These late-night comedy shows are now propaganda hubs. NewsBusters analyst Alex Christy just noted the appearance of Boston University’s leftist and self-proclaimed “anti-racist” professor Ibram X. Kendi on — where else? — leftist Stephen Colbert’s Late Show.
Kendi, who was born Ibram Henry Rodgers in 1982, is now a CBS News contributor. He spreads his race theory views all across the CBS show’s menu.
Alex says:
Colbert began by falsely asserting that people are trying to prevent the history of racism from being taught, “One of the arguments you hear in opposition to talking to young children or to teaching elementary-level school children about racism or the history of racism in America, their argument goes something along the lines of, ‘Well, you’re going to make white kids feel bad about being white.’ What—what– is your response to that?”
Kendi responded by saying:
“Well, I would say those people are most concerned about or teaching of slavery. So let’s just talk about slavery.”
Well. I’m fine with that. Let’s focus on what Kendi and his fellow leftists don’t like to talk about when they discuss slavery and racism. Let’s start with Kendi’s own book on the subject: Antiracist Strategies.
The book is mine, as it turns out. And I can attest that in a book that makes much of slavery and segregation, mysteriously, for some reason I just can’t imagine, there is no mention of….the Democratic Party and its staunch history of support for both.
This would be America’s first political party, founded by slave owners. This would be the party that supported slavery in its first six platforms, which was from 1840 to 1860. This party was also the one that wrote 20 platform statements between 1868-1848 that supported or were silent about segregation.
There is no better illustration of Kendi’s avoidance of the subject than when he writes in his book of the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson case. It’s merely described by saying the Supreme Court “legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896.” Notice what was not said? That he ignores is what he does. Plessy was the result of Democrats in the Louisiana legislature passing a law that mandated separate railroad cars for blacks and whites, a practice that became known as “separate but equal.” This was, in fact, how Democrats built their political strength – by using outright racism to build and maintain their base.
The fact not discussed on Colbert’s show with Kendi is that the Democratic Party is, in reality, the Party of Race. The Democratic Party was founded on slave owners’ political support. With slavery ending (over objection from Democrats in Congress), Democrats elected to state legislatures and local government passed all the Jim Crow segregation legislation. These laws created segregation in public schools and restaurants as well as public transport. Democrats passed laws that sorted water coolers and beaches by skin colour.
In today’s America, the Left is still at it with the race card, with “identity politics” — now flipped to the idea that we’re forever deeply racist – demanding every American be judged by race, and every white American confessing their dreadful “privilege.”
Note well. Stephen Colbert never intended to question Kendi about which party enforced segregation following Lincoln’s end of slavery. One suspects Satan’s hot house will freeze over before Colbert ever admits to being a member of that Party of Race.
What one learns from Kendi’s appearance on Colbert, not to mention reading his book, is that when he says “So let’s just talk about slavery” he, in fact, won’t. Why?
Perhaps because it hurts.
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