‘Not a black face among them', Bob Muzelle shouted as he read the list of high-tech executives invited to travel to China with Donald Trump in a high-stakes meeting with President Xi Jinping.
No, Bob was right, there were none. Not a one, not a single, solitary one.
'He could have picked...' but there Bob stopped, fumbled for names, looked at the ceiling and around the room, and stumbled on. Neil deGrasse Tyson? No, he was just a black academic trotted out by the Biden Administration to show the American public that black people were not just basketball players and blues musicians, and that they had brains as well as parquet floor and guitar aptitude.
Tyson was on MSNBC time and time again citing the impending climate doom and heralding Biden’s efforts to slow global warming. No, not Tyson; but then, who?
'My people', Bob thought since after decades spent in the trenches of the civil rights movement he considered himself black. In fact so insistent was he on minority identity despite his patrician New England roots, that he had a DNA test done to see whether any of the blood of the illegitimate mulatto offspring of Great-great Grandfather Samuel Pilkington, Virginia plantation owner ran through his veins.
It didn't and in fact his genetic history only showed grandee blood on both sides of the family, an unbroken string of slave owners, Three-Corner Trade shipbuilders, New Bedford investors and insurers.
So it was of great disappointment, chagrin, and frustration that Bob could come up with no names - no black luminaries that should have featured on Trump's list.
Of course even if there had been a black man on the list, Bob would have demanded that he decline the offer. No self-respecting person of color should be seen in the same company as that racist pig Trump no matter how important the event. It was a moot point however since there were none invited, none even on the seconds list, none even as third-tier alternates.
'Talent', said Marco Rubio, Secretary of State filling in as Press Secretary while Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave.
That's what this President values, not diversity for its own sake. Americans of brilliance, outstanding effort, ability, and above all contributions to the United States are what the President admires and favors. The days of divisive, corrosive diversity and identity politics are over
Bob wasn't sure which was worse - that this was a lily white assemblage...well, if you discounted the Asian or two on the list - or a horde of billionaires. Bob had spent recent weeks working with Socialist Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani who was proposing new taxes on the wealthy. 'The billionaire is not American', said Mamdani which sent those who had helped build the new New York scurrying for the exits for safer tax havens in states where their enterprise was appreciated.
The fact that the hated Evil in the White House, the Hitler reincarnate, despiser of the poor, colossus of hate had put together a black-free assortment of billionaires was double indemnity, the perfect storm of capitalist, conservative malignity.
Engine Charlie Wilson, former Chairman of General Motors in its prime famously said, 'The business of America is business', and not one of the Trump invited executives declined the offer.
This was not pampered athletes refusing to be feted at the White House in a show of arrogant ignorance. Why on earth would the attendance of these physically talented but politically naive slam-dunkers matter in the least? Their refusal to attend was a sign of the worst, most grinding self-importance, nothing more.
To a man, the corporate executives invited by Trump engineered, built, and extended the reach of impossibly far-reaching technological advances, were happy to engage with China, their arch-adversary but one that they mightily respected. Their loyalty to the man, Donald Trump, was secondary to their allegiance to America - and yes, of course, to expand their own corporate influence and become even wealthier, but that was a foregone conclusion anyway. The competition between Chinese and American AI companies was what fueled innovation.
'Scurrilous', said Bob, still scrambling to come up with black entrepreneurs whom he might sponsor for the next high-stakes trip abroad if not this one but coming up empty once again. Why couldn't the President have just an ounce of give, invite someone, anyone of color, to show that America was not the old white nation of the past.
'Genius clusters' are groups of unusually brilliant men who happen to live at the same time. How to explain the Founding Fathers? To a man, they were individuals of insight, intelligence, moral fiber, historical grounding, and unique creativity.
Churchill, De Gaulle, and Roosevelt were another such cluster. Roosevelt brought America out of the Great Depression and presided over the the Allied victory in Europe. Without Churchill’s resolve, will, courage, and absolute conviction of moral right, the Battle of Britain would never have been won. De Gaulle in exile was a heroic figure to whom occupied France turned for moral and political support.
Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, and Andrew Carnegie formed another genius cluster and together they built the foundations of American industry.
Huang, Musk, Gates are part of a far larger, more far reaching, and more revolutionary genius cluster, a remarkable testament to America's culture of talent and opportunity. Former President Biden did his best to shut down this engine of prosperity, progress, and geopolitical influence. His DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusivity) focus on race, gender, and ethnicity rather than talent and ability was an attempt to disable a culture of excellence by insisting that excellence was a matter of white privilege.
It is amazing that these technology innovators were able to do what they did even in the miasma of forced ordinariness. Affirmative action was a curse - a voodoo, zombie affair, an inversion of value.
The billionaire trip to China might be a final wakeup call to Americans seduced by Biden era distortions. This mission of undoubtedly the best creative, innovative minds in the country showed the credulous, progressive Left that the days of diversity are over and a restoration of originalist values has returned.
'This cannot stand!', shouted Bob, but by this time he was not sure what 'this' was. There was no denying the fact that there were no black faces on the roster of the best and the brightest, no Nobel Prize winners in all of Africa, no meteoric rise of African Americans to the top of American society so where to look?
There could be, there might be black faces if the spurious, damaging culture of entitlement, victimhood, identity and white patronizing were to end, if black men and women were taken off life support and immersed in the same sink or swim waters as everyone else.
A culture of competition, free enterprise, economic mobility, and ambition always enables the best and the brightest to emerge, rise, and profit.
If that demeaning, stultifying, oppressive liberal group-think persists, there can be none of the dramatic social changes that enable success, and black people will suffer under the common but never admitted assumption that they are simply not up to it.
Americans should all look up to Musk, Huang, Gates et. al. and want to be like them, not hate them because they are white billionaires. That seditious lie, that insidious conclusion must be dismissed once and for all.
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