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As I have written, time and again, when a Democrat /liberal. progressive says something they should do so facing a mirror because it generally is the reverse of what they want you to believe. Biden claims to be the humane president. In fact he has been a consummate liar for decades and his current lies, about no border crisis, has become a "whopper." How does the man live with himself?
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Biden’s Border
Crisis, Up Close
His
policies endanger vulnerable migrants by encouraging them to make perilous
illegal crossings.
By Jillian Kay Melchior
Sixty-five adults and 152 children clambered aboard smugglers’ rafts to cross the Rio Grande near Roma, a border town of 10,000. One Honduran woman hobbled on board on crutches. A human trafficker had broken her leg assaulting her in Mexico, but she was determined to get to the U.S., so she paid the $3,500 coyote’s fee and struggled onto the flimsy vessel. The group also included a mother cradling her 6-month-old daughter. It was March 16, a balmy evening. Around 8:45 p.m., hell broke loose.
Border Patrol agents came on the crossing, accompanied by a
Texas special-operations group. The smugglers grabbed the dark-haired baby girl
and hurled her into the deep water. They capsized the rafts, sending panicked
migrants flailing into the dark currents. “They did that to distract law
enforcement so it would become a rescue operation,” says Lt. Christopher
Olivarez, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
American authorities managed to rescue the baby, and a photo shows a Texas officer cradling the little girl. Her tiny arms stretch toward him, and her striped shirt and yellow polka-dot pants are soaked. The authorities also saved the woman with the broken leg and helped parents and children reach the shore. The Department of Public Safety incident report records no fatalities or serious injuries. But the smugglers escaped.
Migrant families wade through water in Roma, Texas, after being
delivered to U.S. soil by smugglers on small inflatable rafts, March 24.
PHOTO: DARIO
LOPEZ-MILLS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Biden has criticized Donald Trump’s immigration strategy as inhumane
and vowed to treat migrants compassionately. Yet his policies have created
perverse incentives for vulnerable migrants to enter the U.S. in dangerous
ways. Those policies enrich the Mexican cartels that extort, kidnap, rape and
exploit Central American migrants.
Before the pandemic, those fleeing persecution could seek asylum
legally by presenting themselves at a port of entry and declaring they had a
credible fear of returning to their home countries. But amid Covid the U.S. has
closed its ports of entry to asylum seekers, leaving Central American newcomers
with no legal recourse. The illegal pathway is still open: Migrants can cross
the border unlawfully, then declare themselves asylum seekers when they
encounter Border Patrol. Instead of evading the authorities, many of those
crossing now hope to encounter them.
Other Biden administration policies encourage families, and young children in particular, to hazard a dangerous illegal crossing. Amid the pandemic, the Trump administration invoked federal public-health law to expel migrants. The Biden administration kept this Title 42 emergency order in place but exempts unaccompanied children. In the Rio Grande Valley, American authorities have begun to release families traveling with children 7 and younger into the U.S.
“It’s great that the U.S. is welcoming women and children,” Pastor Abraham Barberi tells me when I visit the migrant shelter he runs in Matamoros, Mexico. “But they’re also sending the message to families: ‘Let’s leave everything behind because our children will make it across the border.’ ” Andrea Morris Rudnik of Team Brownsville, a volunteer group that helps migrants, agrees: “We’re basically encouraging moms and babies to cross the river, which is not right. And they’re willing to do it.” Parents with infants, toddlers and young children are crossing together, while others make the difficult decision to entrust children over 8 to coyotes and send them to the U.S. alone. “The trauma of telling your child, ‘You have to go now, cross the river. I’ll reach you later’—they let go of their children and hope for the best,” Mr. Barberi says. “I can’t even think of how that would feel, the trauma of that for the parents and the kids.”
