Words and Phrases Banned
The “woke-sters” at the University of Michigan have a list of words and phrases that they want banned. Don’t these people ever go to class? The list is from the University’s Information and Technology Services Words Matter Task Force. Words must be a tenacious opponent and more dangerous than one would think, as the term task force is one that I would normally associate with Admiral Halsey in the Pacific in 1944-45. This academic “take no prisoners” hit squad has deemed the words man and men possibly offensive to some people. Apparently, the word “people” is not on the list – yet. Wonder what the vaunted Michigan football team will substitute for “men?” “Let’s go, persons” just doesn’t do it.  

If you happen to enjoy a brown bag lunch you ain’t “woke.” What you should be eating is “lunch and learn.” Doesn’t that sound appetizing? Going on a picnic? Not now, you’re going to a “gathering.” 

One wonders how these expressions and other words and phrases made the list. Is this the product of someone’s really bad hang over?  Did someone trip over a manhole and decide that memory was too much, an intestinal bug after a picnic? The process, if that’s what it is called, isn’t explained. Nor are the word assassins identified by name, number or qualification. I wonder if they include this word-killing exercise on their resumes. Do they vote on what must go, or is one thumbs down [thumbs up is banned] a death sentence? 

To quote George Orwell, “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Or to paraphrase Jason Whitlock, an African-American sports journalist and radio personality, if you control language you control thought. If we allow the Information and Technology Services Words Matter Task Force at The University of Michigan to control our language and thus our thoughts, we are definitely in need of another banned phrase, a “sanity check.’’ 

Please keep two numbers in mind as you continue. The first is 5.7% and the second is 1.8%.

In this land of “white supremacy,” so overwhelmingly cruel that people of color never have the same opportunities as their white oppressors, there are those who have somehow defeated ever present “systemic racism.”

This group is on average better educated than the white oppressors. They are on average more prosperous than the white oppressors. They are more likely to be found in prestige professions than the white oppressors.

They do not opine about the discrimination their ancestors suffered. They are the least likely to commit a crime and the least likely to be on welfare. They are the most likely to be part of a two-parent family, and they are last in the number of out of wedlock births.

Most amazing of all, they do not see themselves as oppressed or threatened by racism. As Kenny Xu, author of An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy asks, “If America is still a racist country for minorities, how come they have allowed Asians Americans to overtake Whites in education level and socioeconomic status?”

Regrettably, Asians do increasingly see themselves discriminated against by the keepers of the “CRT” flame, the Ivy League and top tier colleges and universities that impose their own race-based admission policies. According to Kenny Xu, an Asian American must score 400 plus points higher than an African American in order to gain admission to Harvard.

Asian Americans feel fortunate to be here because they know that this country, more than any other, affords them the opportunity to improve themselves, and, even more importantly, gives their children the best chance for a life better than that of their parents.

These remarkable people who have truly bought into the American Dream comprise 5.7% of the population and include Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Indians, et al. Their median household income (2018) was $87,243 vs. $65,902 for whites. How did the systemic racists that are running this country let that happen? They are also ahead in educational achievement with 56.5% college graduates or more advanced degrees as opposed to 35.2% of whites. How did “white supremacy” and “systemic racism” allow that? Maybe that white supremacy isn’t all that omnipotent.

The Dudley Charlton School District has announced that it is planning to hire a more diverse faculty and staff. This is in keeping with the theory that a child can only learn from a member of his or her own race. Anything else is “systemic racism.” Asian-Americans just don’t fit that paradigm. They are the highest achievers educationally, but they are only 1.8% of the teachers. With so few Asian-American teachers, what is the chance of an Asian- American student finding him or herself in a class taught by a fellow Asian-American? Yet somehow, they manage to learn and succeed at the highest levels despite the “pervasive racism.”

Asian Americans have chosen to work for their success rather than play the victims, waiting for a government handout or for an elitist liberal institution guilted into jumping them in line solely because of their race.

Yes, people of color can achieve without embracing the ideology of victimization. Asian Americans are living proof.

Over the past year or so I have seen what I believe to be an existential threat to the survival of this nation. We are beset by an invasion of people who have no regard for our laws and sovereignty as. Our southern border is a failed memory. We have allowed our colleges and universities to be taken over by a Marxist ideology that is intent on destroying the world’s last beacon of hope and freedom. And now we see this doctrine of division and divisiveness being adopted by our schools K-12 . I have been writing Letters to the Editor of local newspapers, but have been constrained by there policies that restrict both size and frequency. People who have read my Letters have urged me to seek other outlets. This is an attempt to reach a wider audience and to in some small way lend support to those who have yet to find their own voice.”zerotohero”