PoliticalChic
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9. The claim of the Democrat Party, ironically, is that black folks are being held back by whites.
Typical of the belief of any who vote Democrat, this article by Dowd.
Matthew Dowd, āUs White Male Christians Need to Step Back and Give Others Room to Lead,ā ABC News, September 30, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/US/leadership-means-making- one-self-pensable-opinion/story?id=58193412ry?id=58193412
There is zero evidence of this claim and demand.
āā¦ the transparent bigotry of this remark and the agenda being pushed in his column would have been sufficient to make American hairs stand on end. But bigotry on behalf of groups that are designated victims of oppression has become so ingrained in the politics of the Left, and so influential in the political culture at large, that Dowdās comment passed unnoticed.
The very idea that blacks are āmarginalizedā is absurd. They are obviously front and center in Americaās culture and consciousness, as well as in the distribution of race-based privileges and benefactions. Recognizing these facts is not to deny that a significant minority segment of the black population is poor and lives at the social margins.
But skin color can hardly be an explanation for their plight when the majority of black Americans are comfortably in the middle class and better off than the populations of any black-run society on earth. The view that blacks still suffer systemic racist oppression in Americaāthat in order to advance they need white elites āto step backāāis a fiction that provides an excuse for failure, while also imbuing social justice advocates with a false sense of moral superiority.ā
Horowitz, Op.Cit.
And there really is a test that proves how bogus the claim, and demand, is.
Typical of the belief of any who vote Democrat, this article by Dowd.
Matthew Dowd, āUs White Male Christians Need to Step Back and Give Others Room to Lead,ā ABC News, September 30, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/US/leadership-means-making- one-self-pensable-opinion/story?id=58193412ry?id=58193412
There is zero evidence of this claim and demand.
āā¦ the transparent bigotry of this remark and the agenda being pushed in his column would have been sufficient to make American hairs stand on end. But bigotry on behalf of groups that are designated victims of oppression has become so ingrained in the politics of the Left, and so influential in the political culture at large, that Dowdās comment passed unnoticed.
The very idea that blacks are āmarginalizedā is absurd. They are obviously front and center in Americaās culture and consciousness, as well as in the distribution of race-based privileges and benefactions. Recognizing these facts is not to deny that a significant minority segment of the black population is poor and lives at the social margins.
But skin color can hardly be an explanation for their plight when the majority of black Americans are comfortably in the middle class and better off than the populations of any black-run society on earth. The view that blacks still suffer systemic racist oppression in Americaāthat in order to advance they need white elites āto step backāāis a fiction that provides an excuse for failure, while also imbuing social justice advocates with a false sense of moral superiority.ā
Horowitz, Op.Cit.
And there really is a test that proves how bogus the claim, and demand, is.