Nothing about this is safe. In Mexico’s cartel-controlled border
towns, “life is cheap,” says Victor Escalon, regional director of the Texas
Department of Public Safety. During the border crossings, coyotes routinely
endanger and abandon migrants. Once migrants cross the Rio Grande, they face a
punishing Texas landscape. No breeze penetrates the thick brush, and in late
spring and summer, temperatures soar to 90 degrees or higher. Thorns,
mosquitoes, rattlesnakes and ticks abound. The grass hides holes that can snap
ankles and break legs. The Rio Grande winds and curves, and it’s easy to get
lost on its banks. Walking along the shore briefly, I can’t fathom how migrants
make it through without a machete, but somehow they do. Pregnant women, nursing
mothers and young children struggle through the brush, exhausted, soaked and
dehydrated. Many require medical attention as soon as border agents find them.
Others survive the journey north only to perish in the Texas brush.
In February U.S. Customs and Border
Protection reported nearly 9,500 encounters with unaccompanied children—the
most since the peak of the 2019 crisis—and nearly 19,250 encounters with
families, more than twice as many as in January. The March numbers will be even
higher. Since Oct. 1, Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio sector alone have
rescued more than 500 migrants as they attempted to cross into the U.S. On
March 20, a 9-year-old girl drowned while attempting to cross the Rio Grande
with her mother and 3-year-old brother. The New York Times reported last week that some
82 migrants have died since October while attempting to enter the U.S.
Maryury Nomy Ramirez, 21, crossed the Rio Grande on March 19 with her 4-year-old son, Jose. “I was risking my son’s life,” she says bluntly. But back in Honduras, “my life was desperate from poverty. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t find a way to provide for my son, I was running out of money, and what I earned from washing and ironing was not enough.” So she took the risk. “God kept me, and everything was fine—really—tranquil for me and my son.” She holds him tenderly on her lap at the bus station in Brownsville, adding that she plans to go to Los Angeles.
Cartels love the humanitarian crisis they’ve helped create. They
monopolize the territory south of the border, and no migrant crosses without
first paying up. “They help create the vulnerability and then they exploit it,”
says Roy Villareal, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection official who
recently retired after serving as the chief patrol agent in Tucson, Ariz.
Cartels strategically send hundreds of migrants across to ensure that Border
Patrol and police are overwhelmed dealing with the humanitarian crisis. A few
miles away they move guns, drugs and cash across the border.
No one knows how much contraband is now making it across the
border. From March 4 to March 20, Texas law enforcement seized more than
$644,000 in cash and 14 firearms, engaged in 34 pursuits, and arrested four
known gang members in the Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio, Texas. During that
same period, they encountered 22 “bailouts”—in which cartel members lead
officers on a car chase, slam on the brakes, jump out of the car, and leave it
in drive. Officers have to contend with a driverless, moving vehicle and perpetrators
fleeing on foot.
“They’re gaining inroads with all that confusion going on,” Mr.
Escalon says. On the Mexican side of the border, violence is routine, and he
fears cartels may expand their reach into American border towns, too. “We don’t
want that culture here.”
As the weather grows warmer, the numbers of migrants will
increase and the situation will worsen unless the incentives change. Congress
could help by closing loopholes in U.S. asylum law, increasing opportunities
for migrants to enter the U.S. legally on temporary work permits, and allowing
Central American children to seek asylum in their country of origin instead of
making the dangerous journey north. But if politicians prefer to have
immigration as a campaign issue than find a solution, the consequence will be
wealthier and more powerful cartels, more migrant parents making impossible
choices, and more children’s bodies washed up on the banks of the Rio Grande.
Ms. Melchior is an editorial page writer for the Journal.
And:
The Untold Story Behind the Atlanta Murders
The
eight slayings in three Atlanta massage parlors March 16 have been exploited by
the left as race-based murders. This distracts from the dark reality behind
this story—many women are victims of sex trafficking in Atlanta. Pictured: A
woman holds a candle during a vigil for the victims of the Atlanta shootings.
(Photo: Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
BY
Paula Rinehart is a mental health therapist
who writes on contemporary issues affecting women and families. She is also the
author of the book, “Sex and the Soul of a Woman.”
The
killing of eight individuals at three Atlanta massage parlors has been framed,
almost solely, as a case of race-based murder. This is piling distortion on top
of tragedy.
