California Doubles Fine on White Drivers

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Two men are speeding through a construction zone on a California freeway. They have identical speeds and driving records.

They’re both stopped and get tickets. One man pays $500 and the other $100.

How is that possible? One driver is white and the other is a member of a minority group.

This illegal experiment in disproportionate racial impact known as ‘AB-645 Vehicles: Speed Safety System Pilot Program” passed the California State Assembly 62-9 and the Senate by 29-6 (the ‘no’ votes were nearly all from Republicans) before being signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. And the systemically racist program is now being rolled out in LA, San Francisco, and other areas before the two-tier fine system can be implemented statewide.

Contrary to its name, AB-645 doesn’t crack down on speeding, instead it actually gives speeders a pass as long as they meet an economic test which will lead to more speeding.

And, like many DEI programs trying to bypass Supreme Court rulings outlawing equity-based racial discrimination, it’s using income tests to disguise its underlying systemic racism, but the racial bias is written right into the text of the bill which falsely claims that “traditional enforcement methods have had a well-documented disparate impact on communities of color, and implicit or explicit racial bias”, mandates that its governing body will work with “racial equity” groups and orders a “racial and economic equity impact analysis” of the impact of fines on minorities.

Speeding enforcement is a matter of math and the least racially biased form of enforcement there is. Two men going 25 miles above the speed limit should receive identical fines.

California’s Democrat majority has now created actual systemically racist enforcement.

Here’s how it works.

AB-645 requires LA, San Francisco and other areas to slash fines and penalties by 80% for “indigent” individuals and by 50% for low-income individuals “up to 250 percent above the federal poverty level.” According to the California Health Care Foundation, only 21% of low-income individuals are white, 60% are Latino and 7% are black.

Using California’s MediCal estimates and average household numbers, members of the average black household would be eligible for a 50% reduction, many Latino households would, but few white and Asian households would qualify for this 50% ‘reduction’ on their tickets and fines.

Those in the ‘indigent’ category, meaning their income is at 125% of the federal poverty level, receive not only an 80% discount, but the opportunity to substitute community service insead.

In San Francisco, one of the locations where this experiment is being rolled out, only 2.6% of white households would qualify for this 80% discount, but 17% of black households and 9.5% of Latinos would. In Los Angeles, only 6.9% of white households, but 14.7% of black households and 13.1% of Latino households would be eligible. (Only 7.9% of Asian households would.)

This is actual systemic racism and disproportionate impact on action.

That’s why the white driver pays $500 and the minority driver pays $100 even though they committed the same offense and have the same record. Another way of looking at it is that the white driver has his ticket and fines increased twofold to fivefold in the name of equity.

Is this experiment in systemic racial equity going to make California roads any safer?

The California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board claimed that black people made up 15% of traffic stops, three times their 5% population, Latinos, who make up 34% of the state, made up 45% of those who were stopped, while white people, who made up 34% of the state, made up 30% of traffic stops. Asians make up 15% of the state, but only 5.3% of traffic stops.

California authorities predictably blamed this on racism without explaining why officers and patrolmen, including in minority forces in major cities, were biased against blacks and Latinos, but not Asians. Despite the history of bigoted jokes and stereotypes about Asian drivers, they were actually far less likely to be stopped than white drivers were. If California law enforcement officers were conducting traffic stops based on their biases, shouldn’t they have been giving in to their prejudices about ‘Asian drivers’ stopping Asian drivers more? But they weren’t.

What these numbers actually revealed was that traffic stop demographics tend to follow the indexes of stable behavior, such as middle-class membership, two-parent families, and lack of involvement in criminal activities, which taken together are predictive of most other behaviors.

A California Policy Lab report castigating the California Highway Patrol for racism was forced to admit that “black-white and Hispanic-white disparities in stop rates for non-moving violations made a small contribution to overall disparities in stops rates.” It found a 17% higher stop rate for black drivers than white drivers for moving violations and a 6.8% higher stop rate for Hispanic drivers. The basis for these disparities was not race, but actual violations.

