“Lord Vader will provide us with the location of the rebel fortress.” – Star Wars, A New Hope
I lost a castle in chess once. It was a rook-y mistake.
One of the unintended consequences of a multicultural society is the way that identity fuels animosity and envy. In the latest story from this dispatch comes the concept of “White Fortressing”.
What on Earth is White Fortressing? Does it involve a series of blankets covering the dining room table and various chairs to create a blanket fort, but this time using only white blankets?
No. In Louisiana, besides the Gumbo Landslides and the Alligator Squadron attacks, one of the things that people wrestle with is government. In Baton Rouge (French for “smells like mold”), Louisiana, there the people in one area have been trying to split off from the local parish. If you’re from Louisiana, no one calls those subdivisions “a parish” except you. I blame the Louisiana Purchase.
Why? People in Louisiana do things, um, differently. Heck, if Adam and Eve had been from Louisiana, they’d have eaten the snake, too.
Pictured: Louisiana after half an inch of rain.
This group of about 100,000 folks wanted to form their own city, which they have called St. George. Because this new city would be only 12% black instead of 50% black like the rest of East Baton Rouge Parish, Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig of the Urban Institute™ coined the phrase “White Fortressing”.
What’s Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig’s job title? “Equity Scholar.” And given that job title, it’s no wonder that, wherever she looks with her beady little eyes she sees inequity. To be fair, I can’t really tell if they’re beady, but the low-resolution picture that she uploaded makes me think that when her friends tried to set her up on blind dates they described her as having “a great personality except for the everything is racist bit”.
According to the article written by Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig and someone named Muttley, er “Smedley” who I am sure is completely not a dog that communicates only by snickering, White Fortressing is “opportunity hoarding”. What’s that? You mean, gasp, a community would want to spend money on itself rather than ship it to other people?
I wonder if Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig and Smedley had a cartoon, would it be called “Wacky Racists”?
To quote myself in a discussion with a friend, “Why should I want to ship money overseas? I don’t want to ship it to the next county.”
It appears that the big reason that St. George wanted to make itself a city wasn’t because Louisiana was in desperate need of a new mayor, nope, the East Baton Rouge School System appears to be crap. How crap? WAFB™, which I assume stands for War Air Force Base, reported that there were 6,587 fights that were reported in the school district over the past two years. Given that there were 40,000 students in the System, it’s likely that just under 27,000 students weren’t pulling their fair share and starting fights.
Let’s be real: most fights aren’t reported. So, this would indicate to me that the schools are likely much more violent than would be indicated by the raw numbers above. So, in 2013, a group of parents decided that enough was enough. In the St. George area, there were 16,300 or so kids going to school. Of that number, some 7,700 went to private school. I think it’s obvious why: It’s to protect the poor kids, since the rich kids can hire hitmen to take care of business.
To quote Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig and her sidekick Smedley: “When white communities fortress themselves, they siphon away resources from the larger region, including communities of color.”
Important note: before providing Human Resources with a urine sample, make sure they requested one first.
That’s what the people of St. George are to Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig and her sidekick Smedley: “resources”. I suppose that a charitable way to put this is that these people are really just tax slaves. The “Opportunity Hoarding” that Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig and her sidekick Smedley describe is really just Dr. Luisa Godinez-Puig and her sidekick Smedley’s Opportunity to Hoard the tax dollars coming from people who just want out of a failing, violent system.
Those ingrates! They and their children should just stay and take the beatings and worse that they so obviously deserve!
This is the mind of the GloboLeft: their job isn’t to provide a shared initiative to block those who would try to invade or enslave us. Nope. They view their job is to mine us for resources so we don’t “Hoard” our productivity and thus deprive them of their “Opportunity” to extract their pound of flesh.
The hypocrisy of the GloboLeft is laid bare by this:
- Their god is democracy, except when people vote against them. This is why they always use the term “Our Democracy”. You and I simply do not need to apply.
- If white people leave an area due to violence or high tax rates due to transfer payments, it’s called “White Flight” and it’s bad. So bad, because (apparently) the GloboLeft really wants people around?
- No, they don’t. When white people move back into an urban hellscape and begin to economically transform it for the better, that’s “Gentrification” and it’s also bad because it raises the taxes from their previous “urban war zone” level.
- Finally, if people just want to stay in the same place, and govern themselves, their horribly shellfish because they don’t want to share their taxes with the greater region. Heck, those ingrates probably don’t want to ship their tax dollars to Raytheon™ so they can build bombs to give to foreign countries or Boeing® so that Boeing© software programmers can continue trying to solve the deep mystery of the coloring book in the break room.
- Who self-segregates more than anyone? The GloboLeftElite.
Hey, don’t laugh, battering rams were a real breakthrough.
The GloboLeftElite always, always, has the same idea – the things that are produced by individuals belong solely to them – there was a reason the Iron Curtain existed – and it wasn’t to keep people out. Whereas I really do believe that certain services and regulations are required, my view of the world is “anything not illegal is allowed.” Their view? “Anything not mandatory is prohibited.” I wish that last phrase was something that I made up, but it’s not, but I wish even more that the GloboLeftElite hadn’t heard it, since it appears to be their game plan.
The aptly named Larry Fink.
An irony of this is that the school district proposed by the folks who put together the city of St. George isn’t even particularly white: only 35% of the public school students would be white.
I guess, in the end, White Fortressing simply means, “Not spending your tax dollars the way our GloboLeftElite overlords wanted”. Maybe they could shut themselves up in their own safe space.
What color blankets do you think Doctor Luisa Godinez-Puig and her sidekick Smedley would want?
