Try this –
Be quiet and just go about living your own life as well as you can. (There’s nothing stopping you.) Then display respect and kindness to everyone else who is doing the same alongside you – whoever they happen to be.
Accomplished black men and women all over the country have been saying this for the last ten years. The over emphasis on race as the great divider has been the only “arrow in the quiver” for people like Al Sharpton and organizations like Black Lives Matter.
In Georgia, a black woman named Christine Peterson was elected to serve as a Douglas County judge in 2020. This past year, because of rampant corruption and incompetence, she was removed from the bench by the state’s Judicial Qualifications Commission. Following her hearings and the display of ample evidence in support of her removal, she never uttered a word of regret or remorse. Instead, she and her legal team “came out swinging” with a defense claiming racism and sexism.
To defend corruption, disrespect for the law, dereliction of duty and incompetence by pleading racism and sexism is practically blasphemous and an insult to the thousands of men and women who genuinely suffered under those offenses in the past.
State political and legal observers asserted that the main reason she won the election in the first place was the post George Floyd climate in the nation. Here was a black women running for a seat on the bench. When she was elected, the hope was she would actually do the things her campaign said she would prioritize. Sadly, she did none of them.
The response that I have been hoping to see from the black community would be an explicit rejection of this kind of race-card justification for incompetence and politically driven politics. And at the same time, I have been waiting to hear an endorsement of integrity, commitment, competence and the sense of duty - that characterizes most of them in their own successful lives and careers. These are not black, white, political or gender related traits. In fact, as universal values and disciplines of achievement and success, they transcend the identity markers and labels that divide us.
The DEI demands that have become the new normal for colleges and corporations are beginning to be discarded. Why? Because they don’t work and are founded on the lies, false statistics and predictions of white liberal academia and progressive elites. In every university DEI curriculum or corporate DEI statement is the demand for anti-racist training. Unfortunately, all it has been able to accomplish is reinforce and guarantee the continuation and even the escalation of racism.
Two hundred years ago, men and women of character spoke out against slavery and its evils and demanded equality and liberty for all citizens. The symptoms of the defective character that supported slavery were deceit, discrimination, defense of privilege and cruelty. Today men and women of character still speak out and demand equality and liberty for all. The symptom of today’s defective character is the promotion of a race based society that is just as flawed as the culture that profited from the injustices of slavery.
We need to focus on being principled people of character. Targeting the symptoms of bad character in laws and policy touches only the “hat and coat” of a man, but not his heart and integrity. The self-evident common sense displayed by people of character will prevail over the word-salad argument of elites in academia as they try to support their woke progressive agenda.
You really want to defeat racism? Promote, display and expect character. The symptoms will take care of themselves.
PRINCIPLES -
· The Constitution confirms equal opportunity and freedom for all
· Integrity and decency displays and defines character
· Dealing with symptoms never changes the cause
· The rule of merit
“It’s the Principle” - blog by Art Noyes
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