I watched a Red Nation video and the host, Elena Ortiz, checked all the liberal boxes. She is an example extraordinaire of how reactionary, how corrupting, how pernicious, the race myth is. Painfully, oh so lugubriously, does she relate the death of the state-mandated, racially discriminatory practice euphemized as Affirmative Action. So successfully has the ruling class entrenched race in all socio-political issues, events, debates, discourse, everything, that this woman struggles even to relay the details. Race-broke, she cannot present the news without long, mournful pauses accompanied by eye rolls, grimaces and slow, anguished shaking of her head. One might of thought racism was being instituted rather than eliminated.
Her case is pure, empire-friendly, liberal patter, undiluted nonsense.
Seldom do we see the bankruptcy of liberalism so conspicuously on display. The wholly reactionary effect of the moribund, post-modernist, post-colonial program slithers here into the light. The host, Elena Ortiz, no doubt sees herself as an anti-imperialist and an anti-racist, but, paraphrasing Marx, the tradition of all the false discourse of dead generations weighs like a nightmare upon her brain. She's been injected with the counterrevolutionary toxin of race. This woman is confused, and in precisely that way as is intended. EO is the victim of what nowadays passes as anti-racism and laments "We are not facing the pervasive issues of race in this country." She is correct, but not in the way she imagines. What EO fails to perceive is that she is chasing the wrong dragon. She is not an anti-racist, but a purveyor of that viral, ubiquitous form of racism which masquerades as anti-racism. Her racialized mindset is a product of a capital-sponsored offensive to establish the supremacy of race in public discourse. EO is now a soldier in the class war, but she's in the wrong camp. She thinks she's fighting racism when in reality she's fertilizing it.
Indeed, SCOTUS will never do anything to impede racism as the United States of Race runs on mutual racial antagonism, it's how the ruling class rules. The goal is to engender mutual distrust and antipathy in order to avert interracial working class solidarity, hence the endless race-prattle. The result is the mindless invocation of empty phrases and useless debate, EO is a victim. She rues that the plaintiffs' case suggests "that...trying to create and maintain a diversity of students in universities was racist." First, she doesn't mention that the suit was brought by Asian-Americans. Second, diversity was never their complaint nor did it enter into the court's decision. Third, are racially discriminatory policies supposed to last in perpetuity? AA was never intended to be permanent. According to recent income data, it is only in the top ten percent of the White and Black communities does any income disparity occur. We've reached the point where Black billionaires have less billions than their White counterparts, other than that there is racial parity. Does that justify the continued discrimination against 90pc of the White community?
EO says that AA was intended to "level the playing field," which is false. I am decades older than EO and I was politically active while this was occurring. I confess that I too had succumbed to race-ism and supported AA at the time. The court's ruling was that the "playing field" had been imbalanced in favor of Whites, and that it was allowable for institutions which had discriminated against non-Whites to now reverse their discriminatory practices such that they favor non-Whites. To be clear: the decision did specifically not ban racist admissions policies, it greenlighted them by judging it permissible under certain circumstances, thus perpetuating racial antagonism. It also reaffirms the state's role as final arbiter, it was a win-win for institutional, homologated racism, a plutocratic tour de force! The court could have struck down racial discrimination and emplaced safeguards for its prevention, but, crucially, it didn't. Crisis averted for those who own and rule. The potential threat to the ability of the ruling class to implement arbitrary law, discriminatory law, this exigent threat to its hegemony, was brilliantly neutralized. And foolishly we thought we'd struck a lethal blow upon racism when in reality we had been defeated.
Admittedly, I was one of those fools. Racial discrimination is never permissible. It's not complicated. Real anti-racism requires no compromise with racial discrimination, now and ever. Scotus' original decision validates racism, and that is unconscionable. One has to be a racist to accept generations of deserving White students being denied a seat in a university because of their race.
EO falsely presents the issue as diversity versus White supremacy. There was at the time a proposal for guaranteed inclusion and proportional representation, which would have brought an end to all racial discrimination. And this, of course, the Supreme Court of the United States of Race will never do. One had to look far and wide for support for such a policy among non-Whites. This is to say that the ruling engendered racial resentment, as was intended.
This recent SCOTUS ruling does not overturn existing anti-discrimination laws, it merely puts an end to the racist practice of reserving seats for privileged racial groups. And real anti-racists rejoice. One cannot defeat racism by adopting its central tenets. You cannot embrace those elements of racism which are of benefit to you and reject the rest without undermining the entire anti-racist effort. If you accept that racial discrimination is justifiable under some conditions you thereby validate the defining racist and fascist precept of collective racial responsibility. In other words, AA wasn't anti-racism, it was racism disguised as anti-racism. And if it wasn't, it would never have been enacted here in the U.S. of R.
Here is real anti-racism: what if Black leaders had gotten together and denounced the court's ruling? What if they issued a statement like this:
We condemn all forms of racial discrimination. We have been the victims of this sort of racism and have no wish to be perpetrators. Not in our name. We demand proportional representation, nothing less, but nothing more. Long live racial equality.
THAT is anti-racism. THAT would have shattered prejudices against Blacks, and brought people closer together. THAT would have thrown a dagger in the heart of American racism and the global capitalist expropriation regime built upon it. That would have sent asphalt-breaking waves of panic from one end of Wall St. to the other. But, alas, the raciocracy had nothing to fear, critical race theory, Whiteness Studies, post-colonial studies, intersectionality and the like had performed the task for which they were concocted. Race-ism had prevailed in the ghetto just as it had everywhere else. The plutocracy had the minority communities right where they wanted them.
Race is a ruse. It's the greatest lie ever told. Columbus, it must be remembered, was dispatched from a White nation which had just freed itself from 700 years of brutal Black and Brown settler colonialism--longer than the New World has suffered. It's a tribute to race-ism that whenever the wealth of Islamic Iberia is broached never is it mentioned that it was amassed from the enslavement of the native White population. We often hear of the wonders of the Convivencia, but never that it was Blacks from Africa who came north to put an end to it slaughtering thousands of Christians and Jews who refused to convert and dispossessing countless others. That is the ravaged, newly liberated, post-colonial land from which the colonizers of the New World sailed. It's not about race, and it never was. This abominable cycle has been going for millennia, with each race in turn predator and prey. And it will not end until we, all, put an end to it. And you can't do that when we are stabbing each other in the back and fighting over the crumbs which fall from the master's table. When the day comes when people like EO abandon their prejudices and celebrate the end of the obscene discrimination against White kids, when such people stop trying to wrest privilege from Whites in order to gain it for themselves, when the EOs of the world see these disadvantaged White students and their families as people worthy of their concern and respect--or at least not as ethnographic outliers eligible for subordination, then and only then can progress be made. You can't complain about racism let alone defeat it when telling White families that your sons and daughters deserve better than theirs. You can't bewail racism when you are its victim and advocate it when you are its beneficiary, and then pretend to be an anti-racist.
Because you're not. As I write, the holocausted are now holocausting the Gazans. Got it now, Elena Ortiz?
For more thoughts on race-fetishism, I ranted here:
https://saveourcola3.blogspot.com/2024/07/racebots-in-raceworld-brief-history-of.html
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