Systemic Racism
An eminence grise named Thomas Sowell tells us there’s no such thing as systemic racism. He’s wrong. Let’s see. Today, Breitbart acknowledged Lewis Hamilton by griping about his Breonna Taylor Tee-shirt. (They’ve never noticed him before, greatest black living athlete that he is...) Limbaugh was eloquent about how many white Americans voted for Obama because they thought voting in a black President would put all the racial misery behind us. I said at the time it wouldn’t. Thing is, at a certain level, BLM is absolutely right. They’re just wrong about why and how it happened, and how to deal with it. Two things happened in the Sixties. Lyndon Johnson promised to fix it all with his Great Society. He bulldozed their neighborhoods, built faceless ghetto “projects” instead, paid women welfare based on the number of illegitimate kids they had, made abortion into a commodity akin to drive-thru liquor stores, and promoted the most damaging set of laws and conventions ever institu...