Archive for April 27th, 2010
Question: Is the intent of the DNC to replace black voters with Hispanic ones, as low-information pets of the party?
Today we wondered if there’s something much bigger behind the Left’s push for amnesty and open borders, something akin to what the Labour government in Great Britain did with unrestricted Muslim immigration…which was to import a new segment of low-information, presumably easily controlled voters to replace a voting bloc the party previously depended on (but has now decided to cast aside and stop dealing with).
In 2008, Donna Brazile famously declared, during the presidential primaries, that the DNC no longer needed blue collar workers, rural voters, senior citizens, or gay and Jewish voters, because the coalition they were building of blacks, college-aged first time voters, Hispanics, and women were enough to win national elections. No one else need apply.
We wonder if Brazile’s candor didn’t leave out part of what’s going on — and that’s actually the DNC’s abandonment of blacks completely, replacing them as pets and dependents with newly imported Mexicans.
There are a lot of coincidental variables that add up to a scenario where the DNC has decided, on some high level, to just stop dealing with black voters at all. What the Socialist-Democrats learned in 2008 was that all it takes is to have a black face on a ballot, and blacks will race-vote for that candidate, no matter what policies the party pursues or what Socialist-Democrats actually deliver to urban areas.
We’ve long believed that Liberal-controlled public schools in cities like Chicago are deliberately kept so terrible that black students never learn the social, academic, or life skills to succeed in life — and are instead kept dependent on the government for their welfare. Dependent blacks remain loyal voters because they owe everything to the DNC that provides their food, shelter, spending money, and other goodies. So long as they don’t have to work, but still get to live large, they will keep voting for the Democrat Machine in Chicago. Since Republicans are forever depicted as people who would make blacks work for a living, get off welfare, and adhere to the same standards of conduct and social behavior as everyone else, Republicans are demonized on Chicago’s Southside…while Socialist-Democrats are painted as the “guys who give me stuff for free”.
Either Socialist-Democrats want to replace these black dependents with an even more easily-controlled demographic (namely, illegals who can’t speak English, so they have even less ability to succeed on their own and get off the dole), or they want to create new pets that will depend on them for absolutely everything.
The influx of Mexicans is attractive to Socialist-Democrats, just as the surge of Muslims in Britain is to Labour, because these people don’t speak English, don’t assimilate into the wider culture, and largely form demographic locked-bloc pockets wherever they are settled. Since they essentially setup bubble communities wherever they land, and insulate themselves to the point where some live their whole lives only having to speak to other Mexicans or Muslims, respectively, all Socialist-Democrats and Labour needs to do to control these people is to manage the message being carried by the community leaders who have these people’s ears.
Mexicans are more attractive than blacks for this purpose, because blacks speak English and can read the newspapers, watch TV, and get information from others on the street if they so choose. Socialist-Democrats then have to worry about spreading their message across multiple platforms, instead of just directing their marching orders at specific ethnic pockets they’d like to control in key geographic areas…where racial bloc-voting can carry the day.
The reason Liberals shout RAAACIST! at anyone who challenges them is because they are projecting their own racism at others.
They don’t care about blacks or illegal aliens any more than Labour in Britain really cares about Muslims. These two political parties are just looking for the easiest ethnic groups to manipulate, and have set their sights on those that race-vote in strict numbers, that insulate themselves from the population at large, and that willingly congregate in enclaves the political parties establish for their pets.
The pets’ numbers are grown. Their community leaders are collared and leashed firmly to the parties — and their influence over their low-information, deliberately under-educated, and purposefully dependent followers is used to marshal lock-step voting for Socialist-Democrats or Labour, as the case may be.
We don’t know what either Socialist-Democrats’ or Labour’s ultimate end game really is. It sure feels like these Liberal academics in their Ivory Towers want to become some breed of Eloi, eating lotus blossoms and sipping nectar as the ruling elite, while their pet Morlocks keep them aloft…in this example by somehow forcing the working class and blue collar Americans to tender all of their earnings in taxes to support not only the utopia of the ruling elite, but the gravy train to the Socialist-Democrats’ and Labour’s pets as well.
Hard-working Americans are overtaxed to the point of slavery.
Blacks, Mexicans, and Muslims are debased as pawns and animals, treated as sub-humans, and prevented from ever succeeding in life on their own merits because the welfare system hinders their personal development.
