thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--Democrat Oregon Governor Kate Brown Praises Protesters While Taking Churches To Court Over Lockdown

Democrat Oregon Governor Kate Brown Praises Protesters While Taking Churches To Court Over Lockdown Orders

Oregon governor Kate Brown is going out of her way to voice her support for the Black Lives Matter protests , which seem to violate her own Covid 19 orders .
At the same time , she ’ s continuing to challenge a rural county court order in which a judge ruled that churches can reopen .
That ’ s right , she ’ s dragging churches to court but giving a pass to the protesting mobs .
To the protests , The Oregonian reports : Gov .
Kate Brown called for sweeping police and criminal justice reforms Monday in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protests , riots and looting that took place through the weekend in Portland , Eugene and other parts of the state .
She said that even a recent Oregon law that reformed juvenile justice and efforts to reduce harsh penalties that disproportionately impact black people have taken too long and not gone far enough .
During the hour-long press conference , Brown said she wants to make the state ’ s administrators look like the communities they serve , change rules and cultures within agencies and adjust funding streams to make Oregon more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the state .
“ I count myself as one of the many white politician whose good intentions haven ’ t done enough to tackle the scourge of systematic racism , ” Brown said .
Brown said she has decided to push for more work at the state level focused on racial equity and equality , including in response to the pandemic .
Brown spoke for several minutes about how the lack of police accountability and reforms have led to the unjust killings of George Floyd and black people across the country .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for peaceful protests , saying that the rioting and looting is the product a small group of instigators rather than indicative of broader sentiment .
She made this facebook post in response to the protests-turned-riots : In another article , Brown issued a statement as she ordered flags across the state to half staff : “ We lower the Oregon flag to half-staff to recognize a profound loss of life , one that affects us all , ” Brown said in a statement .
“ As we mourn the loss of George Floyd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives that have been taken by unnecessary violence .
And let us commit ourselves , and our country , to fundamental change.
” While this is going on , Kate Brown is continuing to fight a handful of rural churches who have been challenging her statewide shutdown orders .
Baker county judge Matthew Shirtcliff initially issued an injunction on Brown ’ s orders , but then the state supreme court stepped in that same day to overrule Shirtcliff .
Shirtcliff has since refused to withdraw his injunction .
Brown is continuing to challenge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , where Brown has appointed five of the seven current judges ( Gee , I wonder how many of them will recuse themselves due to conflict of interest ) .
In related news , healthcare workers who have pushed for the Covid 19 restrictions held a show of support of their own for the protesters .
You can ’ t make this stuff up !
Here ’ s a video from one of her press conferences , sympathizing with the protesters and giving them free reign :

Oregon governor Kate Brown is going out of her way to voice her support for the Black Lives Matter protests, which seem to violate her own Covid 19 orders. At the same time, she’s continuing to challenge a rural county court order in which a judge ruled that churches can reopen.
That’s right, she’s dragging churches to court but giving a pass to the protesting mobs.
To the protests, The Oregonian reports:
Gov. Kate Brown called for sweeping police and criminal justice reforms Monday in her first in-person statement on the massive protests, riots and looting that took place through the weekend in Portland, Eugene and other parts of the state. She said that even a recent Oregon law that reformed juvenile justice and efforts to reduce harsh penalties that disproportionately impact black people have taken too long and not gone far enough. During the hour-long press conference, Brown said she wants to make the state’s administrators look like the communities they serve, change rules and cultures within agencies and adjust funding streams to make Oregon more reflective and fair to people of color in the state. “I count myself as one of the many white politician whose good intentions haven’t done enough to tackle the scourge of systematic racism,” Brown said. Brown said she has decided to push for more work at the state level focused on racial equity and equality, including in response to the pandemic. Brown spoke for several minutes about how the lack of police accountability and reforms have led to the unjust killings of George Floyd and black people across the country. Only at the end did she call for peaceful protests, saying that the rioting and looting is the product a small group of instigators rather than indicative of broader sentiment.
She made this facebook post in response to the protests-turned-riots:
In another article, Brown issued a statement as she ordered flags across the state to half staff:
“We lower the Oregon flag to half-staff to recognize a profound loss of life, one that affects us all,” Brown said in a statement. “As we mourn the loss of George Floyd, let us remember the many Black lives that have been taken by unnecessary violence. And let us commit ourselves, and our country, to fundamental change.”
While this is going on, Kate Brown is continuing to fight a handful of rural churches who have been challenging her statewide shutdown orders. Baker county judge Matthew Shirtcliff initially issued an injunction on Brown’s orders, but then the state supreme court stepped in that same day to overrule Shirtcliff. Shirtcliff has since refused to withdraw his injunction. Brown is continuing to challenge Judge Shirtcliff in the state supreme court, where Brown has appointed five of the seven current judges (Gee, I wonder how many of them will recuse themselves due to conflict of interest).
The Baker City Herald reports:
In related news, healthcare workers who have pushed for the Covid 19 restrictions held a show of support of their own for the protesters. You can’t make this stuff up!
Here’s a video from one of her press conferences, sympathizing with the protesters and giving them free reign:


thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--Marxist CBS Fake News Contributor Says White People Need To ‘Stop Denying Their Racism’

CBS contributor Ibram X. Kendi said Friday that white people need to “ stop denying their racism ” in order to end white privilege .
“ It is critical for white people , for people in general , to stop denying their racist ideas , to stop denying the ways in which policies have benefitted them , to stop denying their racism , ” he said .
“ The heartbeat of racism itself is denial , and the sound of that heartbeat is ‘ I ’ m not racist . '
” ( RELATED : CBS Set To Air ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Due To Coronavirus ) The comments come during a time of heightened racial tensions following the death of George Floyd , who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes .
Nationwide protests have taken place all over the country , some of which have turned into violent riots .
Kendi said in early May that people protesting against the coronavirus stay-at-home order were comparable to slaveholders , who he said also fought for “ individual freedom.
” “ Slaveholders desired a state that wholly secured their individual freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedom to disenfranchise , to exploit , to impoverish , to demean , and to silence and kill the demeaned , ” he wrote in The Atlantic .
Kendi is the founding director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University and has written several books , according to his website .
His books include “ How To Be An Antiracist ” and “ Stamped : Racism , Antiracism , And You , ” both of which made the New York Times Bestseller list .
His website says that he “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ softcore vegan .
”

CBS contributor Ibram X. Kendi said Friday that white people need to “stop denying their racism” in order to end white privilege.
“It is critical for white people, for people in general, to stop denying their racist ideas, to stop denying the ways in which policies have benefitted them, to stop denying their racism,” he said. “The heartbeat of racism itself is denial, and the sound of that heartbeat is ‘I’m not racist.'” (RELATED: CBS Set To Air ‘Grease’ Singalong Instead Of Tony Awards Due To Coronavirus)
The comments come during a time of heightened racial tensions following the death of George Floyd, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. Nationwide protests have taken place all over the country, some of which have turned into violent riots.
Kendi said in early May that people protesting against the coronavirus stay-at-home order were comparable to slaveholders, who he said also fought for “individual freedom.”
“Slaveholders desired a state that wholly secured their individual freedom to enslave, not to mention their freedom to disenfranchise, to exploit, to impoverish, to demean, and to silence and kill the demeaned,” he wrote in The Atlantic.
Kendi is the founding director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University and has written several books, according to his website. His books include “How To Be An Antiracist” and “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, And You,” both of which made the New York Times Bestseller list.
His website says that he “strives to be a hardcore antiracist and softcore vegan.”


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thelibertydaily--2020-06-06--Burgess Owens: Democrats Are ‘Frantic’ That The Black Vote Is Leaving Their Party

The Democratic party is “ frantic ” that an increasing number of black Americans are leaving the party to back President Donald Trump and Republicans in the November election , Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl star and Republican candidate for Congress Burgess Owens explained to “ The Sara Carter Show ” on Thursday ’ s episode .
Right now , the party is “ frantic that they are going through they realize that the black people black vote is leaving them , ” Owens told Carter adding that “ they try to do everything they can and they ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Many Democrats have seized the opportunity of the tragic death of George Floyd and the anger that followed .
“ They will have to think outside of the emotions they have .
Then you destroy their family .
You make sure they don ’ t say anything about respect of anything .
No respect of God country , family , or women .
You take that .
That is a concoction for disaster .
So what we have to understand is that they will continue to lie .
That ’ s what godless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shame there ’ s no consciousness .
There ’ s no maybe I should apologize .
Their end game is power.
” At the end of the day , Owens said , it ’ s about winning the 2020 election and nothing else for Democrats and they have “ no shame ” in doing so .
“ You have Marxist governors and mayors who will put their knee on the neck of their own constituents so that they will feel pain and hopelessness .
And therefore in November , they ’ re going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way people are broken people.
” “ This is not organic .
black people right now are not going in and burning down their own black businesses it ’ s Antifa .
And that ’ s why I love the fact that we now have got a president who ’ s going to call out for it .
We have domestic terrorists .
People are trying to take down our country we have because of this Marxist ideology .
These governors and mayors could care less and represent could care less about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get their power back .
So yeah this is a power play and the great thing about this is this we can now talk across the board among about Americans about we the people do we want to work to vote for those who are against us doing these bad times or those who give us hope .
”

