Heather Mac Donald watched President Biden’s inaugural
speech so you didn’t have to. Her commentary at City Journal begins:
It’s an odd way to seek national
unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists,
racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.
Joe Biden’s inaugural speech as
46th president is predictably being hailed for its “unifying” message. And just
as predictably, his invocations of the divisive bromides of the identitarian
Left are being swept under the rug.
According to Biden, we are a “great
nation” and a “good people.” But we also oppress minorities with an ever-rising
fervor. “Growing inequity” is among the greatest challenges facing the country,
according to Biden, along with the “sting of systemic racism” and encroaching
“white supremacy.” Only now are we confronting “a cry for racial justice, some
four hundred years in the making.”
One might have thought that more
than 50 years of civil rights legislation; the banishing of Jim Crow
segregation; the ubiquity of racial preferences throughout corporate America,
higher education, and government; trillions of dollars of tax dollars
attempting to close the academic achievement gap; and the election of black
politicians by white voting districts would have reduced inequity, not
increased it. But to Biden’s speechwriters, steeped in academic victimology,
racial inequity is always with us, requiring constant remediation from
government.
Ms. Mac Donald’s full commentary is here.
Note: When this blog
makes reference to President Biden’s speech, or decision, or agenda, or whatever, I assume
he is delivering whatever his masters require.
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