Political correctness is run amok. Just look at today’s newspaper.
Cartoonist Michael Ramirez nailed the new Oscar “diversity” requirements.
Meanwhile, the morning paper reported that the Clark County School Board voted 5-1 to rename Kit Carson Elementary School, which was built in 1956.
Despite all of his discoveries and exploits, Carson’s name was removed apparently because he was ordered to force the Navajos onto a new reservation further West. No mention apparently was made of the fact Carson did not want to carry out his orders and tried to resign. Nor was it mentioned that Carson, later as an Indian agent, worked until his death in 1868 to protect tribes from corruption and exploitation.
Can the Carson River and Carson City be next? What about the streets in Las Vegas named for Carson and John C. Fremont?
Meanwhile, the headline on the editorial in the insert declared, “America won’t reach its potential until it honestly addresses racism.”
It decried President Trump’s orders to stop forcing federal employees to undergo training in “critical race theory,” which foists the notion of white privilege. It also blasted Trump’s hollow “threat to withhold federal funding to schools using The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project,” which teaches that the country was founded in order to protect the institution of slavery.
The editorial states, “Recognizing racism is a first step to addressing it.” Presuming racism is rampant and even systemic without solid evidence is, well, presumptuous.
Earlier in the week the morning paper carried a column by Larry Elder, who pointed out that the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald found: “A police officer is 18 1/2 times more likely to be killed by a Black male than an unarmed Black male is to be killed by a police officer.”
Everybody is engaged in serious omphaloskepsis — navel gazing.
Kit Carson Elementary (Google Street View via R-J)
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