Until the recently receding Progressive Era attempted to transform American culture, our immediate family of four structure was like that of numerous early TV sitcoms from 1950-70. This included a married couple, a father, and a mother, with two children evenly split with one female daughter and one male son. The wife sent her husband off to work after breakfast, and she stayed home to raise the children. After they were old enough for school, she was always there for them when they arrived home. The family always sat down together for dinner after the husband came home.
In the enlightened era we have just lived through, my family’s situation would have been much more complicated to describe on TV even though the structure was the same. My wife was from Puerto Rico whose inhabitants have been American citizens since 1921. I was born in Texas, but my great-grandmother was born in a Spanish family granted a late 1700s Royal Land Grant in Nuevo Mexico Territory. She married my great-grandfather from New York who came West during the California Gold Rush.
Under U.S. government, racial, and DEI categories, my wife is considered politically ‘Hispanic’, however, she proudly claims to be ‘Puerto Rican’. With me being one-eight Hispanic, our children are undeniably majority ‘Hispanic’. My wife is a ‘person of color’, though, only after returning to Texas after her summer visits to Puerto Rico tanning on their beautiful beaches. However, she becomes a ‘white supremacist’ as her tan fades in the winter, or is that term only applicable to men? Under any federal racial profile, being from racist Texas, I surely must be federally classified as a ‘white supremacist’, but like a drop of black blood back in the old days made one black, doesn’t my one-eight Hispanic blood alter my political status?
My son speaks fluent Spanish and regularly transacts international business in Latin America, so having more than 50% Hispanic blood, he should be accorded all the government benefits under DEI rules despite his light skin color. However, my daughter, though equally majority Hispanic as her brother, does not speak Spanish. Without knowing the Spanish language, should she still receive the same minority considerations available to her brother? Or should it even matter? It’s a mystery!
Modern TV sitcom writers would have a political heyday writing about this dysfunctional family. Perhaps it is all going to be cleared up by the new Administration. My politically dysfunctional family will be considered normal again.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion weren’t the only straws that loaded down Democratic politicians and confused voters during the recent election. Day after day President Trump signs and holds up for all to see new Presidential Orders removing one culturally ill-conceived mandate after the other that had been handed down under the last two recent Democrat Administrations.
Americans no longer must worry about learning and using the proper pronouns when communicating with their fellow citizens. The standard English language we were taught in school while we grew up will still work. That we were made either male or female has not been altered to one’s tastes. And men can no longer compete in women’s sports.
To restore achieving recruitment quotas, the U.S. Military may no longer use Drag Queen recruiting parties or promise cost-free sex change operations.
America’s elite university officials are being forced upon loss of federal funding to restrain obvious Affirmative Action programs in admission selections and the anti-Semitic/anti-Israeli promotion within their Hallowed Halls.
Recent air crashes have renewed the need to ensure that people piloting aircraft in our airspace and those directing them at Control Towers are chosen on merit and performance, not some arbitrary quota or new cultural criteria.
The visual insight of paper straws when Trump raised them for all to see highlighted the folly of loading our culture with unpopular federal mandates. A political party that loads its agenda with too many straws that most of its citizens reject should anticipate one too many straws will break the back of successful political support.
Until the corporate media executives catch up with the public’s return to common sense and rational thought, though, radical diehards will still be able to begin their day with the declining audience of ‘Good Morning Joe’ for scintillating political insight, follow that with the intellectual discussions of the women of ‘The View’, and then end their day with the relaxing tones of Rachel Maddow’s soft voice.
But when the last media icons end their glory days and are finally retired for want of an audience, those true believers will ‘Always Have Harris to Remember!’
TW3
John Whitmore Jenkins
February 27, 2025
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