One of the more annoying habits of foreigners who move here, particularly bumptious Third World foreigner with high esteem and little to contribute but cheap labor and more work for infectious disease specialists, is telling all us stupid whites what it means to be an American.

Thus isthis tweet from the New York Times really annoying:

Messages to 2017 graduates: Stand up. Fight back. Speak out. https://t.co/dW9kK75dI4 pic.twitter.com/m5NA5ccJtt — The New York Times (@nytimes) June 20, 2017

These are the words of someone called Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who, apparently, is something of a wunderkind of the Dark Continent. She received a MacArthur Genius prize a while back after attending some top-notch schools to perfect the craft of writing fiction that tells whitey how to behave and what’s wrong with whitey.

Here are some more:

This is not a perfect country. It is, in fact, not as hallowed as American nationalists like to think. But it was built on an idea that is humane, beautiful, and very much worth perfecting.

I am not familiar with the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie canon, but I have a feeling it doesn't much resemble Dante or Shakespeare, but instead surpasses the two dead white males in what has to say about the human condition.

Anyway, the Times included a few of her remarks in a compendium of thoughts that other geniuses offered in commencement speeches. I passed on reading the rest.

Madame Adichie's remarks remind me of the story Clyde Wilson tells about Confederate Gen. Richard Taylor after the South surrendered: