Black Lives matter but only till November elections ? This is “racism masquerading as antiracism”; and we need to understand that consequences of the teaching of “toxic principles of
critical race theory, race essentialism, and neo-segregationism.” By the logic of these anti-racist “educators,” when the Rev.
Martin Luther King Junior dreamed a dream in 1963 that his children “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the
content of their character,” he was in fact racist.
Are they used as pawns in yet another attempt of the deep state to topple Trump using police violence as the pretext
The essence of Black Lives Matter ideology can be called "Black Bolshevism" -- like Bolsheviks consider proletariat to be an
oppressed class which deserves better fate and which eventually should come to power. BLM activists on much lower intellectual level
now claim the same, adding the issue of reparations for former injustices to the mix. This, politically suicidal move, which instantly
antagonize all "non-black" ethnic groups and actually is a dream slogan for promoting "white supremacy" ideology in the USA among white population.
To the extent that BLM is controlled by some donors connected to Democratic Party they matter only till November elections. In
other words they are as disposable as Ukrainian Maidan supporters in EuroMaydan color revolution in Ukraine.
BLM movement has a very suspicious origin. Three NGO functionaries Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
(who are essentially bought and paid stooges of oligarchy; in no way they are revolutionaries; such people are usually more
connected with intelligence agencies (Soros and color revolutions) than with radical revolutionary organizations) created it it
in 2013 as a hashtag.
None of them has any history of political activity and never was elected to any position of public
trust. They were regular NGO parasites, so to speak. BLM leadership is subservant to numerous corporate donors, and has looked
decidedly not revolutionary to keen critics such as social commentator Paul
Street.)
Black Lives Matter began in 2013 with a Twitter hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after neighborhood watchman George
Zimmerman, called a “white Hispanic” in the press, was acquitted in the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin
Suddenly in 2020 it became fashionable and got traction as a new political movement. Headcounters inform us that 15 to 25
million people have turned up in the past six weeks for demonstrations related to Black Lives Matter (BLM), making this one of the
biggest waves of civic engagement in American history. Even is we downsize this estimate 10 times is is still over one million
people.
The BLM movement changing the political landscape in two ways. First many BLM-supporting academics are promoting an
unabashedly narrow understanding of the driving forces of American history and power structures, centered on racial
oppression. Which is completely ahistorical.
On the ground, meanwhile, BRM is mixing with left radicals, when a minority of agitated activists are imposing their orthodoxy in
race-related matters with a fervor approaching Red Scare McCarthyism or Mao Red Guards. As
Andrew Sullivan wrote they try to swipe under the carpet a neoliberal finance system that fuels corruption and capital flight
from all over the world to “offshore” banking havens
thereby hollowing out tax bases of the countries. The amounts are staggering, in the tens of trillions of dollars. :
“It sees America as in its essence not about freedom but oppression. It argues, in fact, that
all the ideals about individual liberty, religious freedom, limited government, and the equality of all human beings were always a
falsehood to cover for and justify and entrench the enslavement of human beings under the fiction of race.
It wasn’t that these
values competed with the poison of slavery, and eventually overcame it…. It’s that the liberal system is itself a form of white
supremacy…
“This view of the world certainly has “moral clarity.” What it lacks is moral complexity. No
country can be so reduced to one single prism and damned because of it. American society has far more complexity and history has far
more contingency than can be jammed into this rubric.”
As David Kerans wrote in his brilliant Op-ed BLM concentrates on "blackness" ignoring runaway wealth inequality, which correlates persuasively to
every measurable human pathology, across every geography, across all wealth groups. The biological consequences of the stresses
accompanying high level of inequality are heavy, and even punish the
rich, as Richard G
Wilkinson and Kate Pickett elaborate throughout their book The Spirit Level.
The thoughts below are adapted from David Kerans article:
Not just blacks are oppressed in the USA. They constitute just a fraction of this social strata and in many way they are better
off than similar social groups. For example, over a hundred million
Americans live
with serious chronic diseases, attributable partly to pollution from pesticides, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc, and, likely also to
the stress effects of wealth inequality, while Pentagon is sucking out ever increasing resources, and pushing the US to stoke
international tensions to justify this avalanche of money (around one trillion a year)
Neoliberalism also destroyed a higher-education by steered it to producing profit for the top universities brass instead of
educated citizens, with the resulting erosion of America’s competitiveness.
A neoliberal democracy (democracy for oligarchs) allows big-money donors and corporations to influence
politicians. Senator Dick
Durbin (D-Illinois) expressed his despair about crafting meaningful banking regulations back in 2009: “…the banks …frankly
own the place.” And so the stimulus package gives hundreds of billions to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin with virtually no controls and
with corrupt outcomes,
but without public uproar.
An oligarchic mass media that erects a “wall of propaganda” (political commentator Cenk Uygur’s
phrasing) against anything smelling like social democracy – and, I would add, any gesture of rapprochement with Russia, among
other taboo subjects, including climate change, and military intervention.
Are any of these issues dependent on the legacy of American slavery? America has myriad challenges to face, the vestiges of
slavery and racism among them, not above them.
Contorting analytical approaches to prioritize the perspective of racial oppression obscures more than it illuminates. America
needs citizens better informed on all of the crises listed above.
The trajectory of the George Floyd demonstrations seems to illustrate the risk of BLM becoming myopic.
BLM architects
in the academy insist that the goal is to end “racial capitalism” via a color-conscious version of
social democracy, but the race-grievance dimension drowns out all other messages. And so the mass media has easily channeled the
demonstrations into very narrow terrain: demands to reduce police budgets and ensure accountability for rogue cops. (Not so long
ago, be it noted,
Meanwhile, BLM’s self-righteous repudiation of America has found potent application in its culture wars. An armada of aggressive
online social-justice warriors has honed a seemingly unbridled “cancel culture” – including iconoclasm (toppling statues, for
example), conformity control (condemning the phrase “all lives matter”, or anything else that
might somehow dilute anti-racist
messaging), demanding participatory anti-racism on their terms (“silence is violence”, for
instance), denunciations (branding any level of skepticism racist, and often insisting that beliefs straying from their line
threaten the physical safety of black people),
and punishment. Plenty of people accused of racism – or simply racial insensitivity, or less –
have been fired, some even after making self-abasing confessions to their perceived sins, because their employer fears the wrath of
the woke mob.
BLM did not invent any dimension of cancel culture (or as it also called "deplatforming"), i.e., the exclusion of tainted persons, groups or institutions from
communication venues or respectful attention. Much like during McCarthyist witch hunts, or the
the Russiagate hysteria with branding anybody who disagree with it a “Putin apologist.” But BLM’s stridency and moral certitude
has fomented cancel culture.
Cancel culture is not risk-free to progressive causes. In 2017, its #metoo ended the political career of Senator
Al Franken, one of the most progressive senators – an outcome many of his colleagues
regret.
On July 7, Harper’s Magazine published an open
letter from more than 150 cultural luminaries, including left-wing icons Noam Chomsky and Gloria Steinem, expressing grave alarm
over “… a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate… in favor of ideological
conformity”, “a vogue for public shaming and ostracism”, a “tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral
certainty”, and “calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.”
They warn that “resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion,” and lament the
cowardly obedience of corporate and university leaders in bowing to digital woke-mob demands. “We are already paying the price in
greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists, who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus or
even lack sufficient zeal in agreement. This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time.”
The problem is that atmosphere changed in such a way that several signers feel enough social pressure to withdraw their
signatures from the document.
At the time of this writing, prosecutors had just dropped charges against the last three of six police officers
accused in the death of Baltimore drug dealer Freddie Gray. The decision closes an ugly chapter in that sad story, in
which the highly politicized Baltimore City state’s attorney, Marilyn Mosby, accused them of murder. The city descended
into days of violence and destruction after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake infamously gave space to rioters “who wished
to destroy.” But that riot was only one chapter in a still-evolving story of death and destruction provoked by a false
narrative of oppression and police brutality.
The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) casts itself as a spontaneous uprising born of inner-city frustration, but it
is in fact the latest and most dangerous face of a web of well-funded socialist/communist organizations that have been
agitating against America for decades.
BLM claims to be non-violent. According to its website (BlackLivesMatter.com),
“The Black Lives Matter Network advocates for dignity, justice, and respect. … Black activists have raised the call for
an end to violence, not an escalation of it.”
Yet BLM activists are routinely observed screaming violent obscenities and attacking police. For example, this past
July, 21 police were injured by rocks, steel pipes, and fireworks during a demonstration in St. Paul, Minnesota, where
protesters shut down the interstate for five hours. One officer suffered a spinal fracture after a concrete block was
dropped on his head.
At a Minneapolis fair protest last summer, BLM activists shouted, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like
bacon!”
In her recent book The War on Cops, Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donaldargues
that the BLM movement and the fallout from it have made the inner city much more dangerous, as police forces adopt
hands-off policies in response to growing hostility. Some call it the “Ferguson effect,” named after the Missouri town
where a young black man, Michael Brown, was killed when he tried to kill a white police officer.
Cops across the nation
are afraid to patrol black neighborhoods and are overly cautious when dealing with black suspects. Despite their
diminished forcefulness in high-crime neighborhoods, police are still being assaulted and killed.
Crime had been trending down for decades, but in 2015 homicide rates increased dramatically over 2014. In Houston,
homicides were up 25.2 percent; in Washington, D.C., 54 percent; Baltimore, 58.5 percent; Milwaukee, 72.6 percent; and
in Cleveland, a whopping 90 percent. Overall, homicides increased 17 percent in the 50 largest cities—the greatest
increase in 25 years.
Capitalizing on inaccurate and sometimes outright deceptive media reporting on police-involved shootings, BLM
agitation has provoked numerous police killings, violence, lawlessness, and unrest in minority communities throughout
the U.S., culminating most recently with the horrific ambush-murders of five policemen in Dallas and three in Baton
Rouge, with many more wounded. If allowed to continue, BLM agitation could lead to greater civil unrest, anarchy, civil
war. With the support and sympathy of President Obama, the Black Lives Matter crowd appears to be spoiling for just such
an outcome.
Radical Roots
Black Lives Matter began in 2013 with a Twitter hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after neighborhood watchman George
Zimmerman, called a “white Hispanic” in the press, was acquitted in the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Radical-left activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi claim credit for the slogan and hashtag.
Following the Michael Brown shooting in August 2014, Dream Defenders, an organization co-founded by
(the ACORN-affiliated) Working Families Party activist and Occupy Wall Street
organizer Nelini Stamp, popularized the phrase “Hands Up – Don’t Shoot!” which has since become BLM’s widely recognized
slogan. Not surprisingly, former Communist Party USA vice presidential candidate Angela Davis sits on
the Dream Defenders advisory board.
Garza, Cullors, and Tometi all work for front groups of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, one
of the four largest radical Left organizations in the country. The others are the Communist Party USA,
Democratic Socialists of America, and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
Stamp’s ACORN—now rebranded under a variety of different names after its official 2010 bankruptcy—works with all four
organizations, and Dream Defenders is backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU),
ACLU, and Southern Poverty Law Center, among others.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization is a hereditary descendant of the New Communist Movement inspired by Chinese
dictator Mao Zedong and the many communist revolutions occurring throughout the world in the 1960s and ’70s. Freedom
Road split into two separate groups in 1999, FRSO/Fight Back and FRSO/OSCL (Freedom
Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino Para la Libertad). Black Lives Matter and its
founders are allied with the latter. (Future references to “Freedom Road” in this article refer to FRSO/OSCL.)
And lest anyone think the terms used to describe Freedom Road are too extreme, here’s an excerpt from an April 21,
2016 blog post on its website, mourning the death of “our comrade,” Tim Thomas, at 71:
Tim was a revolutionary organizer, writer and educator. … At George Washington University, Tim became active in
the Black Liberation and Marxist movement that remained his lifelong passion. … Tim was a leader of SOBU (Student
Organization for Black Unity) and later YOBU (Youth Organization for Black Unity). He was also very active in the
African Liberation Support Committee.
Tim joined the Revolutionary Workers League in 1972 and later the League of Revolutionary Struggle (LRS), a New
Communist Movement group that brought together in one organization Asian-American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, African
American, and white communists who shared a vision of national liberation as a critical element of communist
revolution. After that group dissolved in 1990, Tim and a number of former LRS comrades came into the Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, where they continue to advance the theory and practice of self-determination socialism.
As Co-Chair of FRSO’s Oppressed Nationality Commission, Tim helped us live up to our commitment to building the
Black Liberation Movement through its downturns and upsurges. He wrote extensively about Bay area peoples’ movements,
organizing methodology, and developments in the Black Liberation Movement. Tim saw to completion an extensive update
of our Oppressed Nationality Unity Document, which was passed just last month at FRSO’s 2016 Congress. Tim also
chaired a FRSO working group on immigrant rights. At the time of his death, he was collaborating with comrades on a
comprehensive paper about the Black Liberation Movement.
Freedom Road is comprised of dozens of groups. The radical-left model is based on building alliances of many
organizations, small and large, working separate issues but dedicated ultimately to the same thing: overthrowing our
society to replace it with a hardcore socialist (or communist) one.
BLM is one of many projects undertaken by Freedom Road. Except for the website, BlackLivesMatter.com, there is no
actual organization. The website implicitly acknowledges this, describing #BlackLivesMatter as, “an online forum
intended to build connections between Black people and our allies to fight anti-Black racism, to spark dialogue among
Black people, and to facilitate the types of connections necessary to encourage social action and engagement.”
But today the movement has become so widely recognized that it may receive funding from the Left’s granddaddy funder,
the radical billionaires’ donor consortium known as the Democracy Alliance.
Blacks, gays, and women are disproportionately represented among the membership of Freedom Road, which
self-consciously emphasizes issues related to those groups. Alicia Garza penned a “Herstory” of BLM and is a “queer,”
black veteran activist of numerous Freedom Road organizations. Her résumé includes
Special projects director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Executive director, People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
Board member, School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL)
2011 Board chair, Right to the City Alliance
Board member, Forward Together
Patrisse Cullors describes herself as a “working class, queer, black woman.” She claims the country killed her
father, a drug addict. At a 2015 Netroots Nation conference, Cullors led chants shouting, “If I die in
police custody, burn everything down … rise the f–k up! That is the only way motherf–kers like you will listen!” Cullors
founded and directs Dignity and Power Now, which claims to seek “dignity and power of incarcerated
people, their families, and communities.”
Cullors was trained by Eric Mann, a former Weather Underground leader who exhorts followers to become “anti-racist,
anti-imperialist” activists. Mann runs another Freedom Road front, the Labor/Community Strategy Center.
Like many professional leftists, he makes good money—over $225,000—living in “the system” he advocates destroying.
Opal Tometi is the daughter of illegal aliens from Nigeria. While in college, she worked for the ACLU
defending illegal aliens against “vigilantes” opposed to illegal immigration. She is currently executive director of
Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
Freedom Road/BLM organizations are generously supported by a universe of wealthy foundations. Some of the groups,
like those employing BLM founders Garza and Tometi, receive money directly. Others, like Cullors’ Dignity and Power Now,
are financed by organizations designed specifically to underwrite the activities of others. These will be taken in turn.
National Domestic Workers Alliance (Garza) – In business since 2007, the Alliance’s 2014 revenues
were $7.6 million, with net assets of $5.2 million. Its board includes two members of CASA de Maryland,
a vocal advocate for illegal aliens that takes in millions of dollars in government grants (see
Organization Trends, September 2012). CASA received
grants from the Alliance in 2013 and 2014 as did the radical-left Institute for Policy Studies in 2013.
The Alliance received $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of familiar foundations, Ford ($1.9 million),
both of George Soros’s major philanthropies (Open Society Foundations, formerly Open Society Institute, and the
Foundation to Promote Open Society) ($1.3 million), Marguerite ($450,000), Surdna ($595,000), Kellogg ($250,000), Ben &
Jerry’s ($30,000), and others.
People Organized to Win Employment Rights or POWER (Garza) reports 2013 revenues of
$456,676, including $92,173 in government grants. POWER evolved from the now defunct communist group STORM
(Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement). Obama’s former “green jobs czar,”
the self-described “communist” and “rowdy black nationalist” Van Jones, served on STORM’s board. Since 1999, POWER has
received money from the Marguerite Casey Foundation ($655,000), Surdna ($464,000), Public Welfare (301,000), Tides
($168,000), Ben & Jerry’s ($62,000) and many others—even the American Heart Association ($90,000 in 2014). In January
2015, POWER merged with another Freedom Road group, Causa Justa, and Garza left.
Right to the City Alliance (Garza) discloses 2014 revenues of $844,206. The Alliance is a nationwide
network of activist organizations that resist gentrification of inner cities because it displaces “low-income people,
people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youths of color….” In business since 2009, it has received funding
from the Ford Foundation ($1.3 million), both major Soros philanthropies ($600,000), Surdna ($400,000), Marguerite Casey
($387,500), Tides ($165,000), Ben & Jerry’s ($50,000) and others.
School of Unity and Liberation or SOUL (Garza) has enjoyed rapid revenue growth since Alicia Garza’s
rise to fame as a BLM leader. Revenues skyrocketed from $110,304 in 2013 to $660,237 in 2014. SOUL claims to have
trained 712 organizers in 2014. The group trained 679 in 2013, and costs are roughly the same, so SOUL was able to more
than double its net assets in 2014. It receives funding from the Akonadi Foundation ($322,500), Heinz ($255,000),
Rockefeller ($210,000), Surdna ($460,000), Tides ($298,000), and others.
Forward Together (Garza) describes itself as “a multi-racial organization that works with community
leaders and organizations to transform culture and policy to catalyze social change.” Its 2014 revenues were $4.0
million with net assets of $4.2 million. Between 2012 and 2014, the organization received a total of $2.9 million from
Ford ($655,000), Susan Thompson Buffett ($604,318), General Service ($190,000), and others. Garza serves on the board.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (Tometi) reports 2014 revenues of $554,434. This modest
organization only lists two full-time staff, yet receives support from many recognizable foundations. Since 2010 this
includes Kellogg, ($75,000), Marguerite Casey ($337,500), both major Soros philanthropies ($100,000), Ben & Jerry’s
($10,000), and others. Tometi was paid $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group.
Cullors’ Dignity and Power Now is underwritten by Community Partners, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Los Angeles with
a $24 million budget (including $4 million in government grants) that fiscally sponsors nonprofits; that is to say, it
is an existing nonprofit that lets unincorporated groups use its nonprofit status to receive tax-deductible donations.
It is not a Freedom Road organization.
Advancement Project is a Freedom Road group that funds a variety of radical causes. The Project sees
America as a racist, oppressive nation and, according to Discover the Networks, “works to organize ‘communities of
color’ into politically cohesive units while disseminating its leftist worldviews and values as broadly as possible by
way of a sophisticated communications department.” Its 2013 revenues were $11.3 million. The Project receives generous
funding from a wide variety of wealthy foundations, including the California Endowment ($7.3 million), Ford ($8.5
million), Kellogg ($3 million), Hewlett ($2.5 million), Rockefeller ($2.5 million), both major Soros philanthropies
($8.6 million), Tides ($1.3 million), and many others, totaling approximately $55 million over the past decade.
Movement Strategy Center (MSC) also facilitates funding, development and advancement of Freedom Road
organizations. Its 2013 revenues were $7.5 million, including $156,032 in government grants. MSC has received funding
from the California Endowment ($2.3 million), Ford ($1.8 million), both major Soros philanthropies ($1.1 million),
Surdna ($1.4 million), Tides ($1.6 million), Akonadi ($1.1 million), Robert Wood Johnson ($378,750), Ben & Jerry’s
($60,000), and others.
The Surdna Foundation (2014 revenues $64.9 million, with net assets of $1 billion) appears repeatedly in the above
lists and is one of the oldest foundations supporting BLM. It was formed in 1917 by John Emory Andrus, at the time one
of the wealthiest people in America. Surdna is his name spelled backwards.
In addition to its Freedom Road funding, Surdna has provided $145,000 to Race Forward over the past two years for
“Equitable Economic Development,” as part of its Strong Local Economies initiative. The grant descriptions, however,
have little to do with economics; for example, this one from 2015: “This general operating support grant will help Race
Forward (RF) to advance racial justice and address inequalities in key areas through research, media, and practice
(training).” (For more information on the Surdna Foundation, see the
January 2014 and
September 2007 issues of Foundation Watch.)
