For a long time, those in America who were in charge of piloting the ship of state, fooled themselves into believing they were sailing a perfect melting pot on their way to a paradise of their imagination that would make Adam and Eve green with envy.
The American pilots developed
that notion because they started with the false belief that they were running
an exceptional operation. It was an idea based on the observation of a
foreigner who traveled throughout America. In fact, that observation turned out
to be a complete misunderstanding of the facts. This happened when the
Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville compared the concept of citizenship in Europe
and America. In so doing, he inadvertently put down the foundation for a
paradigm upon which a tall tower of quackery was built one shaky stage on top
of another, decade after decade after decade.
Here is the problem. Whereas
Europe is made of nations, each populated by a cohesive group, America of the
nineteenth century was populated by groups that left the cohesion of the “old
country” behind to start a new life in a new place among strangers of various
cultures. Whereas the Europeans held on chauvinistically to their ethnic origins,
the Americans surrendered their ethnicity, and adopted the American
designation, not knowing what exactly it was meant to represent.
Still, Tocqueville was
impressed with that American composition, unaware that it will not withstand
the test of time. As it turned out, the offspring of immigrants that rejected
the old to adopt the new, developed an attachment to the ethnic origins of
their ancestors, an attachment that became so strong, it would have surprised
their immigrant forefathers. And then, it gradually began to happen that the
American melting pot, as fantasized by the early pilots of the ship of state,
transformed into a tenuous mosaic whose artificial parts are now coming unglued
at the seams.
Confused as to what's
happening to them and their country almost two centuries after Tocqueville, a
younger generation of Americans began to realize they are in the same boat.
They reckoned they are all heading toward one and the same destination,
supposedly as equals, even if some appeared to be more equal than others … a la
George Orwell's pigs in the Animal Farm he envisioned. The young generation
rejected that setup after a while, and adopted the adage that says, the wheel
that squeaks the loudest gets the grease. And so, they started to squeak as loudly
as they could, not only with their vocal cords, but in deeds such as destroying
the symbols that represented America's history of slavery, repression and
unfairness.
A showdown began to take shape
between the descendants of the early pilots of the ship of state, now calling
themselves nativists, and the rest of the population which adhered to the
precepts of a still forming paradigm referred to as woke. The battle is ongoing
at this time, as can be seen in the Washington Examiner's editorial that came
under the title: “Biden administration's woke apology tour gives China and
other evil governments cover,” published on April 17, 2021.
The excuse for writing and
publishing that editorial, was that America's ambassador to the United Nations,
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, gave a speech at the National Action Network, a civil
rights movement that has been around for some three decades –– saying that:
“Slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles …
when we raise issues of equity and justice at the global scale, we have to
approach them with humility”.
This was enough to prompt the
editors of the Washington Examiner to make this pretense: “Of all the nations
of the world, the United States of America is the greatest force for freedom,
human dignity, and democracy. Our leaders ought to uphold this role on the
world stage and to proclaim it boldly.”
And level this accusation:
“President Joe Biden believes that the US's role in the global community is to
apologize, and that America should stand as a symbol of shame and oppression”.
And spew this slander: “China,
Russia, North Korea, and Iran have used the UN to propagandize against the US
on human rights. Thomas-Greenfield's picture of America is the one that the
Chinese use to defend their genocide. Her suggestion that the US should breach
the issue of China's genocide against the Uyghurs with humility, is
disgraceful”.
What this demonstrates, is
that in trying to hide its deficiencies, America is accusing others of being
deficient. For a while, America succeeded at intimidating others and keeping
them silent about her deficiencies. But then it happened that both the American
public and the world at large could not take this hypocrisy anymore. They
shouted the truth from the rooftops, and the shameless culprits responded the
only way they knew how. They lied about who they really were, and what they
wanted.
This attempted deception makes
up the content of the Examiner’s editorial. Like other similar pieces, it fails
to convince anyone of its message because the playing field has been levelled
for everyone, and those editorial writers are no match to the crowd that’s
equipped with the truth of the woke.
Moreover, thanks to the effort of the young who are working to spread the woke culture, America is at last turning into a true melting pot.