In the spreading and deepening influence of these converging modes of racial thinking, we are witnessing the demolition of the moral cornerstones of the American polity, foremost including its dedication to natural rights and color-blind justice, and their replacement by a regime that elevates race over humanity. We now confront a faction that, well-meaning or not, stands for the banishment of the spirit of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and the coronation of a transmigrated spirit of George Wallace, demanding race division today, tomorrow, and forever.
“Plainly,” Lincoln observed, the “idea of secession”—the principle of disintegration—“is the essence of anarchy.” For the 1619/BLM faction, the ruling principle is one of disintegration, not integration; of discord, not harmony; of war, not peace. If we allow it to prevail in American public life, we will have placed ourselves on a path toward either dissolution or despotism.
https://americanmind.org/essays/racialism-vs-america/
Peter C. Myers is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.