While not a Freedom Road organization, Race Forward is the rebranded Applied Research Center (ARC), a think tank
dedicated to “racial justice,” and it participated in the Ferguson protests. Race Forward publishes ColorLines, which
focuses on “police violence,” “gender and sexuality,” “Islamophobia,” and other predictable leftist themes. Race Forward
and ARC are directed by radical leftist Rinku Sen who “has positioned ARC as the home for media and activism on racial
justice…” according to Tufts University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center. Prior to its rebranding, ARC
received millions from a host of well-heeled funders over the past 10 years including Arcus, ($927,784), Ford ($2
million), both major Soros philanthropies ($1.2 million), Tides ($1.3 million), Kellogg ($4 million), and many others.
Both of George Soros’s major philanthropies are listed among the many donors to Freedom Road and other “racial
justice” groups like ARC. But according to the Washington Times, Soros has been a much larger “racial justice”
funder than these figures reveal, having donated at least $33 million in one year to groups that organized unrest in
Ferguson and other riots, including:
Drug Policy Alliance (over $18.5 million since 2010) Center for Community Change ($5.2 million since 2010) Equal Justice USA ($800,000 since 2010) Gamaliel Foundation ($1.3 million since 2010) Make the Road New York ($769,430 since 2010) Sojourners ($300,000 since 2011) Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference ($500,000 in 2011 – 2012)
Mainstream BLM Support
Mainstream funders have jumped in as well. For example, United Way has partnered with A&E and iHeartMedia to create
Shining the Light Advisors, a committee of “nationally known experts and leaders in racial and social
justice,” to oversee grant disbursements. These “advisors” include such radicals as Van Jones, Advancement
Project co-director Judith Browne Dianis, and Race Forward’s Rinku Sen.
BLM’s mission includes a kitchen sink of favored radical-left causes, including poverty, prisoner
deinstitutionalization, illegal immigration, and gay rights. Highlighting Freedom Road’s orientation toward gay blacks,
it describes how “Black, queer and trans folks bear a unique burden from a hetero-patriarchal society that disposes of
us like garbage and simultaneously fetishizes us and profits off of us, and that is state violence.”
Its wide network of affiliates and partner organizations like the Communist Party USA and the
remnants of the ACORN network allows BLM to turn out large crowds. Many participate simply to protest,
commit violence, loot, or all three.
Freedom Road, for example, was prominent at the Ferguson protests and took video of the event. It
even created a Black Lives Matter button. Following are more Freedom Road organizations involved with BLM. (Funding
estimates provided when known.)
Black Left Unity – A Marxist-Leninist organization that supports favored causes of the communist
Left, including unity with Cuba, war against capitalism, and Occupy Wall Street.
Black Workers for Justice – A group based in North Carolina which claims to struggle on behalf of
“oppressed nationalities.”
Causa Justa/Just Cause – a Black-Latino solidarity organization allied with the Grassroots Global
Justice Alliance, the Right to the City Alliance, and others. Its 2013 revenues, $1.6 million, included $689,484 in
government grants. Causa Justa has received over $2.3 million since 2010, mostly from the California Endowment,
Marguerite Casey, and a few others. As noted above, POWER was absorbed into Causa Justa.
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance – “A national alliance of US-based grassroots organizing (GRO)
groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color.” It has received
$20,000 from Ben & Jerry’s since 2010.
Hands Up United – works for “liberation of oppressed Black, Brown, and poor people through
education, art, civil disobedience, advocacy, and agriculture.”
Intelligent Mischief – its Black Body Survival Guide is in the works and has raised $8,785
to date through crowdfunding website Indiegogo.
Organization for Black Struggle is affiliated with the Communist Party USA. Its website claims Black
Workers for Justice and the Advancement Project as allies. Chaired by Freedom Road member Montague Simmons, the
Organization received $277,955 in revenues in 2014, its first year as a registered 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.
Showing Up for Racial Justice is a “national network of groups and individuals organizing White
people for racial justice.” Showing Up quotes Garza, “We need you defecting from White supremacy and changing the
narrative of White supremacy by breaking White silence.”
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) – had 2013 revenues of $2.8 million.
It is led by Anthony Thigpenn, a former Black Panther and board member of the Apollo Alliance. Apollo
is a secretive alliance of labor, environment, and other left-wing activists that formulated Obama’s trillion dollar
“stimulus” plan. Board member Van Jones described Apollo “as sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left
causes.” Now a project of the Blue Green Alliance, SCOPE has received about $12 million since 2010 from
numerous foundations, the most generous being Ford ($1.9 million), James Irvine ($2.3 million), New World ($1.4
million), Hewlett ($1.4 million), and the California Endowment ($1.2 million). (For more on the Apollo Alliance, see
Green Watch, November 2012).
BLM groups have also joined with the Communist Party USA, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and
Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, SEIU, Color of Change,
and many others. Anarchist and top Occupy Wall Street organizer Lisa Fithian, who orchestrated the 1999 Seattle World
Trade Organization riots, trained Ferguson protesters. Fithian says “create crisis, because crisis is that edge where
change is possible.”
Fithian echoes Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the creators of the infamous Cloward-Piven Crisis Strategy, who
spent decades attempting to provoke poor, inner-city blacks to riot, because as Cloward said, poor people advance only
“when the rest of society is afraid of them.”
Rasheen Aldridge was a leader of the Ferguson protests. He has participated in numerous Communist Party USA events in
2013, 2014, and 2015. Another prominent Communist Party member active in BLM protests is Michael McPhearson, who leads
the Don’t Shoot Coalition.
Carl Davidson and Pat Fry, co-chairs of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, exploited the
revolutionary atmosphere of the Ferguson riots to create an eight-point plan for “Left Unity” demanding “a common
aspiration for socialism.”
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), is Missouri’s rebranded ACORN group. It
created an illustrative chart offering a snapshot of the Left’s grievance agenda. Capitalism is always the problem.
Socialism is always the solution.
Interestingly, MORE doesn’t believe in socialism when it is footing the bill. MORE promised to pay Ferguson
protesters $5,000 a month to cause trouble. But just as ACORN stiffed its employees while preaching socialist
generosity, so MORE stiffed its own rent-a-mob protesters. (“Ferguson
rent-a-mobs exposed,” by Matthew Vadum, FrontPage Magazine, May 18, 2015.)
Islamist organizations have also jumped on the BLM bandwagon, reminding us of the unholy alliance that exists between
them and the radical Left. In September 2015, the Muslim Brotherhood-front Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR) joined BLM activists in storming California Governor Jerry Brown’s office. CAIR also participated in the Ferguson
protests. Meanwhile, ISIS is reportedly recruiting American blacks for its cause.
Intellectual Genealogy of Black Lives Matter
“We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. … We can and must
write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us” –
Vladimir Lenin
That quote from the Soviet Union’s first leader captures the entire essence of the Left’s strategy. No matter what
the issue, no matter what the facts, the Left advances a relentless, hate-filled narrative that America is irredeemably
evil and must be destroyed as soon as possible. The BLM movement is only the latest, but perhaps most dangerous variant
on this subversive theme.
Communists use language and psychology as a weapon. Their constant vilification of enemies is a form of psychological
warfare. It puts America and Americans on trial. The verdict is always guilty. Facts don’t matter because the
Left does not want to resolve the problems they complain about. They use those problems to agitate and provoke, hoping
conflict becomes unavoidable and thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Their hatred is tactical.
Obama’s favorite Harvard professor, Derrick Bell, devised Critical Race Theory, which exemplifies Lenin’s strategy as
applied to race. According to Discover the Networks:
Critical race theory contends that America is permanently racist to its core, and that consequently the nation’s
legal structures are, by definition, racist and invalid … members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled—in fact
obligated—to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing. …
Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of Critical Theory, which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the Frankfurt
School who were affiliated with the Institute for Social Research, founded in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The
Institute’s left-wing scholars were mostly Jewish and fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to Columbia
University’s Teachers College in New York. Critical Theory, which discredits all aspects of Western society, rapidly
infected the minds of newly minted college professors, who then spread its poison throughout the university system.
We know it today as political correctness. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s Herbert
Marcuse, longtime associate of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Julian Bond. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan
tolerance,” that is, tolerance for leftist ideas and intolerance of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied
Marcuse’s strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky used it in
his own life’s work.
White Privilege
The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the concept of “White Privilege,” the notion that whites—the dominant
demographic group in capitalist America—are irretrievably racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, fill-in-the-blank-ophobic,
imperialistic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true evil in the world and should be exterminated.
“Dr. Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies 241 in the Spring 2005 semester at North Carolina State University, also
said this needs to be done ‘because white people want to kill us.’” (“Activist:
exterminate white people,” by Jon Sanders, Carolina Journal, Oct. 21, 2015.)
The “White Skin Privilege” idea was created in 1967 by Noel Ignatiev, an acolyte of Derrick Bell and professor at
Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. (Du Bois was a black leader who helped found the NAACP and joined the Communist
Party in 1961.) Ignatiev was a member of the Communist Party USA’s most radical wing, the Provisional Organizing
Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party from 1958–66. The Provisional Organizing Committee was
the intellectual forerunner to Freedom Road.
Writing under the alias Noel Ignatin, Ignatiev co-authored a Students for Democratic Society (SDS) pamphlet with
fellow radical Ted Allen titled, White Blindspot. In 1992 he co-founded Race Traitor: Journal of the New
Abolitionism. Its first issue coined the slogan “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Its stated objective
was to “abolish the white race.” More specifically, the New Abolitionist newsletter declared:
The way to abolish the white race is to challenge, disrupt and eventually overturn the institutions and behavior
patterns that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal
justice system. The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially acceptable means of protest, but
reject in advance no means of attaining their goal [emphasis added].
But do not be confused: “White” with an uppercase W does not mean white as most Americans use the word.
“White” in radical parlance means anyone of any race, creed, nationality, color, sex, or sexual preference who embraces
capitalism, free markets, limited government, and American traditional culture and values. These beliefs are deemed to
be irredeemably evil, and anyone who aligns with them is “white” in spirit and thus equally guilty of “white crimes.”
Ignatiev still teaches, now at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
The Black Lives Matter movement carries this narrative to unprecedented heights, claiming that only whites can be
racists. (“The
Result of Victimhood and Lies: Great Evil,” by Dennis Prager, National Review Online, Sept. 1, 2015.) And while
justifying violence to achieve “social justice,” the movement’s goal is to overthrow our society to replace it with a
Marxist one. Many members of the black community would be shocked to learn that the intellectual godfathers of this
movement are mostly white Communists, “queers,” and leftist Democrats, intent on making blacks cannon fodder, the shock
troops of the coming revolution.
James Simpson is an economist, former White House budget analyst, businessman, and investigative journalist.
Veteran researchers Trevor Loudon and Matthew Vadum (senior vice president, Capital Research Center) contributed to this
report.
"... He defines "wokeism" as a creed that has arisen in America in response to the "moral vacuum" created by the ebbing from public life of faith, patriotism and "the identity we derived from hard work." He argues that notions like "diversity," "equity," "inclusion" and "sustainability" have come to take their place. ..."
"... "Our collective moral insecurities," Mr. Ramaswamy says, "have left us vulnerable" to the blandishments and propaganda of the new political and corporate elites, who are now locked in a cynical "arranged marriage, where each partner has contempt for the other." Each side is getting out of the "trade" something it "could not have gotten alone." ..."
"... Wokeness entered its union with capitalism in the years following the 2008 financial panic and recession. Mr. Ramaswamy believes that conditions were perfect for the match. "We were -- and are -- in the midst of the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in history," he says. Barack Obama had just been elected the first black president. By the end of the crisis, Americans "were actually pretty jaded with respect to capitalism. Corporations were the bad guys. The old left wanted to take money from corporations and give it to poor people." ..."
"... The birth of wokeism was a godsend to corporations, Mr. Ramaswamy says. It helped defang the left. "Wokeism lent a lifeline to the people who were in charge of the big banks. They thought, 'This stuff is easy!' " They applauded diversity and inclusion, appointed token female and minority directors, and "mused about the racially disparate impact of climate change." So, in Mr. Ramaswamy's narrative, "a bunch of big banks got together with a bunch of millennials, birthed woke capitalism, and then put Occupy Wall Street up for adoption." Now, in Mr. Ramaswamy's tart verdict, "big business makes money by critiquing itself." ..."
"... Davos is "the Woke Vatican," Mr. Ramaswamy says; Al Gore and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock , are "its archbishops." CEOs "further down the chain" -- he mentions James Quincey of Coca-Cola , Ed Bastian of Delta , Marc Benioff of Salesforce , John Donahoe of Nike and Alan Jope of Unilever -- are its "cardinals." ..."
"... He describes this sort of corporate imposition -- "a market force supplanting open political debate to settle the essence of political questions" -- as one of the "defining challenges" America faces today. "If democracy means anything," he adds, "it means living in a one-person-one-vote system, not a one-dollar-one-vote system." Voters' voices "are unadjusted by the number of dollars we wield in the marketplace." Open debate in the public square is "our uniquely American mechanism" of settling political questions. He likens the woke-corporate silencing of debate as akin to the "old-world European model, where a small group of elites gets in a room and decides what's good for everyone else." ..."
"... The wokeism-capitalism embrace, Mr. Ramaswamy says, was replicated in Silicon Valley. Over the past few years, "Big Tech effectively agreed to censor -- or 'moderate' -- content that the woke movement didn't like. But they didn't do it for free." In return, the left "agreed to look the other way when it comes to leaving Silicon Valley's monopoly power intact." This arrangement is "working out masterfully" for both sides. ..."
"... Coca-Cola follows the same playbook, he says: "It's easier for them to issue statements about voting laws in Georgia, or to train their employees on how to 'be less white,' than it is to publicly reckon with its role in fueling a nationwide epidemic of diabetes and obesity -- including in the black communities they profess to care about so much." (In a statement, Coca-Cola apologized for the "be less white" admonition and said that while it was "accessible through our company training platform," it "was not a part of our training curriculum.") ..."
"... Nike finds it much easier to write checks to Black Lives Matter and condemn America's history of slavery, Mr. Ramaswamy says, even as it relies on "slave labor" today to sell "$250 sneakers to black kids in the inner city who can't afford to buy books for school." All the while, Black Lives Matter "neuters the police in a way that sacrifices even more black lives." (Nike has said in a statement that its code of conduct prohibits any use of forced labor and "we have been engaging with multi-stakeholder working groups to assess collective solutions that will help preserve the integrity of our global supply chains.") ..."
"... Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at New York University Law School's Classical Liberal Institute. ..."
"... Seems to me in a nutshell he is saying that these woke corporations are all hypocrites. No surprise there hypocrisy is a defining characteristic of the woke left and you need to assume that characteristic yourself to be able to work within their bounds. ..."
"... Wokeists argue that theirs is not a religion because it doesn't center on a transcendent being. I see Wokeism as a religion that gathers multiple Secularist sects into a big tent. These sects include Environmentalism, Genderism, Anti-Racism, and more. ..."
"... One thing all religions share in common is the elevation of questionable premises to unassailable truths which they defend with religious zeal. Some questionable premises elevated to unassailable truths by Wokeism are that humans are making the Earth uninhabitable, gender is an individual choice, and race is the most important human characteristic. There are more. ..."
A self-made multimillionaire who founded a biotech company at 28, Vivek Ramaswamy is every
inch the precocious overachiever. He tells me he attended law school while he was in sixth
grade. He's joking, in his own earnest manner. His father, an aircraft engineer at General
Electric, had decided to get a law degree at night school. Vivek sat in on the classes with
him, so he could keep his dad company on the long car rides to campus and back -- a very Indian
filial act.
"I was probably the only person my age who'd heard of Antonin Scalia, " Mr. Ramaswamy, 35,
says in a Zoom call from his home in West Chester, Ohio. His father, a political liberal, would
often rage on the way home from class about "some Scalia opinion." Mr. Ramaswamy reckons that
this was when he began to form his own political ideas. A libertarian in high school, he
switched to being conservative at Harvard in "an act of rebellion" against the politics he
found there. That conservatism drove him to step down in January as CEO at Roivant Sciences --
the drug-development company that made him rich -- and write "Woke, Inc," a book that takes a
scathing look at "corporate America's social-justice scam." (It will be published in
August.)
Mr. Ramaswamy recently watched the movie "Spotlight," which tells the story of how reporters
at the Boston Globe exposed misconduct (specifically, sexual abuse) by Catholic priests in the
early 2000s. "My goal in 'Woke, Inc.' is to do the same thing with respect to the Church of
Wokeism." He defines "wokeism" as a creed that has arisen in America in response to the "moral
vacuum" created by the ebbing from public life of faith, patriotism and "the identity we
derived from hard work." He argues that notions like "diversity," "equity," "inclusion" and
"sustainability" have come to take their place.
"Our collective moral insecurities," Mr. Ramaswamy says, "have left us vulnerable" to the
blandishments and propaganda of the new political and corporate elites, who are now locked in a
cynical "arranged marriage, where each partner has contempt for the other." Each side is
getting out of the "trade" something it "could not have gotten alone."
Wokeness entered its union with capitalism in the years following the 2008 financial panic
and recession. Mr. Ramaswamy believes that conditions were perfect for the match. "We were --
and are -- in the midst of the biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in history," he says.
Barack Obama had just been elected the first black president. By the end of the crisis,
Americans "were actually pretty jaded with respect to capitalism. Corporations were the bad
guys. The old left wanted to take money from corporations and give it to poor people."
The birth of wokeism was a godsend to corporations, Mr. Ramaswamy says. It helped defang the
left. "Wokeism lent a lifeline to the people who were in charge of the big banks. They thought,
'This stuff is easy!' " They applauded diversity and inclusion, appointed token female and
minority directors, and "mused about the racially disparate impact of climate change." So, in
Mr. Ramaswamy's narrative, "a bunch of big banks got together with a bunch of millennials,
birthed woke capitalism, and then put Occupy Wall Street up for adoption." Now, in Mr.
Ramaswamy's tart verdict, "big business makes money by critiquing itself."
Mr. Ramaswamy regards Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO of the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, as the "patron saint of wokeism" for his relentless propagation of "stakeholder
capitalism" -- the view that the unspoken bargain in the grant to corporations of limited
liability is that they "must do social good on the side."
Davos is "the Woke Vatican," Mr. Ramaswamy says; Al Gore and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock , are "its
archbishops." CEOs "further down the chain" -- he mentions James Quincey of Coca-Cola , Ed Bastian of Delta , Marc Benioff of
Salesforce , John
Donahoe of Nike and
Alan Jope of Unilever
-- are its "cardinals."
Mr. Ramaswamy says that "unlike the investigative 'Spotlight' team at the Boston Globe, I'm
a whistleblower, not a journalist. But the church analogy holds strong." He paraphrases a line
in the movie: "It takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a village to abuse one. In
the case of my book, the child I'm concerned about is American democracy."
In league with the woke left, corporate America "uses force" as a substitute for open
deliberation and debate, Mr. Ramaswamy says. "There's the sustainability accounting standards
board of BlackRock, which effectively demands that in order to win an investment from
BlackRock, the largest asset-manager in the world, you must abide by the standards of that
board."
Was the board put in place by the owners of the trillions of dollars of capital that Mr.
Fink manages? Of course not, Mr. Ramaswamy says. "And yet he's actually using his seat of
corporate power to sidestep debate about questions like environmentalism or diversity on
boards."
The irrepressible Mr. Ramaswamy presses on with another example. Goldman Sachs , he says with obvious relish,
"is a very Davos-fitting example." At the 2020 World Economic Forum, Goldman Sachs CEO David
Solomon "issued an edict from the mountaintops of Davos." Mr. Solomon announced his company
would refuse to take a company public if its board wasn't sufficiently diverse. "So Goldman
gets to define what counts as 'diverse,' " Mr. Ramaswamy says. "No doubt, they're referring to
skin-deep, genetically inherited attributes."
He describes this sort of corporate imposition -- "a market force supplanting open political
debate to settle the essence of political questions" -- as one of the "defining challenges"
America faces today. "If democracy means anything," he adds, "it means living in a
one-person-one-vote system, not a one-dollar-one-vote system." Voters' voices "are unadjusted
by the number of dollars we wield in the marketplace." Open debate in the public square is "our
uniquely American mechanism" of settling political questions. He likens the woke-corporate
silencing of debate as akin to the "old-world European model, where a small group of elites
gets in a room and decides what's good for everyone else."
The wokeism-capitalism embrace, Mr. Ramaswamy says, was replicated in Silicon Valley. Over
the past few years, "Big Tech effectively agreed to censor -- or 'moderate' -- content that the
woke movement didn't like. But they didn't do it for free." In return, the left "agreed to look
the other way when it comes to leaving Silicon Valley's monopoly power intact." This
arrangement is "working out masterfully" for both sides.
