Blackface, Jaguar and other thoughts

Blackface, Jaguar and other thoughts

Many colleges have a paint crew that apply school colors to their bodies for football games. At my alma mater, the University of Georgia, the colors are red and black and at one game instead of their usual red paint, the paint crew wore black. Is this blackface? Do you think this will come back to haunt any of these young men in the future?

Have you seen the new Jaguar ads?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtFIrqhfng

I wonder what Robby Starbuck has to say about it. Go woke and go broke? Seriously, do you think this will increase Jaguar sales? I would be embarrassed to drive one.

Did you see all the reports that Ellen DeGeneres “fled” the country after Trump got elected? Since flee means to run away from danger to a place of security, then why did she “flee” to Cotswolds, England with her wife? Is England more tolerant to lesbians than Hollywood? Was she afraid that Trump was going to use his Justice department to prosecute her for supporting Harris? If so he would have to go after 74 million voters. Hopefully, some of her Hollywood friends will join her flight to the security of foreign lands.

If Trump wants to build on his increase in black supporters he needs to do a few things. First, he should remind people that he has directly supported the funding of HBCUs. Something that neither Obama nor Biden did. Second, he should go all in for increasing reading proficiency among K-3. In Chicago schools, few black children are proficient in reading even though the schools are funded at $21,000 per pupil. The teachers’ union is not interesting in teaching kids to read. They are more interested in getting free abortions. Trump should tie all funds from the Education Department to reading proficiency. Third, he should have his administration work to remove impediments in the way of small businesses like licensure. For example in many states hair braiders are forced to get a cosmetology license costing almost $20,000 to braid hair. Even if you want to operate a shoe shine business you need a license. The removal of these barriers to entry will encourage more entrepreneurship. Even though these are state requirements surely the federal government could initiate policies to encourage a removal of these impediments. 

Perhaps Trump’s Department of “Government Efficiency” could consolidate all the minority business programs scattered throughout the federal government into a single entity such as the Department of Commerce or the Small Business Administration.

Do you think Trump picked eight women to be in his cabinet because of Mark Cuban’s stupid contention that Trump is “never around any strong and intelligent women”? Of course he made the statement on the View which only features strong and intelligent women.

Are you surprised that little has been said of the nomination of Scott Bessent, an openly gay man with a husband and two children, to be Treasury secretary? Bessent was also once chief investment officer for Soros Fund Management. While Pete Buttigieg was Secretary of Transportation, that post is of trivial importance. Treasury, however, is one of the top three cabinet positions, along with State and Defense. I wonder what the MAGA crowd thinks of the pick?