All the anger, destruction and graffiti of the recent protests has done absolutely nothing to advance lives and values of minorities. Calling every law, policy, elected official, statue, street/neighborhood name, book or movie as “racist” has lowered this epithet as to become meaningless.
Everyone agrees that education is the most reliable vehicle for a better existence, yet all this protest effort has not produced a more rigorous scholastic curriculum, more responsive public school system or expanded choice via vouchers and effective charter schools. The focus of rage against law enforcement has not led to safer minority communities, fewer guns in the hands of criminals, less vandalism, or more “social justice.”
Systemic progressivism refuses to acknowledge the basic tenets that lead to more optimal lives, such as hard work, stable families, community involvement and even entrepreneurship. Instead it offers no path forward; only infantile, post-modern nihilism.
