Friday, June 30, 2023

NPR and the structural racism of ghosts

NPR hits a startling new low - the structural racism of American ghosts.

A reporter for CNN has written an autobiography addressing, at least in part, his bi-racial heritage with a black father and white mother.  In the autobiography, he discusses having seen a ghost, that of his white grandfather.

The NPR interviewer cannot help herself.  She is programmed to read the world, and the next world as well apparently, solely in terms of race.  She proceeds to interrogate the interviewee on the racism of his maternal grandfather's ghost appearing to him after life.

I have often observed that the clerisy are religious in their devotion to their nonsensical ideas of AGW, postmodernism, social justice, DEI, ESG, Woke, etc.  But this interview takes it to a whole different level.

The NPR interviewer starts the reportage with some disclaiming statements to ring-fence her empiricism, but having attempted to ground her brand as an empiricist, she then is fascinated by the obvious racism of the ghost who she was only moments before denying existence to.

The CNN reporter comes across far better than the interviewer.  NPR wants to dwell on structural racism in the afterworld whereas the CNN author wants to explore grace, forgiveness, redemption.

Kind of fascinating the clash of visions which the NPR interviewer doesn't even recognize.  There is the Woke, faux empiricist of NPR trying to engage with an empirical Christian.  A conversation occurs but I suspect it is being interpreted differently on either side of the discussion and certainly interpreted differently by the more based audience.

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