{"id":388401,"date":"2021-03-23T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=388401"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:28:10","slug":"reparations-address-ancient-wrongs-with-brand-new-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/23\/reparations-address-ancient-wrongs-with-brand-new-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Is Right! Reparations Address Ancient Wrongs with Brand-New Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

JASON: I also want to get to this Evanston, Illinois, story about these folks approving the first reparations for their black residents. This is really the endgame on the woke culture. The endgame on the woke culture is the opposite of unity. Now, most nations are connected through bloodlines. The French are French; the German are Germans; the British are British, and they have this sort of bond along bloodlines.<\/p>\n

It keeps them together. It defines them. That\u2019s what it means to be a particular citizen. America is different. We\u2019re mutts in America. We come here from all places. It is true. We used to come here legally from all places, but that\u2019s out of fashion now with the new administration. But the key to keeping a nation like that together is not, for obvious reasons, assimilating along bloodlines.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s assimilating along ideas, ideals — and the most profound of those ideals is equality under the law, not equality of outcome. Equality under the law. Now, remember this. It\u2019s very, very key. Equal application of the law, by definition, demands unequal outcomes. If everybody starts the race at the same spot, they\u2019re not going to finish there.<\/p>\n

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What the Democrats are trying to do is make certain that people start the race in different spots so they all finish at the same spot. Call it a quota. Call it anything you want. The ultimate goal of that is reparations. That\u2019s why they now call it “equity,” not “equality.” You can\u2019t abide by equal protection under the law if you treat different people from different backgrounds unequally.<\/p>\n

Whether Yale is discriminating against Asian-Americans or Evanston, Illinois, wants to discriminate against nonblack residents by offering reparations to whoever. Barack Obama\u2019s offspring? They qualify. They\u2019re really at a disadvantage. This is discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination — and it is not only unconstitutional, it is unethical.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s why they keep saying “equity, equity.” Not “equality,” “equity.” Here\u2019s what “equity” means. “Equity” means discriminating until you have equal outcomes. It doesn\u2019t mean equality under the law. Here\u2019s what Rush had to say on the issue on reparations.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: “Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren said they both support reparations for African-Americans affected by slavery.” Well, I think there\u2019s an obvious question, but you\u2019re not supposed to ask it. When did slavery end?<\/p>\n

\"\"Somebody give me the ballpark year slavery ended. Just pick a number, 1868, 1870, 1880, if you want. Anybody still alive from 1880? Okay. “Mr. Limbaugh, you know that\u2019s not how we do this. We\u2019re looking for families and people who are descendants of slaves.” Well, still talking about a long time. But, see, this is not a question you are supposed to ask.<\/p>\n

“Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren said they both support reparations for African-Americans affected by slavery. Asked about the matter last week … Harris agreed … that reparations are necessary to address problems of ‘inequities.\u2019<\/p>\n

“‘America has a history of 200 years of slavery. We had Jim Crow. We had legal segregation in America for a very long time.'” Parentheses (sponsored by the Democrat Party), end parentheses. “We have got to recognize, back to that earlier point, people aren\u2019t starting out on the same base in terms of their ability to succeed and so we have got to recognize that and give people a lift up.”<\/p>\n

And then, “The former attorney general doubled down on her remarks. ‘We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities,\u2019 she said in a statement to the New York Times. ‘I\u2019m serious about taking an approach that would change policies and structures and make real investments in black communities.'”<\/p>\n

Because, of course, we have never done that. We have never made investments. Of course, investments are not even investments. Investments is a bastardizing language. Investments is another way of government spending and taxation. That\u2019s all it is. Now, for her part, Fauxcahontas voiced her support for federal government reparations yesterday.<\/p>\n

“We must confront the dark history of slavery and government-sanctioned discrimination in this country that has had many consequences including undermining the ability of black families to build wealth in America for generations. Black families have had a much steeper hill to climb — and we need systemic, structural changes to address that.”<\/p>\n

That is Fauxcahontas and her statement on this yesterday. Okay. So I have some questions. What if my ancestors fought and suffered injuries or died to free slaves? Would I get a tax credit? Would I be exempt from having to participate in reparations? Or could I even get in on the action since I might have ancestors, anybody might have ancestors that actually were down for the struggle way back then?<\/p>\n

Can I get in on this if I can prove my ancestors died in the fight to end slavery? What if someone benefited from affirmative action in their life? Would that person get a lesser payout? In other words, if we\u2019re handing out reparations for people affected by slavery — of course, this country has done more than any country in the world to try to correct these — you know what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n

