@Frank Apisa,
By what standard? By what standard should I see Trump as I would leprosy?
Because of... mean tweets? I don't care about a person being polite. My parents generally taught to be polite, but then I saw the ultimate effects in my sister, a person who said please and thank you while nonetheless being very rude and ungracious. This is what I have discovered of a typical liberal, that they are like people from Massachusetts. Excellent manners on paper, but they care more about reputation than they do about genuine kindness. They do a great many things for good press.
You write for the NY Times or whatever? I'll be perfectly glad to ask them to crowdfund your trip back to Europe. As for me, I grew up here, I happen to like what my country was like as a child in the 80s and 90s. Then in the 2000s I graduated, and realized that despite my studying and work, I was sold a lie. That the college education I was given made me slightly more useful than to work as a janitor. So I became a janitor who knew about civics, literature, history, and science. But I had no marketable skills. These are the fruits of a liberal education. They stink. Worse, I was brainwashed into buying leftist rhetoric from my twenties nearly 37 or so. Then I grew up.
So sure, we'll pay for a trip back to Europe. Or hell, I can chip in a bit extra to send you to Saudi Arabia so you can feel especially virtuous. As for me, I hate what my country has become, and I love what it was even 20 or so years ago.
European culture, with its colonialism, did far more harm to the world while America was still struggling with a sovereign identity divorced from Great Britain.
No, I am not looking for a return to days of slavery. Read your history. Find out how slavery was abolished in this country, and how the left used Jim Crow and the KKK for years to intimidate black voters. And how eventually, people wised up to it, so it had to reinvent itself. Out went the sundown cities (Oregon was an actual sundown state), and in went a whole list of programs meant to keep blacks living in the ghettos where crime and poverty prevailed. Out came the handouts to bribe black voters and keep them dependent of Uncle Sam's charity, up went black divorces, imprisonments, and down went black church attendance. You wanna tell me how this is not making things worse? Yes, technically blacks can become billionaires now. But most of them are stuck in a system that doesn't want them to succeed. That gives them handouts, instead of offering the same education and opportunities. Black men and women are haunted by the constant notion that they never know whether they got the job on their own merit, or whether Affirmative Action gave that job to them. You cannot imagine the blow to your self-esteem to be a token, worth nothing to the people you work for except to make someone else look good.
This is not the abolition of racism. This is even worse racism, but now we're not legally allowed to say "I didn't want to hire you because you're black." Now we're not allowed to say, "I hired you not because I think you're any good, but because I need a quota of black people at this job."
Years ago, the problem was obvious. There were real white supremacists burning crosses (the same party has always been burning crosses in one form or another), and decent people wanted to help blacks make a go of it. Now we try to pin "white supremacist" label on anyone who doesn't buy liberal rhetoric. But everyone who studied real history like me knows that the left has never been a friend of blacks and minorities, keeping them reliant on the food stamps and the other "benefits" at best, and at worst, actively trying to bully them into support
Years ago, blacks knew who to support. They were the ones that gave them real jobs, real equality, real faith, and real freedom. Now the black fell for the left taking credit for civil rights, and now live in crappy houses that look like this.
A black school during the Great Depression.
A black being led to prison in 2020. #StayWoke
How's that working for ya?
One of these had nice buildings, decent education, and loved and cared for God. One of these is angry, probably homeless, and probably addicted to drugs. One group has their life in order, and a future ahead of them after the Depression. Another will rot away in prison, and do no better out of it.
I am really thinking here. Have you really thought? Thought about whether blacks really want the woke left to tear away Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, the faces of very successful black entrepreneurs? Whether it is cool to rename football teams and schools and roads and bridges that real people worked on because you're offended. No it's not because they are treated in a demeaning way. It's because the left is actually ashamed of successful blacks. I haven't even mentioned women or Asians (many of which are punished by Affirmative Action, because they legit are successful).
These faces. Remember them.
This is Anna Robinson. Now the Aunt Jemima company is woke, and they call themselves Pearl Milling Company. Note the erasure of this woman.
Frank Brown. They removed the word Uncle because it was supposedly patronizing (fair enough), but then the rest changed too.
Yup, a real person, who owes his success to the company. And they erased him.
Frank L. White. Now it simply has wheat on top.
So you know, this is the side I'm against. The side that gives a free pass to black erasure. That keeps people dependent on handouts.
Yes, I want to make America great again. The America where all people after college have a fair shot at being employed, where the money you get is not totally worthless after taxes handing your money out to other people or through inflation, and when people can be sure of their accomplishments. Not the America where people riot in the street because they aren't even sure why they're angry, while assholes tell them they've helped them out. Not the America that is so messed up that they worry about climate that isn't happening, when the birds and plants can tell you they are doing just fine. Where people are frightened to death of a supposed disease that 99% of people recover. And where shopkeepers couldn't open their stores legally but people screaming "racial oppression" can smash the windows of these stores and take what they want without punishment.
I derive great pleasure in you having to read words as they head off the page. Have fun!
