{"id":354267,"date":"2020-06-29T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=354267"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:30:42","slug":"white-woke-liberals-think-african-americans-are-helpless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/29\/white-woke-liberals-think-african-americans-are-helpless\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke White Liberals Think African-Americans Are Helpless"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here is Edward in Kernersville, North Carolina. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos, Rush. I just wanted to let you know that you, sir, are my hero. I always take your advice. I deleted my Facebook, by the way, and I feel phenomenal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. My question is, how would these white liberals know how it is growing up in an urban community? I\u2019m a 28-year-old Puerto Rican, and I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, all my life. There was a point in my life that I was scared to go outside in fear of getting mugged, beat up, but these white liberals never have. I mean, they have a completely different picture of how it really is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it\u2019s a good question. How do these white women, college students…? How do they know anything about what it\u2019s actually like in African-American neighborhoods? They believe. Remember, this doesn\u2019t happen in one class. It doesn\u2019t happen in a week. This happens over the course of a semester, and then you add semesters to the first semester and it just keeps building on itself.<\/p>\n

\"\"And they have the luxury of time. I mean, you go to school, you\u2019re gonna be in middle school for a couple years, high school for three, then they got you for four years in college. And they can double down, combine history and then whatever newfangled curriculum courses there are. They just… They wear people down over time.<\/p>\n

But they know how to psychologically tap into the guilt centers. Let me ask. You just happened to provide me a great transition here to the piece de resistance from this whole subject matter today. Charles Love is the author of this piece. He is the assistant executive director of Seeking Educational Excellence, and this piece was adapted from a publication called City Journal.<\/p>\n

The headline of the piece is, “What ‘Woke\u2019 Whites Get Wrong About Blacks\u2019 Priorities,”<\/a> and let me share with you some fascinating pull quotes here \u2019cause they\u2019ll answer your question out there, Edward. “This month\u2019s protests started out as a black movement against police brutality, but they have a different look now. In many cases, whites have taken over” the protests, and that didn\u2019t take long. Six out of seven of the protesters…<\/p>\n

Pew Research. Remember? I had it last week. Six out of seven of the protesters — Black Lives Matter protesters — are white, and the majority of them are white college-educated women, suburban college-educated women. “They apologize for their ‘white privilege\u2019…” You ask: How do they know anything about African-Americans\u2019 standard of living? They\u2019re told that their existence, that their economic standard of living is because of white privilege.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because they have denied African-Americans. The country has denied African-Americans economic opportunity. They\u2019ve literally stolen from \u2019em! Whatever they can lie about, they do. “They apologize for their ‘white privilege\u2019… Celebrities, athletes and corporate America followed suit. Portland\u2019s police chief resigned, asking to be replaced by a black man, and the CEO of Chick-fil-A urged whites to shine the shoes of black people to show a ‘sense of shame.\u2019<\/p>\n

“But why now?” Mr. Love asks. “To find out, I had to hear what whites were saying. I listened to the protesters, talked with my white friends and read articles and social media posts. What I found was white people overwhelmingly depicting black people as desperate and defeated, with no way to pull themselves out of their misery.”<\/p>\n

Now, folks, I have to tell you that this is exactly the way the civil rights liberals all the way back to the fifties and sixties saw African-Americans and continue to see them to this day. “I … talked with my white friends and read articles and social media posts. What I found was white people overwhelmingly depicting black people as desperate and defeated, with no way to pull themselves out of their misery.”<\/p>\n

“‘I understand your point,\u2019 a white friend said when I objected to this simplistic narrative. ‘But don\u2019t you think blacks are being oppressed?\u2019 That\u2019s when I realized that white wokeness is the new factor in our national life.” Now, you know this because I\u2019ve already explained it to you, but this guy just figured it out — which is great, don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n

“[W]hite wokeness,” particularly among affluent, female, white college students… “[W]hite wokeness is the new factor in our national life. It has been embedded into the consciousness of whites that all blacks are the same and that they all face impossible barriers to improvement — from standardized tests [stacked against them] to the black men being arrested on the nightly news. A growing number of whites believe that black life is unrelentingly grim.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now, my friends, this is precisely the view of Baby Boomer white liberals. You know what it\u2019s rooted in? It is rooted in the same… It\u2019s rooted in what I call “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” and every white liberal is guilty of this. They look at African-Americans and they see people that have no chance. For whatever reason, they see people that just can\u2019t do it the way they can.<\/p>\n

