projects, one from Southern rural fields. Both framed their rise from poverty into the middle class in the 1980s as a climb up the ladder of education and hard work. As they climbed, they were inundated with racist talking points about black people refusing to climb, the ones who were irresponsibly strung out on heroin or crack, who enjoyed stealing and being criminally dependent on the hard-earned money of climbing Americans like them,” Kendi writes. “My parents, along with many others in the new Black middle class, consumed these ideas.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat makes these ideas racist? Believing that you can get ahead through hard work is whiteness talking. And expecting good habits to lead to good outcomes is racist because it ignores the systemic racism that makes success impossible for black people. Kendi’s parents, Larry and Carol Rogers, an accountant and business analyst, not only bought into the middle class dream, but they worked hard, and they succeeded at giving him a comfortable childhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"My parents... fed me the mantra that education and hard work would uplift me, just as it had uplifted them,\" Kendi agonizingly recalls. And if nothing else, he partially disproved them, becoming enormously successful on the back of education, but a worthless one in identity politics, and on denying the value of hard work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"My parents—even from within their racial consciousness—were susceptible to the racist idea that it was laziness that kept black people down,\" he recalls.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKendi’s problem is laziness, but it’s a particularly white kind of laziness. How to Be an Antiracist, like most critical race theory texts, leans heavily on the personal narrative of his particularly uninteresting life. Kendi manufactures victimhood out of thin air, when his father waves to him on the basketball court, he suggests that might have gotten him lynched or killed by the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis grandmother dies after a struggle with Alzheimer’s. \"A disease more prevalent among African Americans,\" Kendi notes. \"There may be no more consequential white privilege than life itself.\" Black people have a 3.5 percent higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s than white people for a disease that is the fifth most common cause of death among American senior citizens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen your claim to oppression is your grandmother’s Alzheimer’s, you’re low on material.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Kendi’s story is a familiar one to generations of white and then minority immigrants where the first generation labors hard to succeed, and then sends its kids to college only to have them come back as radicals who complain that their parents sold out by abandoning their dreams.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old boomer paradigm that fed sixties white radicalism has kicked in among minority millennials of the upper middle class with a vengeance. The new black nationalist surge on college campuses largely owes its growth to privileged black men and women like Kendi, whose parents took the corporate route, while the kids rebelled and went into Black Studies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I always wonder what would have been if my parents had not let their reasonable fears stop them from pursuing their dreams,” Kendi whines. “Instead, Ma settled for a corporate career in healthcare technology. Dad settled for an accounting career. They entered the American middle class”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKendi’s racialism is reducible to that cliched radicalism of a son embarrassed by his insufficiently woke parents. It’s about as white as anything. And so is Kendi’s career which has taken him from condemning corporations to producing diversity content for corporations. Like most professional radicals, he wants to overthrow the system by becoming the system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow to Be an Antiracist’s rants against “assimilationism” echo seventies black nationalism through modern personal identity politics that demands we acknowledge everyone’s identity. Whether it’s white people who insist that they’re Koreans, men who claim to be women, or corporate drones who insist they’re radicals, everyone wants to be who they aren’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKendi’s fake African identity is a familiar brand of identity politics, but born out of the same shallow narcissism of a comfortable generation that seeks meaning in fake identities. A middle class kid named Henry Rogers is reborn as a black nationalist named Kendi. But the fake new identity doesn’t make him more authentic, but less so. The only way to assert a fake identity is for the man in the mask to go on a rampage against his authentic roots and his old past self.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Obama’s racial memoirs were at least aspirational, Kendi’s is anti-aspirational.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack people, whether it’s Kendi’s own parents, or black leaders from W.E. DuBois to Eleanor Holmes Norton are guilty of racism for urging achievement. Asking anyone, especially a member of a minority group, to work harder is racist. Suggesting that black people have problems that are caused by anything other than systemic racism is assimilationist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet Kendi’s entire worldview, despite its trappings of sham Africanism, is white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not some imaginary whiteness, but that of academic identity politics which is absurdly white. Kendi’s parents may have been black, despite some distant white ancestor whom he makes much of, but his entire value system is derived from white political correctness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe arrived at college \"as a racist, sexist homophobe\", Kendi writes. The fault was, as usual, his middle class parents. \"Dad’s sexist ideas demanded he lead and Ma’s sexist ideas submitted. She would call him the head of the household. He would accept the calling.