This is deliberate, because the Socialist-Democrats, in particular, want to establish a communist-style utopia where they get to be the palace-dwelling party elite, while “regular Americans” in “flyover country” fund their high life in big cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Blacks and Mexicans are kept economic-captive in key districts needed for the Socialist-Democrat elite to maintain their stranglehold on the nation.
It feels like the endgame is to establish a permanent majority for these Eloi, with the burden for funding all of this falling upon the working-class Americans this Leftist elite has always looked down upon as inferior to itself.
Are we in left field on all of this, or does this seem to be what the DNC is aiming for, in all that it’s done since Donna Brazile gave the game away in 2008?
Howard Brown: A Boystown Example of the Financial Ruin to Come Under Obamacare (pertaining to Medicaid reimbursements)
This is a story that should be national news, but is, to our knowledge, only being covered in the local LGBTQ papers in Boystown. It involves a scandal at Chicago’s Howard Brown — a community health organization focusing on HIV/AIDS education and research, which has been running one of the most important HIV infection studies in the world for the last 26 years.
Recently, the executive directors of Howard Brown were ousted for what at first seemed like financial malfeasance, but in reality turned out to be a rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul illegal maneuvering of federal grant funds to cover the shortfall that hit Howard Brown because the state of Illinois is over $4.6 billion in debt and can’t pay its Medicaid reimbursements.
This is FASCINATING because we bet it’s happening at health-related nonprofits like Howard Brown all over the country. If not already, then it will be soon.
Here’s the situation Howard Brown was in:
* The federal government funds its HIV/AIDS cohort study, to the tune of an annual $3.4 million a year.
* Howard Brown depends on timely payments from the state of Illinois to keep the doors open — those are Medicaid reimbursements the state is mandated, by law, to pay within 30 days to an agency like Howard Brown. Illinois is so broke it just stopped paying all of its bills a year or two ago. There is a backlog of, literally, close to $5 BILLION in unpaid bills — money owed to everyone from small freelance contractors to agencies like Howard Brown.
* Because Howard Brown stopped receiving Medicaid payments, its directors engaged in creative accounting, and decided to risk moving the HIV/AIDS Multicenter Cohort money into daily operating expenses accounts, just to keep the doors open. The intent was to replace that money once the state of Illinois coughed up some Medicaid funds. That never happened, Howard Brown was audited, and all Hell broke loose.
* Nonprofits in Illinois have been cutting staff left and right because the state has not been paying its bills. Couple this with the worst fundraising climate in memory for private donations, and you have a doomsday scenario for many health organizations, in particular.
If this is happening NOW, before Obamacare is enacted, we wonder just how massive the financial ruination to hit states will be once those Medicaid entitlements quadruple in coming years.
If Illinois already does not have the money to pay its Medicaid bills, how will it be able to pay bills that will be four or five times higher once Obamacare ensures even illegal aliens get “free care” any time they want.
If organizations like Howard Brown are struggling to stay afloat now, how will they stay open after 2011, 2012, and into 2014-2015, when Obamacare REALLY starts to kick in?
Where is all the money going to come from to pay for all of this?
AND – on top of the funding needed for the expansion of these programs, no one is talking about the massive debts the states already have.
Think about that a minute: if Illinois currently has close to $5 BILLION in unpaid bills, won’t those bills have to be paid before the bills it will start incurring under the unfunded mandate can be paid?
Logic would dictate any federal funds pouring into the state would have to pay off the existing debt first, and then, in a BizarroWorld where those are ever resolved, the newest bills will start to be paid.
All of this feels like someone with a credit card who has no idea what he or she is doing with her personal finances. He went on a big shopping spree around town for the last two years, and has a massive amount of debt racked up. Even if he gets two new jobs to help pay for it, if he does not stop spending, and does not cut those shopping sprees out, he will never pay for the new purchases because any money poured into the black hole of his debt will only go towards covering the past due bills and all that interest. It will be years before the purchases made today are even addressed. This guy’s still paying for the steak dinner he had on his birthday in 2007. The skateboard he buys tomorrow won’t be paid for until children born today are starting kindergarten.
Illinois, we bet, isn’t even in the worst shape. We shudder to even think about California’s Medicaid payment process. How much in the hole is the Golden State…and how big of a disaster will it be once the illegal aliens in that state are granted full access to the limited pool of resources?
