The Reality of 'Anti-Racism' Across America
Chinese-American parents and students demonstrate against New York City Mayor de Blasio's plans to remove the SHSAT, a standardized test, for admission to the city's elite public high schools in September 2018. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
How Midwestern farmers, New York students, Seattle cops, Oakland teachers, and art docents in Chicago are collateral damage in an ideological war.
The dogma of “anti-racism” began with an incontrovertible reality: For centuries, black Americans have been the victims of structural and often violent discrimination — slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, and attitudes and norms that, to this day, exacerbate poverty and racial disparity. Where anti-racism made its radical departure was in its view about how t…
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