The New Woke Racism

In a column in American Greatness, Victor Davis Hanson discusses the new Woke Racism.  It is epitomized by a recent speech by U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass):

"If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t come, because we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice. If you’re worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don’t even show up because we need you to represent that voice."

Hanson writes:

"In sum, Pressley just outlined the classic anti-Enlightenment mindset: we are all permanent captives of our superficial race, religion, and sexual orientation. We must at all times think, act, and speak in such tribal fashion—and do so monolithically and collectively, in adopting the party line as set down by such elites as those like Pressley herself.
"Blacks who oppose affirmative action, or Muslims who recognize Israel, or “queers” whose sexual preferences are incidental, not essential to their personas are thus declared not authentic and thus not to be welcomed by Pressley into the new racialist Democratic Party."

Please read the entire article.

Tom Friedman Comments on the Israeli Elections  (as envisioned by Dry Bones)

Colin Crossing the Delaware

Ironically, the same historic American flag was prominently displayed at the Second Inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Apparently, Colin, Beto and Julian Castro only regard the Betsy Ross American flag as a symbol of racism and oppression if it is on a Nike tennis shoe or flown by a Republican.

Bernie the Creator vs. Bernie the Destroyer: Who has done more to benefit humanity?

Bernie Marcus, now 90 years young (he should live to 120) is a co-founder of Home Depot.  He has given around $2 billion to over 300 charitable organizations. Recently, he announced that he plans to give away most of his remaining fortune, another $6 billion, during his lifetime.

Marcus recently said that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a Socialist and a leading Democratic Presidential candidate, is "the enemy of every entrepreneur. So who has done more for  his fellow human beings?
 

As recounted by Issues & Insights:

Marcus, with Arthur Blank and Ken Langone, started a company in 1978 that today has more than 2,200 stores across all 50 states and in Canada. When those men were putting long, grinding hours into their startup in the late 1970s, Sanders was “working” for the American People’s Historical Society. There he made a 30-minute documentary about Eugene Debs, the perpetual Socialist Party presidential candidate whom he called “the great American trade unionist, socialist and revolutionary.”

Home Depot currently employs more than 400,000. Since its inception, it has created millions of jobs. Home Depot also provided health care insurance for, again, millions of families whose husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers have worked for the company, now 27th on the Fortune 500 list, where it has been found every year for the last 25.

In addition to the jobs provided by Home Depot, vendors that depend on the company for much of their sales, many of them small businesses that have increased in value, have also created jobs as they have grown along with the chain.

Meanwhile, Sanders, who has never started a business, wants to guarantee a job to everyone through government fiat, and has overheated dreams about forcing the country into a Medicare for All system, an impossible-to-pay-for arrangement which no other nation in the world has, not even the Scandinavian countries he says are his models.

Marcus has also helped make Americans who never worked for Home Depot better off — and we’re talking about more than the millions of consumers who have eagerly patronized the chain, and contractors who buy material there. A share of Home Depot stock bought in March 1989 is now worth 200 times the purchase price. The company has created immense wealth for the millions who own and have owned stock directly and through institutions. In fact, Home Depot created as many as “20,000 millionaires overnight” when the company went public

Meanwhile, a share of Sanders, if there was such, bought in 1989 would certainly have brought a loss. Rather than create wealth, it’s Sanders’ aim to forcibly spread it around.

Both men are committed to giving money to help others.  Bernie Marcus gives his own, which he earned through his hard work, while tremendously benefiting his employees, suppliers, and his customers.  Bernie Sanders wants to spend your money.

Please read the entire article. 

https://issuesinsights.com/2019/07/02/bernie-vs-bernie-who-has-improved-more-lives-marcus-or-sanders/?fbclid=IwAR3jxeyZddUu5QOtBOGbTSm0KqbCCr_CPD1xl7M4qRyRKhmX7T8ClNOrqJ8