If this doesn’t sell Republicans on eliminating the Second Amendment, I can’t imagine what will.
Zeneta Everhart, the mother of 21-year-old Zaire Goodman, who was wounded but survived the racially motivated attack on the Tops supermarket on May 14, testified before the House Oversight Committee about how the massacre in Buffalo and recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Tex., and Tulsa reflected what the United States has been in terms of gun violence.
More relevantly, Zeneta is a diversity advisor to a Dem politician.
Everhart, who is black, also testified that racism and violence were tied together — “My ancestors brought to America through the slave trade were the first currency of America” — and told lawmakers that “America is inherently violent.”
“This is who we are as a nation,” testified Everhart, the director of diversity and inclusion for New York state Sen. Timothy M. Kennedy (D). “I continuously hear after every mass shooting that this is not who we are as Americans and as a nation. Hear me clearly: This is exactly who we are.”
By “we”, I presume she means the folks responsible for dozens of mass shootings every weekend in the urban areas of major cities.
And if that doesn’t do it, how about some racist indoctrination?
Everhart argued that part of the change would need to be done in the classroom setting, and called for African American history to be included as part of the curriculum in the U.S. education system.
“We cannot continue to whitewash education and create generations of children to believe that one race of people are better than the other,” she said.
Except that’s actually what critical race theory does and is meant to do it. And it’s even implicit in her testimony.
Everhart’s testimony appeared to irk Republicans on the House Oversight panel when she began to discuss her belief that America was created on the shoulders of hate and white supremacy that continues to target the black community.
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) shifted back in his chair before rolling his eyes. Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.) mouthed, “Oh my God.”
More hearts and minds won. But this isn’t about winning hearts and minds. It’s about virtue signaling and tribal shows of contempt.
Poppyseed says
CRT is a pernicious cancer
Wellington says
More stupid and ignorant victim-oriented thinking. And replete with historical ignorance too.
Virtually all polities that exist today or ever existed were born in violence and the taking of someone else’s land or even person. African tribes aplenty have been guilty of this (e.g., the Zulu), so have many American Indian tribes (e.g., the Iroquois Nation v. other Indian tribes like the Lenne Lenape), ditto for sundry Asian nations, and need I mention what the massive destruction upon others the Islamic sphere of mankind from the 7th century onward have inflicted on the numerous areas they have brutally conquered?
And yet the West demonstrated it was the ONLY civilization or society that could realize wrongs, apologize for them (when has the Islamic world ever apologized for its uncountable wrongs—or for that matter American Indian society, the Asian world, the sub-Saharan African world, et al.?) And yet it is ONLY the West, and especially America, which continues to be blamed by ignoramuses like this woman featured in this article.
I fear ignorance, spite, hatred and a whole host of other negatives are winning out over the greatest experiment in the history of mankind, i.e., Western Civilization, and as best evidenced by America itself. Well, ignorance and a whole host of other negatives are often more powerful, at least temporarily, than the truth. That is what is going on now in our time, our time being the Age of Nonsense, and I hope this stupid age is temporary. Hey, what if it isn’t?
Ah, no sooner does the West point to all of humanity the way to a better world, then it is excoriated as no other portion of mankind is. Perhaps man as a whole is an idiot after all. I do catch myself leaning that way more and more in this direction. Like Mark Twain late in life, my bitterness has faded but my sadness has increased.
Andrew Blackadder says
But,but,but, Saudi Arabia also ended slavery…..A way back in 1962… NOT a typo… 1962…
allah aint akbar.
gravenimage says
Yep–within my lifetime there were open slave markets in Riyadh.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Whre do these people come from??
Wellington says
From Leftist World, which is a very weird, stupid and destructive world.
Emilie Green says
If pressed to give an answer I’d say the public schools as run by Democrats.
Wellington says
Just a subset, Emilie Green, of a much larger, distorted world.
Oh yeah, look at the big picture. Imperative you do so.
gravenimage says
America is Racist, Violent Country, Says Diversity Director Telling Congress to Take Away Civil Rights
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Disgusting but unsurprising. Never mind that a lot of shooters have actually been lefists–in one case a pro-Communist Chinese who tried to mass murder American Taiwanese at a Church.
Then, Zeneta Everhart’s implication that white supremacy is taught in American schools is quite false. The *only* creed right now that teaches racism, in fact, is CRT.
CheckBurry says
A fine rebuttal GI
gravenimage says
Thank you, Check. And good to see you posting again.
So-Sad says
Is America is so inherently racist and violent …. why is there so much hatred from 13% causing more than half of the crime and killing?
Why is the rioting, burning, and looting coming from that 13%?
Black Sabbath says
Someone left the doors of lunatic asylum open.
OLD GUY says
This Black women is telling me that America is a racist and violent country.
Has she taken a look at Africa or most of the Muslim countries around the world?
The blacks there are shooting up beheading men women and children in Churches, Schools, homes and business almost daily.
And how about the truth that most murders and shootings are being committed by Blacks in American cities.
I guess the reason that white mass shootings make the news is that they happen so infrequently.
Let’s report the news on an equal basis not on political view.