The Democratic party is “frantic” that an increasing number of black Americans are leaving the party to back President Donald Trump and Republicans in the November election, Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl star and Republican candidate for Congress Burgess Owens explained to “The Sara Carter Show” on Thursday’s episode.
Right now, the party is “frantic that they are going through they realize that the black people black vote is leaving them,” Owens told Carter adding that “they try to do everything they can and they’re not going to get us back.”
Many Democrats have seized the opportunity of the tragic death of George Floyd and the anger that followed. “They will have to think outside of the emotions they have. Then you destroy their family. You make sure they don’t say anything about respect of anything. No respect of God country, family, or women. You take that. That is a concoction for disaster. So what we have to understand is that they will continue to lie. That’s what godless people do. There’s no shame there’s no consciousness. There’s no maybe I should apologize. Their end game is power.”
At the end of the day, Owens said, it’s about winning the 2020 election and nothing else for Democrats and they have “no shame” in doing so. “You have Marxist governors and mayors who will put their knee on the neck of their own constituents so that they will feel pain and hopelessness. And therefore in November, they’re going to think that this is not the way people are broken people.”
“This is not organic. black people right now are not going in and burning down their own black businesses it’s Antifa. And that’s why I love the fact that we now have got a president who’s going to call out for it. We have domestic terrorists. People are trying to take down our country we have because of this Marxist ideology. These governors and mayors could care less and represent could care less about the pain it brings as long as they get their power back. So yeah this is a power play and the great thing about this is this we can now talk across the board among about Americans about we the people do we want to work to vote for those who are against us doing these bad times or those who give us hope.”


thelibertydaily--2020-06-06--REPORT: NYPD Find Functional Bomb at 77th Precinct Station House in Brooklyn

The New York Police Department found a functional bomb near the 77th Precinct in Brooklyn today .
Yet New York @ @ @ @ @ .
John followed up his initial tweet with this : Thanks to our veterans , @ @ @ @ @ is most likely an artillery simulator .
More… NYPD found a car full of weapons @ @ @ @ @ .

The New York Police Department found a functional bomb near the 77th Precinct in Brooklyn today.
Yet New York City Officials punish the police.
Via former officer John Cardillo:
NYPD sources: What appears to be a functional bomb placed at 77 precinct in Brooklyn. This is the definition of terror, yet @BilldeBlasio and NYC DAs focus on punishing cops pic.twitter.com/ZUeo6j1ZH2 — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 6, 2020
John followed up his initial tweet with this: Thanks to our veterans, I’m told this is most likely an artillery simulator.
Thanks to our veterans, I’m told this is most likely an artillery simulator. Fortunately more bark than bite. https://t.co/6Wr1d0NzUA — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 6, 2020
More… NYPD found a car full of weapons with Ohio plates this week.


thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--When Will the Mob be Satisfied? 17 People Have Died in Riots Following George Floyd’s Killing [Hint:

When Will the Mob be Satisfied? 17 People Have Died in Riots Following George Floyd’s Killing [Hint: Never]

A protester is seen in front of the burning 3rd Precinct of the Minneapolis Police Department in Minn. , on May 28 , 2020 .
( Julio Cortez/AP Photo ) 17 People Have Died in Protests Following George Floyd ’ s Killing Media reports say 17 lives have been lost in nationwide protests following George Floyd ’ s death—the youngest being 18 and the oldest 77 .
Most of those who died were either current or former law enforcement officers , or just innocent bystanders who got caught in a violent situation .
The oldest casualty of the riots was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Pawn Jewelry store in St. Louis from rioter on June 2 .
Dorn had served as a Louis Police officer for 38 years .
President Donald Trump paid his respect to Dorn in a message on Twitter on Tuesday .
“ Our highest respect to the family of David Dorn , a Great Police Captain from St. Louis , who was viciously shot and killed by despicable looters last night .
We honor our police officers , perhaps more than ever before .
Thank you !
” Trump said .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dorian Murrell who was shot dead in Indianapolis on May 31 , reported IndyStar .
Murrell was walking around the Downtown area after the protests when he got in an altercation with 29-year-old Tyler Newby over a gas canister lying on the ground and was shot dead in the fight .
Others deaths related to the protests include : Barry Perkins : Perkins , a 29-year-old protester was run over by a FedEx tractor-trailer in St. Louis , Missouri , on May 30 after the driver of the tractor-trailer was shown guns by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the driver began driving while Perkins was stuck on the converter dolly between the two trailers .
He died later in the hospital , according to 5 On Your Side .
Italia Kelly : Someone shot and killed 22-year-old Kelly while she was leaving a protest in Davenport , Iowa , on May 30 , reported KCRG .
Kelly ’ s family told the media that she was a peaceful protester and got caught up in the violence .
David McAtee : McAtee shot at the National Guard soldiers and local police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crowds gathering in Louisville , Kentucky , after curfew on Monday .
Police returned fire and struck 53-year-old McAtee in the chest .
McAtee ’ s family said he was protecting his restaurant in the chaos , Yaya ’ s BBQ Shack , reported The Associated Press .
Others dead include Jorge Gomez ( 25 ) in Las Vegas , Nevada ; Marquis M. Tousant ( 23 ) in Davenport , Iowa ; Calvin L. Horton Jr. ( 43 ) in Minneapolis , Minnesota ; Chris Beaty ( 38 ) in Indianapolis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Omaha , Nebraska ; Victor Cazares ( 27 ) in Chicago , Illinois ; federal officer Patrick Underwood ( 53 ) in Oakland , California ; and photographer Marvin Francois ( 50 ) in Kansas City , Missouri .
New website Disrn reported four more deaths that are not named yet , one each from Chicago and Detroit , and two from Philadelphia .

Seventeen people have been killed in nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd—ranging in age from 18 to 77, media reports say.
Most of those who died were either current or former law enforcement officers, or just innocent bystanders who got caught in a violent situation.
The oldest casualty was 77-year-old David Dorn, who was shot to death while protecting Lee's Pawn Jewelry store in St. Louis from looters on June 2. Dorn had served on the city's police force for 38 years.
President Donald Trump shared Dorn's story in a message on Twitter.
"Our highest respect to the family of David Dorn, a Great Police Captain from St. Louis, who was viciously shot and killed by despicable looters last night. We honor our police officers, perhaps more than ever before. Thank you!" Trump said.
Eighteen-year-old Dorian Murrell was shot dead in Indianapolis on May 31, the Indianapolis Star reported.
Murrell, who was walking around the downtown area after the protests, got into an altercation over a gas canister lying on the ground and was shot dead amid a scuffle.
Also related to the protests include:
Barry Perkins: Perkins, a 29-year-old protester, was run over by a FedEx tractor-trailer in St. Louis on May 30 after two men threatened the tractor-trailer driver with guns. Fearing for his life, the driver began driving while Perkins was stuck on the converter dolly between the two trailers. He died later in the hospital, according to 5 On Your Side.
Italia Kelly: Kelly, 22, was shot to death while she was leaving a protest in Davenport, Iowa, on May 30, reported KCRG. Her family told the media that she was a peaceful protester and got caught up in the violence.
David McAtee: McAtee shot at National Guard soldiers and local police as they fired pepper balls to clear crowds gathering in Louisville, Kentucky, after curfew on June 1. Police returned fire and struck 53-year-old McAtee in the chest. McAtee's family said he was protecting his restaurant, Yaya's BBQ Shack, amid the chaos, The Associated Press reported.
Others who have died include Jorge Gomez (25) in Las Vegas; Marquis M. Tousant (23) in Davenport, Iowa; Calvin L. Horton Jr. (43) in Minneapolis; Chris Beaty (38) in Indianapolis; James Scurlock (22) in Omaha, Nebraska; Victor Cazares (27) in Chicago; federal officer Patrick Underwood (53) in Oakland, California; and photographer Marvin Francois (50) in Kansas City, Missouri.
News website Disrn reported four more deaths that haven't been identified yet, one each from Chicago and Detroit, and two from Philadelphia.


thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--Because Woke: It Begins: Hall of Famer Warren Moon Calls for Bring Back America-Hating Communist Col

Because Woke: It Begins: Hall of Famer Warren Moon Calls for Bring Back America-Hating Communist Colin Kaepernick

Colin Kaepernick to the Seahawks could end up being a match made in heaven ... so says Hall of Famer Warren Moon , who tells TMZ Sports the QB could be a good fit in Seattle if he gets another shot .
Earlier this week , Pete Carroll praised Kap for kick-starting the national anthem protest ... saying the QB sent a `` beautiful '' message about racial issues in America .
However , just 2 years ago , the 'Hawks had the chance to sign Kaepernick ... but his workout was canceled because Kap would n't commit to standing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more people are starting to understand the movement , Moon says Kap -- who has n't played in the NFL since 2016 -- deserves another opportunity if he is willing to put his full focus on football .
`` I know he 's really involved in this crusade of his with social injustice and that , '' Moon tells us ... `` It takes a lot of focus so you 're gon na have to pick one . ''
`` If he 's willing to play football and put the time in that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a quarterback in the NFL , he definitely deserves an opportunity to get that because he was definitely misinterpreted 4 years ago with his stand . ''
As for getting another shot with Seattle , Moon -- who 's kept close with the 'Hawks since playing for them in '97 and '98 -- says Kap could thrive with the team ... saying `` I think it could be a good fit . ''
`` They know what he can do as a player cause they 've been against him many times in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in San Francisco . ''
`` It 's just a matter of whether he still wants to play football .
I think the Seahawks style of play fits what he likes to do and I think it would be a good fit if he wants to play football . ''

