Racism, in the purest sense of discrimination against another person due to race, is incredibly low in the United States. According to Eric Kaufmann of the Manhattan Institute, less than 10% of Americans are actually truly bigoted. In fact, when compared to the world at large, the United States is very racially tolerant.

Yet many Americans would be surprised to learn that our country doesn’t have as terrible a time with race relations as is often assumed.

There are several reasons for this. A big one, according to Wilfred Reilly, assistant professor of political science at Kentucky State University, is that the media talks about race and racism overly much.

Reilly says: “Mentions of terms such as ‘racists’ and ‘racism’ have increased by hundreds of percent across virtually every major news outlet since the empirically more bigoted 1970s and 1980s. In The New York Times, that Gray Lady of record, these two words surged from 0.005 percent of all words used in 1970 to 0.02 percent in 2020. In The Washington Post, mentions grew to 0.03 percent of all words appearing in print today. In 2023, headlines like CNN’s ‘There’s Nothing More Frightening… Than an Angry White Man’ and Salon’s ‘White Men Must Be Stopped (the Very Future of the Planet Depends on It)’ are a daily occurrence.”

This over-saturation of the race narrative in news media gives a false impression of racism occurrences. If a lie is told enough times, soon everyone will believe it. That narrative divides the American people and sows chaos and confusion, which leads to those in power taking advantage of the breakdown. A masterclass in this tactic was demonstrated during the riots that followed the George Floyd killing.

In the academic arena, there is a booming business of race grifters. There are several examples such as diversity, equity, and inclusion hires, but a most recent example is of Florida State University Professor Eric Stewart. Stewart, who is black, was making $190,000 a year but last week didn’t show up to his job after he was caught faking data on several of his papers to make racism appear to be a bigger problem than it is. Stewart exploited his position and the trust of his peers and students, all to promote the bigger narrative that America is racist.

Stewart uses the veneer of academics while others use accusations of racially motivated attacks to profit. Jussie Smollett is a perfect example. False accusations of racism can be used another way as well, e.g. the Democrat state legislators — the “Tennessee Three” — who joined the invasion of the state capitol by activists. Two were subsequently ousted for breaking the rules.

Those two individuals happened to be black, so naturally the media and the Biden administration cried racism. The accusation served to confuse and distract the narrative away from the inconvenient truth. There was an actual hate crime committed against Christian school children and teachers in Nashville by a transgender-claiming person. Sadly, it worked. All people could talk about was these three state legislators and not why they were ousted.

Faux racism trumps actual murderers.

Finally, there’s big activism like BLM, which use any perceived social injustice as a platform to manipulate feelings and extort money from people and businesses. Just how much money has BLM received from peddling its neo-Marxist critical race theory nonsense? At last count, $82 billion. And that’s just from corporations.

Why is the race industry blooming? Because it is a lucrative business based on the lie that the United States is the most racist place to live; a lie that has convinced people that more murdered blacks are killed by whites, that unarmed blacks are killed all the time by police, and that straight white men are the worst of oppressors. The reality is far from that. Hatred in a human heart has all skin colors, and that is really what is at the root of racism.

This lie is one of the greatest modern facilitators of injustice in this country, and the only way to fight against it is to keep telling the truth to anyone who will listen.