The evil they sell
The cottage industry where charlatans make fortunes for themselves while preaching the most destructive culture must stop.
“But, I think, one of the worst prices that blacks pay for preference has to do with an illusion. I saw this illusion at work recently in the mother of a middle-class black student who was going off to his first semester of college. ‘They owe us this, so don’t think for a minute that you don’t belong there.’ This is the logic by which many blacks, and some whites, justify affirmative action - it is something “owed”, a form of reparation. But this logic overlooks a much harder and less digestible reality, that it is impossible to repay blacks living today for the historic suffering of the race. If all blacks were given a million dollars tomorrow morning it would not amount to a dime on the dollar of three centuries of oppression, nor would it it obviate the residues of that oppression that we still carry today. The concept of historic reparations grows out of man’s need to impose a degree of justice on the world that simply does not exist. Suffering can be endured and overcome, it cannot be repaid. Blacks cannot be repaid for the injustice done to the race, but we can be corrupted by society’s guilty gestures of repayment.”
“The Content of Our Character”, Shelby Steele, Harper Perennial, 1990
Reading Shelby Steele’s book published 30 years ago, only one word comes to mind: Prophetic.
Although Steele was disseminating on his contemporary reality, his observations are frighteningly truer today than three decades ago.
Yet, it is also an undeniable, indisputable fact that racism has never been more absent or in retreat in The West than today. As Thomas Sowell has observed:
Racism is not dead. But it is on life-support, kept alive mainly by the people who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful…
So, how is it that in the last 5 years, race has suddenly become as explosive as any point in the last 100 years? Why is it, as Douglas Murray has noted, just as when the train was seemingly pulling up to the desired station, it picked up speed and started travelling faster than ever?
How is it that in America, who elected a black man with an Arabic middle-name, as President twice, and U.K., which has the most diverse cabinet in Europe, race-relations are worse than ever in the last 40 years, while actual racism has declined so definitely?
In this essay, I will attempt to explain how this has come to be, and why it must end as soon as possible.
The Race Hustlers
Or, as the brilliant Glenn Loury and John McWorther often call them, “the people with three names”; Ta Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay, Nikole Hannah Jones, Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Lamont Hill, Ibram X Kendi, Robin diAngelo, Michelle Alexander, Kehinde Andrews, Shaun King, and the entire BlackLivesMatter movement are all prominent entities in this new cottage industry profiteering on white guilt and black victimisation.
Following the footsteps of charlatans such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan, the new entrepreneurs of “anti-racism” have cornered a market for themselves, with consumers being self-flagellating whites willing to sign a bargain to obtain the status of “anti-racist” offered to them by these 21st Century Fausts.
Their narrative is as simple as it is false;
Disparities between whites and blacks is down to racism, all current black misfortune is the result of white oppression, the gap between whites and blacks is due to historical injustices such as slavery, and must be repaid accordingly.
Let me be blunt and say that even if all of the above were true (it’s not), it wouldn’t make a difference to how pernicious and destructive their narrative is, and how what they’re selling would remain nothing but snake oil.
The fact that it’s not only detrimental, but also false, is what makes it especially and uniquely poisonous and immoral.
These con artists’ entire raîson détrè is contingent on not only white guilt, but also black underachievement and underdevelopment. The worst thing that could ever happen to these crooks is for black people to take ownership of their own lives and lift themselves by the bootstraps - as so many have done and continue to do.
By pushing the lie that blacks are being held down by whites, these people are cheating the black individual out of making it in life on her own character. They’re encouraging a racial politic, where blacks get ahead because they are a minority considered to be downtrodden and victimised, so charity is bestowed upon them and they become dependant on those doing the bestowing. They are not equal, but subjects with outstretched palms, waiting for enforced alms granted them by those believing that blacks are not able to make it on their own.
Imagine the evil in believing this. The stupidity. The racism. The idea that blacks in the 21st Century must be hand-held, that they’re always victims whose fate is subject to the whims of the white man.
Disparity ≠ Discrimination!
It’s trivially easy to debunk the entire foundation on which these hucksters build their worldview; Point out that disparity is (and always will be) the norm. No two demographics will ever have parity, and expecting them to do so is irrational.
