Friday, May 31, 2019
Abstruse
means difficult to understand. I was
called abstruse once when attempting to explain the distinction between index
coefficients in canonical correlation analysis compared to those in standard
structural equation modeling. From that one day in class more than 25 years
ago, I still have a fondness for the term as an apt descriptive of myself.
Personally, I do not consider my plane spoken comportment to be difficult to
understand, but rather that most outside of the world of science, do not abide
by taking one’s words as what they mean and are stated to mean. Many cases this
is because people have bias that frequently prevent them from acknowledging
facts that they too may be aware of but typically avoid because they do not support
or confirm to their personal, political or philosophical narrative. Consequently,
many consider that my views on race in 21st century America, as a
Black man too are abstruse in the age of Black Lives Matter and continuous charges
of seeing racism everywhere someone goes.
Today,
race and racism are seen around every corner. Whether if it is the orcs in Lord of the Rings or asking a group of black men with a history of dining and dashing to pay before they are served. Whenever a cop, especially a white cop
shoots or kills a Black man, it is an instant racist success. Are any of these truly
racist acts or are they rooted in common sense? If a group of white men with a
history of dining and dashing were confronted by a Black person, would it still
be racist? I ask this because for many Blacks in America, it seems they
consider the biggest obstacle to success and achievement in America is racism.
I vehemently disagree.
First,
as one born in segregation in the deep south, nothing that we as Black folk
confront, even the police is as racist as it was in the late 1950s and 1960s –
NOTHING. For people to form an organization as if this is a real problem is
sinister, superficial and disingenuous and I can provide elucidation on this.
In 2017, there were 1147 killings by police of which 149 were unarmed including 49 Blacks and 51 whites. There are approximately 900,000 law enforcementofficers in the U.S., a nation with 328.7 million citizens of which 47.4 million (14.6%) are black and of that 21.5 million (48% of Blacks) are male. Using
simple math, this means there was 1 Black killed for every 6.5 million U.S.
citizens, 1 for approximately every 967,000 Black citizens and 1 for every
438,000 Black male citizens. When the same analysis is conducted using
drowning, of which 2,760 Blacks died because of drowning, this accounted for 1
out of 118,000 U.S. citizens, 1 out of every 17,000 Black citizens and 1 out of
every 7,700 Black male citizens. Thus, the query, if Black lives mattered, wouldn’t
or shouldn’t drowning be higher than Blacks killed by police?
Such
analysis is factual yet remain ignored. I have done similar analysis with Black
accident victims, those of cardiovascular disease deaths and Black homicide
victims – all way more significant that Blacks killed by police. I am not
saying that this is not a problem, but rather it is disingenuous to say this is
a major problem. But when I consider Black kids shooting each other, maternal mortality, poor education outcomes in the form of dropout rates and reading and math proficiency, poverty, health and employment, police killing Blacks isn’t
that important and is more so an outcome of our learned helplessness.
The
modern world view that appears to be only applicable to Blacks born in America
is that we are helpless and cannot do for ourselves without the pity of whites.
This nature is never applied to Jews, Koreans, Jamaicans, Nigerians or Chinese,
just us. It is as if we have been taught as Black people that racism is more
important than it is or that we have been taught over the past few decades that
Blacks in America are the ONLY and first race in history to be proud to think
we cannot succeed unless we have ideal conditions. Think about it, it suggests
that because we are having problems we will never achieve or have success. It
seems to be forgotten that we as a people had success even with Jim Crow and
segregation. It is the goal of racist to implant such ideas to make us obsess
about racism, even subtle, that we cannot succeed until racism is obviated.
This is neurotic and illogical.
Yes,
white privilege is real, but how does Black folk always talking about it solve
our problems? Unfortunately, when you address it, you are attacked. Take the example
of Bill Cosby. Cosby said what our parents and grand parents said. Be
responsible, take care of your kids, study and work hard. Just saying that is
what mad Ta-Nehisi Coates his career. His first major piece in the Atlantic
attacked Cosby for “respectability politics.” What is wrong with being
respectable? I know no Black mother father, grand mother or grand father that
do not desire or preach for their kids to be respectable. Eric Dyson got so mad he wrote a book attacking Cosby for what in essences, Blacks have been
teaching their offspring for more than a century. From their position, it is
wrong o teach people to be responsible, respectable, and to believe you can succeed
on your merit alone regardless of economic circumstances and history shows that
we can, have and did achieve and only stopped this approach in the mid-1980s. It
is easy to make a baby, but it is hard to be a father.
