Welcome to post-America, where false narratives successfully compete with truth

Two case studies in this phenomenon for your consideration.

There is this development in Wisconsin.  How many of your kids' teachers belong to the NEA?

A militant Wisconsin group funded heavily by the National Education Association — America’s largest teachers union — unfurled a banner declaring “ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS” at an anti-police protest last week.

The group, Wisconsin Jobs Now, organized the protest on Wednesday, EAGnews.org reports.

Despite the name “Wisconsin Jobs Now,” the small, radical group has spent considerable time and energy in recent months protesting police tactics.

Wisconsin Jobs Now has long targeted the Milwaukee police department. It has now branched some 80 miles west to Madison.

Incidentally, the other major donor to Wisconsin Jobs Now is the SEIU.

This banner was undoubtedly primarily inspired by the recent incident in Madison.  A little backstory is important to a full understanding of that:

The Wednesday protest occurred a few days after a Madison police officer shot and killed Tony Robinson. Police say Robinson, 19, assaulted the officer. He also pleaded guilty to armed robbery just last year.

Then there's this tiresome-in-the-extreme development that puts the lie to Eric Holder's charge that America never talks about race:

 Fortune reports on what might just be the worst entry in the long history of bad corporate ideas, as the Starbucks coffee chain announces a “race relations initiative” that will include baristas hassling customers about racism:

Starbucks published a full page ad in the New York Times on Sunday — a stark, black, page with a tiny caption “Shall We Overcome?” in the middle, and the words “RaceTogether” with the company logo, on the bottom right. The ad, along with a similar one on Monday in USA Today, is part of an initiative launched this week by the coffee store chain to stimulate conversation and debate about the race in America by getting employees to engage with customers about the perennially hot button subject.

Beginning on Monday, Starbucks baristas will have the option as they serve customers to hand cups on which they’ve handwritten the words “Race Together” and start a discussion about race. This Friday, each copy of USA Today— which has a daily print circulation of almost 2 million and is a partner of Starbucks in this initiative — will have the first of a series of insert with information about race relations, including a variety of perspectives on race. Starbucks coffee shops will also stock the insert.

In a video addressing Starbucks’ nearly 200,000 workers, 40% of whom are members of a racial minority, [Starbucks CEO Howard] Schultz dismissed the notion that race was too hot a topic business-wise for Starbucks to tackle.

“I reject that. I reject that completely,” he said in the video address. “It’s an emotional issue. But it is so vitally important to the country,” he continued, pointing to that the United States is “so much better” than what the current state of race relations portray it to be.

There will be no escape from politics in America, good citizens. Your consciousness will be raised every time you walk into a room, unwrap a package, engage any form of communications device, or even accept a cup of coffee. Enjoy your evening’s rest while you can, until left-wingers figure out a way to beam political messages into your dreams.

I repeat my invitation to post-American society:  How about if we really and truly, yet this afternoon, knock it off with the race talk?  We could, you know.  Just drop it.  When we read about an individual who, according to reports from the scene, assaulted a police officer and got shot in response, we just look at him as an individual.  When we read about the hair-raisingly alarmingly high percentage of fatherless young men with no job skills in our inner cities, we merely discuss the behavior and life-choice options available to them and the need for these individuals to cultivate some character.  We could knock it off with the television networks and congressional caucuses based on racial identity.  We could quit counting the number of people of a particular race in various occupations.  We could dismantle all the campus offices of diversity and inclusion across the land.

We could, but we won't.  We're told that the "perceptions" of bigotry-based disparity are too strong.

Here's another invitation:  Let's have a look at who it is that is telling us that, and what's in it for them.