By: Phil Williams
Race baiters and charlatans are seeing their storylines unravel in real time.
The era of common sense has returned. President Trump issued two executive orders in recent days designed to undo the left-wing racism, strawman lies. On the evening of March 27, Trump ordered federal park museums to restore all monuments torn down or removed during the racial reckoning history purge. Likewise, exhibits that advance a racially divided portrayal of modern American are to be amended. Statues of Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, and even (inexplicably) Abraham Lincoln were all destroyed, removed, warehoused. “Racist!” screamed the race baiters.
How insulting to claim that Americans of the modern era are bound to the sins of the past by claiming racism where none exists. Race baiters claim a washing of history by soiling the present. Earlier the same week, a second executive order went into effect designed to preserve the integrity of voting in America by requiring proof of citizenship, which will by necessity require proof of identity — an ID. “But that’s racist!” said the liberal white Karens in academia and race-baiting pundits in media.
It’s so insulting to claim that “disenfranchisement” occurs when someone is asked to do something as patently simple as showing an ID. We heard the same tripe a decade ago when I was proud to help pass Alabama’s voter ID laws. The court knew it wasn’t hard. All God’s children know it ain’t hard. But liberal race baiters and charlatans need you to believe that it is hard. Because, you know…racism! Over the past 5 years, screaming leftists told us time and again that racism permeates every aspect of this wonderful society we live in. They foisted the lie that we are born racist, born privileged or unprivileged, solely on the basis of skin color.
Trump issues executive orders aaaannnndddd…cue the racism mantras.
By the way, I’m a white guy. Whitey McWhitebread, that’s me. White as a cave cricket! Any whiter and I would be clear. Scripture tells me that I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and that God knew me even as he knit me together in my mother’s womb. Apparently being a white guy was part of God’s plan the same as anyone else was born black, Asian, Hispanic, or Martian.
Despite my overtly pale skin tones, I am nonetheless allowed to have an opinion on the state of racial equality in America because: a. God made me that way; b. I have a brain; and c. I have a constitutional right to freedom of expression.
My opinion: The United States of America is NOT a systemically racist nation.
The mere fact that God saw fit in His infinite wisdom for anyone to have any skin color does not negate their right or ability to form an opinion on matters of racism. I’m a man but I have a right and ability to form an opinion about abortion. I’m an American but I have a right and ability to form an opinion about foreign policy. I’m white, but I have a right and ability to form an opinion about racism.
The goal of left-wing race baiters and charlatans will always be to disabuse anyone of the notion that they are worthy to have an opinion on race relations. This is a circular argument — one in which they wind up only talking amongst themselves about everyone else. Doing so predetermines an outcome, allows for revisionism, and promotes a festering of the perceived wounds of grievance. No healing is ever allowed in a circular gripe session.
Yet that is what the race baiters want. They want societal wounds. Race baiters want festering, oozing, sucking racial chest wounds right in the heart of society because that’s how they make their money, their notoriety, and their power.
I have two beautiful grandchildren now. There is an innocence that I am reminded of when I see them. The world is full of wonder. Potential friends are on every playground. Despite what the race baiters and charlatans would have us to believe, children like my grands are not born with racist tendencies. Anyone who has held a small child knows that ideological transference onto an innocent child is not only wrong, it is evil.
I have also lived and served in twelve U.S. states, and seven foreign countries. I’ve seen oppressive governments and the effects they can have. I know America, and this is not that. Knowing what I know, and having seen what I’ve seen, I am convinced that the race baiters and charlatans who preach the hateful rhetoric that the sins of the past must be by necessity thrust upon the generations of the present have no desire to make things better. They need division.
I was taught about slavery in school. My parents taught me that racism was wrong and that prejudice creates division. But I also believe we can teach the wrongs of history while not accusing the current generation of somehow being complicit. No child of modern America has ever owned a slave or been a slave. But we can teach the wrongs of slavery.
The world should know about the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The world should know who Bull Connor was. But the children of the 21st century are not modern Bull Connors. Teach it all. No skew and no spew. When we accept that bad things have happened, but that not all things are bad, there is healing.
Hateful thoughts left unabated breed hateful rhetoric, which left unchallenged leads to hateful action, which left unchecked causes hateful division. This is what the race baiters and charlatans need to advance their agenda.
I’m a white guy, and I can say that America is not a systemically racist nation.
The sooner the race baiters and charlatans realize we will not be cowed down by their endless frenzies the better off we will all be.
By: Phil Williams
April 18, 2025
