“Climate change” and “systemic (or systematic) racism”, taken together, seem to explain just about every economic and social problem facing “people of color”. Jane Fonda isn’t the only person who believes such nonsense.
Here’s the latest on the race front from Fox News:
Stars gathered in London for the 2023 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) awards Sunday, a star-studded night later doused by social media users who called out one glaring aspect of the event – every single winner was White.
"Don't be surprised by #BaftasSoWhite 2023. Film & TV in particular, and the "creative industries" in general, are amongst the most systemically racist when it comes to employment practices. The awards merely reflect this," film and TV professional Riaz Meer tweeted early Tuesday.
Regarding “systemic racism”, I will repeat myself:
Blacks, on the whole, are not where they are because of whitey, but because of their genes and culture.
Consider the experience of Latinos in America. Latinos are also “persons of color”. They are not only more intelligent than blacks, on average, but they are also, on average, harder working, more self-reliant, and more observant of traditional morality. Instead of whining about their fate, Latinos do something about it.
Consider Jews, who have been subjected to violence and discrimination in this country. (And many of them are survivors and descendants of the Holocaust, which puts slavery in the shade.) Jews are where they are — generally more prosperous, learned, and respected than blacks — because of their genes and culture.
It speaks volumes that the proponents of CRT want to blame not only white slave-holders and white segregationists for the plight of blacks, but also schoolchildren whose only sin is “whiteness”. For shame.
What does that have to do with the BAFTA awards? Not a damn thing, I admit.
The omission of blacks from this year’s list of BAFTA honorees simply suggests another fact of life that the anti-racist industry wouldn’t want to acknowledge: When it comes to acting, script writing, and producing films of high quality — and doing those things in a way that appeals to wide audiences — perhaps white have an advantage over blacks.
As an aside, I consider British films and TV fare to be decidedly better than their American counterparts with respect to acting, writing, and production. Does that make me a “system anti-American”?