Red, White, And Blue Privilege

General Milley made an ass of himself in a congressional hearing when he went all SJW about understanding White Rage. To educate him, a reader sent him his family history, which I posted. More such stories have followed. They are filled with poverty, perseverance, sacrifice, and hope. I have shared some of their tales, and will share more to make my point about privilege.

One reader wrote, "Your latest column on white rage prompted me to want to add my dad's story to the rest of your reader's stories. My grandparents on my dad's side immigrated from Croatia. Back then I think it was part of Hungary and Austria,  but they were Croatian. Grandpa was 20, grandma was 18, her mom packed her a lunch for the trip.

"They arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs. Grandma supported herself by sewing and making doilies and such. Grandpa worked his way across the country and settled in Roslyn, Washington, a small coal mining company town with a Croatian community. Together they had 15 kids. Grandpa worked in the mines for 20 years. Grandma and grandpa sent seven of their kids to fight WWII and three to Korea.

"My dad worked in the mines as a teenager and never graduated from high school. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor he had been 17 for about a week. He joined the Navy that week and was assigned to the USS Chandler DD-206/ DMS-9 in the Pacific. He worked in the engine room as a Boiler Technician/Fireman BTFN.  He said if they were ever sunk he would never have gotten out. I can't imagine what it would be like to be 17 and out in the middle of the Pacific in a war. 

"Dad stayed in the Navy for 10 years through the Korean War.

"After his time in the Navy he worked as a construction laborer. One day in Seattle he was digging a ditch and a guy that worked for the phone company asked him if he wanted a better job. He climbed out of the ditch and went to work for the phone company which I think was AT&T before it was broke up into the baby Bells. He was a lineman and then an underground cable locator for 27 years. He and mom raised 5 kids in Seattle. He passed away four years ago at the age of 92. He was buried with military honors in Roslyn.

"I didn't have to serve as the Vietnam war ended a year before I graduated from high school. I like to think I served in a different way.  I graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and worked for Boeing on the B2, F-22 and KC-46A Tanker programs.

"I doubt that clown Milley has any clue regarding the life stories of the people he insults with his racist comments. People that fought for and built this country and didn't have a privileged or easy life and are now told they had a privileged or easy life simply because they are white is enough to piss anybody off."

That is a beautiful story.

And it is one repeated a million times over.

A shorter one came from a man whose father arrived at Omaha Beach 17 days after D-Day. The fighting was still intense as Germans realized to their horror that they were in a two-front war.

The reader said, "My father enjoyed a year-long walking tour of France and Germany. Since he deployed D-17, his unit gets no publicity or remembrance. The battalion had three oversized companies of 315 men (to start with) and was ruled over by a Tennessee colonel and two Kentucky lieutenant colonels. My father hated and despised all colonels for the rest of his life.

"The three companies were each given different assignments. Alpha Company guarded the colonels. Bravo was strategic reserve for combat. Charlie was the front line. With a name like Weissing, the colonels thought my father was a Jew and sent him right to the front. Our name is actually German, but that would have sent him straight to Charlie as well. Charlie started with 315. By Christmas 1944 it was at 150. On New Year’s Eve it was down to 15. New Year’s Day saw it folded up with 8 survivors. That is what the Battle of the Bulge was. And just think, those 8 were on the winning side.

"I asked my father if he resented his assignment — after all, it was consciously bigoted. He was proud to live in and belong to the greatest and freest nation in the world. But he did hate colonels."

Milley's racist vignette was part of a sinister scheme. Reading Marx and Mao may not make you a Marxist, but he is a Marxist who wants to destroy America. This whole CRT and white rage nonsense is about diminishing the middle class. The American dream of something better for your children now is openly mocked.

They always have hated the middle class, because we are industrious and self-reliant. I remember the song "Little Boxes," which mocked suburbia. I bought into that when I was 10. I grew up. Socialists don't.

There is no white privilege. There is only Red, White, And Blue Privilege.

Poverty has been the default human condition for most people since civilization began. America created a system that allows people to escape poverty. Call it systemic opportunity. Christianity was a key. Marxists want to destroy that because they want to take over the country. 