In fact, even among siblings won’t you find parity across the board - the first-born is overwhelmingly the most successful child in a society, superseded only by the single child.
So, if parity cannot be achieved even among individual households, how can you expect to achieve it across people with vastly different cultures, histories, values, skills, genetics or geographies?
The trick these people play is to artificially impose a division between “whites” and “blacks”, as if we’re talking about two homogenous entities. Ironically, they never take into account the vast diversity within each camp;
Italian Americans, Irish Americans, German Americans, Ashkenazi-Jewish Americans - these are all under the rubric of “White Americans” despite the enormous economical, cultural and societal differences among them.
Likewise, one of the most successful communities in America - Nigerian immigrants - are lumped in with one of the least prosperous - Ethiopian Americans. Both are “blacks”.
They don’t take into account that the average “white” American is 10 years older than the average “black” American. Most common age among “white” Americans is 58 years old. Among “blacks”, it’s 27!
They talk only ever about wealth disparity, but rarely about income disparity - which is close to insignificant, when taking into account age, geography and schooling. They don’t take into account spending patterns, where “blacks” are for example 30% more likely to spend money on visible goods (cars, clothes and jewellery), even when adjusting for income disparity!
These rhetorical tricks are designed to mislead and play on emotional sentiments, rather than adhere to logic. The charlatans know this very well, and rely on the white people’s innate, fundamental yearning of being against racism.
However, what they offer will have zero positive impact for anyone but themselves. Their dogmas will only ensure the most vulnerable black people will remain in poverty and depression, while they themselves fill their pockets with ill-begotten wealth.
Imagine the following scenario:
We take the poorest and most downtrodden black people and divide them into two groups. One will be taught self-determination, entrepreneurialism, raising children in two-parent households, ownership and total disregard for racial politics, where they think their pigmentation has anything to do with their character.
The other group is indoctrinated in the creeds of these charlatans, where the concept of their victimhood is vehemently reinforced. They are told that their fate is always in the hands of others, that they are born disadvantaged and the only way for them to ever achieve anything in life is to be granted charity by their overlords.
This simple thought experiment should go a long way to expose the immorality of what these hucksters and con-artists teach. The irony becomes ever more apparent when noticing the net-worth of these same individuals, and then asking how they came to achieve such wealth - the answer is through being enterprising, taking action and having an entrepreneurial mindset.
Yet, they wish to deny this to other blacks. This is why they must be fought tooth and nail. This is why their doctrines are not just nonsensical, but evil. It is pure and utter bigotry, disguised as anti-racism. The net effect is as detrimental, cataclysmic and calamitous as that of any ardent racist institution of the past.
Truth
There are, however, those who do speak the truth. Individuals who see through this racket and, even though they could play along and make small fortunes for themselves, rather choose to be honest, despite significant cost to their personal and professional reputations.
I am talking about The Great Thomas Sowell. I am talking about Glenn Loury. John McWorther. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Coleman Hughes. Kmele Foster. Thomas Chatterton Williams. Carol Swain. Jason L. Riley. Walter Williams. Ayishat Akanbi. Inaya Folarin Iman.
These are the counter-insurgencies to the new religion of “anti-racism”. Courageous women and men who dare to be honest, when falling in line, sermonising the narrative de-jour and profiteering on the lies would be so much easier. Yet, they are committed to the truth, even though pursuing it means being called “Uncle Toms”, “House niggers” (yes, I wrote the word - deal with it), “Coconuts” and - worst of all - “race traitors”.
It is said that, if the Pope wakes up and says “God exists”, he is only doing his job. But if he were to say “God doesn’t exist”, he is on to something. As a brown man and former refugee, I could turn to any corporation in the U.K. and claim to be able to teach them anti-racism and make non-trivial levels of wealth for myself. It’s a racket available to anyone without morals or principles, as long as they are non-white.
This is how shams such as Mandatory Diversity Training and Critical Race Theory (CRT) have made themselves into every echelon of society; corporations, governments and education.
Yet, having been exposed to those speaking the truth, I can’t think of anything more immoral than propagate theories which are designed to guilt white people, fill my pockets and achieve nothing of value for non-whites.
If a corporation hired me for the mere colour of my skin, they have accomplished exactly what is set out in Diversity training courses. But I am reduced to the amount of melanin I happen to have - my merits and character are irrelevant. Who with any dignity would want this?