Obamacare is going to bankrupt and collapse the economy of Illinois.
It’s already started, if reputable organizations like Howard Brown — a Chicago institution for decades — are having to resort to what amounts to financial crimes just to keep the doors open.
If people are this desperate now, one month after Obamacare’s passage, we can’t imagine how bad things are going to get once it is in full force.
You can only raise taxes so much.
You can only dig a hole of debt so deep.
Before something has to give.
A Good Guy Wins: Alinea named one of top ten restaurants in world
Talented chef, total babe, and all-around-nice guy. Why'd he have to be straight?
This is such great news for a very nice young man that we had to give it its own post.
The newest list of the top 50 restaurants in the world’s been released, and Chicago’s own Alinea is ranked #7…the best showing for the US on the list, beating New York’s Daniel (and other favorite HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy haunts, no doubt).
The chef/owner of Alinea is a delightful young guy named Grant Achatz, who we’ve encountered numerous times around Chicago over the last few years.
He’s an American success story, who engages in magical molecular gastronomy in a degustation menu that makes you feel like you’re eating dinner far in the future, or in the headmaster’s private dining room at Hogwart’s.
“Degustation” is a tasting menu, meaning it’s multiple courses of small bites, presented with utmost imagination.
Before Alinea really hit the big time, we were lucky enough to attend a dinner there, and we remember being served one dish on a silk pillow that was filled with orange scented air. When this beautiful square plate was placed atop the pillow, the air inside was forced out, adding a light citrus mist to the atmosphere at the table.
Another dish was “Hot Potato/Cold Potato”, which had a circus-like trapeze suspending a bit of baked potato over a vichyssoise pool below. With each pass of the trapeze, the hot potato would flirt with the cold puree beneath, creating a beautiful rippled pattern — edible art.
It’s all whimsical and inspired in the way “whimsical and inspired” should be — and not forced and one-note like Le Cirque in New York, or other “molecular gastronomy” high-concept, poor execution spots you might have seen on TV.
What makes all of this even more remarkable is that Chef Achatz had tongue and mouth cancer just two or three years ago, which came close to permanently stealing his sense of taste. Just imagine the Greek-tragedy-levels of cruel Fate threatened in this: an up-and-coming, brilliant chef, losing the key to his success, his remarkable sense of taste, just as he was readying himself for the big time.
All of Chicago came together hoping and praying for Chef Achatz to get better. Even the big egos out there in this city of highly competitive restaurants came together for various events to support him. It was remarkable, because it’s so rare for anything like that to happen. If you thought Al Capone was rough to his competitors, you’ve never seen Chicago’s top chefs battle it out over that last batch of exceptionally fragrant truffles from France (where “fragrant” means “stinky”, and “top chefs” is code for “crazy foodies”).
If you’re ever in Chicago for any sort of special occasion, you have to try to get a table at Alinea. It’s really a very special place, and it would be like going to Studio 54 in its heydey, or the Rainbow Room back when every star in Hollywood made a point to dance there when in New York. It’s a place we know 50 years from now people will be talking about, because it’s just so unique, and such a gem. We’re blessed we had the chance to experience this back when we could still get a table — and we won’t ever forget it. Hot Potato, Cold Potato, Orange Scented Pillows, and Magic.
Honestly, it’s one of the few meals in all our lives that we still talk about.
Just incredible.
We are so happy for a very deserving and adorable man living his dream in the big city.
Obama gets no cheer in latest Boystown theater production
We really liked a theater company here in Chicago, called GayCo, until 2008 when they converted themselves into an Obama propaganda machine.
We’ve tried to go back to their productions, including a show they did last year which rebuked Obama to some degree, but frankly, our love for GayCo is gone. Their schtick just leaves a bad taste in our mouth, considering how much cheerleading they did for the administration that’s responsible for everything we’re facing today.
Some of GayCo’s former performers started a new company, called Quixotic, that doesn’t have a theater for a home and instead stages its shows inside the late-night bar Hydrate, before Hydrate gets rocking. It’s a great setup, actually, with Quixotic performing on a makeshift stage on Hydrate’s dance floor from 9-10pm, getting more people into the bar than usual, since most people avoid Hydrate until places like Sidetracks, Roscoes, Cocktail, and MiniBar (aka, douchebag central) close at 2am.