Assuming that all of this is racially driven also assumes that patrolmen are able to guess the race of a driver in a moving vehicle with incredible pinpoint accuracy before they stop him.

These numbers are not evidence of racial discrimination, but of different offense rates among different groups. By offering 50% and 80% lower ticket and fine rates for groups that are more likely to engage in driving violations, California Democrats are not only engaging in systemic discrimination, but lowering the punishment for bad behaviors by the most likely offenders.

And that will lead to more speeding, more car crashes and more deaths. And those deaths will disproportionately affect minority communities where the bad drivers they are protecting live.

Rather than doing minority groups a favor by letting minority drivers off the hook, California’s new two-tier fine system will lead to more deaths of more minority drivers and pedestrians in the same way that their police defunding programs had sent black murder rates soaring after 2020.

Democrats claim that systemic racism has lethal effects on communities. This systemic racist program actually will cost more minority lives. And leave their blood on Gov. Newsom’s hands.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Whiteless Privilege

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Books have been written, movies made and college courses taught about white privilege. Denouncing the evils of whiteness indiscriminately allows people of all races, even white people like Robin DiAngelo and Tracie McMillan, to earn a very good living from hunting for white privilege.

Less discussed is ‘whiteless privilege’. Even when one of the biggest beneficiaries of whiteless privilege, Vice President Kamala Harris, has made that her identity. What race is Kamala? Kamala is at once black and Indian, and none of the above because what matters most is not what race she is, but what race she is not. By not being white, she is a person of color and thus whiteless.

Kamala has white ancestry by way of her father, but in a world where men can be women and women can be androgynous and can then march in pride parades as Androgynes for Gaza while wearing half-burkas, what you are matters much less than what you identify as and what you don’t identify as.

One of the most powerful women in the country, raised by a globe-trotting cancer doctor of Brahmin ancestry currently identifies as black because it allows her to cash in on unearned white guilt by way of a made up story of having been subjected to white supremacy as a little girl in Berkeley, California.

Whitelessness is defined by whiteness in the same way that all parasitic identities depend on a host identity. To be whiteless is to be anything but white. People of color, BIPOC and other ways of describing whitelessness are not truly races, but forms of opposition to whiteness. That is why minorities with actual histories of oppression can still be condemned as adjacent to whiteness.

These two poles reveal that in the critical race theory paradigm there are really only two races: whiteness and whitelessness, forever pitted in conflict and defined in opposition to one another. Black, Hispanic or Asian, already dubious categories, are subsumed into one of these political categories.

And it is politics, above all else, that defines whitelessness.

Hispanics with the wrong political views become white Hispanics. Asians who step out of line can turn white adjacent, and black conservatives, like Larry Elder, are labeled as the black face of white supremacy. The sorting between white and whiteless has nothing to do with DNA or complexion. Neither the one drop rule nor the paper bag test matter. All that matters is their political genome.

The Old Left similarly defined working class not by income or social status, but by politics. Rich radicals were said to be fighting for the working class while conservative workers were aligned with the bourgeoisie. Modern identity politics similarly operates as a front group for the Left that allows its activists to posture as victims, speak on behalf of an entire group and demand power in its name. Those who will not go along are not part of the group whether they are workers or people of color.

Leftist political identities are binary, political and fluid. This was bad enough when applied to social and economic classes, but when applied to races produces manifest absurdities like black white supremacist and wealthy oppressed victims of undefined race but extremely defined politics.

And that is Kamala.

Identity politics defines opposing identities, the privileged strawman and his oppressed antithesis, but while the privileged identity is a closely drawn caricature, the antithesis is whatever is its opposite.

Kamala’s privilege, like that of Obama’s and of many other successful and wealthy figures who come from wealthy and successful parents, is that they are whiteless. Being whiteless confers instant political privilege on them and all they have to do is sustain it by claiming to be the victims of white people.

