Two recent actions, one local and one Federal, finally reveal real systemic racism in our country. Once again, however, it is promulgated by the Democrat Party, the party of slavery, Civil War, Jim Crow laws, the Ku Klux Klan, Woodrow Wilson (racist father of American progressivism) and the new slavery of the Great Society. The city of Oakland in that most Democratic of nation-states, California, has decided to provide universal basic income on a trial basis but only to its black citizens. Economically distressed persons of other intersectional identities will have to get by on their history of privilege. The Biden administration, in its effort to promote unity of all communities, created a program to provide loan forgiveness for farmers/ranchers but only those who met certain color criteria. Whatever their actual personal financial history in farming has been, the administration has decided these individuals are socially disadvantaged by systemic discrimination (without providin…
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