Dakota Beacon

Today the “racist” label is tossed around so freely it has become irrelevant. And so, it doesn’t take much to acquire the searing brand of “racist.”

So, what is racist these days? Let us count the ways.

The Betsy Ross flag (just ask Nike);

Betsy Ross herself (white supremacist – long before there was white supremacy);

The current American flag; (represents America as illegitimately founded);

National Anthem (ask Kapernic);

Joe Biden (he worked with segregationists);

Nancy Pelosi (according to Cortez and her Squad);

National borders (they exclude “people of color”);

Citizenship (excludes all non-citizens most of them “people of color”);

Anyone who enforces immigration law (they run concentration camps);

Anyone who is not pro-reparations;

Anyone who disagrees with a non-white;

Any Republican running for public office;

Any nominee to the US Supreme Court nominated by a Republican president;

Any white person who is not a Democrat.

This a short list. The list could go on for pages. Of course, the mainstream media endorses, echoes, and amplifies all of the above.

Check this out. White liberals consider racism a bigger problem than do blacks. This according to one Zach Goldberg, a doctoral candidate at Georgia State University studying this very situation.

Victimhood (“people of color,” gender, sexual orientation – all 54 types) is the great currency of the day. The “racist” label is the Gold Standard of leftist epithets. It is the go-to term to disparage a person. It buys status with the leftists, progressives, and Democrat leadership. This new iteration of McCarthyism requires that everyone bow to the demands of the victim.

The term “racist” is so overworked it has become a common, if not blasé, expression. Are Caucasians allowed to respond or defend themselves by pointing out the ludicrousness of this hackneyed moniker? Apparently not. The lefties at “Dictionary.com” invented and defined a new word for anyone who reacts defensively when the “racist” label is applied. The term coined is “white fragility.” That must be the flip side of the coin when one is accused of “white privilege.” The moral of this little charade? White folks can never challenge the “racist” accusation. Oppressed minorities are presumed to have the upper hand when it comes to the “evidence.” Once again the left has stacked the deck.

Is there rage and anger among whites? Of course! When race is politicized this is what you get. We are more divided than ever. As long as the left continues to engage in compulsory behavior modification through laws, rules, regulations, preferential treatment of minorities, and sensitivity training racial disparity can only intensify. It is as if the 1964 Civil Rights Act never existed. There can be no “conversation” about race when it is used as a weapon.

The idea that we are living in a latter-day South Africa apartheid with a system designed to jail and impoverish blacks out of pure malicious intent is contemptible, wrong, and just plain dumb.

So what if I am labeled a “racist?” Who cares? When the majority population is deemed “racist,” the term has lost significance. The “racist” label has become superfluous, trivial, and meaningless. The left’s trivializing of “racist” does a great disservice to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The best solution? Laugh in the face of absurd allegations of “racism.”

Who is a racist? Why, according to the radical left, it is every Caucasian by virtue of birth!

Dennis M. Patrick can be contacted at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).