We know some of the guys behind Quixotic, and they are big Obama Zombies. Knowing absolutely nothing about what’s actually being done to the country, or the unconstitutionality of the Obamacare bill rammed through Congress in March, these are the kinds of guys who just think it’s cool to have a black president and first lady. They don’t see the ramification of new taxes coming down the pipe, and they don’t care all that much about Obama throwing only the teensiest of bones and tiniest scraps to gays. They have the “We hate Republicans!” blinders firmly in place, and do whatever Anderson Cooper tells them to do on TV.
That said, we caught Quixotic’s latest show at Hydrate because we like seeing shows about life in Boystown, and hearing another take on the things we also observe and write about. The new show, Hate Crimes: A Love Story, is about 90% funny, with only two bits that miss the mark.
One is a slam against Christians that we find needlessly out of place. The show’s rolling along very well, snarking on the antics of people in Boystown, and all the ridiculous things, guys especially, do here when out of the blue there’s a musical number about “Travis Christ”, supposedly the 13th apostle, and Jesus’ husband.
It’s not as disrespectful as you’d think, and the main vocals on the song are provided by an adorable Neil Patrick Harris impersonator,who plays ‘Travis”. It’s really just a setup for them to argue for spousal rights, trying awkwardly to eliminate the religious objection between same-sex partnerships. But, when we see Comedy Central censor itself because it’s so afraid of insulting Muslims, for disrespecting the Religion of Peace that is Islam, we find it glaring that Quixotic, like the rest of the Left, sees no harm at all in degrading Christianity.
Even if it is with an NPH clone.
It’s interesting the audience didn’t laugh or really seem to enjoy the “Travis Christ” song. Knowing some of the people behind Quixotic, we can peg who forced this number into the show, just because he wanted to stick it to the religious types we know him to hate. It’s a shame someone didn’t take a step back and 86 this needless dig. The show would have been better for it.
The same is true for another line in the show that got absolutely no cheer from the audience — a line that praises the current president.
We don’t remember the context, exactly, but there’s a bit where the Quixotic cast is talking about how great it is to have a “big dog in the White House”, protecting them. And it’s just stone cold silent in the audience at that. The line falls completely flat.
Obama gets no cheer.
Whatsoever.
Which is interesting, because in 2008 when GayCo staged the show that sang Obama’s praises and fawned all over him, the audience did in fact cheer. Loudly. They just ate that stuff up.
But, in 2010, those cheers are long gone.
The writers at Quixotic don’t seem to realize it, but it’s true.
We are glad, however, that Quixotic didn’t feel the need to take a jab at Sarah Palin in this show, like they did in their last production. That was a smart move on their part, because it’s become the lazy fallback of the LGBTQ-set, to rag on Sarah Palin in some way, as the straw man villain of lazy minds. Someone at Quixotic has a defective fabulous gene, because we as a community are supposed to be sharp, cutting-edge, forever fabulous, and critically-acclaimed-sitcom-witty just walking down the street (let alone starring in gay theater productions). Stale, recycled, mean-spirited, unfunny jokes about Republicans just don’t cut it.
If you are in Chicago on a Friday or Saturday through mid-May, “Hate Crimes: A Love Story” is worth checking out. We really liked it, as we said, save for the Travis Christ number and the weird Obama shoutout (that no one else seemed to want either). If you really like Neil Patrick Harris, in particular, you should definitely see it…because if you squint your eyes, or just forget your glasses entirely, you’d really think it was actually him. And in super tight black jeans too.
Question: Do you carry an ID with you at all times? If so, what's the hyperventilation about asking illegal aliens to do the same or go home?
We’ve never understood two things about all those on the Left who enjoy taking to the streets screaming and yelling for amnesty and open borders:
(1) Why they think waving the Mexican flag at these events helps their cause
(2) Why they have such a problem with the enforcement of existing law
In Chicago, we need to carry an ID with us at all times, because at least three or four times a day we are asked to show it.
80% of the time we use a credit card here in Chicago, the clerk at the register asks to see an ID.
IDs are required to get into any bar or club, and even some restaurants after a certain time of night.
None of us drive on a regular basis, but if we did, we’d be required to have that ID with us whenever operating a vehicle.
