The Squad is racist, but not President Trump! (Racism: Part 2 of 3)
Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley - The Squad
So, it's an act of racism for a White man to make a negative comment about the "political ideas" of four women of color, really? Hum. Okay. So, in today's politically-correct-social-media-driven-world, a person is racist even if they never imply, write, or say nigger, peckerwood, spic, wetback, dago, kike, honkie, redneck, chink, wap, homo, lesbo, cunt, bitch, bastard, or any other blatantly demeaning word, right? Hum. Okay.
So, it's not an act of racism for a White man to make positive comments about the "political ideas" of four women of color, right?
So, let me get this right, it's okay if President Trump were to say, "The social and political ideas expressed in the films A Man Called Adam (1966), Sounder (1972), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), and Roots (1977), which all starred Cicely Tyson, were great!" Conversely, it's not okay if President Trump were to say, "The social and political ideas expressed in the films Boyz n the Hood (1991), Malcolm X (1992), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), which all starred Angela Bassett, were not great." Therefore, President Trump is, what, racist if he slams four films made by Angela Bassett? Really??
I'm Black, and I don't give a crap about the squad. These four women of color do not represent me, and I don't believe they represent the overwhelming majority of Black people, because their "presentation" reeks of individual "political" ambition instead of community service dedicated to their immediate electorate. They should be ashamed.
I have absolutely no interest listening to racial rhetoric from Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, a Johnny-come-lately-foreigner who didn't become a U.S. citizen until 2000, and was lucky to get elected to Congress on January 3, 2019. Why am I not interested? I'm Black, and I was actually born in the United States. I possess an extremely robust, fact-based knowledge of the Black experience in the United States, and what it actually means to be a Black person in the U.S. right now. Equally important, I hold vivid memories of my parents and grand-parents telling me about and showing me the written legacy of our family's origin on the R.J. Reynolds tobacco plantation, and the immediate impact of slavery on our family. Representative Omar is NOT Black, she has no dog in my fight as a Black man seeking fairness and justice here in the United States. She needs to shut the hell up.
Omar's an African from Somalia, and she has absolutely no first-hand knowledge of my life experience as a Black person in the United States, or the bigger picture of the entire Black history and existence in these United States of America. Frankly, Black people in Minnesota's 5th District should be upset, because they are NOT being represented by one of their own, a real "Black" person. It's a disservice to citizens of Minnesota, especially Black residents, for Omar to constantly pursue her own agenda, to give more lip service against pro-Israeli groups, Palestinian issues, and immigration than to address the fact that unemployment among Black Minnesotans is double the state average!
"And if you think America is a leader on inequality
and suffering and grieving
How come there so many people coming
and so few leaving?"
"Being A Black American" by Smokey Robinson
Def Poetry, Season 5, Episode 3
At President Trump's second press Cconference on the Neo-Nazi rioting in Charlottesville, Virgina he was correct when he said "there are good and bad people on both sides," because most of the people on both sides of the rioting in Charlottesville pray, go to church or temple or synagogue, and were Christian, Jewish, or Muslim, believe in God, and support various charities and fundraising activities. Unfortunately, the hypocrisy of all organized religions is the on-going failure to get followers to actually practice the egalitarian principles that exist as a cornerstone of their religious dogma; which is not reported by the media, and constantly ignored in motion pictures, as in "Blackkklansman(2018)." In this regard, there's a wealth of religious hypocrisy available to Spike Lee and others who condemn President Trump in, "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews: Volume 1 and 2," published by the Nation of Islam.
QUESTION: Isn't it blatant hypocrisy to defend the existence of statues and other commemorative symbols of the eight-(8) U.S. Presidents who actively owned slaves [George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James K. Polk, and Zachary Taylor], but to condemn statues of confederate leaders who actively engaged in the exact same practice? Well? Do you really think the slaves who were bought and sold, had their families divided, beaten, whipped, raped, castrated, burned, and murdered by the eight-(8) slave-owning U.S. Presidents would know the difference? Well?? Do you???
Omar and her colleagues in the "Squad" did not become media darlings because of their political acumen, or business acumen, but ONLY to spur their collective political ambitions via a pronounced hatred for Donald Trump; and more importantly, the need for the media to propel "binge-worthy chaos and sensationalism" into a perpetual news cycle. President Trump is right, if Omar doesn't like the U.S., she should pack her bags and go back to Somalia, but she won't do that, oh no, because Omar came to the United States because she and her family are blatant opportunists, and in Somalia she'd never make the $174,000 annual salary she receives as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives!
First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
