A Toothless Tiger and the Sham Black History Month Celebration
DEI is being destroyed by the Republican Administration, but hey, they said, let’s celebrate Black History Month at the White House!
Yesterday’s debacle of a commemoration featured the usual assortment of aunts and uncles, a lot of hypocritical posturing, and the president’s newest Black acolyte, Tiger Woods.
Woods joined a dismal coterie of self-serving bootlickers like former ESPN reporter Sage Steele; former NFL player Jack Brewer; Tim Scott, Republican Rep. John James; Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.; Herschel Walker; prison reform advocate Alice Johnson; and musicians Kodak Black, Lil Boosie, and Rod Wave.
Woods has become a golfing buddy to the president, and now he’s taking their relationship to the next level, which is somewhere below the basement.
Black people have always championed Tiger, even though he’s said he doesn’t consider himself Black.
Even so, we persisted in celebrating his achievements, and still hoped he would manage to break Jack Nicklaus’ major gold tournament win record.
Now, he’s revealed himself to be just another willing token to bolster the president’s claims that he is not racist.
The same president that hosted Woods and these other people has declared the cancelations of culture awareness celebrations.
He has said that DEI programs are “discriminatory.”
But keeping with his consistent doublemindedness, he issued a Black History Month Proclamation.
The proclamation makes for interesting reading.
Some quotes:
“American heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and countless others represent what is best in America and her citizens.”
“We will also never forget the achievements of American greats like Tiger Woods, who have pushed the boundaries of excellence in their respective fields, paving the way for others to follow.”
“This National Black History Month, as America prepares to enter a historic Golden Age, I want to extend my tremendous gratitude to black Americans for all they have done to bring us to this moment, and for the many future contributions they will make as we advance into a future of limitless possibility under my Administration.”
Two safe Black history choices in Tubman and Douglass (safe as in they are long dead and can’t do anymore damage to racists) are coupled with Sowell, the patron saint of Uncle Toms, and Thomas, who is exactly the kind of Black person the president likes to celebrate, a usable, spendable token.
The president’s new buddy Woods gets a shoutout, obviously in preparation for appearing at the Black History Month celebration.
“A future of limitless possibilities?”
This uttered by someone who couldn’t find one role for a Black person in his cabinet and rewarded his good buddy Herschel Walker by putting him in an ambassadorship of no consequence.
Poor Tim Scott bowed, scraped and even got married hoping to get something out for his campaign trail support.
What did he get?
Nothing.
Which is exactly what sensible Black people know to expect from this president and his administration.
He’ll continue to use these tokens for events such as these, then shoo them away while he continues his main business, which is the destruction of societal safeguards and personal freedoms.
Tiger Woods is just another billionaire buddy, and we know he likes to hang out with billionaires.
Tiger shouldn’t have needed this kind of attention, but we have learned over the last ten years that billionaires do have extreme ego requirements that must be sated.
Sated at best, at the cost of their self-respect.
At worst, at the cost of freedom and democracy everywhere