For me, there are things for which I would die – protect my families, protect my friends, standing up for the philosophies and ideals of America? Yes, but to kill myself through starvation for the ability to take money from a lot of people to give to a few for something that NONE of us did?
There’s a phrase that I won’t say (but starts with an “F” and end with an “f”) that describes it that describes that mindset (Reformatted, emphasis mine:):
She’s white. She’s 73. And she’s on a 40-day hunger strike for slavery reparations: ‘Am I willing to die for this?’
Rachelle Zola had never been to Chicago. She didn’t have friends or family here. But in summer 2019, she bought a 1969 Mercury Sable with no heat and an oil leak, and drove here from Tucson, Arizona, with a single goal. Zola, who is 73 and white, wanted to live among Black and brown people. She went to the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, and began attending meetings and seminars, theatrical productions, symposiums and conferences. She accepted every invitation, telling those who were curious that she was there to listen and learn.
“Everybody was like, this white woman keeps showing up,” Zola said, laughing. But Zola, a former special education teacher who joined the Peace Corps at age 59, pressed on. Deeply moved by the stories of racism she heard in Chicago, she started sharing them on YouTube. And then, on May 16, she took a step that was even more radical.
She embarked on a hunger strike on behalf of one of the most ambitious and elusive goals of the U.S. racial justice movement: reparations — or making amends through payments or policy — to Black people for slavery. Bright-eyed and energetic during a recent interview, Zola has made it to Day 32 of her all-liquid diet of water, Pedialyte and bone broth.
“My question to myself was, am I willing to die for this? And it became ‘yes’ because of all of the (Black and brown) people I know,” Zola said. “Am I willing to die for my brothers and my sisters when there’s an injustice? The answer is yes.”
It’s one thing to put on fighting injustices on your own actions. Laudable as well – bringing to account those that have done others wrong (and I’m talking the legal aspects of this). That is our system of Justice – to bring to justice those individuals who have willingly harmed others in this current time. Our system is built on the sense that an Individual is innocent until The State can prove otherwise.
Instead, she is furthering what the Left wishes us to be – we are all guilty by dint of some arbitrary “grouping” of THEIR creation and that every Individual is no longer responsible for just their own behavior. Instead, like Bruce Currie (who really seems to have Left the GraniteGrok stage, stage Left) and his insistence that all Individuals MUST contribute to the Common Good Collective), we are not just held responsible for others but also responsible for the sins/crimes of our identity Group. Not only that, but that guilt must extend back through time Immemorable. Race-baiting Saul Alinsky disciple Obama said this as well:
…that my individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country.
He was at Harvard Law during the time that Critical Race Theory was being spawned – that pretty much is a part of it. Collectivism by identity group. This is what Rachelle Zola has adopted – that ALL of us Whites are to blame for all actions by Whites during Slavery. Our innocence before the Law is superseded by the sins of those that came before us as White.
Translation: anyone can say anything about anybody else’s crime and it is true based on the color of your skin. Lovely, Rachelle.
And here’s the scam part and why, in part, people say they will starve themselves to death:
Still, she said, she won’t knowingly put her health in danger, and at this point she’s doing well.
Fine, you went on a diet. Big Flipping Deal. That’s the way most of these turn out.
Reality: I don’t care at all. I’m against suicide and I would do what I could to stop it. But not when you’re arguing that I need to do stuff other than what I would do naturally. If you are trying to FORCE me, via Government, to give money (because I’ve done nothing wrong and am not complicit in the crime/sin you accuse me of) to people that have never suffered under true slavery, well, feel free to starve yourself. I’m not playing along.
And if you are willing to go the distance, this is just a PR stunt and virtue-signaling and everyone should recognize it for what it is. End of story.
Instead, people should see you as a totalitarian in this matter – you are counting on playing on others’ heartstrings. Sure, if they gave $10,000 to the next Black person they see, fine by me. But the totalitarian part comes in that identity group belief and forcing me to pay other just to make yourself feel good about yourself. Full stop.
…The point isn’t guilt, she said; that’s not what she’s about. The point is the depth of the suffering that Black people have experienced and continue to experience, and how easy it can be for white people to look the other way.
The report lies – it IS about applying guilt, 360.
(H/T: Chicago Tribune)