The
Washington Post ran 16 separate pieces depicting the fatal shootings as
racially motivated, while The New York Times settled for a mere nine stories
reaching the same conclusion. Even Christianity Today could not resist
the temptation to pile on by labeling the killer as one more bigoted Christian nationalist on the loose.
President
Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris led the charge. Six of the eight killed were women of
Asian descent. With Asian Americans now the country’s fastest growing
demographic, the left saw and seized the golden moment.
Those on the left are using these murders for their own ends by driving a narrative almost exclusively devoted to race.
These
senseless deaths, as well as an increase in harassment of Asians since the
beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, is a profound wound we feel deeply. But
there is another grievous reality behind these murders, and that story must be
told as well.
The
massage parlors that dot the landscape of affluent cities, notably Atlanta, are
not innocent businesses seeking to do a good day’s work. Four of
Atlanta’s most prosperous counties are home to over 100 massage spas (three of which the
killer targeted).
Here’s
the setup for the average massage parlor: It’s the site for both
legitimate and illegitimate activity. An ordinary massage is usually available
in the front part of the building. But the proprietor will also point a willing
customer to rooms in the back where a multitude of sexual acts can be had, for
a greater fee.
These
spas rake in over 42 million dollars a year in Georgia, and
precious little of that comes from a simple back massage.
An independent 2019 report on sex
trafficking in Georgia says that while these illicit massage parlors appear to
operate as individual small business entities, “a growing body of research
suggests they actually represent an elaborate criminal web.”
The
report surveyed a user-generated directory of illicit massage parlors in the
Atlanta area and found that of the top 30 listed, all but one were staffed by
Asian, Chinese, or Korean women. Each of the three massage parlors the killer
targeted is listed on this site. The 21-ear-old man charged with the March 16
killings frequented two of them.
If
you drive through the tonier suburbs of Atlanta, you can hardly
go a block without passing—but perhaps not noticing —a massage parlor. Its four
doors down from Kroger’s, or right next to the pizza restaurant your family
loves.
Harder
to grasp is that behind those shaded windows a dark story is unfolding, one
that scars the lives of actual individuals, both users and victims. An estimated 500 individuals, mostly women, are
victims of some form of prostitution each day in massage parlors across
Georgia.
Indeed,
sexual exploitation is so prevalent in Atlanta that key area churches banded
together in 2007 to address the problem. A thriving ministry called “Street Grace” was
born from that concern. Its goal is to end the demand for sex acts. Legislation
designed to use the violation of city ordinances as a means to put massage
parlors out of business is the ministry’s newest initiative.
How
do so many Asian women get lured into this trap? Bob Rodgers, CEO of
Street Grace and former president of Richmont Graduate University, explains
that the answers are complicated to fix, though easier to understand.
Young
Asian women come to America in search of a better life. There are debts to be
paid for their passage. They may be supporting family members here, or
relatives back home. They fear that talking to law enforcement will mean
deportation. Traffickers, who make as much as $30,000 a month, often threaten harm to family
members.
Sex
services are a huge business. Owners of illicit massage parlor operate them as
shell entities, passing money through a legitimate business such as a nail salon
or laundromat. Massage parlors are notoriously hard to win against in court.
Robert
Aaron Long, the self-confessed sex addict who committed these murders, was all
too familiar with this world. By his own admission, he frequented these
massage parlors, which are known to be the safest place to buy illegal sex.
So
far there is no concrete evidence that Long targeted
Asians, or that his base motivation was one of racial hatred. Killing two
white people among the eight would be a strange act for a “white supremist.”
Violence against women long has been tied
to pornography and sexual addiction. You come to hate that which enslaves you.
Tragically, that hatred is sometimes taken out on the actual victim, the woman
herself.
I’ve
spoken with survivors of sex trafficking, including one young woman—who goes by
the name Faythe—who now works for Street Grace. Faythe told me that when she
thinks of these Atlanta murders, she sees a psychotic man who took out his
frustration and his anger on the places he frequented.
“My
heart breaks for these women,” she told me. “It is not their fault.”
