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‘Whites Have To Stop Apologizing’: Heather Mac Donald Tells Megyn Kelly Our Institutions Are ‘All Coming Down’

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Heather Mac Donald told Megyn Kelly that “whites have to stop apologizing” and warned that merit-based institutions are in jeopardy because of unfounded claims the country is racist.

During the Sirius XM “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast on Monday, the author of “When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives,” which is published by DW Books, said the U.S. is committing “civilization suicide” by tearing itself apart over the “phony charge of racism.”

“The problem is a vast academic skills gap,” Mac Donald said, adding that imposing standards in education is not racist.

“And the elites in this country are terrified that this skills gap is never going to close and they make it taboo to discuss it,” she added. “America is tearing down every meritocratic institution on the phony charge of racism. It has to end.”

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“The culture in those [black] communities has to change,” Mac Donald said. “There’s a very terrible, destructive, self-destructive ideology in black communities that says that academic effort is acting white. So, if you are a black student who is studying, who is paying attention in class, you will be demeaned as somehow betraying your race.”

When asked about claims by race activists that these steps are necessary because of the injustice of the past and slavery in America, the author said she’s done her homework and is “absolutely heartbroken and appalled” by how “ugly America’s past was.”

“That is not our reality today,” Mac Donald said. “… We are a different country and racism is not the problem. Here’s the reality Megyn, black privilege. It’s not white privilege, it’s black privilege. The reality is being black today, in any mainstream institution confers an enormous advantage.”

“There is not a single law firm, a single bank, a single tech lab in Silicon Valley, a single science lab that’s not twisting itself into knots to try to find, hire and promote as many as remotely qualified blacks as possible,” she added. “White heterosexual males, it’s over for them. They are at the bottom of the heap.”

“As bad as our country was,” Mac Donald said, no one alive today owned slaves, and most white people yearn to be “post racial.”

“We are not systematically racist,” Mac Donald said. “But today there’s nothing that the outside world can do to make them [blacks] competitively qualified. You have to do the reading yourself. The only person who can put knowledge of arithmetics in your head is yourself.”

“There’s no amount of compensatory transfers or trying to pull white people down that is going to make you able to read better,” she added. “The effort has to come from within that home. And right now, whites have to stop apologizing, Megyn, it is all coming down … there is not a single meritocratic institution above all in the sciences and medicine that is not in the crosshairs.”

“Any institution that is not proportionally black is now vulnerable,” she added. And said this “absurd disparate impact” and canceling of things like advancement placement/honors classes is “civilization suicide.”

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