Poisoned race relations

An unpopular truth

[Reprinted from Issues & Views September 17, 2001]

"Racism" has been fashioned into a weapon against whites. It has brought about massive fabrications of history, hate crimes that only whites can commit and race-based legal privileges for "preferred minorities."

In the United States and the United Kingdom, whites can be arrested for hate crimes for what they say to one another in private conversations. In Britain, police sit in restaurants eavesdropping on white diners to record racist remarks that justify arrest. Why isn't this "racial profiling?" Is there anything blacks can say about whites that can lead to their arrest for hate speech?

Shortsighted professors at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale thought that a little historical fabrication and multicultural emphasis would help integrate "people of color" into Western countries. They did not realize they were creating a monster that would poison race relations. They thought that by pulling down whites and boosting up others the cultural disparities that they believed stood in the way of integration would be lessened. Alas, the fabrications created guilt on the part of indoctrinated whites and hate on the part of indoctrinated blacks.

-- Paul Craig Roberts, excerpt from "Delegitimizing the West" (Creators Syndicate). He is author of the book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.

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