Reports of racist acts and harassment against
Asian Americans have indeed increased since the pandemic began. But tagging
these Atlanta murders with indictments of racial prejudice or white supremacy
obscures the inconvenient, underlying story of sexual exploitation happening
right before our eyes.
It
is more accurate to understand the killings in Atlanta as crimes against women
rather crimes against race. The left is complicit in manipulating a story
that ignores what many trafficked women suffer on a daily basis.
Distorting
the story only further obscures what is hiding in plain sight—the sexual
exploitation of women.
It’s
time we used our grief productively. It’s time we told the whole story.
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Dov Fischer expresses my own sentiments. We have allowed a minority race in our nation, which has an aggrieved history, to dominate, to change the nation's entire culture and to actually cause more of what we are all trying to end - racism. Obama transformed us alright, back to racism. We elected him not because of his qualifications but because of white guilt and we are paying dearly. I did not vote for him because I was prejudice. I did not vote for him because he was a fraud. His color did not enter my mind but it did Biden's who publicly stated he spoke well for a light skinned black man or words to that effect.
Meanwhile, The Democrat Party learned, early on, that class politics wins votes. It is an hypocritical approach towards politics but it sells and seems to have worked.
On ‘People of Color’ and
‘Systemic Racism’ — And Why I Am Sick of Hearing It
{Reposted from the American Spectator}
I am sick of
it. I really am sick of it.
I understand, better
than most, what prejudice is. When I was a boy, I went bowling with friends.
Someone else put chewed gum on my seat as a practical joke. I did not see it,
and I sat on it. It ruined my pants. It never came off. My parents’ finances were
lower middle class, and they could not afford at that time to buy me new pants.
As I stood up, with the chewing gum on my pants at the bowling alley, a
laughing teenager from a few lanes over yelled, “Jew bastard!” I was maybe
seven years old.
Around age 12, one
Saturday — Shabbat afternoon — I was in the park with friends. We were playing
ball. Suddenly, a group of teenagers came riding on bicycles into the park,
swinging metal bicycle chains, yelling “Jew bastards!” and “Kikes!” We started
running away from them. It was time for me, a Kike and a Jew bastard, to learn
karate and self-defense.
Years later, one Sunday
night I was on the IRT subway train from Brooklyn to Manhattan, returning to
Columbia where I went to college, after having spent my Shabbat (Sabbath)
weekend with my mother (of blessed memory) and sisters, as I did every Shabbat.
It was 90 minutes on subways and buses from Columbia every Friday to be home
with family on Shabbat, and 90 minutes every Sunday night back to college. On
the train I did my assigned weekend readings. As I was reading, suddenly a
person grabbed the yarmulka off my head and yelled, “Jew bastard!” He was with
two friends. I never have forgotten the image. The train was about to stop, and
they were laughing and about to exit the train car — with my kipah.
Maybe my reaction would
have been different if my sister, Debbie, had not hand-crocheted that kipah.
Maybe my reaction would have been different if I had stopped to think
rationally. But that was a last straw. I jumped up from my seat, slammed my
book, ran at the three of them, and karate-kicked the fellow who was holding my
yarmulka. I kicked him in a part of his body that rendered a serious question
whether he ever would have children. He fell to the floor, clutching at what
remained of his reproductive organ, as the train stopped and the car door was
opening. I yelled at the top of my lungs, “Never again!” I was not thinking of
the Holocaust but of the chewing gum and the teens on bikes with those metal
chains. The two friends of my assailant fell off the train car, and I kicked
the other one — the one moaning and screaming with a suddenly high voice — off
the car.
In 1980, I was in
rabbinical seminary at Yeshiva University (YU). I was en route to Gemara
Shiur (Talmud class) and was walking northbound on Amsterdam Avenue in
Manhattan’s West 170s. As I was walking, there were two youths ahead of me also
walking northbound; they were half a block ahead of me. I also saw two
different fellows with yarmulkas — obviously YU students — walking southbound,
just talking with each other. As the two YU boys reached the same spot where
the two youths ahead of me were walking towards them, one of those youths hit
one of those YU boys in the face, unprovoked. I could not believe my eyes. The
youths started yelling “Kikes!” and “Jew bastards!” The youths laughed and
continued walking northbound, laughing at the two YU boys, unaware of my
presence behind them. I then was holding a very heavy book, Bava
Kamma, a thick tractate of Talmud I needed for shiur (class).
