Brittney Griner’s Black PrivilegeLike the empires of the past, there are orders of rank. Black privilege travels to the empire's very frontiers, if not quite beyond them.
By Matthew Boose
July 24, 2022
Russia’s prosecution of women’s basketball player Brittney Griner on drug smuggling charges has become an unusual international controversy. Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport in February after vape canisters containing hash oil, a potent extract of marijuana, were found in her bags. She does not deny that she was carrying illegal contraband, but her case has attracted overwhelming sympathy from the Biden Administration and the Western media.
The U.S. government’s designation of Griner as a hostage is bizarre. Griner was not ambushed. She traveled to Russia of her own free will. Nobody forced her to bring illegal drugs into a country with famously strict drug laws. What did she think was going to happen?
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The uproar over Griner is driven by two converging liberal fixations: hating Russia, and worshiping black people. The liberal consensus in America is that black people can only be victims, never perpetrators, of crimes. This pathological thinking is what leads to the martyrdom of every black ruffian gunned down by a police officer, regardless of circumstances. It’s what is driving the mad push for “criminal justice reform” that has led to anarchy and suffering for innocent victims. The real victims, according to this insane dogma, are the disproportionately black criminals whom society must pander to by lowering its standards.
The Griner case shows the application of black supremacy ideology, or “anti-racism,” to foreign policy. Griner is personally in contact with the head of state of the world’s most powerful government, in the middle of an undeclared proxy war between the nation detaining her and her home country. You would think the Biden Administration had bigger priorities—like resolving the conflict in Europe before it develops into something worse—than stoking diplomatic tension with baseless accusations of persecution against a nuclear-armed adversary.
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Griner is receiving unusually solicitous treatment because she is black. She gets extra points for being a lesbian who plays women’s basketball. In the metropole of the liberal world order, someone like Brittney Griner is a patrician. The Biden Administration exhorts Americans suffering the consequences of the Ukraine war to make sacrifices for the liberal world order, but the liberal world order does not apply justice equally at home or abroad. Like the empires of the past, there are orders of rank. Black privilege travels to the empire’s very frontiers, if not quite beyond them.
Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/24/brittney-griners-black-privilege/