So, let’s speak the truth.
We now know that Michael Brown was justly shot by officer Wilson, and the BlackLivesMatter movement was built on a lie. Even Ta Nehisi Coates has acknowledged this now.
The death of George Floyd was condemned by the entire world as a racist travesty. Floyd has become the latest symbol of black oppression by American law enforcement. The truth, however inconvenient, is that there has been no – zero – arguments laid forward to back the accusation of this having been a racial crime. Two independent autopsies have now established that Floyd did not die because of Officer Derek Chauvin’s handling of him, but of Fentanyl overdose.
Four years earlier, a mentally ill white man called Tony Timpa, died in police custody while being treated the exact same way. What’s perhaps even more disturbing about the Timpa case is that it was he himself who had called the police to come and get him. The video is has been available from the day of the incident, yet almost no one knows of Timpa, while Floyd became international news. Why?
The case of Breonna Taylor is incredibly disturbing. We were told that, while sleeping in her bed next to her boyfriend, the police conducted a no-knock search into her apartment “believing it belonged to someone else”. Taylor’s boyfriend, fearing it may be intruders, fired shots at the officers, who shot back, and during the exchange, one officer was wounded, and Taylor was tragically killed.
Now we know (from black Attorney General Daniel Cameron) that this was not the truth but a deceptive narrative told to us by a media stoking the racial conflicts to enhance their viewerships and clicks. What actually happened was that the police did knock, Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker - who was the man the police wanted to question - started shooting at them as they entered while Taylor was standing next to him, and not sleeping in her bed. This has been corroborated by multiple eye witnesses and 911 calls.
Yet, the narrative of a no-knock raid and shooting an innocent black woman sleeping in her bed is still prevalent, and keeps being promoted by these race hustlers.
In fact, almost every case - whether it’s Trayvon Marton, Alton Sterling or Sam DuBose - have near identical white counterpart examples, and the truth is significantly different to the predominant narrative.
Why? Why, if racism is so prevalent, do the mainstream media and these charlatans insist on pushing lies and the general public swallowing them whole, without ever questioning the stories, despite almost every single one turning out to be false?
Why is the truth so inconvenient for them?
The reason is that the narrative is so much more lucrative for a these swindlers, and therefore the truth becomes irrelevant. As long as the lie of black oppression is being promulgated, these people can rest assured that their bank accounts will continue to grow.
Time for change
Racism is as close to non-existent in Western societies as it will ever be. The term “racist” has been so overused, and directed against anyone and everyone who dares question the “anti-racist” narrative, that it has lost all its meanings.
As the brilliant Andrew Doyle, under the guise of Titania McGrath, has noted, everything is being labelled racist these days; cereal, golf, Ghandi, Jesus, milk and roads.
This is how desperate these race pimps are to have a cause to fight. They are sinister Don Quixotes, fighting windmills while claiming to defeat evil.
Now is the time to expose them to the most efficient disinfectant of all; daylight. If you are white, and don’t believe that anyone is inferior because of their race, you are by definition not a racist. So do not accept being called one. Do not agree to your company’s diversity training courses. If your employer wishes to implement CRT, refuse to participate, citing the inherent racism within the teachings of Robin diAngelo.
If someone accuses you of racism, humiliate them by challenging their ludicrous ideas. Question a few of their dogmas, and their entire worldview will crumble.
Ask why someone like me chooses to leave everything behind to come to these shores? And when here, I have gone from minimum wage to being in the top 5% of earners within 5 years? How, if racism is built in the system, can such a thing occur?
Ask how, in a supposedly racist society, Indian and Chinese immigrants are thriving to the extent where they are either the highest or in the top three highest earning demographics?
When people mock the statement “I have a lot of black friends”, ask them where the flaw in that logic is. Racism, after all, is a conviction which is non-existent if it’s not acted upon, and how can it be present if your actions directly contradict the beliefs? And what of your black friends? Is your accuser claiming that they are self-hating ignoramuses for being friends with someone who regards them as less?
It’s time to speak up. It’s time to resign these race hustlers and charlatans to their appropriate place in society; selling pencils from paper cups outside a train station.