I was enraged. I ran at those two laughing youths. They never saw me, coming
from behind. I reached them, and — with all my might — I slammed the assailant
on the head with my Gemara volume. The assailant hit the
ground. He seemed unconscious, maybe dead. I don’t know.
Later, when I was a fine
litigator as a senior-associate eighth-year attorney at the Los Angeles offices
of one of the top 20 law firms in the country, I noticed that, from the moment
I had transferred to this firm, never once did they assign me to argue a motion
in court. At my prior firm, Jones Day, I often argued motions — Rule 12 motions
in federal court, demurrers in state court, discovery motions, even summary
judgment motions — and I lost only one or two motions among dozens in my first
three years … and never lost a case in my entire litigation career. Yet, here,
for three years, they never once had me argue a motion. I could not figure it
out. And then one day the managing partner asked me to argue a motion on a case
that I was not even handling, an application on an RTAO — a Right to Attach Order
— before Commissioner Levin. Only when I entered his courtroom did I
understand: Commissioner Levin wore a yarmulka. That is why they had me in
front of Commissioner Levin but never in front of anyone else.
I have encountered
prejudice all my life. I wear a yarmulka, and that makes me different. My law
school — UCLA — held graduation the year before mine on the holy Biblical
Festival day of Shavuot. When we asked them to reschedule on grounds that
Orthodox Jews could not attend, they would not. In my law school first year, my
professor of criminal law would not allow me a “make-up date” to take an exam
that fell on Yom Kippur. The UCLA Law School placement office scheduled all my
job interviews with prospective law firms to fall on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur,
and Sukkot of my second year. When I brought the scheduling mishap to their
attention, their response was, “Tough luck.” Later, as a professor at UCI Law
School, I was approached by a law student whose contracts law professor had
announced that anyone who misses any class session all term would suffer a
reduction in his course grade, and that professor would not allow that student
to miss class on Rosh Hashanah. Later, perspicaciously seeing where the greater
society was headed, I voluntarily signed up for the first or second time the
university offered a certificate course in “Diversity Training.” Each week we
learned about another demographic group in our society — Blacks, Hispanics,
Asians, Gays, Women, the Elderly, Indo-Asians — and then we would bond as a
group each week at a group lunch at a restaurant themed around that group: a
Black “Soul Food” restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an
Indian restaurant. I privately approached the program director and said,
“Y’know, for all the sensitivity and group bonding, you are isolating me as
an Orthodox Jew. All the group meals are at non-kosher restaurants where I
cannot eat, and all the gatherings are on Saturday afternoons, Shabbat, the day
of my Holy Sabbath, so I cannot attend.” He looked at me — this master of
sensitivity and diversity — and said, “We cannot accommodate everyone,
Dov.” That’s how I learned about diversity. I not only have a formal
Certificate in Diversity Sensitivity from the University of California, but I
also know what it means.
So I am sick of hearing
about diversity and sensitivity. I
am sick of it. You know how I succeeded in my life? I
did not whine about anti-Semitism. I did not tell all my classmates and
professors and my readers that “you all owe me” for all the times I was called
a “Kike” and a “Jew bastard” and a “Christ killer.” That you owe me reparations
and you owe me compensation for the reduced grades I suffered for classes and
tests missed on Sh’mini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Rather, ya wanna know how I
succeeded? I’ll tell you:
Like my mom and dad,
both of blessed memory, and like all other members of my family, and like all
my Orthodox Jewish friends, I never relied on a favor or compensatory advantage
from government or institutions. I just knew I had to work harder and do better
than others, such that “they” would not be able to keep me out even if “they”
wanted. I had to get SAT scores in the top five percent in the country to be
sure I would get into Columbia. So I did. To get into the law school of my
choice, I had to get LSAT scores that blew the ceiling off, so I scored in the
99th percentile. No one was gonna give me Affirmative Anything. To
get a judicial clerkship, I figured I would have to get onto law review, so I
worked even harder than that and got named Chief Articles Editor of law review.
