Well that was a mistake.

Medium, the pay-walled website for bloggers who don’t produce enough content for a blog of their own, sent me an alert about a new article called “When I Learned My White Friends Didn’t Care About Me” by someone named L.G. Ware. Well, foolishly, I decided to try to read it (I have a limited subscription to “Medium,” I don’t remember why.) When I realized the link was just a tease to get me to pay, I did a little checking around the web and found another version of post on a website I had happily been una-WARE-of before (I’m 11-years-old before my first cup of coffee) called Level. Not only was I presented with L.G.’s whining about how he knows white American hate blacks because they voted for Trump, I was introduced to many black writers who are under the same crippling (for them and for the nation) delusion.

Perusing the site is like having a window on what deliberate racial division-aimed rhetoric from the Left has done to the mind of black America, propelling race relations backwards. It isn’t just that you see either: the level of objective critical thinking these assorted essays—all aimed at black readers: less likely to be challenged that way—reveal also tells us much about how our politicized education system has handicapped large chunks of the public. “All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye” wrote a wise man, but he was white, so I guess nobody reads him any more. The entire Level site is metaphorically yellow. Let’s peruse it a bit, shall we?

L.G. has several posts there, but “The Day My White Friends Betrayed Me” is representative. This was obviously the post his Medium screed was adapted from. Some quotes…

• “Going to a predominantly white college taught me how the world viewed me. They feared me. Many of my peers went out of their way to avoid me at night on our well-lit campus. I saw the fear in their eyes when I wore a hoodie. For some reason, this comfortable cool-weather wear was terrifying to them.”

• “I learned the truth in 2016: my white friends didn’t care about me….Trump was obviously racist even before that presidential run. During the run, however, he incited racism like I had never seen from a presidential candidate in my life…My white friends, including many of my older peers, assured me they would never vote for him. They described him as hateful and an embarrassment…

  They lied to me….It was like this secret thing they were all doing behind my back, and I assume the backs of many Black and Brown people. It was a good strategy…The stuff about Trump, the stuff that made it so hard to forgive people for voting for him, is the stuff he admitted to and said on camera himself.”

• “It is a lonely feeling, knowing how, at best, most of the people close to me are apathetic about my existence. I can only imagine how draining it is for groups who are even more ostracized and persecuted than Black people.”

• “However, 2016 was a long time ago. I’ve grown and evolved and I hope society as a whole has grown as well. Trump is once again facing a woman who is hated by many people for… double-checking notes…being a strong, capable, and qualified woman. When we add on the minority status, the pessimistic part of me clinches my teeth.”

Comments: 1.) Where did he go to college, KKK U.? 2.) How did Trump “incite racism” in 2016? I assume it was by suggesting that Barack Obama was a lousy President, which he was. 3.) Everything isn’t about you, L.G. 4) What evidence was there that Harris is a “strong, capable, and qualified woman” who had any business running for President?

Enough L.G….let’s look at Allison Gaines, whose eye is even more jaundiced than poor L.G’s. These are quotes from her “Why Black Americans Feel They Have No Allies After Trump’s Victory.”

• “When running for office, Kamala Harris announced a plan to provide $25,000 for first-time homebuyers, raise the minimum wage to a living wage, and increase access to child and elder care, all of which would have improved living conditions for working-class Americans regardless of race. The notion that Trump’s victory resulted from most of his supporters making a difficult decision to improve their economic conditions doesn’t hold water.”

• “Princeton professor Eddie Glaude noted on the MSNBC show The 11th Hour that those claiming the election results only reflect voters’ economic concerns are wrong…. many voters were attracted to the bigotry Trump and his supporters espoused throughout his campaign. We cannot remove Tuesday’s election from the broader context of America electing its first Black president in 2008. Since then, a movement of white backlash has taken hold in this country. Consider that the All Lives Matter Movement sprung out of racist opposition to the Black Lives Matter Movement. White Americans responded to Black people encouraging one another to “stay woke” by passing anti-woke laws….Pursuing diversity, equity, and inclusion has been met with anti-DEI statutes and policies. Framing the election as one only inspired by economic anxiety overlooks the blatant, systemic effort to silence discussions about race and racism in the post-civil rights era…”

• They feel frustrated with a nation that can’t seem to walk a straight line when it comes to racial progress. Two steps forward are often followed by three steps back, a pattern that’s failed to convince the global community of our sincerity. If every effort to secure civil rights is undone every four years, then this nation lacks the necessary stability to say it has values. We only aspire to find values we can coalesce around. For many people, racism was not a red line. Indeed, if anti-racism were a sobriety test for America, then the re-election of Donald Trump shows the nation has failed — it’s intoxicated. And while not everyone is sipping from the cup of bigotry flowing from the far-right political movement, the country has collectively failed. And now we find ourselves as Americans, cuffed to a felon and reflecting on the choices that led us here.

