NATIONAL REVIEW on "Systemic Racism"
It goes
without saying that the death of George Floyd was shameful and wrong.
However, the rhetoric in response to Mr. Floyd’s death by otherwise
decent people has been no less shameful and wrong. It’s encouraging that
so many Americans are finding common cause with black Americans on the
issue of police brutality, but they are wrong to have accepted
uncritically the claim that systemic racism against blacks infects
nearly all aspects of America and its institutions. This corrosive claim
has now been embraced by titans of the tech and financial industries
like Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America. Establishment
political figures on the right such as Mitt Romney have also endorsed
the systemic racism claim espoused by Black Lives Matter.
Peaceful protests in reaction to Mr. Floyd’s death and against police
brutality in general are completely justified. But why is there no vocal
outrage, no call to action, in the black community over the fact that
only 30.8 percent of black children, according to the latest dataset in
the 2018 American Community Survey, live in a married, two-parent
household? The vast majority of black children are raised in single,
female-headed households. Despite the valiant effort that single black
mothers show in raising their children, they can’t be both good mothers
and good fathers, and they shouldn’t have to be.
Unfortunately, BLM teaches through its writings and conferences on race
that the idea of a two-parent home, the need for both fathers and
mothers, is a racist construct produced by a powerful white majority.
But would the young black son wishing for his father to show up agree?
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