Talk is cheap, especially in super-white super Democrat-controlled Vermont, where only 6.4% of the population is, by all progressive accounts, not systemically racist.
So they’ve got that going for them and all the other “amenities” that follow years of progressive rule. New gun restrictions are on the table; crime is rising, welfare, taxes, can’t hire enough cops, drugs, human trafficking, a porous border, and they also have a climate council.
The twenty-three-member committee coordinates Vermont’s Marxist great leap backward. A return to 19th-century solutions and lifestyles. But they’ve screwed that up too.
Joining [Judy] Dow [a Vermonter of Abenaki descent] was Ana Mejia, an organizing director at Rights & Democracy, who repeatedly accused the Council of treating BIPOC members as “tokens,” and asked why out of 23 official council members (at least three of the 23 seats are currently vacant), there were zero representing the BIPOC community.
As we all know, the BIPOC community is forever on the wrong end of whatever it is; transportation, climate, COVID, and representation, and white folks are to blame. And I’m not making the case that they are right or wrong, especially in pasty white Democrat-controlled Vermont. Using the Climate Scaremongering Committee as an example, demographically, there should be .64 BIPOC members out of every ten, so with 23 seats, that’s 1.47 people who are indigenous or of color (I’ll leave the indigenous lie alone for this debate).
According to the reporting,
The Global Warming Solutions Act calls for the Senate Committee on Committees to appoint seven members to the Council, the Speaker of the House to appoint eight, and the Governor’s Administration to supply eight.
None of the Senate appointees come from BIPOC communities. From the administration, only Dr. Harry Chen, interim commissioner, Department for Children and Families, comes from a BIPOC community. Regarding the speaker of the House’s appointments, of the four seats filled, none are from BIPOC communities, and the other four have been left somewhat inexplicably vacant since Nov. 1.
Democrats control the legislature, despite having 15 seats to fill, and have so far only picked systemic racists* for the new year. The governor, who is marginally Republican, chose at least one person of color.
Republicans 12.5% BIPOC appointees, Democrats 0%.
But wait, it gets better.
[Of] those eight House appointees, only three chose to step down at the end of their terms on Oct. 31. Five asked to be reappointed. The speaker reappointed four of them. The fifth, Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, a professor of climatology in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont, who is Black and was the only BIPOC House appointee, was not reappointed despite her request, for reasons that have not been made clear.
So the committee had a demographic excess of people of color—two as opposed to 1.5, but the Democrat-controlled House has failed to re-appoint a black woman (whatever that is), and no one seems to know why?
It’s got to be racism.
We know this because were it a Republican-controlled House, it would be…racism! White Supremacy. Oppression! But Republicans are consistently not racist or – to appease the easily-triggered-race-pimps – less racist than Democrats who can’t shut up about it, while everything the left does invariably harms people of color.
Is it a coincidence that their ideological ancestors opposed integration and equal rights for black Americans and were the defenders of slavery?
The same people and party that increasingly trap people of color on crime-riddled urban plantations with underperforming government schools and no jobs.
I don’t think it is a coincidence, but you’re entitled to your denial, especially if you are a white Democrat in Vermont.
HT | True North Reports
