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It\u2019s 1963 again, according to Democrats. We\u2019re all living in the neo-Jim Crow era, and if you\u2019re silent, you\u2019re complicit. At least that\u2019s what the Left, Hollywood, and woke women are trying to tell you.<\/span> Hostin and her View co-hosts could barely contain their glee over House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the NAACP\u2019s plan to have black athletes boycott scholarships at Southern public universities in states like Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, which could inflict \u201ceconomic damage and economic harm\u201d on the South over redistricting. Cloudy Hostin proudly calls for these athletic protests as an effective civil rights tool. I call it rich, bored women playing revolutionary on someone else\u2019s dime.<\/span><\/p>\n And someone else\u2019s future.<\/span><\/p>\n Young black athletes are disproportionately the ones who land these scholarships and NIL deals in revenue sports. For many, it\u2019s the only realistic ladder to a degree and a shot at a professional career. Walking away means lost education, lost earnings, lost exposure, and lost dreams. The same people who spent years telling kids the system was rigged against them are now telling them to burn their own escape hatch because the table-talkers didn\u2019t get their way.<\/span><\/p>\n Hostin, whose own family owned <\/span>slaves<\/span><\/a>, is urging black men to sacrifice their futures so she can feel morally superior on television.<\/span><\/p>\n Slow clap for the girls.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, they\u2019re hoping you don\u2019t look too closely at the Tennessee redistricting situation they\u2019re clutching their pearls over because the new Republican-drawn maps could result in the first woman of color being elected to Congress in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n All performative. Except the SEC and universities know better than to play along. Life-changing opportunities aren\u2019t poker chips for D.C. politicians and daytime TV hosts to gamble with. Athletes have agents, families, futures to protect, and real games to win.<\/span><\/p>\n Then there\u2019s Ayanna Pressley, still out there yelling into the wind about how every bit of prosperity \u201cwe\u201d enjoy was built on black backs, so reparations are in order!<\/span><\/p>\n Poor thing is trying to stay relevant. Unfortunately, race-baiting alone doesn\u2019t move the needle for Democrats anymore. To stay relevant, she\u2019d need to go full communist and start endorsing terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n Handing large lump sums of cash to people does not grow wealth over time. It\u2019s a one-time transfer that gets spent, divided, or litigated into oblivion. Who pays? Who receives? Newsflash \u2014 nobody alive today was a slave owner or chattel slave in the American South. Many black Americans owned slaves. Many white Americans did not.<\/span><\/p>\n Reparations are deeply unpopular, economically illiterate, and socially poisonous, but figures like her and California Governor Gavin Newsom care <\/span>not<\/span><\/a> about practicality. They care about virtue-signaling.<\/span><\/p>\n Black families are struggling on multiple fronts that have nothing to do with 1865. Around <\/span>64%<\/span><\/a> of black children live in single-parent homes. Abortion rates in black communities are <\/span>4-5<\/span><\/a> times higher than white women. Poverty and welfare dependency persist in <\/span>patterns<\/span><\/a> that track with family structure and culture. Not distant history.<\/span><\/p>\n The welfare state that exploded after LBJ\u2019s Great Society correlated <\/span>directly<\/span><\/a> with the breakdown of two-parent households that had been rising for decades prior. What started as a political project to lock in votes has become a generational handicap. Useful idiots like Pressley keep the cycle alive by blaming everything on ghosts instead of asking what actually moves the needle today: strong families, education, work, and personal responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n Though to be fair, this is the same brain trust that produced Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who recently surveyed the crack pipes and mental illness slathered amid her streets and <\/span>concluded<\/span><\/a> that what these people really needed was a government dental plan. Ingenious.<\/span><\/p>\n What would <\/span>actually<\/span><\/i> solve problems? Color-blind standards. Merit. The same principles that animated Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party are still alive today. As Wesley Hunt recently <\/span>reiterated<\/span><\/a>: get elected because you\u2019re good, not because you check a box.<\/span><\/p>\n History is not as complicated as the revisionists pretend. The Republican Party was <\/span>founded<\/span><\/a> in opposition to the expansion of slavery. The vast majority of votes to pass the 13th, 14th, and 15th <\/span>Amendments<\/span> came from Republicans. The <\/span>first<\/span><\/a> black members of Congress were Republicans. Lincoln wanted to free black Americans and let them stand on their own, not keep them tethered to government favor.<\/span><\/p>\n As Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s <\/span>Death of a Nation<\/span><\/i> explains, the Democrat Party\u2019s long history of racial control, from slavery and Jim Crow to the political machines that replaced them, did not magically flip in the 1960s. The strategy simply evolved. Instead of poll taxes and literacy tests, we now see the Democrat Party offering dependency and grievance. Their goal is the same as it always has been: keep a reliable voting bloc on the urban plantation.<\/span><\/p>\n Republicans have consistently argued for the same thing from Lincoln forward: individual liberty, equal protection under the law, and the chance to rise or fall on your own merits. Democrats have spent the modern era perfecting the opposite: identity as destiny, government as savior, and anyone who objects labeled a racist bigot.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span>Race is all they seem to care about these days. \u201cThe View\u201d host Sunny Hostin is <\/span>telling<\/span><\/a> folks that black athletes should boycott scholarships at Southern public universities to fight redistricting. Former Squad member Ayanna Pressley is <\/span>demanding<\/span><\/a> reparations, again, for the nefarious chattel enslavement of black Americans that no living person in this country participated in. And Democratic leaders and white ladies are squawking about Jim Crow and demanding a color-20\/20 vision society.<\/span>
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<\/span>Who\u2019s going to tell them that it\u2019s the Left that is acting racist and making it worse for the very people they claim to champion? All of these partisan power punches in the name of \u201chelping\u201d consistently end up hurting. This latest SEC boycott scheme would hurt young black athletes most of all. Reparations are tired and ineffective, and Democrats have spent the better part of the last century figuring out new ways to keep them on the plantation. It is time they get out of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n