At first I thought that Francis Menton’s post at Manhattan Contrarian in defense of Trump’s tweets heard ’round the world might be promising but it almost immediately descended into gibberish. Here’s where it fails:
No mention of race there, of course. Sounds to me like an invitation to the radical Congresswomen to start behaving like grown-ups and taking some responsibility for the absurd policy proposals that they throw around so recklessly. The Green New Deal for Somalia? I can only think it would take the impoverished Somalis from mere poverty to total destitution and starvation.
Somalia’s per capita emissions of carbon dioxide are already among the lowest in the world. Less than 1% of U. S. per capita emissions. Somalia doesn’t need a Green New Deal. The Somalis are already living it. Rhetoric is being substituted for reason. Not only that but Mr. Menton is arguing against his own position.
Somalia is a great example of all sorts of things. Low carbon emissions. The implications of anarchy. What happens under radical Islam. A country practically anyone would be eager to flee.
Somalis, too, make excellent examples or at least object lessons. Despite the best efforts of that most socially conscious of cities, Minneapolis, the Somali refugees it has so graciously hosted remain terribly poor. Their unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, largely the result of cultural difference. One-third of adult Somali women do not work outside the home compared with about a fifth of adult non-Somali women. Somali poverty in Minneapolis cannot be attributed to poverty. If anything the bigotry goes the other way.
I do not care for the expression “people of color” since I think it fundamentally consists of white people wrapping themselves in the cloak of oppression that black people, the descendants of slaves, can rightfully claim. I’m not the only one who thinks that. Many blacks think so as well. While it may result in a tactical victory I think it will inevitably result in a strategic defeat, at least for black people.
I also find it outrageous that there are people embracing the “one drop” view of race, formerly the province of the most racist of whites.
We are now at the end stage of progressive racism, where criticism of anyone not cis-gender white male is considered bigotry, regardless of what they said. ‘Kill all men’. ‘I think some men shouldn’t be killed’ ‘BIGOT!’
You may be outraged, but every black person and all civil rights groups embrace the one drop rule.
I think you’d be surprised. There are MANY grades of blackness within black society.
“I also find it outrageous that there are people embracing the “one drop†view of race”
I was unaware of this. Who is doing that? Since you are citing it I assume it is someone of the same, roughly, political impact as POTUS?
Steve