Sumter insults South Asian history in attack on Singh
/Yesterday, New Jersey Democrat State Committee Chairman John Currie went on InsiderNJ to complain about the election process that Democrat Phil Murphy imposed on New Jersey. Yes, it is taking very long to count the votes here and in other states across America. That is not the fault of those who did not want this process. It was imposed on us.
Heck, Currie runs the Board of Elections in Passaic County and they aren’t done their vote count yet… so what’s the man hollering about?
Currie suggested that Republicans concede, even as another congressional seat flipped to Republican in New York City, and Tom Kean Jr. inches ever closer to victory in New Jersey. We can understand Chairman Currie’s fears. The prognosticator’s “blue wave” has turned into a trickle of piss running down their legs. They got it wrong. Don’t blame us.
Chairman Currie suggested that gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey – specifically Republicans – comment on the voting processes of other states and lobby for them to stop their vote counts as well. Of course, this would be highly inappropriate, not to mention, irrational.
Perhaps Chairman Currie should focus on something closer to home – like all those nursing home and veterans' home deaths his party wants to shove under the rug. Currie should be challenged to call for an investigation into how irresponsible COVID mandates by the Murphy administration led all those blessed souls to die.
In response to Chairman Currie’s rather silly request (and deflection from the real issue at hand – COVID deaths at nursing and veterans’ homes), GOP gubernatorial candidate Hirsh Singh stepped up and responded. Late yesterday afternoon, he wrote:
“I too have a message for John Currie: As part of the Democrat Party, you are part of a plantation that treats you like a slave. Joe Biden called you and all other black Americans as dirty and inarticulate when he claimed that Obama was the first clean and articulate black. Hillary Clinton claims that all black children are superpredators who need to be brought to heel. The Democrat Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan. Right now, look at how they are stealing the election from John James, a US Senate Candidate, in Michigan. I urge you to quit it and walk away from it. We will welcome you into the Republican Party as long as you leave your Democrat values behind and embrace American values.”
A few hours later, responding to Singh, Democrat Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter wrote:
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“To dare to spit hate venom and the use of the plantation terminology in reference to Chairman John Currie is offensive and beyond ignorant and disrespectful of the Black Slave injustice here in the US.”
Wow…
History must not be Shavonda Sumter’s strong point. To suggest that someone whose ancestry is rooted in the Indian subcontinent, the former “Jewel in the Crown” of the British Empire, whose sons and daughters were sent to the four corners of the globe to work on plantations, cannot use the term “plantation” because the use of it is exclusive to “Black Slave injustice here in the US” – well, that is just stupid. Plain stupid. There’s no other word for it.
Assemblywoman Sumter should try reading a book sometime. Take Trinidad, for example, where the British instituted a system of indentureship to provide plantation labor. These indentureships were so exploitative that historians (such as Hugh Tinker) called it “a new system of slavery”.
“Various nationalities were contracted under this system, including Indians, Chinese, and Portuguese. Of these, the East Indians were imported in the largest numbers, starting from 1 May 1845, when 225 Indians were brought in the first shipment to Trinidad on the Fatel Razack, a Muslim-owned vessel. Indentureship of the Indians lasted from 1845 to 1917, during which time more than 147,000 Indians came to Trinidad to work on sugarcane plantations.”
And this was in just one corner of Great Britain’s vast empire. Assemblywoman Sumter is aware, we hope, that there were vast plantations within the Indian subcontinent and Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka). In shear numbers of workers, these outstripped anything happening in the southern United States.
Then, of course, there is the larger issue of proscribing speech in the way that neo-Victorians like Assemblywoman Sumter do. We wonder what Sumter would make of these words by former New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winning author Chris Hedges, a leading thinker of the honest (aka non-corporate, non-political hack) Left. In his 2012 book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Hedges wrote about poverty and the Democrat machine:
"Poverty is a business. And those who profit most from Camden's poverty are the state's Democratic Party leaders, and New Jersey's most powerful political boss, George E. Norcross III, although he holds no elective office and does not live in Camden."
"Norcross runs Conner Strong & Buckelew, one of the country's largest insurance brokerages. He has collected tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in governmental work across the state for his insurance firms. His insurance division serves more than half the state's municipalities."
"Norcross, nicknamed 'King George,' lives in the upscale community of Cherry Hill. He is a college dropout. He decides, according to several Camden politicians, who runs for office and who does not, who gets contracts and what projects receive state funds. Norcross influences the language of every state budget and can block or pass legislation. Little is done in South Jersey without his approval. And when the money came to Camden, nearly all of it went to his pet construction projects."
Yes, poverty has been monetized by Democrat Party machines. It is a business not unlike slavery. It has been made so by economic elites like Governor Phil Murphy and machine politicians like George Norcross. This is why they play with titles like “Freeholder”, because that is all they dare to do about slavery. They look back instead of dealing with today. They are about fake issues and taking offence where there is none because it is easier to look into a mirror that way.
Do nothing hypocrites. Shills for the Establishment.
““Dead people vote more often when you make it easier for them to vote.”
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