Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has a lot to worry about.
No, she’s not worried about California wildfires, like the one that decimated her city last January. She’ll just put another Alphabet Person in charge of the fire department and head off to Ghana again.
No, she’s not worried about rampant homelessness. Her voting base just approved an increase in sales tax to tackle the homeless problem. Because nothing screams elitist virtue signaling like doubling down on failed policies.
What really keeps Karen Bass awake at night is the fact that, as applications for the Border Patrol soar, over half of the southern border agents are now Hispanic.
“I think it’s sad,” Bass recently told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. "I think that those Border Patrol agents are going to have a difficult time when they’re out in the field and they see what actually happens in real life separate from their training. But I do understand that their primary incentive is financial. I think it just speaks to the financial situation that millions of Americans find themselves in. And I definitely am concerned about that."
Karen Bass is concerned. Karen Bass is sad. Karen Bass thinks Border Patrol recruits are naïve chumps who don’t understand what they’re getting into, and do so only out of economic desperation.
Karen Bass has not spoken to a single Hispanic Border Patrol agent to ascertain what he or she themselves think, or what their reasons for signing up might be. She has a racist, extremist political agenda to adhere to. Always wrong, never in doubt.
One person who did ask was CNN’s David Culver, who spoke with Border Patrol recruit Juan Peralta. Peralta told Culver that his friends back home ask him, “How do you feel about arresting your own kind?”
Culver must have thought he smelled blood in the water, and quickly followed up with, “And how do you answer when you heart that?” Peralta admirably answered with, “They didn’t come in the right way. So, they aren’t my kind.”
Boom.
But Culver, who looks younger than most of the recruits, isn’t daunted. He persists, immediately trying to establish street cred by using a manufactured, temporary accent to pronounce the word “Latino” as Lah-TEEE-no, in a manner that’s never so unbearably annoying as when its done by a elite white leftist. He comes close to yelling at agent Claudio Herrera for arresting “his own.” As Herrera gives a rational explanation, Culver looks like he’s close to crying.
Peralta and Herrera understand what Bass and Blitzer and Culver don’t, and likely never will. We are a nation of laws, not men. We are judged as individuals, not groups. We rise on E Pluribus Unum, and we fail on racist tribalism.
Peralta and Herrera are “my kind.” Not because of our skin colors, but because of our ideals. Blitzer and Culver are not “my kind.” They are petty racists who see minorities only as politically convenient props who need their “advocacy” so that they can be allowed to stay here and manicure their lawns.
If a white law enforcement officer turned a blind eye to crime because its perpetrators were also white, would Bass and CNN applaud him for supporting his “kind”? Or would they rightfully call him out for selective application of the law based on race?
A nation of laws, not men.
The left doesn’t operate along this idea. They operate on a nation of groups, not laws. They don’t oppose racism; they support it wholeheartedly so long as their specific group or political party is the one benefitting. And they do it by appealing to the worst in us.
My mind is always blown every time I see citizens hit the streets to protest the arrest or conviction of a proven criminal, an undeniable danger to the community, simply because the skin color of the protestors is the same as the skin color of the criminal. That some people would prioritize a false sense of racial solidarity with criminals over the safety and freedoms of their own families and neighborhoods shows how deep into the national psyche the professional left has been able to instill racism.
For the record, if I had a choice to live in a safe neighborhood with a bunch of brown and black lawyers and insurance salesmen for neighbors, I’d much prefer that to an all-white neighborhood filled with meth heads and wife beaters. I consider the former “my kind,” the latter not so much.
And also for the record, had I lived in a poor, all-white neighborhood where 10% of the population was involved in rampant criminality that oppressed the 90% of the people trying to work their way out of poverty, and some black and brown cops rolled into town and hauled them off to jail, the LAST thing I would do is protest in favor of the white criminals just because we share the same skin color. Nor would I care if the cops got a little rough with the more resistant types. I’d shake their hands and thank them for making my community a safer place.
So I’m glad that we have noble and sincere people like Juan Peralta and Claudio Herrera holding the line, not just against criminality, but against the racist boxes that people like Bass and Culver try to cram us all into. It’s an honor to call you “my kind.”
And I hope you keep giving Karen Bass plenty to “worry” about.
