Nope, you’re wrong Melissa

About a week ago Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane University professor and  MSNBC host, appeared in a promotional commercial for the cable network.  Which, for MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry appearing in a promotional commercial was not unusual because the cable network regularly uses hosts in its ads.  What was unusual and frightening was what Melissa said in the commercial. See below:

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had a private notion of children, your kid is yours and totally your responsibility.  We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children.  So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.  Once it’s everybody’s responsibility and not just the household’s we start making better investments.”

In one fell swoop, Melissa managed to smack down individual freedom while at the same time devalue the critical role of parents in their children’s lives.  As well, any time a human being is referred as community property or an investment is tantamount to blatant Marxism – plain and simple.  Furthermore, and beyond Marxism, it is these types of considerations that have eventually lead to horrific human enslavement and genocide throughout the ages and world wide.  Although Melissa has received considerable backlash (and rightfully so) about her statements – she is not backing down from them.  She is, however, pretty much calling her critics dumb because they don’t understand the true nature of her statements.  And due to all the vitriol against her – Melissa has taken the on victim tone by invoking a Bible verse (Matthew 5:44) in a recent Tweet to her critics.

The only problem with this is that Melissa is not the victim – and her invoking scripture about her being such is offensive.  It is also problematic that Melissa considers her critics to be dumb – because we do understand what you meant – and again it is wrong.  Finally, Melissa Harris-Perry needs to check the name of the country that she lives in.  Cause the last time I checked – it was America – not Amerika.

News source/photo source: MSNBC.