The rest of corporate America appears to be following suit. "There's a Big Pharma version,
too," Mr. Ramaswamy says. "Big Pharma had an epiphany in dealing with the left." It couldn't
beat them, so it joined them. "Rather than win the debate on drug pricing, they decided to just
change the subject instead. Who needs to win a debate if you can just avoid having it?" So we
see "big-time pharma CEOs musing about topics like racial justice and environmentalism, and
writing multibillion-dollar checks to fight climate change, while taking price hikes that
they'd previously paused when the public was angry about drug pricing."
Coca-Cola follows the same playbook, he says: "It's easier for them to issue statements
about voting laws in Georgia, or to train their employees on how to 'be less white,' than it is
to publicly reckon with its role in fueling a nationwide epidemic of diabetes and obesity --
including in the black communities they profess to care about so much." (In a statement,
Coca-Cola apologized
for the "be less white" admonition and said that while it was "accessible through our company
training platform," it "was not a part of our training curriculum.")
Nike finds it much easier to write checks to Black Lives Matter and condemn America's
history of slavery, Mr. Ramaswamy says, even as it relies on "slave labor" today to sell "$250
sneakers to black kids in the inner city who can't afford to buy books for school." All the
while, Black Lives Matter "neuters the police in a way that sacrifices even more black lives."
(Nike has said in a statement that its code of conduct prohibits any use of forced labor and
"we have been engaging with multi-stakeholder working groups to assess collective solutions
that will help preserve the integrity of our global supply chains.")
... ... ...
Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
and at New York University Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.
Rod Drake 53 minutes ago
Seems to me in a nutshell he is saying that these woke corporations are all hypocrites. No
surprise there hypocrisy is a defining characteristic of the woke left and you need to assume
that characteristic yourself to be able to work within their bounds.
In addition, I have been
saying for some time discrimination based on political belief desperately needs to be
included as a prohibited basis. Where are the Republicans, while the greatest civil rights
violation of our time is going on right under their noses?
Terry Overbey 1 hour ago
I love reading stories about people who are willing to take on the woke political class. For
most people, even if they strongly disagree, their only option is to bite their tongue and go
along. People aren't stupid. If you buck the system, you don't get promoted, you don't get
good grades, you don't get into elite schools, you don't get the government job.
Thank you Mr Ramaswany.
James Ransom 1 hour ago
Well. If nothing else, he just sold me a book. I think we should say that "Wokeism" tries to
"Act Like" a religion, not that it is one. Because of this fakery, we do not need to give it
"freedom" in the sense that we have "Freedom of Religion."
These misguided Americans perhaps need to be exposed to a real religion. Christianity and
Buddhism would be good choices; I don't know about Hinduism, but my point is that "Wokeism"
is more like a mental disorder. We should feel sorry for its victims, offer them treatment,
but not let them run anything.
marc goodman 1 hour ago
Wokeists argue that theirs is not a religion because it doesn't center on a transcendent
being. I see Wokeism as a religion that gathers multiple Secularist sects into a big tent.
These sects include Environmentalism, Genderism, Anti-Racism, and more.
One thing all religions share in common is the elevation of questionable premises to
unassailable truths which they defend with religious zeal. Some questionable premises
elevated to unassailable truths by Wokeism are that humans are making the Earth
uninhabitable, gender is an individual choice, and race is the most important human
characteristic. There are more.
Humans need to believe in something greater than themselves. We fulfill this need with
religion, and historically, the "greater something" has been a transcendent being. Wokeism
fulfills this need for its adherents but without a transcendent being. Ultimately, Wokeism
will fail as a religion because it can't nourish the soul like the belief in a transcendent
being does.
Grodney Ross 2 hours ago (Edited)
Judgement will be passed in November of 2022. I don't see this as a Democrat vs Republican
issue. I think it's a matter of who is paying attention vs. those who are not. We live in a
society where, generally, the most strident voices are on the left, along with the most
judgmental voices. When the "wokeless" engage in a manner that conflicts with views of the
woke, they are attacked, be you from the left or the right, so you keep your mouth shut and go
about your day.
I believe that this coming election will give voice to those who are fatigued and fed up
with the progressive lefts venom and vitriol. If not, we will survive, but without a meaningful
first amendment,14th amendment, or 2nd amendment.
Barbara Helton 2 hours ago (Edited)
Being woke, when practiced by the wealthy and influential, can be extremely similar to
bullying.
Wokism is an attempt on financial elite to distract and divide and distruct people from the
crisi of neoliberalism in the USA. This is a pretty dirty game.
There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective
mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020.
Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it
illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one's own concrete prejudices onto
others in order to alleviate or mask them.
So should we laugh or cry that Black Lives Matter's self-described Marxist co-founder turns
out to be a corporate grifter?
Patrisse Cullors has accumulated several upscale homes and is under investigation by the IRS
for allegations of the misuse of funds from one of her foundations.
Is it the case that the more Cullors professes Marxist ideology and damns toxic whiteness,
so all the more she feels at home living in a $1.4 million Topanga Canyon home, in an almost
exclusively ritzy white neighborhood?
Consider outspoken liberal icon Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). He's one of the
Senate's most woke. Yet Whitehouse turns out to be a mostly unapologetic member of a de facto
all-white prestigious "beach club" of elites in Newport, Rhode Island. Is Whitehouse committed
in the abstract to rooting out white privilege so he can concretely relax amid it with fellow
bluebloods?
Barack and Michelle Obama occasionally venture out of either their multimillion-dollar
Washington, D.C. mansion or their Martha's Vineyard estate to lecture the country on its
systemic racism. They express worry over the dangers that apparently white people pose to the
very safety of their own daughters.
Does such sermonizing square the circle that the Obamas have no desire to return to their
Chicago home""a city where nearly 700 African-American males were murdered in 2020, the vast
majority by other black men? So far, Chicago in 2021 is on a trajectory to suffer over 30
percent more murder victims than last year.
Joe Biden about every two weeks lectures America on its racism. And he unleashed the
bureaucracies of the federal government to root out mythical white supremacist
conspiracies.
Does Medieval penance explain Biden's fixation on systemic racism? After all, when he
condemns anonymous white racists, does his outrage mitigate his son Hunter's habitual use of
the N-word and anti-Asian riffs?
No Washington politico has compiled a longer record of racialist put downs than Joe Biden.
So apparently, the more Biden hunts for a white racist under every bed, the less necessary it
becomes to look in the mirror or at least to beg his son Hunter to knock off his racist
slurs.
The second catalyst of wokeism is the distraction it provides from scary problems that
threaten the very existence of American civilization. While the country consumes itself in
demanding more than 12 percent representation of black actors in television commercials, it is
nearing $30 trillion in national debt. Eventually, the astounding red ink will require
recessionary belt-tightening, more inflationary money printing, or both.
The woke Biden Administration cannot stop 2 million immigrants this year from crossing
illegally and with exemption into the United States. Almost all are in need of free American
health care, housing, food, and legal subsidies. Violent crime is spiking at an astonishing
rate. Yet few dare say why that is""or how to stop it.
America also cannot face the likely truth that Chinese researchers engineered a
gain-of-function virus""with oversight from the Communist Chinese military, and subsidies from
Drs. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak.
So instead of offering real solutions to these crises, we war with each other whether the
deceased children's book author Dr. Seuss or the plastic toy Mr. Potato Head was racist or
otherwise exclusionary.
When our elites are clueless about national debt, inflation, illegal immigration, crime,
soaring gas prices, and a global pandemic, they reassure themselves that at least they can
cancel out Father JunÃpero Serra or knock down another statue of Robert E. Lee.
Finally, the hysterias of wokism are being channeled for profit""if they do not already
reflect the reality of many of our most woke being the richest among us.
One reason why Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle, and LeBron James hype charges of white racism
is that their oppression reminds America that one can become rich as Croesus yet remain
sympathetic victims.
For next-generation grifters, like Ibram Xolani Kendi (a.k.a. Ibram Henry Rogers) and Robin
DiAngelo, to claim that America was, is, and always will be racist, means more than just
speaking gigs and book sales.
The solutions for the pseudo-crises they invent are mass reeducation of self-confessional
whites""with lucrative consulting fees for both, and tens of thousands of others.
America is systematically being conned by those who disguise their hypocrisy, who manipulate
the guilt-ridden, who have no interest in solving America's most dangerous problems, and who
get or stay richer by hyping an America in need of massive rebooting - and with it their own
careerist remedies.
It seems that the wokesters who claim that they are "anti-racists" still can't tolerate the
memory of a man who defeated history's most murderous racist. The Thursday defacing of a statue
in Canada is the latest effort to cancel Hitler's implacable foe.
A Downtown statue of Sir Winston Churchill has been vandalized after someone dumped red paint
all across the replica of the former British prime minister...
Churchill, who served as prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, is
seen as a national hero for his leadership during the Second World War but held many views
that would be deemed racist.
Perhaps the 20th century's greatest adversary of communist and fascist dictatorships,
Churchill has of course been found wanting by today's dictators of political fashion. This
week's vandalism follows several such instances over the last year involving a U.K. statue of
Churchill in London's Parliament Square. In Canada, Mr. Labine reports:
Elisebeth Checkel, the president of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Edmonton, said this
is the first instance of the statue being vandalized that she's heard of and was disappointed
to see it happen.
She said Churchill has a complicated legacy and believes it is important to look at him in a
balanced way.
"If we look at any historical figure, we will find the same thing," Checkel said. "If we look
at almost any person from the 1880s, we would find their views were if not repugnant to us
nowadays, we would find they were disagreeable for sure. If you look at Churchill's later
actions and life as he grew, as we all hope to do, his views did change. The balance should
be celebrated because without Churchill we would not even have the right to protest in this
country."
Licia Corbella
writes in the Calgary Herald that this week's vandalism of the statue is "another act of
woke totalitarianism." She adds:
Mark Milke, president of the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Calgary, says it's chilling to
contemplate what the world would be like now had Churchill not been there.
"Imagine if Churchill hadn't been there and the United Kingdom either did a peace treaty with
Hitler or fell during an invasion," said Milke...
"Nazi Germany would have controlled much of Europe... with the Soviet Union controlling the
other half and Imperial Japan raping Asia. Canada and the U.S. would have been pretty much
alone in the world..."
"Churchill is not a Civil War general from the South fighting to protect slavery. He's not
Joseph Stalin or Chairman Mao or Adolf Hitler," continued Milke.
No he's not. In fact Churchill was a stalwart opponent of the ideologies promoted by all
three of the 20th century's most infamous mass murderers. "For the historically illiterate who
like to throw paint on statues," Ms. Corbella notes the bloody legacy of Churchill's enemies
and adds:
What never seems to get mentioned is these statues are works of art. This destruction is not
unlike the Taliban destroying the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001. These woke folk are
Talibanesque.
As for Churchill, Ms. Corbella asks: "If we allow his legacy to be torn down, whose, pray
tell, can stand?"
Fortunately Ms. Corbella is not standing alone. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney tweets :
People should continue to debate Churchill's complex legacy & record, but vandalizing
public property like this is shameful.
No member of the greatest generation can meet the standards of contemporary wokeness. But we
should still honour those who secured our peace and freedom.
Canadian Parliament member Pierre Poilievre adds :
Don't schools teach history anymore?
Now the woke warriors attack the statue of Winston Churchill--the greatest anti-fascist of
all time. He beat Hitler and Mussolini for crying out loud.
Do these vandals wish he had lost?
Coincidentally it was on this day 81 years ago when Churchill addressed the British House of
Commons after the German army had overrun France. Said
Churchill:
I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival
of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of
our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be
turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If
we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward
into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United
States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new
Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British
Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their
finest hour."
If wokesterism could last for a thousand years, would it ever result in a great
civilization?
"Stop indoctrinating our children. Stop teaching our children to hate the police. Stop
teaching our children that if they don't agree with the LGBT community that they're homophobic.
You have no idea each child's life," she said, adding "You don't know what their family
lifestyle consists of, you don't know the makeup of their life."
https://youtu.be/zxu3wdiXRF0
Ibrahim shut down school board members' objections several times - in between calling out
two teachers for posting their political beliefs online. When board members told her she wasn't
allowed to reference people by name, Ibrahim claimed those teachers called "for the death of a
former president," and that students who don't support Black Lives Matter should be "canceled
out."
"Why are we not allowed to say names? Why am I not allowed when they purposefully expose
themselves on social media, talking about calling for the death of a former president, or
saying that any child who doesn't believe in Black Lives Matter should be canceled out. Is this
what my tax dollars are paying for?" she asked.
"You're emotionally abusing our children and mentally abusing them," Ibrahim continued
RDinSC 1 hour ago
Never vote for anyone at any level of political office who does not openly and sincerely
oppose CRT and any and all woke indoctrination.
RedDog1 1 hour ago
I'm a super anti-racist. I'm especially against woke neo-racism.
BLOTTO 52 minutes ago (Edited)
Wait until she finds out that Drag Queen Roxy is reading 'The Hips on the DQ go swish
swish swish' to the kids at the local library.
Pooper Popper 1 hour ago
She Rocks!!!!!
Bang!!
high5mail 36 minutes ago
When I listen to this woman and look around me at all the fools who buy into the
"system" as it is, too scared to do what she is doing, it saddens me at the apathy and
cowardice of the general public which will sell their souls for protection on a non deadly
virus and take an unproved vaccine to virtue signal.
She is a modern day Joan of Arc. I would stand beside her in an instant. How many others
would do that or demand the same things she is demanding? Most are too busy trying to
figure out what gender they think they should be or trying on racist social agendas in the
"woke" category.
"... The Black Liberation Movement has made millionaires out of their grifter leaders and enabled the left to remain in power in every city in which rioting occurred. Their local opposition has been cleansed or cowed into submission. The movement continues its success as seen by its adoption by corporations seeking to reduce the power and influence of middle class Americans and by politicians seeking to entrence their power electorally. ..."
The continuing hypocrisy of Black Lives Matter was displayed vividly over the past
weekend– BLM
declared solidarity with Hamas but said nothing about a slew of murders and shootings
targeting black
communities .
There were at least 11 mass shootings in the country over the weekend that combined left
at least 17 people dead and 35 more wounded, according to CNN reporting and an analysis of
data from Gun Violence Archive (GVA),
local media and police reports.
I found it curious that none of the reporting made any mention about the race of the victims
or the perpetrators. Left me wondering so I did some digging. It appears that the majority of
these mass shootings involved black Americans as perpetrators or victims.
At least 55 people were shot across Chicago over the weekend, 12 of them fatally,
including a 15-year-old boy who
was shot in the head on the front porch of a home in Lawndale, and three double
homicides.
These shootings took place in predominantly black neighborhoods.
Of course. Much political and social capital has been squandered in recent years, all in
an attempt to adumbrate the singular reality that the deeply engrained social pathologies
in the "black community" have more to do with their failure to thrive than white systemic
racism does. We, meaning white America, cannot help them with this no matter how much self
abnegation we indulge in. Black America needs to adopt standards of belief and behavior
that are socially, culturally, and economically functional and they need to teach their
children those values. I have seen this happen with a certain fragment of that demographic,
but it needs to happen more widely. This may be offensive to some readers, but there is
truth in it.
Reply
Do blacks themselves need to be uniquely empowered (and protected) to speak up against
black on black violence? What has prevented the peace-seeking black community members from
taking charge of their own neighborhoods.
What Reign of Terror are they living under that those of us outside these communities do
not understand.
Latino gangs terrorize latino communities as well. The violent tyranny of the few
against the decent lives of the many is very, very wrong and should not exist in our
country. But it is a daily reality in our rapidly devolving inner city neighborhoods.
Reply
These minority neighborhoods can't have it both ways:
They can't object to successful methods like stop and frisk and then complain
about crime. "Snitches get stiches" is another "cute" saying encouraging crime.
After a time trying to help people who won't help themselves and are often openly
hostile, the cops grow cynical and less proactive; can you blame them?
Because it's "racist" to criticize any form of minority behavior, there can not be an
honest discussion about solutions to this problem and the beat goes on.
People (including the self-hating, phony "guilty" white liberals, BTW) who can live in
segregated neighborhoods continue to live in segregated neighborhoods.
I used to live in CT – very liberal blue state – totally segregated; BLM
signs on the "right" lawns.
Reply
TV
Yes here in Mpls the same blue haired tattooed
Nose ring wokes make up a large majority of
The BLM protests. The obligatory signs festoon
Whole neighborhoods. Do they march or picket
The areas where the majority of the shootings occur
And whose victims are all black? Ha! Too dangerous.
The near North side aka Nomi has had continuous
Gunfire for near 1200 days. Now they have running
Gun battles with "Ak" type fully automatic weapons.
It's become a tragedy writ large. Not a virtue
Signal to be seen.
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Yes, it's hard to believe that so many are taken in by the rhetoric of Black Lives
Matter when there's evidence on a near-daily basis of black-on-black violence and murder.
It's truly a crime that so-called leaders don't decry it and demand a call to action for it
to stop, a crime that there's so little public discourse about underclass blacks basically
exterminating each other with impunity. It's a taboo subject, and can't be broached without
accusations of racism. We only hear righteous outrage when a member of the black underclass
is killed by a cop.
Reply
Why does the charge of "racism" cause so many to immediately recoil and retreat? It is
just a word, yet it has risen to weaponized effectiveness.
What does this word trigger in so many people who will immediately back down and
retreat. Pretty powerful tool -until more don't blink and don't stand down at its mere
mention.
Always felt there was an implied threat of "black violence' that accompanied every one
of Obama's political moves. We need to cleanse that threat out of our own psyches or else
this nation will be held hostage by a mere word.
Reply
Isn't this an interesting bit of Democrat deja vu, including charges of rigged
voting machines in 2008 the GOP would use to prevent Obama from winning and thereby
triggering a Second Civil War -- "the streets will run with blood .if Obama loses
.."
Thanks to two great political pundits – Erica Jong and Jane Fonda. They did
capture the zeitgeist of the times however, and continue to do so. The threat of black
violence, if you don't do what we went.
Fast forward to 2020 – and the world yet again feared "the streets would run
with blood", but this if Trump won re-election and Democrat Biden did not win.
But this time it bloody well appears it was the Democrats who rigged the voting
processes. Yet again it appears it is the Democrats accusing the GOP of what they were
already doing themselves.
Reply
The Black Liberation Movement has made millionaires out of their grifter leaders and
enabled the left to remain in power in every city in which rioting occurred. Their local
opposition has been cleansed or cowed into submission. The movement continues its success
as seen by its adoption by corporations seeking to reduce the power and influence of middle
class Americans and by politicians seeking to entrence their power electorally.
Some people who were black were shot by others who were black? Quit saying that, you,
you, what's the word: racist!; as none of that has been proved in court. Did any of these
'leaders' care about all those shootings in the Sanctuary City of Chicago when President
Hope and Change was in charge? (2016)
Total shootings 4379 Shot and wounded 3664 Shot and killed: 715
Assailant race by percentage
Whoa: you're saying the left behaves hypocritically and is willing to take losses in
order to get what they want?
Such insight!
Ethnic hypocrisy is the ancient problem here, but this focus on contemporary black
antics obscures the issue and is simply another avoidance strategy.
The recent missile duel in the eastern Mediterranean has shown that white conservatives
are more willing to stand up for the safety of non- or dual-citizens overseas than they are
for safety of their own white constituents, whom they refuse even to name.
There is nothing wrong with Obama with his financial success to buy in predominantly
white Martha's Vineyard. The question that blacks should ask however is are those leaders
who use racism and race to gain political power doing much to alleviate the social and
economic issues they face?
There are many successful blacks in all walks of life. Why aren't they celebrated and
used as role models instead of someone like George Floyd?
Reply
When you first went on the "BLM website" you immediately were linked to ActBlue
– a fund-raising arm of the Democrat party. There was no independent or "private"
donation link for BLM. Calling BLM "private" in this case would be a stretch for me
after that initial experience with BLM.
So the bigger question is, why is the State Dept etc pushing an arm of the Democrat
Party fund-raising machine within government operations? Did BLM formally dissociate
completely with ActBlue?
Reply
Because the State Dept., like the rest of the Democrat party, has accelerated
faster and faster to the left.
They've been selling out America for decades and now, like the rest of the Democrat
party, the last mask has dropped.
Reply
Having grown up in Chicago and still living nearby I would say "predominantly black"
neighborhoods is a media fiction, part of the narrative to displace the blame onto others
than black. I assure you these are black neighborhoods, once white now ruined for
generations. I have sympathy for blacks, so much so that I suggest we organize to supply as
much ammo as possible to help them rid the hood of evil doers. Mostly 9mm, drop off crates
in front of playgrounds and street corners so they can be easily found.
