Moral high ground is now a mirage..

It seems people just can’t help themselves these days..

Donald Trump attended what they billed as a Black Journalists of America event in Chicago this week and much as I can understand the eagerness to quiz him on issues such as some of his acolytes saying Kamala Harris is a DEI hire, it all could have been done with a bit more nuance! The moderator’s repeated use of the word “Sir” as Americans do – without it actually implying any ounce of respectfulness – is ok, but going at him in a manner that was so obviously intended to provoke him, and then we see headlines saying he questioned Kamala’s heritage, was indeed beyond the pale. There was absolutely no need for it and it was totally unnecessary.

Was Trump ever going to kick back against what his acolytes had been saying? Would anyone?

If the legitimate question to him, was whether or not that’s the way he also sees it? Well, if it wasn’t, would his closest allies be strutting around saying that stuff? And if it was just a simple matter of getting it on record, then, why not just politely ask him if he could just say so?

I believe it is discourteous to get someone over as a guest, and then aggressively question them in that manner. He already knows he’s in a tough territory given all the crap he utters about black people, but they should have taken a moral high ground, made him very welcome, and them calmly put those questions to him, without the hysterics.

The question in itself, is just idiotic. Lay Kamala Harris’ qualification, be it in terms of her education or experience as a lawyer or senator, against that of Donald Trump or Marjorie Taylor Green or Lauren Boebert and others, it should be quite clear that the question is totally baseless. She isn’t a DEI hire. And in any case, people get hired for several reasons and if someone is hired because amps employer wants to mix things up by not having a men-only office, what is wrong with that being a reason to hire a competent, educated and suitably qualified person????

The entire topic is just so juvenile, so pathetic. On all levels. DEI was created exactly to end up with some people being DEI hires. It doesn’t mean there are less qualified but it does mean that they were hired for the reason: to force diversity as employers are not naturally hiring some folk, even though they are as equally suitable for hire as others. So, both the folk labelling others as DEI hires (which is dumb) and the folk taking offence about being called a DEI hire, are silly. Why was Kamala selected as Biden’s running mate? Why was the crazy Alaska woman selected as John McCain’s running mate? And indeed, JD Vance: why was he selected as Trump’s running mate (was it not to lure the working class rural folk? WELL, that in itself is an attempt at inclusivity —- the ‘I’ in DEI)

Good gracious!!!