If everything is racist, then nothing is racist — and everything is racist. Even traffic cameras:

Via CWBChicago:

Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford is again calling for change after new data shows more than 2.5 times as many red-light camera tickets were issued on Chicago’s South Side over a yearlong period than at intersections where cameras are installed on the city’s North Side.

Fumes Ford:

“If I get multiple tickets and I’m placed on a boot list, then my car gets towed and I lose my car. Then I have these tickets and I have to file bankruptcy to eliminate the debt. Government should not be in the business of driving people into poverty. We know that this regressive tax hits people in poverty more and drives people deeper into poverty.”

For a Democrat to grasp that government should not drive people into poverty could signify progress. However, in this case it is the maniacal drivers on Chicago’s racially correct South Side who are doing the driving.

Until traffic cameras can be devised that distribute tickets according to race regardless of how people drive, they must be abolished in the name of equity. Ford wants a moratorium on traffic cameras.

Laws against murder also have a disparate impact on persons of politically preferred pigmentation, who are vastly more likely to commit this crime. By the same logic, these laws too must be abolished.

On a tip from Wiggins.

How much do the militantly diverse Democrats who have been ruling over us hate our guts on racial grounds? Let’s ask a sitting member of Congress — like Jasmine Crockett (D-TX).

During a House Oversight Committee hearing about the “Dismantle DEI Act,” which seeks to weaken diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Crockett responded to a Republican colleague championing the bill as a “strong response to the oppression of our rights, liberties and freedoms.”

Put some cotton in your ears before listening to Jasmine denounce America’s core population on the grounds that the slavery that existed throughout the world since before recorded history once existed here too, before we sacrificed hundreds of thousands of American lives to end it:

Generations ago, rather than be privileged like they are now, blacks had a hard time. Therefore, whites should be second-class citizens, systematically discriminated against by their own government. That is the gospel according to Critical Race Theory, a central pillar of liberal ideology and our national religion under Democrat rule.

Here’s why she doesn’t like the Dismantle DEI Act:

The bill states that no employees should be forced to undergo “training, education, or coursework, or other pedagogy, that asserts that a particular race, color, ethnicity, religion, biological sex, or national origin is inherently or systemically superior or inferior, oppressive or oppressed, or privileged or unprivileged.”

Possibly not being allowed to force others to undergo indoctrination in anti-white race hate is as close as living blacks will ever come to oppression in the USA.

On tips from Wiggins and Jack D.

Halloween is over; time to investigate any costumes that might have qualified as thought crimes. Here’s one:

San Diego State University is looking into a pair of white students who dressed up as Sean “Diddy” Combs and a bottle of baby oil for a Halloween party. … Combs was accused of using a date-rape drug in the 1,000 bottles of baby oil found in his home during a federal raid.

The costume entailed blackface, which constitutes blasphemy in the moonbat religion. That makes it serious business:

A spokesperson for SDSU said: “Our team is working to confirm information, including the location and the names and affiliations of the individuals involved. We appreciate the willingness of people who have come forward to share information with the university.”

Maybe they should offer a semester of free tuition for whoever rats out the as yet unidentified racists.

Punishment will be severe. Never mind lowly students; even professors are investigated for this infraction. A public school superintendent was suspended without pay. A cancer researcher was forced to resign. Educrat inquisitors have even accused blacks of wearing blackface.

Surely whatever sick crimes against decency Sean Combs and his liberal elite playmates might have inflicted on children pale in comparison to blackface.

On a tip from R F.

Blacks constitute the inner core of the Democrat base. But even they are turning away in disgust. So Kamala Harris offers more cash bribes:

The Harris campaign rolled out its “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men,” which proposes to give one million $20,000 loans to black entrepreneurs and “others who have historically faced barriers to starting a new business or growing an existing business.”

