Dennis Prager / @DennisPrager /
Blacks from Africa and the Caribbean continue to flock to the United States because they have not been influenced by the American left’s “pravda.” Pictured: Leonie Tegnoche from Cameroon poses for a portrait on April 18, 2019, after taking the oath to be a U.S. citizen at the naturalization ceremony at the El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas. (Photo: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images)
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Dennis Prager is a columnist for The Daily Signal, nationally syndicated radio host, and creator of PragerU.
If America is systemically racist, why have millions of blacks from Africa and the Caribbean come to this country over the past 50 years? Why would they and many millions more want to move from all-black societies to a white-dominated, racist one?
This is a question every black and white leftist should be asked. After all, no Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s. And why didn’t any? After all, many Jews were suffering terrible persecution and poverty in Russia and in Eastern Europe. Why didn’t any of them move to Germany after 1933?
We all know the answer: Because Germany was systemically antisemitic.
Even leftists know that answer.
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So, one can only conclude that, in the view of America’s leftists, non-German Jews of the 1930s had the wisdom not to move to Germany, but present-day non-American blacks have no wisdom. In the view of America’s leftists, then, the millions of blacks who have moved here and the many millions who want to move here must be fools.
How else could leftists regard blacks who willingly move to America? Any black person who decides to leave a black country for America—a place the left claims was founded by racists to perpetuate racism, built and sustained by racism, to this day composed largely of whites, every one of whom is racist and many of whom are white supremacists, and therefore remains systemically racist—must be either be a fool, an ignoramus, or both.
If so-called black leaders and other blacks on the left and white progressives believe what they say about America, why aren’t they doing everything they can to dissuade blacks in Africa and the Caribbean from coming to America? Why aren’t they regularly visiting African and Caribbean countries to warn Africans away from the black-hating country they are thinking of emigrating to?
To this question there is only one possible answer: They do not believe what they say about America.
Whether leftists believe their lies is a question I have pondered for years. And I have concluded that in general, they do. Most leftists believe that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign; that men menstruate and give birth; that Shakespeare and Beethoven are revered not because they are great but because they are white; that global warming is an “existential” threat; that the events of Jan. 6 were an “insurrection”; that voter IDs are a form of voter suppression; and that people who had COVID-19 need to be vaccinated.
But with regard to their believing America is systemically racist and so persecutes blacks—LeBron James tweets that, like all blacks, “We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!” and Oprah Winfrey likens present-day America to “the days of Jim Crow when black men would be lynched and dragged through the town as an example for other people to see”—their not making any attempt to dissuade blacks from coming to America makes no sense. It only makes sense if they don’t believe what they say about America.
Truth has never been a left-wing value. Truth is a liberal value and it is a conservative value. But it has never been a left-wing value. Truth is nothing more than whatever the left says it is at any given moment.
That is why Vladimir Lenin, the father of modern leftism, named the Soviet Communist Party newspaper “Pravda,” the Russian word for “truth”—truth was what the Soviet Communist Party said it was. For Lenin, then, as for Rep. Adam Schiff, The New York Times, Yale University, and CNN today, truth is what they say it is.
Their pravda is that America is a systemically racist country. Their pravda is that all whites are racist. Their pravda is that former President Donald Trump is a white supremacist and that everyone who voted for any Republican is a racist.
Yet, there is a reality that Schiff and these others cannot deny: Vast numbers of blacks yearn to come to America. They do so because they have not been influenced by the pravda of Schiff and his fellow Democrats, The New York Times, and the rest of the left-wing media, or by Yale and the rest of America’s left-wing universities.
They do so because they have been influenced not by pravda, but by actual truth: America is the least racist multiethnic, multiracial country in world history, and any black who seeks to improve his life and that of his family has a better chance of doing so in America than anywhere else.
In fact, within one generation of emigrating to America, Africans from sub-Saharan African countries attain higher levels of educational attainment than the U.S. population as a whole and are more likely to have earned a degree in a science, technology, engineering, and math (Pew Research).
That’s why it is not Africans who are foolish for wanting to come to America; it is America’s left for thinking they are fools.
