The same can’t be said of counterparts in the Black Lives Matter movement. Take Yusra Khogali, a leader and co-founder of BLM in Toronto, who described white skin as “sub-human” (she actually used the word “sub-humxn,” the alteration of the word “man” being a popular trend among intersectionalists). She claimed that white people are a “genetic defect of blackness” and that melanin, the pigment that gives human skin its color, “directly communicates with cosmic energy.” Because of this, Khogali proclaimed that black people were in fact “superhumxn.”117 It seems Black Lives Matter is happy to have open racial supremacists as leaders.
Creative biology is nothing new to black supremacists and separatists, like the belief that a black scientist named Jakub created the white race as a “race of devils.” In the past these could be laughed at and considered as loopy as flat-Earth theory. Now believers in this stuff are lauded by mainstream politicians and commentators.
That wasn’t the first time Khogali had made a racist comment on social media, by the way. In February 2016, she tweeted “Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today. Plz plz plz.”118 We don’t need to guess at Khogali’s motivations. Her hatred is plain for everyone to see. Yet the mainstream media seems more interested in trying to explain how a sassy gay British columnist with Jewish heritage and a black boyfriend is the real racist.
There are some who argue that racism against white people doesn’t exist. For a time the top result on Google for “is it possible to be racist to a white person?” was an article from Huffington Post arguing that such a thing was impossible, because racism is “prejudice plus power” and whites “control the system and economic structure in society.”119
I’m not sure this argument would be very convincing to the mentally disabled white kid who was kidnapped and tortured by four black people in Chicago. They livestreamed the ordeal on Facebook, gleefully hurling racial abuse at him (“Fuck Donald Trump, nigga! Fuck white people, boy!”) slapping him, and slicing his scalp with a knife.120
I’m also left to wonder if, under this new definition of racism, an immigrant cab driver in New York who doesn’t pick up black guys is a racist. I’d like to see a BLM activist explain how a Pakistani immigrant has any “power” over a black American U.S. citizen.
It’s a bit like walking into a carnival house of mirrors when definitions of words are changed in order to support a bogus argument. Are there black people who hate white people? Yes. Are there black people who think whites are inferior to blacks, and have no problem admitting to it openly and publicly, with no fear of reprieve? Yes. Are these same black people racist? Of course they are.
BLOOD IN THE STREETS
When Lyndon B. Johnson discussed the need to tackle racism in America, he was under no illusions about the gravity of the problem facing the nation. “The Negro fought in the War [World War II],” Johnson reportedly told Horace Busby, an aide. “He’s not gonna keep taking the shit we’re dishing out. We’re in a race with time. If we don’t act, we’re gonna have blood in the streets.”
It’s been more than fifty years since Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law, and America has blood on its streets. But it can no longer be blamed on racism—at least, not on white racism.
On July 7, 2016, the black supremacist Micah Xavier Johnson opened fire on police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five and injuring nine others, as well as two civilians. It was the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001.
Just ten days later, another black supremacist, Gavin Eugene Long, opened fire on police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He killed two officers and hospitalized three others, one critically.
Both Micah Xavier Johnson and Gavin Eugene Long grew up in a society in which university professors, celebrities, and mainstream news outlets told them that the police were racist and wanted to kill them. Both men turned to virulently racist forms of black nationalism, which—unlike, say, Pepe the Frog—receives scant scrutiny or attention by media and political elites. In many university departments, the racist, anti-white views held by Long and Johnson are virtually encouraged.
Both men are individuals responsible for their actions, but it would be simplistic to argue that they weren’t also products of their environment and the messages they were bombarded with since birth. While the progressive Left harangues white twerkers and dreadlock-wearers as racist, and while the establishment media wrings its hands over alt-right memes, black people in America are being fed a diet of anti-white, anti-police hatred that, inevitably, spills over into violence.
The greatest tragedy is that the primary target of this violence is the police, one of the greatest, largely unacknowledged allies of black communities. It is the police who stand between black people and the greatest threat to black lives: gang violence. It is the police who disperse black rioters when they’re burning down black neighborhoods. And, amazingly, cops will continue to do both, despite seeming to receive only contempt in return.
When violence is committed against the police, it doesn’t discriminate by ethnicity. The two NYPD officers who were shot “execution-style” at the height of Black Lives Matter unrest were Asian and Hispanic.
I’m proud to enjoy the support of police officers and other men and women serving America. I am never more humbled and grateful than when I receive praise from these people, who risk and give so much for their country, often in return for nothing but scorn from the public and politicians. Few things rustle my jimmies, but this persistent injustice is one of them.
Black Lives Matter hates me, and I hate them. But I don’t hate them because they pose a threat to white people. I hate them because they do precisely the opposite of what they claim to do. They cause more black lives to be lost, not less. And they do so by attacking the one group of people trying to help their communities.
The people who really ought to hate Black Lives Matter are black people.
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WHY THE MEDIA HATES ME
It was two weeks after the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Japan, Tarō Asō, was visibly annoyed. But he wasn’t annoyed at Donald Trump.
Speaking in Japan’s National Diet (their parliament), the famously blunt Deputy Prime Minister shot down a suggestion that the country should begin to make plans for Trump’s policies, as predicted by the American media.
“There’s no point in Japan making policy based on the guesses of American newspapers when they’re always wrong,” said Asō. “We shall just have to wait until things are decided.”121
Asō was right to be annoyed. What is a Japanese politician to do when previously trusted names in western news, like New York Times, Washington Post, BBC and CNN fail so comprehensively to describe what’s going on in American politics?