We need
to take responsibility for not only ourselves but equally our families and
communities. But according to Coates, asking people to be responsible and to raise
their children is blaming the victim although we all see and know that
individual behavioral dysfunction (speaking proper English is acting white,
studying hard is acting white or reading is acting white) is the groundwork of
African American economic disadvantage. First generation Asians in NYC who
barely speak English hold education the highest of all aspirations so much so
that many go without food and basic amenities, so they can pay for tutoring for their children. This is too much for us because we are locked in on being victims
and the targets of steady racism. If we do not instill a capacity to function
and compete in our children, we will never have equality of outcomes and crying
racism will do nothing to accomplish such. Sure, Affirmative action will
improve numbers and get you in the door, but it will never address the
fundamental problem behind why our children do not stay in or perform well in
the top institutions of higher learning in America. This is a problem because it means Blacks
will always be a peonage class collectively. To put it simply, we cannot blame
white people for the failures in our communities or us as parents not doing
homework or reading with their kids.
Blacks
in Barbados, a nation also impacted by slavery and with high population of
single parent households see their kids on average score 1300 on the SAT. Across
Africa, the average GMAT score is approximately 510 compared to 433 for U.S.Blacks.
Once
jokingly, a colleague of mine (a physicist) said: “now we can describe victimization
as a time dependent projection matrix with intersectionality being the op-diagonal
matrix coefficient.” It made perfect sense to me, for it implied that you have
a set of characteristics which are ranked, typically on race and how they rate
on the victim hierarchy, and it changes over time as a function of other
intersectional variables such as religion, gender, and sexuality. This is where
we are as Black people – we want people to lower standards for us to succeed as
if we to dumb, stupid, disadvantaged and oppressed to do well on our own
effort.
Acknowledging
that a white person has white privilege such that they see me as helpless and
inferior and can only achieve with white assistance and handouts is not only
insulting but also the axiology of racism. It is the same disposition that
whites exhibited toward Blacks during slavery, Jim Crow and the Black Codes. It is the same disposition that led to
segregated schools from Boston to Little Rock, for the good of Blacks. Still we incessantly repeat the lunacy that
Blacks will never have success until white come to terms with racism. I do not
even know what that means. Is it saying that once this Fourier eutopia happens,
then and only then, Blacks will be able to achieve success in America? Is it
saying that once progressive liberal whites admit their white privileges, and
atone for this original sin by admitting their inherent racism and worship
their God Ta-Nehisi Coates will make it all good for Blacks only then? I think
Not.
No
matter how much white people read Coates and hoist the scarlet letter of white privilege,
it will do nothing to address the underlying conditions that alone are contributing
to our collective behavioral dysfunction. So far it has only resulted in a
defensive populous that seeks to talk about the books by Black authors they
read and endless pedantic twitter rants and op-eds that serve only to feed
their egos, for targeted action in their minds directed at solving problems are
not as essential as constantly complaining and blaming white people.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
One of the more illogical manifestations of culturalMarxism in the form of political correctness is the concept of “wokeness.” In
simple terms it refers to a subset of people, typically from entitled,
privileged middle and upper middle-class backgrounds who maintain the posture
of having all the “right” or “correct” views and beliefs regarding all issues
of identity politics. The woke are new age puritanical identarians who cannot
and will not accept that there exist others that disagree with them or have differing
views than them. They practice this vicious form of political correctness to
demand and defend group think based on immutable characteristics including but
not limited to race, sex, gender and ethnicity – all being more important than
the individual.
On the basic level, woke is pure folly. It covers
supporting the belief that Tampons should be placed in men’s restrooms to
believing that men can get pregnant. If you do not ascribe to such lunacy you
are instantly a fascist, homophobe, sexist transgenderphobe that supports the
white supremacy patriarchy sciences of biology, anatomy and physiology. If you
are woke, you can’t eat meat, or if you do, it has to be free range, no
antibiotic gently killed meat. Thus, bacon eating carnivores can never be woke.
