Well, folks, we have now reached the point in American life where in our racially divided society,

there is a quick get out of jail free card.

So long as you are a member of an intersectional group, if you've done something wrong,

if you are accused of corruption, if you are accused of some sort of malfeasance,

the get out of jail free card is you're attacking me because I'm black.

And this has significant

ramifications for American public life, because the simple fact of the matter is that in

meritocracy, we should be able to point out when you are corrupt, when you have failed.

And if every defense to failure is that the system itself is biased against you, well, that

means that you're going to get more failure system-wide.

This is true everywhere from politics to administration. It's true everywhere from the business

world to the educational world. If when Claudian Gay gets fired from Harvard University,

the basic idea is that it must be a racist system that got her fired, there's no way to hold

people accountable if they are of minority race.

If, for example, you are a politician, and it turns out that you're deeply corrupt,

and your first move is to claim that America is racist, and that's why you're being targeted.

And if that's believed, then there's no way to get rid of corrupt officials so long as they are of minority status. And once that standard is created, once the basic idea is that certain people

in our society have that get out of jail free card and others do not, then all standards

collapse because a double standard is no standard at all. The latest iteration of this particular

foolish defense, divisive defense comes courtesy of a person named Tiffany Henyard.

You might not have heard of Tiffany Henyard, but this is a burgeoning story about a small town mayor who's been alleged

to have engaged insignificant corruption. And on a vast scale, according to the UK Daily Mail,

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