The Worst Thing Any President Has Done in My Lifetime

 

When Barack Obama came into power, he did something I don't think anybody recognises, but it was the most deleterious thing in my like that any president's done.

He took the binary of the unique African-American experience, which was like no other minority, and that binary had been something that .. binary since the civil was and the civil rights movement ... it had been something that the United States had been working and succeeding in. And he's said that it's not just black versus white, everybody who is non-white is part of a collective.

And all of a sudden, I noticed, that people who were rich farm owners with 10,000 acres from the Punjab, or a third generation Japanese optometrist, or a upper middle class professor from Brazil, was telling me that he was diverse. And all of a sudden they were part of this group, and we were all going to find some type of edge,

So we had what, Elizabeth Warren saying she was native American. We had Rachel Dalziel saying she was black. And it became kind of a parlour game among friends of mine. They said, well you know, your children have Oklahoma blood in them, maybe they are Cherokee. Should take a DNA and they can get a little edge.

Everybody was trying to find some edge. And it shows you how racist we've become, because as you know, in the old South, everybody was doing the opposite. Everybody was scared stiff that somewhere in their past they had black blood. And they has ... one sixteenth was the rule. One drop! If you could trace African-American then you were considered African-American.

Now we've gone back to the Confederate idea and just flipped it. It's still racist. So we are tribal people now.

There's no society, whether it's the Balkans, or Rwanda, we know where that goes ... we know what we have a destiny with ... because everybody to survive will start being tribal.

To live in a community that's 85% Latino. I don't know very many white people any more. They've mostly moved away. But at Walmart for some strange reason, before 8 o'clock in the morning, that's all white. The vestigial population. And for the first time in my life, I walk in, and here's what happens.

People don't know me. 'Hi! How are you!' 'Hey! Good to see you.' What they're doing is, they're identifying with a shared whiteness, because they feel the whole society is becoming tribal. And they're going to adopt my tribe. And I say 'I don't know who you are.'

Why would I feel closer to that person because he happens to be white than a Mexican-American person who's conservative and shares my own view. But that's where we're headed, and history teaches us that once we go tribal ... it's like going nuclear ... once one nation goes nuclear ... everyone is going to go tribal for defence. It happens like that.

The work of a multi-racial, unified culture takes centuries. The work of a multi-cultural, divisive culture can happen in two or three years. Read Thucydides if you don't believe me.

When you lead a historian like Thucydides they always start with the idea that a pre-civilization, pre-modern society, has no meritocracy. You hire your first cousin, or your general appearance is essential, not incidental, to who you are, and the tribe then is the enemy of progress. It's the enemy of meritocracy.

I've been, I think, to every country in the Middle East except Iran. When I talk to people, journalists there, they always say something. It's a constant refrain. The reason that things don't work here is because we hire our first cousin and we don't hire the most capable person. Because we judge people by their blood ties or their superficial appearance.

We had been fighting with a legacy of slavery ... and Jim Crow in the South. We're now in 50 years since the Civil Rights Movement and affirmative action, and we were starting to realize Martin Luther King Jr's dream of the content of our character rather than this color of our skin. And we've gone back 50 years with this woke movement.

This woke movement was not started grassroots. This is a top-down phenomenon. This is Oprah Winfrey from her 90 million dollar estate at Montecito complaining about ill treatment to Meghan Markle in her 15 million dollar mansion. Tis is Barack and Michelle Obama worth a hundred million dollars coming out and then pontificating on the unfairness as they go back to their 38 acre 14 million dollar Martha's Vineyard estate. I could go on but you get the picture.

The BLM founder, Phyllis Queller she's on house number four in Topanga Canyon. Professor Kendi, if you want to hear him, it's twenty thousand dollars. 333 dollars a minute for his advice about how you must be racist to stop racism and you must discriminate to stop discrimination.

These are not revolutionaries out on the barricade. This is an elite-driven drive for the spoils of America, camouflaged as if America is culpable.

When I heard General Milley and the chief of Naval operations and the defense secretary say that they were rooting out white privilege, white supremacy and white whiteness, I did think: what's going on in Afghanistan? Why we were losing Afghanistan while Joe Biden was telling us everything was okay in Afghanistan. They have 300,000 men. They have airport. Why he was calling the Afghan president and stealthy saying: 'even if you're losing it please lie.'

What was our military doing? They were cannibalizing their own ranks. And when General Austin said we want every aspect of our military to reflect proportionality. Okay. White males, to take one example, you really want to go down that tribal road, where every single person is going to have a job based on their racial component? Because that's a trajectory to nihilism. And it's not even ... it's not even represented ... We don't do that. We did that in the NBA when we were racist, and the NBA was not as exciting. Now we're going 76 percent African-American. I think that's great. It's based on Merit but it violates the very canons of the left that says you cannot do that.

So when I heard Austin and Milley say that, I said okay, white males make up 33 percent of the population they've died in Iraq at 75 percent and they've died in Afghanistan 74. Are you going to call up the Afghan airport and say: 'hey! Anybody who's a white male pullback. You've died, and over represented.' So it's somebody else's turn to go get killed.

So you can see where we're going. The ultimate manifestation is a DNA badge. So we all try to adjudicate whether we're going to go back to the South one 16th drop ... Unless you think I'm kidding ... Elizabeth Warren tried that didn't she, and she found out she didn't even have a one sixteenth drop but she relied on high cheekbones. She didn't have the creativity and the imagination of Ward Churchill who at least took the trouble to dress up as a Native American even though he wasn't.

And so that's what we're doing now. Under the racism that was in the United States, especially in the South, but it was there, people then said: 'I'm going to pass for white.' It was a tragic experience because they thought they would get superior and discriminatory treatment. Now it's: 'I'm going to pass for non-white.' So we come full circle but we're no morally better than what we were. And this is tragic because we were on the we were on the pathway to an assimilated, intermarried and integrated Society.

 

 

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