Kansas City Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt’s wife, Tavia, and eldest daughter, Gracie, are talking publicly about Harrison Butker’s commencement speech at Benedictine College. Tavia has been married to Clark for more than three decades. She’s a homemaker. Both Tavia and Gracie has good things to say about Butker.
“I’ve always encouraged my daughters to be highly educated and chase their dreams,” she wrote on Instagram. “I want them to know that they can do whatever they want (that honors God). But I also want them to know that I believe finding a spouse who loves and honors you as or before himself and raising a family together is one of the greatest blessings this world has to offer.”
“Affirming motherhood and praising your wife, as well as highlighting the sacrifice and dedication it takes to be a mother, is not bigoted,” she continued. “It is empowering to acknowledge that a woman’s hard work in raising children is not in vain. Countless highly educated women devote their lives to nurturing and guiding their children. Someone disagreeing with you doesn’t make them hateful; it simply means they have a different opinion.”
She then encouraged people to “celebrate families, motherhood and fatherhood.” “Our society desperately needs dedicated men and women to raise up and train the next generation in the way they should go,” she wrote. “We need more dialogue (and VALUES, IMO) in this country and less hate.”
Her daughter Gracie shared her thoughts on Fox and Friends. “I’ve had the most incredible mom who had the ability to stay home and be with us as kids growing up.” She continued: “I understand that there are many women out there who can’t make that decision. But for me and my life, I know it was really formative and in shaping me and my siblings into who we are.”
Asked if she understood what Harrison was talking about in his speech (slightly condescending), Gracie responded, “For sure, and I really respect Harrison and his Christian faith and what he’s accomplished on and off the field.”
So Harrison Butker is probably not going to lose his gig—and not just because of his talent on the field. He reflects company values.
What we’re seeing in the progressive reaction to Butker’s speech is the same sentiment expressed by Hillary Clinton when she described Americans in the heartland as “a basket of deplorables.” Remember that? That was about two months out from getting beaten in the 2016 presidential election which was supposed to be her coronation.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters [tens of millions of Americans] into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.” She added, “Now, some of those folks—they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.”
Actually, Hillary, they are America.
The same sentiment was expressed just recently by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who called those who may see themselves as part of the populist movement just “poor souls who are looking for some answers.” “We’ve given answers to them, but they’re blocked by some of their views on guns.” Oh, so you given people the answers. Then she lifted a line from Obama: “They have the three Gs: guns, gays, God.”
Democrats are sailing towards disasters this November 5 and running down ordinary Americans is only hardening popular opinion against the party. The controversy over Butker’s speech is amplifying the elitist attitude widespread among Democrats. They can’t help themselves, though, even when it’s politically stupid to keep jerking knees.
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On May 19, Joe Biden gave the keynote address at the Morehouse College commencement, a historically-black all-male college in Atlanta. Biden vowed “to call out the poison of white supremacy,” and “to root out systemic racism.” That’s the bit that stood out to me. Biden elaborated: “You started college just as George Floyd was murdered and there was a reckoning on race. It’s natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street? What is democracy if a trail of broken promises still leave black—black communities behind? What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot? And most of all, what does it mean, as we’ve heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it doesn’t love him back in equal measure?” And Bukter’s speech was polarizing?
Here are these words again with annotations containing corrections and clarifications: “You started college just as [career criminal] George Floyd [overdosed] and there was a reckoning on race [arson, assault, intimidation, looting, murder]. It’s natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you [given that the Democratic Party represents the interests of corporate elite with open borders and all the rest of it]. What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street [by other black men in progressive-run cities]? What is democracy if a trail of broken promises [by Democrats] still leave black communities behind? What is democracy if you have to be ten times better than anyone else to get a fair shot [if we have to discriminate against whites and other races and ethnicities attempting parity]? And most of all, what does it mean, as we’ve heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it [the Democratic Party] doesn’t love him back in equal measure?”
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