Yet again we see that Harris/Walz would be an extension of Biden/Harris. So much for “turning the page”:

The policy is aligned with the Biden administration’s broad effort to prioritize or otherwise incorporate race into several major government programs and initiatives, such as its payments to black American farmers who faced discrimination before 2021 and its Justice40 agenda stipulating that 40% of the benefits of certain environmental spending and programs flow to “disadvantaged communities.”

“Disadvantaged” means favored by the government.

Barks the Harris/Walz campaign:

“This pathbreaking agenda includes: Providing 1 million loans that are fully forgivable to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.”

“Forgivable” means you don’t have to pay it back because it is not a loan but a bribe.

Cackala isn’t the only one passing out other people’s money on a racial basis:

A bill currently being considered in the Illinois legislature would grant public colleges and universities thousands of taxpayer dollars for every student they admit who belongs to certain minority groups. …

The bill would grant public institutions of higher education $6,000 per each black or American Indian student they accept, $4,000 per Hispanic student, and $0 for white and Asian students…

Racial discrimination is prohibited by federal law. But such law is only enforced when that would benefit certain groups — namely, the “disadvantaged.”

On tips from ABC of the ANC.

The lack of self-awareness resulting from living in a bubble of wokeness makes moonbats masters of self-parody. Snowflakes are even triggered by snowflake candles that remind them of the KKK. As usual, big business caters to their neurosis:

Retailer Bath & Body Works apologized for a candle promoted on its social media accounts displaying a snowflake, which some said appeared quite similar to a Ku Klux Klan hood.

That’s how desperate liberals have gotten in their search for white supremacists to clutch their pearls over.

The company, which is known for its fragranced candles and personal hygiene products, pulled the candle from its website and apologized in a statement to TMZ.

The moonbat mob demanded heads roll:

Trying to get people fired is what Democrats do now instead of lynch blacks like they did when they comprised the KKK.

On a tip from Wiggins.

At long last, the liberal establishment has produced evidence that blacks are oppressed; they are even being murdered:

In a paper published in the journal Homicide Studies, University of Toronto social work professor Tanya Sharpe and colleagues argue that the prevalence and spread of homicide grief — the grief that follows the murder of a loved one — in Black communities throughout the global diaspora can be viewed as a pandemic.

As we know from COVID-19, pandemics justify ham-fisted Big Government interventions.

“Homicide grief in Black communities in North America and beyond has reached pandemic proportions,” says Sharpe, Director of The CRIB [Centre for Research and Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims] and an Associate Professor at U of T’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. “A comprehensive public health framework that incorporates anti-Black racism is essential not only for addressing the trauma from this kind of loss, but also for reducing homicide rates.”

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the agenda. That goes double for public health lately.

Behold the evidence racism:

In 2020–2021, homicide rates were eight times higher for Black American males and four times higher for Black American females than their white counterparts.

Not only America but also guns are racist:

Although Black Americans make up roughly 14% of the U.S. population, they account for more than half of gun homicide victims.

This might be why the…

…U.S. Surgeon General recently declared gun violence a national public health crisis, noting the disproportionate impact of this violence on Black Americans.

We are told that “structural racism and systemic inequalities” are responsible for all these black people being murdered.

We are not told who is actually killing them. For that we turn to statistics from the hardly right-wing FBI, which admits that a black homicide victim is over 10 times more likely to be killed by another black than by a white, despite there still being a lot more whites out there for now.

Meanwhile, the authors decry “overrepresentation of Black people in the criminal justice system,” as if this were not because they are the ones committing the crime, and as if unleashing black criminals on their neighborhoods lowers the homicide rate.

The violence liberals attempt to exploit politically is severely exacerbated by their policy of defunding/demoralizing/marginalizing police and encouraging Communities of Color to run riot. Academics who spew black victimology crap are not merely useless but pernicious. They inflict as much damage on blacks as on the rest of us, if not more.

On a tip from Mike B.

San Francisco has been ground zero for the wokefication of America. You might think it at least would be free of racism against anyone except Caucasians. But no; a black dog walker named Terry Williams says he has been racially menaced.