If we didn’t have an ID on us, we wouldn’t be able to do things like pick up packages at the mailbox store, cash checks at the bank, sign up for a gym membership, or do any of the other random things we do frequently here in Boystown.
So, eliminating the larger issue of why having no borders at all is a civilization-killing, culturally-suicidal idea, we just can’t understand the argument made by the Left that it’s improper to require illegal aliens to hold identification documents…because we, American citizens, are required to show such documents multiple times a day.
Have you ever understood this?
As we watch the Left screech and wail over Arizona being the first state to grow a pair and start cracking down on illegal aliens, we anecdotally see support for the Left crumbling the longer unemployment stays so high. Here’s what we’re seeing in Chicago, in just the food & beverage and private event industry.
We know of at least three guys who can’t find work as cater-waiters, like they usually do, in Chicago because staffing companies have too many illegal Mexican workers employed. Instead of paying an American citizen $12-15 an hour for a job, the staffing companies pay the Mexicans $5 an hour, cash.
You’d be surprised who uses these staffing companies. It’s not just for private events.
The City Club, Union League Club, and all the other big, fancy, private clubs in Chicago use staffing companies to lessen their payroll costs. Hotels do this too. Instead of hiring staff outright, these companies sign a contract with a staffing agency for x-number of warm bodies for events. The City Club or big hotel never knows these people’s names, so they never have any documents on them in their HR files. Instead, they just do a pay-out to the staffing agencies for 50 workers at x-dollar and hour on a certain day, and then the staffing agency distributes that money to its own workers, however it sees fit.
The bulk of the staffing agency’s employees are illegal Mexican workers, serving banquets, doing janitorial and housekeeping work, toiling as gardeners and other laborers, etc.
So, the racquet that exists keeps American citizens unemployed, while companies save money on staffing costs by using these third party staffing agencies to bring illegal workers into the employment pool — off the company’s books.
Just about every restaurant, hotel, and bar in the city uses illegal workers in this way, since they work for essentially slave wages — at least half what they should be getting in the job market if the company was forced to pay the standard going rate.
This practice will only INCREASE if Obamacare’s taxes and penalties become a reality.
Just think about what Obamacare is going to do to the unemployment numbers, when you realize companies forever look for creative, if not outright illegal, ways to lower their biggest expenses: payroll.
If a company wants to avoid paying health insurance costs for its employees, it will just fire the staff it has and instead contract with a staffing agency to provide the workers it needs, at a lower cost (and no insurance requirement).
Democrats are fools because they didn’t fully think out Obamacare before ramming it through — but this bill is going to put millions of people out of work in 2011, if Republicans don’t succeed in taking back Congress and killing it before then.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious the Left’s goal with illegal immigration is to perpetuate a slave class of undocumented, uneducated, hopeless and helpless individuals to serve as the lowest rung in society, working for as little money as possible so that the Liberals in their ivory towers can live the high life — and have their little pets to use for their own array of purposes.
But, we still can’t understand how the Left can continuously claim that asking these illegals for their identification is such a crime, when American citizens are asked for their identification multiple times a day.
Is this more Liberal irrationalism, where the Left screams and shouts about anything when someone gets too close to calling them out on one of their crazy schemes?
Or, are we missing something about the heinous burden of showing an ID when asked in public that we’ve just never been apprised of?
Question: Are Ken Tucker and Entertainment Weekly racist?
Gabourey Sidibe is, by all accounts, a wonderful young lady -- but she was terrible on Saturday Night Live this week.
Here’s something fascinating that’s been developing since Saturday, when Gabourey Sidibe, star of the movie Precious, hosted Saturday Night Live.
Sidibe seems to be a very kind and lovely young woman, whom everyone she’s worked with says very nice things about. Additionally, one of our friends teaches in New York public schools and knows Gabby — and she’s confirmed what you see on TV is indeed what you get with her: she’s good people, as they say, and has seemingly not let any of the Oscar and other attention go to her head.
So, we like Gabby, and we want her to succeed. We were rooting for her to do very well on SNL this weekend, but when we watched the episode on Hulu yesterday, we had to admit what a poor job she did as host.
She’s young and very inexperienced, so her performance was like watching someone from high school drama class host the program. She forgot many of her lines and giggled through the bulk of her sketches. It was cute, in a way, like watching a good friend or a little old lady with no acting experience get the chance to randomly host the show, after winning a contest — but Gabby’s no Miskell Spillman.
