“I’ma stab you.”
Graffiti photo, Cobb's Hill Park water tanks. R. Baker 2020
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me…..OOOHHHHH….deep dark depression, excessive misery…”
That old Hee Haw TV show song could be the new theme song for a Harvard student, Claira Janover, who this past week posted a Tik Tok video of herself ranting against anyone who dared to say that all lives matter. It was obviously her higher educational way of supporting Black Lives Matter, and protesting against systemic racism. She failed.
“I’ma stab you.” That, from a Harvard graduate. Brilliant.
Photo from New York Post, 7-3-20
She was fired from her job at accounting firm Deloitte. Good. Corporations should take a stand against this vocal idiocy to protect their bottom lines, with policies that prohibit these moronic rants by people who have graduated from racist schools such as Harvard, and obtain presumably lucrative careers with international corporations. After all, she did say that she worked really hard to get her job. It took no effort at all, however, to spew her shallow-minded words on unsocial media and damage her career. Clearly that isn’t the sort of thing they teach students at fancy pants schools like Harvard - you know, that words and actions have consequences. If her parents paid all that money for her lack of education, I’ll bet they’re really proud.
The larger aspect of this latest racist episode, however, isn’t this poor child’s misfortune that has been brought on by her own stupid choices and racist rant. It’s a reminder to everyone that this type of behavior, and more concerning, this attitude of violence towards those with different beliefs, can and does come from both sides of the socio-political fence.
In THIS particular instance, these words of violence - and Ms I’ma Stab You’s subsequent refusal to apologize - comes from the side of the fence that supposedly believes in tolerance, diversity, and inclusiveness.
And let’s not forget what this segment of “woke” (I hate that word) society is continually saying to and about the right side of the fence: WORDS MATTER. Remember that, Miss Janover, next time you jump into the shallow end of the unsocial media pool.
Rick B. Baker
July 3, 2020
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