Black history month is not for blacks like Clarence Thomas

 He's already not in the Museum of Black History, so I guess it's not that surprising that the documentary about Clarence Thomas, actual black from a region of the country so poor and slavery-haunted that most Americans can't even imagine it, has been removed from Amazon's streaming service. Way to celebrate Black History Month, am I right?

But this might be the perfect time for me to urge you to watch Created Equal. My husband and I enjoyed it thoroughly; it's an inspiring story of an admirable man. Buy a copy for your young people's group. Watch it with your high schoolers (older teens -- the Anita Hill accusations are definitely R-rated). It's worth it for the footage of the Senate confirmation hearings, during which the shockingly racist Joe Biden reveals both his malice and his stupidity. 

How to define racism

Fr. Pokorsky (a good friend) writes on the subject of how to define racism, spurred by one of the endless social-justice messages he (like all diocesan priests) receives from the chancery. 

It's true, what he says, that these messages (and policies) are written by faceless hirelings, not by the bishops themselves, a state of affairs that bishops should address. The professional Catholics behind the scenes are immersed in progressive (or outright Marxist) politics and certainly don't have the grace of state to be guiding the diocese in matters of faith and morals (and wouldn't even if their politics were better grounded).

"As with every violation of the Ten Commandments, the bishops should decry racism, carefully defined. But they have no right to implicitly (if unwittingly) invite the overthrow of our civilization with charges of “systemic racism” as defined by cultural Marxists."