We really enjoyed seeing her in the sketches, in the way we’d also enjoy seeing our friend Abbey’s baby, Lil’ Remy, up on the stage dancing around, being in skits, and taking part in the community center’s follies. We’d clap and laugh and would tell anyone who listened how great Lil’ Remy was, because we couldn’t care less about the quality of the performance or production. Our goal from the beginning was to cheer for Lil’ Remy, and to tell the world he was simply THE. BEST. THING. EVER. Because Abbey’s our dear friend. Lil’ Remy, son of Abbey, is thus our dear friend, and anyone who doesn’t think his performance as “Rumple” in a Wiz-inspired, hippity hop version of Rumplestiltskin is just daft.
Or, according to Ken Tucker over at Entertainment Weekly, RAAACIST!, no doubt.
Here’s the deal.
Tucker’s catching some surprising heat for praising Sidibe’s lackluster, unprofessional and disappointing performance on SNL this weekend. So much so that after he wrote a glowing review of her hosting gig, he got enough blowback that he had to write a second post trying to justify his decision to lavish so much praise on an undeserving performance.
It seriously was like us writing a review of “Rumple”, calling it the greatest piece of theater in the world, just because Lil’ Remy was in it…and then having people call us out on our bias.
In our case, we would rightly be accused of having blinders on, since our good friends were involved in the production, and we couldn’t fairly judge what we saw because we were too focused on praising Lil’ Remy.
With Tucker, it’s very clear he’s a Liberal who’s been trained never to say a critical word about a black person.
That would be blasphemy to him.
And, knowing the Left and how it operates under Alinsky’s rules, perhaps Tucker’s afraid of mobs with torches heading to his condo, or of the Race Industry targeting him the way Islam declares fatwas on anyone who draws pictures of Muhammed.
It’s a crime against the religion of Liberalism to admit a black person did anything wrong, failed at anything, or just didn’t measure up.
As nice of a person as Gabourey Sidibe is, and as much as we wanted her to succeed, she fell flat on her face on Saturday. More bluntly, she stunk the place up. Then giggled about it.
But, Tucker instead pretends he watched an episode of SNL aired in an alternate-dimension, where the black host blew everyone’s socks off and delivered a bravo performance unparalleled in the history of SNL hosting. The Emmy’s might as well be canceled, because in 90 minutes on the air this last Saturday, according to Tucker, Sidibe has qualified herself to win every possible award, including those invented just for her (and for the sake of “diversity”). Apparently, her performance was so great that it’s been readied for theatrical release, so she can finally win the Oscar Tucker must feel Sidibe was robbed of (by that RAAACIST Sandra Bullock, no doubt, who done stole it from the black girl).
All of this reminds us of the time one of us worked for a major hotel chain in Cleveland, and saw first hand the racism corporate America employs in the name of diversity.
There was a young front office manager named Keisha who never did anything right, who was rude, abrasive, and made all the wrong calls with guests. She had no tact, zero common sense, and generally caused more problems than she resolved. Under her tenure, the employee and guest satisfaction scores dropped precipitously, as no one liked dealing with her and her job performance was abysmal.
BUT, Keisha was black. She was recruited from a hospitality training school by the company and fast-tracked into management because corporate wanted more black women working for them in management positions — since 99% of black women receiving paychecks by this lodging giant wore housekeeping uniforms.
So, short of murdering someone, Keisha was guaranteed an executive-level position within five years, since every year, on the anniversary of her hire, she’d be promoted up one management grade, regardless of if she did a good job or not. Her supervisors were prevented from giving her poor evaluations. She could not be criticized or disciplined for anything. She was the Golden Child…because her skin was darker than more qualified and deserving men and women who were passed over for her job so that corporate could promote its “diversity agenda”.
This sure feels like what Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly is up to as well.
There aren’t many black hosts of Saturday Night Live in a given year…with fewer still black women.
Tucker might not even realize he’s doing this, but it feels like he doesn’t want to objectively judge Sidibe’s performance because he does not want to attack one of the few black female hosts in SNL’s history. So, she gets not only a pass, but rapturous applause. Just for showing up and not throwing up all over herself.
Sound familiar?
