Our Endangered Academic History

 Watching a show on family legacy I heard a black woman pride herself on not reading "Huckleberry Finn". It's ironic because Twain was openly against the racist politics of the South and his story was an attempt to show the unfairness of the system. Its almost as if unless a work is by a person of color people are supposed to shun it. Yet my kids were assigned books by writers such as Allende, Chinua Achebe, Maya Angelou. Should we have our children be so shallow in their understanding that they can't see the shared humanity of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" "Number the Stars" and "Things Fall Apart?" By doing so, parents and woke teachers are giving students of color LESS rather than MORE. Shouldn't the timeline of our history include Mark Twain along with Harriet Beecher Stowe and Phillis Wheatley? I have no problem with a diverse curriculum, but to offer it as either or is a mistake.

Woke Coke and Other Myths

 #WokeCoke and other corporations have succeeded in perpetuating racism by their actions. Just quotas, the gross assumption is that people of color are incapable of achieving academic and professional goals without a boost, is an assumption of inability. This puts an asterisk by the name of every person of color, even those who have accrued mass achievements and accolades in much the same way a loving parent would celebrate the accomplishments of a child with a disability. This is wrong. This is actual racism as employed by corporate liberal elites for PUBLICITY.

Unfortunately, the Public confuses EQUITY with EQUALITY. The public thinks they are supporting a system where everyone will be viewed without bias. Under EQUITY standards schools, universities and now even businesses are expected to get the same outcome regardless of individual effort or abilities. Anyone working knows that individual situations will vary even within the same company. Some sales territories are more lucrative than others, some labs have better equipment, some stores are going to be more successful. Trying to manipulate society in INSURE SUCCESS means you must draw away from entities who have put in the time and effort to be successful. That's just wrong.

Even liberals should be alarmed as this is a blanket approach which will ultimately touch their lives. The idea of America was that the sins or wealth of your ancestors didn't preclude you from achieving success. What is ongoing now under the guise 1619/Critical Race Theory is an attempt to justify bias for the purpose of legalizing Equity at all costs. Eventually this will pan out as it gets used in much the same way transgender laws are dismantling Title IX for women. It will come back and in one way or another create a system where mediocrity over innovation is cherished and where the highly educated and able persons of color see their own images tarnished for the sake of political gain.

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Truth: The NEA is Evil

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Climate Change Choices are Putting Us in Danger

 Living in Texas, we expect tornadoes. We endure oven like Summers and torrential rains in Fall. We tend to expect our fair share of hurricanes, storm fronts and floods. What we rarely experience is bone-chilling historic cold and ice. But here were are. Single digit temperatures, snow with the promise of more snow, ice covered roads and a power grid that shunned nuclear and gas generation for the "green" alternatives of windfarms and solar. This is virtue signaling on an epic scale and we are learning a tough lesson as a result.

If you drive in the Texas panhandle, once barren rocky scrub land lined by massive wind generation turbines "windfarms" in the vernacular of the day. They inhabit the most populated migratory flyway acting as sky high abattoirs for endangered species. More telling is how many turbines are not turning in even the best of times. More often than not this is not because the wind isn't blowing, but because the actual mechanisms are broken. There are technicians highly paid to climb those towers on a daily basis to fix them. But at some point they stop working. At that point the massive blades are not recyclable and must be relegated to a type of blade graveyard for some future generation to deal with.

This storm has brought attention to the folly of letting legislators use euphemism and memes to generate support for feelgood policies in action. If you've ever seen one of these wind turbine blades up close, it's clear these massive machines are a misplaced application of space and money for little real return. The millions, billions, possibly trillions spent to acquire land, erect towers and maintain them could have been much better spent on more conventional energy options. How much more secure would ERCOT be using natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric or even coal mined in our own state? Instead Texans let politicians make the sexy choice of wind and solar which is now being proven to be less than adequate for the needs. 

This is nothing new. California discovered that with their rolling blackouts during the past summer. How many people have to do without power due to wrongheaded policies pandering to vocal leftists before the rest of us put an end of this? By the way, the photo below is the beach in GALVESTON. In north Texas we have people, including my own kids, whose homes have been without power for most of today. The temperature in my son's home is 55 now. His wife is due to deliver their first child literally any day now. It's too icy for them to make it to our house plus there is no promise we'll have power if they got here. 

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