Juneteenth – Build Pander Back Better (satire)

By Robin M. Itzler

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In what was yet another apparent pander to black Americans, in 2021 President Joe Biden declared June 19th a federal holiday following the George Floyd Riots. The day celebrates when the last American slaves learned of their freedom. After signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, it is rumored that Biden asked his chief of staff, “Will this make blacks like me?”

With 2024 being an election year the White House wants to make the most of its pandering. They held a pre-Juneteenth party on June 10, where Biden danced up a storm to exuberantly show his joy for the holiday.

Now Biden is considering adding more federal holidays to the calendar to “Build Pander Back Better.” Some holidays that are under discussion include:

January 4 – World Braille Day: Biden can reach the 66 percent of adults who use some form of vision correction although they never go blind. He would wear a BLM tee shirt as he shouts from the teleprompter, “Blind Lives Matter! Pause.”

February – President’s Day: This is already a federal holiday celebrating two esteemed presidents – George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But that’s just two of 46!  Biden should insist that each of the other 44 president’s birthdays deserve their own federal holiday. 

February 14 – Valentine’s Day: Think of all the things Biden loves to do: sniff children’s hair, lie about his life, take money from foreign countries, call his wife “doctor,” seek advice from the smartest man he knows, Hunter Biden.

March 17 – Saint Patrick’s Day: Biden can pander to the 31.5 million Americans who claim to be of Irish descent.  Biden can slur his words and speak incoherently, and no one will notice, assuming it was too much green beer.

March 30 – National Take a Walk in the Park Day: Americans can visit local parks to admire all the statues that have been vandalized by Antifa and pro-Hamas thugs including the defaced statue of President George Washington, the father of our country. Perhaps Biden can share how in 1776 he crossed the Delaware with Washington.

April 4 – Tell a Lie Day: Joe Biden does not have to do any prep work for this holiday. He will retell the story of his uncle being eaten by cannibals during World War II.

April 5 – National Deep-Dish Pizza Day: There are nearly 18 million Americans of Italian descent. Biden can talk about the importance of dough in making pizza and the importance of sending dough to Ukraine, so no one learns about his family’s money laundering operations.

May 5 – Cinco de Mayo: Biden can be filmed at a Mexican restaurant saying, “Yo Hispanic! Pausa.” If time permits, he can talk about driving an 18-wheeler while fighting Mexican General Santa Anna at the Alamo.

May 6 – Incontinence Day: If there was any day that Joe Biden would want to recognize, it’s this one. There are about 13 million Americans suffering from some degree of incontinence. That’s a lot of voters completing their ballots between bathroom visits.

June 30 – National Corvette Day: This would be a national observance for any American who has parked their Corvette in the garage near boxes of documents they’ve stolen from their employer.

July 11 – National Pet Photo Day: More than 44 percent of American homes have at least one dog. Biden can hold a special photo ceremony at the White House for all Secret Service agents who have been bitten by one of his German Shepherds.

August 13 – International Left Handers Day: Biden can reach out (with his left hand) to the 10 percent of Americans who are lefties. To avoid confusion, “Dr.” Jill will put a big, blue dot on Joe’s left hand.

September 7 – World Beard Day: Biden can invite trans “women” with beards to the White House. There could be a contest to see which bearded “woman” can best explain what LGBTQQIP2SA++++ stands for. Calvin Klein, which featured a hairy bearded man wearing a bra in an ad, could sponsor the event.

October 31 – Halloween: Without question, this should be a federal holiday to celebrate Americans who masquerade as something they aren’t. For instance, Merrick Garland masquerades as an attorney general who follows the rule of law, Alejandro Mayorkas masquerades as someone who cares about the security of the United States, Kamala Harris masquerades as someone who earned her way up the professional ladder, and Pete Buttigieg masquerades as someone who thinks transportation secretary means building a bike lane.

November 13 – Caregiver Day: According to the National Alliance for Caregiving, 65.7 million Americans were serving as a family caregiver for an ill or disabled relative. Since “Dr.” Jill Biden is viewed by many as First Caregiver, Joe could hold a special ceremony at the Visiting Angels corporate headquarters.

December 18 – International Migrants Day: Any American who has been victimized in a crime by one of the 10 MILLION-PLUS ILLEGAL MIGRANTS that Biden has allowed to waltz unvetted into the United States, can join in the celebration at the southern border. If the American can’t attend because he/she was killed by an illegal migrant, a family member can attend in their place. The event would also be open to Americans who lost their job to an illegal migrant or had their community overtaken by homeless illegal migrant tent cities. Biden can shout (or whisper), “¡Cuanto más major! ¡Votar por Biden! ¡Pausa!” (The more the merrier! Vote for Biden! Pause!)