Reply
Larry's point that BLM doesn't care about Black lives is graphically shown and described
by this Officer Tatum podcast (it's short) of local newscasts, not shown by national news,
of Black children murdered by Blacks.
Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he opposes teaching critical race theory
in the state's public schools, calling the ideas pushed by its advocates as "based on false
history" and "teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other."
DeSantis made the remarks at a Friday press
conference in Pensacola, where he announced the
signing of a bill temporarily establishing several statewide tax-free periods on items like
storm supplies and back-to-school products.
"It's offensive to the taxpayer that they would be asked to fund critical race theory,
that they would be asked to fund teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other,"
DeSantis said.
Floridа Gov. Ron DeSantis is seen during a meeting at the governor's office in
Tallahassee, Fla., on April 1, 2021. (The Epoch Times)
In a
recent interview on NTD's "Focus Talk," Yiatin Chu, an Asian mother of two and co-chair of
the New York chapter of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), described
critical race theory as pushing the idea that disparate outcomes, such as academic competency
scores, can be reduced to a single variable""race.
Advocates of the theory, which she said is increasingly being taught at pre-college levels,
push the socialist notion of equality of outcome, and blame differences in outcomes on
entrenched privilege while dividing people into "oppressors" and their victims, the
"oppressed."
Republicans across the nation are trying to prevent the teaching of critical race theory in
classrooms.
Recently, South Dakota's Republican Gov. Kristi Noem took aim at both the "1619 Project" and
critical race theory and, like DeSantis, voiced opposition to their incorporation in school
curriculums.
"The 1619 Project relies upon the concept of Critical Race Theory to further divide
students based on the color of their skin," Noem wrote in a series of tweets
Friday.
"This is inappropriate and un-American. It has no place in South Dakota, and it certainly
has no place in South Dakota classrooms."
In this screenshot from the RNC's livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention,
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem addresses the virtual convention on Aug. 26, 2020. (Courtesy of
the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Images)
The "1619 Project," inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine,
attempts to cast the Atlantic slave trade as the dominant factor in the founding of America
instead of ideals such as individual liberty and natural rights. The initiative has been widely
panned by historians and political scientists, with some critics calling it a bid to rewrite
U.S. history through a left-wing lens.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project, responded to the GOP criticism
of the project during an interview with MSNBC on May 3, saying the 1619 curriculum being
allowed in schools is a matter of free speech.
"This isn't a project about trying to teach children that our country is evil, but it is a
project trying to teach children the truth about what our country was based upon, and it's
only in really confronting that truth""slavery was foundational to the United States, we,
after the slavery, experienced 100 years of legalized discrimination against black
Americans," said Hannah-Jones.
"Mitch McConnell and others like him want for our children to get a propagandistic,
nationalistic understanding of history that is not about facts, but it is about how they
would want to pretend that our country is."
Proponents of critical race theory
have argued that it's needed to demonstrate what they say is "pervasive systemic racism"
and facilitate rooting it out.
Critics draw parallels between critical race theory and Marxism, arguing that the concept
advocates for the destruction of institutions, such as the Western justice system, free-market
economy, and orthodox religions, while demanding that they be replaced with institutions
compliant with the critical race theory ideology.
"... If you find it useful that some counties are leaving Oregon and joining Idaho, or the conflict between the left and the right, democrats vs republicans, or whites vs blacks, or whites vs muslims, or vs lations is meaningful, you are simply doing the bidding of the masters, who thrive on pitting communites against each other, and are responsible for destroying the whole country. The easiest and the most fruitful way to bring about a real, benficial change to America would require bringing the American people, regardless of their color or creed together, to easily get rid of their overbearing masters. Regardless of what you claim to be, the fact that you embrace and advance the destructive strategy of pitting the American people agianst one another, and also spew so much hatred of Muslims, exposes your real agenda! ..."
"... The United States doesn't have "rulers" in as much as it has "owners". Consider ..."
One of the most promising movements, " Greater Idaho ," just won a huge
victory. Five counties
voted to leave Oregon and join Idaho. More counties in eastern Oregon may
join . Idaho Governor Brad Little admits creating a new state may be difficult but
says , "They're
looking at Idaho fondly because of our regulatory atmosphere, our values. That doesn't surprise
me one bit."
This should be just the beginning. Frederick County in western Virginia could join West
Virginia. West Virginia State Senator Charles Trump
supports the idea. It could also be a compromise to the DC statehood question. Northern
Virginia is a cancerous outgrowth of federal employees. Booting it
out of real Virginia and tying it to a DC state would mean greater self-government for both
regions.
... ... ...
Existing institutions can be the basis for reform and revolution. From the Parliament that
challenged the king in the English Civil War, the Continental Congress that made the American
Revolution, and the state legislatures that voted for secession, we see a clear pattern in the
way we Anglos operate. We are legalistic, even when it comes to revolution. We don't have the
French tradition of mass protests to topple governments. Our revolutions are according to
Robert's Rules of Order. Even the January 6 protesters who marched into the Capitol did so
because they thought they were saving democracy.
I can understand the frustrations and rage of certain folks.
If you're a worker on an oil rig, a truck driver, a policeman, or some such jobs, there's
bound to be moments when you're angry as hell. So, even though such people say crazy things
once a while, I can understand where they're coming from. They need to blow off steam.
But the professor class? These lowlife parasites sit on their asses and talk shi*. They
produce nothing and make a living by spreading nonsense. And yet, they act like they are
soooooooooo angry with the way of the world. If they really care about the world, why hide in
their academic enclaves?
Academia needs a cultural revolution, a real kind, not the bogus "˜woke' kind made up
of teachers' pets.
Hopefully we can reform into a nice looking North American Federation once this mess hits
a bloody climax of some sort or another. Greater Idaho sounds wildly fun. I still wish we
formed the States Cascadia and Arcadia, personally.
The empire WILL become weaker if it promotes incompetents to positions of high
responsibility and authority and enlists women into the armed forces. An empire cannot
sustain itself with sub standard soldiers, administrators, leaders and law makers. This woke
crap will destroy itself. Historians in the future will look back and say "what the hell were
they thinking?".
If the IQ of officer candidates drops below 110 (it's 120 on average currently for the
Marine Corps and has been declining for 40 years) then the positions will be left vacant.
Dumb people can't do the job.
Since Cromwell and even more so the overthrow of James 2 by the invader Dutch William 3
the Amsterdam Jew banker puppet Britain has been nothing more than a Jewish banking
headquarters.
If you find it useful that some counties are leaving Oregon and joining Idaho, or the
conflict between the left and the right, democrats vs republicans, or whites vs blacks, or
whites vs muslims, or vs lations is meaningful, you are simply doing the bidding of the
masters, who thrive on pitting communites against each other, and are responsible for
destroying the whole country. The easiest and the most fruitful way to bring about a real,
benficial change to America would require bringing the American people, regardless of their
color or creed together, to easily get rid of their overbearing masters. Regardless of what
you claim to be, the fact that you embrace and advance the destructive strategy of pitting
the American people agianst one another, and also spew so much hatred of Muslims, exposes
your real agenda!
Dear Mr. Hood, anything undertaken to change a nation's political organization will always
lead to violence. If there is one thing history shows, it is precisely that. If you are
trying to change Idaho's state borders, that qualifies as a drastic change in the US
political organization, if only because if successful, it would set an example that would
find many, many followers, as you are implying yourself.
What the US promotes and condones abroad (secession of Panama from Colombia in 1903,
occupation of Cyprus by Turkey in 1980, occupation of the Western Sahara by Morocco in 1976,
secession of Kosovo, creation of Southern Sudan, etc., etc.) it does not want to see at home.
Of course you are also aware that in the 1860s, Secession has been met with brutal
violence.
In this respect, it comes as a relief lo learn that the Deep State is busy trying to turn
the US Army and the CIA into open psychiatry wards.
Very interesting that video ad on the girl "raised by two moms." Poor thing: knowing only
two dykes (her father must certainly be Hans Brinker), all her life she has been yearning to
meet real men. Apparently, she did not find them in college, where the boys are being
terrorized by feminists and forced to become faggots. Thus only the army remains as a place
where one might still find a few real men, the kind that one sees so finely portrayed in the
Russian army ad.
(Come to think of it, that US army ad may also be an attempt at subversion of prevailing
policy!)
America is in danger, not because of some external threat, but because our rulers
are the Republic's greatest enemies.
The United States doesn't have "rulers" in as much as it has "owners". Consider
it private property to put things in proper perspective "" then! Stake your claim. Forget the
law(they own that too) and the idea of a republic "" owners don't like to share. The banking,
tax code, and debt have got you by the balls, and they'll always keep you thumbed under.
"... My life story is very similar to yours -- blue collar upbringing, worked graveyard shift in factories during college, made it all the way to Wall Street --- and I completely agree with you. The Democratic Party might have been the party of the working-class families many years ago, but it's absolutely not that now. ..."
"... The most interesting aspect of party realignment in almost every country is the movement of the Anglo-Saxon elites to the parties of leftist authoritarianism, whether in the UK, US, or Canada. Since elites have always had “fluid” political values, one can only assume that they see tyranny as our destiny. ..."
I am a retired attorney but was reared in a blue collar home. I have not lost the values I
learned where my father returned home from work six days a week as a railroad brakeman.
Thanks to my pre-law curriculum I am well read in history and literature. My undergrad major
was history and my minor literature.
Having acquired a love for reading in college I have read both all my life but it has not
changed me from the son my father reared. I worked construction and general labor jobs to
help pay for college and law school and am very aware of how hard those jobs are and I have a
healthy respect for the men and women who provide us with the essential goods and services we
all need.
I therefore have no use for attitude of most on the left and some on the right who have no
respect for average working people and small business.
It seems many in Britain have the same outlook. My Dad was very proud I became a lawyer
but I am just as proud of the job he performed to give me that chance.
SUBSCRIBER 5 hours ago
I therefore have no use for attitude of most on the left and some on the right who have no
respect for average working people and small business. It seems many in Britain have the same
outlook.
My life story is very similar to yours -- blue collar upbringing, worked graveyard
shift in factories during college, made it all the way to Wall Street --- and I completely
agree with you. The Democratic Party might have been the party of the working-class families
many years ago, but it's absolutely not that now.
SUBSCRIBER 4 hours ago
Most democrat leaders are career politicians like Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Schumer. They
never had a real job and paid any taxes. They love raising taxes for big government and dole
out. Can’t wait for midterm election and take back the congress. R
SUBSCRIBER 14 hours ago
The most interesting aspect of party realignment in almost every country is the
movement of the Anglo-Saxon elites to the parties of leftist authoritarianism, whether in the
UK, US, or Canada. Since elites have always had “fluid” political values,
one can only assume that they see tyranny as our destiny.
"Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' million-dollar real-estate buying binge.
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has gone on a real-estate buying binge in
recent years, snagging four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the US alone, according to
property records.":
This one-to-one replay of Red Guards - Wikipedia but with quite
different sponsors ;-) "Hóng Wèibīng was a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao
Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Notable quotes:
"... there is an on-going effort to create fads/movements in which the public becomes caught-up and distracts the from reality. ..."
"... The more binary and controversial the better. Red/Blue. I used to be a big fan of sports but have the opinion it is a pointless waste of time and my life is better for that realization. ..."
"... Characteristics of the Woke: They always attack, especially with insults, like "paranoia nonsense". They never address the actual point made, instead they reinterpret the point to make it appear pure evil. Which allows them to attribute the worst possible motivations on the person they are attacking. Naturally they invent things the other person hadn't even mentioned, like climate change. ..."
"... Again the whole woke 'identity' culture that cancels dissent and promotes 'minorities' in positions of power is simply woke fascism. Just as military recruitment is about turning violent video games real for young men, so too is CIA recruitment about inviting the 'woke' for murder and mayhem in the name 'freedom' without which the woke could not wake. ..."
I think that there is an on-going effort to create fads/movements in which the public
becomes caught-up and distracts the from reality.
The more binary and controversial the
better. Red/Blue. I used to be a big fan of sports but have the opinion it is a pointless
waste of time and my life is better for that realization.
Additionally/tangentially, I feel there is a habit in the English language in particular
to create new words to describe things these words are not well define and generate a lot of
discussion and heat about things that nobody knows what they are actually talking about and
end up arguing the meaning of the words.
People who don't know the new words must try to catch
up or be left out of the discussion. I don't direct this at your discussion. I just wonder how
we might see things if we were constrained to a limited vocabulary - as I am as a programmer
of sorts.
Characteristics of the Woke: They always attack, especially with insults, like "paranoia
nonsense". They never address the actual point made, instead they reinterpret the point to
make it appear pure evil. Which allows them to attribute the worst possible motivations on
the person they are attacking. Naturally they invent things the other person hadn't even
mentioned, like climate change.
Again the whole woke 'identity' culture that cancels dissent and promotes 'minorities' in
positions of power is simply woke fascism. Just as military recruitment is about turning
violent video games real for young men, so too is CIA recruitment about inviting the 'woke'
for murder and mayhem in the name 'freedom' without which the woke could not wake.
I will believe that any of this is worth a shit when Snowden wades in with his
opinion...until then its just another distraction
The CIA is why we can't have "wokeism" about the right issue like global private/public
finance.....where is Occupy 2.0?
The current wokeism is like the pet rocks of old days.....would want folks to focus that
woke on the inherited class structure of the private property West, would we?
"...they are terrorists. They hate me. They hate my uniform. They don't care if I die
..."
We have been
discussing the termination of public employees and others for their postings on social
media or public displays. The latest case is out of New Jersey where former Hopewell Township
police officer Sara Erwin was fired recent over a June 2020 posting on Facebook in which she
referred to Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters as "terrorists."
There remains an uncertain line of what political or social views are tolerated and what are
barred on social media. Indeed, Sgt.
Mandy Gray was suspended and demoted for simply liking the June 2020 post.
Gray was the first female officer hired in Hopewell Township and became the first female
sergeant in 2019, according to
NJ.com.
Erwin insists that she posted the statement after she and her colleagues were faced with
violent protests and family members who were traumatized by images on television of officers
being attacked. Erwin reportedly wrote i:
" Last night as I left for work I had my two kids crying for me not to go to work. I don't
think I've ever felt the way I did last night. And then I watched people I know and others I
care about going into harms way. I love my police family like my own. So when you share posts
and things on Facebook I'd really appreciate if you'd THINK before doing so. I've seen so
many black lives matter [sic] hashtags in these posts. Just to let you know -- they are
terrorists. They hate me. They hate my uniform. They don't care if I die. "
Hopewell
Township Mayor Julie Blake and the town's council made the decision to fire her in an
unanimous vote to accept the recommendations of a hearing officer.
As will come as little surprise to many on this blog, my default is in favor of free
speech.
My concern is the lack of a consistent rule. For example, would the town have fired Erwin if
she said the same thing about another group like the Proud Boys or the NRA?
I can understand the objection to the posting. BLM is a group committed to fighting police
abuse and regularly engages in protests. For an officer to express such bias against BLM can
exacerbate tensions in such protests. However, officers also have a right to be able to express
themselves . The balance of those interests should, at a minimum, have favored a reprimand
rather than a termination for Erwin. If not, the town should establish a clear standard as to
what public employees are allowed to express on political and social issues. This includes
whether certain groups can be criticized but not others.
The action taken by Hopewell Township raises more questions than answers on where this line
is drawn in terms of free speech.
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Billy the Poet 1 hour ago
I can understand the objection to the posting. BLM is a group committed to fighting police
abuse and regularly engages in protests. For an officer to express such bias against BLM can
exacerbate tensions in such protests. However, officers also have a right to be able to
express themselves. The balance of those interests should, at a minimum, have favored a
reprimand rather than a termination for Erwin. If not, the town should establish a clear
standard as to what public employees are allowed to express on political and social issues.
This includes whether certain groups can be criticized but not others.
Turley reminds us that rules must be followed consistently if they are to have validity
but I think the larger point is that there are no rules anymore. The former rule book is now
used exclusively as a bludgeon by entitled parties.
OMG. I just watched 2 strong young black men have a conversation
without screaming RACISM. All they talked about was our freedoms and
our rights. I love watching Lawrence, he is a breath of fresh air in
the media. We need more people like these 2 men to keep the
conversation going about protecting everyone's rights.
It's sad that money was used to help people not for her to buy four
houses I don't understand I work in Brooklyn a lot of people would
need those donations. Sad 🥺
If we start with perception management, we can propose something patently absurd: the
Artificial Creamer Party.
Recognize any familiar tactics in the following campaign strategy?
1) We shall insist on the separation of milk and state, and bar any organization affiliated
with milk from being eligible for public subsidies.
2) The rights of dairy farmers to marry, adopt children, and openly serve in the military
shall be considered morally objectionable and debated at every opportunity.
3) In the event of an election, the multiple evils of milk shall be used to distract the
public from questioning the candidates on anything.
4) Think tanks, foundations, and the political correctness police shall enforce the world's
perception of Artificial Creamer as a "bridge to the future," "the salvation of the global
village," "the right of the human family," "the key to sustainable development," and "the path
to lasting peace."
5) Artificial Creamer will win a Nobel Prize, in light of everything it might do to fill the
world with sparkle ponies.
See? Something for everyone. But that's just perception management. Here's the net
effect.
The only ones to benefit will be the 0. 13% who are lactose intolerant and the 7% who make
megabucks. It won't create U. S. jobs because it will be made in Botswana at the emancipating
wage of twenty- three cents a day so 40% of Americans can afford to buy it at Walmart. For the
50% who are destitute, the FDA will declare Artificial Creamer a food group so it can be
purchased with WIC and Food Stamps, lest there be a riot against unfairness or Artificial
Creamer should fail to cash in on its share of national social programs.
Aren't we ingenious? We might demand that great- grandpa bag groceries on an oxygen tank,
thirty years into retirement, to afford his hypertension medicine, and reduce his Social
Security if someone gives him a five dollar tip that puts him over the income limit.
But, by God, he can have Creamer -- in any flavor he wants it. This is a land of choice and
opportunity, damn it.
Which is all fine and good, but when Artificial Creamer doesn't prove to be everything it
said it was, we'll go back to milk (again). And milk will get carried away in an orgy of self-
indulgence until we return to Artificial Creamer (once more). Either way, we'll have the
satisfaction and euphoria of empowerment.
Or something, anyway.
If you're confused about U. S. principles and who's supposed to benefit, you may not be to
blame. We've responded to boom and bust cycles inherent to our development choices and other
countries' criticisms with different programs and palliatives over decades of continuity.
But it doesn't take a genius to see that the tyranny of science is fighting to replace the
tyranny of royalty- teamed- with- religion we rejected in the eighteenth century. Science is
the power that buttresses democracy and capitalism, also in the name of "progress." Not that we
won't play the God card when corruption is so glaring that it requires another support system
which is conveniently available in the form of religious sanction.
It's a function of self- esteem to seek affirmation of our beliefs and share safety in
numbers, but the existence of like- minded people who hold the same fears, hopes, values and
disappointments is what makes them predictable targets and therefore most vulnerable to
strategic manipulation. It's like handing over the remote control to your decision- making
power or wearing a badge on your sleeve
Judging from comment ZH audience does not like Critical Race theory one bit :-). Does this
mean Trump 2020-2024?
It is also clear that the tide of white public opinion that's to BLM and Critical Race Theory
turned against the blacks and turned drastically. In a way founders of BLM did a very bad service
to community. It proved to be extremely divisive for the country.
Schools that teach " white privilege " as fact are breaking
the law , the equalities
minister has told MPs.
MP Kemi Badenoch said the underpinning ideology of critical race theory "sees my blackness
as victimhood and their whiteness as oppression."
"This government stands unequivocally against critical race theory," she
told MPs during a debate on Oct. 20 in which Labour MP Dawn Butler had called for the
curriculum to be "decolonised."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KtXshJDqJOw
Badenoch, MP for Saffron Waldon and also minister for equalities, said the rise of
critical race theory was a "dangerous trend in race relations."
"We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and
inherited racial guilt," she said.
"Any school which teaches these elements of critical race theory or which promotes
partisan political views such as defunding the police, without offering a balanced
treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law."
The defunding of police has been a demand of many key members and supporters of Black
Lives Matter.
"Some schools have
decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group, often fully aware
that they have a statutory duty to be politically impartial," said Badenoch. "Black lives
do matter -- of course they do. But we know that the Black Lives Matter movement, capital
B, L, M, is political."
Some Black Lives Matter leaders and groups, including the UKBLM group, are explicitly anti-capitalist.
"What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are
accepted facts," said Badendoch.
"We don't do this with communism. We don't do this with socialism. We don't do it with
capitalism."
'Not America'
Badendoch also warned against importing the rhetoric on race from America.
