On May 19 The Daily Wire posted a wonderful interview conducted by Ben Shapiro with Black commentator/writer Coleman Hughes who recently published a work entitled “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.”
Hughes quite rightly sees Critical Race Theory as a latter day permutation of Marxism which simply replaces “economic injustice” with “racial injustice,” its informing delusion being the belief that in a world devoid of oppression, all demographics would achieve equally in every socio-economic realm. Obviously aware of both the racial intolerance that marred America’s past as well as the country’s relentless evolution towards a more equitable future, he sees the “equal outcomes” agenda of the contemporary Left as a superficial goal which not only fails to prove that America is in fact “systemically racist,” but that flies in the face of the very real Diversity of the species. As the title of his recently published book implies, Hughes defines a truly progressive society as one which sees each individual without bias as a moral/intellectual being obligated to behave as such. While this in no way suggests there are not those who are the victims of one form of discrimination or another, it introduces into the simplistic, neo-Marxist criteria of the Left the very real complexities of the human dynamic. Hughes uses the jail term imposed on Derek Chauvin to illustrate the sort of injustices to which the anti-White Racism infecting the contemporary Left inevitably leads.
Chauvin, of course, is the White officer convicted of needlessly killing George Floyd. No doubt the jurors who found him guilty felt they were doing their part in exposing the systemic racism that continues to infect America. But Chauvin’s conviction, which will keep him behind bars ’til at least 2035, was in fact utterly tainted, Hughes argues, by the systemic anti-White racism that has, thanks to the “enlightened” Left, come to infect America. A career criminal and drug addict, the now canonized Floyd had an enlarged heart and a body rife with fentanyl on the day he died. Arrested for allegedly trying to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill, he apparently ranted that he could not breathe even before Chauvin infamously knelt on his neck. It was not illogical, then, for Chauvin to conclude that his captive’s continued complaints amounted to no more than an attempt to escape custody. No one is suggesting his handling of the situation to be flawless, but, asks Coleman Hughes, ought Chauvin’s life to be ruined by behavior clearly impacted by the stress and complexities of the event in question? Indeed, one is compelled to ask, would a Black cop responsible for the death of a White, drug-addicted criminal have been similarly convicted in this culture dominated by the ludicrous notion that Identity is more important than Morality in its pursuit of Social Justice?
The classic Leftist response to individuals such as Coleman Hughes is to suggest they are “Uncle Toms” naively subservient to their White manipulators. In fact he is another wonderful example of Man’s capacity for both Reason and Morality which utterly transcends the Identity based criteria of the contemporary, brain-dead Left.