What ‘Systemic Liberalism’ Has Wrought

July 10, 2020 By Trevor Thomas

After another weekend of violence in Atlanta -- where nearly three dozen were shot and five were killed, including an eight-year-old girl -- Mayor Keisha Bottoms said “enough is enough.” However, because her worldview is corrupted by modern liberalism -- which is the case with the leadership in virtually every major U.S. city -- she offered no real solutions for the recent epidemic of violence that plagues Atlanta.

Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp stepped in and ordered the and ordered the activation of 1,000 National Guard troops in order to “protect state property and patrol” the streets of Atlanta. In his statement, Kemp declared:................


Part of the problem in Atlanta -- again, like we now see in so many large, Democrat-led U.S. cities -- is plummeting police morale. After the murder of George Floyd, and the unjust and incorrect accusations of “systemic racism” throughout America, police all over the U.S. were made into scapegoats for what really plagues the urban areas of America. As a result, police officers have been targeted for violence and mayhem simply for wearing their uniforms and doing their jobs.

In addition, police officers have been targeted -- and unjustly fired -- by their superiors. This has been the case in Atlanta. As a result, a recent wave of “blue flu” has swept through the Atlanta Police Department. Almost certainly, this means dangerous areas of Atlanta are not seeing the usual police presence. Thus the need for the Georgia National Guard.

And thus we see again the sad, sorry results of the “Ferguson Effect,” a phrase coined by Heather MacDonald that says when police stop, or reduce, policing -- because of political pressure, community pressure, department policies, and the like -- criminals are emboldened and crime increases.

Because of the Democrats’ relentless and dishonest campaign against law enforcement, the Ferguson Effect has led to numerous U.S. cities becoming significantly more dangerous. As John Nolte put it several years ago, “The obvious and predictable result is a rise in violent crime that only hurts predominantly poor, black, inner-city neighborhoods.” Of course, the magnificently foolish calls to “defund the police” or “abolish the police” (as some school districts are now doing) will only ensure that the Ferguson Effect will continue and will result in even more death and destruction in America’s urban areas........ .To Read More.....

Cult Programming in Seattle

The city is training white municipal employees to overcome their “internalized racial superiority.”

Christopher F. Rufo July 8, 2020

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Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” a program designed to help white workers examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy” and “interrupt racism in ways that are accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color.” Hoping to learn more, I submitted a public records request for all documentation related to the training. The results are disturbing.

At the beginning of the session, the trainers explain that white people have internalized a sense of racial superiority, which has made them unable to access their “humanity” and caused “harm and violence” to people of color. The trainers claim that “individualism,” “perfectionism,” “intellectualization,” and “objectivity” are all vestiges of this internalized racial oppression and must be abandoned in favor of social-justice principles. In conceptual terms, the city frames the discussion around the idea that black Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “blackness” and white Americans are reducible to the essential quality of “whiteness”—that is, the new metaphysics of good and evil.

Once the diversity trainers have established this basic conceptual framework, they encourage white employees to “practice self-talk that affirms [their] complicity in racism” and work on “undoing [their] own whiteness.” As part of this process, white employees must abandon their “white normative behavior” and learn to let go of their “comfort,” “physical safety,” “social status,” and “relationships with some other white people.” As writer James Lindsay has pointed out, this is not the language of human resources; it is the language of cult programming—persuading members they are defective in some predefined manner, exploiting their emotional vulnerabilities, and isolating them from previous relationships.

It’s important to point out that this “interrupting whiteness” training is not an anomaly. In recent years, nearly every department of Seattle city government has been recruited into the ideological fight against “white supremacy.” As I have documented, the city’s homelessness agency hosted a conference on how to “decolonize [their] collective work”; the school system released a curriculum explaining that “math is a tool for oppression”; and the city-owned power company hired a team of bureaucrats to fight “structural racism” within their organization. Dozens of private companies now offer diversity training to public agencies. The idea that all whites have unconscious, “implicit bias” that they must vigilantly program themselves to overcome has become an article of faith across corporate boardrooms, academia, and law-enforcement agencies, even though the premise is unscientific and impossible to verify.

