“Donkey Wisdom”

[Rebbetzin]

Before there was a character called “Donkey” in the highly successful and popular animated series of Shrek there was another donkey in the very successful series written and in audio recordings of Paul White in his famous Jungle Doctor books for children.

Our children had a number of books and tape recordings of the Jungle Doctor’s Fables and they spent many hours listening to the unique wisdom of storytelling by the renowned Paul White.

In one of these stories the character Donkey wants to change his colour, so the monkey Toto leads him, accompanied by Boo-Hoo the hippo to a magic cave where he can go inside and make his request to the power under the mountain dwelling inside the cave. Donkey isn’t too smart, and Toto is well, somewhat smarter in certain areas of absolute mischief.

Young naive Donkey goes inside and makes his request that he would prefer to be white instead of black. Voila! Donkey becomes white. But his friends don’t particularly like him being white and so Donkey has second thoughts. So, he decides to return to the cave and ask to be black again. Voila! Donkey is black again. Of course, Toto being the mischievous monkey that he is tells Donkey in so many words that he would be better off being black again.

Long story short, poor misguided and confused Donkey returns once again to the cave to make his final request. While within the caves environs, he declares he wants to be white. Then he says, “No! Black!” “No! White!” No! Black!”

Well, you can guess what happens next. Donkey returns to his friends outside the cave and they begin to laugh hysterically. Donkey finally becomes what he wanted - well, sort of. He’s now black and white, like a zebra. There’s a lot of moral teaching in this story as there is in all of Dr. Paul White’s books.

I couldn’t help thinking about a certain VP who says she is of Indian heritage or of Southern Asian ancestry when interviewed and certainly when she is with others of Indian heritage. But, when she is with her black constituents, she suddenly becomes black, or of African heritage along with African American inflection in her speeches. Some have called her behaviour “flip-flopping”.

Unbeknownst to many, her father is Jamaican, as she has emphasized many times, but he is of Indian and Irish heritage. Not an African at all. The Jamaican reference is a deception for us all to think the VP is of black heritage. And his Irish ancestors kept slaves. Oops!

It’s always what they don’t say, remember, not necessarily what they do say. Although, there’s a lot being said by this particular VP that should make your hair stand on end, straight, curly, black, white or otherwise.

Does this VP want to be black or Indian? Like Donkey, she cannot seem to make up her mind and her chameleon behaviour is now on show for all to see.

Hee-haw!!

Avi Abelow says it like it is.

https://pulseofisrael.com/2024/08/04/kamala-harris-israel-freidman/

Love and Shalom,

Rebbetzin Glenys xo