Another day…
At least this one didn’t involve a large and expensive police investigation.
On the other hand, the accuser is Democrat Erica Thomas, who is the Minority Vice Chair of the Georgia House of Representatives.
You can read about the incident at the link. I’m not going to waste much more time writing about it except to say that these things are becoming more common, and are seen as a way to get Trump, blame Trump, hurt Trump, and advance the general narrative.
Also, it’s pretty humorous that the “white man” Erica Thomas accused says he’s actually a Cuban-American (which now qualifies as “brown” whatever one’s skin color—unless one is George Zimmerman, in which case the person is a “white Hispanic”) who is a lifelong and loyal Democrat and can’t stand Trump.
And when did “go back where you (or your ancestors) came from” become a racial slur? It’s many things, but hardly that and certainly not obviously that. My maternal grandmother used to say it to my paternal uncle with some regularity, and they were from the exact same ethnic group. The difference? He had been born elsewhere and came here as a toddler, and her family had been here for many generations. The reason she said it? Not to beat around the bush—he was a Communist and she most definitely was not.
[NOTE: I told the story about my grandmother and uncle at greater length here.]
Even though the “white” man was accused of being a Racist, he still insists that he is a lifelong Dem and will remain one. Idjt!
Calling people racist is the last refuge of a scoundrel, or maybe the first.
I don’t know how to measure the political landscape anymore.
I work and live in Sacramento, CA and the people here cannot see the fact that their state is a laughing stock of lack of governance. While Gavin Newsom will issue press releases about Trump – his own state is a hellhole and Nancy is getting OUT MANUEVERED by 4 of her party’s freshpeople.
Interested readers might consider the excellent book by Wilfred Reilly entitled Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War. The author, who teaches at Kentucky State, is neither white nor conservative.
It’s so hard to find an actual incident of racism that the Left has to make things up.
Jesse Smollett doesn’t seem to want to go away. (To be fair—and one should always try to be fair—he is an actor; and “How can we know the actor from the act?”…—with apologies))
In a new—and wondrously creative—“twist”, it seems that it’s those naughty Nigerians who are at fault. (Well, you gotta blame somebody….)
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/07/20/smollett-second-thought-two-brothers-fault/
Key graf:
“Just to add a bit more sauce for the goose, Smollett’s attorneys are once again laying the entire blame for the incident on Ola and Abel Osundairo, the two Nigerian brothers who staged the “attack” as well as offering the possibility of a third, as yet unknown conspirator who may have helped them.”
Indeed, the lady of generous proportions is still singing….
And when did “go back where you (or your ancestors) came from” become a racial slur?
I definitely recall reading in detail about your Red uncle. It didn’t make for harmonious dinners involving the extended family.
Which reminds me of THE BEATLES – GET BACK (to where you once belonged.) That is, get back to Tuscon and leave sunny California. No mo’ wacky tabacky trips to California for you, Jo Jo.
AOC tells us that NYC gardens should “get back” to what is grown in Puerto Rico:Ocasio-Cortez likens growing cauliflower to colonialism
Which informs me that as AOC wants a NYC garden to “get back” to what is grown in Puerto Rico- even though cauliflower will grow much better in NYC’s climate than yuca- then perhaps it isn’t so inappropriate to tell AOC to “get back”-at least get back to tending bar. Gardening advice from AOC is not worth much. Growing yuca in NYC is about as bright as relocating a polar bear to the Amazon. Perhaps the conclusion is that the “colonialist” practice of growing cauliflower is the better choice in NYC. After all, you CAN grow cauliflower in NYC.
Considering the mocking that our esteemed Georgia legislator is getting for making a false claim about “get back,” I wonder if we will ever reach the stage where our esteemed lefty friends will conclude that the cost of making a fake hate crime claim is greater than the benefit of making a fake hate crime claim. I am not holding my breath.
In my decades in TX, I can’t recall if anyone ever told me to “get back” to where I came from. If they had, I would reply that my mother’s parents were born and raised in TX, and THEIR parents were all in TX by 1876. Which reminds me of decades ago reading a letter to the editor in the Houston Chronicle complaining about “chopped-liver-eating Yankees.” From my childhood in New England, I didn’t associate chopped liver with Yankee food. Indian pudding, baked beans, and cold apple pie for breakfast were examples of Yankee food, but not chopped liver. 🙂
I see the Edit function is back.
I guess when we shouted “America, love it or leave it!” to the anti-Vietnam protestors, we were being racist, even though they were virtually all white boys who didn’t want to be drafted.
Gringo,
Can’t believe the SJW haven’t come for Sir Paul over ‘Get Back’. Because ‘Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman but she was just another man’. Can’t be having that kind trans phobic language now can we.
