Horrors! The White House Is White - The Left Howls As Diversity Goes Out The Window

President-Elect Donald Trump's White House is not looking like America - at least the diverse, inclusive, equitable place the Left has always assumed would be the nation's quilt from no one.  Every boardroom, every faculty, every school and every Starbucks would be a rainbow coalition of brown and black executives, administrators, managers, and employees. 

 

But here, staring them in the face was the whitist White House in recent memory, a blonde, blue-eyed monument to singularity and white privilege.  The black man would be back in the cotton fields, the brown one picking lettuce.  What had happened? How could this perfect vision of a perfect, motley-colored, marvelously diverse nation have faded so quickly. 

First there was the election victory party at Mar-a-Lago, the new President's Florida estate where the only black and brown people in evidence were trimming the hedges, skimming the pool, and washing the dishes.  The rest of the gathering was lily white, as white as snow; not only that was so perfectly and spectacularly blonde, unblemished, beautiful, and statuesque. 

These marvelous blonde young things were acting as if nothing was amiss in this perfectly manicured, gloriously white event.  They were oblivious to the absence of color.  For many this was how they had been brought up, privileged, heirs to great fortunes, and legatees to family tradition.  For others, this was what Hollywood, screen tests, and Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson, Marilyn Monroe, and Margot Robbie were all about - the irresistibly blonde, blue-eyed icons of America. 

When photographs of the event were published and circulated, the Left was apoplectic.  How could years of affirmative action, the lionization of the black man, the pantheon of color, the tribute to African heritage, the overwhelming destiny of racial plurality have been wiped out so quickly?  It was unexpected and unthinkable, horrendously portentous.  If this was the cast of an all-night party at Mar-a-Lago, what would this mean for the White House and the country?

Of course Trump, despite furious accusations from the Left, had not deliberately left out people of color from his celebration.  It was just that his friends, family, and colleagues happened to be white. The higher echelons of business and Republican power, like the rest of the country's elite, was still white.  Ivanka, Jared, and Melania did not spend weekends in the 'hood; and as Leonard Bernstein knew quite well when he wrote West Side Story, stick to your own kind is human nature's meme.  

A boy like that
Who'd kill your brother
Forget that boy
And find another
One of your own kind
Stick to your own kind
A boy like that
Will give you sorrow
You'll meet another boy tomorrow
One of your own kind

Stick to your own kind

The Left's howling only increased when the selections for Trump's cabinet were announced.  Except for a tint of color - Tulsi Gabbard has a few drops of Samoan blood, and a few other darker-shaded women were in evidence - most cabinet appointments were chosen for talent, loyalty, performance, popularity, and political instinct alone.  The new Administration was true to its promise of equal opportunity not equal representation.  Whoever appeared at the top of the talent list would be chosen. No a priori criteria of race, gender, or ethnicity would be considered. 

The wailing, breast-beating, and rending of garments by the aggrieved, humiliated, soundly defeated Left increased day by day.  Each victory party, each new round of hopefuls at Mar-a-Lago, each official appointment was a dagger in the heart of stunned, wounded, and disconsolate liberals.  Not only did a man they considered evil, a spawn of the Devil, Hitler incarnate, a traitorous insurrectionist and dictator-in-waiting win the election; and not only would their 'progressive' agenda be tossed in the trash, but this unconscionable whiteness would be the meme, the ethos, the zeitgeist of the day. 

It was the last straw, the worst humiliation, the most damnable, inexcusable insult; but blustering and incoherent, they could only howl.  In a hackneyed Benneton ad of racial diversity they hugged each other in love, harmony, and sympathy.  We know what's right, they said, and that flame of righteousness will keep us for the next four years.  

 

It is hard for an ordinary American going about his life on a tractor or assembly line, working at Walmart or Walgreen's to imagine the pain and agony this turn of events has caused these advocates for diversity, for liberals have not only argued for more inclusion of brown and black people in positions of responsibility and authority, but have accused the entire country of systemic racism and white privilege.  

That is, not only should a helping hand still be given to the underrated, but the white race in its entirety should be neutered, marginalized, dismissed, and sent packing.  If whiteness is the problem, the core, fundamental problem, the rot at the heart of American society; then imagine how you would feel if whiteness is thrown back in your face?  Terrible, that's what. 

Humiliation is bad enough - the rejection of affirmative action to help black people emerge from the miasma of modern Jim Crow prejudice and oppression - but when combined with an in-your-face celebration of the white oppressor, that is too darned much. 

Liberals have been particularly good at the zero sum game.  To raise the black man to his rightful place atop the social pyramid requires the demission of the white man to the lowest rung.  So the minds of the still most rabid and implacable progressives naturally assumed a logical and natural expression of parity - a turning on its head of racial priorities.  The Trump Administration, now returning white privilege to to its rightful place, must necessarily demote blacks to what they consider their rightful place - the very margins of society. 

Jackbooted American Gestapo storm troopers, the Left contends, will descend on the black ghetto in a worse roundup than the Warsaw one.  Since there is no worse place in America than the inner city slum, there will be nowhere to send those collected except to concentration camps.  The cities will return to normalcy and retributive whiteness. 

 

Black Lives Matter will go scurrying for the exits before the purge begins, the pimps and ho's of Anacostia will shape up, dress proper, and act white to escape deportation.  The whole black population will be placed on notice. 

Of course it will be only these supernumerary crazies who will go - not rounded up per se, but dismissed, marginalized, and ignored by a population glad to be rid of their cant, hectoring, and arrogance.  'Good riddance to bad rubbish' was the reprised term of the Fifties as columns of liberals left for some forgotten Appalachian holler, licking their wounds, hoping to be back, but given the loss of all organs of power, they knew it would be a long while.