Northwestern Student Journalist Claims Jim Crow Is to Blame for the ‘Racist’ Way White People Walk on Sidewalks

Progressives look for racism everywhere — even where it doesn’t exist.

From peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to “niceness,” it seems they’ve slapped the “racist” label on everything at some point.

Now, Kenny Allen, opinion editor of Northwestern University’s student newspaper is attacking white people for “walk[ing] awkwardly on sidewalks because of their internalized racism,” Campus Reform reported last week.

“When I first got to Northwestern, I wondered why walking around on campus could be so frustrating. Even when sidewalks were relatively empty, I would often have to walk way around people to pass without bumping into them.” Allen wrote in an April column.

“At first, I chalked it up to the geographic diversity of the school; maybe the people that came to this school were used to different ways of moving through a public place. But after talking to my Black friends about my experience, they echoed it: people at this predominantly White school would not move out of our way on the sidewalk,” he added.

Allen chalked up his experiences — and the experiences of other blacks on campus — of feeling as if they are “being pushed off the sidewalks” to a legacy of Jim Crow segregation that helped create a sense of “black inferiority” that still fuels the way blacks and whites interact.

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