The New York Times’ assault on white Americans, about which I
wrote yesterday ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/02/11/the-new-york-times-assault-on-white-americans/ ),
is not unique to the New York Times. White
people are the targets of Identity Politics—the political ideology of the
Democrat Party. The
demonization of white people is the main focus of “Black Studies” in
universities and schools. Corporate adds now engage in attacks on
white ethnicities, such as this Scandinavian Airlines ad: https://youtu.be/ljtFEMAfQ_E . Not
to be left out of the fun of beating up on white people, PBS announced that the
propaganda film, The Long Shadow ( http://thelongshadowfilm.com ), will be
aired 697 times on 176 PBS stations and channels across 70% of the US.
The Long
Shadow is an ignorant or intentionally propagandistic film. The premise is that
white-imposed institutional anti-black racism, “guided by the South’s powerful
political influence, steadily, deliberately and at times secretly, established
white privilege in our institutions, laws, culture and economy.” This
is an amazing lie. Slavery
was universal. Muslims
held millions of white slaves obtained from raids on European coastal towns.
Was this “Muslim anti-white racism, guided by Islam’s powerful influence,” or
was it the appropriation of labor, as were feudal dues or the modern income tax
on labor? How
come slavery is only something whites did to blacks, and not something that
Muslims did to whites or blacks to blacks? As the historic record makes certain,
the black slave trade originated in Africa in the black king of Dahomey’s slave
wars against other black tribes.
When whites held whites as slaves, was this white-imposed
anti-white racism?
These
questions are carefully avoided by The Long Shadow film, by the New York Times’
1619 Project, by Black Studies, and by Identity Politics as is the question: Where did the black slaves come
from?
The answer is that they came from the
black kingdom of Dahomey.
Does this mean that blacks, “guided by
the black king’s powerful influence imposed anti-black racism and
institutionalized this racism in Dahomey’s laws and homegrown African
institution of the black slave trade?”
What about
the Jewish slave traders? Are they also responsible for institutionalizing
racism?
Why did
slavery only cast evil over America and not over Greece, Rome, Europe, the
Muslim world, and black Africa? What kind of bullshit game are PBS, the
New York Times, Identity Politics, Black Studies, school districts, and
corporations playing?
How is it
that slavery is white racism when every race has owned slaves?
According
to The Long Shadow propaganda, the filmmakers are two “privileged daughters of
the South, who were haunted by their families slave owning past” and made the
film as an act of exorcism. Slavery in the US ended more than one
and one-half centuries ago. Does anyone really believe that today,
after 55 years of minority preferences in university admissions and employment,
two people in the 21st century are remorseful over a feature of an ancestor’s
society in the 19th century? What sense does this make?
What is wrong with the New York Times, PBS,
universities, and Democrats that they are unable to comprehend that for the
United States slavery was an inherited institution,
not one created by the Founding Fathers or by Southerners?
The answer is that they are determined not
to understand anything. The intent is to demonize white people.
If Jews are demonized, it is hate
speech and anti-semitism.
If blacks are demonized, it is hate
speech and racism.
But when
whites are demonized it is OK, but it is not OK for whites to protest their
demonization. So,
how is there white privilege when whites are the only race whose demonization
is encouraged, and, if whites protest, it is regarded as proof that they are
unrepentant white supremacists?
The
demonization of white people is so out of hand that today white Americans and
Europeans are demonized worse that Jews were demonized in National Socialist
Germany. No
good can come from this. Swedish women are already paying a huge price (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/02/09/swedish-government-aligned-firmly-with-migrant-invader-rapist-murderers-against-swedish-women/ ).