It’s a great week here in Virginia, having just elected a common-sense Governor, a former Marine and small business person as Lt. Governor and a tough-on-crime Attorney General — all of them Republicans. This also happens to include the first black female to hold-statewide office in Virginia and our state’s first Hispanic American Attorney General. Proving once again that merit and opportunity are the best route to true and sustainable diversity in a civil society. If only the book publishing business were as pro-diversity as Virginia voters. But more on that in a moment.
The Left is so desperate to find any explanation for their complete defeat this week — other than the obvious — that they have become a parody of themselves. The mainstream media has shamefully attacked Winsome Sears’ victory as a product of white supremacy- a ridiculous smear against this former Marine who has dedicated her life to serving her country, a true patriot who is also a wife and mother, a small business person, a volunteer in prison ministry and homeless shelters. Oh, yeah, she also happens to be black.
I love the fact that Winsome Sears served as Vice President of the Virginia State Board of Education, because as we know, the real issue driving Virginians this year was education. Parents of all generations were appalled at the progressive agenda that has infiltrated our public schools and they finally said “we’ve had enough.” All three Republican candidates spoke to Virginia voters as intelligent and compassionate adults, while McAullife and co. demonized “Trump voters” and figured that would be enough to distract Virginians from 8 years of loathsome policy in Richmond, not to mention literal attacks on school children during the Left’s relentless brainwashing of an entire generation of kids.
So, all citizens of Virginia should celebrate the outcome of this election. We can dare to hope that our schools will get back to teaching real skills and real history, and that parental involvement will be welcomed, rather than investigated as terrorism.
But… and I really am sorry to bring you down… but there is a giant mountain to climb when it comes to helping our children, including our young adult children, regain a sense of pride, understanding and support for the values that built this country. The legacy media is working overtime to erase all evidence of courage, sacrifice, compassion, and integrity from the story of western civilization. White kids are told – explicitly – that they are bad, their parents are worse, and they must prove how sorry they are by attacking the very foundations of liberty. And if you’re a white boy, you might as well just lock yourself in the basement now. Or consider “transitioning” to become a woman.
I’m not talking about CRT and other nonsense being taught in classrooms across the country. I’m talking about books.
Publishers Weekly announced their Top 10 books of the year last week, and I noticed something: Not one single book among the 10 had a white male protagonist. Most of the main characters seem to be female, including “a young black woman;” “the fiercely intelligent story of a woman named M;” ” a white married woman;” “the author’s great-great-aunt;” “an enslaved woman and her 9-year-old daughter.” One book is apparently about a teen-aged boy, which sounded promising until I learned he is having to deal with “his toxic biological father;” while another book traces the lead character’s “years she spent growing up while her father was serving a 24-year prison sentence for rape.”
The list is rounded out by a survey of “black artists and their influence on American culture” and “Dirty Work” — which was really my only hope for finding some positive message about white men in America… until I read PW’s commentary on the “military drones operators, slaughterhouse laborers, prison guards, oil rig workers… [the author] finds that such ‘dirty work’ falls disproportionately to the poor and people of color.” In case I didn’t get the message, the last line of the description tells me: “This probing study lays bare the machinery of exploitation.”
So, there you have it. The 10 Best Books, as picked by the editors of Publishers Weekly, paint a picture of America where white men do not exist. Unless they are in prison for rape, exploiting the poor, or toxic.
There may well be some fine books on this list. I might enjoy reading about the woman who was “a leader of the largest underground resistance group in Berlin” during WWII.
But it seems painfully obvious to me that this list is part of a larger agenda. Books that promote, or even simply present, a traditional American family unit or, God forbid, a heroic white male, are not tolerated. They are pilloried or they are buried. I can tell you that there is almost never a story in the book trade magazines or sites that covers conservatives in a positive light. And I only say “almost never” in case there’s one I have forgotten – because I honestly cannot think of a single instance. Instead, their coverage of conservative book news is laced with adjectives like “debunked,” “unfounded,” “conspiracist,” all intended to undermine and discredit.
Our children hear what we say, watch what we do, notice what we read. If there are no books that portray people like their parents as heroes, and then they are told in school that their parents are villains, it’s hard to blame them for being depressed and confused.
Parents in Virginia finally pushed back against the propaganda foisted on our kids in public schools. As we investigate what those schools are teaching, it’s time to question which books are being touted as “best of the year” as well. Better yet, make your own list – and share that with your kids instead.