As contemporaneously understood, the Nation’s constitutional declaration of equality encompasses the universe of American citizens of every race, creed, sex, gender, and social position. Progress toward the universal implementation of that enunciated status has been made, albeit, slowly and yet incompletely, The satisfactory achievement of such a foundational goal would seem to require the moral progress and cultural enlightenment of those of our citizens who seem to persistently adhere to the ignorant and atavistic ideation that diversity of color or creed is aberrant and perverse.
American citizens of goodwill, have responsibly and pragmatically construed written standards and devised programs purposed for the amelioration and hopeful elimination of America’s historically atavistic blemish of bigotry. Yet, propagandic, distorted interpretations have been tactically assigned to such beneficially construed standards by citizens who irrationally cling to their pernicious “pecking order” of acceptability. Such adamant bigots have chosen to tactically propagandize their opposition to the realization of the Nation’s constitutional promise by false, and misleading distortion of the context and intent of such beneficial standards, to eternally perpetuate bigotry. It is such depravity that provided the impetus for this writing,
It is the intention of this writing to identify and ” launder” such tactically sullied words, perversely transmogrified by the promoters of bigotry as responsively reactive falsified “buzz-words,” Three examples of such distortions seem to predominate, viz., Woke,” DEI,” and “Affirmative Action.” We intend to employ, the effective cleansing detergents of humanism and common sense, as detergent.
“WOKE:”
This Black-American folkloric term, used by the folksinger, “Ledbelly”) to mean “awakened” is perniciously and tactically used as an epithet or derogatory reference to the paranoid ideation that the purported “White Christian America “is under attack by subversive programs of black citizens with the assistance of the “elite class of liberals” to dictate the Nation’s course of history, As an illustrative example, the repulsive Governor of the State of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has appeared on popular television, proudly boasting assurance to a large audience: “Florida is the place where “woke goes to die.” The cultural style word for achieved cognition has been perniciously distorted for the consumption of ignorant citizenry to distortedly threaten the existence of an alleged movement by America’s black population with the aid of “the liberal elites” to undermine American superiority and its traditional way of life.
Nothing could be remotely further from the truth. “Woke,” is, in truth is a black folkloric word for “awake” or “awakened,” reportedly used by the folk singer, “Ledbelly, to mean “awakened” Its accurate context amounts to the recognition of society’s unequal level of difficulty between the racial groups in attaining personal realization.
“DEI:”
“The letters DEI, has been distorted, analogous to the perversion of “woke.” Contrary to its propagandistic-like perversion and use as a persuasive epithet, simply and inoffensively stands for the objective principles, stated, viz.,”Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” notably the equivalent of the Nation’s mantra, “E Pluribus Unum.” The word “Diversity” is empirical and self-explanatory, The words “Equity” (equality) and “Inclusion” (equal opportunity) cannot be objectively seen as inconsistent with traditionally accepted American ideals. Should it anecdotally appear that any feature of such well-intentioned standards of DEI, in their implementation requires adjustment, they can empirically be corrected far easier than the discriminatory programs they are intended to ameliorate. The equitable concept is fully consistent with the American mantra of equal citizenship and societal morality; used as rationally intended, the programmatic effort should need no sanitary explanation.
“AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:”
The somewhat nonspecific, but, nevertheless, ubiquitously understood phrase, “Affirmative Action,” refers to a beneficial program purposed to eliminate unfair advantage as between applicants for employment or higher education. It merely permits the additional consideration of relevant racial identity or economic hardship as one factor. The beneficial purpose is to give a “hand up” to those for whom it is creditably warranted and is not intended to be exclusionary, Few Americans set out in life on socially or economically equitable circumstances, a temporal observation empirically unrelated to innate talent or capability. The concept is intended to assist capable individuals whose potentiated advancement has been road-blocked by racial prejudice, or economic poverty. Its avowed purposes are inclusive and not exclusionary; as some of its critics would prefer to contend.
In a Nation, universally occupying the seat of the avatar of justice and equality, but evincing a sad history of the enslavement of black people and a contemporary empathy for the economic vicissitudes of its population of poverty-stricken, citizens, governmental programs that consider the elements of hardship, among the multitude of criteria for acceptance, would, inarguably, appear to be humanisticly appropriate.
It should require no forensic argument to support the proposition that those fortunate enough to reside in the American, “Land of Opportunity” implies the equitable existence of opportunity for all.
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