Truxton II10/30/2022 In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v. Harvard University has a case pending before the Supreme Court. Which brings us to an interesting conundrum for the recently confirmed Justice Brown Jackson: It's counterpart - reparations for slavery - smacks of the same sense of entitlement. It could be from affirmative action, descried by critics as a spoils system. It's hard to say from where this more aggressive attitude is originating. Yet that's not acceptable in today's heightened race conscious society. So if a black person makes a heinous statement for which a white person would be taken to task, it is only fair and right that the black person be held to the same standard. To not judge a person in a similar fashion is to distinguish, to discriminate, to treat differently. For a person to be judged on the same level as another of a different race using the same measuring stick is equality. To question the falsity of their statements, or the overtly racist overtones, or the openly hostile comments is to be racist. Meanwhile, openly racist behavior by such luminaries as Caryn Elaine Johnson, also known as Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Reid, Maxine Waters, Nick Cannon and a bevy of wannabe eugenics experts must not only be tolerated by applauded. If Will Smith walks up on stage during the Oscars telecast and slaps Chris Brown for making a gratuitous joke about his wife, we as white folk must sit silent, because we can't possibly understand black culture. If the SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has a questionable sentencing record as a judge, we must remain silent. So if LeBron James is hypocritical about inequities in the United States compared to those in China, we must remain silent. No, any comment made by a white person about a black person, however slightly critical, is now ipso facto grounded in race. Because today, it is not permissible for a white person to judge a black person at all, much less because of the person's character, because due to white privilege, white people are inherently racist. Truxton II skin#Martin Luther King, Jr., famously declared I have a dream that my four little children will done day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. If there was such systemic racism, how is it that nine old white men voted unanimously to end the Plessy standard? Why didn't the court use its sophistic talents to uphold Plessy in the name of systemic racism? Board of Education, the long overdue opinion that put an end to the notion of separate by equal, from 1954. For me, let's start with the seminal SCOTUS opinion of Brown v. There are too many examples of how this notion of systemic racism is a red herring. I'm not minimizing ongoing racism that still exists. And blacks' ancestors suffered through the horribly traumatic period of slavery. And we all need to examine our white privilege.īy no means am I suggesting there aren't inequitable situations in the country. Hollywood has to diversify, because whites win too many Oscars. Corporate America needs to reconstitute itself, because there aren't enough black people in higher positions. Now, we have to defund the police, because police departments and the men and women in blue are uniformly racist. Truxton II torrent#But the torrent it unleashed has been less justifiable. That Floyd's death was wrong and actionable is without question. Corporations caved in, commercials began to feature nothing but biracial or black people and kente cloth found its way on to white people's shoulders not named Father Pfleger. Cities burned, reparations were demanded, a semi-terrorist group, Black Lives Matter, was founded. With the death/murder of George Floyd, the country has lost its collective mind. In fact, it's probably tantamount, in this crazy time in which we live, to hate speech which, in a bygone era, would be protected under the First Amendment but which now is actionable under several questionable statutes.
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