A perfect example of being woke is having white guilt such to the point you adopt
two black babies and raise the 7-year-old black boy as a transgender girl – see Charlize Theron. Woke is a synonym for upside down, for facts and science is
not as important as a person’s collective group feelings.
If one is to be honest and historically accurate, woke
culture is the antithesis of the civil rights movement and its desire for
equality of opportunity for all as equals based on the content of our
character. Woke cats do not see it this way - they are a group, a race, a
sexual orientation before an individual. They are actively seeking to undermine
the civil rights progress of the past that ended segregation and discrimination
due to race to treat all people the same for example in exchange to isolate and
separate today because they want to feel that the world (especially America) is
more racist today than in the 1950s and 1960s. For them, group affiliation and
identity are more significant than what you think as an individual. In other
words, your skin color and who you like to have sex with is more valuable than
one’s character and uniqueness. Consequently, putting the group first means
that one must speak or think the way the group desires or risk being attacked and
punished.
To be accurate, woke social justice warriors are not
the sharpest knives in the drawer, just try having a conversation or discussion
with them. Regardless if it is abortion, biology as being the singular
determinant of gender or what bathrooms a person should use, instead of citing evidence
and defending or validating their position, they merely yell slurs: bigot,
racist, fascist, alt-right, sexist, trandgenderphobe and Islamphobe are some of
the most common. This is the easiest way for them to abstain from engaging in
defending their positions.
If these do not work, their ‘they know better than
anyone else’ snobbery comes out. This is one method employed that allows them
to justify looking down on individuals with views different from theirs while
at the same time allowing them to play the victim. Look at the period after
President Trump came to office. They to
this day describe Trump voters and supporters in condescending terms such as
deplorable, dumb people too stupid to understand politics or know what they are
voting for because they live in fly-over country and are uneducated (or at
least not as educated as me). This is a core characteristic of the
self-proclaimed woke because it provides them with a synthetic justification to
look down upon and lecture the masses. More importantly, it artificially rationalizes
their authoritarian and entitled belief that they are right on and about all things
and that by default this corroborates their intolerance of people that have
differing views and positions (if you disagree you must be silenced).
In the woke realm of the universe, men can only write
on and talk about male issues, blacks can only write in black spaces, gays
cannot paint images of heterosexual sex acts and whites cannot have
dreadlocks. This is cultural
appropriation in the new vernacular but by the same definition, it is
reminiscent of cultural purity we saw when Asians could not own land, interrace
marriage was prohibited and blacks and whites had separate water fountains and
schools. This woke behavior ironically
is anti Brown V. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia and pro Dred Scottv. Stanford, and Plessy v. Ferguson. It is as if woke people are completely thoughtless
and lack real world interaction to the point that they do not understand what
they are doing, or that they intentionally want to roll back the hand of time
and undo all the gains approaching equality we have had as a nation over the
past decades.
The US is possibly in for a bleak future if people are
so afraid that they inhibit reasonable discussion because one party is so isolated
in being holier than though in bubble-wrapped urban elite enclaves that they
cannot engage others with ideas, that there only course of action is to repeat
bland Borg-like slogans reminiscent of Mussolini’s Italy and brained-washed
followers of Jim Jones. This is the least common dominator of being woke for
the progressive elite and over-educated fake oppressed modern left. When all is
reduced to a battle between privilege and victimhood, eventually everyone becomes
a victim and merit and hard work becomes obsolete. Being woke is not only
irrational and untenable, it will just result in an adult population incapable
of dealing with reality and preferring to live in a world of perpetual
make-believe that asserts one has a right not to be offended or encounter
thoughts they dislike.
Friday, May 24, 2019
For the
record, I want to clarify I despise the use of the word nigga. However, I have used it, in conversational
dialogue especially in the writing of my fiction. Yet still, I do not, have not
and never will use it about myself for I am a man. With this stated, I would
like to add that the two most important factors politically that impact in a
negative fashion Blacks in America in terms of policy from my purview are
abortion and ILLEGAL immigration. Note, the point of clarity being on the
adjective ILLEGAL.
