America is Structurally Anti-Racist

One of the emergent strategies on college campuses for destroying the United States is describing it falsely as a racist institution.  America is not simply “not racist.”  America is the most important and successful anti-racist political project in human history.  We can grasp this important fact with an empirical analysis.  Initially, in the pathological dystopian academic tall tales, ‘America is a uniquely evil nation founded in 1619 upon slavery.’  The New York Times backs this project proposing that the arrival of slaves in America proves that our nation is essentially dedicated to slaveholding.  This mythology works best when one imagines that slavery is peculiar rather than endemic.  But slavery is a normative feature of many human societies.  Slavery continues to this day and we would do well to ask Ghislaine Maxwell or the human traffickers at the Mexican border more difficult questions about its...(Read Full Article)
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