The white
privilege narrative continues to advance in America. Increasingly, the idea
that white people are responsible for the ills of minorities is being pushed in
our society to the point that an all-out, genuine hatred for white people is
taking hold. Students in our universities are being taught that America, and
her system of government, was designed explicitly for white men and that it enables
them to exploit minorities for their own benefit. White people, according to
the radical left, are recipients of unearned privileges and enjoy the
protections of institutions that were designed exclusively for their economic
system of capitalism. Furthermore, students are taught that minorities cannot
discriminate against white men because they have no institutional power. In
other words, because of white privilege it is morally acceptable to
discriminate against white men based purely on their race because they are
privileged. The goal of the white privilege lie is to create the illusion that
minorities are living in a system of oppression, held down by a nation rooted
in white supremacy. Unfortunately, this may be true.
The latest example of this white
privilege mania comes from a professor of math education at the University of
Illinois, Rochelle Gutierrez. She claims that the teaching of algebra
and geometry perpetuate white privilege. Her arguments posit the notion
that white men are often credited with success in mathematics and demonstrate a
greater capability in math than minorities. Furthermore, she claims that this
advances racism in society, particularly if minority students are performing
worse than whites. She is arguing that mathematics should now be taught from a
political angle which would help make students aware of white privilege.
Wouldn’t the idea that mathematics
pushes white privilege and racism stem form a supremacist attitude in the first
place? Wouldn’t an individual that believes black people for example, are not
as capable as members of another race of doing algebra really be saying they
believe that race is superior to blacks? What happens in instances where a
black student is performing better than a white student? Does that student now have privilege or are they still a victim of white
supremacy?
The truth of white privilege is
that it is a useful tool used to create hate and discontent in our society, and
that blacks really may be victims of white supremacist agenda. Just not from the United States.
The idea of using race as a weapon
has its origins in the Communist Revolution in the early twentieth century. Leon
Trotsky, leader of the revolutionary army, allegedly coined the term racism
to discredit the eastern Europeans who stood in the way of communist
objectives. In modern America the term white privilege is being used as a
weapon to silence pro-American opinions which might threaten the left-wing
agenda of wealth re-distribution. Creating the illusion that a certain segment
of our society is the recipient of unearned privileges based purely on skin
color is sure to cause the necessary angst needed to cause the cultural
revolution the left has been desiring for years.
Furthermore, the race based agenda
can be traced back further to Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci.
Gramsci, author of the Prison Notebooks, which outlined a detailed plan which
entailed a march through the institutions to bring about social change,
understood that the traditional Marxist idea of dividing society into an
oppressed and oppressor class had not worked. Therefore, he turned his gaze
upon cultural norms and further divided society into numerous oppressed groups.
The word “hegemony” is used to describe the influence the
dominant culture has over the rest of society. Gramsci coined the term
“counter-hegemony” in order to destroy the influence of a dominant culture by
turning every social group into an oppressed victim of that culture. White
privilege, or white supremacy, is being used to define a dominant, oppressive
culture in the United States in this manner. Every other social group whether
they be blacks, Latinos, gays, transgenders, feminists and now even people who
may not be good at math are victims of white privilege and white supremacy.
If that isn’t enough former
Communist Party member Manning
Johnson wrote a book in 1958 detailing his experience in the Communist
Party USA, called Color, Communism and Common Sense. In this book he details
his experience as a black man with the Communist Party and a plot to use black
Americans to bring about communism in America. The communists exploited and
created grievances which put the black man at odds with the American capitalist
system.
Manning states that he was in a position of power within the ranks of
the Communist Party and while in this position he began to see just how the
American black man was being used to push a policy of division. He claims that
white communists lorded over blacks within the party, and their activities were
directed by those working at the Kremlin under the guise of white and black men
uniting to bring capitalism to its knees. The communists claimed to be the
champion of the black man and all his struggles despite the fact they never
benefitted from the millions raised by communist front groups posing as civil
rights organizations. Today, the Democrat party claims to be the leader in defending
civil rights of the American oppressed and down trodden even though they govern
over the clear majority of inner city ghettos. Black Americans
have been voting Democrat for decades and have not benefitted from
the millions of dollars raised by corrupt politicians to win elections. Through
the white privilege narrative Democrats have convinced black Americans that
they have a reason to be bitter towards whites. They have been taught they are
oppressed victims unable to rise out of poverty because of white privilege.
In chapter 7 of Color, Communism, and Common Sense, Manning points to
the specific plan to blame the white man for all the black man’s problems. This
is essentially what the white privilege philosophy has done. The white
privilege lie has destroyed the ability of many black men to take
responsibility for themselves as they are now trapped in a generational welfare
mentality, which is an essential ingredient to bringing about communism. According
to Manning, the objectives of the communists were to make the black man feel
sorry for himself, blame whites for their failures, ignore opportunities around
him, make him jealous of the success of other races in America, and condition
him to look for quick easy solutions as substitutes to honest effort in a
competitive market. The expected results were to be a population of underclass
citizens who blamed the white man’s system of government as being everything
that is wrong in their lives. Isn’t that what we are seeing today? An effort to
indoctrinate black people into the idea that the society they live in is
designed for privileged whites who exploit minorities? The entire agenda
revolves around the idea of creating a communist revolutionary army by teaching
the minorities they are victims of white supremacy. At the time being it seems
to have been enormously successful as nearly every facet of our society from
football to algebra now has the white privilege stigma attached to it.
Freedom relies upon a population exercising good judgment and personal
responsibility. If a populations ability to take responsibility for their own
actions is compromised, then freedom has little chance. If you can’t take
responsibility for yourself, someone will have to take responsibility of you. This
is something that the communists understood very well, and they have
systematically destroyed America’s sense of personal responsibility by not only
creating an atmosphere of mistrust and jealously among minority cultures but by
demoralizing and demonizing the majority. Many people in America are now afraid
to speak for their values because they are likely to be labeled racist for
doing so. The true white supremacists are those seeking to use race as a means
of obtaining power. Most Americans believe that people achieve things based on
merit and the effort they put into something. White privilege posits the idea
that blacks and other minorities suffer because they are not capable, and they
need the iron fist of government leveling the playing field to make things
fair. This simply is not true. People of all nationalities come to this great
country and make something of themselves, they may not be millionaires, but
they don’t have to be. They achieved more than they would have in their home
country. Black people in America continue to be taught the politics of resentment,
making them prime recruits for the cultural revolution desired by the left. If
the Democrats and the communists really cared about the black man, they would
look at the predicament they are in and start teaching them that they have
opportunity in America. After all, the left believes that whatever you are
taught in your formative years tends to develop into unshakable convictions.
If
they really cared, wouldn’t they teach them they are just as capable as anyone
else instead of setting in stone the convictions of envy?