Opinion: Black and Native
people are kindred
spirits in adversity. Deb Haaland understands that.
By Jonathan Capehart Columnist 18 February 2022
Jonathan Capehart is a member of the Washington Post Editorial
Board, writes about politics and social issues
“So it
wasn’t a surprise to watch tears well this week for Haaland, now the interior
secretary, as she stood outside the Mississippi courthouse that once set free
the murderers of Emmett Till. For Haaland, the first Native American to
serve as a Cabinet secretary, visiting these sites doesn’t just mean
remembering the injustice inflicted upon Black people; it means walking the ancestral
lands that were home to Indigenous people long before the slave
ships came…. She knows
what it means to come from people who experienced prejudice
and violence”
Read the whole Washington Post article at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/18/deb-haaland-emmett-till-sites/
This is
just a snippet of the article but what is interesting is that Capehart writes
this entire article about how Secretary Haaland “feels the pain of oppression”
without once mentions her life story growing up as the daughter of a highly
decorated United States Marine Corps Field Grade Officer of Norwegian ancestry living on or near
Military bases all of the country and even attended 13 different schools. She never got near an Indian Reservation
until she was nearly grown and even than she never lived “on” one. When her
father finally retired after his 30 year Marine Corps career, the family
settled down in an affluent neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico, home
of the sprawling Kirkland Air Force Base so the family could avail themselves
of all the amenities the base could offer, e.g. Base Exchange, Commissary, excellent
medical facilities and recreational opportunities.
I would
also mention that when President Biden appointed Representative
Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary she had very little executive experience
and can’t be very bright as she spent three years in law school and graduated but
couldn’t even pass the NM Bar exam. Then again, this was the norm
for most of Biden’s Cabinet appointees. See:
https://old-soldier-colonel.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-open-letter-to-my-senators-opposing.html
There
are Lies of Commission involving generating
false information and Lies of Omission
involving leaving out pertinent information. With WaPo commission is also when
they state opinions as fact and acts of omission where they omit facts that
might not support their desired narrative. WaPo Liberal propagandists
masquerading as “columnists” or “reporters” or “journalists” are masters at
both techniques but this article is an excellent example of Capehart’s
expertise in lying by omission.
Of
course the Washington Post has a special way of dealing with commenters that
continually call attention to their lies and correcting their attempts to plant
“Fake News” and that is to ban them from commenting like this:
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The
WaPo Tagline used to be: “Democracy Dies
in Darkness”
The
new one expands the Tagline to confess to what they really mean: “Democracy Dies in Darkness and the WaPo Is
Turning Out the Lights”
