Black Lives Matter

protests led many

people to want

to do something useful to

reduce racial injustice. Racial

justice groups are being

flooded with money.

Big companies made

multimillion-dollar donations.

“Bad idea,” says Black

radio host Larry Elder in my

new video.

“It is condescending…

and not helpful. I urge white

people to chill. Stop helping

us, because you’re making

things worse!”

Making things worse, he

says, because it supports the

activists’ claim that “Blacks

are victims of racism. (But)

if racism were in America’s

DNA, Obama never could

have got elected. Racism

has never been more insignificant

a factor in one’s

success than right now.”

I push back. “It must

be a huge problem or there

wouldn’t be all this protest!”

“Well, they’re being lied

to,” Elder responds. Teachers,

Black activists and the

media give “young people

the impression that racism

remains this huge problem

in America when it is not.”

It’s not, he says, because

today any person who does

three things can succeed:

“Finish high school, don’t

have a kid until you get

married, get a job. Do those

things, you will not be

poor.”

The biggest problem

facing the Black community

today, says Elder, is the

absence of fathers. In the

1960s, most Black children

were raised in two-parent

households. That changed

when our government’s

War on Poverty began.

The handouts sent the

message that it’s the government’s

job, not your

responsibility, to take care

of you and your kids. “A

mother with two children

makes more money than she

would make on minimum

wage because of all the

goodies she gets through the

welfare state!”

Now, he says, Black

Lives Matter actually encourages

the breakup of

families. Their website

does say, “disrupt the Western-

prescribed, nuclear

family.”

That’s a Karl Marx idea

straight from “The Communist

Manifesto.” Black

Lives Matter co-founder

Patrisse Cullors proudly describes

herself as a “trained

Marxist.”

Elder calls her and the

anti-capitalist protesters

“phonies.”

“Do they really want

socialism?” Elder asks.

“Do they really want inferior

products? They are

all wearing Nike and using

Apple products. They’re

hypocrites.”

But they’re winning!

They are even redefining

what racism means.

Today’s “anti-racists” says

racism means “any policy

with an effect that is disproportionate.”

So even a tax

deduction is racist because

on average, whites deduct

more than Blacks.

“Anti-racism presumes

things about the world that

simply can’t be true,” says

Kmele Foster, lead producer

at Freethink. “We are all at

bottom, whatever our race,

individuals. Anti-racism

takes that and flips it on its

head.”

Recently, Washington’s

Museum of African American

History and Culture,

part of the taxpayer-funded

Smithsonian Institute,

posted that “white culture”

means things like “nuclear

family,” “self-reliance,”

“rigid time schedule” and

“delayed gratification.”

The poster is “despicable,”

says Foster. “It’s

offensive to suggest that

Black people can’t aspire

to or possess all the values

outlined in a document like

this. Black people can be

punctual. Black people are,

in fact, successful in this

country.”

The poster was removed,

after complaints.

I wanted to ask Black

Lives Matter about things

like that. We contacted all

14 U.S. chapters. Not one

would agree to an interview.

Too bad. I wanted to ask

the “anti-racists” if they

notice that they and white

supremacists now support

similar segregationist

policies, like Blacks- (or

whites-) only spaces. Foster

points out that both white

supremacists and anti-racists

believe “race is an

immutable attribute of who

we are.”

He prefers Martin Luther

King Jr.’s vision: a nation

where “people are judged

not by the color of their skin

but by the content of their

character.”

“Black Lives Matter

leaders don’t really want the

vision of MLK,” says Elder.

“They want a color-coordinated

society – as long as

they’re the ones who do the

coordinating.”

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