The San Francisco Standard reports that according to Williams…

…he received packages, each containing a blackface doll with a noose around its neck, on April 26 and May 5 at his Grove Street home.

Sounds doubtful. Then the story gets more serious:

Weeks later, Williams’ home was burned down; the cause of the fire remains unknown. …

On Friday, the SFPD named a suspect in the case — 67-year-old San Francisco resident April Martin Chartrand…

A warrant has been issued for her arrest.

“The San Francisco Police Department does not tolerate racism of any kind,” the department wrote in a press release Friday.

Looks like Chartrand sent the dolls and then set his house on fire to be racist. But wait: Chartrand is black too.

A LinkedIn page that appears to be Chartrand’s indicates that she has a master’s degree in psychology from San Francisco State University; an Instagram account under her name lists her as a dominatrix. A landing page on SFSU says her research has focused on, among other things, the “subcultured, racialized and marginalized” and women of color in the Bay Area fetish scene.

Unsurprisingly, Chartrand also claims to be a victim of racism:

On Facebook last month, Chartrand published a post urging people to condemn bigotry after describing how “an evil hegemonic woman” yelled a racist comment at her in front of about 30 people in the Mission District.

Getting a master’s degree in psychology from SFSU isn’t a complete waste of time. You learn how to use words like “hegemonic.”

Chartrand proclaimed that she found the incident “triggering” and screeched ungrammatically about the “undercurrents of racism and bigotry that is pervasive in all of society and also in San Francisco (USA).”

It’s not clear what makes police believe Chartrand is a suspect in the case of the racist threats or if she’s also suspected in the fire that destroyed Williams’ home.

Another suspect could be Williams himself. He says he…

…cut ties with people who thought he manufactured the hate crime and subsequent house fire.

“My circle of friends got smaller,” he said.

Why would his own friends think he was staging a hate hoax?

A motive in some hoaxes is the worshipful sympathy bestowed upon victims of racism:

Community members held a rally for Williams soon after the hate crime made headlines. In the months since the fire displaced his family, the burned-down building became a makeshift monument to solidarity: Hundreds of people left uplifting notes and art that now cover the exterior.

Whoever is behind the dolls and the arson, the motive is likely to have more to do with mental illness than racism.

On a tip from Steven S.

No need to wait for Kamala Harris to become the official rather than presumed president. Race-based reparations are already well underway:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it was giving a private, historically black university in New Orleans a $19.9 million grant, some of which will be used to buy electric bikes for 300 families.

The bicycles cost up to $1,800 each.

Dillard University will get the $19 million federal grant and the city of New Orleans will get a $50 million federal grant to combat a “climate crisis.”

New Orleans qualifies for the handout because it is, as Ray Nagin famously proclaimed, a chocolate city.

The imaginary crisis cannot be resolved with free electric bikes alone:

Besides buying the electric bikes, the $19.9 million grant given to Dillard University will be used to expand bike-sharing programs, install electric vehicle chargers and having several building retrofit with solar and energy storage.

New Orleans will spend its $50 million federal grant on installing rooftop solar panels on 41 buildings, expanding its Blue Bikes share fleet, adding seven miles of bike paths and planting 7,500 trees in “underserved” neighborhoods.

“Underserved” is a Liberalese euphemism for “racially preferred.”

If temperatures come down as autumn approaches, thank the federal government for spending your money so wisely.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

For the government to give direct cash handouts to people explicitly for being black would effectively enslave those who are not black. The policy is so intolerably unjust that even some California Democrats hesitate to impose it. Blacks who want the rest of the population enslaved to them are not pleased:

A group of supporters of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black Americans spent all afternoon inside the state Capitol to protest the California Legislative Black Caucus’ plan to not move forward with two reparations-related proposals.

According to State Senator of Color Steven Bradford, both bills have the votes to pass, but not to clear a veto by Gavin Newsom, who has been dragging his feet as he attempts to play both sides of the issue.

