On Joy Reid’s MSNBC show a couple of days ago, Vanderbilt Professor Michael Eric Dyson, like his hostess a person of color, vented his outrage on the recent election of Black Republican Winsome Sears as the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Sears, a Jamaican immigrant who celebrates the opportunities America has granted her, finds the narrative of “systemic racism” a gross violation of the truth. Dyson, clearly of the mindset of Ibram Kendi, dismissed her as the tool of a political party which has cleverly used her to impose “white supremacy by ventriloquist effect.” An insult to all Republicans, his comment was even more egregious in demeaning the accomplishments of this wonderful woman. When she opens her Black mouth, he asserted derisively, “white ideas” come out.
His P.O.V. is a recipe for the end of civilized political discourse, indeed ensures the perpetuation of racial conflict around the world. Ideas, apparently, have no validity in and of themselves but are merely the product of the biases of those who hold them. 2+2=4 isn’t a fact, it’s a White thing! It is the cancer of Postmodern Relativism acting in consort with a flagrant Racism, both Reid and Dyson, it seems to me, clearly in the grips of that dementia.
How disgusting is a political perspective so devoid of defensible Ideas that it actually declares the legitimacy of Ideas to be irrelevant to political debate? How disgusting are Blacks who claim human empathy to be their informing value, even as they dismiss other Blacks as mere mindless idiots simply because they do not agree with them?