The United States Was Not Birthed Out of Racism
Contrary to the Left’s revisionist history, the United States was birthed not out of racism but rather out of a commitment to protecting that human trait we all share in common — our individuality. This is not by accident. God created us as individuals, with individual unique natural abilities and aptitudes. And, as seen in Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12, God desires that we use our individual abilities to help and work with others. That is part of the exceptionalism of America. Our freedom has allowed our individuality to create and build a nation together that has grown exponentially over the years.
When the phrase “black lives matter” first began being widely espoused following the death of Michael Brown, many Americans had a similar reaction: “Of course they do. Who says they don’t?” Many Americans responded to the refrain by saying that “all lives matter.” But, by responding with “all lives matter,” those Americans were said to be instinctively rejecting the racist straw man the leftist BLM activists had created. This also explains why the BLM movement initially failed to gain much traction. Leftists insisted upon a racist narrative that did not in harmony with the individual life experiences of the vast majority of Americans, who believe that judging others based upon skin color is racist and wrong.
But suddenly, upon the death of George Floyd, BLM’s straw man has been embraced by many across the country as a universal defining “truth.” In fact, this narrative has been so widely accepted by popular culture that to even challenge it by insisting that all lives matter is decried as “racist” and “dehumanizing” of black people.
To the point, after a lifetime observing how the Left has manipulated black constituents, Walter E. Williams notes: “The true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called ‘systemic racism.’ We need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.”
One Black patriot recently wrote, “As a black American male who was raised in the inner city, I am angry at the reaction of the hypocrites in Congress, corporate America, and their media outlets. If ‘black lives (really) mattered,’ they would stop ignoring the pandemic of black on black crime that has been raging through their cities for years. Hypocrisy won’t solve the real problems in our urban centers, but changing the policies which keep poor black Americans enslaved on what amount to ‘poverty plantations’ will.”
It seems we are living in a particularly arrogant and self-serving moment when dissociation from America’s history and from other Americans substitutes for actual decency. When canceling others is the point, not a means to an end. When joining the woke mob isn’t about building something better but merely signaling your own saintliness. Progressives are so used to controlling the narrative that they’re confident their subjective ideas will be presented as factual. Even more frightening is that they think their opinions are objectively true.
“Why must they control people and their thoughts? Why can’t they allow people to draw their own lessons from history instead of purging it? Why are they afraid of debate viewers deciding for themselves whether Trump’s or Biden’s ideas are more compelling and truthful? How often do conservatives propose that we erase evidence of our history? That we ban certain speech because they find it offensive? Do conservative business owners ever send employees to sensitivity training because their views aren’t conservative enough?”