Congress has a Black Caucus Racism Problem

I’m a high school technology teacher, so I have a long list of graduates as Facebook friends, and I’m smart enough to just look at provocative posts without responding. Among many of my black former students, the racism, paranoia, and conspiracy theories run rampant. The latest meme, which I saw two days ago, is that white men are wearing realistic masks of black men and committing crimes. It’s the perfect metaphor for the idea that blacks are never responsible for their own problems, and all concerns are the fault of white racism, or at least racist institutions. I didn’t respond, having learned several decades ago that piercing the balloon of delusion makes true believers lash out. I teach a lot of Native Alaskans as well, and sometimes you see the same kind of paranoid delusions, but most of my former students are committed Christians or living quiet lives.

Someday this kind of racism will have to be confronted and destroyed. I’ll speak up once I retire, which will be in a few years and I won’t have to worry about my career. In the classroom, I’m busy enough just trying to teach Word and Excel, but I’m also throwing out messages about responsibility and hard work, and as a result most of the students rise to that standard, but it’s only one year in a lifetime of leftist propaganda. If I were Shakespeare, I’d write about the history of black Americans as a tragedy, with this act being the years when the great-grandchildren of former slaves became the racists themselves and embraced the racist ideas that their ancestors fought. It’s beyond sad.

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