The fact that a nonwhite official of the US administration would repeat the talking points of the white nationalists expose the ways in which sections of the black bourgeoisie will tolerate racism and white supremacy as long as they are included in the boardroom as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson begged.
And people wonder why I have no consideration for the vast majority of Black statesfolk as anything more than the Misleadership class. For those of us who still give them their flowers, they take those flowers and promptly sell them(and us) up the river, at every opportunity they get.
The literal only reason military academies got exempted from the recent affirmative action ruling is because “the branches of the military would look worse if their officer corps didn’t reflect their enlisted bodies”. It is all a front.
Increasingly, as the shadow of fascism hangs over the society, the shadow brings back the warning 28 years ago when Toni Morrison reminded students ‘that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.’