(I confidentially was told later by two people on the outgoing law review
editorial board, who had been at the vote where I was selected for that honor,
that I actually had been one of the two finalists for Editor-in-Chief of law
review, but that I had lost the vote because four people openly said they could
not vote for an Orthodox Jew since he does not work on Saturday.) To get into a
top 20 law firm, I needed a resumé that showed law review and federal judicial
clerkship. To write for The American Spectator, I had to have
writing skills that would impress Melissa Mackenzie and Wlady Pleszczynski and
just enough snark to impress Bob Tyrrell. To be a law school professor, I had
to have pedagogical skills that rapidly would make me too good not to hire and
— in this era of cancel culture — have the self-discipline in the classroom to
hide my beliefs from the rabidly leftist faculty members always on the prowl,
looking for conservative professors and G-d-fearing adjuncts to extirpate.
So I am sick of
it.
Like almost every other
Caucasian in this country, I do not owe a thing to anyone “of color.” My
two Bubbies (grandmothers) and two Zeydes (grandfathers)
fled to this country from Poland and Russia in the period between 1881 and
1914, one step ahead of the Cossacks and Muzhiks who killed Jews in pogroms
while yelling “Zhid!” and “khristos ubiytsa.” My ancestors — unlike
Kamala Harris’s ancestors — did not own slaves. Rather, they were
the society’s quasi-serfs, living behind ghetto walls. When my parents of
blessed memory were born here in the 1920s they did not know slavery — they
were too busy starving during the Depression, one step removed from being
homeless and evicted with their virtually penniless parents. My Bubbie sold
eggs on a street corner to get through it, and she stored the day’s leftover
stock in her small Brownsville apartment; my mother of blessed memory would
recollect all her life the memory of an apartment that perpetually smelled from
eggs and how she therefore feared ever bringing a suitor to her home to meet
her parents.
We grew up in a home
that was free of prejudice. My parents taught me that all people are created
equal in G-d’s eyes. Most all American Caucasians evolved to a color-blind
value system. By the year 2008, just before Obama was elected, this entire
country, except for society’s outlier, was free of prejudice. Everyone was
equal. America never was about equal outcomes but about
equal opportunities. With the 1978 Bakke case
having been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court 30 years earlier, the United
States had offered discrete minorities two generations of extra advantage to
get into college, to own businesses, to enter professions. American cities were
electing Black mayors. Two generations of Americans never had seen a segregated
bathroom or bus or lunch counter. This country had achieved racial harmony. It
was not that long ago that racial harmony existed.
And then we got Obama.
What kind of “White-privileged systemic racist” country voluntarily elects a
Black — with no demonstrable background other than having been a community
organizer and an undistinguished one-term senator — to be their president? Has
France elected a Black prime minister? England? Scotland and Wales? Italy?
Germany? Spain? Poland? Russia? Has China ever had a leader who is not Chinese?
Japan a leader who is not Japanese? Korea a non-Korean?
This country was built
in part with the terrible Original Sin of African slavery. And yet more White
American men gave their lives fighting to end slavery than
have died in all other American wars combined. And it ended more than 150 years
ago.
It ended more than 150
years ago.
The leftist mainstream
media brainwash half this country, while the leftist social media brainwash
even more than half of the Millennials and the Generation Z sorts who think
Cardi B is their answer to Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
But it all is lies. This country is not “systemically racist.” Obama changed
the tone and tenor, destroyed the civilization, corrupted the national culture.
He wanted to be transformative, and he was. He fooled a nation, the most
racist-free, open, and tolerant society that ever was — into believing it is
“systemically racist.” A society that let a bigot and hater like Ilhan Omar
come in from Somalia. A society that allows a rabid race-baiter like Al
Sharpton, who instigated street pogroms that resulted in deaths, to have a
national TV show.