I have
over my lifetime lived in Africa close to six years: Nigeria, Senegal and South
Africa comprising the bulk of that time. But if I am honest, it may be closer
to eight if I include the months and weeks I lived or visited Sierra Leone,
Malawi, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Niger, Libya, Benin and several other African
Nations. I say this to remind many that
most Black Americans have never been abroad let alone lived abroad or even left
the urban areas in which they were born in. As such the reason why, I suggested
ILLEGAL immigration and abortion are the two most important issues confronting
blacks as a collective. Sure, I know about economics, but truth is we have
enough loot to deal with that, it is rather our choices dictate we spend rather
than save, or even invest in ourselves. For example, just imagine if we return
to our value of education pre-civil rights era, or just promoted education as
many Asian in America do as opposed to pushing sports and television watching –
but I digress.
I will not
address abortion this time but rather focus on ILLEGAL immigration. This is an important point of emphasis for
most progressives. What strikes peculiar is that no such significance is
directed toward Blacks born in America and that ILLEGAL immigrants seems to be
more important to the white liberal (black liberal think like progressives
also) elite than black folk born in America, which for my purpose will be
coined niggagration. This easy to see in many urban areas populated by and run under
progressive policies. In Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco
where black homelessness is way out of control and only equaled by drug use and
living on the streets in tents eating out of trashcans because rich technocrats
that run Starbucks, Facebook, twitter and other similar Silicon Valley type
businesses have priced them out of housing affordability. Places like Los
Angeles, New York and Baltimore among others are failing our students, in many
cases graduating them from high school while most upon graduation cannot read or do math on a 6th grade competency level. Yet all the while going on strike,
asking for more money, to be paid higher salaries for poor outcomes. LA where
this problem in exacerbated due to over crowed schools the consequence of
ILLEGAL immigration and schools that are becoming more segregated by race each year.
People,
especially white democrats, have a disproportionate interest in protecting,
providing for and taking care of cats that break the law to enter these United States of America and I find such ridiculous. We have problems already that
most progressives ignore and do not even attempt to deal with and unfortunately
a large corpus of the disenfranchised suffer as a result.
They tell
us all immigrants are law abiding and more so than Americans, even Black
Americans. This is a lie. First to be here as an illegal, you did so by
intentionally breaking U.S. immigration laws. According to statistics from the
U.S. Sentencing Commission, ILLEGAL immigrants are far more likely to commit
criminal offenses that Blacks born in America. This includes being 22% of all federal murder convictions, 33% of all money laundering convictions and more
than 70% of all federal drug possession convictions with intent to distribute.
This is not only way less than Black Americans but also all Americans regardless
of race. This mean that 22% of all federal murder convictions are committed by
non-citizens while represent only 7% of the population. Illegal
aliens represented and more than 85 percent of the non-citizens convicted for
sex crimes in 2018 and nearly 60 percent of the non-citizens convicted for
murder last year. Sadly, many of these
events happen in sanctuary cities. The kicker is that although nearly daily
occurrences of such crimes are frequent, we are never informed of such by
mainstream media. Over the last few weeks, I’m certain most have not heard of
the ILLEEGAL alien who raped a 3-year old girl as she slept in her bed, or of
the ILLEGAL alien who stole an autistic man’s identity, or the illegal alien
selling kilos of crystal meth in Pennsylvania, or of the two ILLEGAL aliens who
met a pregnant woman on Facebook and killed her and ripped her baby from her womb, or the three MS-13 gang members, two of which were in the country
illegally, who used a machete to decapitate and hack to death a 14-year-old
Maryland girl last month , or of the ILLEGAL alien serial killer just indicted on twelve counts of capital murder in the deaths of women ranging in age from
76 to 94 in Texas. This is not over months but rather the last week. The sad
point of observation about the murdered 14-year-old Maryland girl is that the
two teenage males had been previously arrested by Prince George's County police
on May 11, 2018 on attempted murder, attempted robbery, and related charges.
But since Prince George’s County is a sanctuary county, officials admitted they defied an ICE detainer and released the immigrants living in the U.S. illegally
into the community, resulting in the murdering a child, although they had been
accused of attempted murder.
