Wayne Allyn Root — businessman and ebullient, unapologetic conservative — wrote something the other day that caught my eye. Over an article about “The Great American National Divorce,” his headline blared: “Escape of the White People.” Describing the exodus of New Yorkers to Florida and Californians to Nevada, Root noted that interstate migration across America is speeding up. Why? Because Americans who are not die-hard leftists “can no longer live with radical, extreme, self-destructive, communist SUICIDE BOMBERS.”
As Root repeatedly points out, Democrat-run states are destroying themselves. By electing “evil, communist madmen like LA Mayor Karen Bass, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani,” Democrats have ensured that their cities “will soon collapse and drown in a sea of crime and debt.” For decades, Root argues, white Americans have left Democrat-controlled cities primarily to avoid rising crime and crippling taxes. Now they are leaving because Democrats have put targets on their backs.
White Americans, Root writes, are “sick of being the target of Democrats and government; they’re sick of being attacked and demonized; they’re sick of being a piggy bank to pay for everyone else’s bills — in particular, the costs for welfare, food stamps, housing, public schools, healthcare, police, courts, and prison bills for millions of illegal aliens.” They are sick of absurdly high taxes; Democrats’ “woke” culture; and Democrats’ insistence on welcoming and subsidizing “every transgender weirdo, every illegal alien criminal, and every radical Muslim who hates America, Jews, and Christians.” They are sick of Democrats’ overt discrimination against white Americans; the “massive crime wave; defunded and demoralized police; dumbed-down schools that brainwash your children to change their genders; drug dealers on every corner; homeless tents, pee, poo, and drug needles on sidewalks; and cities that look like 3rd-world s-holes.” White Americans, Root concludes, have been pushed too far.
As if to prove Root’s thesis correct with several exclamation points, NYC mayor Mamdani just unveiled a new “racial equity plan” “to solve decades of neglect and discrimination.” Mamdani claims that his administration must take money from white people and hand it to non-white people in order to make up for “centuries of disinvestment in black and brown New Yorkers.” The mayor’s “Chief Equity Officer” and “Commissioner of the Office of Equity and Racial Justice” — a Ugandan-born, Indian-descent radical socialist named Afua Atta-Mensah — promises “to confront institutional and systemic racism within our city and to begin the work of dismantling it.” So a couple of foreigners have taken over New York City, call it “our city,” and are now robbing white Americans because of the color of their skin. They’re proving Wayne Root right in real time.
Lest any readers mistake Root’s analysis as an intentionally dreary diagnosis permitting him the opportunity to propose a future cure, he has no good news to report. He says the “national divorce” has arrived. White people who don’t enjoy being victimized must escape Democrat-run hellholes before it’s too late. For Democrat states, “the end is near. The collapse will be fast and ugly. Get out now, while you still can.” Root is willing to say out loud what others will only whisper.
For Americans over the age of forty, this racial balkanization within the United States is particularly tragic to witness. Despite stubbornly persistent civil divisions, the post-WWII decades brought white and black Americans steadily together. Even after race-motivated murders repeatedly threatened to tear the country apart, “the better angels of our nature” somehow managed to carry us to better days. Several generations of Americans took Martin Luther King, Jr.’s exhortation to heart, when he dreamed that his “four little children” would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” So many white and black Americans have held those words dear.
Nearly sixty years after MLK’s assassination, though, we’re right back to judging Americans by their skin color. For millions of Americans who have watched old racial wounds steadily heal from one decade to the next, it is heart-wrenching to see Democrat political leaders dividing white, black, and brown people into “equity” pots “deserving” of disparate treatment. Voters who constitute the Democrat party have preferred to call themselves “progressives” for most of the last century, but there is nothing “progressive” about dragging the country back to a time when skin color mattered more than anything else. It is particularly galling that foreigners such as Mamdani and his “Chief Equity Officer” — who despise America’s rich heritage and history — are in positions of power from which they can ignore America’s great triumphs while exploiting past injuries to divide and conquer Americans today.
We’ve heard the Democrats’ drumbeat of division for so many years now. In the late ’90s, it seemed as if “affirmative action” programs and other unconstitutional race-based preference systems in the United States would finally come to an end. Although white Americans had tolerated these discriminatory programs for several decades as grudging recompense for the perceived harms endured by previous generations or abiding deference to MLK and his “dream,” the discordance of fighting discrimination by embracing discrimination appeared inherently and irrevocably unjust.
Instead of allowing the nation to fully heal by recognizing the election of President Obama as the culmination of centuries of real progress for Americans of every race, the Democrats redefined their brand of “progressivism” to require only more kinds of racial preferences and new kinds of discriminatory quotas. The systemic racism of “affirmative action” programs morphed into the systemic racism of “diversity, inclusion, and equity” programs. As Democrats found overt examples of racism more difficult to identify, they conjured out of thin air the new hobgoblin of “white supremacy.” Democrats refused to discard the discriminatory mindset of judging children by the color of their skin; in the name of “progressivism,” they still insist that a person’s skin color determines everything.
Democrat mayors, governors, and presidential hopefuls now explicitly tell us that they will never stop taking from white people in the name of false “justice.” They will never stop dividing Americans by skin color. They will never just treat all of us as “unhyphenated Americans,” as the late, great Lloyd Marcus used to call himself.
Marcus believed that “we are ALL Americans” and therefore do not need “racial modifiers to define us.” “Is there racism in America?” Lloyd rhetorically asked. “Absolutely, along with every other sin in the heart of man! Is there enough racism to stop anyone from achieving the American Dream? Absolutely not! America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet.”
If only the Democrat party would stand for that!
If only the next generation of Democrats weren’t so committed to defining American children by the color of their skin. If only those foreigners who have been lucky enough to become naturalized American citizens showed more respect for our country, its history, its achievements, and our people’s perseverance. If only Democrats could progress beyond the worst racial impulses of the past. Americans should dream, work, and pray for that.