Comments: 1) Allison is clearly a standard issue anti-white, anti-America, CRT, DEI-embracing ideologue. This is cant, not analysis. 2) People who undersatnd anything about economics and who have been paying attention recognize Harris’s first-tile home-buyer hand-out and the “living wage” proposal as standard socialist, National Debt-busting vote-buying, with there being ample proof from Harris’s own state, California, that major minimum wage hikes wreck businesses, lose jobs and raise prices. Race has nothing to do with the decision to reject them and any politician silly or cynical enough to support them. 3) Damning tell: citing MSNBC and Prof Glaude as authorities. Glaude, who should not be teaching anyone anything, said, in the segment this post cited with approval, “I do not believe [that inflation and the economy were the reasons for Harris’s loss] I cannot believe that. And the reason I think you [white MSNBC host Spehanie Ruhl] believe it is because you don’t want to believe that that’s what’s really motivating them. That’s always the case!  People don’t want to believe what the country actually is because if they believe it, they’re going to have to confront what’s in them. I don’t believe that. They voted for a crook — a person who they know is stealing from — just doing everything to undermine the so-called country that they love. And then they’re telling us the BS that it’s economics. We know that’s not true! We know it’s not true, and we got to raise out kids in this shit.” 4. What “All Lives Matter” movement?  There was no such thing. 5) DEI is racial discrimination, and Americans are finally figuring that out. Black Lives Matter was and is a racist, Marxist scam. Try to keep up, Allison. 6) It is not “racial progress” to elect an unqualified, babbling mediocrity as President of the United States just because of her color and gender.

I’m through with Allison. Now, as a grand finale, here’s some selections from William Spivey’s “Why I Underestimated MAGA and What Trump’s Win Means for You.” He is generous enough to signal immediately that bias makes him stupid, as his first sentence is “In the week before the election, I wrote two articles predicting that Kamala Harris would win in the 2024 election, not by a whisker but in a landslide.” Nobody, absolutely nobody, who watched and listened to the campaign could possibly make that prediction unless they were completely Trump Deranged. Here’s Spivey..

• “I listened to white women voters explaining their votes before the election and in exit interviews. They voted in favor of all the abortion initiatives in several states, passing everywhere but Florida that required a 60% margin to pass a change, only 57% voted for the ballot initiative. Florida women will be protected whether they like it or not. While the majority of women voted for amendments expanding abortion rights, they also put back in place the politicians who took them away. Make that make sense.”

• “I’ve read several post-mortems on the election explaining what Kamala Harris and the Democrats did wrong. Some focused on Harris not adequately explaining her positions, while Trump explained nothing. Harris was criticized for not differentiating herself enough from Joe Biden, as if that wouldn’t have been used against her as well. Pundits went from lauding Harris for running a disciplined campaign, reaching across the aisle, and trying to expand the electorate to condemning her for not attacking Biden. None of them called out the double standard Harris faced. The elephant in the room is the why. Kamala Harris is a woman of African American and South Asian descent. This opened her up to both misogynist and racist attacks, which she got in droves. I was wrong to believe that America could overcome its biases.”

• “It’s too early to explain why white women did not support Kamala Harris to the same degree as Hillary Clinton. There is an easy explanation, but I’m hoping it’s something more than that. It can’t be about the issues. Can white women really be looking for someone to protect them, whether they like it or not?”

Comments: 1) I hate to break it to Mr. Spivey, but a lot of women, black and white, understand that abortion isn’t the only important issue facing the nation, or even one of the most important issues. 2) The “elephant in the room” is that Harris was an unqualified, undemocratically selected, dishonest, phony candidate who ran a terrible campaign from any perspective. 3.) It’s not too early at all. Hillary Clinton, for all her corruption and flaws, could answer a direct question articulately and clearly, and as bad as her campaign was, Harris’s campaign made her look like Ronald Reagan in comparison. Clinton was running against a candidate with no elected office experience. Harris ran against a former President of the United States whose term was objectively more successful than the one Harris had to defend. Harris was part of a disqualifying cover-up in which a mentally disabled President had his condition hidden from the public.

As long as these are the kinds of biased perspectives through which a large proportion of American blacks see our society, politics, culture and nation , I do not know how the dangerous divisions in the U.S. can improve.