The Black Man Disappears - The Demise Of DEI And The Resetting Of The Nation's Moral Compass

Turn on the television any time of day, and blacks are everywhere - hawking Humira and Celebrex to seniors, jumping for joy for Reese's peanut butter, shilling for Toyota and Hyundai, and barkers for Cheese Whiz, Cheerios, and Charles Schwab.  They are on n afternoon soaps, prime time dramas, every Six O'clock News, ESPN broadcast, weather report, and Traffic On the Eights.  

There are far more blacks on television shows, in ads, or public service announcements than their 12 percent demographic representation would indicate. 

The disproportion is so great that if a European were to spend a day watching American television, he would have to conclude that at least fifty percent of the population was black. 

To liberal Americans this inflated representation is entirely called for to redress classic American racial prejudice and the underrepresentation of minorities in the media, Hollywood, and government.  If blacks are shown everywhere and in great numbers, the white population will 1) think that black people are indeed everywhere and that their voices must be heard; and 2) that they can fill the shoes of white people no matter what, no matter where. 

However, ordinary white citizens, especially those living the vast open spaces of America, can only imagine what the coasts are like.  Combining fabulist media demographics and reports of endemic crime, dysfunction, and disorder, coastal cities must be sinkholes of nastiness. To them 'Inner city' means 'entire city', and they feel better off with cows, pigs, and chickens than to be in such a minority miasma. 

That, plus the 90 percent blacks in the NBA, NFL, and NCAA basketball and football, the picture is complete.  Coastal cities, Iowa farmers conclude, are filled with black people, and despite hawking drugs, cars, and snacks they are really just athletes, pimps, and ho's. 

Nonsense, of course, for what about Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Clarence Thomas and thousands of postal workers?  They count, surely; but what really counts in America is perception, and the hoopla promoting DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity), the forest wisdom of the African diaspora, and the ubiquity and gong-beating presence of the black man in the media, is simply noise.   

Left to their own devices, white middle class, Midwestern Americans would take the black man in stride like everyone else - good at some things, not so good at others; mostly good people but some bad apples in the barrel.  They would judge black men like they judge white - on the basis of talent, intelligence, sociability, good taste, performance, civic pride, and patriotism - and leave the rest aside; but under the constant, hammering, dunning, and hectoring of the liberal media, Congressional shills, and self-interested Black Lives Matter-like organizations, they are forced to judge within a constructed, artificial, baloney-filled environment. 

 

Of course in the light of day, objective analysis would corroborate many of the commonly-held preconceptions - the inner cities are still segregated, nasty, dysfunctional places; educational performance of black students lags far behind that of Asians and whites, and social indicators of marital stability, child care, and parental involvement are near the bottom of anyone's scale.

These facts cannot go away, but if the hype and hyperbole were removed, and if facts were addressed as soluble problems they might indeed be solved.  

The Trump Administration has vowed to do this - to bury DEI and affirmative action once and for all - and if he succeeds and returns America to simple pluralism, cultural heterogeneity, and natural selection, the country will be far less divided, divisive, and angry.  It is time to stop banging whites simply for being white, to eradicate all fictious notions of systemic racism, and stop exaggerated claims of both racial oppression and black racial superiority.  An equal opportunity America. 

Already the Left is scurrying for a response, but none is possible for what they say is such an unconscionable act, a return to Jim Crow, segregation, and the back of the bus.  They sputter, howl 'racism', and stand proudly with black men and women.  Yet their balderdash is falling on deaf ears.

After sixty years of pro-active investment in the black community since the passage of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964, after billions in entitlement money poured into the inner cities, after decades of addressing 'systemic racism' and the persistent discrimination against people of color, the ghettos are still miasmic, horrendous sinkholes of poverty, crime, and dysfunction, and enough is enough says the rest of America.  

 

Time for the black community to man up.  Individual responsibility and the end to entitlements has been too long in coming. A return to proportionality.  Instead of packing the media with a disproportionate number of black actors and pitch men, let the media look like America - not the overhyped multicultural, 'diverse' country which progressives insist cannot look white, but one in which the media looks like the real America- seventy-five (75) percent white. 

This is not prejudicial against African Americans who will continue to have every right guaranteed and protected by the Constitution.  It will simply be reflective of their statistical minority and the first big step to eliminating race, gender, and ethnicity as markers of identity.  Each person of each racial and ethnic group will have the same opportunity, and the same consideration of every other and will be judged on merit - intelligence, talent, responsibility, performance, duty, and civic pride. 

Not only will the demise of DEI mean a new era of equal opportunity, it will restore the integrity of the past.  Statues will be replaced; street, school, and public building names returned to their originals.  The cancelling, expungement, and censoring of history in the name of protecting and shielding black people from historical unpleasantness will stop. 

Eliminating DEI, therefore, is not a superficial step or the fulfillment of a campaign promise, but a systemic change and one central to returning America to its originalist roots.  'Black' will mean nothing except a demographic indicator.  The quality of an institution, public or private, will be judged and assessed based on the performance of those with in it without regard to race, gender, or ethnicity.  Schools either succeed or fail, public sector agencies either perform up to standard or do not. 

No racial group will be lionized, honored for presumed worth.  No American will be regarded, judged, promoted, or demoted on anything but performance; and about time indeed.