BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY DEC. 23, 2020) — Question of the Day: “Why does the local chapter of the NAACP have a place on the search committee charged with finding the new person to head the Pittsfield Public School System?”

THE PLANET wishes it could provide a believable answer to Mr. Sardonicus, a public unofficial who submitted the query to this address. Mr. S says he doesn’t dare ask this question publicly, because you know what will come next — charges that he sang “Mammy” in blackface from the Colonial Theater stage. We live in a time where racism is alive and well, only it’s not just your grandfather’s form.

Today’s “woke” racist loves everything that is against so-called “white privilege.” That means if you’re white, male, and more than 30, you’re an oppressor. You’ve had it all handed to you.

Why do you think white males have disappeared from TV commercials? We’re all monsters.

America’s schools and universities have taken it upon themselves to address America’s racist and sexist past by installing a racist sexist present based on an assumption of moral and existential superiority with respect to blacks, people of color, females, and anyone who belongs to a category in the alphabet soup of LBGTQA etcetera, etcetera. No academic department, no subject matter has been spared from the assault on common sense. In English classes, personal pronouns are sexist; language must be scrubbed clean of its male favoritism. History must be rewritten to the point where America’s past might just as soon be the latest installment in the Harry Potter series. Even 2+2 is on doubt.

THE PLANET‘s point is that our institutions cannot address the wrongs of the past by perpetuating them in the present through the creating new “victims” and “oppressors.” The NAACP, however noble in its intentions, sits on the superintendent finding committee solely because of skin color. This guarantees a distorted search process before the real work begins.

Reverse racism is a form of social engineering that ironically ends up hurting blacks more than any other group. Intelligent people realize the insult involved in being given the inside track. Affirmative action, for example, discriminates on the basis of skin color. It tells qualified blacks that they don’t have the “necessities” — an Al Campanis word — to compete fairly for positions, advancements, admissions, and honors. It plops them in the “booster seat” so they can sit at the adult table.

Issuing a priori reward on the basis of skin color or gender, precisely the social sin committed for too long in America to repress blacks and women, assures a greater preponderance of the unqualified. Who does that help? It also tends to attract the very individuals one would not want in positions of power and influence, much the same way that politics repels those you would want in public office and lures people with serious character flaws trying to ameliorate inner insecurities through power and public dollars.

To make race a factor of qualification draws the Gimme Groups, who play the race and victim cards and believe society owes them a living. Clever people will know how to leverage such a system into public dollars. For example, how else to explain the PPS position of “cultural proficiency coach,” with hefty salary and big bennies.

Can we get real for a moment? Can we talk honestly, like adults?

MOVIN’ WIT DA GROOVIN’ –Community “professionals” celebrate Joe Biden’s win led by Shirley Edgerton, left, and Andrea Harrington, right. Also left. (Photo by iBerkshires)

You know, Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski know, THE PLANET knows, Judge Crater knows, and the Nicolas Brothers know that “cultural proficiency coach” is a fake position created by city officials as window dressing, a form of tokenism to make it look like they are serious about social and racial inequity.

We all also know that this is a political position meant to enforce a correct attitude — thought control — concerning anything to do with the schools.

These are the same schools whose quality of graduates has plummeted, the same schools that think self-esteem and sex ed are a more important academic skill than reading, writing, and math.

This being Pittsfield, of course, the Pittsfield School Committee doesn’t trust itself to find the new Supt. Bobo. It has hired a consultant to oversee the process.

Hail the consultants!

The committee meets next month, gathers applicants in February, and wants Supt. Bobo on the job in July 1. Lame-duck super Jake “JIV” McCandless, who just gave away 5,000 computer notebooks paid for the by the Kapanskis, was hired by the Mt. Greylock system.

Good riddance.

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“Progress would be wonderful if only it would stop” — Writer Robert Musil.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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