One might think that a guy who grew up in the United States, served in the US Senate for a zillion years, served as VP, and now serves as President would at some time have looked at American coins, where the inscription e pluribus unum can be found. Heck, one might think he would notice e pluribus unum on the Great Seal of the United States, that big round medallion with an eagle on it that graces the front of his podium. But then, I guess not.
The current President seems to believe the US official motto should be “from the many, many.” At least that seems to be the what he implies almost every time he speaks about “unity” while dividing the country along racial and ideological lines. His latest imposed boundary: White supremacy is the greatest threat to the nation.
And you thought, because he said so, that climate change was. Foolish you. The problem is white people. But not all white people, just white people who vote Republican. Racists, all of them. Dividers, too.
The President, speaking at an all black college, sounded the alarm that the KKK is still out there, probably in numbers greater than it had in those days when it marched clad in sheets through Washington, D.C. Well, if not the old KKK, then the modern version of it, that is, people who voted for Donald Trump. They’re the “white privilege people,” the ones who oppose ultra liberal policies like open borders, gender-shared bathrooms, and high taxes. They are buffoons, rednecks, and people from Middle America, farmer types who own guns and drive pickups, evil people, all, and none as wise as he is, as he recently announced. He has said these people want to put “y’all back in chains,” seeming to forget that Republicans freed the slaves and passed the Civil Rights Act. And what of his mentor, the late Senator Robert Byrd? Wasn’t the man he eulogized with high praise a high-ranking KKK member?
Maybe Americans like black college graduates in his audience aren’t as wise as the self-proclaimed wise President. Wasn’t there clapping in the audience when he called white supremacy the great threat? Were none of them the offspring of mixed marriages? Did all of them experience only repression by white people, only suppression by the “ruling class”? Why didn’t he give them the rousing sendoff that college students get at the beginning of their professional lives? Didn’t he want to inspire them? Give them an optimistic look at the future? Or did he want instead to sow the seeds of division, to plant the weeds of enmity and hopelessness?
Did he not think to give some talk about self-reliance in the tradition of Emerson’s famous essay? Did he not think to tell them that challenges make us better, that hard work and risk can bring abundant rewards? Was there no plagiarism from the Chief Plagiarist that recalled Kennedy’s “Ask not” speech?
Remember this recent commencement address. It marks a time when a man claiming to be a unifier exacerbated disunity and quashed hope in the young.
The current President seems to believe the US official motto should be “from the many, many.” At least that seems to be the what he implies almost every time he speaks about “unity” while dividing the country along racial and ideological lines. His latest imposed boundary: White supremacy is the greatest threat to the nation.
And you thought, because he said so, that climate change was. Foolish you. The problem is white people. But not all white people, just white people who vote Republican. Racists, all of them. Dividers, too.
The President, speaking at an all black college, sounded the alarm that the KKK is still out there, probably in numbers greater than it had in those days when it marched clad in sheets through Washington, D.C. Well, if not the old KKK, then the modern version of it, that is, people who voted for Donald Trump. They’re the “white privilege people,” the ones who oppose ultra liberal policies like open borders, gender-shared bathrooms, and high taxes. They are buffoons, rednecks, and people from Middle America, farmer types who own guns and drive pickups, evil people, all, and none as wise as he is, as he recently announced. He has said these people want to put “y’all back in chains,” seeming to forget that Republicans freed the slaves and passed the Civil Rights Act. And what of his mentor, the late Senator Robert Byrd? Wasn’t the man he eulogized with high praise a high-ranking KKK member?
Maybe Americans like black college graduates in his audience aren’t as wise as the self-proclaimed wise President. Wasn’t there clapping in the audience when he called white supremacy the great threat? Were none of them the offspring of mixed marriages? Did all of them experience only repression by white people, only suppression by the “ruling class”? Why didn’t he give them the rousing sendoff that college students get at the beginning of their professional lives? Didn’t he want to inspire them? Give them an optimistic look at the future? Or did he want instead to sow the seeds of division, to plant the weeds of enmity and hopelessness?
Did he not think to give some talk about self-reliance in the tradition of Emerson’s famous essay? Did he not think to tell them that challenges make us better, that hard work and risk can bring abundant rewards? Was there no plagiarism from the Chief Plagiarist that recalled Kennedy’s “Ask not” speech?
Remember this recent commencement address. It marks a time when a man claiming to be a unifier exacerbated disunity and quashed hope in the young.
RSS Feed