The National Book Awards would be like the Oscars if no one outside the industry had any idea that they existed. The agenda is to tack left and hate America. And that's what you get...
If the winners of the 2016 National Book Awards are sure about one thing, it’s that America is a violent, racist dystopia of a country — and always has been. All of this year’s awards, announced on Wednesday night, went to books that explore and condemn America’s legacy of racism.
The fiction winner was no surprise: Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad is also an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and it’s been celebrated for its combination of propulsive plotting and complex philosophical ideas. It’s about a slave woman named Cora who’s trying to escape the antebellum South on the Underground Railroad — only here, the railroad is a literal railroad, and as Cora travels across state lines, she’s also traveling through time. The result is a vivid and visceral exploration of how much the legacy of slavery continues to haunt America today.
The nonfiction award went to Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which features similar themes. Tracking racist ideas and speech throughout our history, Kendi shows how racism has been fundamentally entwined with American institutions since before the founding of the republic, and how so many of our most brilliant thinkers worked to keep it there — not out of ignorance, but because it was convenient for them to do so.
Living in a dystopian totalitarian system, you can't tell the fiction from the non-fiction. They're both the same stale propaganda stew. They have nothing to say except the same old slogans.
And don’t worry: If anyone starts to think that reading a book about racism absolves them from complicity with the system, the poetry winner will set them straight. In Daniel Borzutzky’s The Performance of Becoming Human, poetry is just another cog in the violent, racist machine of capitalism. There can be no redemption through art, because art, like everything else, is part of the monstrous system.
The monstrous system isn't capitalism. It's the left. Which has made everything part of its monstrous system. It has destroyed art and literature and replaced them with the soulless mechanics of propaganda. Everything exists on the assumption that some vast destructive revolution can redeem America from its evils.And then finally the ends will justify the means.
It worked in the USSR and China. Didn't it?