" Our history of race is not America's history of race. Most black British people who
have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their
connections to the UK and in search of a better life. I should know. I am one of them.
"We have our own joys and stories to tell. From the Windrush generation to the Somali
diaspora, it is a story that is uniquely ours."
During the debate on education and race, MP Dawn Butler had earlier called for the
curriculum to be "decolonised," saying that "history is taught to make one group of people
feel inferior and another group of people feel superior."
Former Windrush passengers and members of the RAF Donald Clarke, George Mason, Sam King
MBE, and Allan Wilmot in the Imperial War Museum in London on June 12, 2008. (Cate
Gillon/Getty Images)
But Badenoch said the curriculum did not need decolonising for "the simple reason that it
is not colonised," adding, "We should not apologise for the fact that British children
primarily study the history of these islands."
In the United States, the Trump administration recently
banned agencies or contractors from "conducting training that promotes race stereotyping,
for example, by portraying certain races as oppressors by virtue of their birth."
"This ideology is rooted in the pernicious and false belief that America is an
irredeemably racist and sexist country; that some people, simply on account of their race
or sex, are oppressors; and that racial and sexual identities are more important than our
common status as human beings and Americans," Trump wrote, later calling the ideology
"divisive."
The UK government last month issued guidance
which says schools should not use resources "produced by organisations that take extreme
political stances on matters."
Examples of unacceptable stances include "a publicly stated desire to abolish or overthrow
democracy, capitalism, or to end free and fair elections," as well as opposition to free
speech or the use of racist or anti-Semitic language. Materials "promoting divisive or victim
narratives that are harmful to British society," were also included as an example.
Lt. Frank Drebin , 1 hour ago
A rare example in these surreal times. I salute you ma'am.
Nothing , 36 minutes ago
Not that rare. Ive heard numbers of blacks and latinos speak out like this. But these
voices are systematically suppressed by Google, by Facebook, and also by the blocking of
peaceable assemblages and by simple conversation with strangers without being muzzled with
the excuse given of coronaphobia.....
Dickweed Wang , 1 hour ago
If all races are so equal why is it that when Europeans first went to the African
continent the people there were not using the wheel?
Yippie21 , 1 hour ago
Now do American Indians; same
CriswellSpeaks , 1 hour ago
If whites are superior to blacks then why didn't the white race completely supplant the
black race in Africa? Short answer, same reason the black race never built any great cities
in Africa, tropical diseases. Geography is destiny and being located at the equator,
tropical diseases have prevented black Africans from creating any great civilizations until
the present era. When the whites of S. Africa attempted to migrate north much past Rhodesia
they were stopped dead in their tracks(literally) by tropical diseases. Imagine what a
society would look like if it got hammered by the Black Death every century and you have
black Africa.
DeathMerchant , 1 hour ago
********! There was no enviromental incentive to progress in equatorial regions. No need
for warmth, food or advanced tools to progress beyond ability to provide basic necessities
which were available to them year round. Compare that to the northern climes which had
minimal seasonal opportunities to provide those things and the development of capability to
cope with such.
CriswellSpeaks , 1 hour ago
Critical Race Theory is a form of back handed racism directed at minorities. According
to CRT, as a white person I possess this magical power to oppress all black people that I
was born with. No matter what black people do, they are powerless is the face of my absence
of skin pigmentation. Seriously, if you do a little digging into the founders of CRT you
will probably find the law firms/lawyers/political lobbyists who were responsible in the
1960's for opposing the abolition of Jim Crow laws. After they lost to color blindness and
integration, they infiltrated the Communists, claimed racial harmony was preventing a
Marxist revolution and had to be reversed for it to happen. CRT would drag race relations
back to the post civil war era.
PCShibai , 32 minutes ago
Ask yourself this, " if ' white privilege ' is the real reason
why blacks cannot get ahead in the US, then why aren't blacks successful in all the other
black-lead nations on the planet?" I mean...... there's ZERO history of ' white privilege '
keeping down Uganda, or the Congo, or ANY other black-lead nation...... and yet they are
all failing their people miserably and have ALWAYS failed their people miserably!
WHAT DO ALL THOSE BLACK NATIONS BLAME " THEIR " CONTINUOUS FAILURE ON? The
Samoans???
" White
privilege " is the CRUTCH that is used by the black race for their own failures.
Failure to maintain a family that raises children properly, failure to insist that their
children are properly educated, failure to integrate into the successes of the surrounding
culture, failure to accept the fundamentals that make people economically successful.
Until they eliminate the CRUTCH and accept their responsibility for their own success
& their own failures, they will continue to be the one failed culture throughout the
entire world!
cvp , 9 minutes ago
I do not disagree with the point your making; I would like to add, the people who
migrate from the African continent to the United States are some of the happiest people
I've met and worked with in my life. They are not interested in what BLM is selling! Jus
say'n...
5onIt , 40 minutes ago
None of the black people in this country were brought here in chains either. They are
free to leave whenever they damn well please.
greatdisconformity , 30 minutes ago
The institution of slavery gave black lives a value they did not otherwise have in
Africa.
Africans simply sold the losers of tribal wars, or their own slaves, to the coastal
markets.
It was either the auction block, or the killing fields.
I do not feel any guilt at all.
Without slavery, these people would not exist in any form; here or with descendants in
Africa.
They owe their existence in its most fundamental form to slavery.
They should be glad.
Whitey is being played. Big time.
Spetzco , 19 minutes ago
Especially as most of the major slave traders in Africa were BLACK themselves.
greatdisconformity , 35 minutes ago
The language of Critical Race Theory is the language of Genocide.
Historically, when an ethnic group is singled out for a savage take-down like Critical
Race Theory, it has been a prelude and pretext for mass killings.
Of course, this time things will be different.
Shifter_X , 14 minutes ago
It's the same playbook the Boshies Nazis and Maoists used. Yes, genocide and wiping out
history, that's their specialty.
St. TwinkleToes , 1 hour ago
When you're a race hustler filled with the dripping hatred of Whitey, and all you have
going in life are endless victim grievance bs regurgitated to get a head in life, it all
makes sense. It's not enough that Blacks have their own BET, endless Black This & Black
That Awards, staring roles in most all feature films, Two term POTUS, no, they want it all.
They want Whitey to live in imaginary Black World Wakanda as indentured Servants as
reparations for slavery 150 years ago. They want to drag us in chains down roads of endless
Persecution until we are no more.
Phuc Critical Race Theory, and Phuc Black Lives Matter.
SunsteintheSodomite , 58 minutes ago
Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa showed the world that you can build a complete
NATION with infrastructure, economic supply routes, trade deals, agriculture, technology,
EVERYTHING...
...then drop off the keys and an instruction manual...
...and within 5-10 years it will be beyond repair.
Throughout their history, blacks have had only one route to civilization:
Follow WHITEY.
Rest Easy , 23 minutes ago
And van jones has the nerve to say white people have a virus. Maybe so van. We are too
nice.
Is there a US city and unfortunate surrounding suburbs that has a large percentage of
black persons not causing havoc? Ruin. Just generally weird stupid bs. Morning noon and
night. Tip toeing through the daisies trying to keep the young black kids fun down to a
dull roar. If you are "lucky". Get a little uppity and the klan with a tan comes a
knocking. Sometimes just being white around black Nazis is more than sufficient.
At least teach students about what happened in Rwanda.
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Misean , 4 minutes ago
Or Rhodesia, the bread basket of Africa.
After changing it's name to Zimbabwe, the black rulers have reduced the nation to abject
poverty. From feeding much of sub Saharan Africa, the nation now depends on massive food
imports, most of which is given by western nations at great expense.
The population of productive whites and blacks have either left or been killed by roving
bands of bandits. The bandits "reclaimed" commercial farms at gun point, took girls as
slaves killed all makes, and raped then murdered the women.
Having no clue how commercial farming works, but assured by their leaders that
traditional African farming was superior, they sold the farm equipment to smarter thugs,
for dimes on the dollar (the buyers exported the equipment to better run countries, for
sizable profits, this depleting the country of the farm capital necessary to turn things
around).
The farm bandits, with stone age farming techniques, destroyed the soil quickly. Most of
the fertile top soil has washed away, what's left is exhausted.
nsurf9 , 1 hour ago
The only "privileged" our country is suffering under - is not already ending the
Affirmative Action Act of 1986. It had it place 25 years ago. Now, it is nothing more than
a prima facie Government sanctioned systematic discrimination against Caucasians - that's
now well past being justified by any stretch of a "compelling state interest" argument.
If you are being wrongfully discriminated, you have the Equal Protection Clause of the
14th Amendment and State law to pursue your claim - like the rest of us.
SmokingArgus , 25 minutes ago
If you have a "Minister of Equalities" you've already lost.
Shifter_X , 1 hour ago
"" Our history of race is not America's history of race. Most black British people who
have come to our shores were not brought here in chains, but came voluntarily due to their
connections to the UK and in search of a better life. I should know. I am one of them"
What a steaming pile of ********.
The settlers who came to America in 1560 (not 1619 as the fictitious farcical revised
"history" claims) and thereafter brought their slaves WITH THEM FROM THE UK
The UK was happy to pass the slave trade on to the colonies.
But make no mistake, the UK was up to its *** in slavery well before the colonies were
even formed.
DieSocialJusticeWankers , 1 hour ago
A Biden win and there will be affirmative action and CRTheory on steroids. The USA will
die for young white people. Vote Trump white people, or you're fkkkkked!
1. As recently as June of 2019, Biden praised the "civility" of the segregationist
senators he worked with in Congress to pass anti-busing legislation.
2. Biden praised the notorious segregationist politician George Wallace, boasted about
how Wallace once honored him with an award in 1973, and told a Southern audience in 1987
that "we [Delawareans] were on the South's side in the Civil War."
3. Biden opposed busing in the 1970s and expressed fears that it would lead to a "racial
jungle."
4. Biden voted to protect the tax-exempt status of private segregated schools.
5. Biden told black radio host Charlamagne tha God, "If you have a problem figuring out
whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
6. Biden told the Asian and Latino Coalition of Des Moines that "poor kids are just as
bright and just as talented as white kids."
7. While delivering remarks before a black audience in Delaware, Biden launched into a
meandering story about a gang leader named Corn Pop and claimed that he "learned about
roaches" while working at a community pool in a black neighborhood.
8. In 2008, Biden referred to then presidential candidate Barack Obama as "the first
sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean."
9. In 2006, Biden told C-SPAN, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless
you have a slight Indian accent."
10. Biden falsely claimed to have "marched" in the civil rights movement.
Still waiting on Trump's racist comments, been like 6 years.
Brits had slave's just as almost every other country in the world has, in the past even
white slaves (Irish). Brits have no higher ground to stand on than anyone else looking at
their indiscretions in India and China and elsewhere. Such as the opium wars in China.
Silly British. They should realize it has NOTHING to do with race. It's all about
COMMUNISM, they are just as in danger from the cancer of communism as anyone else.
rmogabe , 27 minutes ago
She said it is a political movement.
artytom , 1 hour ago
Thank Goodness. Very surprised to see this coming out of the UK government - but...
Is the tide turning.
Have the World Bank run out of bribes?
Have we passed the tipping point and they have taken off the pressure because they know
there is no going back?
Are they satisfied that the economies are in free fall and won't bounce back?
Are they simply covering their asses (the most likely of all).
DeathMerchant , 1 hour ago
In 1959, AAMD set the IQ threshold for mental retardation at < 85. The civil rights
movement of the next decade forced psychologists to rethink this boundary, because half the
African American population fell below it. In 1973, responding to this concern, AAMD (by
then AAMR) changed the threshold for retardation from IQ < 85 to IQ < 70. The
boundary moved south by one standard deviation! The proportion of blacks below the
threshold instantly dropped from about 50 percent to 12 percent. Subsequent refinements
made it still more difficult to meet the criteria for retardation.
When Binet in 1905 produced the first IQ test, it promised to revolutionize the diagnosis
and treatment of mental retardation. A half century later it came under attack for reasons
Binet could not have imagined. Could any of the pioneer psychometricians have foreseen
Larry P. v. Riles (1979), a California class-action suit that focused on IQ testing of
young black children? The court held that IQ tests were not valid for African Americans. It
banned California from using the tests for placing black students in classes for the
"educable mentally retarded" or equivalent categories on the grounds that the tests were
biased. After a series of appeals, the district court ruled that no special education
related purposes exist for which IQ tests could be administered to black pupils. Though
only a California ruling, the case began a political assault on standardized testing that
has spread beyond the IQ test to college entrance exams, promotional exams and more.
A Case History of Government Intervention
In 1996, The Office for Civil Rights placed 16 school districts nationwide under review for
potential discrimination. The districts were charged with violating the civil rights of
minorities, especially African Americans, because blacks were found to be overrepresented
in special education programs, especially those for the mentally retarded. Five of the 16
districts were in Maryland. Ironically, Maryland is a very liberal state very much in tune
with the goals of the Civil Rights Office. Maryland is also almost 30 percent black. The
offending districts included Baltimore, Howard, Harford, Montgomery and Prince Georges
counties. OCR detectives uncovered "discrimination" by looking at school records. The
offending data appear in Table 1. The irritant is in the last column. Black children were
classified as retarded at 1.5 to 2.2 times the rate of whites. OCR ordered the counties to
find a "remedy."
Fortunately teaching Critical Race Theory or any other invented marxist propaganda is
going to get a lot of people killed.
They'll find they deployed the subversion before gaining a sufficient majority, or
sufficient technological control among a highly educated peasantry.
And by the end of all that killing, there will be a brighter future for European
descendants, darkness relegated to its corner of the Earth.
By that time, all the people who would otherwise wish they'd never uttered a word of
critical race theory will simply be no longer.
Fight back.
You have the moral law on your side and you will win.
GreatUncle , 18 minutes ago
UK Government ... ROFL.
The UK government last month issued guidance
which says schools should not use resources "produced by organisations that take extreme
political stances on matters."
Because see we the UK government do that ... ain't you noticed? So as we do it then it
is all legal like mass immigration to destroy the indigenous population...
MadameDeficit , 1 hour ago
Oh boy, can't wait for the hypocrites to tell her why she's wrong.
Maghreb2 , 1 hour ago
She's right but she should shut her mouth either ways because she's a tory sell out
bitch and we know that because we know the Tories and the
Freud-Murdoch run P.R firms they get their polices from . Real racial theory would have
David Lammy lynched by everyone but the Chinese. Starting teaching the little white boys
about
Jimmy Savile in Leeds infirmary and we'll have them ready to suicide bomb Buckingham
Palace and go after the nearest member of "the people who will n
ot be blamed for nothing " minority .
Tell them that is what Mi5 are for.
To protect White Privileges and the weaker ones will kill themselves when they see what
they have planned for them in the future. By the Divine right of the Windsors suicide isn't
even legal and just remember that is why he was in the infirmaries. She should remember how
similar the white monkeys are to the black monkeys in their natural habitat .
The west is past imported racial talking points. Blood for the money will be new mantra
after the war starts but we wouldn't expect the people in parliament to have ever
understood that in way because they can't see the real world. Rivers of Blood Libel these
days. Play them this song and we'll see which music turns them into hardened killers over
night. Tell them Guy Burgesses and Rothschild used to go to the
Gargoyle club and the stories about Dolphin Square .
Victim ideology as broadcast by media, politicians and schools is the true divider and
oppressor that reinforces the odious legacy of slavery. The only way people move beyond
what was unacceptable in the past is to release and bury it. Those who are vested in
maintaining the old ugly status quo are the ones who won't let it go. that's the cabal and
all their minions. Enough.
GeezerGeek , 1 hour ago
How many black slaves were needed on Britain's cotton plantations? Duh...
How many black slaves were brought to Britain's colonies in America (not just on the
continent) before it became an independent (at least that's the story) nation? Duh...
As an aside, isn't one particular candidate for VP this year the descendant of a slave
owner in a former British colony?
Compare slaves brought to British colonies against slaves brought into the USA after
independence. Which number is greater and which process lasted longer?
For fun, we can then consider black slaves brought to other places in the Americas, both
North and South, plus the nearby islands.
At least she had the courage to attack CRT, which strikes me as another example of the
soft bigotry of low expectations. How long do you think it will be before she finds herself
looking for a new job?
What is never mentioned is that poor whites suffered from slavery. Depressed wages.
Being forced to man "slave patrols" or risk jail time. That system robbed everyone
Faustus B. , 2 hours ago
The left got so worked up about intelligent design being taught in the classroom, but
apparently it was just political. We must never forget that they'll ram racial
pseudo-science down kid's throats the minute they get the chance.
"... The hatred of Donald Trump, which certainly to some extent is legitimate if only due to his ignorance and boorishness, has driven a feeding frenzy by the moderate-to liberal media which has made them blind to their own faults. ..."
"... Just as the Israel Firsters in Congress and in the state legislative bodies have had great success in criminalizing any criticism of the Jewish state, the mainstream media's "fake news" in support of the "woke" crowd agenda has already succeeded in forcing out many alternative voices in the public space. ..."
"... This type of "thought control" has been most evident in the media, but it is beginning to dominate in other areas where conversations about policy and rights take place. Universities in particular, which once were bastions of free speech and free thought, are now defining what is acceptable language and behavior even when the alleged perpetrators are neither threatening or abusive. ..."
"... Recently, a student editor at the University of Wisconsin student newspaper was fired because he dared to write a column that objected to the current anti-police consensus. ..."
"... The worst aspect of the increasing thought control taking place in America's public space is that it is not only not over, it is increasing. To be sure, to a certain extent the upcoming election is a driver of the process as left and right increasingly man the barricades to support their respective viewpoints. If that were all, it might be considered politics as usual, but unfortunately the process is going well beyond that point. The righteousness exuded by the social justice warriors has apparently given them the mandate to attempt to control what Americans are allowed to think or say while also at the same time upending the common values that have made the country functional. It is a revolution of sorts, and those who object most strongly could well be the first to go to the guillotine. ..."
Once upon a time it was possible to rely on much of the mainstream media to report on
developments more or less objectively, relegating opinion pieces to the editorial page. But
that was a long time ago. I remember moving to Washington back in 1976 after many years of
New York Times and International Herald Tribune readership, when both those
papers still possessed editorial integrity. My first experience of the Washington Post
had my head spinning, wondering how front-page stories that allegedly reported the "news" could
sink to the level of including editorialized comments from start to finish to place the story
in context.
Today, Washington Post style reporting has become the norm and the New York
Times , if anything, might possibly be the worst exponent of news that is actually largely
unsubstantiated or at best "anonymous" opinion. In the past few weeks, stories about the
often-violent social unrest that continues in numerous states have virtually disappeared from
sight because the mainstream media has its version of reality, that the demonstrations are
legitimate protest that seek to correct "systemic racism." Likewise, counter-demonstrators are
reflexively described as "white supremacists" so they can be dismissed as unreformable racists.
Videos of rampaging mobs looting, burning and destroying while also beating and even killed
innocent citizens who are trying to protect themselves and their property are not shown or
written about to any real extent because such actions are being carried out by the groups that
the mainstream media and its political enablers favor.
The hatred of Donald Trump, which certainly to some extent is legitimate if only due to his
ignorance and boorishness, has driven a feeding frenzy by the moderate-to liberal media which
has made them blind to their own faults. The recent expose by the New
York Times on Donald Trump's taxes might well be considered a new low, with blaring
headlines declaring that the president is a tax avoider. It was a theme rapidly picked up and
promoted by much of the remainder of the television and print media as well as "public radio"
stations like NPR.
But wait a minute. Trump Inc. is a multi-faceted business that includes a great number of
smaller entities, not all of which involve real estate per se. Donald Trump, not surprisingly,
does not do his own taxes and instead employs teams of accountants and lawyers to do the work
for him. They take advantage of every break possible to reduce the taxes paid. Why are there
tax breaks for businesses that individual Americans do not enjoy? Because congress approved
legislation to make it so. So who is to blame if Donald Trump only paid $750 in tax? Congress,
but the media coverage of the issue deliberately made it look like Trump is a tax cheater.
And then there is the question how the Times got the tax returns in the first place. Tax
returns are legally protected confidential documents and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is
obligated to maintain privacy regarding them. Some of the files are currently part of an IRS
audit and it just might be that the auditors are the source of the completely illegal leak, but
we may never know as the Times is piously declaring "We are not making the records
themselves public, because we do not want to jeopardize our sources, who have taken enormous
personal risks to help inform the public." Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation
wryly observes that when it comes to avoiding taxes "I'll bet that the members of the
Times ' editorial board and its big team of reporters and columnists do the same thing.
They are just upset that they don't do it as well as Trump."
