Washington Post Feeds Into The Delusions Of ‘Racial Justice’ Activists

The “racial justice” people are nothing if not delusional, and the degree to which they are can’t possibly be overstated. Nor can the national media’s role in reinforcing that delusion.

The Washington Post last week ran what I hope will be the final hagiographic story about the months-long protests that took place in front Nellie’s, a gay bar in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators had been gathering on the street every Friday for weeks, demanding “accountability” over an incident in June involving a black woman who was aggressively kicked out of the bar by a bouncer.

“On a busy Friday night,” the Washington Post story began, “people headed to the well-known, often bustling bar on the corner of Ninth and U streets. But for the last time, the party wasn’t inside the bar. It was outside.”

Included in the online version of the story was a video with interviews of a couple of protesters. One of them named Afeni says that the boycott against Nellie’s “is important because they have showed a blatant disrespect for black people, they have showed a blatant disrespect for the demands of the community and they do not hold themselves accountable.” By “accountable,” she said she meant “paying reparations,” “apologizing” and “atoning for your actions.”

The video shows others chanting, singing, and line dancing in the street.

Fae, another demonstrator, said, “The greatest form of resistance is black joy because black people are given the least room to be joyful, are given the least things to be joyful.” She said the display was “revolutionary” that “this joy that you see here today, like, that is going to be what gets our demands, along with the hard work and blood and sweat and tears, that so many black friends have been putting into this effort.”

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