Colour Blind...

...Don't Fall into the Neo-Racist Trap!

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro 

16:48 - Recent Changes in Race Relations 

26:44 - Colorblindness Concept 

38:00 - Wokeness & Trump Era 

40:40 - Can You Have Pride in Your Identity? 

43:20 - Diversity & Inclusion 

55:03 - Strategies to Reduce Racism 

1:00:10 - Inherited Racial Trauma 

1:05:11 - Spirituality

Excerpt from video above:

The actual data (cops killing blacks) didn't matter. But what mattered was the Narrative and the videos. And once people believed this, that left an opening for ideologies that have been marginal, but kind of percolating in higher academia, like Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory sort of had an explanation right? If you see what's going on, all these cops seem to be killing black people uniquely. Critical Race Theory says, "Okay, well I can explain that. Actually America is fundamentally systemically racist. There's no such thing as race neutrality. All of our structures, in fact, are steeped in white supremacy, even if you can't see that easily. And that explains what's going on." So that that took off, and that's what explains the fact that race relations took a nose dive after 2013.

Can you talk about what neo-racism is as you see it?

In the book, I make a distinction between what I call old school racism and neo-racism. Old school racism is exactly what it sounds like. It's, you know, "I don't want a black man marrying my daughter. I don't want my children going to school with black kids." It's self-explanatory. It's a wolf in wolf's clothing. If by now you don't know that old school racism is immoral, then there's really no helping you. I make the distinction between that, and what I call neo-racism. It's essentially the same thing as wokeness with respect to race, or social justice with respect to race. I mean, there's many names for it, but it essentially just reverses the polarity of old school racism. It's the style of racism that says, "white people are inherently evil. Whiteness is evil. Blackness, to be of color, is to be special, is to be morally superior. Is basically to have an innate moral insight into right and wrong that the kind of depraved colonial white mind doesn't have."

So the reason I call this neo-racism is because, you know, I really do think it is as much racism as the old kind of racism. It's just that the targets of the racism are are less sympathetic from the point of view of underdog dynamics, right? Black people are seen to be underdogs in America. Naturally, this provokes sympathy when a black person is a target of racism. White people are not seen to be underdogs in America. And so there's less sympathy, definitely, certainly on the Left of the political spectrum.

But that doesn't make it any less racist to say that, "whiteness is evil, right? And if you complain about anti-white racism, you very quickly can get pigeonholed as some kind of far-right neo-Nazi, cuz like, what you know you really care about, you know, white guys that are getting insulted.

Well I think it actually has an extremely toxic effect on our political culture because, for instance, I remember Sarah Jong at the New York Times. I mean, this story is old now, but five or six years old, but she's has all these tweets just saying the most vile things about white people, right? Like comparing them to like goblins and all this kind of just stuff. Where if it were any other race, that person would just be fired quicker than you can imagine. But they keep her. They keep her and then they say "Well you know, it's okay. She didn't really mean it."

And so what message does this send to the typical white conservative American that maybe does take a certain amount of pride in their group membership, as many human beings do? Well, it says the other side hates people like me. And that's a fantastic way to polarize people. To deliver them into the arms of a dangerous demagogue like Donald Trump. In my view, it's just a rule of human nature. That you can't expect a group of people to cosign insults directed at their identity. Like that you can't expect that of people, of any group of people. So to me, we just have to have a a rock solid understanding that outside of comedy clubs, it's unacceptable to attack somebody for their race. That has to be the norm that we raise our kids with in America. That is the best path towards a Colorblindness Concept cohesive and healthy multi-racial society.