Moonshadow
Unqualified minorities are falling from high positions. Does the fault lie with those who exposed them or the people who put them there in the first place?
I’m hearing a lot of this, as I’m sure you are as well:
“Plagiarism scandals rage, powerful Black men and Strong Womyn of Color hardest hit!”
You know the names:
Claudine Gay, former Harvard President
Lisa Cook, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board
Jayson Blair, New York Times (2003)
And some you may not know – yet:
Sherri Charleston, Harvard’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Shirley Greene, Harvard Extension School administrator
Christina Cross, Harvard Assistant Professor of Sociology
You no doubt know of many other minority members who have most certainly achieved based on characteristics other than their intellect. Examples are:
Sheila Jackson “Gassy Moon” Lee
Hank “Island Turnover” Johnson
Sandy “The Barmaid” Cortez
Sunny “Climate Quake” Hostin
Fani “Booty Call” Willis
Lori “Betelgeuse” Lightfoot
Ketanji Brown “What’s a Woman” Jackson
Obviously, there are more who come to mind, just too many to list here and stay 600 words or under.
In most cases, these people know – or should know – they are in no way capable of holding these positions, and the fact they allow or position themselves to be elevated to these positions means they have no respect for the institutions or constituencies they “lead” or “serve”. They feel they are “owed” and are put on these pedestals by cowards and placatory operatives who think promoting unqualified people earns them Brownie points with their idiotic friends and supporters.
Minorities are caught in these situations, not because they are minorities but because they are simply not qualified for their positions – and they are usually put in place by scheming white people who are more interested in others knowing they engineered these promotions based on some illegitimate sense that this solves some perceived inequality.
Any self respecting person knows whether they are qualified or not. It also says something about the lack of personal integrity of people who jump the line.
Biden appointed a Cabinet that “looked like America” by appointing minorities to those positions, but across the board, those people have, and are failing – not because they are minorities, but because they are incompetent – and yet the Biden Administration continues to play Skin Color Bingo as the continue to put up unqualified minority candidates for bureaucratic and judicial appointments.
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana is shooting skeet in the confirmation hearings. Lower court judges Chanelle Bjelkengren and Ana de Alba and Oklahoma Attorney General Sara E. Hill to name a few, all seeking elevation to a higher, more powerful position, found themselves in the sights of Kennedy’s Benelli over-and-under, blasted apart like clay pigeons by Kennedy’s basic questions of legal terms and constitutional law.
There has never been a shortage of intelligent, competent black women or men, or simply women, who could do excellent work in such positions – but they aren’t by chosen by Democrats because they are white women, white men (and in some cases, just men) or blacks with the “incorrect” ideological positions.
I was (and still am) called a racist because I opposed the same policies under Obama as I opposed during the Clinton administration, and even though Maya Angelou called Billy Jeff the “first black president”, I have it on good authority Bill was (and still is) a pale and doughy white boy.
And if they ever need an example of a cis white man committing plagiarism, they need look no farther than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
As I remarked about Shiela Jackson Lee’s recent idiotic (and very unscientific) comments about the moon and the recent eclipse, we aren’t laughing at her because she is black, it is for her willing and public stupidity.
What I don't understand is that how can so many - so called intelligent people not see through all of this as you have so correctly written here? I am amazed how people I know who are retired pharmacists and retire Physicians assistants, people I have called friends - can just unfriend me because I do not believe all of the crap the left is spewing?
There are so many intelligent people on both sides of the isle who could do a better job in their sleep than many of these so-called enlightened ones masquerading as politicians. It still bothers me to understand how such stupidity can be elected in the first place.
In my experience, the tragedy of quota-based hiring not only ruins perceptions of qualified professionals, but it can also kill. Before we went to China in August of 2001 we were told we should get a Hepatitis C (I could never remember whether it was B or C, though I consistently did then) vaccination. It required three shots, six months apart. We had entered a 6-week training course in Pasadena when the second shot was due. I called the local health department, specifying that we needed the second Hepatitis C injection in the three-shot series. Yes, they could do that and it would be free as part of California's health program. "I want to make sure this is the right shot, the second in the Hepatitis C series," I asked the uniformed attendant when we arrived at the clinic. She gave one of our twins a shot, then I noticed as she was clearing the syringe for the second, that the serum's viscosity was significantly different from that of our first round, which we had received in a doctor's office in Michigan. "Are you sure that's the right serum? The viscosity is wrong." "Sure," she replied, "We give Hep shots all the time." "This is for Hepatitis C, not A, right?" She seemed confused. I asked her to check the package, which gave a lot of medical terms, with which I as a non-medical person had to struggle to pronounce. I gave the package to her to read. She could not read it. I had never heard of such a thing as vaccine injury (This was 1991), but somewhere in the conversation the uniformed attendant let on that this was Hemoglobin (as I recall), and that it was for Hep A (which, I suppose, was common among drug IV users). I was angry, because I knew enough about the Hep C protocol that if someone got a Hemoglobin shot the Hep C series was voided, and would have to start over after a six month delay. I tried to call the health department to complain and ask that that incompetent "nurse" be removed or something, but I never made it through the bureaucracy to anyone who knew anything meaningful. We finished our training and left for China in a couple of weeks, in late August. In late October, one of my twins suddenly threw up for no apparent reason. This is already long, so I will cut to April, 1992, when we finally got diagnosed with an extremely rare Ependymoma. If you recognize that word, I need tell you no more. We only began to hear about vaccine injuries during the Covid injection frenzy. I don't suppose we'll know this side of the Judgment, but I think it's reasonable to suspect that our son might have been an early-on vaccine-injury death, in 1994.