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Colin Kaepernick to the Seahawks could end up being a match made in heaven ... so says Hall of Famer Warren Moon, who tells TMZ Sports the QB could be a good fit in Seattle if he gets another shot.
Earlier this week, Pete Carroll praised Kap for kick-starting the national anthem protest ... saying the QB sent a "beautiful" message about racial issues in America.
However, just 2 years ago, the 'Hawks had the chance to sign Kaepernick ... but his workout was canceled because Kap wouldn't commit to standing during the national anthem.
Now that more people are starting to understand the movement, Moon says Kap -- who hasn't played in the NFL since 2016 -- deserves another opportunity if he is willing to put his full focus on football.
"I know he's really involved in this crusade of his with social injustice and that," Moon tells us ... "It takes a lot of focus so you're gonna have to pick one."
"If he's willing to play football and put the time in that's its gonna take to be a quarterback in the NFL, he definitely deserves an opportunity to get that because he was definitely misinterpreted 4 years ago with his stand."
As for getting another shot with Seattle, Moon -- who's kept close with the 'Hawks since playing for them in '97 and '98 -- says Kap could thrive with the team ... saying "I think it could be a good fit."
"They know what he can do as a player cause they've been against him many times in the division when he was the starting QB in San Francisco."


thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--Authors: Antifa Rioters Are the Tech Economy’s College Discards

The black-clothed Antifa activists who are leading the anti-police riots are mostly the discarded , angry college-grade workforce of an increasingly high-tech , globalized economy , say a variety of experts and millennials .
Colleges are producing many “ graduates who ’ ve absorbed a worldview that trains them for “ metropolitan elite ” job types that turn out to be far scarcer than the graduates competing for them , ” writes Mary Harrington , a young writer at Unherd.com .
She continues : The result is a frustrated would-be middle class , treading water in what the writer Venkatesh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lifestyles , a rented simulacrum of a genuinely prosperous existence designed to signal preparedness for the day when , by luck or application , they make it into the dwindling numbers of the real bourgeoisie .
These graduate left-behinds are then stuck in a holding pattern , in precarious housing and employment , as opportunities to take the big steps into adult life — traditionally home ownership , coupledom and kids – recede ever further into the distance .
A recent Pew report showed 30 % of millennials living with a spouse and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Generation X and a whopping 40 % drop on the 1968 generation .
That ’ s America , but ONS data shows the age of first child climbing relentlessly in Britain too — while the birth rate is falling in all cohorts save the over-40s .
They are failing because the investor class is pushing them and their college peers out of good jobs to make room for an imported workforce of cheap and compliant visa workers .
This means Antifa people are now going through the same outsourcing pain and poverty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ class by the elite ’ s imposition of mass migration and free trade deals with Mexico and China .
Antifas college graduates are being hit hard by the little-mentioned population of roughly 1.3 million visa workers .
The visa workers are imported into the U.S. for a variety of tasks .
Many are imported for on-the-job training so they can export their jobs to India , where they can be paid at India ’ s pay levels .
But many also are put into the jobs at the Fortune 500 companies that would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into middle class prosperity .
CEOs , vice-presidents , hiring managers , and investors want to hire many visa workers because they are compliant and helpless .
They are compliant because they were already powerless in their own Indian or Chinese culture .
But they are also impotent because they know they can be easily thrown out of the United States and back to India or China , with a signature from any of their managers and executives .
Their powerlessness means they can not argue with bosses , unlike American professionals .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as is the norm Among American graduates .
They can not quit to invent a rival product that grabs market share from their former employers , as millions of American graduates hope to do .
Congress created this powerless and growing workforce at the request of Silicon Valley ’ s tech companies and the Fortune 500 .
So far , President Donald Trump has done nothing to shrink this massive loss of middle-class jobs , salaries , and careers .
But the young progressives and Antifa schemers have been trained to not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead of learning economics and history , they were programmed in schools and colleges to focus on identity groups , on race , and on sexism — and to never follow the money .
The flow of money is rarely mentioned on TV , in Jeff Bezos ’ Washington Post , or in the pro-diversity New York Times .
So Antifa ’ s economic frustration becomes political frustration as they chase their identity-politics delusions .
NBC reported in 2017 : Daniel is a sophomore studying political science at a private Bay Area @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his last name withheld so he could speak freely about his experience with the Antifa movement .
He said he became involved two years ago , after becoming disillusioned with what he calls a corrupted American dream .
“ These false promises we ’ ve been told throughout our lives that we just have to follow the American dream of working hard and things will be all right .
We ’ ll get a middle class existence with house , lawn and the picket fence , ” Daniel said .
“ This promise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and we kind of realized that the system ’ s rigged against us and we need to do something about it.
” Twitter commenters echo the same theme of frustrated and angry college graduates : The Antifa graduates collect in the inner cities as they try to climb the career ladders towards the comfortable life promised by their teachers , professors , peers , and parents .
This makes it is easy for them to scheme and riot , says the anti-establishment author , Michael Lind , the author of “ The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Managerial Elite.
” In an article titled “ Hub City Riot Ninjas : A young overclass gets dressed up to join the burning , ” Lind says : Their impact is large , in part , because they live alongside each other in the urban centers where their spending power has pushed poor minorities and workers out to distant , ungentrified districts .
Lind writes : Californian Joel Kotkin says the middle-class is shrinking , and political power is flowing to the business elite and their allied class of cheerleaders in the media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Antifa consists of people who want to get into the “ clerisy.
” But many of them will fail and fall down into the serf class , where they tend bars , deliver food , do piecework journalism .
But these descriptions also mean that Antifa ’ s graduates and Trump ’ s working-class MAGA are potential allies .
The underemployed Antifa college graduates are close cousins to the millions of working-class Americans who rallied to Donald Trump ’ s 2016 message of national solidarity , and “ Buy American , Hire American.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump ’ s conventional , non-racial demand for national solidarity — Make America Great !
— was the unspoken assumption of all presidential campaigns since the Great Depression in 1929 .
But now this call for national solidarity is smeared as “ racist , ” “ xenophobic , ” and “ nativist ” by the clerisy as they trumpet the Tech Elite ’ s demand for global business rules and a global labor market .
The clerisy has done its work well : Antifa ’ s college graduates have been trained to love @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make them helpless to stop the outsourcing of their jobs and futures .
Follow Neil Munro on Twitter @ NeilMunroDC , or email the author at NMunro @ Breitbart.com .

