Whitlock: The American Racism Rush and the San Francisco 49ers are trampling traditional values and the new indigenous people

If an accurate history is ever written, we will remember this time of racial upheaval as an aftershock of the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Let me explain.

Gold is not scarce. Its high value is derived from the difficulty of finding it and the costly process to refine the metal. Racial bias is not scarce. We all produce it. Progress and enlightenment have helped us combat and conceal our biases, making racism far more difficult to find, and it's even harder to find or produce the systemic racism that once plagued our laws and American customs.

Racism is now a form of gold, a high-value precious element desperately hunted by race miners, sometimes called "race-baiters." The discovery of racism greatly enriches the miner.