It’s essentially the same pass Obama gets on everything as well. The Left has long wanted a black president, and would have been happy picking one from the phone book. So long as that person’s — well, who are we kidding, that MAN’S, because the Left wouldn’t support a woman in the White House no matter her race — skin color was somewhere between cocoa and tan on the Ralph Lauren paints chart, no criticism or critical evaluation would ever be allowed.
All of this bar-lowering and standard-dropping, in the end, hurts only black people, ironically enough.
It’s like going to see a lavish Broadway show, and having one set of expectations there…and then going to see Lil’ Remy in “Rumple”, in a community theater production that’s lackluster and poorly staged. Clearly, a theater critic wouldn’t judge “Rumple” by the standards of “Billy Elliot”, because “Rumple” is light years below the quality and caliber of a Broadway production, which is the theater gold standard.
When Tucker applauds black actors like Gabourey Sidibe for being able to remember most of her lines and not pass out from the excitement of being on stage, and treats her performance as momentous when it (disappointingly) was not, then what he’s saying is that black people should be judged by a lesser standard than other more capable individuals out there. Tucker, and Liberals like him, see blacks as inferior to others in our society — so much so that they should be patted on the head and cheered for doing the most basic things.
In a cooking competition, Tucker would be ready to award the prize to the chef with the darkest skin before he tasted any of the food. If that black chef managed to get his chef’s coat on, even inside out, and somehow figured out how to put his hat on, and remembered to bring one or two of his knives and maybe a green pepper and some salt, Tucker would dig into that sliced, salty pepper and declare it PHENOMENAL! His rave review would place the culinary genius of the black chef head and shoulders above whatever complex gastronomic creations competing chefs prepared, just because Tucker, from the beginning, wanted the black chef to win.
But, does the black chef REALLY win when Liberals like Tucker lavish high awards on them for mendacity?
Keisha has no talent whatsoever for the hotel business. She’s probably a high-paid executive right now, though, with absolutely no clue in hell in how to do her job. This is a publicly traded company that will most likely suffer some sort of serious loss in the future should Keisha ever be put in charge of anything really important. A disaster will come, and fingers will be pointed, and there’s a good chance the men in suits who destined her rise to the top will never realize how stupid they were to praise Keisha for talent she did not have, just so they could be PC and “diverse” as a corporation, instead of taking her to task and developing what skills she had and truly nurturing her abilities.
You don’t challenge people to rise to greatness if you never challenge them.
You don’t help Gabourey Sidibe become a great actress if you jump up and down on your couch cheering a lackluster performance — with all the believability of Tom Cruise singing the praises of heterosexuality to Oprah.
It’s time for America to truly redefine what it sees as “racist”.
The Al Sharpton/Henry Gates/Jesse Jackson/wailing in the streets definition of “racism” is limiting someone’s opportunities because that person is black (since, to these Race Industry hustlers, black people are the only ones whom racism can be used against).
Another take on “racism” is giving someone a complete pass in life because that person is black, and treating that person with special status and lowered expectations because, on some level, you must believe that person is not capable, intelligent, or talented enough to compete fair and square on a level playing field with non-blacks.
We’ve known for years how RAAACIST! Liberals truly are. They see blacks as pets — a cause for them to rally for, to pet on the head when they deem them good, and props to prove their devotion to the cult of Liberalism.
If Tucker truly saw a young black woman as his equal, he would have demanded the same performance out of her that he’d expect out of Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, or any of the other women that were nominated for an Oscar this year alongside her.
Instead, he lowered his standards from Oscar-winning leading ladies to what we’d essentially expect of children singing, dancing, and bebopping in “Rumple” somewhere at a community theater in Lakewood, Ohio.
That makes Ken Tucker, and Entertainment Weekly, hella RAAACIST in our books.
David "Popcorn" Kernell Trial Watch: Day Five
What’s the latest on Obama operative David “Popcorn” Kernell’s trial?
Last we heard, the defense has decided not to put Kernell himself on the stand — largely, it seems, because Kernell doesn’t seem able to control himself when speaking in public. He can’t resist the urge to slam the Palins, and thinks he’s too cool for school. Not a good combination in the witness box.
So, if his entire defense strategy was to sit up there, with Boticelli locks a-curled, and puppy dog eyelashes a-batting, then his legal eagles better move on to Strategy Number B.
Have you gleamed any new insights into the trial?
Do share.
