Just a bunch of older "white" guys is how Democratic Cobb School Board Member Charisse Davis describes Republicans David Chastain, Brad Wheeler, Randy Scamihorn, and David Banks, three of whom are up for re-election in 2020, and three of whom the Democrats are looking to target to take control of one of the largest school systems in the State of Georgia.
At a Democratic meeting in DeKalb County, State Senator Sally Harrell, who ousted Republican Fran Millar in 2018's Democratic suburban sweep, referred to Georgia's Republicans as "cockroaches."
Yes, you and I are "cockroaches" to Senator Harrell, and given the incredible lack of condemnation of her comments, especially from former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson, who is running to challenge David Perdue in next year's Senate race, Georgia's Democrats appear to be in complete agreement.
Being called a "cockroach" by Sally Harrell makes me long for the days of Hillary Clinton when the worst we had to contend with was being called a , "Basket of Deplorables!"
While Harrell's kafkaesque comments are sure to get wider attention, the fact that an elected official who votes to make decisions for all Cobb County schools, rather than look at her colleagues as individuals with years of experience who have helped to wisely govern one of the top school districts in the state, she tosses all of that out in favor of belittling them and turning them into a caricature...more sinister, the actions of both Davis and Harrell, and Hillary Clinton as well, are actions that seek to define Republicans by labels, even as something less than human.
"Look back at some of the most tragic episodes in human history and you will find words and images that stripped people of their basic human traits. In the Nazi era, the film The Eternal Jew depicted Jews as rats. During the Rwandan genocide, Hutu officials called Tutsis
“cockroaches”
that needed to be cleared out."
Ironic that Harrell would channel the genocidal Hutu maniacs in Rwanda for her choice of descriptive modifier to "Republican."
Davis's comments go more personal, completely dismissing the decades of not just School Board experience, but decades of life experience Chastain, Wheeler, Scamihorn, and Banks bring to their positions. It doesn't seem to matter to Davis that the schools represented by those "older; white males" are some of the best in our state, mostly high-achieving schools of excellence, which Davis should be striving to foster for the schools in her district.
Rather than learning from what they have to offer and what they bring to the School Board table, Davis dismisses them based simply on their gender (male), skin color (white), and age (older). But to her, those labels are just part and parcel of why they need to be eliminated from the school board.
Forget that the epithet is both purely racist and ageist as well. There is no doubt that if President Trump had made the same type of comment, Democrats like Harrell and Davis would be screaming from the rafters.
For more than a decade, Democrats have harmonized the idea that any opposition or even simple criticism of one of their positions, policies, or propositions must be a motivated by the hatred of a person's race. To today's modern left, ideas themselves must be dictated by the external factors of one's ethnicity, not by the inner workings of one's personal belief structure. We now see this the other way as well; Chastain, Wheeler, Scamihorn, and Banks are not just wrong because Davis and the other Democrat who bated her response disagree philosophically with them, but they are wrong because of their ethnicity, age, and gender.
To quote Joe Biden, that's just a bunch of malarkey!
Instead, among Georgia's Democratic leaders, we hear the same thing today that we heard in July when Minority Caucus Vice-Chair Erica Thomas concocted her #HateHoax by falsely claiming a Democratic voting, Cuban-American constituent told her to "go back from where she came."
We hear crickets.
What was lost in the narrative of Thomas's #HateHoax was how she started her now removed Facebook video, "This white privilege thing is getting out of control."
Nevermind that the Publix customer who spoke up to her was not, nor does he consider himself "white," the left has so bought into the idea that "white privilege" is so pervasive and so ingrained into our institutions and culture, that it has allowed a extremely vile and intolerant form of racism to openly creep into the culture of academia and the broader left to the point that racist attacks, like the one levied by Davis, are reported without condemnation or even shock. It's all mainstream. In fact, it's woke.
James Kirchick, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute writes in his article, "
The Left's Race War:
"
"In many progressive circles, the word 'white' has become a gleeful synonym for 'ignorant,' 'bigoted,' or 'unenlightened.' In mainstream media and other progressive discourse, attacks on 'straight white men' are as ubiquitous as they are indiscriminate. When Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims decided to
harass
a pro-life demonstrator standing peacefully outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic earlier this year, he described her as 'an old white lady,' as if the color of her skin had anything whatsoever to do with the validity of her belief that life begins at conception. Recently minted New York Times editorial writer Sarah Jeong
spent years tweeting vile insults
about white people that would have ended her career had she written them about any other group or 'race.'"
This shouldn't be a partisan issue. If Democrats truly believe that President Trump is dividing the country with what they consider to be "racist" and "dehumanizing" rhetoric, then Davis and Harrell shouldn't be doubling down. At best, that simply makes them two of the biggest hypocrites in the State of Georgia.
The irony, of course, is the Democratic Presidential Primary is currently being led by apparently the only two woke older white males left in the United States, Joe Biden (76) and Bernie Sanders (77), who together, have nearly 45% in the polls according to
RealClearPolitics.com
.
Despite that, however, it would seem that to Democrats like Davis and Harrell, this is no country for old, white men...or the rest of us conservatives, who are simply a bunch of cockroaches.
Oh for the days of just being deplorable!!!
