Naming one White discriminator gets labeled racist while rebuking millions of Black people passes

Evidence

Barack Obama had to notice this rising tidal wave of segregationism early in his presidency, years before he ever heard the name Dylann Roof. Or maybe he didn’t. Or maybe he did, and thought that to point it out would have been divisive, like Jeremiah Wright. “There probably has never been less discrimination in America than there is today,” Obama told the NAACP on July 16, 2009. “But make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America.” On that very day, someone in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called the police after seeing Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. trying to pry open the jammed front door of his home. When Obama commented that the responding White police officer had “acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home,” when he acknowledged the “long history” of racial profiling, the postracialists trounced to stop Obama’s antiracism before it got out of hand. Obama’s “angry” Jeremiah Wright construction had come back to bite him, as similar statements had for Martin Luther King Jr. and W. E. B. Du Bois before him. … Obama has “over and over again” exposed himself as “a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture,” Tea Party darling Glenn Beck told his Fox News audience. “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1231

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• XREF: This directly instances Kendi’s core inversion — racist ideas are produced to defend/deflect from racist policy, here applied to postracialist silencing of antiracist criticism.