Whiteless privilege carries with it the presumption of victimhood. The details are unseeded and the claims, like Kamala’s busing story, are rarely scrutinized. That is whiteless privilege too. For the whiteless, all women are to be believed and verdicts on claims of racism are rendered before the inquiry. This is not the way things work for women who are white or minorities who are white adjacent. Especially if they accuse a public figure with whiteless privilege. There is never any excuse for whiteness (except constant apology and self-examination) and none needed for whitelessness.

That is also whiteless privilege.

Anything that the whiteless do is seen as wonderful simply because they do it. Whiteless privilege means having any ambition described as ‘breaking the glass ceiling’ and worthwhile because it is historic. Everything a whiteless person does is an act of resistance and resilience akin to marching with MLK at Selma. Talking is unpaid emotional labor, going to work is thriving in the face of systemic racism, watching TV is self-care and listening to music is channeling BIPOC joy.

Whiteless privilege is being rewarded for the most basic activities with lavish praise.

And so the media celebrates every mundane thing that Kamala does, like getting off a plane, wearing a pantsuit, or buying a record, as an epochal event the way a parent gushes over a toddler learning to walk. This is the same whiteless privilege that Barack Obama benefited from in public life.

Being the center of every conversation is also whiteless privilege. A white person is warned not to center themselves while whiteless people are encouraged to always be the center of attention. Whiteless privilege also shields rudeness and angry tantrums. Expecting manners of those with whiteless privilege is considered tone policing which is far worse than the rudeness and bad manners.

Whiteless privilege insulates the bearer from criticism. It rewards and encourages mediocrity, rudeness, and racism. And it is hard to think of a public figure more stuffed with whiteless privilege than Kamala.

After a political career of being coddled for her identity, she is now enjoying a political campaign during which she is being coddled for her identity, but rather than making her better, it made her worse.

Kamala Harris made it to the vice presidency without learning such simple tasks as how to run a political campaign, how to give a speech or how to answer questions from the press. Rather than suggest that she learn to do these things, we are instead told that they suddenly no longer matter. Not when Kamala leaks joy through her pores and is thriving just by being the incredible being that she is.

Such coddling never did her any favors and it isn’t doing her any favors now. The media seems to have forgotten that its coup against Biden was triggered by years of coddling and denial. Pretending that Biden was fine didn’t make the problem go away. But Biden was white while Kamala has whiteless privilege. Coddling her isn’t just political calculation, it’s the foundational binary of progressive politics which is defined by pitting people against each other around artificially manufactured badges.

Whiteless privilege is like most antithesis a form of projection. Everything that white privilege is said to be, whiteless privilege actually is. And like most forms of antithesis, whiteless privilege exists only to negate. Kamala is the perfect beneficiary of whiteless privilege because she stands for nothing, has achieved nothing and has nothing to call on except her whitelessness.

Whitelessness is Kamala’s only achievement. Unlike race, it’s not an unearned one.

Kamala worked for her whitelessness. Given a choice between merit and identity politics, she chose to identify by identity, she chose whitelessness which was the perfect choice for the witless. Kamala has nothing to run on except her whitelessness and no reason to run except whiteless privilege.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

My Gazette: Kamala Is a Racist

By Rich Kozlovich 

This is part of a series of gazettes outlining who and what Kamala really is, what she stands for, what she represents, and the disasters that surrounds she and all of her peers, which is the desire to destroy America as it was founded, which is why they're doing everything in their power to destroy the Constitution, they only thing standing between freedom and a socialist system of world governance under the auspices of the most corrupt institution ever created, the United Nations, molded by the World Economic Forum, and controlled by China. 

This cartoon will be part of each gazette. 

 

Make no mistake.  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are absolutely antisemites, anti-Christian, anti-White racists, and anti-American in their views and their actions.   Lies, deceit, corruption, and destruction is at the heart of who and what they are.  And if elected, that's what they will promote.  