The black-clothed Antifa activists who are leading the anti-police riots are mostly the discarded, angry college-grade workforce of an increasingly high-tech, globalized economy, say a variety of experts and millennials.
Colleges are producing many “graduates who’ve absorbed a worldview that trains them for “metropolitan elite” job types that turn out to be far scarcer than the graduates competing for them,” writes Mary Harrington, a young writer at Unherd.com. She continues:
The result is a frustrated would-be middle class, treading water in what the writer Venkatesh Rao has called ‘premium mediocre’ lifestyles, a rented simulacrum of a genuinely prosperous existence designed to signal preparedness for the day when, by luck or application, they make it into the dwindling numbers of the real bourgeoisie. These graduate left-behinds are then stuck in a holding pattern, in precarious housing and employment, as opportunities to take the big steps into adult life — traditionally home ownership, coupledom and kids – recede ever further into the distance. A recent Pew report showed 30% of millennials living with a spouse and child, a fall of 10% on Generation X and a whopping 40% drop on the 1968 generation. That’s America, but ONS data shows the age of first child climbing relentlessly in Britain too — while the birth rate is falling in all cohorts save the over-40s.
They are failing because the investor class is pushing them and their college peers out of good jobs to make room for an imported workforce of cheap and compliant visa workers.
This means Antifa people are now going through the same outsourcing pain and poverty that was imposed on the American working class by the elite’s imposition of mass migration and free trade deals with Mexico and China.
Antifas college graduates are being hit hard by the little-mentioned population of roughly 1.3 million visa workers.
The visa workers are imported into the U.S. for a variety of tasks. Many are imported for on-the-job training so they can export their jobs to India, where they can be paid at India’s pay levels. But many also are put into the jobs at the Fortune 500 companies that would otherwise carry many young Antifa people up into middle class prosperity.
CEOs, vice-presidents, hiring managers, and investors want to hire many visa workers because they are compliant and helpless.
They are compliant because they were already powerless in their own Indian or Chinese culture. But they are also impotent because they know they can be easily thrown out of the United States and back to India or China, with a signature from any of their managers and executives.
Their powerlessness means they cannot argue with bosses, unlike American professionals. They cannot quit for different employers, as is the norm Among American graduates. They cannot quit to invent a rival product that grabs market share from their former employers, as millions of American graduates hope to do.
Congress created this powerless and growing workforce at the request of Silicon Valley’s tech companies and the Fortune 500.
So far, President Donald Trump has done nothing to shrink this massive loss of middle-class jobs, salaries, and careers.
Please read @NeilMunroDC 's latest before you assume (as I once did) that H-1B "guestworkers" are all super-skilled foreign tech whizzes doing work Americans can't do. I'm sure some are, but most …. https://t.co/MRvndFDXsQ — Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 25, 2020
But the young progressives and Antifa schemers have been trained to not see how their futures are being drained. Instead of learning economics and history, they were programmed in schools and colleges to focus on identity groups, on race, and on sexism — and to never follow the money.
The flow of money is rarely mentioned on TV, in Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post, or in the pro-diversity New York Times. So Antifa’s economic frustration becomes political frustration as they chase their identity-politics delusions. NBC reported in 2017:
Daniel is a sophomore studying political science at a private Bay Area university. The 19-year-old asked to have his last name withheld so he could speak freely about his experience with the Antifa movement. He said he became involved two years ago, after becoming disillusioned with what he calls a corrupted American dream. “These false promises we’ve been told throughout our lives that we just have to follow the American dream of working hard and things will be all right. We’ll get a middle class existence with house, lawn and the picket fence,” Daniel said. “This promise, this future has never materialized, and we kind of realized that the system’s rigged against us and we need to do something about it.”
Twitter commenters echo the same theme of frustrated and angry college graduates:
A great insight that explained a lot of what I see in Toronto. Tons of graduates with Master's degrees and PhDs acting all social justicey and marching around decrying the system when the real problem is their degrees in criminology or gender studies don't get them jobs. — Greg Tolan 🏴🇷🇸 (@Greg_Tolan) June 5, 2020
The Antifa graduates collect in the inner cities as they try to climb the career ladders towards the comfortable life promised by their teachers, professors, peers, and parents. This makes it is easy for them to scheme and riot, says the anti-establishment author, Michael Lind, the author of “The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite.”
In an article titled “Hub City Riot Ninjas: A young overclass gets dressed up to join the burning,” Lind says:
For the most part, the members of groups like Antifa, the latest incarnation of the violent left, have always been the pampered children of the white overclass. Twenty-somethings who are poor and working class lack the money to buy fancy black ninja outfits and the leisure to spend time plotting in advance of demonstrations. This is nothing new; as a veteran ’60s leftist told me, “Your Mom and Dad had to have a lot of money for you to take part in the Summer of Love.”
Their impact is large, in part, because they live alongside each other in the urban centers where their spending power has pushed poor minorities and workers out to distant, ungentrified districts. Lind writes:
The children of the white urban elite—some of them downwardly mobile for life, some of them just going through the underpaid intern phase of professional careers—have colonized rowhouses where workers once lived and have converted former factories and warehouses into settings for la vie bohème. …
Many of today’s big city riot ninjas will look back in the future with pride on their nights of prancing around in black leotards and spraypainting “BLM” and “Fuck Trump” on downtown buildings. A decade from now, the most successful will have well-paying jobs, many of them in the politically progressive sectors like the universities and NGOs. The unlucky ones may still be working at Starbucks—perhaps at the very stores whose plate glass windows they once spray-painted or smashed.
Californian Joel Kotkin says the middle-class is shrinking, and political power is flowing to the business elite and their allied class of cheerleaders in the media and universities:
The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. At the apex of the new order are two classes—a reborn clerical elite, the clerisy, which dominates the upper part of the professional ranks, universities, media and culture, and a new aristocracy led by tech oligarchs with unprecedented wealth and growing control of information … Below these two classes lies … the yeomanry, which is made up largely of [middle-class] small businesspeople, minor property owners, skilled workers and private-sector oriented professionals. Ascendant for much of modern history, this [yeomanry] class is in decline while those below them, the new Serfs, grow in numbers—a vast, expanding property-less population.
In this vision, Antifa consists of people who want to get into the “clerisy.” But many of them will fail and fall down into the serf class, where they tend bars, deliver food, do piecework journalism.
But these descriptions also mean that Antifa’s graduates and Trump’s working-class MAGA are potential allies.
The underemployed Antifa college graduates are close cousins to the millions of working-class Americans who rallied to Donald Trump’s 2016 message of national solidarity, and “Buy American, Hire American.” As Harrington writes in Unherd.com:
Both radical Left and Right are, the authors suggest, “different segments of the same pool of losers of globalization”. The left-behind bottom rungs of the new graduate precariat mix cosmopolitan style identity politics with a simmering anger at a system that feels rigged against them, and a demand for economic redistribution …. Meanwhile, adherents of the alt-right face similarly left-behind economic prospects, just without the graduate worldview. So the main mode is the same anger at a rigged system, just overlaid with the mirror-image of the cosmopolitan worldview: nativist identity politics.
Trump’s conventional, non-racial demand for national solidarity — Make America Great! — was the unspoken assumption of all presidential campaigns since the Great Depression in 1929. But now this call for national solidarity is smeared as “racist,” “xenophobic,” and “nativist” by the clerisy as they trumpet the Tech Elite’s demand for global business rules and a global labor market.
The clerisy has done its work well: Antifa’s college graduates have been trained to love the imposed diversity and identity politics that make them helpless to stop the outsourcing of their jobs and futures.
As Harrington writes:
From the point of view of effecting political change, then, the tragedy of the [Antifa and MAGA groups] is that they should waste their energy quarrelling among themselves. [They] represent different subsets of an ever-swelling precariat, watching in real time as the last of the twentieth century social contract goes up in smoke. Right now they largely see the enemy as one another. Should that change, though, we could see our faltering political settlement shaken to its core.
Supporters of the OPT foreign-employee scheme release data showing OPT sends jobs & wealth to wealthy, coastal states.
Why would heartland Senators & Reps. support a GWBush/Obama scheme that sends their jobs to the coasts & their wealth to Wall St.?#H1Bhttps://t.co/iwTq6ruuC3 — Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) May 23, 2020
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--Left Brings Back Segregation: Uber Eats Divides Restaurants by Skin Color

Uber Eats is offering free delivery from black-owned restaurants for the rest of the year as part of the company ’ s response to the # BlackLivesMatter protests that have engulfed major cities during the past seven days .
But questions about the promotion ’ s legality have arisen , with some experts saying that it violates civil rights laws .
The ride-sharing company also said that it will offer discounted rides to black-owned small businesses in the weeks ahead .
“ You asked for a way to find Black-owned restaurants on Uber Eats .
We listened , ” the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can support and order from Black-owned restaurants across the U.S. & Canada with a $ 0 Delivery Fee.
” Uber Technologies said that it will also donate $ 1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative and the Center for Policing Equity .
“ We know this isn ’ t enough .
It won ’ t be enough until we see true racial justice , ” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement .
Uber Eat ’ s promotion could run afoul state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination .
Attorney Harmeet Dhillon noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Act , which outlaws discrimination based on race , color , sex , disability , and other personal factors .
Uber said that it will offer discounted rides to black-owned small businesses in order to assist in their recovery from the Chinese virus .
The company warned users that it doesn ’ t tolerate racism , harassment , or discrimination of any kind on its platform .
“ I respectfully ask anyone not willing to abide by these rules to delete Uber , ” Khosrowshahi said .
Follow David Ng on Twitter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me at dng @ breitbart.com

Uber Eats is offering free delivery from black-owned restaurants for the rest of the year as part of the company’s response to the #BlackLivesMatter protests that have engulfed major cities during the past seven days. But questions about the promotion’s legality have arisen, with some experts saying that it violates civil rights laws.
The ride-sharing company also said that it will offer discounted rides to black-owned small businesses in the weeks ahead.
“You asked for a way to find Black-owned restaurants on Uber Eats. We listened,” the company tweeted on Thursday. “You can support and order from Black-owned restaurants across the U.S. & Canada with a $0 Delivery Fee.”
Uber Technologies said that it will also donate $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative and the Center for Policing Equity . “We know this isn’t enough. It won’t be enough until we see true racial justice,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement.
Uber Eat’s promotion could run afoul state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination. Attorney Harmeet Dhillon noted that it violates California’s Unruh Act, which outlaws discrimination based on race, color, sex, disability, and other personal factors.
Uber said that it will offer discounted rides to black-owned small businesses in order to assist in their recovery from the Chinese virus.
The company warned users that it doesn’t tolerate racism, harassment, or discrimination of any kind on its platform. “I respectfully ask anyone not willing to abide by these rules to delete Uber,” Khosrowshahi said.
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--Who Will Answer 9-1-1? Democrats Paint ‘Defund the Police’ Painted on Street Leading to White House

Demonstrators in D.C painted “ Defund The Police ” on the newly named Black Lives Matter Plaza that leads to @ @ @ @ @ yellow-painted words match the huge “ Black Lives Matter ” slogan painted earlier on the @ @ @ @ @ .
Democrat legislators are under increasing pressure from their base of far-left groups of college @ @ @ @ @ , despite the huge toll that urban crime inflicts on working-class people who live in @ @ @ @ @ section of the street is part of 16th Street , which leads directly to Lafayette @ @ @ @ @ White House .
Some Democrats are resisting the political pressure , largely because they know @ @ @ @ @ police would prompt a police walkout , repeated looting , business shutdowns , and a @ @ @ @ @ .
The Democrats ’ lax policy on crime in the 1970s caused huge spikes in @ @ @ @ @ resulting public backlash allowed Ronald Reagan , the former governor of California , to win @ @ @ @ @

