The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Star Parker: Trump Is Right: Bigotry, Violence ‘on Many Sides’
• Michelle Malkin: Where Is the Corporate Disavowal of Black Lives Matter?
• Hans von Spakovsky & Tiffany Bates: Initiated Under Obama, a Plan for Cleaning Voter Rolls Is Now ‘Radical’

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Opinion in Brief

Star Parker: “British writer and theologian G.K. Chesterton observed, ‘It is hatred that unites people — while love is always individual.’ The use of hatred to mobilize has a long and bloody history. We should understand why it works so well. It taps into human weakness. It exploits the unwillingness of individuals to take responsibility for their own lives, to courageously confront life’s ambiguities and inconsistencies, and still move forward constructively. It’s so much easier to blame someone else. This is what racism is about. Speaking to the horrible incident in Charlottesville, President Donald Trump condemned the ‘egregious display of bigotry and violence’ on ‘many sides’ that’s ‘been going on for a long time in our country.’ … Trump is right. The use of hate to blame others, the refusal to take personal responsibility for one’s life, is going on and has been going on in our nation ‘for a long time’ on ‘many sides.’ Being honest about this does not justify the vile white supremacist violence and murder in Charlottesville. But to claim that these distorted individuals are the exclusive locus of bigotry in America does not help our cause.”