I think we’ve reached the point where
‘I think you have too many items for the express line’
=
‘Go back where you came from’
Strange days indeed.
Dick Motta.
Just needs to be out there.
Seems like her hair oughta be Cultural Appropriation, right? Or something. I’m outraged.
Clearly, she’s too stupid to see the hole she’s digging herself into. That the man she accuses is a life long democrat and Trump hater is sweet irony.
BTW, isn’t a black woman dying her hair blond “cultural/racial appropriation”? Or (rhetorical question) does ‘appropriation’ only apply to whites? Hypocrisy incessantly repeated in time becomes intolerable.
mikeski,
Glad to see I’m not the only one whose eye is raised at that.
Gringo,
My parents were both born in Mass. I was too, but my Dad’s unit was drafted and transferred when I was 3, so I don’t count Mass. as my “home” state. Still…to your “chopped liver” comment… we were stationed in Germany for several years, and chopped liver _is_ a dish they enjoy. (waste not, want not, maybe?). I’m inclined to think that the chopped liver came from the Pennsylvania Dutch, who weren’t actually Dutch, but Deutsch – that is German. Pennsylvania still counts as Yankee, I think!
Not an expert, but maybe??
Sounds like the woman has made a whole career for herself out of victimhood.
Sue K, my assumption is that the letter to the editor referred to the chopped liver found in delicatessens- kosher or otherwise. Coincidentally, when I first came to Houston to find a professional job, I found a temp job washing dishes at a delicatessen. Don’t recall how kosher it was. It was my last temp job.
A further amusement for me about “chopped-liver-eating-yankees” – which to me refers to a Jewish person most likely from NYC- is that I grew up in New England with a much different definition of “Yankee.” In New England, a “Yankee” is someone whose ancestors were living in New England before 1776. As my parents were from “away,” though also with pre-1776 roots, I wasn’t considered a Yankee in New England. Most New Englanders aren’t Yankees. The Yankees I knew in my hometown were plain, unpretentious sorts.
She called him a diversitist. He labeled her a lazy bitch. I wonder who was first to progress the confrontation… catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
Oh, is this another day ending in “Y” already?
I will never get tired of your mouse story, by the way. For me it’s spiders. And I’m actually pretty good around spiders. In that I can and will engage and kill them. I can even let a tarantula crawl up my arm.
But they terrify me.
I honestly don’t get this, “Woman of Color” business being bandied about by AOC et all. Is pigmentation an achievement now?
I’m pretty dark. Expose me to the sun and I get darker pretty fast. When I was growing up in Kali I used to get into fights all the time with guys who thought I was Mexican or Iranian.
Then I moved to Virginia and I get into a fight with a guy calling me all sorts of derogatory terms for Italian. And I’m like, “Yes!” Finally one for me.
Don’t believe me if you don’t want to. I’m not a rotten person. I read the Bible. I pray. Oh, do I pray. But I seem to draw to me the kind of person who wants to get into a fight. And so I’m like, well, OK. There I am minding my own business and along walks up so-and-so. Can you please go away. Pretty please.
No, you’re not going away. I’m not much good at boxing. I’m a lot better at wrestling.
What I’m wondering is, does any of this make me a Woman Of Color?
I assume that the Georgia state legislature has some set of rules for censuring a member who brings dishonor and shame on the state government by his/her behavior?
And, it seems to me that the GOP currently controls the Georgia state legislature, correct?
Why, then, has a member not yet proposed a bill of censure (or whatever it’s called in Georgia) condemning Erica Thomas for bringing discredit to the state government by perpetrating a race hoax and fomenting racial division in the United States?
Is there some procedural difficulty? Some political risk I don’t foresee? Or are they just too nice and careful to bother highlighting the excremental wickedness of one of their members who pulls a Jussie Smollett?
(I wonder whether she has a prior record of perpetrating race hoaxes? Perhaps in college? These days it seems like every single time I hear that some beleaguered black woman has been victimized by swastika graffiti or caricaturish narrative-supporting expressions of racial bigotry, every single time, it turns out to be a hoax. I don’t recall all the instances, but my gut estimation is that I’ve heard of fifteen or so of these hoaxes just in the last decade.)
Back in about 2000, I was told by a black man (*) to “Go back to where I came from; we don’t need your kind here”
I was nonplussed; it struck me as that funny.
What I could have said, but didn’t, was something like, “Sonny-boy, I *am* where I came from; it’s you Old-Worlders who need to go back to where you came from.”
(*) who looked to have as much European ancestry as I have
“It’s so hard to find an actual incident of racism that the Left has to make things up.”
It’s simple economics: when (current) supply doesn’t meet demand, new actors find it profitable to enter the market as suppliers.