Yet we are
told that these are the people we should welcome with open arms, care about
them being separated from their children when they break the law via ILLEGAL entry in the country, yet there is no concern for niggagration when Black
parents who break the law and are prosecuted never have white Hollywood
progressives or east and west coast liberal elites speak up for us when we go to
jail or prison for breaking the law. Are Black children not as valued or
important? Do our children do not suffer a similar level of trauma when
separated from their parents the result of incarceration?
As soon as
a fifth child dies in ICE detention we hear about it. But let it be a child
shot and killed on the streets of Baltimore or Memphis we don’t. Let a child die because they had the flu in this country and we will not. Truth be told, we
have the economic capacity to address the problems impacting US born citizens,
but we select to ignore this as a topic of discussion. We see that the economic
impact of medical care, education and incarceration for illegals forced on
taxpayers is bankrupting many US areas. And regardless if you like or admit it,
America does not have an endless availability of resources to service the needs
of the multitude of swarms Central and South American migrants. Once upon a
time the U.S. had almost eliminated diseases the likes of tuberculosis (TB),
dengue fever, hepatitis, and measles, but given the prevalence of these diseases in Central and South American countries, and the incessant trek of
migrants entering our nation illegally, we see these diseases on the rise. In
Hidalgo County, Texas, where the most illegal aliens are entering the US along
the southwestern border, the Health Department is reporting an outbreak of mumps in which 46 cases have been documented. As well the increasing number of cases of Whooping Cough. Again, one would never know about
this if you rely on the mainstream liberal media because it defeats their
narrative.
We spend
as a nation, more than $135 billion a year on providing medical, police and
educational services to ILLEGAL immigrants annually. This is loot we could be
using to address the servicing the needs of countless homeless living on our streets (a majority of which are Black, veterans and/or suffering from mental
health issues including addiction) and the many Blacks and whites in urban and
rural areas at the bottom economic pillar of our society. Especially since
Blacks and other Americans will have to provide our tax money to provide for
these folks. It is not racist or bigoted to state that one feels citizens born
in America should be our priority or main concern. But it is racist and bigoted for places with the most homeless where democrats have been in charge for nearly 50 years, to enforce policies that disparitely impact blacks more than other racial ethnic groups. The cities with the highest rates of homelessness are: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Washington, DC - all progressive strongholds. Even worse for Blacks to remain silient because we are not wise enough to think for ourselves and evalute thhe outcomes of such policies (See LA for example).
All I am
saying is that the white privilege you stomp and fuss about is the same white
privilege that wants and puts ILLEGAL immigrants over black folk born here.
Sure, America has its issues, but it is way, way better than any other country
around the world. I can drink water out the faucet without fear of dying. I can
have electricity uninterrupted most of the time unless of a natural disaster. I
can walk in a field without land mines or mortar shells suddenly being fired
from the bush. Leave the country and you will see what I mean, and more
importantly see why Africans and Caribbean Islanders come here, do not complain
and stack loot, and make America work for them, while many of us born here vote
against our own interest, scream racism all day and beg for handouts – we need
to do something about this niggagration.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Saturday, May 4, 2019
For the record I have never had a Facebook account.
This was not for a desire not to have one but rather because I read in its
entirety, the disclaimer for permitted use, which I vehemently disagreed with.
With that said, I am free to share my views unconditionally with respect to the
social media’s platform gormless decision to censor and deplatform Alex Jones,
Paul Joseph Watson, Louis Farrakhan and Laura Loomer among several others.
True, Facebook is a private company and they have the right to decide who can
or cannot use its services. However, it is also a publicly traded company and
for them to have a nebulous and unclear policy of who should be deplatformed
based on subjective criteria such as dangerous and offensive views will always
be unacceptable and un American.
Facebook gave the heads up on this ban to several
major mainstream news media outlets. This means that this was a coordinated
action, on behalf of the progressive left against leading conservative
activist. I say this because clearly there was a preconceived bias toward the
right or else they would have never called Louis Farrakhan right wing. They
do this in an autocratic way, for if Facebook consider what one says, or thinks
is hateful, people will not be allowed to share their views or opinions.
In basic terms, by their logic, one could ask why
should Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Louis Farrakhan and Laura Loomer be
allowed to use a computer, or paper to write down and publish their views or a
telephone for that matter? Would a contractor that builds a public square in a
town be allowed to decide who can or cannot speak on the wood stage they built?
