The Brotherhood of Man?

I caught Blaze coverage of the “Straight Pride” parade in Boston. One incident it caught illustrated how bad racism has now become on the North American left. Two guys, both avowedly of European ancestry, were arguing, left vs. right. See the video above starting around the 13:45 mark. The leftist, apparently a visitor from France, having called the rightist a Fascist, stormed off, shouting “Go home!” The rightist, a Bostonian, answered “I am home, brother.”

And then a black woman behind him took loud offense to him calling anyone “brother”--because he was not “African-American.”

In her mind, it was not only that only other people with black skin were her brothers. Worse, nobody who was not black even had brothers. Implicitly, only African-Americans had the right to such solidarity. Only African-Americans were human.

The use of the greeting “Brother,” to a non-relative, and the idea that all men are brothers, comes of course from Christian, Muslim, and monotheistic tradition. It acknowledges that we are all children of the same Father, God. No doubt it is from Christian usage that it has come to be common in the US black community, as it is with devout Christians or Muslims everywhere. A fact of which this woman seems to entirely ignorant.

Perhaps the lesson here is that our faith in human equality and in human rights is built on the bedrock of Judeo-Christian principles. Forget them, and we devolve quickly into racism and tribalism; and the opposite of brotherhood.