Just as the Israel Firsters in Congress and in the state legislative bodies have had great
success in criminalizing any criticism of the Jewish state, the mainstream media's "fake news"
in support of the "woke" crowd agenda has already succeeded in forcing out many alternative
voices in the public space. The Times has been a leader in bringing about this departure
from "freedom of speech" enshrined in a "free press," having recently forced
the resignation of senior editor James Bennet over the publication of an op-ed written by
Senator Tom Cotton. Cotton's views are certainly not to everyone's taste, but he provided a
reasonable account of how and when federal troops have been used in the past to repress civil
unrest, together with a suggestion that they might play that same role in the current
context.
This type of "thought control" has been most evident in the media, but it is beginning to
dominate in other areas where conversations about policy and rights take place. Universities in
particular, which once were bastions of free speech and free thought, are now defining what is
acceptable language and behavior even when the alleged perpetrators are neither threatening or
abusive.
Recently, a student editor at the University of Wisconsin student newspaper was fired
because he dared to write a column that objected to the current anti-police consensus.
Washington lawyer Jonathan Turley
observes how the case was not unique, how there has been " a crackdown on some campuses
against conservative columnists and newspapers, including the firing of a
conservative student columnist at Syracuse , the public condemnation of a
student columnist at Georgetown , and a
campaign against one of the oldest conservative student newspapers in the country at
Dartmouth. Now, The Badger Herald , a
student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin Madison, has dismissed columnist Tripp Grebe
after he wrote a column opposing the defunding of police departments." Ironically, Grebe
acknowledged in his op-ed that there is considerable police-initiated brutality and also
justified the emergence of black lives matter, but it was not enough to save him.
The worst aspect of the increasing thought control taking place in America's public space is
that it is not only not over, it is increasing. To be sure, to a certain extent the upcoming
election is a driver of the process as left and right increasingly man the barricades to
support their respective viewpoints. If that were all, it might be considered politics as
usual, but unfortunately the process is going well beyond that point. The righteousness exuded
by the social justice warriors has apparently given them the mandate to attempt to control what
Americans are allowed to think or say while also at the same time upending the common values
that have made the country functional. It is a revolution of sorts, and those who object most
strongly could well be the first to go to the guillotine.
Yes, The USA Today is now fact-checking memes detailing black on white crime, to
try and downplay the reality of just how bad black on white crime is in America. [
Fact check: Rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black crime are similar , USA Today,
September 30, 2020]:
A
viral meme purports to list homicide statistics by race in the United States, as
follows:
Whites killing Blacks -- 2%
Police killing whites -- 3%
Whites killing whites -- 16%
Blacks killing whites -- 81%
Police killing Blacks -- 1%
Blacks killing Blacks -- 97%
The page behind one viral version of the post, I Support Law Enforcement Officers, had
over 611 shares on its post. USA TODAY has reached out to the page for comment.
Some versions of the meme include this line: "America does have a problem. But it's not
what the media tells you it is."
Rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black homicide are similar, at around 80% and 90%
Overall, most homicides in the United States are intraracial, and the rates of
white-on-white and Black-on-Black killings are similar, both long term and in individual
years.
Between 1980-2008, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 84% of white victims were
killed by white offenders and 93% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders.
In 2018, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that 81% of white victims were killed by white
offenders, and 89% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders.
In 2017, the
FBI reported almost identical figures -- 80% of white victims were killed by white
offenders, and 88% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders.
Though the numbers differ year-to-year, the stark difference that the viral post attempts
to portray between the rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black homicide -- which it puts
at 16% and 97%, respectively -- is inaccurate.
Both numbers tend to hover between 80% and 90% and remain within 10 percentage points of
each other.
Rates of Black-on-white and white-on-Black homicide also within 8 points
Likewise, the post attempts to portray a gulf in the rate of Black-on-white and
white-on-Black homicide -- which it lists at 81% and 2%, respectively.
Statistics from the FBI in 2018 and 2017 contradict that claim.
In 2018, 16% of white victims were killed by Black offenders, while 8% of Black victims
were killed by white offenders.
Similarly, in 2017, 16% of white victims were killed by Black offenders, while 9% of Black
victims were killed by white offenders.
In both years, the numbers remained within eight percentage points, a much smaller gap
than the 79% alleged in the viral post.
Black on white crime isn't as bad as white people believe it to be on social media, when
they share viral memes, but as The USA Today admits, it's still pretty bad.
But white people noticing how bad it is well, that's the real crime in the eyes of The
USA Today .
Speaking of whites killed by blacks, an attractive white lady working at a 7-11 has been
shot and killed in Waldorf, MD, which is one-third orc. The description of the murderer left
out the race but mentioned a hoodie, a strong indication that it's another dindu crime,
especially since she was killed despite the fact that she was cooperating with the killer's
demands.
Excerpt: Richardson said the suspect was dressed in a hooded sweatshirt, surgical mask and
jeans.
"He approached her, he produced a gun, it looked like she was complying and he shot her at
that time," Richardson said.
I have read of countless similar encounters over the years. Being a white woman working
alone at 1 a.m. in a convenience store must be one of the most dangerous jobs in America.
(((fake news ))) will either do nothing and let the facts fade from normie memory, or
goysplain that all black crime is YT's fault, even black-on-black violence, because YT
exists.
Put nothing past them. Hell, they're gaslighting antifa's riots as 'right-wing
violence.'
Could it be possible that we could learn some important lessons by looking back at how
Americans lived 70 years ago?
Of course there has never been any era in our history when everything has been perfect. But
without a doubt, things are vastly different today than they were back in 1950
In 1950, Texaco Star Theatre, The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy were some of the most
popular shows that Americans watched on television.
In 2020, a Netflix film entitled "Cuties" is so trashy and so disgusting that four states
have sent a letter to Netflix asking for it to be removed because it is "fodder for those
with criminal imaginations, serving to normalize the view that children are sexual
beings."
In 1950, television networks would not even show husbands and wives in bed together.
In 2020, "adult websites" get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
In 1950, people would greet one another as they walked down the street.
In 2020, Americans are too enamored with their cellphones to be bothered with actual human
contact.
In 1950, gum chewing and talking in class were some of the major disciplinary problems in our
schools.
In 2020, youffs are literally gunning down police officers in the streets.
In 1950, people would make an effort to dress up and look nice when they would go out in
public.
In 2020, most of the population has become utter slobs and "People of Walmart" has become one
of our most popular memes.
In 1950, the typical woman got married for the first time at age 20 and the typical man got
married for the first time at age 22.
In 2020, the typical woman gets married for the first time at age 27 and the typical man gets
married for the first time at age 29.
In 1950, a lot of people would leave their homes and their vehicles unlocked because crime
rates were so low.
In 2020, many that live in urban areas are deathly afraid of all the civil unrest that has
erupted, and gun sales have soared to all-time record highs.
In 1950, Americans actually attempted to parent their children.
In 2020, we pump our kids full of mind-altering drugs and we let our televisions and our
video games raise our children.
In 1950, Baltimore was one of the most beautiful and most prosperous cities on the entire
planet.
In 2020, Baltimore regularly makes headlines because of all the murders that are constantly
occurring. Of course the exact same thing could be said about many of our other major
cities.
In 1950, 78 percent of all households in America contained a married couple.
In 2020, that figure has fallen below 50 percent.
In 1950, about 5 percent of all babies in the United States were born to unmarried
parents.
In 2020, about 40 percent of all babies in the United States will be born to unmarried
parents.
In 1950, new churches were regularly being opened all over the United States.
In 2020, it is being projected that 1 out of every 5 churches in the U.S. "could be forced to
shut their doors in the next 18 months", and the mayor of Lubbock, Texas just said that
opening a new Planned Parenthood clinic is like starting a church.
In 1950, we actually had high standards for our elected officials, and people actually did
research on the candidates before they cast their votes.
In 2020, more than 4,000 people in one county in New Hampshire voted for a "transsexual
Satanic anarchist" in the Republican primary, and she is now the Republican nominee for
sheriff in Cheshire County.
In 1950, children would go outside and play when they got home from school.
In 2020, our parks and our playgrounds are virtually empty and we have the highest childhood
obesity rate in the industrialized world.
In 1950, front porches were community gathering areas, and people would regularly have their
neighbors over for dinner.
In 2020, many of us don't know our neighbors at all, and the average American watches more
than five hours of television a day.
In 1950, Americans used words such as "knucklehead", "moxie" and "jalopy".
In 2020, new terms such as "nomophobia", "peoplekind" and "social distancing" have been
introduced into the English language.
In 1950, the very first credit card was issued in the United States.
In 2020, Americans owe more than 930 billion dollars on their credit cards.
In 1950, one income could support an entire middle class household.
In 2020, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and filed for unemployment, and
more than half of all households in some of our largest cities are currently facing "serious
financial problems".
In 1950, the American people believed that the free market should govern the economy.
In 2020, most Americans seem to believe that the government in Washington and the Federal
Reserve must endlessly "manage" the economy.
In 1950, "socialists" and "communists" were considered to be our greatest national
enemies.
In 2020, most of our politicians in Washington have eagerly embraced socialist and communist
policy goals.
In 1950, the U.S. Constitution was deeply loved and highly revered.
In 2020, anyone that actually admits to being a "constitutionalist" is considered to be a
potential domestic terrorist.
In 1950, the United States loaned more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 2020, the United States owes more money to the rest of the world than anybody else.
In 1950, the total U.S. national debt reached the 257 billion dollar mark for the first time
in our history.
In 2020, we added 864 billion dollars to the national debt in the month of June alone. In
other words, we added over three times more to the national debt in that one month than the
total amount of debt that had been accumulated from the founding of our nation all the way to
1950.
In 1950, most Americans were generally happy with their lives.
In 2020, the suicide rate is at an all-time record high, and it has been rising every single
year since 2007.
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Where you from Kev? Ever live in or near a black neighborhood, maybe go to a school with a
high black population? Or did you spend your life in a lily White suburb where the only
blacks you ever met were domestic help or on TV? Try living the life of an average White
person stuck near a violent black population center, then get back to me. You are clueless
about race relations in the US.
@Mr. Rational e SHR data provide additional details about each homicide incident,
including the jurisdiction, month, year, victim and offender demographic characteristics,
weapon, the circumstances surrounding the incident (e.g., argument, robbery, gang-related),
and the relationship between the victim and offender, if known.
But that would not adequately account for your interaction point.
Another element I think should be added is relative risk from non/strangers of different
races. How many of the white on white murders are strangers compared to how many of the black
on white murders? Because I think the most obvious question is how to evaluate risk for random
interactions. Non-strangers can be evaluated as individuals to a larger degree.
One of the things about FBI/Justice Dept. violent crime statistics that has infuriated me
for decades is their damnable habit of lumping Hispanics and who-knows-what into the "White"
offender category.
Kevin is a kind hearted person, and I know he is coming from a place of not wanting to speak
ill of his circle of friends.
But the reality of life in America is that (murder aside) blacks violently attack white
people more than 1,500 times per day, each and every single day. (USBOJ Household survey)
Now, that is a very serious problem. Many of these black on white attacks are in ways that
are unbelievably serious, and would be completely unthinkable to white people, ie slashing or
gang beating someone just for "fun" and laughing while while you are doing it.
If noticing reality all around us and thinking that something should be done about it makes
someone racist, I guess I am racist, too.
@Rich ly beginning to gentrify) neighborhoods in San Francisco in the 1980s, when crime
rates were considerably higher than they are now. Also lived at the corner of Oakland, Berkeley
and Emeryville in 1992-3. I played pickup basketball with mostly black guys regularly
throughout many of those years. Subbed in the SF public high schools including one that was
majority black or close to it. Went to quite a few mostly-black parties in the Lower Haight. I
generally got along at least as well with black folks as with white folks.
Also when I lived in Paris in 1988-89 I hung out with and played on the Paris 8 basketball
team with mostly Africans. Our best player was a black guy from NYC.
Overall black folks are at least as nice as white folks, and in certain ways, more real.
Maybe you guys just haven't been hanging out with the right black people?
@Kevin Barrett er wrong action. Only white people are responsible for their own actions,
but not blacks because blacks are like good-natured children who lack full mental capacity and
only respond to their environment, which of course white people created. When you ask racist
liberal weenies like Kevin to point to low-crime black societies anywhere in deep Africa, they
cannot of course. Then white colonialism gets blamed. That there might be black moral turpitude
or at least deeply ingrained cultural patterns of depraved behavior in blacks is automatically
eschewed by racist liberal weenie circles in academia from whence Kevin came. And so because
the data will not be looked at nor new approaches considered, the problem of black criminality
has reached the point where it threatens the survival of America.
“Between 1980-2008, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 84% of white victims
were killed by white offenders and 93% of Black victims were killed by Black
offenders.”
So white victims were over 2x more likely to have been killed by blacks than vice-versa (16%
and 7% of cases). That white number also includes hispanics. The article also omits mention of
the black homicide rate being 8 times higher than whites+hispanics.
The argument that black-on-black violence is a greater problem than police violence entirely
misses the point. If I am confronted with a criminal, I have the legal right to defend myself.
If I am confronted by an aggressive police officer, I can invoke no such right.
Have you not ever had an interaction with a policeman? Did you enjoy how they disrespect
you, provoke you, dare you to defy them so they can assault you? They’ve done this to me,
a harmless white man who generally travels around in jeans and sneakers, maybe looking a little
rough around the edges even though I own rental property and a business. So it doesn’t
take much to picture how the thuggish bully-boy element so prevalent in the oinking fraternity
would act out against someone they consider without status.
Breaking the power of the policemen’s unions is an essential first step to remedying
rampant abuses in the system. The police are not members of the working class. They are agents
of state power and as such must be held to a very strict standard of conduct. In a republic,
there can be no greater crime than abuse of authority, be it by violence or corruption, by
those whom, in Thomas Jefferson’s memorable phrase, “we are obliged to entrust with
power.”
Such a betrayal of the public trust, by men entrusted with the power of life and death over
the citizenry, is the only transgression for which the death penalty is the truly appropriate
punishment and deterrent.
@Kevin Barrett 8221; – meaning me. They didn’t like it that the big white boy
was dunking on them.
I was then attacked by about 12 groids in a pre-meditated manner, and I know this for a fact
because I heard their planning.
The statistics are what they are, and people like you who are in la la land are annoying.
You are not connected to reality when you let your exceptional experiences overcome what others
are noticing.
I don’t allow my negative experiences with blacks overcome my ability to see many of
them as people. But, on the other hand, I don’t ignore the crime statistics.
Your willful ignorance is dangerous. Clown world is bad enough already without illogical
“exceptions makes the rules” blathering.
USA Today seems unaware of this and thinks they are clearing the air by trying to get to
the truth about race and crime. Hilarious.
Yes.
And the interracial crime stat they harp on helps hide the scope of Black crime.
There’s roughly six times more Whites in the US than Blacks, so a truly equal society
would have six times as many Blacks killed by Whites and vice versa.
So, per the 2018 stats, if twice as many Whites are killed by Blacks as vice versa, then
Blacks are killing at twelve times the rate of a “fair” society.
One factor these statistics oversimplify is that there is a topological overlay to the
issue. Vast sectors of the country are still overwhelmingly white, for example the north west
and southwest. That’s a huge area where any homicide will be by definition white on
white. And most blacks are de facto segregated into large inner cities, where most crime will
be black on black. These differential homicide rates pertain to the narrow border zones where
white and black interact.
Unfortunately, I live in precisely such a place and the relative homicide rates seem to me
to be like the meme. There have been paltry few white on white murders and these are mostly
within families, such as a guy killing his wife. Some drug related. The one white on black
murder I know of was more in the nature of manslaughter and was drug related. This received
national media attention! The black on white murders on the other hand are predatory, vicious
and comparatively common. If you are walking down the street you are much more afraid of a
black male than a white. That’s the reality from a deplorable on the ground like me.
You were good enough at basketball to be paid to do it, so good enough to run rings round
those SF black pick-up players and make a complete fool of some of them. I suspect you quickly
became careful not to do that, because you knew a humiliated male African American individual
would react with quite a bit more hostility that a white would have. Similarly, had you had been
getting a huge amount of attention from all the women at those mostly black Lower Haigh parties
the other men there would get very annoyed, and you would feel less threatened by the white ones.
You did not have that problem because you conducted yourself with humility and self control,
which was easier for you than a black athlete, AOTBE. CAL2 , says:
October 3, 2020 at 2:29 pm GMT
Out of white murders, 2,677 were committed by whites. However, 803 Hispanics are lumped into
the murder category. Let’s say half are white Hispanics. That means white-on-white
murders drop to 2,276 or 68%. Using the same model, black-on-black is at 86%. That is a more
significant difference.
@lavoisier before I got my growth spurt, I could out-run the black kids. They would also
say “catch that m-fuc!r” then as well. I took a lot of beatings, and it was always
5,6 or 7 to 1. Sometimes the numbers were much higher. The white liberal adults who ran the
school were completely out of their depth with regards to the black problem.
White men that don’t get it have not lived the same experiences… and further
they are ignoring data that is right in front of their face.
To ignore overwhelming data is quite a feat of denial. Denial on that level borders on a
form of pathology. Maybe they don’t want to admit the world is the way it is?
The races are different. The sexes are different. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
@PO'd in PG County . It actually means that while only 11% of black victimes are killed by
non-blacks, 19% of white vicitms are killed by non-whites, so nearly twice as many whites are
killed by blacks as vice versa, but since black population is only about 1/5 of white
population, it means that per capita blacks are killing almost ten times as many whites as vice
versa. (This leaves out the Hispanic obfuscation mentioned above.)
As others might have already said blacks are indeed about 8 times more likely to murder
whites based on percentages of the population using the 2018 statistics. I’d like to
think that most racially aware whites already know this, but the normies need to know.
USA Today frames the statistics in such a way to make it appear that there is parity
between blacks and whites and that “racist” whites are all up in arms over nothing
and it’s really all much ado about nothing.
A problem with the stat that 80% of whites are killed by whites and 90-93% of blacks are
killed by blacks is that it doesn’t factor in the number of whites killed by hispanics
since most years the FBI does not break them out as a separate racial category. If they did I
believe the true white on white murder rate would drop to between 60-70%.
The other area that the 80% for whites and 90% for blacks metric is misleading is that
whites commit less than half the homicides of blacks while being 4.5x numerous. Blacks commit
murder at about 8-9x the white rate when hispanics are factored out of the white rate.
The other thing mainstream outlets avoid is the dreaded 13/56, or blacks commit 56% of the
murders while only being slightly over 13% of the population. Meanwhile, assuming hispanics
commit murder at roughly their percentage of the population (18%) this means that blacks and
hispanics account for 76% of the 15-16K annual murders while whites account for just 24% while
being 59-60% of the population.
Without blacks and browns America truly would have crime rates more resembling Sweden or
Norway.
This guy. Sheesh.
I worked with hundreds upon hundreds of blacks @ FORDS FRAP. Many of whom were temps from
Detroit. I can speak from experience they are a net drain on a business or town/city.
The language.
The poor approach to job performance.
Lousy attitude/ demeanor.
I am owed and entitled.
Filthy break areas and cafeterias.
Theft of products and supplies.
Theft of time, they are almost genius at scheming in various ways to escape job duties.
The entrances and approaches, roadways and highways near the plant are dangerous. Especially
aftershift.
The fraudulent medical claims must cost FOMOCO enough to fund a small nation.
@Anonymous population 6 times that of blacks… blacks kill whites at a rate 1,5 times
higher than whites kill whites. So, only correcting for population size we get 50% higher rate
of black on white murder instead of USA Today’s 8%…
Further, given the still strong separation between races, assume that white-white encounters
are 5 times more prevalent than white-black encounters. That’s an extremely low-ball
estimate and the real number is somewhere between 10 and 20. With that correction, on
population and encounter basis, blacks are around 8 times more likely to kill whites than
whites – whites.
Let’s compare the USA Today number of 0.08 to the real number of 8… USA Today
lied 100 times over… fake media indeed.
I had essentially the same experience at a job that became infested with lower class blacks
from the hood except they’d scream racism any time they were held to account for any of
their misbehaviors and lack of performance. Plus they’d try to shift their workloads off
on every white person they could and-again -- any complaints about it and they’d screech,
“Racist!”
I learned to despise them for the content of their character. Any comment on their low life
character was immediately met with not only shrieks of racism but also shrieks of, “You
goan respeks me!” They were the foulest of the foul and were utterly contemptible.
@El Dato versa. A Hispanic was eight times more likely to attack a white person than vice
versa.
– in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for
murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely . For the crime of “shooting”
— defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more
likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.
– If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery
rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.
– In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and
robbery by 90 percent.
Truth be told: political operatives own and run our MSM. This is why the press is called
the 'Fourth Estate'.