Do you ever notice that
White leftists lead promoting the Big Lie — the New York Times 1619
Project, Hollywood, academia, the mainstream media? Do you ever notice
that they do not give up their own jobs so
that Blacks can have them? That is the trick — the old Three-Card Monte: if you
are White as alabaster, but you keep moaning about “systemic racism,” maybe the
people of color will not notice that you control all the positions of influence and
power they covet? That you run the New York Times,
the Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, CNN. Give them a
few token slots, hand them an Oscar or two — and maybe they will not notice
that it is you, the Hypocritical White Leftist Power Infrastructure
at the universities, in Hollywood, at the mainstream media, running Silicon
Valley and social media, who actually hold the reins of power and run this
country, determining — by wielding your influence and control of the media and
over the minds of the mediocrities who cannot find news stories outside of
Facebook and Twitter — who wins presidential elections, which tweets may appear
on White-privileged Jack Dorsey’s Twitter and White-privileged Mark
Zuckerberg’s Facebook and White-privileged Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Web Services
and Washington Post.
I am sick of
it.
The road to success in
America is — and always will be, unless Democrat “progressives” have their way
and degrade us into socialism — by self-help. If you rely on government to pull
you up, you never will be equal to The Man because no one who
gives charity, whether it is called “welfare” or “food stamps” or just-plain
“entitlements” — will ever make you richer than they are. If
you want to break barriers, you have to take advantage of all that America
offers and make yourself indispensable in some way, leaving others unable to
deny you. If you want better COVID prevention, get the darned vaccine instead
of complaining about racism. Stop firing people who say a two-syllable word
that starts with “N” when they simply are making a legitimate point or even
trying to teach others about the evils of racism. In this perverted society, it
is totally OK to say a once-forbidden word that starts with “F” — even on
TV. Another word, referring to a woman’s private organ, that starts with
“C.” No one gets reprimanded for that. But let a decent professor say a Chinese word that
merely sounds like the forbidden word, and he is fired.
Here is a prophecy: If things do not change, and if those who
historically faced prejudice before Obama and before Bakke intend
to rely on blaming the Innocent and on extolling cultural trash like Cardi B
and on “canceling” good people who are prejudice-free simply because the
offenders believe in free enterprise and in self-help, believe in the Word of
G-d and that there are only two genders, then 50 years from now the same
disadvantaged groups who today rely on blaming instead of self-help will then
be at the same exact rung on the social order that they are today, just as 50
years of racism-free society and Great Society “entitlements” have not
accomplished equality of results today, even as newcomers from Asia entered
this country these past 50 and 60 years and leap-frogged those already here.
As someone who has faced
discrimination all my life, and has succeeded more than my parents and Bubbies and Zeydes of
blessed memory ever could have dreamed — as have all my siblings and as did my
former wife, Ellen of blessed memory and her family — I know firsthand the
secret to the American Dream: Don’t rely on the government for equal results
because the government only will botch most things it touches. Rather, rely on
yourself for self-help and your immediate network of family and friends, and
the people at your church, cathedral, synagogue or temple, and private sources
for a boost when needed — and understand that all you need to
do to succeed in America is to be good at something valued by others: whether
it be LeBron James and Kobe Bryant at basketball, Jackie Robinson and Henry
Aaron at baseball, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson at singing … or Thomas
Sowell in economics, Ben Carson in medicine, Colin Powell in military
leadership, the late Herman Cain in food entrepreneurship, Shelby Steele in
philosophy, Stanley Crouch in culture, Richard Parsons in business, Obama in
community organizing, Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakhan in race-baiting, or anyone
else in any imaginable field whose story of success came from long hours of
hard work and determination — and knowing that “systemic racism” is a canard
adopted only by losers who are doomed always to be losers … or by their White
liberal overlords hoping that no one notices them playing Three-Card Monte to
retain their reins of control.
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Until many Asians were shot in Atlanta I was unaware we had a hate Asian problem because the mass media never wrote about such but now they have a reason to create a big story whether it is true or not. Making money, selling papers and TV ads is what dives journalism today as well as pathetically trained media dwarfs.
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