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VIDEO: Who Are the Racists?
Posted by PragerU
Published on Apr 29,
2019
To call someone a racist is a serious charge. Conservatives
are accused of racism by the left on a daily basis. Are the accusations fair?
Or is something else going on? Derryck Green of Project 21 provides some
provocative answers.
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Script:
Every single day someone of prominence on the left—a
politician, a cable news host, an entertainment figure—accuses someone on the
right of being a racist.
Here are typical examples:
MSNBC host Chris Matthews said this: “The age of Jim Crow
managed to find a new habitat in the… 21st-century Republican Party."
Comedian Seth Meyers told his late-night audience that
Republicans traffic “in open racism.”
Tennessee state representative London Lamar, a black woman,
announced that the entire state of Tennessee is “racist. Period.” This was just
after she was elected… in Tennessee! And almost every criticism of President
Barack Obama was labelled racist.
The left calling the right racist isn’t new. It’s been going
on for decades.
Republican Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George
Herbert Walker Bush, his son, George W. Bush were all accused of being racists.
And, of course, from the left’s perspective, “racist” is essentially Donald
Trump’s middle name.
To call someone a racist is a very serious charge. A racist
is a person who believes that one race is inherently superior or inferior to
another. It’s not intelligence, character or values that determine an
individual’s worth; it’s his or her skin color.
To say that racism is foolish and stupid—not to mention
evil—is to understate the case. But according to most Democrats, Republicans
are that stupid and that evil. So, let’s examine some conservative policies to
see if they are, indeed, racist. If they are, then the left has a valid
complaint. And if they’re not, then the left is lying.
The longstanding conservative opposition to Affirmative
Action is a good place to start. It was Democratic president John F. Kennedy
who, in 1961, first used the term “affirmative action.” But Affirmative Action
in the way we think of it now wasn’t implemented until 1970, during the
administration of a Republican president, Richard Nixon.
The theory was that, because of historical discrimination,
blacks were at a competitive disadvantage to other races and ethnicities. To
erase that disadvantage, standards that most blacks presumably couldn’t meet
had to be lowered.
One could make the case that this policy had some utility
when it was first put in place. But that was a long time ago. The conservative
position is that blacks have repeatedly proven they can compete with anyone
without the benefits of lower standards. There are countless examples of black
success in every field, at every level. The policy is no longer necessary.
But the conservative argument goes further. Study after
study shows that, in the case of college admissions, affirmative action hurts
more blacks than it helps. By lowering admissions standards for blacks (and
some other minority students), colleges set many of these students up for
failure. They get placed in schools for which they are not prepared. And high
black dropout rates confirm this view.
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