They are more correctly described as a Fifth Column , one far more open and sworn to
destroy our country and its foundational citizens – and taxpayers – as any that
ever operated during World War II. You would think this would be of vital interest to people
who loudly declare themselves to be "Nazi-punchers", but who time and again show themselves to
be merely low-level street terrorists informed and inspired by Mao's Red Guard and the
irredeemable thugs of the African National Congress.
One wonders what's preventing them from
mimicking the Red Terror waged by the leftists of Spain, when the battle for "freedom" involved
the disinterment of the graves of Catholic clergy to better pose the corpses in blasphemous
positions. Imagine how depraved those Mostly Peaceful protesters had to have been for even a
leftist-supporting site such as Wikipedia to baldly state
The violence consisted of the killing of tens of thousands of people (including 6,832
Roman Catholic priests, the vast majority in the summer of 1936 in the wake of the military
coup), attacks on the Spanish nobility, industrialists, and conservative politicians, as well
as the desecration and burning of monasteries and churches.
Directly in the crosshairs this time are small and medium-sized owner-operated businesses
– the true backbone of American freedom and prosperity – who have largely been
sacrificed in exchange for the knock-kneed offerings of Danegeld from our giant conglomerates,
all of whom have prospered immensely from the suffering and privation brought on by the
Democratic lockdown of society – and the total shutdown of our economy.
Think! – have you read a single article charting how the government war on small
business directly enriched Amazon.com and
world's richest autocrat, Jeff Bezos? . who then funnels his windfall into a newspaper that
blatantly pimps for the Democratic Party, which translates into a vast payday for the DNC, not
least from its newly-approved partnership with the shadowy and many-tentacled Soros-surrogate
group, BLM?
The result is what you'd expect when a fringe group operates with the full cooperation and
partnership of major industry and both political parties (don't confuse Trump with a
standard-issue Republican, please – he may have terrible flaws, but that isn't one of
them) – 10% of the population holding the other 90% in a chokehold with only one set of
rules: no arrest and prosecution for Bolshevik violence and terror ..but the zero-tolerance
heavy hand of corrupt Leviathan coming down hard against any and all citizens who fight back
or, eventually – inevitably – who even struggle against their restraints.
Short of the sudden arrival of celestial horsemen to punish the guilty and reward the
set-upon, it has become clear that the only answer is the one that the Powers That Be claim to
be dead set against: racial separatism. (Particularly when we consider that all that will be
necessary to turn America into Hell on earth will be the adoption of Ibram Kendi's First Law,
sometimes known as equality of outcome :
To fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the
U.S. Constitution that enshrines two guiding anti-racist principals: Racial inequity is
evidence of racist policy and the different racial groups are equals.
Could any "amendment" be more terrifyingly totalitarian than this?)
White and black separation would, instead, accomplish two goals, both more important than
Kendi's quick fix: we would learn soon enough about actual equality of outcomes (which
is why no Communist, black or white, wants anything to do with the creation of one more failed
basket-case black state), and much more importantly, white families can sleep secure in their
beds at night, without worrying about Apache raids at midnight, egged on and recorded for
"posterity" by that Fourth Estate/Fifth Column referred to up top. Because the fact of the
matter is that, even should some combination of government and law-enforcement halt the burning
and looting of America – as things stand now, none of the worst malefactors will ever see
the inside of a prison cell .which means any ceasefire will only be temporary, to be violently
ripped asunder the moment they sense white Americans have at last lowered their guard once
more. And living in perpetual paranoid readiness for violent uprisings and mindless destruction
is no way to live at all.
Trump has it half right, a border wall is the answer: only it needs to run
lengthwise , between the Southern and Northern borders. If we don't use the next four
years to plan out such a separation, fretting over our children's children will be a fruitless
exercise – those who aren't murdered will be captured and 'go native' .and in case you
haven't looked at a globe lately, there's no place left to run.
As a recovering journalist, I can point out that even on a rinkydink rag in a small city,
where I got fired for being a real journalist back in the early '70's; he who owns the
presses and distribution networks calls the tune. It's a matter of working-class (no matter
how middle-class your income or social-status) versus the ownership class. The latter wins
every time.
If we allow the Black Lives Matter movement to become America's Bolshevik Revolution, we
will lose our liberty, and many of us will likely lose our lives, as well, for daring to
question them. This was never about racism. It has been about power anBlack Lives
Matter is a Modern Totalitarian Revolution
Classic totalitarian regimes share a number of common characteristics. The
rise of these regimes began with a cultural revolution, aimed at angering the citizens against
the current system. During that period domestic enemies are designated, and the people in the
radical movement aiming at overthrowing the old system rally together against those common
enemies, calling it a common struggle, as they adopt a new official ideology that stands
significantly apart from the old one. They seek to control every aspect of the lives of their
people, enlisting everyone they can to participate in the struggle. Even persons who may belong
to enemy classes or groups join up, hoping to receive mercy when the new regime gains control.
In Stalin's Russia and Mao's China the enemies were anyone who reminded them of the old system,
and anyone who could challenge them if left with enough power. The state enemies were the
capitalists, landlords, richer peasants and foreign agents of all kinds. Nazi Germany included
those outside the national community, which included socialists (even though Nazism was a form
of socialism) and communists, Jews, Christians, and any ethnic minorities that did not fit into
the German model of a loyal elite specimen.
The goal of each of the totalitarian regimes of the past were to eliminate the old system,
eradicate any history or remnant of the old regimes, and create a dominant single party that
stood as a rebellious alternative of the traditional State. Then, once in power, the perceived
enemies were murdered or imprisoned, as were many of their allies for the crime of knowing too
much. The younger generation was used as a controlling mechanism, taught to tattle on their
older counterparts for not being one hundred percent in favor of the new party in charge. The
youngsters were uniformed and organized into militias to turn their energies towards advancing
the party line, and improving upon the power of the new political elite.
In each case anything that even resembled the free market was eliminated, and the new
government controlled the economy. They took over the means of production either by taking
control of it and nationalizing it, or through heavy regulations (as we saw in Italy and
Germany). The immigration structure was altered, they orchestrated a break-down of morality and
what were considered moral norms in their culture, they worked on the destruction of the
nuclear family, they forcibly reallocated farmland, they formed a socialist economy that was
designed to redistribute the wealth away from the designated domestic enemies into the hands of
those revolutionaries who deserved some kind of reparations for what was allegedly lost at the
hands of the domestic enemies, and early on looting and rioting was encouraged and championed.
Interestingly, the list I just gave you was not just something the NAZIs and communists did,
but is also a list of demands currently being voiced by Black Lives Matter.
Public expression was also controlled by past dictatorial regimes so that no dissent could
emerge. If dissent was spotted, the party members acted as a mob, actively mobilized to quell
the dissent in the name of the "people's struggle" against a constant list of enemies. Again,
Black Lives Matter fits the bill on this one, too.
These regimes exaggerated real problems, and real aspects of human nature, and created an
on-going revolution against their enemies. It was a common struggle to liberate the people from
whomever the leadership designated as an enemy. To not pull the party line was to be socially
asleep, or an agent of the enemy, which then would place the person under great scrutiny, and
if they remained uncorrected, they would be ridiculed, shamed, and eventually jailed, or
murdered.
The fuel was passion, and anger, and a common demand for answers.
Sound familiar?
Black Lives Matter is an embodiment of everything that the 20th Century dictatorships
were
Eventually, Black Lives Matter will lose its appeal, and the players will grow weary of the
struggle. The regime will weaken, and when they try to invigorate their revolutionaries for a
new fight in order to strengthen the resolve of the regime and its followers, they will find
that all of their enemies are dead or in exile, and the problem can no longer be blamed on
others. However, it could take half a century, or more, before that happens, and in a Black
Lives Matter America the damage will already have been done. The death of liberty and the
annihilation of the free market will have left a long path of sorrow and misery following it.
By then, the enemy will only be themselves, and as all regimes in history, the struggle will
turn inward, and the murders will be against their own. Through the paranoia imaginary enemies
will be concocted, where nobody is safe from the suspicions of one's neighbors or children.
People begin to vanish, and the party begins to struggle to hold on to control.
Black Lives Matter, like all past dictatorial regimes, has successfully unleashed the
passions of many members of the public. The campaigns of terror are in full swing, in the name
of protesting, in the name of social justice, and in the name of standing against racism. They
claim that science and reason are in their corner, when, like Stalin and Mao of the Soviet
Union and Communist China, it is all a great big lie. They claim whites have unfair privilege
and must be forced to kneel to their true overlords, as Hitler did with the Jews when he
believed it would allow him to create a better Germany. In the end, as with all violent
totalitarian regimes, violence will bring them down just as violence brought them into
power.
Tucker on the incredible popularity of Black Lives Matter
Islamic totalitarianism solidifies in the Middle East, and works to spread across the
nations of Europe
As Islamic totalitarianism solidifies in the Middle East, and works to spread across the
nations of Europe, Black Lives Matter totalitarianism is working its way through its birthing
canal in the United States. Both bear all of the markers of totalitarianism. They work to
control the lives, speech, and actions of those below them. They terrorize and murder,
committing themselves to endless struggles against a long list of designated enemies. They pose
as more than an ideological challenge. They are poised to bring down Western Civilization,
which has prospered due to America's Liberty, and free market capitalistic system.
Should we fall, to where may one escape? There is no other place to go. Black Lives Matter
is a real threat, an enemy who desires to overthrow America and control this country. There is
no criticizing Black Lives Matter. The mobs threaten anyone who holds dissent. It is already
happening. People are losing their jobs for criticizing Black Lives Matter, and they are still
only a political movement. Black Lives Matter is enjoying complete immunity from criticism
while they are not in power. Imagine what will happen if they ever gain a hold on the reins of
our system.
It has gone beyond a demand for equality. Equality is no longer acceptable. If one were to
say "All Lives Matter," for example, that is now unacceptable, and racist. Only "Black Lives
Matter" we are told. White lives don't matter because of what your ancestors allegedly did a
couple hundred years ago. Christianity and the American System is based on the idea of equality
in the eyes of God, and equality in opportunity (or at least the attempt to create a system
that accomplishes such), but now if you say that out loud, you are called a racist, and your
very life could be at risk. Dissent is hate speech. You could be fired from your job, or in
some cases, fined and jailed for daring to speak out against the rising totalitarian regime
known as Black Lives Matter because such murmurings could be considered "hate speech".
The latest demand by Black Lives Matter is ridiculous, yet it is happening. It began with a
chant, "defund the police," and now has advanced to cries to abolish the police. The City of
Minneapolis is in the process of doing exactly that. When asked on CNN who, then, if the police
were gone, should we call in the middle of the night while our house is being burglarized,
a member of the Minneapolis city council said that the question "comes from a place of
privilege." In other words, if some feel like law enforcement is not on their side,
everyone should feel that way, otherwise, you have an unfair privilege, and you are racist.
Black Lives Matter is enjoying a rise to power largely because of the liberal media
Black Lives Matter is enjoying a rise to power largely because of the liberal media. Any
counter-arguments against their claims are going unheard. CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the alphabet
networks, and any of the other liberal outlets aren't going to report any criticism of Black
Lives Matter. And as Hitler's team explained, if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the
truth. In this case, if you tell one side of the story, and the other side is never heard, it
becomes true.
Unchallenged claims must be true, therefore, Black Lives Matter must be on to something. The
polls say so.
Black Lives Matter is achieving their power in the same way past revolutionaries did.
Through force. They break things, they burn things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way.
They believe they deserve whatever they want, and if you don't give it to them, they will take
it. Then, on the way out, they will set your business on fire. They occupy, they terrorize, and
nobody is willing to stop them, because if you do, you are a racist. They know this. They know
you are paralyzed by your fear of them, and fear of being considered racist. They have a
message. Step out of line and we will hurt you, your family, or your business. That is the
strategy of Black Lives Matter, and it is becoming the strategy of the Democrat Party. If you
are afraid to defy the mob, the mob rules.
The Framers of the U.S. Constitution created this system to protect us from the mob. That is
why they created a constitutional republic, not a democracy (as some people like to say).
Democracy is historically a transitional type of government. When the mobs of democracy begin
to take control, which usually accompanies a continuous vote for benefits from the treasury,
liberty breaks down and dictators begin to take control.
If we allow the Black Lives Matter movement to become America's Bolshevik Revolution, we
will lose our liberty, and many of us will likely lose our lives, as well, for daring to
question them. This was never about racism. It has been about power and control since the very
beginning. Black Lives Matter seeks to overthrow the U.S. Constitution, and replace our system
with a Marxist-based government that destroys liberty and the free market, and places their
radical leaders in control of the country. If we don't stop it, and recognize the revolutionary
nature of what is going on, America will disappear forever. And, if there is no America,
Liberty dies worldwide.
Douglas V. Gibbs of Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary,
has been featured on "Hannity" and "Fox and Friends" on Fox News Channel, and other television
shows and networks. Doug is a Radio Host on KMET 1490-AM on Saturdays with his Constitution
Radio program, as well as a longtime podcaster, conservative political activist, writ
Antifa and BLM are just shows with stunts designed to distract people from the level they are
fleeced by MIC and financial oligarchy. As well as restore the legitimacy of Clinton wing of
neoliberal oligarchy which was badly shaken during 2016 election, when their candidate was send
packing.
Nicholas Kristof is member of "Clinton gang of neoliberals" and a part of this effort to
distract people. The number of people who pay attention to Nicholas Kristof bloviations is
astounding. Few understand that we do not know the facts and the real issue if the tight grip of
MIC and financial oligarchy on the society. What is interesting is that s in California, there
are 8.5 million residents born outside the country and about 150,000 homeless. "The melting pot
burned over. It is now a ... salad.
For example, if money spend on wars were used to manage thoseforests with difficult terrain
and perioc drauts, would the outcome be different?
Can those fires and destruction be viewed as God punishment for war the USA unleashed? As
Thomas Jefferson said "I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just."
BTW, the number of commenters with Russian paranoia symptom is frightening. Of course NYT
attracts specific audience, but still. In this sense NYT columnists including Nickolas Kristof
are just warmongering bottom feeders of MIC crumps. It is pathetic how he tries to hide the lack
of money for forest management and mismanagement if this issue by Oregon Dem politician under the
broad banner of "climate change" Existence of climate change does not mean that fire should burn
uncontrollably.
MIC steals half trillion dollars and then financial oligarchy steals probably another half,
if not more. What is left is not enough for proper maintenance of land, water and environment in
general. Stupid situation, but this is neoliberalism my friend, where "greed is good". And people
chose this mousetrap themselves in 1970th by electing first Carter and then Reagan and then
Clinton , allowing financial oligarchy to dismantle New Deal Capitalism. Clinton presidency was
especially destructive, In a way he should be views as the top villain in this story, a real
criminal boss.
Below I selected only more or less sane comment (which constitute probably less 1% of the
total)
Notable quotes:
"... How about a judicious Forrest management? ..."
"... So much for our useless 750 Billion dollar military budget. ..."
"... Amazing how ,close minded people become when, for them, everything is political. ..."
Wouldn't the conspiracy theories and concerns about antifa be lessened if progresses were as
vitriolic about violence committed in the name of equity, diversity and inclusion as they are
about violence committed in support of MAGA? Would the right have anything to crow about if
the NYT was as critical of physical altercations caused by social justice warriors as they
are of white supremacists? Wouldn't we all have more trust in MSM if they investigated the
facts before accusing Nick Sandman of racism or claiming a garbage pull was a noose? One
sided reporting and editorials like these fan the flames rather than squelch them.
It's amazing. You can write a column in the NY Times full of conspiracy theories -- all fully
believed by the left -- and accuse the right of being prone to believing conspiracy theories.
From Russia - collusion to rubes in the red states --a majority of dems share a set of
beliefs that are as delusional as anything a small group on the right might believe. But,
that's Kristof and the Ny Times for you.
People seemed to have lost a sense of what is plausible. While few of us know the news first
hand, we have to both trust and evaluate what is reported. Nothing is absolute. Jurors are
asked to decide cases beyond a reasonable doubt. That is how I feel taking in the news. But
within that sliver of doubt, within the fact that nothing is absolute is where conspiracy
theories begin to fester. It is where some have found solace to confirm what they want to
choose to believe despite how much there might be to question that. Events like this create
an opportunism to demonize those you hate and in doing so the essence of what we should be
debating is lost. How to prevent these fires in the first place? We will probably continue to
debate it despite the evidence on climate change, whether there is a deep state trying to
discredit Trump, whether the seriousness of covid is a hoax. Yes there is no absolute
certainty but there is taking an educated guess as opposed to an emotional response. I'll go
with the educated guess. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, I
will say it is a duck and accept that sliver of possibility I might be wrong.
Why do people attach themselves to "conspiracy theories?" It's actually quite simple. Take
QAnon for example: it is functionally just another religion competing for adherents. As with
any religion, it offers its believers an explanation of what they deem is wrong while
offering a path to right those wrongs. Certainty and simplicity: those are the essential
elements of cults/religion/bumpersticker politics. And the internet guarantees that whatever
you believe will be "validated." "Conspiracy theories" are, for the most part, not theories,
merely assertions. A theory is subject to proof and disproof by evidence. In a world where
truth has no inherent monetary value, don't expect it. Why the rapid spread? To paraphrase
Bill Clinton, "It's the internet, Stupid!" Follow the money: Agenda + Clickbaitability =
Profit That is the business model of the internet, a medium where "news" is whatever will
produce the most clicks. As in profit. Unless and until the youngest generation developes a
means of communication that does not depend on megacorporations, nothing will change. In the
Sixties, a generation which disbelieved and had no honest access to the traditional media,
created its own, the "alternative press." Hopefully, today's teenagers will develope their
own way to communicate that is reliable. It is 100% guaranteed that if their "opposition"
becomes an actual threat to the profits of Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, and the rest of
their ilk, they will be cut off.
The antifa movement has grown since the 2016 United States presidential election. As of
August 2017, approximately 200 groups existed, of varying sizes and levels of activity.[73]
It is particularly present in the Pacific Northwest.[74] Wikipedia
In an age when the US Justice Department is anything but just, more closely resembling
something akin to "just us," I call to mind Thomas Jefferson, in a somewhat different
context: "I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just."
We spend hundred of billions of dollars every year on the types of weapons that won WWII,
while the real threat to our Republic and yes, our civilization, is ,,, It's funny and
tragic, simultaneously.
Antifa has done a lot of things. They have chosen to step into the arena. Whether they did it
or not, this is accusation is a result of wading into the fight. If Antifa doesnt like to be
accused of things and cant handle it, then Antifa should step off. Or does Antifa only want
praise? Because that isnt going to happen. Many people dont like Antifa nor trust Antifa. And
rightfully so. Ask any career criminal how many times they've been wrongfully accused of
something. If an individual or group doesnt want to be accused of things, then dont get
involved from the start.
Except that about a dozen people have been arrested and charged with starting the forest
fires. Shouting "without evidence!" doesn't make it so. Facts matter.
@JQGALT There are always people who are setting fires whether accidentally or intentionally.
Do you have any proof that these arsonists were politically motivated I any way ?
Yet the Almeda fire in Oregon that destroyed more than 2,300 homes was, according to NYT
reporting, caused by human activity and is subject of a "criminal investigation." Perhaps it
would be wise to reserve total judgment until that investigation is completed.
Who needs rumors? The organization showed what it is made of when it created its free zone in
downtown Seattle and had the highest crime and murder rate per capita in its short life in
the country.
Rational people know that Antifa is not staring forest fires. However, burning and looting
and using fireworks as weapons in the recent riots make even the dumbest claims of Trump
supporters more believable.
Leftwing activists have literally been arrested for starting some of these fires. There is
video of arsonists being caught, yet the media ignores this, and actively denies it. Gee, why
could that be?
@LV Do you have any proof that these people were were left wing activist or just the kind of
people who are always starting fires ad they have in the past ?
The [neoliberal] left spends 24/7 preaching to their choir about Trump fascists dictatorship,
an illegal government installed by a foreign power, destroying the constitution while
preparing to seize power and ignore coming election results. There is a zero factual evidence
for it, such as a refusal to follow judicial injunctions for example, but their well educated
audiences are buying it whole day long. So what is so baffling that a rural audience after
watching night after night Portland burning by arson and accompanied by "peaceful protest"
graphics on TV would buy into arson speculations and rumors and ignore your disclaimers?
Facebook needs to be regulated since it has effectively organ-harvested the critical thinking
skills of a significant portion of the population. It'd be better if thinking people simply
deleted Facebook and let Facebook shrink and become the right-wing agit-prop tool that it
truly is. Mark Zuckerberg is happy to to destabilize society with his little toy invention.