Activists threaten to take their anger out on the cackling kook who appears to be our current president. Shrieked a swarthy moonbat who wants the fruits of other people’s labor:

“The governor needs to understand the world is watching California and this is gonna have a direct impact on your friend Kamala Harris who is running for president.”

Relax, greedy racists. Commie-la is on your side. Here she explicitly states that she will confiscate the money (i.e., the labor) of some and give it to others to reward them for belonging to a favored racial group:

Going on 2 centuries ago, we fought a civil war over slavery. We may come to fight another.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Kamala Harris used to present herself as Indian-American, but presidential politics make it more expedient for her to be black. In the video below, she confirms that she is in fact a black woman — or at least, she conforms to a liberal elitist’s condescending conception of a black woman:

Maybe it’s the black blood mixed in with the Irish slaveholder blood that allows Cackala to go on for a whole sentence talking like a black woman — sort of.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Serena Williams, a zillionaire tennis player hyped into the skies because of her preferred pigmentation, has encountered racist oppression:

On Monday, Serena Williams publicly accused a restaurant in Paris of denying her and her kids access.

She took to X to wail piteously that the Peninsula Hotel “denied” her a table even though it was empty.

The heart bleeds in the face of the oppression she has been forced to endure. Maybe she should have just commandeered a table anyway, like Rosa Parks on the bus.

Now for the rest of the story. The restaurant responded:

“Dear Mrs. Williams, Please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight. Unfortunately, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked and the only unoccupied tables you saw belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was fully reserved.”

Evidently the tables had been reserved by guests of the hotel. But how do we know these guests aren’t racists? Good thing she sicced the outrage mob on the establishment.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Some children come out of public schools unable to read and write; others don’t get through the first grade without learning about totalitarianism:

A California 7-year-old was banned from drawing pictures at school and forced to sit out recess for two weeks for adding “any life” below Black Lives Matter on a picture she drew and gave to a Black friend, punishments that led to a federal lawsuit.

No one disputes what happened at Viejo Elementary School in Orange County:

The student, identified as B.B., drew the picture, which also included four colored-in ovals representing herself and three friends, after a lesson on Martin Luther King, Jr., and gave it to her friend, M.C., who took it home, where her mother saw it.

It is considered racist to suggest that all lives matter. M.C.’s mother complained to authorities.

The principal confronted B.B. and told her the drawing was “inappropriate” and “racist” and that she couldn’t draw at school anymore and had to apologize to her friend. When she returned to class, her teachers told her she was not allowed to play at recess for two weeks.

B.B.’s mother sued.

U.S. Central District Court Judge David Carter acknowledged that M.C.’s parents didn’t want B.B. punished and that neither student understood why B.B. was apologizing.

“Undoubtedly, B.B.’s intentions were innocent,” Carter said in ruling for the district. “B.B. testified that she gifted the Drawing to M.C. to make her feel comfortable after her class learned about Martin Luther King Jr.”

Yet Carter came down on the side of the thought police, on the grounds that “an elementary school … is not a marketplace of ideas.”

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

A healthy society requires heroes to reinforce self-respect and serve as inspirational models. The Founding Fathers are ideal examples. To systematically destroy a society, social engineers replace heroes with the lowest scum they can find. This erodes self-respect and discourages constructive behavior.

If you would like to have a street named after you in a jurisdiction that has succumbed to moonbattery, start with a strongarm robbery of a convenience store, attract the attention of police by walking down the middle of the street, and then get yourself shot by attacking a police officer and trying to take his gun — like liberal demigod Michael Brown:

A new St. Louis board bill calls to rename part of a street near City Hall after Michael Brown Jr., nearly a decade since his death in Ferguson, Missouri.

Alderman Rasheen Aldridge formally introduced Board Bill 69 on Friday, which would create an honorary street name of “Michael O.D. Brown Way.”

The idea is to encourage more behavior like Michael Brown’s. He counts as an unarmed black man shot by a white police office, making him a rare and precious asset to those struggling to prop up the liberal narrative.

On a tip from Steve T.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.