The stories I have run about families who struggled and later fought for this country were white. That tells only one side. Black people served in both world wars. Indians served in both wars as code talkers in their native languages. Hispanics served as well. There is only one color in the army. Green.

In sharing his family's story, a reader touched on perhaps the most American of all Americans in World War II, the Nissei, which was the name for second-generation immigrants from Japan.

He wrote, "My granddad came over from  Poland/Lithuania/Austro-Hungarian Empire circa 1912. Grandma came over a few years later. I never knew my G-Pop; he died long before I popped in ‘55.  But they produced 4 kids.  The 2 boys served in WW2.  This Loyalty Pledge hung in her house.

"Can you even imagine something like this, today?

"This is the White Rage that stirs me. Two of their boys (my uncles; first generation Americans) went to fight for their country. Yes, they were filled with rage, and they were white. Perhaps Gen. Milley might want to consider those who went before. Perhaps consider the U.S. Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which consisted mainly of Nissei U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. Yes, after NOT being allowed to enlist in the regular Army, they petitioned long enough to be allowed entry, & distinguished themselves as THE Most Decorated Unit in the U.S. Army. But theirs was Yellow Rage, I guess, so I guess it doesn't matter."

Ah, the 442nd.

While their families were in internment camps, they were in Italy fighting for the Red, White, and Blue because even at her worst, America was better than any place on Earth. One of those boys was Dan Inouye. He literally gave his right arm for this country. 4 years after Hawaii became a state, it sent Inouye to the Senate.

He and his buddies had faith in America. They were rewarded.

What makes America great is some nobody from Croatia can work a coal mine, and his son can dig ditches, so that his grandson can become an electrical engineer. The only privilege is the opportunity. And that is the best privilege of all.

Dr. Ben Carson said it better than me: "I Already Won The Lottery, I Was Born In America And Know The Lord."

He ain't just blowing smoke like my old Rustang did. 

A reader wrote, "When I was a baby, my father ran away and my mom, not having any money, gave me up to an adoption agency. I then was adopted by an American family and now I am on track to live the American Dream. By the Left's account, I'm just another oppressed victim because I am part of the non-white population, but I was able to break out of their plantation and make something of my life through work ethic and the mindset that there is no one to blame but myself when I fail. This is why today, I identify as a staunch America First Conservative. "

The Lord is important. It is why one set of my ancestry set out from England in 1620 in a little wooden cargo boat that leaked. We know it as the Mayflower. 66 days later, they landed in Massachusetts. They thanked the Lord. 

Half the settlers died that first winter.

In spring, they planted crops with the help of Indians. The Lord blessed them with a bountiful harvest. In October, they thanked the Lord. The 53 Pilgrims invited 90 Wampanoag Indians to a great three-day feast.

But enough about me and some of my ancestors.

Dr. Carson's father served in World War II. He got a job building Cadillacs after the war. His parents later divorced and separated. Mom took the kids, and suffered depression. Dr. Carson, though, persevered. He worked hard and became not only a brain surgeon, but one of the best in the world. He might have become president if Donald John Trump had not descended that golden elevator to enter the presidential race.

Oh yes, Donald Trump. How could I forget him?

He was the son of a wealthy businessman who became even wealthier. The Donald never tried to be one of us. But he championed us. Decades before either man was president, Obama wrote that socialism will never take hold in America because everyone wants to be Donald Trump, or at least have their kids and grandkids have that chance.

And why not? What is wrong with living in a three-story penthouse in Manhattan while wintering at Mar-A-Lago?

I noticed Obama has a mansion in Kalorama, D.C., and a beachfront summer home on Martha's Vineyard, and a nine-figure bank balance. He wanted to be Donald Trump. He did it by playing the skin game, becoming president, and cutting deals. The only difference between the two is Obama does not want anyone else to be Donald Trump.

Obama and Milley seek to divide Americans by race and conquer the nation.

The way to stop them is to not get angry or even upset. Look at them as who they are: desperate men who realize America Will Be Great Again, and there is nothing these enemies from within can do to stop us.

Happy Birthday, America, the greatest land of all. Tomorrow is the Fourth of July -- Independence Day -- and I do not post on Sunday.

But I leave readers with this request. Thank the Lord for your Red, White, And Blue Privilege.