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It has begun: Huff Po says Mia Love enjoys white privelege
 Mia Love, the former mayor of Saratoga Spring, Utah, won her race for Utah's 4th congressional district Tuesday and will now be the first black Republican woman (and first Haitian-American) to sit in the United States Congress.
The heads of leftists have been exploding ever since Love's victory as they attempt to come to grips with how a black woman could champion bedrock conservative principles such as fiscal discipline, limited government and personal responsibility.
The most fascinating treatise about Love — thus far — comes via The Huffington Post where Darron Smith, a desperately confused blogger with a Ph.D. in education, accuses Love of benefitting from a form of "white privilege."
Smith, who is somehow on a first-name basis with Love as he writes, lauds Love as a super-duper minority member: black, a woman and a Mormon to boot. He can't understand, though, how Love doesn't agree with his own political ideology. Because she disagrees with him, he declares that the principles she espouses go against her interests — because of the color of her skin and the sexual organs she possesses.
| Same argument as "what's the matter with Kansas?" Short answer: nothing except they value things differently than you do, and that's the real crime, isn't it... |
"Love's political convictions show a strong support for values that do not necessarily represent her interests as a member in any of these oppressed groups," Smith writes.
| Perhaps she doesn't see herself as oppressed... |
"For example, blacks are not doing well with respect to education, economics and health outcomes, while women still trail behind in salary and significant positions of power, and conservative politics are not typically known to aid these groups in such key issues. These actualities of Mia's existence seem to be diametrically opposed to her values that are grounded in a white, male, Christian context."
I guess he's upset she didn't play the race card.
Smith then lays down his blogger coup de grâce:
"She appears publicly unhampered by the daily grind of white racism that affects other racial minorities within the United States," he proclaims.
| Yup, she's unhampered alright. She just worked hard, shook hands, and won an election... |
"Unlike most of them, Mia gets to walk through the hallowed doorways of white institutions controlled by elite, powerful men. She is allowed to pass through in her black, female body with the understanding that she must not see, speak or openly advocate for anything related to race or gender — an unholy compromise. Hence, she might look black, but her politics are red. This is one way white privilege is reproduced at the legislative level of government."
| Perhaps she's not interested in openly advocating for race or gender, but instead advocating for her constituents and for the good of the country as a whole. Novel concept Professor but follow along... |
"Mia and others like her are seemingly out of touch with the political realities of African Americans and what remains at stake for them," the blogger concludes, hastening to add that "[i]t would be a mistake to assume that all black people are monolithic and share the same political inclinations."
IOW: Doesn't fit the narrative. Would break his world view. Illogical, illogical . . . .
Smith also suggests that the Republican Party — but not the Democratic Party — exhibits a "pattern of using blacks to further white interests."
That's because it's the first thing that comes to his mind.
| Once again, a progressive accuses others of what he does himself... |
Love is the daughter of Haitian immigrants and a first-generation American. She was first elected to the Saratoga Spring city council in 2003.
She also made headlines in 2012 for her speech during the Republican National Convention.
While Love was the favorite going into Tuesday, she won by a slim margin of only a few thousand votes.
Posted by: gorb 2014-11-10 |