Slavery by the way was not just American, matter of FACT slavery goes back to the earliest of societies and nations and it wasn’t just limited to Black people. You can’t change the past but you can work to make the future better, so lets work on that.
joanofark06 says
“she began to discuss her belief that America was created on the shoulders of hate and white supremacy that continues to target the black community.”
Someone (preferably a DemonRat) please give her some money, and tell her, that since she thinks all these awful things about America, that she is free to pick her choice of another country to live!!
Preferably I would send her straight to Africa!
Alfredo says
I’m afraid this increasingly strident public discourse, aided and abetted by a despicably corrupt más media will lead to a conflageration that could potentially surpass even the bloodbath of the Civil War.
Those who have seen it first hand and at close range, know too well there is nothing civil, about a civil war.
Certainly the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But in this case, those who are profiting by the spread of the poisonous CRT, have truly evil intentions in their depraved hearts.
CRT is a methastazising malignant tumor spreading ominously across the entire body politic.
And the symptoms are all over the place already in the form of social degeneration and mayhem.
You cannot tell impressionable young people that they’re “inherently racist” and expect those hateful words not to poison their minds and hearts.
Conversely you cannot tell young kids that they are “victims of a racist and violent society” and expect those words not to have a negative effect on their minds and hearts.
Those very words when they detonate in the minds and hearts of those youngsters, they will produce an implacable desire for revenge.
And instead of taking away civil rights from people as this “Diversity” director tells Congress in her deposition, CRT must be extirpated from the classrooms and corporate boardrooms of the nation. ASAP!
CogitoErgoSum says
I think most people, including black people, do think their race is better than any other. In certain ways this may be correct but being better depends on where you live. When I look at a map of the Earth I see that people with dark skin live mainly in the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn where the rays of the Sun most directly strike the Earth. Lighter skinned people mostly inhabit the other parts of the world where the Sun’s rays strike the Earth at an angle, with the lightest skin color being in direct relation to the greatest angle of the Sun’s rays. So yeah, being of a certain race is better depending upon where you live on the surface of the Earth.
In my opinion, the people with the darkest skin color should not try to make their home more than a few miles north of the Tropic of Cancer or a few miles south of the Tropic of Capricorn. That would still leave them a huge swath of Africa, South America and Australia. Looks to be close to at least a third of the Earth to me. So what’s the problem? Wouldn’t that be the scientific way of looking at it?
somehistory says
She’s a liar of the first degree. The “first currency” of America was ****food***** people traded for what they didn’t have with what they did have. when slaves were on the auction block, other slaves were not “traded” for the one being auctioned.
the idiot, behar said when Black people get guns, the control will come. Or some such statement. and, yet, another person, a Black woman disagreed, citing the fact that Black people already have guns, but behar wouldn’t listen.
Many Blacks recognize that the problem in not simply one of races not getting along. It’s simple to see that some *racists* stir the pot because they have a profit to be made.
sharpton, and numerous others make a high-on-the hog living from stirring up trouble by lying about White people.
One thing this woman, and others like her don’t realize, when the government infringes on the “rights” God gave us, it will affect them too. No one will escape. Just look at history….how many dictators lived to ripe old age…Ceasar… murdered by his “friends”….and he’s not the only one.
nicholas tesdorf says
America is a racist and violent Country and the Diversity Director likes it that way as it enables the Leftists to install the totalitarian measures that they all want to control the population and remove civil rights.
CogitoErgoSum says
Nature itself is violent and racist because it definitely favors those who are violent and racist. Those who were able to kill and were able to make better weapons to help them kill were the ones who survived. Also, human beings working together in groups to kill more efficiently helped ensure survival even more. As for skin color, that is something Nature favors too, depending upon the angle of sunlight striking the Earth so groups of people developed according to color. Non-violence and people of various skin colors living together at the same latitude on the Earth’s surface are two things that God may want but, as I have discovered, God does not rule this world. Until the kingdom of God arrives, I am convinced this is how the world will always be.
gravenimage says
CES–with all respect–the idea that places that are violent and racist are the most successful societies is mistaken. In fact, it is places with the rule of law–yes, including the US–that are most successful.
Were it true that violence and racism were the hallmarks of success, then the Muslim world would be the wealthiest nations.
CogitoErgoSum says
Graven, I am referring to the beginnings of mankind before the development of farming and the domestication of animals, a time when survival depended upon being good at killing not only of small animals such as rabbits and deer but of large beasts such as bears and mastodons also. The hallmark of success in those times was being good at killing and the use of the tools for killing. Belonging to a group that was composed of people the same as yourself helped and being suspicious of those outside your group and who were competing with you for food was important too. Nature favored those who were not averse to violence and the offspring that inherited those traits were the ones most likely to survive. Some of our religions that we developed, and I emphasize “some,” have caused us no longer to admire those traits but they are a part of who we are – all of us. And yes, at one time the Muslim world was very successful and we both know that not being averse to violence and killing is what was behind that.
somehistory says
“Until the kingdom of God arrives, I am convinced this is how the world will always be.”
I concur.
CogitoErgoSum says
For those who wonder why God allows evil in the world, I would say this is the answer: we are not yet living in the kingdom of God.
somehistory says
I agree. Each one is being allowed to make life choices…as He told the Israelites through Moses, “Choose life.” Many, if not most, people just make the wrong choice.
When He brings His Kingdom, there will be huge changes.