Let's consider the implications of this. We have seen that people who voice their racial worldview on the streets can affect the system of criminal justice. The implications of this are real enough for the authorities in Broward County to fear these same people to the degree that the authorities are making television commercials in hip-hop speak begging these people to refrain from violence if the court result is not to their liking.
The race we are discussing is the African-American race.
If you are a rational white suburbanite, what is your considered reaction to this data? You conclude that we are moving into a system of identity justice which is racial tyranny and you further conclude that the government can be turned against you because you are white by people who are black. You look around at the political correctness which is becoming codified into law by statute or regulation as well as by discriminatory application and you see multiple examples of government choosing sides among races. Having come rationally to these conclusions, you then decide that the only way to protect yourself against this racial tyranny is to mobilize white citizens against black citizens.
You reluctantly conclude that you must mobilize to control the government to inflict on African-American a discipline before they can impose more complete tyranny on yourself. To do otherwise is to abandon your children to something that might resemble Zimbabwe.
Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics is regrettably confirmed: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.
If this syllogism is too pessimistic, and I hope it is, one is nevertheless compelled to observe that there are very few institutions in place such as the media, academia, the churches, and now, the courts who have shown themselves willing to reverse the process.
If you are a rational white suburbanite, what is your considered reaction to this data? You conclude that we are moving into a system of identity justice which is racial tyranny and you further conclude that the government can be turned against you because you are white by people who are black. You look around at the political correctness which is becoming codified into law by statute or regulation as well as by discriminatory application and you see multiple examples of government choosing sides among races. Having come rationally to these conclusions, you then decide that the only way to protect yourself against this racial tyranny is to mobilize white citizens against black citizens. As I read this paragraph, I was transported to rural Alabama in the 1930s -- attempting to think like a "rational rural black" in the face of Jim Crow.
Of course, they did not choose to mobilize against white citizens and the Klan. They chose to accommodate...or to move.
Will whites select the first option? Is the second option any longer viable?
But, for sure, the longer this direction is maintained, the more certain -- and violent -- will be the backlash.
Lord, I hate facing and considering the consequences of the current administration's actions.