Demonstrators in D.C painted “Defund The Police” on the newly named Black Lives Matter Plaza that leads to the White House.
The yellow-painted words match the huge “Black Lives Matter” slogan painted earlier on the street by the D.C. government.
Democrat legislators are under increasing pressure from their base of far-left groups of college graduates to shrink police powers, despite the huge toll that urban crime inflicts on working-class people who live in urban districts.
The renamed section of the street is part of 16th Street, which leads directly to Lafayette Park, adjacent to the White House.
Some Democrats are resisting the political pressure, largely because they know that any policy to defund police would prompt a police walkout, repeated looting, business shutdowns, and a massive loss of tax revenues.
The Democrats’ lax policy on crime in the 1970s caused huge spikes in murder and theft. The resulting public backlash allowed Ronald Reagan, the former governor of California, to win the presidency in 1980.


thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--Thousands of Useful Idiots Join Philadelphia Rabble-Rousing Event Plotted by Commies

Thousands of George Floyd protesters filled the streets near City Hall in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , on Saturday during an event led by socialists .
The march , organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation ( PSL ) , started outside the Art Museum and quickly drew a massive crowd , according to CBS Philly .
An estimated 6,000 people participated in the demonstration , which took place before the citywide 8:00 p.m.-6:00 a.m. curfew took effect .
Following the march , the PSL said the thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ war on Black America , ” according to its Facebook page .
We call for the funding of the real needs of our communities and an immediate DEFUNDING AND DEMILITARIZATION OF THE POLICE !
We call for Governor Wolf to WITHDRAW THE NATIONAL GUARD !
And we call on Commissioner Outlaw to RESIGN after directing the unprovoked brutalization of demonstrators on 6/1 !
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE !
At the protest , author and self-described revolutionary Eugene Puryear addressed the crowd and said , “ This is not a riot , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not a riot , this is a rebellion .
And successful uprisings and rebellions become REVOLUTIONS.
” “ They never think it can happen until it does .
Let them laugh at us .
Let them ridicule us .
Let them yell , ‘ Get a job.
’ Let them say whatever they want to say .
We are an unstoppable force that will bring this capitalist system to its knees.
” Later , Mayor Jim Kenney shared a photo of himself and a group of protesters kneeling at the Octavius Catto Memorial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beginning to take action against officers we ’ ve seen acting inappropriately , and we will continue to do so , ” Kenney wrote in a subsequent tweet .
“ Excessive force will not be tolerated .
We ’ ll have more to share on our other commitments to address issues of police violence in the near future , ” he concluded .

Thousands of George Floyd protesters filled the streets near City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday during an event led by socialists.
The march, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), started outside the Art Museum and quickly drew a massive crowd, according to CBS Philly.
An estimated 6,000 people participated in the demonstration, which took place before the citywide 8:00 p.m.-6:00 a.m. curfew took effect.
Saturday afternoon, NBC10 tweeted aerial footage of the protest:
Thousands of people in Philadelphia continue to protest racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd. Crowds in Center City stretched from the steps of the Art Museum and past the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. https://t.co/LlmPCHjz7Q pic.twitter.com/6YJT2DvCW7 — NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) June 6, 2020
Following the march, the PSL said the thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and to bring an end to the “war on Black America,” according to its Facebook page.
The post continued:
We call for the funding of the real needs of our communities and an immediate DEFUNDING AND DEMILITARIZATION OF THE POLICE! We call for Governor Wolf to WITHDRAW THE NATIONAL GUARD! And we call on Commissioner Outlaw to RESIGN after directing the unprovoked brutalization of demonstrators on 6/1! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
At the protest, author and self-described revolutionary Eugene Puryear addressed the crowd and said, “This is not a riot, this is an uprising. This is not a riot, this is a rebellion. And successful uprisings and rebellions become REVOLUTIONS.”
“They never think it can happen until it does. Let them laugh at us. Let them ridicule us. Let them yell, ‘Get a job.’ Let them say whatever they want to say. We are an unstoppable force that will bring this capitalist system to its knees.”
Later, Mayor Jim Kenney shared a photo of himself and a group of protesters kneeling at the Octavius Catto Memorial outside City Hall:
This week has been humbling. It has shown me—someone who considers themselves to be progressive and an ally—that there is a great deal more for me to learn. Black voices have been silenced for too long. We must hear those voices and act on their demands.
#BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/I3r4JDqm1h — Jim #StayHomePHL Kenney (@PhillyMayor) June 6, 2020
“We are beginning to take action against officers we’ve seen acting inappropriately, and we will continue to do so,” Kenney wrote in a subsequent tweet.
“Excessive force will not be tolerated. We’ll have more to share on our other commitments to address issues of police violence in the near future,” he concluded.


thelibertydaily--2020-06-07--How the Tragic Killing of George Floyd Has Been Exploited

How the Tragic Killing of George Floyd Has Been Exploited : Bob Woodson How is the anger and grief following @ @ @ @ @ being exploited ?
Why does civil rights veteran Bob Woodson argue that the national focus @ @ @ @ @ larger problems facing black America ?
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And , what are real solutions to uplift @ @ @ @ @ In this episode , we sit down with Bob Woodson , founder and president of @ @ @ @ @ of the founders of the “ 1776 ” initiative .
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American Thought Leaders is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook @ @ @ @ @ Times website .

