Kamala Harris' Anti-White Racism Is Showing

https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/28/kamala-harris-anti-white-racism-is-
showing/

How did we get to where a major party’s presidential campaign thinks it is 
a good idea to send out a racially discriminatory policy proposal?

In a scheme that immediately appeared destined to face legal challenges, 
on Oct. 14, the Harris-Walz campaign’s “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men” 
promised to provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 
specifically for black entrepreneurs.

Destiny came even sooner than one might have expected. Amid a media 
backlash, activist litigator Edward Blum threatened to sue the future 
Harris administration over the policy. Just two days after announcing the 
agenda, on Oct. 16, the campaign backtracked and stated the loans would be 
open to all regardless of race.

Despite the backtrack, the loans were just one of a slate of policies 
designed specifically to benefit black men — a demographic that was once a 
Democrat stronghold, but which polling shows moving toward Trump — in a 
strategy evoking Tammany Hall’s famously corrupt system of paying 
impoverished immigrants for votes.

The “legal plunder” of taxing one group to enrich another is sufficiently 
corrosive to social harmony to warrant outrage, but perhaps even more 
appalling is the presentation of blatant racism as “progressive.” How did 
our society advance through the legal and moral principle of equal 
protection under the law and the historic victory of civil rights only to 
reverse into a major party’s presidential campaign thinking it was a good 
idea to send out a racially discriminatory policy proposal?

The answer is so simple it’s almost comic: they just changed the 
definition of the word “racism” to mean something else.

Historically defined as “prejudice or discrimination based on race,” far-
left activists have long worked to redefine the word toward something more 
convenient for their political ends: “power + prejudice.” Following the 
killing of George Floyd, so-called “anti-racist” activists such as best-
selling author Robin DiAngelo leveraged reasonable sympathy for their 
cause to spread this redefinition far and wide. It now dominates academia, 
“diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs, K-12 education, and 
increasingly government institutions worldwide.

The redefinition implies that one cannot be racist against groups with 
institutional power (white Americans), but only against members of 
oppressed groups (black and other minority Americans). Continuing the 
manipulative language game, “institutional power” too is defined in a 
manner narrow enough to somehow exclude that held by the woman who 
proposed last week’s racially discriminatory policies, the potential 
incoming half-black president of the most powerful institution on earth — 
the U.S. government.

Destructive Definition
The impact of this redefinition’s adoption has been predictably 
destructive. Shaking off the “racist” label, those who have bought into 
the redefinition have felt newly empowered to practice racism against 
those in the supposed power group, in turn increasing racist reaction, a 
vicious cycle undoing the decades of progress our society has made in the 
fight for equality.

Seeking to understand the source of this destruction, I conducted an 
investigation into the origins of the “power + prejudice” redefinition of 
“racism,” scouring university library special collections and other rare 
documents to identify who came up with it and why. What I found shocked 
me, and further clarifies who no one should take the redefinition 
seriously.

The first use of “power + prejudice” on record was in an “anti-racist” 
course curriculum written by white high school teacher Patricia Bidol in 
1970. Bidol was a proponent of the philosophy of “New White Consciousness” 
developed by her friend Robert Terry, a theologian and corporate “anti-
racist” workshop educator. Terry’s New White Consciousness taught that the 
best a white American could be was an “anti-racist racist,” as all white 
Americans were inherently racist as a result of their privilege. 

New White Consciousness drew heavily from the black consciousness 
philosophy of Stokely Carmichael, the Marxist-Leninist “Black Power” 
activist who explicitly opposed racial integration. While chairman of the 
then-prominent Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (“non-violent” 
being a misnomer under Carmichael’s leadership), Carmichael expelled all 
white activists from the group, explaining that blacks and whites should 
not work together, and instead whites should work to spread his views 
within the white community. That’s exactly what Terry and Bidol did, and 
what the “power + prejudice” redefinition was designed in service of.

Racial Integration
For those of us who support racial integration, there was and is a better 
way. In 1968 — the same year that Carmichael left the U.S. to move to 
Africa with the goal of forming a pan-African Marxist-Leninist black 
ethnostate — Martin Luther King Jr. was organizing his multi-racial Poor 
People’s Campaign aimed at alleviating poverty regardless of race. Given 
the poverty rate among black Americans, King knew the campaign’s proposals 
would affect them most, but he also knew that building a more just future 
meant helping everyone. While the quality of the economic proposals of his 
campaign could be reasonably challenged, King was correct that after the 
civil rights movement, identity politics was counterproductive to 
achieving the united America he dreamed of.

Americans must understand the truth behind the philosophy Harris espouses 
and reject it. True anti-racism means returning to King’s ideal of 
treating people without regard to their race (also known as being color-
blind, although leftists have unfairly straw-manned and attacked the 
term). Only through this approach can we can reverse the growing racial 
division in our nation.

Joseph (Jake) Klein is a writer, filmmaker, and co-founder of online 
publication The Black Sheep. He is also the author of "Redefining Racism: 
How Racism Became 'Power + Prejudice.'" Follow him on X @josephjakeklein.


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