Race realism.

There. I uttered the phrase. Blacks can with loot, burn, transform cities into crime-ridden slums, fail dismally in school, create a scourge of single-parent families, suck up welfare, game the system, wear pants down around their knees, and treat fellow blacks like ducks in a shooting gallery. With complete impunity and to Democrat accolades of "poor babies!" Whites, however, cannot remark on these matters except to do the sackcloth and ashes number in the process, and woe to he who is given to noticing that the so-called civil rights revolution was a futile enterprise:

That being a picture of a POS POC NYPD female officer stepping on the flag of our country. It sure as hell isn't her country. Any damn fool can see it was deliberate and if a statue of Robert E. Lee is "emblematic" of something then this damn well is too.

The best Derbyshire quote of 2222:

Race differences in social outcomes are plain to the naked eye. Your local college Computer Science department is full of "East Asians; your local jail is full of blacks, and so on. What explains this?

It's remarkable the progression from slavery to "Jim Crow" to "underprivileged" to "underserved" to "disadvantaged" to "marginalized" to "legacy of slavery" to "culture" to a Marx-fueled screech of Black Lives Matter (just blacks) about the devil white man, structural racism, and white privilege. The most credentialed black academics fall over themselves to embrace the most lunatic ahistorical nonsense. We wuz kaingz 'n shee'.

Derbyshire has his own similar take on this. It's better actually so RTWT. It's a short segment in a longer article. Also worth reading, of course.

Suffice it to say, a decent and massive attempt to give blacks a shot at equality and full citizenship has been spat upon by blacks and the political leaders they elect again and again. Yes, there are the Sidney Poitiers and many sensible, patriotic blacks but there are also a host of blacks in public life who live to tear dear down traditional white America and a host who are not in public life but whose criminality and other utter refusal to join in the larger community is breathtaking.

And this has nothing to do with what whites have done or failed to do or our accursed culture and thinking. In the 1980s, my Vietnamese refugee auto mechanic in Falls Church, Virginia, had a daughter who was valedictorian of her class and who was going to medical school. He arrives in 1975 and in 15 years -- tops -- his kid is in med school. A young black guy in the D.C. school system studied night and day to get into an MIT summer program but was surrounded by black peers who criticized him for "thinking white." This outstanding guy knew exactly what he wanted to escape and what he had to do to escape it. And he did as a long WSJ article recounted, a link to which I can no longer locate. Nothing in the school or the "community", except his family, encouraged this incredible effort on his part.

What else needs to be said? Rejectionist blacks need to take a look in the mirror. If it hasn't been hit by a stray bullet . . . . It's not whitey looking back at you. But, no worries. The political class is ardently committed to fairy tales and lies on every issue that matters -- propagating them, that is to say -- so why should you be held to account for failing to get a grip?

Notes
^[1] "Prospects for 2022—Terminus for the Race Denial Bus? or Institutionalized Jim Snow?" By John Derbyshire, The Unz Review, 1/2/22.