Wrong, “Youngblood”

We’re not sure why people started calling S.C. Rep. Bakari Sellers “Youngblood.”

For the longest time, we got him confused with Barack Obama, but then Obama got elected President of the United States and that sort of cleared things up for us. People still call him “Barack,” though, which we guess is pretty cool if you’re a black Democrat.

Or maybe not. It might get annoying.

“Youngblood” is the nickname we like, though, because we actually heard a veteran of the Civil Rights movement refer to Sellers as such once.

And it fits, seeing as Bakari – at twenty-four years of age – is one of the youngest elected officials in America.

Anyway, all this is by way of saying that “Youngblood” wrote something in an oped in the Orangeburg Times & Democrat the other day that pissed us off … and that we believe warrants your attention.

Interestingly enough, it doesn’t bother us in the least that he thinks ad hominem attacks against libertarians are a persuasive defense of the failed status quo he’s apparently decided to shill for … because let’s face it, that’s par for the course in this state.

What isn’t par for the course?

This crap …

“… the voucher debate should be about what’s best for South Carolina’s children, but much of the voucher debate has left children as secondary concerns …”

Wait … what? Did he actually just say that?

Let’s get this straight – a parent fighting to give their child something more than a choice between two failing schools is somehow making that child a “secondary concern?”

Huh?

On what exactly does Sellers base that argument?

Seriously, can he see into people’s souls all of a sudden?

Of course not. What Sellers is saying is “code” language, i.e. white people don’t care about black kids – which is becoming an integral part of the defense of South Carolina’s worst-in-the-nation public school system.

Anything that proposes actually fixing the damn problem is a “scheme,” obviously, or a “distraction.”

Bakari Sellers is saying, albeit indirectly (and cowardly) that somebody with the wrong pigmentation and ideological affiliation cannot possibly care about black children trapped in failing schools.

Well, as we said recently to the National Association for the Abandonment of Colored People … eff you Bakari.

Seriously, you can argue the merits of South Carolina’s public education system all you want. In fact, good luck with all that.

You can even launch all the attacks your educrat ghost writers can crank out against the people fighting for kids you’re leaving behind. It’s not like you’re plowing any new ground there, anyway.

But don’t you dare – DARE – tell us you looked into our souls and discovered that we don’t care about the poor black children who are being left behind by the tens of thousands each year in South Carolina.

Or “left as secondary concerns” in your words.

Seriously, dude. You can kiss Sic Willie’s right cheek and make the left one jealous …

What’s actually “left children as secondary concerns” in this state is the failing public school system (a.k.a. “slave ship”) you’re currently poverty pimping for – and please, don’t ever forget that.

There are two sides to this debate, “Youngblood” – the side you’re on and the side you should be on.

Generations of black school children are waiting for you to stop being a sellout and actually start fighting for them, not the failed establishment that’s holding them back.

So are we.

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