Last week I focused on the author of a Washington Post article that was the epitome of leftist stupidity. I didn’t think it could get worse but, apparently, I just don’t read the Washington Post often enough. It’s just chock-full of DUMB.
Someone on the African-American Student & Alumni page for my old high school shared an article, How I’m teaching my Black children to thrive in a world that isn’t fair, by Nefertiti Austin.
The answer is simple. The world isn’t fair. You’re not the only one experiencing difficultly; get over yourself and push forward.
Of course, if more people adopted that mindset then leftism wouldn’t have any more victimhood to feed on because it would wither and die.
But Nno, this grown adult with the IQ of a number two pencil told her eight-year-old and fourteen-year-old children that a “mostly white” crowd was storming the Capitol because there’s a White America and a Black America…
When they asked, “Why are they doing that?” She replied, “Because they can.”
You, ma’am, are a dingbat and a half.
This author and single mom proceeded to tell the story about how she has basically indoctrinated her children from the time they could walk and throughout their adolescence to see every activity and opportunity through the lens of race. Even worse, she’s taught her children to assume that other people first see THEM through the lens of race.
Parenting. You’ve failed at it.
Her son, who plays lacrosse, was taught that the sport was not easily accessible to people like him. When he didn’t see other blacks on the field, it was a lesson in how “racialized” sports could be. I doubt she encouraged other black parents to introduce their kids to lacrosse or asked her son to bring a friend to try out for the team. Nor does she seem to have driven him by the basketball court to discuss the distribution of races there.
Her daughter who loves to dance was taught that classical ballet was not welcoming to most black dancers. It sounds like she skipped the lesson where classical ballet was not welcoming to MOST dancers of ANY race. Instead of focusing on how traditional ballet was created for a body type that the average individual does not possess (small head, long neck, long limbs, 180-degree turnout in the hips, knees, and feet), and how the art form has changed over the years to include more contemporary styles of movement and therefore varying body types, she taught her child that blacks were simply excluded for no reason except their race until they fought for the right to be included.
As a dancer, a dance teacher, a black woman, and a parent, this pattern of thinking is simply exhausting. My German Shepherd has better deductive reasoning skills, and he licks his butthole after he poops.
Nefertiti Austin thinks double talk is the staple of Black parenting. I wonder if she knows that the definition of double talk is “meaningless speech, deliberately ambiguous or evasive language, or lying.”
Technically that IS what she’s doing, I just don’t think she meant to call herself out on it.
Here’s what my husband and I teach our son and daughter. Life is hard, so develop the skills and intelligence to deal with it. You’re living through the easiest and most prosperous time in the history of humanity. Your ancestors didn’t give up when they were hungry and broken with no modern medicine, fighting for their lives against people and nature, and dying at the age of 40, so you can have a five-minute pity party and then suck it up.
Does racism exist? Absolutely. It has existed against every single race and in every country on the planet. You’re not special. Will you encounter it? Probably. But if you’re working hard enough at the time, you probably won’t even notice. Some people are stuck on the past, usually a past that’s not even their own. Leave them to their wallowing and their excuses while you focus on the future because that’s where you want to be. Aim high, have lofty expectations, set your goals without thinking of other peoples’ opinions of you. You know where you want to go, and the only person who will stop you from getting there is you.
I’m not saying my kids are better than hers (but only because it’s impolite to say it–I’m pretty sure mine are better), but I would certainly be interested in comparing their lives 10 years from now. I’m not just talking about accomplishments. I’m very hopeful my kids will be snatching up accolades left and right, but those aren’t the most important milestones in life. No, I’m hoping my kids will be happy, feel accomplished, and have valuable relationships. I want them to jump in the driver’s seat and floor it until the wheels fall off. I have a feeling old Neff is training her kids to wait at the traffic signal until the “blacks only” green light shows up. Girl, bye.
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