As we launch into another What the Heck, a befuddled survey of some of the things that caused me bewilderment and frustrated confusion this last week, I feel compelled to start on the streets.
Here's an image that was sent to me by a reader. I can't be sure if this is something they found online or if it's a picture that they took themselves while parked at a stoplight. Either way, it's just *chef's kiss* in every way:
I, like everyone else with a functioning brain, have giggled at the corniness of those who put the classic "coexist" bumper stickers on cars that they drive around here… in America… where we are all coexisting. The thought of them motoring down the streets of Jalalabad in that thing is gut-busting. Literally.
But this "equity" vanity plate on the rear end of a Porsche is just an entirely different level of oblivious. We can assume that it hasn't yet dawned on the genius behind the wheel, perhaps a college professor who spends a lot of time thinking hard about theories in the abstract, that governmentally-imposed equity policies would mean no vanity plates, no Porsche, and much worse.
It's exhibit 4,841,396 that truth, honesty, and results don't matter these days as long as you market yourself as "caring."
Along those lines, this week here at Not the Bee we covered what is shaping up to be one of the most hilarious and also incredibly instructive moments of the year. Despite her gut-wrenching, impassioned pleas of "No, no, no, no," avowed Marxist agitator Angela Davis learned that she was a descendent of one of the 101 specific Pilgrims that came across the ocean on the Mayflower.
Not only that, but her maternal grandfather was a white attorney and state legislator in Alabama, who took her lineage directly to a Revolutionary War veteran who owned slaves. Stunned, Davis could only mutter, "I always imagined my ancestors as the people who were enslaved." Of course she did.
What you actually witness if you watch the clip of these revelations being exposed is not just the shattering of Davis's own self-delusion. It's also a complete massacre of the race-based grievance industry. Who exactly owes reparations? Those who are descendants of slaveholders or those who are currently white? If it's the former, Davis better pony up. If it's the latter, can all the nonsense about these demands not being racist themselves goes out the window?
The human family is intermingled and intermixed, particularly in a land of immigrants like the United States. That could be a blessing to our country if we'd let it be. But that means shutting the mouths of agitating race-grifters like Angela Davis. Or maybe just let their own genealogy shut their mouths for them.
Finally, I was unfortunate enough to come across these two "birth announcements" this week:
Is this what everyone is okay with surrogacy becoming? Just the latest trend – a fad of sexual revolutionaries who because of their wealth and privilege mistake themselves to be gods?
I can't be the only one that sees the incredible devaluing of women and the mockery of motherhood that this exemplifies, right? They're laying in a hospital bed for crying out loud. The message to the world is as unmistakable as it is appalling: "Women aren't necessary beyond their ability to function as incubators of accessorized babies."
If that seems hyperbolic, consider:
It's cute how we proudly convinced ourselves that following the Civil War and enactment of the 13th Amendment we had turned the barbaric page of humans purchasing other humans, isn't it?
I just feel the need to keep reiterating that this arrogance, this aggressive taunting of the Moral Authority who rules over the destinies of both men and nations, it isn't going to end well for our people.