\" Horror of horrors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKendi’s parents “demonized” single mothers, along with drug dealers and criminals. He blames Reagan and internalized whiteness, but the black opposition to crime preceded Reagan and was a matter of basic self-interest that united the NAACP, the Nation of Islam, and everything in between. It took white people to redefine drug dealers as victims of white oppression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cult of the criminal in black activist circles is not a reflection of any organic movement within the black community, but the imposition of a white Marxist perspective. The collapse of support for police defunding in the black community in every poll shows just how alien it is. It’s every bit as alien as Kendi’s hostility to black masculinity which is equally white and assimilationist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow to Be an Antiracist is meant to be part memoir, but Kendi doesn’t have much of a story to tell. That’s surprisingly commonplace among critical race theory memorists whose lack of interesting personal content, beginning with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, has only made their works more successful. If Obama’s memoirs offered elements of the exotic, the black middle class activist against whiteness succeeds because his story is familiarly white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe have come a long way from Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice or Alex Haley’s dubious Malcolm X biography. Today’s black nationalist is a suburban college kid nurtured by a middle class two-parent family who denounces the suburbs, the middle class, and families like his as racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the familiar problem, which Kendi only loosely describes in his chapter on dueling consciousness, and which is better embodied by the title of Black-ish, is that the generation of middle class black parents who kept their children safe from crime (Kendi’s father put up a basketball court in their backyard because he was worried about his son getting shot) succeeded all too well. Like too many generations of Irish, Italian, Jewish, Latino, and Asian parents, they raised radical woke snowflakes who are good for little except complaining.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAssimilationism has done its job all too well. The trouble is that the engines of assimilationism, universities, mass culture, and the upper middle class are assimilating the new generation out of America rather than into it, breeding dissatisfaction and nurturing radicalism as their identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERevolutions are made by the prosperous, not the dispossessed. Lenin, a member of a noble family, warred on the nobility. Castro, the son of a plantation owner, fought the plantations. Mao, the son of a landlord, oversaw the mass murder of landlords. The Left makes children into the enemies of the values of their parents. And How to Be an Antiracist is really a very old story about the resentments of middle class children who never really learned how hard life can be.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIbram X. Kendi calls everything he doesn’t like racist. “Racist and antiracist are not fixed identities. We can be racist one minute and an antiracist the next,” he argues. Racism, like most identity politics tropes, is everywhere and nowhere. It’s an identity politics weapon that is an attack on identity while claiming to be a defense against attacks on identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMostly racism consists of the common sense approaches of his parents to dealing with a dangerous world while antiracism consists of his clueless disregard for how life really works.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKendi complains about the “constant fearmongering about Black drug dealers, robbers, killers,” of his parents, but young black men are far more likely to be killed by the former than by the police whom he and the Black Lives Matter movement fearmonger endlessly about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis parents made a difficult journey that he does not understand and has no concept of how difficult it would be to recreate in his own privileged circumstances. That’s the same perch which countless of his white leftist peers occupy. It’s no wonder that he’s so popular with them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow to Be an Antiracist doesn’t convey a racial crisis, but the crisis of an American upper middle class which has lost touch with its own roots and whose children have become an enemy of its aspirational values. That, more than anything else, is leading the country into the kind of shopworn Marxism that Kendi and other radicals peddle as narcissistic identity politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDefining everyone, including his parents, as racists, interpreting and reinterpreting the world through academic lenses, is the hobby of privileged people who don’t have real problems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIbram X. Kendi may not have real problems, but the rest of the country isn’t so privileged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Kendi has become another of the problems undermining the black community, destroying the middle class life his parents worked so hard to achieve, and tearing apart America.\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\/1551630191420551360\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/ibram-x-kendis-parents-worked-to-give.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1551630191420551360"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1551630191420551360"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/ibram-x-kendis-parents-worked-to-give.html","title":"Ibram X. Kendi’s Parents Worked to Give Him a Good Life. He Called Them Racists."}],"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\/-oflx7UPHoJU\/YOs3qAOq7hI\/AAAAAAAATWI\/kunNGHC0UAwD_06XqtjQpUKB0g-l6sZQQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/ibram%2Bx%2Bkendi%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1661651304725260368"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-30T14:04:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-30T14:04:38.482-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"White Men are Terrible, Insists Author Abandoned by Her Black 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"}}]}});