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When Selling Out Fails
oes anyone know what
an Aunt Thomasina does once she’s been kicked out of the plantation’s big house? I’m not sure either. But I guess we’ll find out soon now that Omarosa Manigault has been fired from Donald Trump’s inner circle.
I don’t think Omarosa’s dismissal was anything we shouldn’t have expected. After all, this is a woman whose entire claim to fame is a direct result of her being regularly booted from multi- ple episodes of Trump’s “Apprentice” television show. To see her removed from 1600 Pennsylvania Av- enue in the same fashion just added a new twist to a well established tradition.
The thing I found humor- ous about the entire episode that reportedly had Omarosa being physically escorted from the premises kicking and screaming, is that immediately following her ouster she announced that she was planning to re- lease a book about her expe- rience. A memoir that she claims will reveal things about the Trump administra- tion that her “people” would- n’t be happy about.
If by her “people” she
meant Black folks, I can’t help but wonder two things: first, if she actually witnessed something truly disturbing and offensive toward Blacks, why she didn’t leave immedi- ately to tell the world about what she saw or heard?
And, secondly, if the envi- ronment was that toxic, why she was so desperate to stick around?
The answer, of course, to both of these questions is that she probably enjoyed the perks of being the token “Black friend” in an other- wise lily white setting. In her official capacity as the so- called “liaison to the Black community,” as far as she was concerned, she was al- lowed a seat at the table. The fact that her chair was actu- ally a foot stool in the corner of the room was beside the point.
Omarosa was content with being a totally irrelevant part of the political land- scape because that’s the clas- sic role that sell outs are accustomed to playing. They don’t really care about being important as long as the im- pression is given to us that they are.
The problem arose for Omarosa once she became, as my great-grandmother
used to say, too big for her britches. Unlike Ben Car- son, who happily accepted his role as a living and breathing lawn jockey, Omarosa forgot that she was merely a puppet and started to take on the mind- set that her opinion mat- tered. That’s when the decision was made to snip her strings.
Now that she’s crashed back to Earth and has to con- front the realest of realities, I’m not sure which direction Omarosa can go? She can’t come back to us because we’re not too big on embrac- ing Benedict Arnold types. And I can’t see any of Trump’s die-hard base tak- ing her in knowing how much distaste they have for the sight of brown skin.
So Omarosa is, basi- cally, in the same boat with the controversial racial tranny Rachel Dolezal. Longing to be a part of a tribe she wasn’t born into while being thoroughly rejected by her own.
It is definitely a precari- ous predicament for a person to find him or herself. But, unfortunately for Omarosa, it’s the one she jumped into willingly when she decided that selling her soul was worth the money.
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Book Fire And Fury Holds Few Surprises
he already best-selling book, Fire And Fury, by
former White House insider Michael Wolf, only confirms what many Americans already suspect and the rest of us already know.
Described by using terms such as “chaos,” “he’s lost it,” “he’s like a child,” “unfit and questions fit- ness,” the author paints a picture of President Donald Trump that neither the GOP nor the Americans who voted for him can easily ignore.
Interestingly enough, many of us are old enough to remember the nursery rhyme story about the Pied Piper who led all of the village rats to drown in the river by playing mesmerizing music on a flute. That story comes to mind when we observe the die-hard Trump supporters who find no wrong in anything the Donald says or does . . . no matter how banal it may appear.
And the fact that Pres. Trump’s supporters have accepted him using XXXX language; not releasing his tax returns; his refusal to allow the American public to know who visits him in the White House; the pas- sage of the 2018 Tax Reform, that not only sabotaged health care for all Americans, but favors Americans earning more than $100,000; reduces taxes for busi- nesses that never paid their fair share of the tax bur- den anyway; helps destroy our environment, and that expands off-shore business tax breaks among other unheard-of un-presidential behavior boggles the brain.
Meanwhile, we have no doubt historians will paint the “Trump Years” as days of “mass hypnotism” and “Obama reactionism.”
Nevertheless, Michael Wolff’s book will go down in history as a sour note against President Donald Trump’s Pied Piper administration.
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