60 Years of Racial Discrimination Against White Americans
Paul Craig Roberts
Thirty years after the publication of my book, The New Color Line, Jared Taylor asks if racial discrimination is illegal or not. https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/is-racial-discrimination-illegal-or-not/ [1]
As I made crystal clear three decades ago, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution make it totally certain that racial discrimination, as practiced by 60 years of US discriminatory policy against white Americans upheld by the US Supreme Court, is strictly illegal and unconstitutional.
What explains 60 years of illegal and unconstitutional discrimination against white American citizens by the US government, state and local governments, universities, and employers? An indoctrinated guilty conscience about “white racism”? The liberal-left subversion of the ethnic basis of a nation? Or a simple-minded determination to make reparations for slavery imposed on blacks conquered by the black King of Dahomey, who captured blacks in his slave wars and sold them first to Arabs, and then to British, Spanish, and Portuguese slave traders who brought the enslaved Africans to the New World to work as a labor force? The “racist’ American South inherited slavery. The South did not originate slavery or impose slavery.
The American British colonies did not enslave anyone. They purchased already enslaved people to provide a labor force to a land ready to be cultivated but without a labor force.
The charge that slave owners in the British colonies and later cotton and tobacco plantation owners abused valuable and expensive investments such as slaves whose cooperation was essential to economic success is mindless. That historians have written histories to the effect that the purpose of slavery was for white people to abuse black people demonstrates the worthlessness of history. Good relations between slaves and owners were essential, not only for productivity but also because the slaves vastly outnumbered whites on the plantation. Many of the slaves were warriors defeated in battle by the King of Dahomey’s forces. Yet there were no slave rebellions. Even Abe Lincoln’s attempt to provoke a slave rebellion with his “emancipation proclamation,” a wartime measure, was a total flop.
Yes Jarad, there has been for 60 years official illegal and unconstitutional government discrimination against whites. The discrimination was imposed by EEOC official Alfred Blumrosen, who reasoned that as courts deferred to the regulatory agencies, he could violate the language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and impose discrimination against white citizens under the rubric of “affirmative action.” The purpose of DEI was to further institutionalize discrimination against white people.
My book was praised by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Alan Dershowitz, Judge Robert Bork, Irving Kristol, but nothing was done about the illegal and unconstitutional discrimination against white American citizens for 60 years. Now a first step has been taken with Trump’s repeal of the federal government’s DEI Policy.
What does this tell us about respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, and accountability of “democracy” to the people?
Over the course of my life I have watched American elites destroy the foundations of liberty. And now President Trump continues the Biden regime’s policy of criminalizing free speech if it pertains to Israel. It seems that there is still a federal DEI policy, but it is solely an Israeli privilege.