From each according to his skin color and, well, to each according to his skin color? That’s right,
Forget the old Marxist formula. Now, in our diversity-über-alles society, calls to equity from the morally bent have a racial bent. This would explain, too, a couple of recent stories.
The first is about a food pantry in Minneapolis that won’t serve white people. (Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate and Minnesota governor, is going to get busy on this posthaste, right?)
The second concerns the disaster in western North Carolina. Some leftists are essentially saying that the deaths of the area’s rural whites and “MAGA voters” is karma. Meanwhile, critics suspect that federal disaster aid is lacking because of the Harris-Biden administration’s emphasis on FEMA “equity.”
Hungry Whites? Why, They Can Dine on Their Privilege!
White people never starve; they just melt away, could be the philosophy at the Food Trap Project Bodega. As The Post Millennial reports (hat tip: American Thinker):
A Minneapolis, Minn. food pantry is only giving food to “Black and Indigenous” people, those who are hungry and white are told not to take the “resources”’ available. Mykelo “Keiko” Jackson, who runs the food pantry, was awarded a Minnesota State grant to open the food pantry.
… In an Instagram post, Jackson justified the reason for prohibiting white people from using the food pantry. “Did you know?!” She wrote, “White neighborhoods have an average of four times as many supermarkets as predominantly Black communities. While this number may be a shock to some it very much reflects current conditions amongst many BIPOC [black indigenous, and people of color] neighborhoods who’ve been classified as a ‘food desert’.
… “America’s food system, like so many other systems, too often overlooks communities of color. The term ‘food apartheid’ encompasses the systematic lack of access to healthy foods and takes into account race, geography, and economics. This intersectional approach to understanding America’s food system attributes a lack of access to healthy food, which disproportionately affects communities of color, to our country’s history of systemic racism.”
Food Desert — or Truth Desert?
In reality, no one who grasps reality will find the dearth of supermarkets in inner-city black communities a “shock.” Not only do these areas’ high crime rates drive businesses away, but leftist policies exacerbate this problem. For example, shoplifting has exploded in Democratic jurisdictions where slap-on-the-wrist “justice” prevails and penalties for “minor theft” have been reduced. As for Minneapolis, the 2020 George Floyd riots caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. And will every burned out business want to return to the cultural hellscape?
Of course, it’s understandable that Jackson would be upset about this. Instead, however, of indulging “structural racism” fictions, she ought to blame the man who, like Nero, fiddled while his city burned: Tim Walz.
Another point: Michelle Obama, who supports the Harris-Walz ticket, made a great stink years ago about food deserts. But here’s an idea: The Obamas have a combined net worth of $70 million. They also have friendships and influence with troves of outrageously wealthy people. So instead of complaining, why doesn’t she organize the creation of a supermarket chain that would serve inner-city areas? If there’s no good reason for grocers to exit these neighborhoods — if it’s all just racism — then she and her partners should be able to turn a profit while doing good.
Or would she rather have a political issue to demagogue than a problem solved?
Speaking of demagoguery brings us back to Jackson. When local chaplain Howard Dotson went to her food pantry and was, he says, denied entry, he confronted her. He also filed a complaint, which Jackson called, wait for it … a display of his “white privilege.” The kicker: She further claimed that he’d perpetrated “political violence.”
No Food for You, but All the Water You Can Handle — and More
Apparently, though, white privilege may not always be a reality — at least not on the cosmic level. That could be the takeaway, anyway, judging from some leftists’ reaction to Hurricane Helene’s ravaging of North Carolina. As the Media Research Center (MRC) reports:
Our cultural and institutional overlords have ensured nothing and nobody is spared from getting caught up in their desperate attempt at mental gymnastics to achieve “social justice.”
Not even an indiscriminate natural disaster will keep our race-baiting leaders and ivory tower “intellectuals” from blaming white people for its “disproportionate” effects.
That is until Hurricane Helene ravaged the rural south, drowning and destroying the livelihoods of its mostly white victims.
Suddenly, the racial Marxists governing us seem to pretend the hurricane never happened, as their vitriolic “anti-racist” followers are taking to social media from the comfort of their dry homes to celebrate the death of an entire population whom they say deserved it.
MRC host Justine Brooke Murray presents examples of the above. She also states that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has redefined their mission as being “anti-racism.” “Now they exist to make sure everyone drowns equitably,” she asserts — adding, “no help for the blue-eyed devil.” (Video below.)
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In fairness, the anti-white commentary Murray cites is from social-media users. Regardless of status, however, would this not be a major media story if whites were saying corresponding things about non-whites?
Murray’s report also contains other eye-popping examples of today’s rampant racism-oriented wokeness. And more are found here, here, here, here, here, and here. Why, there’s even a New York professor currently in the news who says that a “natural disaster” doesn’t exist — it’s all the result of “racism.”
And, yeah, what’s implicit in this is true: We are suffering from climate change. That is, the American cultural climate has changed from reality to insanity.