\"\"What is really being done? What\u2019s being done here is the tarnishing and the continued slandering of this country. That\u2019s what this is. I\u2019ve been trying to tell people that no amount of fixes, no amount of help, no amount of corrections is ever going to be enough for these people because no amount of fixing can ever erase the beginning of the country.<\/p>\n

And the beginning of the country is always going to remind us of a nation founded in bigotry, founded in racism, founded in discrimination, founded in whatever. And it\u2019s this basis on which they proceed in their whole quest to transform the country. to overthrow the country — transform it. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

JASON: What\u2019s really interesting, in the name of combating stereotyping, stereotyping minorities, the left and their move towards a woke culture, towards white privilege, towards reparations is stereotyping all white people. And it\u2019s discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination, and it divides the country.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me repeat this assertion from David Harsanyi<\/a>. Again, the piece is at National Review Online. The title, the premise is, “Destroy the ‘Public\u2019 Education System.” It\u2019s an advocacy piece for doing that. “State-run schools,” i.e. the public school system, “have undercut two fundamental conditions of a healthy tolerant society. First, they\u2019ve created millions of civic illiterates who are disconnected from long-held communal values and national identity.”<\/p>\n

Bingo.<\/p>\n

“Civic illiterates” means that they\u2019ve not been taught the founding. They\u2019ve not been taught the greatness of the Founding Fathers. They\u2019ve not been taught a single thing about the truth of the founding and the existence, the greatness, the decency of the United States of America. They are illiterate on it. Yet they think they\u2019ve been told the truth. They have been taught that America\u2019s the home of racism, that it was founded in slavery and racism and bigotry, that it is the home of white supremacy and that it must be torn down.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s what they\u2019ve been taught. It\u2019s illiteracy. They\u2019ve been taught it, and now they\u2019re out there — as they\u2019ve grown up and become adults — programmed almost like Stepford kids to act on it, genuine mind-numbed robots who think that they are supremely educated.<\/p>\n

So “they\u2019ve created millions of civic illiterates who are disconnected from long-held communal values and national identity. Second, they\u2019ve exacerbated the very inequalities that trigger the tearing apart of,” a culture. They\u2019ve exacerbated the very inequalities, rather than be taught. As I said yesterday, you know what the greatest assault on slavery in the world has been? The United States Constitution.<\/p>\n

“What do you mean, Rush? The Constitution was written when there was slavery!” The Constitution provided the road map for getting rid of it. It\u2019s very simple. It establishes the premise that the individual citizen has primacy over the government and that everybody\u2019s equal. Everybody is equal. The United States, as long as there was slavery, was not meeting its promise.<\/p>\n

The Constitution provided the route to ending slavery, at the same time the opportunity to be true and devoted to the Constitution. Had the Constitution not been written, did it not stand for what it stands for, there would not have been a legal premise for ending slavery and a legal premise for the Civil War and so forth.<\/p>\n

Now, I realize this assertion is just gonna enrage people who have been taught that the Constitution enshrined slavery, the Constitution enshrines white supremacy. Nothing could be further from the truth — and we\u2019re 50 years behind now, two generations, in having this message, having this something be taught.<\/p>\n

\"\"“If you\u2019re interested in ferreting out ‘systemic racism,\u2019 go to a big-city public-school system. No institution has fought harder to preserve segregated communities than the average teachers\u2019 union. And I don\u2019t mean only in the schools.”<\/p>\n

Systemic racism, that\u2019s what they want you to believe the United States is. It was founded with slavery, systemic racism. Systemic racism is found in any institution, including a big city public school system where segregation is sought, where it is achieved, where it is maintained. And segregation is the order of the day now, by orders of the radical left.<\/p>\n

“Prosperous Americans already enjoy school choice,” if you\u2019re doing okay financially, you have access to school choice, “and not merely because they can afford private schools. Anyone who has ever tried to buy a suburban home in a major metro area can tell you how acutely school districts influence home prices.<\/p>\n

“Many middle-class and working-class families are priced out of areas with good schools because of inflated home values and high property taxes,” and you think that\u2019s an accident? It isn\u2019t. It\u2019s a way to keep certain people out. It\u2019s a way to further segregation by making really attractive, decent places unaffordable for the people you don\u2019t want living nearby.<\/p>\n

And who\u2019s doing this? White liberals with their plantation mentality. “And families who might otherwise choose to live in more diverse areas are kept out because of failing schools,” and a failing school, by the way… You can\u2019t change it. A failing school is itself a weapon. A failing school is itself useful to the segregationists.<\/p>\n

“It provides the only option for many Americans who are being artificially priced out of neighborhoods and schools they would prefer to send their kids to. Even in cities where limited choice exists, most poor parents, typically black or Hispanic, are compelled to send their kids to inferior schools.”<\/p>\n

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