So they feel sorry for them, and then they turn that sympathy to blame on white conservatives, some group that\u2019s had nothing to do with any of this. But they can\u2019t blame themselves because they\u2019re “woke.” These Baby Boomer white liberals, many of them in the media, can\u2019t be to blame because they get it. They are sensitive. But they believe that African-Americans don\u2019t have a prayer.<\/p>\n

They believe African-Americans can\u2019t do things on their own. They have this guilt over what they believe slavery caused and how long slavery has lived. It\u2019s still alive in their view, and so all of this is really rooted in the sympathy that accompanies a belief that these people are incapable of helping themselves, that they\u2019re incompetent — and, by the way, liberals look at everybody this way.<\/p>\n

Liberals… This is what they\u2019ve constructed in order to make themselves feel needed, in order to make themselves feel worthy of power. They damn well believe… Mr. Love is exactly right. He swerved into the truth here. Whites in college are being taught to believe that blacks are helpless, and they\u2019re helpless because they\u2019re perpetual, constant victims.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re victims of an unfair, systemic racist America. They don\u2019t have a prayer. They can\u2019t possibly advance. And yet you point out many have, a whole bunch. There\u2019s an active African-American middle class — and you point them out, you name them — and, boy, do they hate you! Because those people are not independently sustainable. “Those are Uncle Toms. Those are sellouts and those are traitors who were never down for the struggle.”<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t point to them. Shelby Steele. One of the great points that Shelby Steele makes… Shelby Steele started out as a Malcolm X supporter. And he is frustrated beyond his ability to express it. Why in the world are the role models that African-American kids are told to look up to, people that go to jail, people have all…? You gotta be careful saying this stuff.<\/p>\n

Let me do it another way: Why aren\u2019t people like Clarence Thomas held up as examples to follow, as heroes? And the answer is, “Because they weren\u2019t down for the struggle, \u2019cause they didn\u2019t use affirmative action, because they\u2019re nothing but a bunch of Stepin Fetchit blacks who do nothing but cultivate a bunch of white friends, and their white friends take care of them. They\u2019re sellouts to the race.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the thing that frustrates Shelby Steele out the wazoo, even though Shelby Steele doesn\u2019t talk that way. He doesn\u2019t say things like “out the wazoo,” but I do. But, folks, it is rooted in sympathy. It\u2019s rooted in the belief that African-Americans can\u2019t do anything on their own, either because America is unfair or because the deck is so stacked against them.<\/p>\n

So these African-Americans need white liberals looking out for them, shielding them and protecting them, and it adds up to the soft bigotry of low expectations. Meaning, “I don\u2019t think you\u2019ve got what it takes, pal. Sorry! I just don\u2019t think you can make it.” It\u2019s one of the most insulting attitudes you can have to anybody, regardless of race.<\/p>\n

Mr. Love writes here, “Most whites don\u2019t have many black friends to give them firsthand accounts of what their experiences are with racism. While most blacks do experience some discrimination or racial prejudice, it is rarely violent, and it doesn\u2019t hold them back in a significant sense.” In other words, it\u2019s a myth that, yet, everybody has been led to believe — and Edward, here\u2019s the real answer to your question from Mr. Love.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The media give a distorted view of black life. We see this in the stories they choose to report — and those they [don\u2019t]. In 2018, police shot and killed 54 unarmed men; 22 were black,” the rest were white. “Compared with the percentage of blacks in the U.S. population, that figure looks disproportionate — but black people commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime and thus tend to have more interactions with the police.”<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t say that, see? Can\u2019t point that out. Something else you can\u2019t talk about is the black-on-black crime. No, no, no, no, no! You can\u2019t. Don\u2019t ever go there. They will come for you. But the bottom line here, Mr. Love says, “[M]ost blacks don\u2019t live in poverty, don\u2019t have constant run-ins with law enforcement and aren\u2019t [most of them] uneducated. It\u2019s important to look at racial disparities in context.<\/p>\n

“Though blacks commit more violent crime than whites do in relative terms, in absolute terms, the percentage of people who commit any violent crime is tiny. The white violent crime rate is 0.12%; for blacks, it is 0.44%. By any standard, most people aren\u2019t violent criminals, regardless of their race.” Anyway, people are being lied to over and over and over about all this, particularly in school.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re being inculcated.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re believing it.<\/p>\n

Then they come home\u2019 they start lecturing their parents.<\/p>\n

Some of their parents do not want to lose the kids, so they make it look like they agree with them. Others actually do change their minds on key issues. I think the vast majority of it is parents not wanting to lose their kids. Look, I told you a couple weeks ago. I knew a new grandmother. She disagrees 1,000% with how her grandbabies are being raised, but can\u2019t say a word for fear she\u2019ll be shut out of their lives.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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