Recently, all white employees of the People’s Republic of Seattle were called into a meeting and ordered to take steps to “undo their whiteness.”
We’re not talking about external changes here — Jimmy Kimmel and Ralph Northam tried that, with regrettable results. No, Seattle’s white employees were ordered to take “reprogramming” courses to change their entire value system. Think about how racist it would be if white people ordered Black people to “undo their blackness”!
By the way, the facilitators of this reprogramming propaganda are none other than — you guessed it — white people. It’s just one more example of how liberal Americans are genuflecting to the Black Lives Matter movement, which takes on the status of religion for those who embrace it. Of course, they don’t want anyone to have freedom not to embrace BLM.
Also recently, the bombastic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to task fellow Rep. Ted Yoho, of Florida, for his allegedly having referred to her by an obscenity.
While I certainly do not condone referring to anyone by such terms, and it’s debatable whether he did so, I would remind the pious congresswoman that she is known by the company she keeps.
Fellow “Squad” members, notably Rep. Rashida Tlaib, have referred to President Donald Trump and his mother in highly offensive obscenities not fit for a decent newspaper, so none of them qualifies as a paragon of vocal virtue.
Ocasio-Cortez is someone’s daughter, and while this may come as a surprise, Trump is someone’s son. Do women get a pass when they demean other women? It seems disingenuous to resort to barroom epithets when it’s convenient, but to hide behind propriety when it’s not.
I find hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle, but it’s always easier to call it out when we see it in opposing political parties.
There’s been a lot of talk about a 21st century “civil war” developing in America. I say that’s a misnomer — there’s nothing civil about it, and the upcoming presidential and congressional elections promise to be the dirtiest ever.
WILLIAM A. WITTIK
Hartford
At about 10 a.m. on Wednesday, an older woman was crossing Route 12A in West Lebanon at the light in the direction of the Shaw’s supermarket. She was pushing a rolling walker through the extraordinarily busy intersection.
She had reached the halfway point (not having pushed the pedestrian button), and as we watched while waiting at the traffic light a young man about 20 years old dropped the scooter he was riding, ran to give assistance to the woman, and helped her safely reach the other side. It was a heartwarming moment to observe this young man’s kindness and alertness.
SALLY KESSELI
West Lebanon