Don’t even consider the fact that they deem hateful people as folk they simply
disagree with. As the Verge notes: “The decision took into account the group’s
behavior both on and offline” So for Facebook, appearing in a video with Gavin
McInnes (Jones & Loomer) or even praising him or Tommy Robinson (Milo
Yiannopoulos). CNN and Fox have had Gavin McInnes on TV, will they be banned? Facebook even allows a convicted pedophile (Austin Jones) to use their platform to groom underage girls into sending sex videos to him and his page is still up. How does this make sense?
According to CNN, Facebook states: "We've always
banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and
hate, regardless of ideology," If this was accurate then Antifa and
Islamic Jihadist fundamentalist would have been banned but they have not. If
these people are dangerous and get banned, then why are people like Antifa
allowed to threaten conservatives, even
their families with death and are allowed to operate openly on face book? None
of them have never threaten to kill people from what I have read. A white
democrat can call a black conservative a “nigger uncle Tom” and not be banned
(I know I responded to a twitter blue check who called me that and was banned
for life from Twitter). Yet still, some under thirty something silicon valley nerd in San Francisco, where shit and needles literally cover the streets, is allowed to make these decisions of what people are allowed or not allowed to listen to. I bet there wasn't even a black person in the room when this decision was made.
Who is Facebook to decide what people should hear or
not hear? Who is Facebook to decided what people want to read or should read?
Who is Facebook to decide what people should or should not be protected from?
Americans nowadays are soft enough as it is and to further bubble wrap them
from the real world will result in more harm than good. Facebook regardless if
the believe it or not is the public commons – the common place for public
speech. It is not good that private corporations can be unaccountable and have
the power to control our public spaces.
They may not want to admit it, but it is clear
Facebook had closed door purge conservative views meeting, or else they would
have never sent out a press release saying they were banning far-right
political voices (which are nowhere close to far right). The only reason Farrakhan
was added so that they would not seem to have a bias against the right on
behalf of the progressive liberal left. For example, Linda Sarsour remains on
twitter although she praises and supports Farrakhan and a known convicted
murder terrorist Rasmea Odeh who was convicted in Israel of killing two Hebrew
University students in a 1969 terrorist attack and for planning an attack on the
British Consulate. Is she banned? Will she be banned? I doubt it.
The flying monkeys of Facebook are the true danger. I
consider them flying monkeys because it is a phrase used that describes folk
“who act on behalf of a narcissist to a third party, usually for an abusive
purpose” or folk “who act on behalf of a psychopath for a similar purpose.” Yes
this is an apt description of the thought police of Facebook however, they are
not fictional characters the likes provided to literature by L. Frank Baum in
his novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz but they are ironically the same
representation of evil or fear Facebook censors proffer us today for to
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, dangerous means saying things they do not like – fascism
by another name is one person deciding what opinions you are allowed to have, especially if liberal leaning tech companies are the single controller in open public debate.
Friday, May 3, 2019
In its insatiable desire to be the wokest in the
moment, the progressive left has morphed into a combination of ‘whitey” and the
brain and the PC principle of South Park. It is so common place now that they
don’t realize how through their double standards that they are revealing their
true colors. Imagine for example if a white person said the following: "This is not going to be the country of [Black]
people.” Would this be acceptable? Would this be considered racist or
xenophobic? It sure it would be. However, this was not said by a white person,
but rather an immigrant refuge named Ilhan Omar and instead of black she used
the word white. Maybe it is no big deal
to many but for me, as a black man tired of bigotry and racism regardless of
its source, it is a major concern. I hate stereotypes and the collective
assignment of categorization over the individual. But this is typical of the
virtue signaling, divide and conquer political approach of the left in the
United States of America presently. It is as if this is the only thing they can
think of or concern themselves with.
