To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, racism is racism is racism.
Contrary to the lying obfuscations of the left, racism is racism whether it’s spouted by a white, Asian, or black person.
The message of the Black Lives Matter movement is becoming more and more explicitly racist. BLM leaders have posted ugly, anti-white rants on Twitter and their followers have deliberately targeted white people for modern-day lynchings.
Many black Americans are disgusted by the racism of BLM. Actor Terry Crews has publicly repudiated the black supremacy of BLM. Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is also standing up against the ugly and dismaying surge in anti-Semitism among so-called “anti-racists”.
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a pointed message for celebrities who speak out against racism, but turn a blind eye to anti-Semitism, particularly that of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan: you must acknowledge all forms of discrimination.
America, particularly New York City, is seeing a rise in anti-Semitic violence. But it’s not coming from shaven-headed white boys.
Abdul-Jabbar penned a scathing column in the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday, taking celebrities like Ice Cube, NFL player DeSean Jackson, and, most recently, television star Nick Cannon to task for embracing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories while publicly speaking out about anti-black racism[…]
“Recent incidents of anti-Semitic tweets and posts from sports and entertainment celebrities are a very troubling omen for the future of the Black Lives Matter movement, but so too is the shocking lack of massive indignation,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote. “Given the New Woke-fulness in Hollywood and the sports world, we expected more passionate public outrage. What we got was a shrug of meh-rage.”
“When reading the dark squishy entrails of popular culture, meh-rage in the face of sustained prejudice is an indisputable sign of the coming Apatholypse: apathy to all forms of social justice,” Abdul-Jabbar went on. “After all, if it’s OK to discriminate against one group of people by hauling out cultural stereotypes without much pushback, it must be OK to do the same to others. Illogic begets illogic.”
Discriminate against one group of people? Such as the sustained attacks on “whiteness”? The political, verbal and, increasingly, physical attacks on white women, especially?
“No one is free until everyone is free,” he said. “As Martin Luther King Jr. explained: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.’ So, let’s act like it.”
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