{"id":5997,"date":"2016-11-28T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/obamas-legacy-subversion-and-racialization-of-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2016-11-28T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T18:02:41","slug":"obamas-legacy-subversion-and-racialization-of-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/obamas-legacy-subversion-and-racialization-of-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s ‘Legacy’: Subversion and Racialization of the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or at least this one of his wonderful 'legacies.' Heather Mac Donald<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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President Obama welcomed Black Lives Matter activists several times to the White House. He racialized the entire criminal-justice system, repeatedly accusing it of discriminating, often lethally, against blacks. At the memorial service for five Dallas police officers gunned down in July 2016, Obama declared that black parents were right to fear that \u201csomething terrible may happen when their child walks out the door\u201d\u2014that the child will be shot by a cop simply for being \u201cstupid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama put Brittany Packnett<\/a>, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, on his President\u2019s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Packnett\u2019s postelection essay on Vox, \u201cWhite People: what is your plan for the Trump presidency<\/a>?\u201d is emblematic of the racial demonology that is now core Democratic thinking. Packnett announces that she is \u201ctired of continuously being assaulted\u201d by her country with its pervasive \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d She calls on \u201cwhite people\u201d to \u201cdeal with what white people cause,\u201d because \u201cpeople of color have enough work to do for ourselves\u2014to protect, free, and find joy for our people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Packnett\u2019s plaint about crushing racial oppression echoes media darling Ta-Nehesi Coates, whose locus classicus<\/em> of maudlin racial victimology, Between the World and Me<\/em>, won a prominent place on Obama\u2019s 2015 summer reading list<\/a>. Coates has received almost every prize that the elite establishment can bestow; Between the World and Me<\/em> is now a staple of college summer reading lists.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Coates, police officers who kill black men are not \u201cuniquely evil\u201d; rather, their evil is the essence of America itself. These \u201cdestroyers\u201d (i.e., police officers) are \u201cmerely men enforcing the whims of our country, correctly interpreting its heritage and legacy. This legacy aspires to the shackling of black bodies.\u201d In America, Mr. Coates claims, \u201cit is traditional to destroy the black body\u2014it is heritage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Coates\u2019s melodramatic rhetoric comes right out of the academy, the inexhaustible source of Democratic identity politics. The Democratic Party is now merely an extension of left-wing campus culture; few institutions exist wherein the skew toward Democratic allegiance is more pronounced. The claims of life-destroying trauma that have convulsed academia since the election are simply a continuation of last year\u2019s campus Black Lives Matter protests, which also claimed that \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and white oppression were making existence impossible for black students and other favored victim groups. Black students at Bard College, for example, an elite school in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley, called for an end to \u201csystemic and structural racism on campus . . . so that Black students can go to class without fear.\u201d If any black Bard student had ever been assaulted by a white faculty member, administrator, or student, the record does not reflect it.<\/span><\/p>\n

These claims of \u201cstructural racism and institutional oppression,\u201d in the words of Brown University\u2019s allegedly threatened black students, overlook the fact that every selective college in the country employs massive racial preferences in admissions favoring less academically qualified black and Hispanic students over more academically qualified white and Asian ones. Every faculty hiring search is a desperate exercise in finding black and Hispanic candidates whom rival colleges have not already scooped up at inflated prices. Far from being \u201cpost-racial,\u201d campuses spend millions on racially and ethnically separate programming, separate dorms, separate administrators, and separate student centers. They have created entire fields devoted to specializing in one\u2019s own \u201cidentity,\u201d so long as that identity is non-white, non-male, or non-heterosexual. The central theme of those identity-based fields is that heterosexual, white (one could also add Christian) males are the source of all injustice in the world.  Speaking on WNYC\u2019s Brian Lehrer show<\/a> in the wake of Trump\u2019s election, Emory philosophy professor George Yancy, author of Look, A White!<\/em>, called for a nationwide \u201ccritique of whiteness,\u201d which, per Yancy, is at the \u201ccore side of hegemony\u201d in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or at least this one of his wonderful 'legacies.' Heather Mac Donald: President Obama welcomed Black Lives Matter activists several times to the White House. He racialized the entire criminal-justice system, repeatedly accusing it of discriminating, often lethally, against blacks. At the memorial service for five Dallas police officers gunned down in July 2016, Obama … Continue reading “Obama’s ‘Legacy’: Subversion and Racialization of the Rule of Law”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}