Rashida Tlaib’s racist racial confusion
Rashida Tlaib should be an embarrassment to the Democratic Party, but she seems to be off-limits to their criticism.
Here’s what she said:
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib told Detroit police Chief James Craig he should employ only black people on the department’s facial recognition team because “non-African Americans think African-Americans all look the same.”
The Detroit Democrat made the statement during a tour of the Real Time Crime center, where monitors display live footage from video cameras on traffic lights and in and around businesses.
So, what is she saying here?
First of all, she’s making a generalization about the perceptions of people who aren’t black.
Second of all – although few people seem to take note of this fact, because Tlaib seems to have earned some sort of racial immunity – I can’t help but notice that Tlaib herself is white.
Yes folks, people of Palestinian ethnicity such as Tlaib are white, as white as I am and not all that different actually (see photos of me as a child and compare them to a bunch of Palestinian children and yes, you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference). Tlaib is white, I repeat. So one must ask: is Tlaib describing herself and her own perceptions? Is she the person unable to make such discriminations between one black person and another?
And let me add that, even if you don’t think Tlaib is white – which she is – she is definitely “non-African American,” which is the group she was generalizing about when she indicated that “non-African Americans” think African Americans all look the same.
Thirdly, if Tlaib is saying that only black people should be employed in Detroit’s criminal facial recognition system, is she also then implying that only black people commit crimes in Detroit? But surely there are some white criminals. Should there be a special white people squad for facial recognition composed of whites, for the white criminals?
NOTE: Tlaib also said, during the same exchange: “I’ve seen it even on the House floor: People calling Elijah Cummings ‘John Lewis,’ and John Lewis ‘Elijah Cummings,’ and they’re totally different people.”
Indeed, they are. And yet they are sometimes confused with each other because, you know what? They actually do look alike. Not enough to be identical twins, but enough to be confused with each other, and not because of any racism or any inherent difficulty in telling black people apart.
Here’s a lighthearted article from TNR in 2013 pairing a number of then-members of Congress who look alike. Four out of the five pairs are white. One of the pairs is Lewis and Cummings. Here’s the Lewis/Cummings photo (or is it the Cummings/Lewis photo?) that the article uses to illustrate the phenomenon:
[ADDENDUM: Another statement from Tlaib:
During a town hall meeting with constituents in Michigan this week, Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib agreed that U.S. Marshals should “hunt down” White House officials and remove them from office if they “refuse to leave power.” This includes President Trump…
…”They’re trying to figure out, no joke, is it the DC police that goes and gets them?” Tlaib said. “Where do we hold them? Like, I’m not in those kinds of conversations but I’m asking, what happens?”
“I’m telling you, they’re trying to be like, ‘Well where are we going put them? Where are we going to hold…'” she continued, suggesting they can be held in Detroit. “What happens when they don’t comply? The fact of the matter is we held Barr and Secretary Ross from Commerce, the Secretary of Commerce, in contempt. Well, what happens if they continue to not comply?”]
To the “woke” left, confusing Lewis and Cummings, who do somewhat resemble one another (even though ten years apart in age), is prima facie proof of racism, as are any and all criticisms of black individuals (unless they are conservative; consider the treatment meted out to Candace Owens) or of any element of black culture, e.g. hip-hop/rap, which is almost entirely comprised of vulgarity, obscenity, misogyny, materialism, and hostility to non-blacks.
Heh.
Tlaib herself is white. Tlaib is very very stupid. Therefore white people are very very stupid.
Q.E.D.
Reps, and Trump, are not yet ready to call out the Dems for being such racists. Because it takes the media to agree for such a label to stick.
But the Dems are racist.
Racist folk want people to be treated differently, as a matter of policy or law, due to different color. To be treated differently, to be judged differently. Because of race. That’s racism.
Non-racists want people to be treated the same, to have policy equal, without regard to race.
The word “racism” has almost come to mean being against any “programs and laws that help black people”, even tho affirmative action is clearly racist.
The racist lie that all cultural differences between blacks and whites are due to white racism is one of the key lies in PC BS.
Suggested chant:
No more, no more. PC BS.
Reps need more protest parades, chants, examples of Dem hypocrisy, and laughing at the Dems and the Dem media.
Tlaib is white, and so is Linda Sarsour. And really, look at Ocasio-Cortez. She looks like many people of southern European extraction. Of “the Squad,” only Omar and Pressley are actually “black.”
“NOTE: Tlaib also said, during the same exchange: “I’ve seen it even on the House floor: People calling Elijah Cummings ‘John Lewis,’ and John Lewis ‘Elijah Cummings,’ and they’re totally different people.””
What do you think the odds are that a majority of those mis-namings are by Democrats … and that *some* are from other black members?
Tlaib is not white. She is Palestinian which is to say an official person of colour. Your confusion is understandable; her skin tone appears white. In actuality, she is likely more along the line of Dual Colouring; white and of colour, much like a dual citizen.I am a dual citizen and when my Canadian brethren start dissing Americans I can smile and avoid the mess mainly because the Georgia accent disappeared long ago. Of course in today’s world she could claim to be a green group of various genders and you and i would have to agree to acknowledge the claim or face cancellation. I know I don’t want to be cancelled cause it might hurt if they send Antifa to do it. Resistance is futile.
Well, if there is one skill that liberals have mastered it’s projecting ones own faults on to others.
Me as a child, my mother as a child, and my grandmother as a child. See this.
I often find British shows and films difficult because the young white men with dark hair tend to look alike to me.
It’s a relief to return to Hollywood fare, which for all its faults, favors actors with distinct looks.