{"id":14152,"date":"2020-01-10T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T13:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=14152"},"modified":"2020-01-10T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:44:41","slug":"against-tribal-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/against-tribal-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Tribal America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Racialism, from any side of the political spectrum, is a recipe for disaster.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

City Journal<\/strong>, by Joel Kotkin<\/a> — January 9, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional ideal of assimilation. If this seems ironic, it should\u2014in the not-so-distant past, this was a position embraced by the reactionary Right, particularly in the Jim Crow South. Today, however, progressives support separate dorms for African-Americans<\/a> and promote restricted \u201csafe spaces\u201d for minorities and other designated victim groups. Indeed, it\u2019s hard to pick up the New York Times\u2014even its arts, sports<\/a>, or travel pages\u2014without seeing race-based analysis and reportage. The Times\u2019s racial obsession reached new intensity with the  \u201c1619 Project<\/a>,\u201d which overstates<\/a> the role of slavery in American history and economic development<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/tribalism-racialism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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