Kathy Hochul: The Breaker of Chains

Oh, to have a governor who doesn’t embarrass the crap out of you…

Governor Kathy Hochul, the domineering mother of us all, seems to believe that young black kids in the Bronx have never heard of computers.

While speaking at the Milken Institute, brave Kathy — the Breaker of Chains and the Mother of Us All — said this:

Right now, we have young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word “computer” is.

Yeah, really.

Now, I don’t live in the Bronx. However, I do live in a Central New York urban area not far from an elementary school, and I can say with absolute certainty that young black kids around here know exactly what computers are. Most of them carry one with them in the form of a smartphone.

Does Kathy think she’s a seventeenth-century missionary bringing the Gospel According to Microsoft to the natives of Peru?

How could the governor of New York State be so bloody clueless?

Mhysa Hochul’s condescension went over about as well as one would expect.

The pushback over her comment was so intense that Kathy quickly released a statement apologizing:

Earlier today, while discussing my commitment to expanding economic opportunity for communities of color, I misspoke and I regret it. Of course Black children in the Bronx know what computers are—the problem is that they too often lack access to the technology needed to get on track to high-paying jobs in emerging industries like AI.

Sure, whatever you say.

Kathy’s use of “Of course?” reminds me of an episode of “Doc Martin.” The school governors, including Dr. Ellingham, are interviewing candidates to be the new head teacher, and one of them starts a sentence with “It goes without saying,” and Doc Martin says, “If it goes without saying, why are you saying it?”

If Kathy thinks it so obvious that black children know about computers, then why in Lucifer’s reach did she say the opposite?

What a dozy cow.

Say, remember when Joe Biden said poor kids were just as smart and talented as white kids? I don’t know why I thought of that.

Okay, that’s a lie.

Any road.

As insulting and presumptuous as that remark is, it will be forgotten within a day or two because Mhysa Hochul has a (D) after her name. And that (D) is a political shield so powerful, she could walk into a fire and not get burned.