I’m Ken LaCorte, and I’m a racist.
Don’t get too judgy, though. You’re a racist too, whatever your color, whatever your beliefs.
I don’t particularly dislike any race, mind you, but that’s no longer the standard in today’s America. Instead, any refusal to comply with demands made by a Person Of Color appears to be enough.
Sarah Comrie, a nurse from Bellevue Hospital, learned this the hard way. She’d just finished a twelve-hour shift at the hospital, which is grueling enough when you’re not six months pregnant (which she was). Trying to rent a bicycle to get home, she was surrounded and accosted by a group of young men, who tried to wrestle the bike from her. As she broke down in tears, those around her claimed she was the thief, mocked her and her unborn baby, and recorded it all on video.
All it took was Sarah being white and the young men being black for this to blow up into a “Citi Bike Karen'' spectacle. The chorus of slurs and death threats reached a fever pitch, and she was immediately suspended from work by the spineless NYC Health + Hospitals. Fortunately, she’d saved her receipts, which proved her innocence, though the press and race-baiters have yet to apologize.
Instead, they’ve moved on to brand the entire state of Florida as racist. The NAACP led the charge with an earnest-sounding “travel advisory.” Yes, the type of advisory the State Department issues when locals cut off too many heads in some National Geographic hellhole.
They said Florida was now “openly hostile toward African Americans.” I’d actually started this piece as a fact-check of that claim, but after some reading, it’s clear that the charge is literally too stupid to take seriously. Like the equally spurious claims of “voter intimidation” we hear bi-annually, there’s no there there. The NAACP took a few conservative bills restricting the sexualization of young students and fortifying gun rights, and voila … a “terrorist” state!
I find it odd that liberals, including my own hair-gel-addicted governor, keep attacking Florida as a fascist playground at the same time thousands of Americans are flocking to live there. Florida leads the country as the new home to Americans fleeing their states.
Now, all Americans are branded racist, and it’s time to pay our bill.
Enter reparations. Once a fringe idea peddled by professional campus protestors and a handful of untouchable Congress members, it's now taken center stage.
These bad ideas have a knack for spawning in San Francisco. This one is supported by black activists looking for a $5 million payday, plus a guaranteed income of $97,000 — bonus points if you've got a drug-dealing ancestor. The California “task force” (assembled by Governor Hair Gel) wants $1.2 million each.
“If you can't pay all of that, say what you can pay. That's the point,” said one of the beggars on the board. “If we can't pay it now, we do it like the Germans did – pay for it over installments.”
Also, a Missouri congresswoman has sponsored the “Reparations Now” Act, which would require at least $14 trillion. That’s about three years’ worth of the entire federal budget.
It’s no surprise they look so happy.
It begs a serious question, though: Have they lost their minds or is there a strategy here? While I don’t discount the former, I suspect the latter.
Promises made to black Americans after George Floyd didn’t get them much. Defunding police and overlooking crime have only managed to spike murder rates, primarily in black neighborhoods. Kamala Harris didn’t pan out that well, and has Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson brought home any bacon?
What did black America get besides more actors in TV commercials? Clearly, it’s time for a new promise, and the politicians are asking for the moon. That way, even a compromise of a measly $100,000 apiece starts to sound reasonable.
And if “compromise” doesn’t work, there's always the 2020 playbook of "mostly peaceful" protests. Remember the burning businesses and fatalities?
“No justice no peace” is a familiar mantra. I’m starting to believe we’ll get neither.
Hi, racist
That meme at the end is perfection.
I am sick and tired of all the whining and crying by the leftists. If they don’t like living in this country go somewhere else but, don’t be surprised if they don’t want you.