Posted on 08/05/2021 4:32:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Washington -- "The Woke Folk" are not finished. As I said last week, they are tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Frederick Douglass. It is only a matter of time before they expand their attacks on other historic irritants that have gotten under their skin, say, Santa Claus or perhaps Uncle Sam -- he should have been gone long ago. But now according to "The Good Times" -- also known as The Washington Times -- the Woke Folk want to change the names of "1,000 rivers, mountains and other places because they consider the names to be racist." That is the way the Times reported the story last Wednesday.
Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, said, "Racism, even in geography, cannot be tolerated in a country that strives for liberty and justice for all." Racism has long been a target for Democrats, even for independents and -- when reasonable -- for Republicans. Remember, the Civil Rights bills of the mid-1960s had bipartisan support. Racial intolerance is hardly a controversial issue today. We are all against it, at least all civilized Americans. Yet with the arrival of the Woke Folk's opposition to racism, it has taken a turn for the absurd. This "geographic racism" that Green talks about is a perfect example of the absurdity of which I speak.
Vegetarianism is fast becoming a desideratum with Democrats. Will the day come when having a hamburger for lunch becomes a sign of divisive intolerance? Will the day come when hamburger chains will have to self-censor their advertisements? Nowadays, virtue flaunting is a powerful force for self-promotion, at least among left-wingers. I anticipate with relish the day when virtuous Democrats will have a handful of vitamins for lunch washed down with carrot juice, and they might consume only a bowl of salad for dinner.
Legislation introduced a couple of weeks ago by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of the great state of Massachusetts and Green -- aptly named -- will eliminate the names of places that honor individuals who, in the words of the representative, "held racially repugnant views" or "carried out injustices against racial minorities." Wait until the vegetarians take over the Democratic Party and target the carnivores. The Democrats could become the new McCarthyites. I can see it now. In Congress, there will be hearings asking the witness if he or she ever ate at a McDonald's emporium or what they had for dinner last night. It has happened before in America. I shudder when I think of the dreadful McCarthy hearings.
As things stand now, we are only talking about changing the names of thousands of locales. That is not a big deal. Rivers and mountains and cities are not in themselves racist, but they can have a racial taint to their names. Apparently, Warren and Green were asked by the Times to provide names of those entities that will have to go. Both have been reluctant to assent.
Now a new pest has joined the opponents of "geographic racism." Her name is Deb Haaland, and she is the Biden administration's secretary of the Interior. Moreover, she is an American Indian, or at least she says she is an American Indian. That would make her the first American Indian to achieve Cabinet rank. You will remember the controversy that Warren got herself into when she made a similar claim. Think of the laughter our rude former president provoked every time he referred to her as Pocahontas. Well, I think President Joe Biden has thoroughly vetted Haaland. Now she has entered the geographic racism controversy and vowed that, "We are reviewing the options available for renaming places, including authorities that can be taken by the secretary (that would be her) to better address a number of names that do not reflect who we are as a nation."
Have you looked at a map recently? There are indeed thousands of names that will need to be changed -- perhaps millions. I was in the Chicago area a few weeks ago and stayed in the Baker Hotel right next to the Fox River. Those are two spots that will attract Haaland's suspicions. A fox is an innocent animal and ought not to have its name exploited. The Baker Hotel is more unlikely, but nonetheless people have been prejudiced against bakers for years. Of course, there are the easy targets such as Columbus, Ohio, named after Christopher Columbus and Columbus Mountain in Colorado. In fact, while driving into Washington, D.C., yesterday, I discovered a Columbus Boulevard and a Columbia, Maryland. There must be a thousand places in this vast and unenlightened country of ours with a name drawn from the name of that offensive explorer. And then we move on to Lincoln and Washington.
This is going to be a very long crusade. Are we really confident that the country's do-gooders are up to it?
And if they don’t find any real examples of racism, they’ll for sure make them up, like in this pathetic example.
Classic virtue signaling. Find racism in innocuous things and then get rid of them to make yourself look like the hero.
Have often thought that the mysteriously-titled “Black Tom Road” in Jersey City near exit 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike would be among the first on the chopping block in such an environment.
Will they be renaming Seattle, named after a local American Indian chief?
He was a slave owner.
Just another step in the old Mao Zedong playbook to eradicate the hated American culture, as Mao did with the hated Traditional Chinese culture during the Great Leap Backward.
Both the White Horse and Black Horse Pikes will have to go as well.
The wokesters are fast asleep in a dystopian nightmare. They need to be bitch slapped awake.
“...Deb Haaland, and she is the Biden administration’s secretary of the Interior. Moreover, she is an American Indian, or at least she says she is an American Indian...”
Wow... FINALLY, here’s a woman who is in a position to really help indigenous Americans with the MANY and truly fundamental problems that have challenged them since Europeans arrived here.
Instead, she’d rather f*%k around wasting time and taxpayer funds to reverse the use of Indian names across America!!
She’ll be the same disappointment and betrayal to American Indians that “O’Bozo” was to American blacks...who themselves walked away from THAT ‘Presidency’ with nothing to show for his time in office. (If they got anything out of his 8 year vacation from responsibility, they would not STILL be protesting!!)
Oceans of taxpayer revenue will be squandered and in the end, there will be nothing to show for the expense and the American Indians will not have gained anything in the process. What a pathetic and shabby ‘administration’ Joe set up for himself
Joe will rip through a million metric tons of money and when he’s gone no one will know where it went.
Everything is free and everyone is equal after they execute you.
Due to a shortage of racism, it’s being synthesized. When I hear liberals complaining about racism, I ask them to tell me something that a person of color can’t do that a white person can: travel, own property, get a job? Just name one freedom they are denied, or that they can’t remedy by litigation. One thing. Or is racism today just about being offended? Getting feelings hurt? Is that all they got?
Wasn't that the nickname for a Civil War era artillery piece?
Couldn't recall, so I looked it up:
The Black Tom explosion was an act of sabotage by German agents to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were to be supplied to the Allies in World War I. The explosions, which occurred on July 30, 1916, in the New York Harbor, killed four people and destroyed some $20,000,000 worth of military goods. This incident, which happened prior to U.S. entry into World War I, also damaged the Statue of Liberty. It was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history.
This must not be allowed to stand!
Anybody who has ever fished or boated there are hateful bigots who need to be brought to account.
The only way to end racism is to kill all the white people.
That is what the leftists mean by “equity”.
Everything starts to make sense once you understand that.
Just tell these idiots to STFU each and every time. The woke must be ridiculed into obscurity. The only alternative is to fight them.
“I was in the Chicago area a few weeks ago and stayed in the Baker Hotel right next to the Fox River.”
That’s a lovely little old school hotel located in St. Charles IL. We have stayed there several times.
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Thanks, TM!
They are not “indigenous Americans.”
Their ancestors came from Asia.
Meanwhile, Maine governor Janet Mills, an elderly moonbat, and her co-hort demonrats in the Maine House and Maine Senate, changed the name of Columbus Day to “Indigenous People Day.”
Fortunately, our previous governor, Paul LePage, who was term-limited in 2018, is running again in 2022. During his eight years in office, he was the most conservative governor in the country.
I think of “indigenous Americans” as groups who were already here, when Europeans arrived.
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