The radical Left’s strategy is no mystery: divide Americans by race, rewrite history to fit their narrative, and brand entire groups as villains. With a complicit media amplifying its message, the Left now peddles open racial animosity that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. This is not simply politics — it’s the deliberate dismantling of the shared American story that once united us. Blinded by grievance and resentment, the Left has become the very thing it claims to oppose.
One stark example of this mindset came recently from MSNBC host Joy Reid, who asserted that white people have never created anything original, claiming they “stole” every major invention and cultural achievement from black and brown people. She went so far as to say that white Americans could only claim fame by borrowing from black culture, pointing to music genres like jazz, R&B, hip hop, and rock and roll. Delivered with a straight face and a sense of moral authority, her argument wasn’t just historically wrong, but it was emblematic of a broader obsession with rewriting history to fit a narrative of perpetual victimhood and villainy.
This obsession isn’t confined to outrageous punditry. It reflects a systemic approach to culture and education promoted by the Left: Portray white Americans as irredeemable oppressors while casting others solely as victims. It insists that all achievements, progress, and innovation must be filtered through a racial lens, and that acknowledging the contributions of all Americans equally somehow undermines justice. The underlying goal is not accuracy or fairness; it’s division. When political identity is built entirely on grievance, facts and historical reality become irrelevant.
In reality, the story of human progress is collective. The modern world arose from innovations and ideas spanning every background. White innovators are responsible for advancements that defined modern civilization: the airplane, the steam engine, the printing press, the telephone, the automobile, the light bulb, and even the political foundations of freedom, such as representative government, individual rights, and the separation of powers. Black Americans, too, transformed life as we know it, contributing breakthroughs from the gas mask and traffic signals to the blood bank, refrigerated trucks, cataract surgery advancements, and the computer technology behind microprocessors and color monitors. Everyday conveniences — from folding chairs to clothes dryers to potato chips — trace back to black ingenuity. These accomplishments are not abstract; they are tangible proof that brilliance transcends race.
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Yet the radical Left refuses to tell this story. It paints one group as a perpetual oppressor and another as the perpetual victim, insisting that acknowledgment of achievement is tantamount to oppression. History, innovation, and unity are irrelevant to this worldview. The only thing that matters is grievance, resentment, and the politics of division.
America’s greatness has never been built on tearing people down or rewriting history to suit an ideological or racial agenda. Its promise comes from building, inventing, and innovating together, across every race, background, and belief. Anyone trying to pit Americans against each other for political gain is not just wrong; they are threatening the very idea of the American Dream, which depends on cooperation, achievement, and shared pride in what a nation can accomplish when its citizens work together.
Joy Reid’s rant is extreme, but it illustrates a larger truth: The Left’s obsession with racial division undermines the unity and progress that have made America exceptional. And Reid’s attitude isn’t unique — too many prominent voices on the Left now traffic in the same rhetoric, insisting that history and achievement can only be measured through the lens of racial grievance. If this trend continues, the nation risks losing more than just civility; it risks losing the story of America itself.
