OPINION:
Former “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennie Nguyen needed to hurt a lot of people. The people she hurt want to eradicate ageless expressions of moral authority binding families together and substitute peculiar symbols for racism, which grant them immediate popularity. The adulthood and dignity found as individuals has been traded away for a prestige lacking dreams to pursue and accomplishments to celebrate. Their frivolous, brittle, impoverished character then achieves self-actualization through moral exhibitionism and militant self-absorption.
The country does not suffer a burden of social injustice, but instead malingers under the burden of virulent mythologies, which Nguyen’s social media posts exposed. These mythologies produce within some urban Black cultures a pestilence of moral distress highlighted by shattered families, indiscriminate abortion and rampant criminality. Within these cultures Black communities resegregate themselves, embrace a bondage of dependency and reject Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a symphony of brotherhood.
The outcome for Black communities is truly tragic.
NOLAN NELSON
Redmond, Ore.
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