Michelle Obama proved once again that she is largely ignorant of real human nature in a recent speech in Chicago

Like her food-obsessed friend Oprah, Michelle Obama proved once again that she is largely ignorant of real human nature in a recent speech in Chicago, where she blamed “white flight” on evil white racism. But since all her heroes in the civil rights movement were also largely ignorant of real human nature her condescending matriarchal speech was understandable.

White flight is not just because human nature is biologically and genetically ethnocentric, which has been established in evolutionary sciences like sociobiology---explaining why people tend to prefer to live in neighborhoods of their own kind who share the same gene pool and same culture---white flight is also because of the crime rate in black neighborhoods. Though blacks are 24 percent of New York City’s population, they committed 68.5 percent of all murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults in the city last year, and the statistics in Chicago are similar. Falling housing prices in white flight neighborhoods should also be mentioned.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars and tried endless government programs trying to do away with ethnocentric human nature without success. What happens instead is a zero sum game where one race rises at the expense of another, as happened in the Affirmative Action program. It turns out that in advocating an ethnostate for blacks, the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan had a better solution to the race problem than the sainted Martin Luther King.

A real civil rights movement would promote an ethnopluralism of ethnostates for all groups, where each ethnostate is protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists---black, white, or brown---by some sort of federalism. An ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be established legally in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states.

When the Oprahs and Michelle's get on that band wagon we will have real civil rights for all groups. Don't hold your breath but it will come as surely as human nature exists.