Illinois: The Land of Self Reliance

JB Pritzker's gubernatorial win and retention of mostly Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly, as well as the 2018 victory of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, is a signal to all the liberal think-tanks to come out of hiding and start reporting on the devastation left in the wake of the Rauner administration.

First, according to USA Today in a story posted way back in November of 2018, Illinois notoriously took three of the top 15 rankings for the worst cities for black Americans, Springfield ranking 11th.

I only noticed it because it was featured in an article by sj-r.com about the Springfield Mayoral race between incumbent Jim Langfelder and challenger Frank Edwards discussing the problems of race and economic inequality.

This evening as I was preparing a diatribe on the subject I stumbled upon yet another scathing criticism of Illinois, this time, about babies.

News channel 20 (WICS/WRSP) revealed that the report came from a non-profit called ZERO to THREE. Here is the link to the Illinois page on that site. Before you click, take a deep breath because there is lots of data.

Hillary Clinton said "it takes a village." Everyone scoffed. She lost. Mother is supposed to be home to nurture the children 24-7. Dear old Dad comes home at the end of a hard day's work and dolls out allowances and pays the bills.Then Mother gets on her knees and then bends over and such, right? Isn't that why our laws are written the way they have been since the birth of the nation?

Life isn't supposed to be more complicated than that! If it is, it because of what, sinners? I thought you were pro-life? Life doesn't just end at birth, fellas.

Dealing with race in Springfield? When I was in history class at Grant Middle School, I cringed when I learned about slavery because I wondered how my black classmates felt hearing about it. It must have filled them with immense hatred and fear.

I've come to regard the history lessons themselves, of slavery and Jim Crow, as acts of intimidation and terror, because I have met and become friends with people from Africa who never experienced what happened to African Americans, and they seem to thrive in their family businesses without a moment's thought of what white people think of them,

Political Correctness and the language of marginalization.

Once again a local radio host has fallen back on the old gripe that some people try to get attention by riding in on the coattails of someone else who was the subject of a politically incorrect remark.

He calls them “wimps” and a few other choice words. This topic was started because ESPN broadcaster Bob Griese was suspended a week for a remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya.

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The point this local radio talk show host was attempting to make is people are either too darn sensitive to these remarks or some people take the opportunity to exaggerate the situation in order to draw attention to their organization that sustains itself financially on the belief of victimhood and martyrdom.

When you make fun of someone because they chose to affiliate with a certain political party, chose to dress a certain way, chose to behave in a manner they could have chosen not to, then it is okay to make fun of them, such as people who are powerful but use it destructively, bigots, misogynists, chauvinists and predators.

When you make fun of someone because they were raised in a culture that is closed or distant to such a degree that he or she is unaware of how different they are from yourself and perhaps are content in their society, then you are out of line.

When you make fun of someone because they have certain physical traits they can’t change, or are from another country and speak a different language, then you are the one who fits into the category of people it is okay to mock.

The whole point of political correctness is to stop the perpetual behavior of marginalization. The biggest culprit of social division and marginalization is the history lesson.

We are led to believe that we must learn history so that it does not repeat, but what does repeat through history is fear and guilt, directly along the lines of race. Race is an arbitrary product from the minds of imperialists.

The word “race” is from the bygone era before the human genome project. Those who continue to use the language of marginalization are capitalizing on hate or martyrdom.