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I can’t take it anymore. Our elites are the most wretched elites the world has ever known. In their minds, America is all about “systemic racism” and “hate crimes.” And these failings only go in one direction. Systemic racism and hate never mean government or black or brown Americans being cruel to white Americans. They only mean government or white Americans being cruel to black or brown Americans.
And there is absolutely no escaping this twisted view of America. Our schools, news outlets, and entertainment media are overwhelmingly run by people who think America, in general, sucks, and white people, in particular, suck. Just the other day, for instance, Mrs. Groovy and I were watching the HBO documentary The Weight of the Nation. And at the 15:21 mark of Part 1 (see video below) we get a certified member of the elite class opining that America (i.e., whitey) only cares about obesity now because it’s affecting children. When obesity largely affected adults and “less valued groups” (i.e., black and brown Americans), America (i.e., whitey) didn’t give a crap about it. No evidence is offered to back up this slander, of course. The makers of this documentary just take for granted that our elite’s notion that America is awash in one-way systemic racism and hate is an unassailable fact.
What the Heck Does This Have to Do with Personal Finance?
In one sense, our elite’s compulsion to crap on America and white people doesn’t have anything to do with personal finance. But to the extent that this compulsion causes people to 1) adopt a victim mentality, and 2) cling to that victim mentality, it does. A “victim” never takes responsibility for his or her circumstances and always expects others to fix his or her problems. And that’s not a good mentality to have if one happens to be struggling financially.
I have no empirical proof, of course, that our elite’s obsession with one-way systemic racism and hate is causing the victim mentality to proliferate. All I know is that there are a lot of “victims” out there, and our elites aren’t helping matters.
I’m just a little ol’ country blogger from North Carolina. Nothing I write will cause our elites to have a change of heart. Their effusive virtue signaling and their chronic smearing of innocent people will thus continue unabated. By the oft chance, however, that a “victim” stumbles upon this blog, I want to give him or her hope. America is not awash in systemic racism and hate, one-way or otherwise. In fact, I firmly believe that for every example of systemic racism that occurs in this country, there are a thousand examples of systemic kindness. Likewise, for every hate crime that occurs in this country, there are a thousand love legalities.
Because I believe that America and its people are inherently good—and that “victims” only need to ditch the victim mentality in order to avail themselves to this inherent goodness—this blog will periodically trumpet the systemic kindness and love legalities that I routinely come across. And here’s what I came across this week.
Systemic Kindness
Systemic kindness is whenever a big hairy institution dedicates some or all of its revenue to helping people improve their lives. Here are just three examples of our government engaging in systemic kindness:
- Public K-12 Education Spending in 2017: $694.1 billion.
- Medicaid Spending in 2017: $592.2 billion.
- SNAP (Food Stamps) Spending in 2017: $68.2 billion.
Add up these three programs and you get $1.35 trillion. Think about that. One point three five trillion dollars! And if “less valued people” use these programs at rates equal to their proportion of the total population, that means our government spent over $400 billion in 2017 alone educating, mending, and feeding black and brown people.
Love Legalities
A love legality is the opposite of a hate crime. It’s when someone from one tribe goes out of his or her way to help someone from another tribe. Here are three love legalities I came across this week.
1. In Memphis, Tennessee, a couple of black high school students helped an underprivileged white classmate upgrade his wardrobe. The underprivileged white kid was getting picked on because he was wearing the same clothes every day and the black kids couldn’t tolerate that cruelty. Bravo.
2. Until this past week, I didn’t know that country music legend Dolly Parton has a charity that donates books to underprivileged kids. Her charity is called Books From Birth and in September, its donations to D.C. children reached an incredible milestone: the one-millionth book had been delivered. You can read more about this wonderful love legality by clicking the link below.
Dolly Parton’s ‘Books From Birth’ Has Now Delivered One Million Free Children’s Books To D.C. Kids
3. This past April, billionaires Ray and Barbara Dalio pledged $100 million to help improve the fortunes of kids attending five urban high schools in Connecticut. There have been some problems since the Dalios announced their pledge—as the below article explains—but this doesn’t do anything to undermine my salient point. In America, love legalities are far more numerous—and far more consequential—than the real and imagined hate crimes that our elites love to hype.
Final Thoughts
Okay, groovy freedomist, that’s all I got. What say you? Are our elites pathetic scoundrels who should be ignored with extreme prejudice? Or are our elites right—America is a festering cauldron of one-way systemic racism and hate? Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Peace.
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