The endgame is to make Seattle’s municipal government the arbiter of the new orthodoxy, and then work outward. At the end of the session on “internalized racial superiority,” the diversity trainers outline strategies for converting outsiders and recommend specific “practices for interrupting others’ whiteness.” In effect, the activists have organized an ideological pyramid scheme—using public dollars to establish their authority within the government, then using that authority to recruit others into the program. As Lindsay writes, “the goal is no longer to indoctrinate on what is ‘rightthink’ and ‘wrongthink.’ It is to make the [subject’s] thinking be completely in line with the view of the world described by the cult doctrine.”

How far can this racial-justice shakedown extend itself? The new racial orthodoxy has seen exponential growth in the past few years and has proved extremely difficult for local governments and elite institutions to resist. The movement’s key rhetorical premise is designed as a trap: if you are not an “antiracist,” then you are a “racist”—and must be held to account. Skeptics might dismiss Seattle’s “interrupting whiteness” training as a West Coast oddity, but it is part of a nationwide movement to make this kind of identity politics the foundation of our public discourse. It may be coming soon to a city or town near you.

Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor of City Journal and director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. He’s directed four documentaries for PBS, including his new film, America Lost, which tells the story of three “forgotten American cities.” Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

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Let's Talk about Black Privilege

July 9, 2020 By Rich Logis

There are approximately 250 million Americans aged 20 and over. How many don't believe that black lives matter? I want a number, backed up by evidence — not a dissertation, pontification, polemic, manifesto, or Socratic dialogue. A number.  Not having to provide a fact-based number: black privilege — yes or no?

Take NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who imagined a noose the way the narrator in Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart imagined a droning beating heart. A hysterical black American creates unnecessary panic over a noose found in his garage; draws 15 FBI agents to investigate, at a total of tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money; investigation confirms the black American's story was paranoia; FBI goes home; nothing happens to the black American for making a false accusation and creating unnecessary panic; continues to receive fawning press in the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex). Black privilege — yes or no?

Lincoln County, Ore. exempted  from mandatory mask-wearing "[p]eople of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public." Black privilege — yes or no?.........To Read More....

Shine Blacks’ Shoes to Show ‘Sense of Shame,’ ‘Embarrassment’ for Racism

By Craig Bannister | June 18, 2020

Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy says white people should find black strangers, go up to them, and shine their shoes to show repentance for their sins of racism.

He once bought 1,500 shoe brushes for his employees to shine strangers’ shoes to exhibit their remorse for racism, Cathy said Sunday during a panel discussion at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Georgia.  By shining shoes, white Americans can express shame, embarrassment, humility and contrition, Cathy said..........To Read More.....

Just when you thought white virtue-signalers could not abase themselves more

June 8, 2020 By Andrea Widburg

 

Since the Black Lives Matter cult took to the streets, what's kept most people riveted to their television screens and computer monitors is footage showing the looting and violence that BLM, with help from its Antifa friends, has brought to Democrat cities across America. People have also been horrified by the brutal attacks on police, which have killed several and left others fighting for their lives.

Lately, though, other images have been cropping up showing woke white people engaging in ritual self-abasement to atone for their horrible racist sins. Thinking about it, they should atone. It's these woke white people who advanced the leftist policies that left too many American blacks broken.

Democrats pushed welfare, which made fathers superfluous because their presence in a household decreased those welfare benefits. Men without meaning too often turn to crime. Their criminal activity, when combined with all the "tough on crime" initiatives Joe Biden pushed, decimated black communities.

In addition to fiscal and criminal initiatives that harmed blacks, the same woke whites did something even worse: they denied blacks agency. All other people who have come to America and faced poverty and racism have buckled down and bested the system through education and hard work. Some fell by the wayside, but most managed to leap into the middle class.

The blacks were making that same journey after World War II as systemic barriers against them slowly fell. They should all have joined the middle-class trajectory with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made it a federal crime to discriminate against them. Instead, white liberals told blacks that everything that was wrong with them, whether collectively or individually, was the fault of whites.

Suddenly, blacks were no longer responsible for themselves. Every failure, every disappointment, every criminal act, every bit of bad luck...it was all white people's fault. You didn't have to work harder, re-examine your assumptions, do well in school, get a job, get married, have children, stay married, avoid criminal behavior, or anything else. All you had to do was blame white people. Your situation didn't improve, but you didn't have to carry around any sense of guilt about poor choices or make any efforts towards improving your lot.

Teaching people to think this way is insanely cruel. Every white person who ever advanced this ideology of non-responsibility should abase himself before blacks for destroying the culture's ability to progress.

Having said that, the most recent acts of white woke abasement calls for more eyeball bleach than is to be found in all of North America. .........To Read More...