The Dylan Roof\/Charleston massacre supplies much food for thought.<\/p>\n
(1)Predictably, the agents of the Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC) wasted no time in exploiting this horror for their own political and ideological purposes. From Fox News to \u201cconservative\u201d talk radio to the \u201cconservative\u201d media generally, every organization and institution that they could in any way associate with the Republican Party RIC agents have labored tirelessly to condemn for the murderous actions of Dylan Roof.<\/p>\n
That the usual suspects have made this move should shock no one. As Rahm Emmanuel infamously remarked, political apparatchiks on a quest to fundamentally transform American society must \u201cnever let a good crisis go to waste.\u201d Honesty and good faith must give way to whatever will advance the cause.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, we needn\u2019t for the left to trade in honesty, good faith, or any other virtues to see their reasoning for what it is. We need only to push their own logic as far as it can go for their argument to collapse under its own weight.<\/p>\n
In his \u201cManifesto,\u201d Roof identified the \u201croot cause\u201d of his rage. He realized that while the media\u2014the \u201cmainstream,\u201d leftist media\u2014incessantly besieged the public with a narrative of White Racism and Black Suffering, it just as incessantly concealed <\/em>the brute, ugly, but near pandemic phenomenon of black criminality and violence.<\/p>\n The demonization of whites as \u201cracists,\u201d astronomical rates of interracial violence committed by blacks against non-blacks, and the suppression of this fact by RIC agents in the media are the three sources of motivation to which Roof alludes. Why, then, are those who are so interested in having that \u201chonest\u201d conversation on race, and who are searching intently now to \u201cunderstand\u201d Roof\u2019s motivations, not <\/em>taking the man at his own word? Roof has told us what\u2019s been bothering him.<\/p>\n Shouldn\u2019t those in the media, if <\/em>they really <\/em>want to do whatever is possible to prevent this sort of bloodbath from occurring in the future, turn their attention to these<\/em> claims of Roof\u2019s?<\/p>\n (2)Roof doesn\u2019t appear to have any religious affiliation at all. The contrast between the conduct of Roof, on the one hand, and that of the devout Christians whose congregation he victimized can\u2019t be more glaring. Yet for quite a long time, and ever more frequently, those in the media who are now searching out (politically-convenient) explanations for Roof\u2019s crime have lionized atheism and secularism while bashing, ridiculing, and vilifying Christians. In fact, this campaign against traditional Christianity has picked up pace more recently as the issues of homosexual marriage and trans-genderism have assumed the center stage of our national political life.<\/p>\n Should this <\/em>be a conversation to embark upon?<\/p>\n (3)The Confederate Flag is now the locus of this controversy. Critics indict the Stars and Bars for the Charleston massacre and, as they\u2019ve been doing for a generation, decry it as a symbol of \u201cracism\u201d and oppression.<\/p>\n The logic on display here is especially rich: There is absolutely no <\/em>non-arbitrary limit to prevent it from running itself right off of the cliff. Let\u2019s work through this\u2014even if the agents of RIC are incapable of or unwilling to do so.<\/p>\n If the Confederate Flag, which \u201cflew over slavery\u201d for a mere four years, is a symbol of racial oppression, then how much more potent a symbol of racial oppression must the American <\/em>Flag be for having flown over slavery for 88 years<\/em>.<\/p>\n If the Confederate Flag needs to go, then so too must we dispense with the American Flag.<\/p>\n But we can\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n The very name of America <\/em>must go the way of the Confederate Flag. America is, after all, named after Amerigo Vespucci, <\/em>an Italian\u2014a white, European<\/em>\u2014explorer. How can the name \u201cAmerica\u201d not serve as a painful reminder to the indigenous peoples of this continent of the land of which they were divested by the European invaders, and of the massacres that they suffered at the hands of the latter? How can the name \u201cAmerica\u201d not constantly cause blacks, Hispanics, and other non-whites to think of themselves as aliens living in a country founded by whites, for whites?<\/p>\n If the Confederate Flag is a symbol of slavery and \u201chate,\u201d then is not the dollar bill the same? George Washington, after all, was not only a slave owner; he was a huge <\/em>slave owner. Nine out of ten men who fought for the Confederacy did not own slaves. Even such Confederate heroes as Lee and \u201cStonewall\u201d Jackson didn\u2019t own remotely as many slaves as did Washington.<\/p>\n And yet Washington remains an American hero.<\/p>\n If the Confederate Flag must go the way of the dinosaur, then the dollar bill, Mount Rushmore (or at least Washington\u2019s depiction there), the name of Washington D.C., Washington state, the Washington Monument, etc. must follow.<\/p>\n Ditto, obviously, with Thomas Jefferson. By the standards of even his fellow slave-holders<\/em>, Jefferson owned lots <\/em>of slaves. Everything associated with Jefferson, then\u2014including the Declaration of Independence\u2014should be erased from the national consciousness given that, for many people of color, Jefferson stands as an agonizing reminder of racist oppression.<\/p>\n James Madison was the Father of the U.S. Constitution. But he was also a slave-holder. Ergo, monuments, cities, sites that commemorate Madison, as well as his achievements\u2014like the Constitution\u2014must be done away with, for they are all indelibly poisoned by Madison\u2019s sinful past.<\/p>\n By the logic of the Confederate Flag burners, the very presence of white <\/em>people\u2014any <\/em>and all <\/em>white people\u2014should signify to blacks the history of racial oppression that they\u2019ve been made to endure in America. And, by this logic, then, white people should, one way or the other, remove themselves from the presence of blacks.<\/p>\n Of course (though I don\u2019t expect for RIC agents to acknowledge this<\/em>), since there never would have been a Trans-Atlantic slave trade had black Africans <\/em>not furiously peddled their wares\u2014other black Africans\u2014to the Europeans with whom they traded, <\/em>the sight of themselves in the mirror everyday should be an awful reminder to American blacks of why they\u2019re in the New World, and of why they\u2019ve endured what they have. Maybe all mirrors must go the way of the Confederate Flag.<\/p>\n Leftist logic on this issue, like leftist logic on every issue, is self-devouring.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dylan Roof\/Charleston massacre supplies much food for thought. 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