It is bigotry with better branding.
That is not complicated. It is not subtle. And the people who demand we pretend otherwise are not confused—they are selling something.
A worldview that forces every human interaction through a “lens of color” does not heal anything. It violates the core of the Christian faith and the foundational principle of our constitutional republic: that every person stands equal before God and equal under the law. Skin is not destiny. Character is. Conduct is. The content of a man’s soul is.
Jesus did not sort the crowds by melanin. He looked at the heart. Galatians 3:28 does not leave room for racial scorekeeping: there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free… for you are all one in Christ Jesus. The moment a movement requires you to see color first and the individual second, it has already left the Gospel behind. It has also left the American founding. The Declaration’s self-evident truth and the Constitution’s equal protection were not written as temporary slogans until the next racial grievance cycle. They were written as permanent limits on government’s power to treat citizens differently because of ancestry.
Listening Requires Hearing Yourself
Listening is not just waiting for your turn to speak. Real listening includes the discipline of hearing the words coming out of your own mouth and measuring their effect—on you and on everyone else.
The race industry has abandoned that discipline. It speaks of “equity,” “anti-racism,” and “lived experience” while practicing the exact racial essentialism it claims to oppose. It lectures farmers, veterans, and working parents about their supposed privilege while the same speakers live behind gates, send their children to private schools, and cash checks from foundations and government contracts that grow fatter the more divided the public becomes.
That is not moral clarity. That is narcissism with a microphone. And the people of Minnesota are not too dumb to notice.
How the Syndicate Uses the Race Card
In Minnesota the racial lens is not an academic theory. It is an operational tool of the DFL machine and its nonprofit satellites. It is used to:
• Deflect from documented fraud in daycare, COVID relief, and nonprofit networks that have looted taxpayers for years.
• Silence scrutiny of election administration and voter-roll integrity by branding questions as “racist.”
• Justify preferential treatment in hiring, contracting, and school discipline while actual street crime and family breakdown continue to devastate the communities these policies claim to help.
When every problem is reframed as a racial power struggle, the actual mechanisms of power—money, patronage, and bureaucratic capture—escape examination. That is not accidental. It is the point. The race hustle and the grift travel together. One provides the moral cover; the other provides the cash.
A Minnesota Worth Building
We do not need another generation raised to see neighbors as avatars of historical grievance. We need a Minnesota that recovers the simple, hard truths that built this place:
• Every human being carries the image of God and is accountable for his own choices.
• Equal justice under law is non-negotiable. Preferential treatment by race is still preferential treatment.
• Strong families, honest work, and ordered liberty produce more human flourishing than any identity bureaucracy ever will.
• The people who actually produce the food, defend the country, and keep the churches and schools running are not the problem that needs to be managed. They are the solution the managers keep trying to lecture.
The arrogant class that treats ordinary Minnesotans as too simple to understand these things has had its run. Their ideology has delivered higher crime, deeper division, and institutional distrust. It has not delivered justice. It has delivered careers for the professional grievance class and distraction for the rest of us while the real rackets continue.
We will not answer racism with more racism. We will answer it the only way that has ever worked: by refusing to participate in the lie, by judging people as individuals, and by returning to the principles that actually hold a free people together—faith, family, equal justice, and the hard work of telling the truth even when it is unfashionable.
That is the Minnesota we are fighting for. Not a racial scoreboard. A constitutional republic where every citizen stands equal before the law and before God.
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Lindell-Parrish ticket
Campaign Manager Heidi Wanty: heidi@parrish4mn.com
(612) 460-1717
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