The Race War They Want
And they’re banking on reparations to do the trick.
Just when you thought identity politics couldn’t get anymore absurd, along comes the Biden administration’s demand that the capital gains tax be doubled—because not to do so would be racist.1
No kidding.
In a bizarre memo entitled, “Advancing Equity through Tax Reform: Effects of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals on Racial Wealth Inequality,” the Treasury Department actually broke down ownership of assets by race in order to assert the ‘disparate impact’ of tax relief.2
The sheer demagoguery is almost unfathomable, considering everyone—black or white—is subject to the same capital gains rate. No wonder former President Trump warned of a “definite antiwhite feeling in the country...”3
But no matter how many times the more sane among us reiterate “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” the hustlers know there’s money in ‘them thar hills.’4 The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) commissariat at the Illinois Commission on Equitable Public University Funding is tying state higher education appropriations to race—a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.5
Last year’s Supreme Court opinion declaring race-based affirmative action programs as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment should have put an end to this, and along with it, DEI’s ‘disparate impact’ analysis in corporate training and hiring as well.6
Alas, if you’re seeking racial conflict as an avenue to power, the first thing you do is to get every self-loathing white liberal to paint everything as racist. Society, business, even everyday conversation…you might think ‘it’s okay to be white,’ but the Anti-Defamation League denounced it as hate speech.7
This is toxic tribalism and even Sean Lennon let loose a series of scathing tweets blasting it, perhaps realizing that Asians often bear the brunt of it. “Just remember who benefits from the ‘divide and conquer’ paradigm,” said the biracial son John and Yoko Lennon, “It ain’t us that’s for sure.”8