Jaenelle Antas
The city of
Duluth, Minnesota is running an “Un-Fair Campaign”, implying that all White
people and only White people are racist. The campaign includes billboards that
say things like “It’s hard to see racism when you’re White” and photos of White
faces written on in black marker about our inherent “White privilege”—all the
advantages Whites get from being White but aren’t even aware of. Like the one
below:
The stated
mission of the Un-Fair campaign is to:
… raise awareness about white privilege in our
community, provide resources for understanding and action, and facilitate
dialogue and partnership that results in fundamental, systemic change towards
racial justice.
This
campaign’s partners include the University of Minnesota, the University of
Wisconsin-Lake Superior College (all overflowing with over “enlightened” ivory
tower liberals), the NAACP (who are constantly agitating for Black privilege),
the YWCA (their mission is to eliminate racism and empower women), Community
Action Duluth (whose work with low-income people seems premised on the belief
that White privilege is keeping people down), and the Clayton Jackson McGhie
Memorial (dedicated to the memory of three Blacks who were lynched in Duluth 80
years ago; their mission is fighting ‘institutional racism’). It gets an
official stamp of approval from the City of Duluth and the mayor, Don Ness.
Duluth is,
after all, a predominantly White city and the liberal establishment wants us to
believe this is a problem. The Un-Fair Campaign states on their website:
The population of Duluth is 89% white, which
may be a factor in our community appearing and functioning as a monoculture.
This causes some groups to feel marginalized and excluded.
This outcome was confirmed in a recent report
on a three year study, Soul of the Community, commissioned by the Knight
Foundation, which stated:
The [Duluth Area] community significantly
underperforms against the comparison group overall and in four of the seven
individual openness measures. … Fewer residents than in other comparable
communities say it is a good place for racial and ethnic minorities,
immigrants, young adults without children, and talented college graduates
looking for work.
However, no
one is running an anti-racism campaign in Detroit, which is 85% Black, where
the racism that has made non-Blacks feel so unwelcome that they have left the
city en masse. By 1940, Detroit was 90% White, but the influx of ‘diversity’
and the crime and urban decay that came with it drove away pretty much all the
Whites who could afford to leave. Today Detroit is one of the least livable
cities in America.
Duluth, by
contrast is clean and safe (it doesn’t even have a ‘Crime’ section on its
Wikipedia entry), with good schools and good jobs. This “racist” city has
managed to provide a much higher standard of living compared to other, more
diverse cities, including for those residents who are supposedly discriminated
against in some invisible fashion. This is probably why there has never been a
mass exodus of non-Whites from Duluth. The living there is pretty good all
around.
In one
television news program (below), a black girl in Duluth is shown saying that
the Un-Fair campaign is a good thing because maybe it will result in more
opportunities and jobs for Blacks.
Detroit,
which is run by blacks and where racism presumably can’t exist due to the lack
of white people, has roughly a 20% unemployment rate. Duluth’s unemployment
rate is just under 6%, which means that the vast majority of Blacks there who
want jobs can get them. Nor is there any shortage of good schools in Duluth.
Every black child there is going to get a much better education than they would
in Detroit, which opens up opportunities to them that Blacks in other cities
could never dream of.
As someone
who grew up in Minnesota and has since traveled all around America and the rest
of the globe, I can say with certainty that Minnesotans are among the least
racist and most tolerant people there are, hands down. White people everywhere
tend to bend over backwards so as not to come across as racist, but nowhere is
this truer than in Minnesota where the concept of Minnesota Nice is a reality
and the inhabitants outside of the Twin Cities haven’t had enough exposure to
other races to have any reason to be hostile to them.
The Un-Fair
Campaign is inventing a problem that doesn’t exist. In saying they want to have
a conversation about race, what they really mean is that they want White people
to admit they are racist and apologise for it until they are blue in the face.
Whites aren’t allowed to argue the point of whether or not they are privileged
because they are told they can’t see it anyway. (Convenient circular logic
there.) Non-Whites are not encouraged or expected to take responsibility for
their own behaviour, but rather to blame any and all misfortunes on White folk
and to interpret every negative experience they have through the lens of
discrimination. This isn’t a conversation. It is a scripted dialogue and there
is no colour-blind casting—only Whites can play the villain, only non-Whites
can play the victim.
The only
racism whites have difficulty seeing is the racism directed at them. Whites bow
down willingly to this kind of rhetoric, blindly accepting their guilt for the
crime of having been born. Whites make excuses for racially motivated
anti-White crime, refusing to call it what it is. Whites allow themselves to be
brainwashed into believing they have no culture, no tribe, no identity beyond
that of the individual.
Indeed, I
would venture to say that Whites in general are the least racially aware people
on the planet. No thinking Black, Hispanic, or Asian believes that race is only
a “social construct,” and they agitate aggressively on behalf of their own
people. They speak in terms such as “the black community” or “the Latino
community.” They don’t claim to be colourblind. In fact, they see race
everywhere they look, are acutely aware of it, and eager to point it out. I
doubt the majority of Whites in Duluth think about race much at all or have any
real experience with racial issues. That just simply isn’t a part of life in
areas that are 90%+ White.
The Un-Fair
Campaign is certainly unfair. It’s not about combating racism. I doubt much
exists in Duluth, of all places. It’s about furthering the idea of inherent
White guilt and creating division within a community as a publicity stunt.
Non-whites in Duluth wouldn’t feel as though they were being victimised if they
weren’t constantly being told that they are. In any situation, it’s always
important to ask who stands to gain. The people of Duluth don’t stand to benefit
from this. All the Un-Fair Campaign will do is create hostility and resentment
that didn’t exist before. The elite, however, always benefit when the lesser
classes are divided and distracted and spreading accusations of racism is a
convenient way to do this.
Occidental Observer
