But Getting Back to the SPLC . . .

Now, where was I before we were all so rudely interrupted by the third assassination attempt on President Trump? Oh, yeah... I was talking about another Democrat-caused blight on the country: identity politics and fake racism.

Race hustlers and charlatans have a huge problem in this country nowadays. There’s not enough racism to go around, so they have to make it up to stay relevant, not to mention well-funded. That’s why there have been so many race hoaxes in recent decades. There just aren’t enough real racially motivated incidents to convince sensible people it’s a widespread problem. (At least not white-on-black incidents. Black-on-white is far more common, but nobody cares about that.) So, when you hear some news story about nooses or racist scrawlings on some campus or elsewhere, you instantaneously know there’s about a 99 percent chance it’s phony.

Now, let’s talk about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). It may have been legit when it was founded in 1971. After all, that was only a couple of years after the civil rights movement had defeated Jim Crow legally. But it understandably took time for attitudes and a former way of life to change significantly, so there was still plenty of racism to go around.

But as the decades passed and systemic racism/discrimination was dismantled in virtually every institution, as people’s attitudes did indeed change, there was less and less for the SPLC to sink its teeth into. Throughout society, diversity was being preached like the gospel, minorities were placed on a pedestal, and a new generation of whites, who had no personal memory of segregation, were brought up without the slightest care what color anybody was. They couldn’t even comprehend how or why segregation could have ever existed in the first place. In other words, they just weren’t especially racist and had no interest in hurting or trying to keep black folks down.

So, individuals and organizations devoted to fighting racism were basically going the way of buggy whip manufacturers after automobiles came in. But unlike the latter, the former found they could continue right on as if nothing had changed by deceit, exaggeration and manipulating the emotions of minorities who can be tempted to nurse their historical racial grievances forever.

An organization like the SPLC, which by now is a total anachronism, has to put on a huge song-and-dance routine — a minstrel show, if you will — to justify its very existence. And guess what? According to the U.S. Justice Department, the show necessarily involved fraud, lying and money laundering on a significant scale. The DOJ has since indicted the SPLC on numerous charges.

The Justice Dept. is alleging that the SPLC wandered beyond its remit, which entails raising millions of dollars from donors on the understanding that money would go to monitoring and dismantling “hate groups,” and diverted several million dollars to individuals linked to groups like the KKK and Aryan Nations. Why would it do that, you might wonder? It claims the money went to its paid‑informant program to gather intelligence on those hate groups. The key issue for the Justice Dept. is the lack of transparency — the SPLC never told donors that part of their money would go directly to individuals inside groups it publicly condemned.

Okay, although it sounds a little like a technicality to a non-lawyer like myself, I’ll take it because I don’t believe for a second the money was just for “intelligence.” Why do you need intelligence on groups that have been utterly inconsequential for decades? The KKK, for instance, is universally condemned and has virtually no national influence in contemporary America. If a handful of Bubbas want to meet out in the woods and talk trash, who cares? When is the last time the KKK actually did anything significant? Probably 1981, when the last universally agreed-upon KKK lynching occurred in Alabama. That was 45 years ago.

The SPLC doesn’t need “intelligence,” it needs to maintain the public perception that significant racism and white supremacy still exist to justify its own expenses. The money it surreptitiously sent to these hate groups was more likely to stoke them than to gain valuable information about their operations or plans. Because, again, what plans? What are they going to do? Other than possibly inspire a lone lunatic to commit an extremely rare act of racial white-on-black violence: nothing. And as we all can see, when it comes to acts of political violence, they are overwhelmingly committed by leftists. And yet, no one seeks to limit the hate speech that inspires them. In fact, that hate speech constitutes an integral part of the Democratic Party's talking points.

The SPLC said it plans to defend itself vigorously and continue its mission of combating hate. It appears, however, that its mission, due to the contemporary lack of white racism, has morphed into fomenting, rather than extinguishing, hate. All this in a desperate attempt to stay relevant, as well as to hurt the conservative groups it . . . um . . . I’m trying to think of the right word . . . “hates.” Yeah, that’s right, the SPLC is itself a hate group. It hates anyone or any organization that disputes leftist ideology. You know, scary groups like the Family Research Council, Moms for Liberty, and the murdered Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA — all of which have liberals shaking in their boots.

Everybody knows that the single greatest threat to a black American in this day and age is another black American, particularly a black male. There is simply no other comparable threat. But neither the SPLC nor any other leftist organization that claims to care about the vulnerable and the victimized wants to tackle that issue. The one good thing the SPLC could do is shut up already about white supremacy, which has basically gone the way of the dodo bird. The SPLC and other similar organizations are themselves birds of a feather, which, instead of evolving, will continue right on until extinction inevitably takes them out. Unfortunately, they will probably outlive anyone currently breathing.