According to recent data, Blacks or African Americans—or those who are defined as "having origins in any of the native peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa"—constituted 13.4 percent of the U.S. population. Hispanics and Latino Americans constituted even more, at 18.3 percent of our population. Whites totaled 60.4, and Asian Americans amounted to 5.9 percent.[2]
We are all Americans. As I wrote more than ten years ago:
The United States is . . . unlike any other [country] on the Earth. . . . Deep beneath the surface, there is love for people everywhere, and an appreciation of each person’s God-given gifts and uniqueness. In a recent interview, I said:
"I believe in this country, and I believe in Americans of all colors, faiths and backgrounds. The United States is the only true melting pot in the world, with its populace representing a United Nations of the world’s peoples. Yes, we fight and we even discriminate, but when times are tough—like after 9/11—we come together as one nation, which makes this country so great and special. Also, all of us or our ancestors came here from somewhere else. Even the American Indians are descended from those who crossed the Bering Strait—or the 'Bering land bridge'—according to anthropologists."[3]
The notion that one group is deserving of special privileges or compensation is absurd, and must be rejected. My ancestors came from England, Germany, Ireland and Scotland. Indeed, my first paternal ancestors traveled from Rottweil, Germany to New Ulm, Minnesota in 1849—a husband and wife who had 16 kids. They braved the Atlantic, and traveled to a new and inhospitable land, the state of Minnesota. Eleven years later, the husband had assimilated enough that he served with the Minnesota Regiment of the Union Army.
I am proud of the fact that Abraham Lincoln and Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman defeated the South and freed the slaves and saved the nation.[4] It is galling to see the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels of America burn our cities, destroy businesses, attack our police, and deface or tear down our monuments. They are the dregs of America, who deserve nothing, but they are lauded as heroes by the despicable Left and their fellow travelers.[5]
Indeed, they are reincarnations of those who rioted in the Watts area of Los Angeles during the summer of 1965, and later during the Rodney King riots in the same city. They burned our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis; and they have spread death and destruction whenever and wherever it suited them—in the United States and abroad. They are often referred to as "Black Lives Matter" or Antifa, but they are all thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels, and they are deserving of nothing.
No reparations. No affirmative action. No governmental handouts, Nothing.[6] It is time to crush their anarchy, in no uncertain terms. Many or most are ultra-Leftists, and far-Left Democrats—the inheritors of those who brought slavery to our shores, and perpetuated it with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and segregation. As I have written:
Indeed, former Democratic President Lyndon Johnson’s singular accomplishment in office—other than escalating John F. Kennedy’s Vietnam War—was his “Great Society” welfare program. It broke up or crippled black families, and made them dependent on the Federal Government’s largesse, effectively enslaving them economically to this day.[7]
Lastly, it is worth repeating:
George Orwell wrote of this phenomenon in his prescient “Animal Farm,” where all of the animals were equal until the Pigs reigned supreme and subjugated the other animals. Today’s “Pigs” are America’s Left, and the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels who burn and loot our cities.
They seek “reparations,” when in fact they or their “soul mates” have been benefiting from the Government’s—or rather the peoples’—largesse for decades, in the form of welfare payments and food stamps and the benefits of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” which was and remains a failure like his Vietnam War.
Decimated have been black families that became single-parent households, which in turn have been victimized as black-on-black crime has escalated over recent decades, and elderly black women have been preyed on and terrified by young thugs who have zero respect for anything. They are anarchists and nihilists; and yes, they are today’s Pigs who must be crushed. Nothing less will suffice. They are truly the animals that George Orwell described.[8]
This is the legacy that the despicable un-American racist, anti-Semite and traitor Barack Obama bequeathed to our great nation.[9] Meanwhile, China—which unleashed the Coronavirus Pandemic on the world, as a bioweapon or inadvertently—and our other enemies around the world are salivating.[10]
© 2020, Timothy D. Naegele
[1] Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see www.naegele.com and Timothy D. Naegele Resume-20-5-11). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com
[2] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States#Racial_categories ("Race and ethnicity in the United States")
[3] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/america-a-rich-tapestry-of-life/ ("America: A Rich Tapestry Of Life") and http://www.philstockworld.com/2009/10/11/greenspan’s-legacy-more-suffering-to-come/ and http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/2951-ilene/31177-interview-with-timothy-d-naegele
[4] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/ulysses-s-grant-an-american-hero/ (“Ulysses S. Grant: An American Hero”)
[5] See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/the-war-on-cops/ ("The War On Cops")
[6] See https://news.trust.org/item/20200624170052-dt00z ("Black Lives Matter protests spur calls for reparations")
[7] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/lots-of-americans-are-very-angry/ ("Lots Of Americans Are Very Angry") and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties#Total_number_of_deaths (“Vietnam War casualties”—”Total number of deaths”) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society (“Great Society”)
[8] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/the-campaign-to-cancel-history/ ("The Campaign To Cancel History") and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm (“Animal Farm“); see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/this-is-war-abraham-lincoln-and-ronald-reagan-understood-this-and-donald-trump-does-too/ (“This Is War—Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan Understood This, And Donald Trump Does Too“)
[9] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/is-barack-obama-a-racist/ ("Is Barack Obama A Racist?") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/should-barack-obama-be-executed-for-treason/ (“Should Barack Obama Be Executed For Treason?“)
[10] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/can-we-coexist-with-asias-communists/ ("Can We Coexist with Asia’s Communists?") and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/the-coronavirus-and-similar-global-issues-how-to-address-them/ ("The Coronavirus And Similar Global Issues: How To Address Them") and Timothy D. Naegele, The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them, 137 BANKING L. J. 285 (June 2020) (Naegele June 2020) (Timothy D. Naegele) [NOTE: To download The Banking Law Journal article, please click on the link to the left of this note]; see also https://www.wsj.com/articles/140-000-businesses-listed-on-yelp-are-still-closed-because-of-covid-19-pandemic-11593057601 ("140,000 Businesses Listed on Yelp Are Still Closed Because of Covid-19 Pandemic")