How the Tragic Killing of George Floyd Has Been Exploited: Bob Woodson
How is the anger and grief following George Floyd’s killing being exploited?
Why does civil rights veteran Bob Woodson argue that the national focus on systemic racism distracts from larger problems facing black America?
How do funds meant for helping low-income black communities fail to actually go to the people who need it most?
And, what are real solutions to uplift people in impoverished neighborhoods?
In this episode, we sit down with Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center and one of the founders of the “1776” initiative.
This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.
Jan Jekielek: Bob Woodson, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders.
Bob Woodson: Just pleased to be here again.
Mr. Jekielek: Bob, these are some really difficult, difficult times when I called you the other day to discuss. You’ve become a voice of reason for me. You said, “I never imagined we could be in a situation like this.” Just tell me, what was on your mind?
Mr. Woodson: Well, what I found troubling is that the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of the police would escalate into a full-scale assault on the fundamental values of the nation. There’s been a steady march over the past five decades of an assault on our founding values of America, by people who really are denigrating our founding principles. They’re again using the death, the tragic death of this man to continue that assault, and it’s very troubling and very disturbing that the charge of racism and institutional racism has become a consistent mantra that’s being broadcast around.
It’s even now morphed into an orthodoxy like communism. Are you a supporter of the party or not? There is no tolerance for anyone who disagrees or challenges the assumption that racism is the core problem facing the nation and particularly black Americans. Anyone who challenges that statement, that orthodoxy can lose their jobs. People in law firms are being asked to sign on to documents attesting to that belief.
Drew Brees, a football player, just challenged whether or not players should be taking a knee and disrespecting the flag, [and] was almost mobbed. He was compelled to offer an apology for saying that taking a knee during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner disrespects the flag and disrespects the nation.
Corporations are just pouring money into organizations that are what I call race grievance organizations. Some of these organizations have just received a million dollars from the Uber company. Their position is that slavery has not ended; it’s just evolved. Many of those organizations that Hollywood types are pouring money into are taking the same position that America is defined by slavery and that capitalism is corrupt. Therefore the nation is incurably infected with racism.
It moved from “de jure” to “institutional” racism. I’m not sure I know what that is, but it’s really sweeping the nation like a virus. This is our second pandemic in recent days, and it has some very dangerous possibilities that people are afraid to challenge this orthodoxy. But challenge it, we must, because it’s really harming the very people in whose name it’s being evoked—that is low-income blacks.
My organization, the Woodson Center, has been for 38 years championing the cause of the least of God’s children. Those that are in these crime-infected, drug-infested neighborhoods are the ones who are suffering the consequences of this emphasis on race. That’s what’s most troubling. And so we are committed to pushing back against this orthodoxy. That’s why we’ve formed a program within the Woodson Center called 1776, because we affirm America’s values. Many of the grassroots leaders that I support and we’ve supported over the years were able to redeem and transform their lives and therefore revitalize their communities, because they have embraced the principles and virtues of our founders of self-determination, of resilience, of triumph in the face of despair.
Those are the founding principles upon which they have found from freedom from drugs and alcohol and self-destruction. For those values to now be under attack, as expressions of racism really, will be most damaging to the least and the most vulnerable people in our society. So we intend to push back with everything that we can.
Mr. Jekielek: I know you work in over 2500, I think, communities around the nation. It’s incredible. I’d actually like you to talk a little bit later a bit more about some of what these leaders that come from the grassroots have managed to accomplish, because there’s some remarkable stories there.
To your point earlier, actually I just read today there’s a letter that was signed on by something like 1000 health professionals. [It] basically says, this is my quick read of it, that systemic racism is a much bigger health problem than coronavirus or COVID-19, roughly speaking. I didn’t know what to say or think about that.
Mr. Woodson: Really, really… I find it as a black person who’s a veteran of the civil rights movement most insulting. It’s the most demeaning proposition that I could think [of]. It is the most patronizing thing that anyone could say about someone, that somehow your life and your destiny is not in your own hands. That somehow whatever conditions or challenges you’re facing in your community, that it is not your fault. That the fault lies outside with white America. And therefore, unless and until white America changes, there’s little expectation that life will improve inside that community. I mean, that to me is fundamentally racist.
…They’re injuring people with the helping hand. In other words, what they’re saying, some of the proponents of this position, is that the out-of-wedlock birth, the black-on-black crime—There are about 6000 blacks that kill other blacks every year. Even though we’re only 13% of the population, we contribute 50% of all the murders that occur—somehow these challenges that we face, the solution to it rests outside of the community. Nothing is more lethal than to provide a convenient excuse for someone’s failure. To say to them, “You are not responsible.”
… The people who advocate [these] positions, unfortunately do not live, don’t have to live with the consequences of their advocacy. They’re demeaning the police. Some of them [are] saying we should defund the police. Well, there are studies now that support the proposition that when you vilify the police, and the police therefore begin to step back and not enforce the laws as vigorously, as aggressively in low-income high-crime areas as they did, it results in an increase in the number of black-on-black deaths. There are two studies [showing this].
But the people who are assaulting the police and attacking them as instruments of institutional racism don’t live in those communities that are suffering the problem. Their children are not in the foster care system. And so you have an unfortunate situation where middle-class—I call them grievance-oriented, middle-class, privileged elites—are the ones on television shaking their fists, claiming that America is incurably racist. They are preying on the guilt of white Americans who are writing checks to them. They are personally enriching themselves and their organizations in the name of champions of social justice. They are taking money in the name of addressing an injustice but the people who are going to suffer from this arrangement will be the people in those communities.
Because around the country recruitment of police officers is down 62%. It has the highest kind of dropout rate of people. Suicide rates among law enforcement is high. And … 86% of the police chiefs said they are having difficulty recruiting people. And so what happens? In some cases, in some cities, the police are unable to respond appropriately to 911 calls, because they don’t have enough officers to cover it. Many of the people who are advocating reducing these budgets, live in gated communities, and they don’t have that challenge.
… I don’t know what institutional racism is. I want someone to tell me what that means. I believe that the reason that they keep invoking it is because it prevents black elected officials who have been running the cities, the liberal democratic mayors and city council members and school board members [who have] been running our cities for the last 50 years [from accountability]. Those are the places where they identify the largest amount of inequities. Well, they don’t have to then answer the difficult question: If you were elected on the promise of improving the conditions for the least of these, why are students, why are children failing in systems run by your own people?
To avoid answering that question, all they’ve got to do is point to some abstract notion like institutional racism. Somehow white America has found a way to compel black professionals to miseducate their children in schools run and controlled and financed by them. They don’t have to answer that question as long as they can keep the public’s attention focused on institutional racism, whatever that means, then they don’t have to address the difficult questions. They also don’t have to deal with the economic realities of life. Many of those young whites who are participating in these demonstrations live in what were formerly low income black communities that have been gentrified. In Washington, DC, for instance, where we’ve had black leadership for five decades, 20,000 low-income blacks have been moved out of DC through gentrification. But no one discusses that, because we’re talking about institutional racism. Then the question is, what is it? What is the answer? What is the solution?
Mr. Jekielek: It’s a huge question. I was looking at … a few interviews that were being done … with protesters the other day. A couple of young men that I noticed were out there basically saying, “black lives matter.” I’m not talking about the organization, Black Lives Matter. They’re saying, “No, I care about the black community. Blacks are disempowered. They need to be empowered.” These are the messages. I sensed this man is quite genuine in his … hopes for the black community and so forth. You’re basically saying that … they’re fighting for something that they don’t understand or that isn’t even entirely real.
Mr. Woodson: First of all, you cannot generalize about the black community or any other people. We’re not monolithic. We have differences in education, differences in income. When it’s convenient, we generalize the black community, and we use the demographics of those who are living in the most troubling situations. We use the demographics of incarceration, of low-income housing, we use that demographic information to make a case that all blacks are suffering. Then when the money arrives, it goes not to the people suffering the problems, but those who are providing service.
For instance, in the last 50 years, the government spent $22 trillion on programs to aid the poor. 70 cents of all those dollars go not to the poor, but those who serve poor people. They ask not which problems are solvable, but which ones are fundable. Then you have black elected officials, many of them were veterans of the civil rights movement, who then came into political office, they were the ones who were dispensing those funds.
Listen to this, two out of ten whites with college degrees work for the government. Six out of ten blacks with college education work for the government, which means that the vast amount of money that has been spent on the poor that has produced and reinforced dependency has been administered by a lot of middle-class blacks, who then elect those into office in those cities who continue this funding. As a consequence over the past 50 years, if you look at the biggest income gap in America, it isn’t between whites and blacks, but it’s between lower income blacks and upper income blacks. And so the question if that is true, if racism is the culprit then why are not all blacks suffering equally? You have a lot of professional blacks operating in a professional class whose careers depend upon having poor people to serve. These are not ill-intentioned people.
They’re talking about structural racism. It’s structural inequality, which means that you’ve got one class of blacks, whose careers and future depends upon another group of blacks who are dependent. So if your career as a professional service provider is dependent upon having dependent people to serve, what incentive do you have to promote independence among the class of people who are down and struggling for independence and self-sufficiency? You do not have one.
In some cases, the exploitation is even worse. I remember in a lot of the contracting set aside programs where they said, “Well, blacks are not involved in this industry, we need to have set asides.” Okay, so what happens is that I remember a case, a manager, a black contractor told me he was bidding on a $3 million contract for the Alaska pipeline so that minorities can get involved in working on it. So he gets the $3 million contract. He takes 300,000 [dollars], 10%, off the top and then subs it back to the white company that was the competitor. He walks away with a windfall. They’re all whites working on the project, but he walks away with the windfall.
That is typical of what happens in a lot of these set aside programs. It was so vast and so pervasive, that when [Ronald] Reagan’s Labor Secretary, Ray Donovan, came up for charges of corruption in New Jersey, for doing something similar, the judge ruled that you can’t hold him responsible, because the problem of this perversion … is so pervasive that you can’t hold him responsible. What I’m telling you is a part of the public record, but it doesn’t get discussed because it’s a part of a game that has been played.
I said in an article that I wrote that the big sleeping giant in America is low-income blacks. They’re gonna wake up and realize one day that they’re being scammed. In the words of Malcolm X, they’ve been bamboozled, hoodwinked, hustled because they are allowing race to conceal the exploitation of one class of blacks by another. But we’re not supposed to discuss these things, because if you have a charge of racism and you have guilty whites pouring millions of dollars into professional black grievance-mongers and they are enforcing closure on any discussion or open debate or discussion on the issues that I’m discussing today, there will be no analysis of it, because you’re in violation of the race grievance orthodoxy.
Either you sign on here that you support institutional racism, or we’ll drive you underground. We will come after your job. We will destroy your career. One of the things that served black America well in the first part of this last century was the quality of the debate inside. That’s what’s sorely needed today. There needs to be more debate and discussion about … whether or not institutional racism is our biggest fault or whether there are challenges that are internal.
My position is that black America needs to have a two year moratorium in complaining about white folks, and use that time for self examination about how in the past century after slavery, blacks were able to achieve greater gains in a 30-year period between 1940 and 1970 than we have been able to accomplish in the last 30 years. In other words, when white people were at their worst, we were at our best.
We closed the education gap in the south on a 20-year period from [an education gap of] three years to six months. We did this because we built 5000 Rosenwald Booker T. Washington schools. We had more capital assets back then, which means hotels, insurance companies, ship companies. We had railroads. All of these things happened under segregation. Yet today, there’s not a single black-owned office building from Maine to South Carolina. It is important for us to move beyond this discussion of whether something is racist or not, whether there’s equity or not, so that we can begin to go in and analyze the economics and the social dynamics that will produce for the least of God’s children.
