You’ve brilliantly laid out the real world consequences of this toxic ideology. Taken to its conclusion, your children should treat you with suspicion and contempt, despite the reality of having a loving mother, the evidence of their own life experience. If that’s not evil, I don’t know what is. It’s time we free ourselves from the shackles that kept us silent and compliant, holding our breath until the DEI struggle session ended and start boldly saying that they are wrong and abusive.
There was a special ethos that permeated our culture in the 90s; I think most of us truly lived like race or sex or whatever truly didn’t matter. If you were cool, we were cool. I’d like to recapture that spirit, and I think it starts with rejecting the false principles on which DIE culture is built.
The collective guilt of our country in regards to its treatment of blacks and Jews has spawned the wokism backlash. The self analysis, criticism, bending over backwards to please (in reality whom? Ourselves?) has resulted in extreme cancel culture. Tiptoeing with one’s words amongst the fragile eggshells of the woke ideology. One false step, you’re fired, shunned, destroyed.
Criticize the Israeli government? You’re anti Semitic. Support the Palestinian people? You’re a terrorist supporter and yes, anti Semitic. Support the people in Israel? You’re supporting genocide.
And as you painfully point out, interracial marriage now is mere virtue signaling and wrong. Stay with your color. Whitey bad.
Our country has gone crazy.
Meanwhile Native Americans languish in poverty, lack of proper services across the board, live in the most undesirable barren lands in our country. When are they going to come into “style”?
All these dictates are indeed bullshit. We have lost touch with our true humanity. We are being controlled by fear in its most insidious forms, under the guise of “correctness”
I’m not sure what it’s going to take to break this mesmeric spell.
But what we can and must do is live with love, true love. For ourselves and others.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
And fight for Truth.
Thank you Jennifer, you are a beacon of light here during these dark times.
Jen has a remarkable ability to find exactly the right words to express what we feel but can’t put our finger on. This is the clearest explanation of the evil done in the name of good by the DEI movement. Robin DiAngelo says with impunity exactly what now disgraced and canceled cartoonist Scott Adams said: stay away from people who hate you because of your skin color. But shrinking into skin color based “affinity groups” doesn’t benefit anyone. There are so many reasons to reach out and build friendships based on our actual diversity…and so in time, we will.
Thanks for sharing your story. While I can understand physical attraction, it sounds like there was some "I like to be transgressive" in your decision to get married to a black guy, and maybe that wore off.
Anybody who swallows the D'Angelo/ Kendi bull shit will follow anybody off a cliff like those who followed Jim Jones. Unfortunately too many are unable or unwilling to think for themselves and too ready to let others think for them. Our problem is they get to vote, too.
I am as conservative as they come and have taught my children to always question authority, although I usually precede that advice by "except when I'm speaking". They get the joke.
"What?!! She calls them her sons? Not Assigned Male at Birth?!!"
Good luck to all of them. My sister was married to a Nigerian during the 1970s, unusual for our Viking heritage Wisconsin family. Turned out he had a low sperm count and his family tried finding him another woman. My sister came back 5 months before the coup. She still felt guilty divorcing him.
I do love the Africans who don't think you can change sex though.
You’ve brilliantly laid out the real world consequences of this toxic ideology. Taken to its conclusion, your children should treat you with suspicion and contempt, despite the reality of having a loving mother, the evidence of their own life experience. If that’s not evil, I don’t know what is. It’s time we free ourselves from the shackles that kept us silent and compliant, holding our breath until the DEI struggle session ended and start boldly saying that they are wrong and abusive.
There was a special ethos that permeated our culture in the 90s; I think most of us truly lived like race or sex or whatever truly didn’t matter. If you were cool, we were cool. I’d like to recapture that spirit, and I think it starts with rejecting the false principles on which DIE culture is built.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t…
The collective guilt of our country in regards to its treatment of blacks and Jews has spawned the wokism backlash. The self analysis, criticism, bending over backwards to please (in reality whom? Ourselves?) has resulted in extreme cancel culture. Tiptoeing with one’s words amongst the fragile eggshells of the woke ideology. One false step, you’re fired, shunned, destroyed.
Criticize the Israeli government? You’re anti Semitic. Support the Palestinian people? You’re a terrorist supporter and yes, anti Semitic. Support the people in Israel? You’re supporting genocide.
And as you painfully point out, interracial marriage now is mere virtue signaling and wrong. Stay with your color. Whitey bad.
Our country has gone crazy.
Meanwhile Native Americans languish in poverty, lack of proper services across the board, live in the most undesirable barren lands in our country. When are they going to come into “style”?
All these dictates are indeed bullshit. We have lost touch with our true humanity. We are being controlled by fear in its most insidious forms, under the guise of “correctness”
I’m not sure what it’s going to take to break this mesmeric spell.
But what we can and must do is live with love, true love. For ourselves and others.
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
And fight for Truth.
Thank you Jennifer, you are a beacon of light here during these dark times.
Jen has a remarkable ability to find exactly the right words to express what we feel but can’t put our finger on. This is the clearest explanation of the evil done in the name of good by the DEI movement. Robin DiAngelo says with impunity exactly what now disgraced and canceled cartoonist Scott Adams said: stay away from people who hate you because of your skin color. But shrinking into skin color based “affinity groups” doesn’t benefit anyone. There are so many reasons to reach out and build friendships based on our actual diversity…and so in time, we will.
Thanks for sharing your story. While I can understand physical attraction, it sounds like there was some "I like to be transgressive" in your decision to get married to a black guy, and maybe that wore off.
Anybody who swallows the D'Angelo/ Kendi bull shit will follow anybody off a cliff like those who followed Jim Jones. Unfortunately too many are unable or unwilling to think for themselves and too ready to let others think for them. Our problem is they get to vote, too.
I am as conservative as they come and have taught my children to always question authority, although I usually precede that advice by "except when I'm speaking". They get the joke.
"What?!! She calls them her sons? Not Assigned Male at Birth?!!"
Good luck to all of them. My sister was married to a Nigerian during the 1970s, unusual for our Viking heritage Wisconsin family. Turned out he had a low sperm count and his family tried finding him another woman. My sister came back 5 months before the coup. She still felt guilty divorcing him.
I do love the Africans who don't think you can change sex though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9txiuvJ3M4
Day-um. Yeah we could have done without Robin DIAngelo.