Racist, sexist president-elect filling out all-male, white supremacist cabinet

Things are going to be awfully uncomfortable at the cabinet meetings from the looks of things. When the KKK flag is brought in and everyone puts on the white sheets and hoods, how will they explain the black HUD Secretary, the Sikh female UN ambassador and the female Secretary of Education? Donald Trump is shaping up to be the worst racist since Abe Lincoln. Here's your race-obsessed New York Times:

President-elect Donald J. Trump moved swiftly on Wednesday to diversify his cabinet and try to heal lingering rifts in the Republican Party, reaching out to Gov. Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina and Betsy DeVos, a prominent Republican fund-raiser, both of whom opposed him during the campaign, as well as Ben Carson, who challenged Mr. Trump for the Republican nomination. Ms. Haley, who was named ambassador to the United Nations, and Ms. DeVos, who was named education secretary, would be the first women in Mr. Trump’s cabinet. Mr. Carson, whose selection as secretary of housing and urban development is expected to be announced on Friday, would be the first African-American. But none of these choices suggest a president-elect who is reaching beyond reliably conservative precincts to fill his administration.

Of course, the Times assumes that when Trump names a woman or a black man or a Sikh, that "diversity" is the point of the appointments, rather than Trump simply believing that these are the best people for the jobs. That's because the Times and other liberals project. When they hire minorities for jobs, they do it for the sake of hiring minorities. So they figure it's inconceivable that anyone ever hires a minority because they really believe the minority is the best available person.

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When we get to the point where a minority gets a job and no one even thinks about ethnicity, gender or religion, that will be when we've made real racial progress. Of course, liberals like the New York Times are obsessed with race and will never let that happen, so I guess we will never make that progress. Or more to the point, they will never make it. Some of us moved on from it years ago, Including, it would appear, Donald Trump. Also note the Times's objection that Trump is not "reaching beyond reliably conservative precincts" in filling his cabinet. Um, right. Because Trump is a Republican and he is going to fill his cabinet with people who share his philosophy. That's what happens when you win. That's what Obama did. It's what every president does. Trump's cabinet will apparently have plenty of racial, religious and gender diversity because those things don't matter to Trump. What matters is merit, and a willingness to support the mission of the new administration. If you don't support that mission, no problem. You don't have to be in the administration. You can go write for the editorial page of the New York Times. But it seems to me that a president who chooses people on the basis of merit alone is exactly what we need, and exactly what the mainstream media tried desperately - and falsely - to tell us Donald Trump would not be.