In other words, the acid test of effectiveness of any policy or program should be: “Does it improve the lot of the least of these?” At the Woodson Center, the test we use is whether people’s lives have been improved. We have 100 people who were drug addicted last year. Our groups can show you that they’re free of drugs this year. They were people who were living in public housing and dropping out of school. They’re now in college. There should be a very simple and concrete test of the efficacy of whatever you’re advocating. Does it improve the lot of the least of God’s children?
Mr. Jekielek: You’re basically saying, good intentions aren’t enough.
Mr. Woodson: Good intentions, no, they’re not enough. Someone said, I think it was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian martyred [by] Hitler, said one of the most difficult human phenomena to confront is not malice, because you can confront malice with violence. It’s folly. It’s when someone thinks they’re doing something that’s in your interest that’s really injuring you with a helping hand. That’s the most dangerous … I’d rather confront an honest bigot, than to confront some patronizing white person telling me, you just don’t have what it takes to make it unless I do something for you that’s special.
People don’t even understand [those] who are advocating for institutional racism are insisting that white America patronize them and treat them as an impotent child as an expression of their acceptance. That’s what’s so sad and ironic about the current discussion. They don’t even know when you’re insulting yourself, wanting white people to get down on their knees and acknowledge their privilege. There are enough stupid white people to do that, ingratiate themselves. It’s disgusting what this country is coming to.
Mr. Jekielek: Bob, … there’s a lot of people [on the streets]; I’m hearing a million. Among these people, most are peaceful from what we’ve been seeing, but then there’s these other groups like the Antifa people seeking the end of civilization as we know it, those groups. And then we have gangs that are taking advantage of these situations and looting and all this kind of stuff. So there’s this fuse; there’s a powder keg; there’s people trying to light the fuse. How do we approach this in your mind, being with all your grassroots leaders?
Mr. Woodson: There may be a million people coming, but the people who are in these communities who are suffering the problem are much larger in numbers. They’re the silent majority of black Americans. We need to give them a voice. … People talking about voter suppression. The biggest voter suppression in black America is apathy. If you go around your major cities like Washington, Trenton, Newark, in the last mayor’s race in the high-crime areas of Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, the turnout rate for the mayor’s race was 6%. That’s the level of apathy that exists in the cities.
But also, if you were to look at the footage from some of these riots, there were very strong black men and women who were standing up to the looters. There was one I saw where a well-dressed white couple came with a nice car and pulled up, and in the backseat there were bricks that they were handing out to black teenagers. One black woman really went into a rage and started cussing them out and demanded that they get the hell out of that community because they were destroying it. And they left. Another white woman was defacing a church and she was assaulted by a neighborhood leader. Then there was a very vocal woman in Manhattan, I’m trying to reach out to her, who went into a rage for 15 minutes saying that she fought for 10 years in defense of this country, and people are coming out ripping out charging stations where homeless people are able to charge their phones. That’s one.
…They took out and burned and looted a drugstore, a large drugstore. Now the elderly people can’t get their drugs. They have to get people to come outside. She went into chapter and verse about the horrors of what these outsiders have done to destroy her community in the name of social justice, in the name of Floyd. She was a peaceful demonstrator. She was seeking justice, but she saw those who were exploiting that passion and coming in and ruining her neighborhood.
Well, the Woodson Center intends to give a voice to those three people that are indigenous to that community and bring them together so they can begin to speak for themselves, because a lot of the people who are advocating the destruction of this country are doing it in the name of low-income blacks. Well, if you give low-income blacks the means to talk and speak for themselves, that will undermine the moral authority [of] those who say they are.
We have ample evidence that major change can come by this approach. For example, back in the early 80s, I was working with a group in Philadelphia, House of Umoja, that President Reagan mentioned in his State of the Union address. I’d worked with them for years, and they had promoted the reduction of gang violence. It used to be the country’s leading gang center.
I won’t tell the full story, but it was one woman and her husband who had six boys. One of them was a gang member, so she invited them to bring his friends home, so they moved into their little house and from there, for three years, they created an island of excellence that expanded to the whole city. They had a citywide gang summit. Gang violence went down from forty-eight a year down to two. So they had that kind of influence.
In 1983, there was an outbreak of groups of small bands of black boys, who would rob people on the streets, knock them down, take their chains and purses, and it spread like wildfire. There wasn’t an organized effort. The city couldn’t do a thing about it. [With] the House of Umoja, in ’83, I came together with four of their leaders. This is the innovation. They went to the local house of correction, the prison, and recruited 130 inmates on a crime prevention task force.
These men in prison gave them the names of 200 altogether young people from around the city, said bring them to us, let us counsel them. We were able to rent some school buses on that Saturday and brought 200 kids into the prison, into the gymnasium. We had a table and had lunch there. The inmates came in. Some of us spoke, but then the inmates broke into small groups with the kids. They have moral authority, and told these kids what they’re doing is destroying their families and this city, and it must cease. The wolf pack attacks stopped overnight. Overnight. It’s a matter of public record: 1983 Philadelphia. Your viewers should check it out.
If one organization with moral authority speaks to a selected number of grassroots leaders, and they’re able to effect change that changed the whole city then that same resource exists today. The Woodson Center has worked with leaders like this over the years, who have been able to go into high crime, drug-infested neighborhoods and create islands of excellence within those communities. What we’re lacking is the resources to go back and take those same approaches and apply it to some of these troubled cities around the country.
Mr. Jekielek: … Do you want to talk a little bit more about that? Just one thing that keeps hitting me here. You were talking about groups that seek to defund the police. Black Lives Matters, indeed it’s part of their platform, which I find astounding again. Yet there are all these people out there who … certainly believe that black lives matter. I’m one of them, I think. But then you have an organization that believes that there should be no police. I don’t know if I’m reading that right. … I feel like people are confused about these things.
Mr. Woodson: Well, they are dangerously confused. In fact, the City Council in I think it was St. Paul, Minneapolis took a vote on a resolution to replace police with social workers. So someone’s shooting up your neighborhood, you call a social worker. There’s some radical kind of crazy kind of recommendations like that. Again, I want to know from the people in those neighborhoods what they want. That’s what the Woodson Center is doing. We want to go and do polling in those communities to ask those folks what they want.
Right now the people who are on television, with their fists shaking, talking about Black Lives Matters. Black lives only seem to matter when it’s taken by a white person. It doesn’t seem to matter that in St. Louis in a four-month period last year, 18 children under the age of 14 were murdered in that one city, and only one arrest was effected because of the distrust with the police. Only one arrest, which means there are 17 killers roaming free. Do we want this to spread throughout the whole country and the fact that for every one black person shot by a police officer, 270 blacks are killing other blacks.
… In one case, it’s a little girl whose picture I carry with me. She’s a five year old, cute little thing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin about three years ago sitting on her grandfather’s lap at five o’clock in the evening. Somebody shoots through that window and hits her in the head, [while she’s] sitting on her grandfather’s lap. It’s not front page news in the paper. It doesn’t lead. This kind of black-on-black genocide is almost becoming the new norm. But that does not fit the Black Lives Matter narrative, and so that never gets discussed. They’ll say you’re mixing apples and oranges.
Mr. Jekielek: It’s just a tragic, tragic situation because … there seems to be a lot of energy for justice in the nation. Again, I don’t know if I have my numbers right but a lot of people … believe that there needs to be some kind of reform. They feel there’s something deeply wrong. You’re just saying that energy is being pushed in the wrong direction.
Mr. Woodson: The wrong direction. In other words, that woman I told you about with her husband or [some man] drove up in a nice car and offered bricks. She is considered a protester. They use protester and peaceful demonstrators as synonymous. Mark Zuckerberg just put $10 million to support organizations that support women and people who do that. Then the Hollywood types pledged $20 million to bail out of jail anyone arrested for rioting and protesting. But there’s nobody putting up money to support what this woman [was talking about]: putting in charging stations so that homeless people then can get their phones charged.
There was a black fireman and his wife you remember in Minneapolis [who] took their savings and opened a sports bar and a restaurant, and it was burned to the ground. They had no insurance. It was a young white person who stepped up, started a GoFundMe campaign to rebuild, and they achieved their success. We need to be investing in people to rebuild those communities with the same vigor that we are going to fund people who are driving in that community, opening their car door and offering bricks to young people, instead of supporting a fireman and his wife to create a business in a community, so what they can offer is jobs and a future to young people.
We’re at that divide right now in America, whether we are going to invest in the promotion of opportunity as a hedge against injustice, or are we going to promote protest and accusation and fund the vilification of the nation, continue to teach our children that they live in a nation that’s hostile to their future, that the values of America are antithetical to the best interests of their future. Are we going to continue to teach these derogatory lessons to our children?
Or do what we’re proposing to do with 1776: give them an alternative curriculum. Show them that America is defined not by its legacy of slavery, which is its birth defect, which we should acknowledge. But America is defined by its promise, because people are motivated to change and improve, when they are shown visions of victories that are possible, not constantly reminding them of injuries to be avoided. Again, I can’t say this enough, there’s nothing worse than convincing a person that their destiny is determined by someone who hates them.
… I think it was Carter G. Woodson [who] said, if you condition a person to enter into a back door, they will demand that you build one if you don’t have one. We ought to be concerned about the mental conditioning and the attitude of young blacks saying that unless white people are willing to do something for you, whatever that is, then you can’t expect to achieve.
Mr. Jekielek: Bob, I think I’ve said this before: every two-bit self help book out there will tell you that you have to accept responsibility. I don’t think there’s one out there that would say something different than that, … because that’s what lets you overcome.
Mr. Woodson: Well, one of the leading books on Amazon in the socialist section is Communism for Kids.
Mr. Jekielek: I think I need to read that book, frankly. I want to know what they’re teaching.
Mr. Woodson: Well, go on Amazon and look up Communism for Kids. It’s one of the best-selling books in that section. That’s what we’re preparing. … Again, that race grievance has become an orthodox, and its mantra is institutional racism.
Mr. Jekielek: What is the connection between this and communism?
Mr. Woodson: Well, I’m saying it’s developing an orthodoxy like communism is. I’m not saying that it’s synonymous. But I mean, in China and communist countries, you either follow the orthodoxy or you go into a prison camp. You accept the orthodoxy of the party, or you’re ostracized or murdered or put in prison. We’re approaching that. If you don’t accept this orthodoxy, if you don’t embrace it, if you say anything against it, you will be punished. You can’t debate it. You can’t discuss it. You can’t challenge it.
Mr. Jekielek: Bob, today, what looks like a bit of a powder keg, so to speak, I don’t know if everyone agrees with me, but it’s deeply troubling. What can we do today?
Mr. Woodson: Again, what we can do is to give voice to those in those communities who have the most to gain or the most to lose. Give them a voice, give them the resources. They are the ones who are trying to protect their communities. Let’s give them the means to protect their communities. Let’s let them articulate how they think their communities can best be protected.
Mr. Jekielek: Ask them if they want police, for example.
Mr. Woodson: Exactly. Ask them and not someone who doesn’t have to suffer the problem. We shouldn’t allow people who don’t live there to make decisions for people who do live there. Let’s do a survey of these communities where crime is the highest and find out what the people there want before we rush to accept the recommendations of people who don’t have to suffer the consequences of what they’re advocating
Mr. Jekielek: Any final thoughts before we finish up?
Mr. Woodson: Even with all the challenges, I’m optimistic. I believe America is at its finest when it’s meeting its greatest challenge. I’m optimistic, because I have seen transformation, redemption in action both of individuals [and communities.] I’ve seen whole communities transformed before my eyes when the people there understood that they must be agents of their own uplift. They must be responsible for their own destiny. They are the ones who must triumph over challenges, so I’m optimistic.
Mr. Jekielek: Bob Woodson, such a pleasure to talk again.
Mr. Woodson: Thank you.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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thelibertydaily--2020-06-08--Welcome to Maoist America

