Larry Elder’s loss in California proves the left doesn’t actually care about race

 By now you’ve likely heard the terms, “white privilege”, “systemic racism”, “white guilt” and “white fragility”.  You’ve been taught that these things of undeniable facts, and that the best way to combat these issues is by “uplifting voices of color” and “creating more diversity” as well as more “safe spaces for people of color.”  Yet, the same people who championed these ideas cheered when Larry Elder, a black male, lost to Gavin Newsom, a white male, for the position of governor of California. Had he been elected, Elder would’ve been California’s first black governor. Yet, despite leftists praising Obama as America’s first black president, and praising Kamala Harris as America’s first black female vice president, none of them cared about this prospect. Why?  Elder didn’t get with the program. In both his life and his policies, Larry Elder denounced all of these common myths that black people cannot succeed because of white people etc. So much so that the Los Angeles Times referred to Elder as the “black face of white supremacy” even though the same leftists claim that it is somehow impossible for a black person to have any racism because they are an oppressed minority. Since Larry Elder never whined about or tried to benefit from perceived oppression, it was easy for them to go against their own values and call him a racist. 

If you’re going to hold to a position, there needs to be consistency. Either all of the woke terminology is hogwash, and it’s not really about race, or systemic racism is real and you don’t care. The same media who spent countless hours trying to ferret out the (fake) “hate crimes” of Jussie Smollet and Bubba Wallace, and who also fired Rosanne Barr for a comment of hers which seemingly compared a black person to an ape, had nothing to say when someone dressed in an ape costume attempted to pelt Elder with rotten eggs while shouting profanities at him. The same people who promote the concept of intersectionality, which demands we celebrate when a person of minority status achieves any kind of success based solely on the status of their race, gender, or sexuality (while simultaneously telling us minorities cannot ever achieve success based on racial privilege vs oppression) had nothing to say about the possibility of California having the first black governor. This just proves all this talk is just nonsense. If it was real, you wouldn’t care what the political persuasion of a minority was. No one made any effort to point out that Obama or Kamala were democrats in the headlines, only that they were black. Yet Larry Elder doesn’t receive the same treatment, and is actually deemed as being a threat to the black community, despite being black himself. How are we supposed to “listen to voices of color” if you’re unwilling to give people like Larry Elder the time of day, and instead promote white people like Gavin Newsom and Robin D’Angelo?  It seems to me you don’t actually care about race. 

You’re probably saying to yourself, “You’re missing the point! The real issue with systemic racism is about gun violence and police brutality and you’ve mentioned neither of these things!” True. And while this is a subject for another post, how can we expect to take your position seriously when you categorize which people of color we’re supposed to care about?  These people, but not these people. That guy’s conservative? Oh, he doesn’t count. I realize much of this is driven by media, but you have a responsibility to know and promote the truth and truth doesn’t categorize. 

Even if we entertain the idea that systemic racism is real, that would mean that it was systemic racism that caused Elder to lose and white privilege that kept Newsom in, wouldn’t it? Yet no one cares. This is just one reason why I cannot take these sanctimonious “woke” cries seriously, because you’ve proven it all to be a lie.  True racism is blind to political differences, but the race hustlers sure aren’t. Maybe Elder’s position proves true: that race isn’t the most important thing about us.