Good to Know But Not to Use, Part Two: Systemic Racism in America

by Mark David Ledbetter

"We are right! You are wrong!" scream culture warriors on both sides, uncaring that our world is too complex to know who is right and who is wrong.

Good To Know But Not To Use delves into the culture war and how it threatens Enlightenment values and the American experiment.

Part One, Trump Reshuffles the Deck, addressed how Leftist activism in academia, the media, and among the intelligentsia wrested control of most major institutions away from the Right. It also addressed the reaction from a Right Wing, now on the outside, looking in. When domination of institutions shifted, so did attitudes. It turns out it’s the non-dominant side, whether Left or Right, which supports free speech and the working class. The dominant side – in service of dominance – supports speech suppression and the elites. Into the bargain, dominance aligns with social control, authority, the surveillance state, and foreign wars.

Part Two, Systemic Racism In America, grants much of the Left’s history of racism and, in fact, finds racism in places the Left hasn’t thought to look. But the Left, now dominant and therefore no longer balanced by any counterweight, is free to distort interpretation of the history in pursuit of agenda.