Band-Aids
Band-Aids have also been called white supremacist because the “standard” color is a light tan that critics claim is designed to match “caucasian” skin. “Band-Aids are made for white people,” vented one angry blogger.142 And he’s not alone. In the late 1990s an entrepreneur in New York launched “Ebon-Aid” (short for ebony) “The bandage exclusively designed for people of color.”143
A white man who adopted a few black children, apparently unaware that Ebon-Aids existed, felt uncomfortable when he had to put a Band-Aid on his four-year-old son because it “stuck out like a sore thumb,” so he decided to start his own bandage company called True-Color Bandages. “I want them to see they were made just as authentic and just as beautiful and the bandage market needs to reflect that,” he said.144
That’s where we’re at in society. Band-Aids are part of white privilege so black people need their own. Apparently they don’t know that the Band-Aid brand sells clear bandages for those who are offended by not having a bandage that matches the color of the skin. Tolerance.org lists Band-Aids as a “perk” of white people’s “skin privilege.”145
They’re also included on the “White Privilege Checklist” that a San Diego State University professor handed out to her sociology students.146 And were recently used as an example of more “evidence” of white privilege at a “cultural competency worship” held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.147
Santa Claus
Not even Santa Claus is safe from being called a white supremacist in our current political climate. A growing number of liberals are upset that he’s white, and instead of making a bunch of different Santas (one for each race), the “solution” to this “problem,” they think, is to depict him as a penguin, not a person.148
One activist was invited on CNN (as usual) to explain her absurd idea, where she said, “The world has changed a lot in the last fifty, one hundred years, and Santa Claus is a fictional character. He is nothing like the original historical character figure [Saint Nicholas] he was based off of anymore. We have kind of evolved him into this magical, mythical figure, and for kids I think it’s important that they don’t have to feel necessarily bogged down that Santa is always white.”149 Bogged down!? Those poor children!
Ms. Magazine published an article written by a black woman complaining about her kid making the usual Christmas art projects at school using construction paper and gluing cotton balls together for Santa’s beard. The mother ranted about having to teach her kid that Santa was an “able-bodied, heterosexual white guy.”150
She went on to air her grievances as if it were Festivus, and concluded that, “In a society in which institutional racism and sexism exist, it’s not enough to be non-prejudiced or an observer. We have to intervene and challenge institutional behaviors that perpetuate oppression.”151 So kids making Santa Claus arts and crafts is perpetuating “oppression”? I give up!
CNN’s Don Lemon declared that by President Trump saying “Merry Christmas” instead of the new politically correct “Happy Holidays,” that he is using a dog whistle (a secret code) to signal to white supremacists that he’s on their side.152 Christmas music is also now problematic. “Jingle Bells” was deemed racist by a Boston University professor because, “The legacy of ‘Jingle Bells’ is one where its blackface and racist origins have been subtly and systematically removed from its history.”153
He says for most people the song, “may have eluded its racialized past and taken its place in the seemingly unproblematic romanticization of a normal ‘white’ Christmas, [but] attention to the circumstances of its performance history enables reflection on its problematic role in the construction of blackness and whiteness in the United States.”154 The professor claims that the song was “originally performed” by white entertainers in blackface back in the 1850s, but there is no evidence of this.
In an experiment to see how much further the social justice warriors would go, a reporter for the Media Research Center asked students at George Mason University if they would sign a petition to support banning the song “White Christmas” from being played on the radio because it is “racist” since it, “perpetuates the idea that being white is automatically a positive attribute in our society.”155 Many students eagerly signed the petition and supported the cause.
Police Body Camera Footage
Black Lives Matter activists have pressured police departments across the country to require their officers to wear body cameras, thinking it will catch cops on tape acting racist towards black suspects. But what the cameras are capturing is an epidemic of black people lying about supposed racist interactions with white police officers.
In South Carolina the local NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] president was pulled over for not using his turn signal and given a warning, despite not having the proper vehicle registration. Instead of being grateful he didn’t get a ticket, he published a lengthy Facebook post alleging he was racially profiled and even fabricated racist statements he claimed the officer made to him.
The department then released the full unedited body camera footage of the incident, which proved it was not only a routine traffic stop, but the officer was actually very friendly.156
That same week a Virginia police department released footage of an officer’s body camera after a black woman posted a video on Facebook crying about what she said was racial profiling and “bullying” from a white cop. The bodycam footage completely debunked her claims.157
A black woman arrested for driving while intoxicated in Texas claimed the white officer raped her before taking her to the police station, and so once again the department released the unedited (almost two hour long) footage showing exactly what happened from the moment the women was pulled over to the time she arrived at the station in the cop car, and proved she was a liar and the officer conducted himself properly.158
A black city council member in McKinney, Texas was cited for speeding and then arrested for refusing to sign the ticket (which is required by law and not an admission of guilt), and so he claimed he was racially profiled and got pulled over for “being black with dreadlocks.”159 So, once again, the department released the entire footage of the incident captured on the officer’s bodycam which showed that he too was seeing “racism” where none existed. The city council then voted to censure him, officially reprimanding him for his behavior and false statements about his arrest.160
Milwaukee Bucks basketball player Sterling Brown made headlines after he was tazed and arrested by local police over a parking incident. He claimed they over-reacted, and when body camera footage was released it showed he was being argumentative with the officers and when ordered to take his hands out of his pockets, he refused, causing the officers to fear he was about to pull out a weapon, so they subdued him.161
With police body cameras showing so many black people to be liars who are fabricating their claims of racist encounters with white police officers liberals began complaining about the bodycams. Newsweek magazine actually claimed that they were contributing to black and brown people having their “civil rights violated” and say that the cameras “distort evidence.”162