The National Identity of Victimhood
Timothy Birdnow
Dana Mathewson forwards this article from Powerline about Minneapolis going all-out race grievance/social justice despite having no tradition of segregation or racism in the state.
I made the following observation:
I'm not surprised. America has accepted "multiculturalism" which is not about celebrating different cultures but rather about having different NATIONS coexisting in the same space, and the black community knows they do not have an unique culture, or at least they don't have an African American history divorced from slavery and persecution. So they don't want it to end, because it means their culture has nothing to offer. It's rather like adult children of alcoholics; there is a kind of co-dependency with persecution and suffering. That is why there are so many fake hate crimes these days. That is why there are so many allegations of sleights and insults from white people, even when none are offered or intended. Black people don't want a color blind America because then they won't see themselves as having a heritage or place in our nation. So with the old racism dying, they desperately cling to the notion that America is still as bad as it ever was. Without racism so many of them would have nothing.