Watch, if you can, this little girl’s theatrical performance at what seems to be a public event, maybe a City Council meeting. She is, what, about ten years old?
It’s a bravura performance, complete with tears and sobs. One might almost believe the little girl knows what she’s talking about. But she doesn’t. Someone has indoctrinated her to believe that she’s the victim of vicious racism, and rehearsed her on what to say and how to say it. Who taught her such crazy things? I think it’s the woman who loudly ordered her to “do not stop” when the little girl faltered at one point. We don’t see who the woman is, but she sounds scary, an angry, violent adult who might inflict corporal punishment on the little girl, who must be afraid of her.
From this video we can see everything that’s depraved about how some people raise children. They’re teaching the little ones a monstrous lie: that racism is rampant everywhere, that there’s a conspiracy to prevent Black people from having rights. How awful it must be for that little girl to have been subject to this propaganda. She’s still so young, with her whole life ahead, but already someone has brainwashed her that her life is over, that she’ll never amount to anything because of racism. It’s tragic watching this video. Instead of seeing a brave, confident young woman who will succeed at whatever she wants, we see a whiney little crybaby, anxious for approval, who parrots the nonsense drummed into her by a racist adult. Whoever did this to the little girl should be hauled up in front of a judge and jury and charged with child abuse and neglect.
The original video was posted online by an organization called I Love Africa. I mean no disrespect when I describe them as intensely Afrocentric. Nothing wrong with celebrating your heritage. I gladly celebrate my Jewish-European heritage, and I enjoy learning about other heritages and cultures. But some of the videos on I Love Africa cross the line from a celebration of African culture into outright propaganda, of the type we’re all too boringly familiar with here in Oakland. We’ve heard similar stuff for years from Cat Brooks, Carroll Fife, Pamela Price, Lateefah Simon and other Black Nationalists, who can’t stop propagating the Big Lie that Black people continue to be enslaved, in an America where slavery was ended—by a White President, Abraham Lincoln--160 years ago. And in this same country since then, we, the People, have passed innumerable laws and even Constitutional amendments giving everybody the same rights and privileges as everybody else. We’ve spent vast treasures of the taxpayers’ money on investments in the Black community, in partial recompense of past actions. Racism is a horrible memory, but that’s the point: it’s a memory. It’s no longer a reality. To the extent some people still harbor racist beliefs, it’s so shameful that even racists are afraid to publicly admit it.
For adults to indoctrinate children with this poisonous ideology is a crime. Sadly, in America we have no requirements for being a parent, but maybe we should. One would be to refrain from teaching children insidious things, such as that America suffers from some horrid form of structural racism. I can’t stop thinking about that poor little girl. I just hope and pray that something opens her mind to Truth, and that she will one day be able to confront that “do not stop” lady and tell her to shut up and stop lying.
Steve Heimoff