You can find racism in the United States if you undertake a mission to look for it. Maybe at some Black barbershop, a middle-aged White businessman would encounter racism. But do not despair: there is always another barbershop. No need to set that one on fire or create national news in outrage.

It is hard to find anything at all that the unhappy Left does not consider racist. Pete Buttigieg, the frequently unavailable Secretary of Transportation, informed us that roads are racist. Seattle schools were the first to declare that “Western math” is racist, used to oppress people of color. California is expected to follow.

This obsession by the Left that everything is racist is silly but annoying and is used as a major distraction from unifying the citizens as American, rather than identifying as their specific demographic. With that division and diversion, the People are prevented from forming a united focus on the genuine issues confronting the United States that matter to everyone, like food, energy, housing, crime, and employment.

The assertion that we are a racist country with oppressed classes seems like the basis for the parable that the emperor has no clothes, given we just witnessed at least eight million known illegal immigrants from 100 countries of all races enter the country in about three years, making it one of, if not the, largest migrations from multiple regions to one country in human history.

I suggest that these illegal immigrants did not risk life and limb to travel thousands of miles in harsh conditions to get to the United States because it was a racist country that features oppression. Nor do they or anyone else believe they were seeking asylum, which is the flimsy basis for allowing their entrance without........

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