Welcome to Maoist America

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey looks over a demonstration calling for the Minneapolis Police Department to be defunded in Minneapolis , Minnesota on June 6 , 2020 .
Frey spoke at the head of the march but was asked to leave by the organizers after declining to commit to fully defunding the MPD .
( Stephen Maturen/Getty Images ) You could say the shaming of Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey for failing to pledge to defund the police in his city— “ Go home , Jacob .
Go home !
” the crowd chanted in unison as Frey slunk away , head @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of China ’ s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution .
But you would be wrong .
Frey ’ s defenestration—the crowd promised to put him out of office ; they all but put him in a cultural revolutionary dunce cap and paraded him around—was more of an apotheosis than a beginning .
This American cultural revolution began decades ago on our campuses and in our media .
Now it is taking over our streets .
But it is our schools , primarily , that have been the instigators of this .
In far too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into institutions resembling indoctrination camps .
This is true from kindergarten through PhD and from the Ivy League to bare bones community colleges .
Viewpoint diversity is a thing of the past with faculty meetings morphing into our own versions of Maoist “ struggle sessions , ” teachers and professors first shutting their mouths if they disagree , then exercising what amounts to “ self-criticism ” to save their jobs or just to gain some peace .
Students have gotten the message , writing their papers and editing their classroom speech in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faculty , administration , and fellow students that surround them .
And what is politically correct often changes from day to day , but , no matter what , conformity rules .
You have to be part of the program or you ’ re out .
Even basic math is under assault .
With our children educated this way for years , no wonder , as adults or close , they are out on the streets mercilessly ridiculing an ultra-liberal , actually progressive , urban mayor for holding an opinion that was totally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course are products of the same educational system and have long been prepared to ratify and amplify these same behaviors and views .
The communications and journalism departments of our universities are literal fonts of group think , training students to be propagandists for the glorious new future .
The results of our educational system are the primary cause of what we have been seeing in Minneapolis and across the country .
Our campus social justice warriors have taken to the streets , taken them over actually , and are trying to enforce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the schools .
And they are doing a good job of it .
Where will this end ?
According to Wikipedia , “ The Cultural Revolution damaged China ’ s economy while tens of millions of people were persecuted , with an estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to 20 million.
” That ’ s not as bad as Mao ’ s previous adventure , the Great Leap Forward , during which an estimated 18 to 45 million died , making the Great Helmsman the greatest mass murderer of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That catastrophic result is unlikely to happen here , but it will be bad enough anyway .
Group think has other consequences that were illuminated by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley as the road to a modern form of fascism .
Inscribing “ Black Lives Matter ” in bold letters dominating the route to the White House , not to mention naming a square in the capital after it , is sloganeering straight out of Orwell ’ s “ Animal Farm.
” ( “ Black Lives Matter good .
All Lives Matter bad.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a simple truth .
While for Mao social class was the lever of control , in America it is almost always race .
Our situation may ultimately be the more perilous .
You can become de-classed by changing your work and financial status , but racism is a more lethal accusation because it is impossible to prove you are not a racist .
All manner of people have been accused of it without evidence .
It ’ s literally endless .
Look what happened to the hapless Frey .
He ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the casket of George Floyd .
America is poised on a precipice .
Nevertheless there is some cause to be optimistic in the long run .
Things often return to the norm , eventually .
The Cultural Revolution , like its semblable the French Revolution in its bloody Robespierre period , finally became ineffective in its excesses .
They burned out .
Unfortunately , there is a lot of rubble to be cleared away after .
Sometimes years of it .
The most important rubble we have to clear out is that bias @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will our young people be truly educated citizens and be able to realize the dreams of our founders as free people .
Roger L. Simon is The Epoch Times ’ senior political analyst .
He is also a prize-winning novelist , Oscar-nominated screenwriter and the co-founder of PJ Media .
His most recent books are “ I Know Best : How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic , If It Hasn ’ t Already ” ( non-fiction ) and “ The GOAT ” ( fiction ) .
Views expressed in this article are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times .

Commentary
You could say the shaming of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for failing to pledge to defund the police in his city—“Go home, Jacob! Go home!” the crowd chanted in unison as Frey slunk away, head bowed—signaled the beginning of an American version of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
But you would be wrong.
Frey’s defenestration—the crowd promised to put him out of office; they all but put him in a cultural revolutionary dunce cap and paraded him around—was more of an apotheosis than a beginning.
This American cultural revolution began decades ago on our campuses and in our media. Now, it's taking over our streets.
But it's our schools, primarily, that have been the instigators of this. In far too many cases, they have gradually turned into institutions resembling indoctrination camps. This is true from kindergarten through Ph.D. and from the Ivy League to bare-bones community colleges.
Viewpoint diversity is a thing of the past, with faculty meetings morphing into our own versions of Maoist “struggle sessions,” teachers and professors first shutting their mouths if they disagree, then exercising what amounts to “self-criticism” to save their jobs or just to gain some peace.
Students have gotten the message, writing their papers and editing their classroom speech in a manner not to offend the politically correct faculty, administration, and fellow students that surround them.
And what is politically correct often changes from day to day, but, no matter what, conformity rules. You have to be part of the program, or you’re out. Even basic math is under assault.
With our children educated this way for years, no wonder, as adults or close, they are out on the streets mercilessly ridiculing an ultra-liberal, actually progressive, urban mayor for holding an opinion that was totally normative last week.
Our media, of course, are products of the same educational system and have long been prepared to ratify and amplify these same behaviors and views. The communications and journalism departments of our universities are literal fonts of groupthink, training students to be propagandists for the glorious new future.
(As I type this, it was announced that New York Times Editorial Page Editor James Bennet has resigned in shame for having the temerity to publish an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in the paper—talk about Cultural Revolution.)
The results of our educational system are the primary cause of what we have been seeing in Minneapolis and across the rest of the country. Our campus social justice warriors have taken to the streets, taken them over, actually, and are trying to enforce the same extreme leftist claptrap they do in the schools.
And they're doing a good job of it.
Where will this end? According to Wikipedia, “The Cultural Revolution damaged China's economy while tens of millions of people were persecuted, with an estimated death toll ranging from hundreds of thousands to 20 million.”
That’s not as bad as Mao’s previous adventure, the Great Leap Forward, during which an estimated 18 million to 45 million died, making the Great Helmsman the greatest mass murderer of all time, outdoing Stalin and Hitler.
That catastrophic result is unlikely to happen here, but it will be bad enough anyway. Groupthink has other consequences that were illuminated by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley as the road to a modern form of fascism.
Inscribing “Black Lives Matter” in bold letters dominating the route to the White House, not to mention naming a square in the capital after it, is sloganeering straight out of Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” (“Black Lives Matter good. All Lives Matter bad.”)
Those who do it recognize a simple truth. While for Mao, social class was the lever of control, in America, it's almost always race.
Our situation may ultimately be the more perilous. While you can become de-classed by changing your work and financial status, racism is a more lethal accusation because it's impossible to prove you're not a racist. All manner of people have been accused of it without evidence. It can be literally endless.
Look what happened to the hapless Frey. He’s a racist now, too, despite having wept over the casket of George Floyd.
America is poised on a precipice. Nevertheless, there's some cause to be optimistic in the long run. Things often return to the norm, eventually. The Cultural Revolution, like the semblable French Revolution in its bloody Robespierre period, finally became ineffective in its excesses. It burned out.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of rubble to be cleared away after. Sometimes, years of it.
The most important rubble we have to clear out is that bias in our school systems. Only then will our young people be truly educated citizens and be able to realize the dreams of our founders as free people.
Roger L. Simon is The Epoch Times’ senior political analyst. He's also a prize-winning novelist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and the co-founder of PJ Media. His most recent books are “I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already” (non-fiction) and “The GOAT” (fiction).