As a man born in the segregated South, I can honestly
say racism isn’t as bad as many proclaim nor is it as institutional as many
desires to believe. If such was the case, all races would be subjugated via the
existence of the white Eurocentric political and power structure singularly,
but they are not. Take descendants of Asia born in the U.S. including but not
limited to Koreans, Indians, Chinese, Koreans and the Japanese. They too have a history somewhat similar but
not the same as slavery. The Japanese could not buy land in in many states and
were even interned. The same can be said for the Chinese at the turn of the
century. However, these groups do way better in economic and educational
outcomes that whites or blacks. Racism would not allow such an outcome on
behalf of white benefit if it was a true factor in present day outcomes related
to systemic power and oppression. What can be stated is that in these groups,
out of wedlock birth is lower and the value of education is higher, as it was
for blacks after slavery and during segregation.
Being woke leads to such irrational and spurious
conclusions when made in the absence of evidence and data. We see the same when
the left harps on Islamophobia and gay rights. On the one had you say to state
anything negative about radical Islamic fundamentalist is Islamophobic and
xenophobic, yet you paint all white people collectively for the sins of their
pigmentation and history and all blacks as being so dumb that we cannot succeed
in America because we are black. At the same time with respect to Islamic fundamentalist,
claim to be in support of gay rights while ignoring that in Islam being gay is
punishable by death historically and presently. Just last week, the Saudi
government executed 37 men including many for alleged homosexual acts. But to
say this fact is wrong and is considered blatant islamophobia when facts
outline this is evident.
Even noting the fact that Ilhan Omar gave a speech at
a fundraising event with Hassan Shibly, who is on record for extreme
anti-Semitic views against Jews and is the lawyer for Hoda Muthana, a New
Jersey–born woman who married an ISIS fighter and in writing has proclaimed her
adherence to the Islamic State, is an attack on all Muslims albeit specific
individuals are named. This is the issue democrats will have to address - how
their double standards and inconsistent logic show that they are not truly concerned
about the issues of identity they proclaim to signal support for.
Do not think I am picking on Omar because I am not.
Let us take Elizabeth Warren to task equally. The announced Democrat
presidential candidate recently penned and op-ed in which she too proclaimed
and outlined a serious issue in existence – black female mortality. However,
her rationale for the outcome in her view was racism without evidence. Warren
promulgated that the reason that “Black women are three to four times more
likely than white women to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes” was
mainly due to Racism. My query was why not sexism? American Medical Association
data show that more than 85 percent of obstetricians and gynecologists are
women. Moreover, data indicates that “ob-gyns had the highest proportion of underrepresented minorities (combined, 18.4%), especially black (11.1%) and
Hispanic (6.7%) physicians” and that “underrepresented minority ob-gyns were
more likely than white or Asians to practice in federally funded underserved
areas or where poverty levels were high. In fact, among adult medical
specialists, greater racial and ethnic diversity is found among
obstetrician-gynecologists (ob-gyns).” The more astonishing fact is that black
women are more than 10 times more likely to have a black female ob-gyn than a
white one, 18 more times than having a white male one. Again, not supported by
fact or math.
The double standards continue with regards to other
issues equally. On immigration for example, progressives appear to care more
about illegal migrants than homeless and poor minorities born in America. It is
as if they want an immigration policy for immigrants first versus one that
benefits U.S. citizens first. They do this disingenuously also by conflating
legal immigration with illegal immigration. They run cities like San Francisco
and Los Angeles which are reflective of their policies that result in mass
homelessness, failing government public schools and streets littered with
syringes and feces.
Another example is abortion. Progressives openly claim
to be the party of science but consider a baby in the womb a clump of cells
(which anatomy, biology and even ultra-sounds refute) when they are actual
human beings. Just this week, an Alabama democrat state lawmaker defended
abortion by saying "Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or kill
them later." This is a pervasive view for these same people advocate for
gun control because guns kill but since Roe V. Wade, there have been about 1.5
million deaths because of guns but 60 million due to abortion. But if you
support any views in the opposite of liberals, they attempt to silence you and
deplatform you. I know, I have been permanently
banned from twitter.
I would hope that facts would be more valuable than
the incessant claims of racism that progressives incessantly spew. Sure, racism
exist, and it will always exist, but it is not as bad as the left projects.
Fact is you will never ever be able to get rid of all racism or individual
racist beliefs no more than you can eliminate all murder. This quest for
eutopia is delusional and sociopathic. I just want to be treated as a unique
individual with my own personal agency, not as a group, for I am an individual
first rather than a part of a monolith.
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