The effort to whitewash their history is failing, but it's exposing the corruption that surrounds them, but that exposure isn't being done by what's now being called the 'legacy' media, including their desire to defraud the election process with these illegal non-citizens, and allowing them to destroy America's major cities. Cities that will take decades to recover, and some may never come back.  

If it walks like a communist, if it talks like a communist, it's a communist! 

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RACE HUSTLE

Dem Rep. Frost: DEI Attacks on Harris Equivalent to N-Wor - Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that Republicans like Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), who say Vice President Kamala Harris is a DEI hire, are essentially using the N-word.....

 Susan Rice: Calling VP Harris a DEI Hire Is ‘Extremely Offensive and Dehumanizing’ - Former White House adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that it was “extremely offensive and dehumanizing” to say Vice President Harris is a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hire.....

 Joy Reid: ‘People of Color’ Who Do Not Vote for Harris Are ‘Real Weird - MSNBC talking head Joy Reid said “people of color” will look “real weird” if they do not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democrat nominee, in November......

 Kamala Endorsed ‘Reparations' - Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed “some form of reparations” for “black people,” an unearthed video from 2019 reveals.......

 The Left Ramps Up its Anti-White Bigotry - As the presidential election looms ever larger on the horizon, the desperate Left, saddled with a catastrophe of a candidate, is doubling down on the only tired old strategy it has, which is smearing their political opponents as racist – exposing their own anti-white racism in the process....

 Don’t draw attention to the same immutable characteristics Kamala campaigned on, or you might just be sexist and racist - Who is actually divisive, and what is off-limits when talking about Kamala? 

Donald Trump calls out Kamala Chameleon's racial shtick - Throughout her career, Kamala has played the race card—except her card changes depending on the needs of the moment.

Kamala Harris Is a Race Hustler Who Will Send White Men to the Back of the Line and Ignite Racial Animus - Vice President Kamala Harris is a race hustler, a divider when the nation needs a unifier. If Democrats make Harris the nominee for the nation's top job, Americans will be given a stark choice in November: between racial preferences and fairness. A President Harris would rub raw the racial divisions in this country and ignite new violence in our streets......

Kamala a ‘Dues-Paying Member’ of San Francisco Church with Radical Pro-Reparations Pastor - Vice President Kamala Harris, who Democrat leaders are backing to replace President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race, is reportedly a “dues-paying member” to a church where the pastor has called for reparations, even serving as a vice chair of California’s reparations task force.......

The philosophy of all leftists was exemplified by another criminal group in the 1948 film The Treasure of Sierra Madre, stated by Mexican bandit leader "Gold Hat" (portrayed by Alfonso Bedoya, trying to convince Fred C. Dobbs (portrayed by Humphrey Bogart), that he and his band of cut throats were legitimate.  I think my paraphrasing below is the perfect representation of the leftist philosophy, even if unspoken:

 

Rules?   We ain't got no rules.  We don't need no rules.  We don't have to show you any stinkin rules!

 

Pharmacists Ingest Woke Poison

Their new oath embraces the woke racism of “anti-racism” and “health equity.”

Wed Feb 2, 2022 Matthew Vadum 47 comments

Un-American woke values have been infecting popular culture, governments, and corporations at an astonishing pace for some time but now they are spreading with potentially deadly consequences to the professions that provide medical care and the schools that train those professionals.

Race-based health policy got a big booster when COVID-19 arrived on the scene.

The pandemic became “a testbed for deploying racist equity measures like determining vaccine and medication distribution by race,” Daniel Greenfield recently wrote.

For example, the Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine “produced a framework which claimed that ‘COVID-19 illnesses and deaths are strongly associated with race’ due to ‘systemic racism’ and that it was the job of the medical system to reduce these ‘health inequities.’”..............To Read More.....