Have Race Relations Worsened?

No, but.

No. 'Race relations' are impossible to measure. Every answer to this question is going to be correct in its own way. I'm going to give you three examples.

1. Florida. Two knuckleheads get into a street fight. The black knucklehead dies, the non-black knucklehead becomes a hated celebrity. Hoodie sales skyrocket, media sells millions of dollars of airtime.

2. Baltimore. Several officers arrest black man. He dies after suffering injuries in police custody. The city riots. The mayor says it’s understandable and OK to riot, and calls police back.

3. Charleston, SC. White psycho guns down nine black churchgoers in cold blood. The city prays. Perp is sentenced to death within one year.

There is no pattern. People decide something is racial and they talk about it. There is absolutely nothing coherent that can be said about race relations, unless you actually believe that there is an inescapable way that so-called white people must communicate with so-called black people everywhere under all conditions. You simply cannot pin it down.

What you can do is pay attention to the degree that people *want* to make some kind of racial statement in their descriptions of what goes on in the world. This is racial thinking aka racialism. It means you feel compelled to acknowledge race at all times.

So here’s the way to differentiate racial thinking from racism. Imagine that every time you watched the news and people were described, you would hear their blood type mentioned. It forces you to think about their blood type. It doesn’t say anything negative or positive about the blood type but it always mentions it. Sooner or later, people are going to start asking questions about blood type because it has become important. Do you think blood type is important? Do you think race is important?

Now if anyone for any reason starts saying that people with blood type A are inferior and should be suspected, or expected to behave in a certain way, then that would be the equivalent of racism. But not everybody is necessarily convinced. Sure a prejudice exists, but you cannot predict the relations between any type A and any type O.

See how closely they work? So long as you say race is important, the more you invite people to judge on the basis of race. People always judge. So now you can imagine exactly what happens next. People are asked if blood type relations are getting better or worse and they say Type A says this and Type O says that (with nice tidy percentages that 12 year olds can understand).

When I look at the question of race today in the US, I see that people pay much more attention to it than they have in the past. More people are trying to make thinking about race more important. More people are trying to make racial statements. More people are coming out of left field with racial theories. On the other hand, fewer people are actually doing anything about it.

In my generation, people didn’t talk about race all the time, but there were racial fights in high school on a regular basis. In my generation, few ever made any fuss about ‘cultural appropriation’ (Ask anybody about AWB). The current generation of young people sound exactly like their grandparents when they fret over race, except their grandparents would forbid something like interracial marriage, whereas this generation would fly flags and pat themselves on the back if they actually attended one.

So basically I think my parents generation made a big deal about race but were afraid to do anything positive. My generation downplayed race and worked things out facing more violent consequences. My kid’s generation is making a big deal about race but are afraid to do anything negative. The difference is clear. The idea of integration was considered impossible until my generation made it real. The same idea that integration is impossible is now real in the current generation of youth because of the false ideas of multiculturalism. The idea is false because everybody secretly knows it’s not about culture but about race, and having internalized the idea that race must be important, they harbor the same fears of Americans of the 40s and 50s, that racial conflict is inevitable and that everyone should have their own separate safe spaces in society.

The point of me being here is to assist you with practical ways of thinking your way through life without race-theoretic crutches. The sooner people disabuse themselves of the foolishness of racialized multiculturalism and the highly fraught political correctness that is its inevitable consequence, the sooner we will be one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.