You'd think with all that money, he could afford a conscience. What a wrecking ball Facebook
is.
"All this rumormongering leaves me feeling that the social fabric is unraveling, as if the
shared understanding of reality that is the basis for any society is eroding." Ya think?
@California Scientist Amen. We are more like an international terminal at this point. A bunch
of people gathered by happenstance, heading in different directions, and often with very
little in common.
@California Scientist: It is even worse than when Adlai Stevenson noted that there aren't
enough educated people to elect a liberal government in the US.
@LV - The point is that "urbanites" aren't able to boss anyone around. It's the low
population rural areas that have outsize political power thanks to the unfortunate design of
our government. Every state gets two senators, regardless of population, and that also
factors into the allocation of Electoral College votes, so that an EC vote from WY is worth 4
times as much as an EC vote from CA, for example. In 2016, Senate Democrats got 20 million
more votes than Senate Republicans, yet Republicans kept control. In 2018, Senate Democrats
got "only" 11.5 million more votes, and consequently lost seats. We're being governed by a
minority in may areas of the country, and nationally, yet the "rural rubes" or whatever you
want to call them, insist that they don't have nearly enough power.
Strange that anyone living in or just knowing the west would NOT know that arsonists could
not burn down huge chunks of forest if they where not so very dry.
Augury Unhappy Bird Watcher, State of Grave Doubt
Sept. 20
The ugly truth of Oregon's political past is asserting itself...we aren't in "Portlandia"
anymore Nick.
Ominous! There are two information ecosystems in this country and Americans increasingly live
in different realities. Much of the media is in the business of massaging the egos of their
readers by feeding them stories that confirm their biases and make them feel clever. There is
less and less fact based news and more and more propaganda. A lot of people aren't really
interested in facts. They just want to be told how right they are and how stupid and evil the
people who disagree with them are. Media corporations are providing the market with what it
desires, and what it desires is poisonous.
There is a reptilian brain need to believe this nonsense and to propagate it- because the
believers are so terrified of the facts of the truth (and the lack of knowing what might be
done to address those facts). The people who are true believers are pointless to discuss.
They are too frightened. They need to believe this stuff. It is hopeless to address them.
Dark times, indeed.
With the natural buildup of combustible matter, combined with houses everywhere now and
little land management, these fires will happen and will cause problems. Lots of things can
start them and they will.
You left out "a century of zero-tolerance policies toward wildland fires (creating
precariously dense underbrush), and resistance to traditional controlled burning at the
human/wilderness interface". It's not the whole story, but neither is climate change which,
due to global technological leveling, is evermore the responsibility of China and India than
Western civilization. Signed, a moderate progressive endlessly frustrated with breathless
liberalism
If only there were no arsonists. Here is a video of a woman who found a man on her property
with matches in his hand (and no cigarettes, which was his excuse for having matches in his
hand). She made a citizen's arrest. This happened in peaceful Oregon. Don't listen if you
can't handle harsh language by a woman who is trying to save her property. Arson is real, and
it is no joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJW_M4pBCnY
A man was arrested for arson in Southern Oregon. His fire damaged or destroyed numerous
homes.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-charged-arson-connection-almeda-fire-southern-oregon/story?id=72960208
Rumors of antifa notwithstanding, people in Oregon were looking for arsonists because there
are arsonists.
"Conspiracy theories" are, for the most part, not theories, merely assertions. A theory is
subject to proof and disproof by evidence. In a world where truth has no inherent monetary
value, don't expect it. To paraphrase President Clinton, "It's the internet, Stupid!" Follow
the money: Agenda + Clickbaitability = Prominence That is the business model of the internet,
a medium where "news" is whatever will produce the most clicks. As in profit. Unless and
until the youngest generation developes a means of communication that does not depend on
megacorporations, nothing will change. In the Sixties, a generation which disbelieved and had
no honest access to the traditional media, created its own, the "alternative press."
Hopefully, today's teenagers will develope their own way to communicate that is reliable. It
is 100% guaranteed that if their "opposition" becomes an actual threat to the profits of
Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, and the rest of their ilk, they will be cut off. As to why
people attach themselves to "conspiracy theories", it's actually quite simple. Take QAnon for
example: it is functionally just another religion competing for adherents. As with any
religion, it offers its believers an explanation of what they deem is wrong while offering a
path to right those wrongs. Certainty and simplicity: those are the essential elements of
cults/religion/bumpersticker politics. And the internet guarantees that whatever you believe
will be "validated."
"Conspiracy theories" are, for the most part, not theories, merely assertions. A theory is
subject to proof and disproof by evidence. In a world where truth has no inherent monetary
value, don't expect it. To paraphrase President Clinton, "It's the internet, Stupid!" Follow
the money: Agenda + Clickbaitability = Prominence That is the business model of the internet,
a medium where "news" is whatever will produce the most clicks. As in profit. Unless and
until the youngest generation developes a means of communication that does not depend on
megacorporations, nothing will change. In the Sixties, a generation which disbelieved and had
no honest access to the traditional media, created its own, the "alternative press."
Hopefully, today's teenagers will develope their own way to communicate that is reliable. It
is 100% guaranteed that if their "opposition" becomes an actual threat to the profits of
Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, and the rest of their ilk, they will be cut off. As to why
people attach themselves to "conspiracy theories", it's actually quite simple. Take QAnon for
example: it is functionally just another religion competing for adherents. As with any
religion, it offers its believers an explanation of what they deem is wrong while offering a
path to right those wrongs. Certainty and simplicity: those are the essential elements of
cults/religion/bumpersticker politics. And the internet guarantees that whatever you believe
will be "validated."
" All this rumormongering leaves me feeling that the social fabric is unraveling, as if the
shared understanding of reality that is the basis for any society is eroding." You betcha.
(Palin doesn't look half bad compared to the current batch.) It's a simple formula: social
media driven disinformation + extreme capitalism which leaves us with no real will to address
it + legitimate grievances like racism and financial insecurity = craziness on all sides,
fanned by a president whose personal agenda takes precedence over absolutely everything. All
societies are constantly dealing with potentially destabilizing threats. Their institutions,
media, leadership, and understanding of a common good are their immune system. Ours is
compromised, we are destabilized.
How about a judicious Forrest management? We live in a period of global warming
because of our planet axis precision, aggravated by the presence of an unprecedented
population explosion needing more water, more food, the production of which needs more arable
land, cutting trees, displacing wild animals, exhausting the aquifer. Cutting trees increases
the CO2 in the atmosphere. More people in India, more cattle emitting methane, more old
fashioned way of cooking food and producing more CO2 ... Permanent frost melting also sends
more methane in the atmosphere ... The climate is extremely complex to permit exact modeling,
but it is clear that if we want to stay healthy, it is vital to regularly clear our western
forests of dead wood in order to prevent today's disaster of millions of people, particularly
children with asthma and old people breathing the heavily polluted air. It is time to move to
solar, wind power, electric trucks, cars etc. The technology is here. Let's hope that Biden
will support clean air as means to better health. If all these years instead of using
abstract terms like global warming or climate change, we have been appealing to people to
keep the air clean in order to have better health, perhaps they would have stopped buying the
behemoths cars, producing so much pollution?
As Nicholas and many readers on this page already know, this commentary is more evidence of
how needlessly and recklessly polarized our country has become. When tribal instincts push
people to look for anything - fact, fiction or fantasy - on social media or "rage commentary"
that supports and validates their identities they will glom onto it faster than maggots on
dead flesh. It is a sad state of affairs when so many people of all political persuasions
will not take the time - even a few minutes - to question and investigate the latest "truth"
being promoted. The new culture of low information consumers seems to be spreading as fast as
a pandemic despite the heroic efforts of honest journalism. I wonder if low information
consumption was so endemic to the citizens of Ancient Rome and Greece - long before Twitter,
Facebook and Rage TV? People, please take a moment to "click" one step further to see if the
latest conspiracy story is true. Why help propagate lies? It will only come back to haunt
you, or your children.
Antifa or not, at least some of the big fires have been started by arsonists. Of this fact we
have video proof. By downplaying or even denying it, the media are just as bad as the
conspiracy theorists in promoting disinformation.
This reminds me of a time when people saw "Reds" behind anything that was going wrong in the
country. Nothing new, but just as pathetically paranoid. I wonder how many people, or their
parents, fit into both groups?
Here's another urban myth. Ok, more a lefty myth. That we can just keep adding people to this
country (urban, suburban, rural, big city, anywhere and everywhere) and it won't have any
effect. With the corollary that it's just a matter of "green new deal" or everybody getting a
Prius or the dummies in the sticks realizing climate change is real and then we can just go
on like this forever. We can't. Not only is our much hated lifestyle, which from what I can
see, nobody really wants to give up, killing us, but believing 330 million Americans that add
2-3 million more a year is not a problem at all. Our entire way of life: endless population
and economic growth is unsustainable. We don't need to wait until 2050 to see it. Just step
outside.
It is very difficult to teach people that "research," doesn't mean you go to some TV show or
website you like and root around for stuff that tells you what you want to hear. One prob
seems to be really simple: it takes actual work to do it right. Another is that research,
done well, has an ugly habit of forcing you to think at least a little about whether your own
ideas make any sense. And a third is that people really, really don't like it when their
political views start getting contradicted by reality. It seems to be easier to change
reality than to change views, even a little. Oh, and another prob? Too few Americans really
read anything worth reading. I'm all for funsies (and I've probably read more crummy science
fiction than all y'all put together) but one of the joys of walking around in Paris is seeing
that the kiosks and bookstores still sell a ton of stuff on philosophy, lit, economics, and
that everywhere, people actually read them. Books teach thought. Newsmax don't.
@Beer Can Boyd: As a native-born American, I think the US fell down when the Congress put
"under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1953, ostensibly to preclude anyone thinking
about Godless communism, and gave itself a stroke.
The melting pot burned over. It is now a word salad. But appears there is a method to the
madness. It is hard for the world to tell the madness from the method
@Carolyn then there are the lies and the demonization of China and Russia by both parties to
top it off. How can voters believe anything and decide before they vote?
Supporting this atmosphere of potential violence are some of my republican friends. They are
mostly educated and not stupid. Yet they continue to support a man whom I think holds the
responsibility for most of the violence if it comes. Now I want to get down to my point about
these supporters. I believe they have succumbed to a cult-like dynamic. I say this because no
rational person could possibly support Trump. Religious cults create this same addiction and
irrationality. When my friends disagree with me, they try to put our friendship hostage to no
further discussion of politics. They are unwilling to even be confronted with objections to
their support of Trump. I have decided that I can always make new friends. What I do not want
to do is take on the task of building a new country because I stayed silent.
@Harcourt "They are mostly educated and not stupid." In my opinion, educated persons who
behave as you describe never benefited from their education. Even worse, to me it seems like
persons who behave like that are of the opinion that what they learnt in school is only for
the purpose of writing the exams they needed to pass to get out of school. It was all just
noise to them.
You nailed it. There is no longer "a shared reality" in America. So we have wildly different
views of who Joe Biden and Donald Trump are. And how serious climate change is. And whether
it's important to wear a mask. And if left-wing anarchists set forest fires. Thank you,
Internet. Thank you, social media barons who refuse to ban Russian propaganda and manipulated
videos. Thank you FCC that does not rein in Fox News and their promotion of lies. Who will
step in and stop this madness?
@CA I agree with you completely except for the refusal to stop Russian interference. We
can't. We can't unless we stop US interference in the process. The problem is that US
interference, and rumor mongering, are the business model of these platforms which happen to
be some of our largest companies. Extreme capitalism is preventing us from addressing any and
all issues propagated by these companies. Russia is just a speck.
Antifa adherents and wildfires ? Seems pretty far-fetched. Even ridiculous. But setting fire
to occupied apartment buildings in Portland ? Oh yes, definitely. It happened, and more is on
the menu, as well as municipal and federal buildings. Don't believe it ? Read the news
releases for yourself, on the Portland Police Bureau's website.
An excellent discussion of the perils of social media. Although newspapers, TV, radio,
magazines have a historical principal of "generally" telling the truth, social media has
opened up the world to every single Tom, Dick and Harry who with to spread their message. I
believe that how we, as a nation, as a species, handle social media will define what happens
over the next decade.
The state of this country is absolutely terrifying. While the shift to ever more
conservative, insular, xenophobic, coroporate-controlled government has been going on for
years, with the faux election of trump democracy is what has become fake, while common sense,
empathy, and both fiscal and environmental responsibility have virtually disappeared. The US
has gone off the deep end...
Years ago I read a science fiction short story that is unsettling in its analogy to this
situation. I starts with aliens visiting the Earth and accidently leaving behind a device
that can allow metal to be manipulated by softening it, then hardening it. The device gets
copied and mass produced. When they returned a year later, they come back and cannot fathom
how their device could have resulted in anarchy. THAT is the internet. 5 Recommend Share
Let me ask you all a question. If your neighbor told you the fire in a nearby Oregon town was
started by antifa, how would you disprove it? Since you cannot provide evidence for a
negative statement, it's difficult. There is actually some evidence that antifa did start the
fire: a voice said it on the radio, and tv showed them lighting fireworks in Portland. This
isn't very good evidence, but it is evidence, and you can't produce any evidence that antifa
did not do it (because there can't be any.) So you are in the position of asking your
neighbor to look at the quality of the evidence. This is something very few outside the legal
and scientific world are capable of. But that is all you have. Ultimately, it really does go
back to belief. How many of us could independently prove that the earth turns around the sun?
Those of us who aren't astronomers choose to accept this belief based on what we've been
told, and that's how it is with antifa starting the fires.
Kristof is afraid that fires in the West represent the new normal. The evidence suggests that
this fear is well-founded. He is concerned about the government's paralysis. That is partly
due to Trump, who stands a good chance of being reelected on November 3. He is worried about
ordinary citizens seeking oversimplified answers and finding them in the conspiracy theories
presenting the fire as the work of antifa. I am more worried about the breakdown in
credibility of news sources like the NY Times, which finds itself in competition with Fox
News and a host of online sources. Indeed, you-tube and facebook will select news stories for
you, confirming whatever bias you bring to your reading of the news. There is no guarantee
that democracy will survive. One of the things that keeps me up at night is the realization
that not only the right, but the left, is subject to oversimplified presentations of global
warming. Global warming is a consequence of too much population growth. But as we argue over
freedoms for LGBTQ minorities liberals have neglected the importance of freedom of speech.
And voices which have warned about population growth have been simply ignored by the left. It
isn't enough to shift from Fords using gasoline to Teslas running on electricity. We also
need to control population growth. The population of earth will double again by 2072 if
current rates continue. Population growth threatens to overwhelm the attempts to move to
clean energy. 2 Recommend
The scientific consensus will also conclude that not allowing wildfires to burn compounds the
problem. While what I am about to type is not science, continued development in fire prone
areas amplifies and compounds every aspect of the problem. From my perspective the system has
evolved to socializing cost and privatizing cost in every way. I don't see it getting better,
until such time as individuals are held accountable this should be considered normal.
@secular socialist dem PG&E just paid billions in fines and PLEADED GUILTY in starting
last year's Paradise fire. They also have already admitted fault in several fires started by
their faulty, untended grid. "Individuals" don't need to be held accountable unless there are
rules in place for them to follow regarding wildfire. There already are. Most already do. Why
do folks act so proud about their 'anti-science' opinion? It's not like this conversation
isn't ongoing; nobody argues that development in fire prone areas' carries risks. So does
rebuilding in Oklahoma, Florida and Louisiana..... You're right (although confused) about
socializing RISK and privatizing PROFIT. See PG&E above.
Unsure how people lighting fires directly indicates climate change is corroborated. The
fellow who was arrested in Tacoma, WA: https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-activist-charged-for-fire-set-in-washington
Looking to past wildfires, like the one's in Montana & Idaho in 2008, 5.5 million acres
were burned and certain interest groups advocated for them to burn out because it's apart of
the natural cycle. Federal government shouldn't send assistance unless it's possibly to
communities in threat of burning, who are humans to say we ought to stop mother nature? It's
natural to let these fires burn, if you try to hinder it's course you are stopping the cycle.
Doug Terry Maryland, Washington DC metro
Sept. 20 Times Pick
Why do people believe wild stupid things more than actual facts? Partly it is because they
like the wild stupid thing more, it gives them some weird comfort. It is also because people
are busying with their lives and don't have time to gather enough information to counter the
wild rumor that flies around faster than the speed of sound. The most important aspect of
successful conspiracy theories is they impart to the person holding them the idea that they
are smarter than other people and have "cracked the code" that explains everything or a lot
of big things that people don't understand. Reading, thinking, considering and re-considering
can seem like hard work, particularly if it is foreign to one's experience and life training.
Why not just lock on to a cool idea that comes around, even if it is weird? .
This story highlights for me an equally growing problem, the "selective framing" by media
outlets on the left and right (NYT and Fox as just two examples). To read Mr Kristof's
version, you may believe that arsonists are wild figments of the unhinged radical right
imagination. To read the same story on Fox, Antifa arsonists are working their way up your
street.
"...the shared understanding of reality that is the basis for any society is eroding." And
yet reality still exist. Normally, if someone starts to exhibit the kind of behavior that
these "vigilantes" are - screaming about boogeymen, thinking people are out to get them,
engaging in aggressive behavior based on paranoid fantasies, creating self-reinforcing
delusions, becoming obsessed with baseless conspiracy theories - we would rightly diagnose
them as being mentally ill, and to the extent that they represent a danger to others, confine
them. I don't think we can afford to see this as just a time of extreme differences of
opinion. Facts, truth and reality are still actual, tangible things. And those who have
become so disassociated from them that they are stopping vehicles and hunting down their
fellow citizen need to be dealt with appropriately.
We have been witnessing the start of the Second Civil War in America. If we accept the
definition of a civil war as a conflict between factions of citizens for either secession or
control of the government--including organizations within the existing government--then we
are in the beginning stages of a Second Civil War. The question is what the level of violence
will be (not will there be violence, but how much violence). We are beginning to see
indications of that level. When naturally or accidentally caused wildfires are attributed to
one faction as a way to stoke the fires of civil violence, then physical violence between
factions is a heartbeat away simply because of the falsity and extremity of the accusations.
The era of peaceful protest has passed because of the intensity of feelings on both sides;
the anger produced when a government begins denying civil rights, e.g., Freedom of Speech and
the Right to Assemble, through legal actions where protest organizers could be charged with
sedition (see Barr's comments, 9/16/2020, NYT), which then suggests that all protests become
illegal, the fires of violence are stoked. With a heavily-armed populace on both sides,
gunfire is a hair-trigger pull away. If Trump and the Republican's intention was to remake
America in their image (I leave it to you to supply that image), they are succeeding. If
Putin's intention was to bring down America, he is succeeding. If Xi's intention was to
dominate the world, he is on that path. Vote 33 Recommend Share
... There's an old saying "Those who the gods would destroy they first make mad." I have come
to the conclusion that America has gone qute a long way down that road.
And yet, Mr. Kristoff, you never make mention of the real threat that groups like Antifa and
other radical left rioters pose to this country (forgetting about attacks on federal
buildings in Portland? Attempts to firebomb courthouses? Violence against law enforcement
officers?). No, instead it's always Trump, or Trump supporters who are your focus. I do not
know whether Antifa has been involved in any of these recent fires, but I do know that these
violent elements on the left pose a massive danger to our democracy. You are correct about
one thing, though: We should brace ourselves. It's just "what" we need to brace for that is
off mark in your article...
It's heartbreaking to watch these three West Coast states burned. For days, the sky was red
and the air was unbreathable. But the saddest part was the feeling of helplessness.
40 years ago, I hitchhiked around the Pacific Northwest during the summer after Mt. St.
Helens blew up. Mt. Rainier was ash-coated, as were the wild blueberries I often ate. Epic
and Biblical are words inadequate to describe that destruction near Mt. St. Helens, with
millions of huge, old trees blown down, piles of mud, and rivers diverted. Yet I and others
knew that eventually, that land would regrow, and it did.
I see a lot of egotism and self-love on both sides. The so-called progressives in our
community are breeding at baby boom levels, driving SUVs, and, before the pandemic, you'd see
a dozen school buses idling outside every school. Development is out of control as people
flee from the city, and people flee from here, or downsize, and breed and breed and breed.
Two years ago, we had a flash flood and our street was under water, and there was a lot of
damage all over town. Hurricane Irene in 2011 left many with over a foot of water in their
basements. And let's not even start on Sandy. My friend lives in Pensacola; their downtown
area is under three or four feet of water from Hurricane Sally. It's not just fire, it's
floods, and it's not just the GOP which is the problem...
I don't blame anyone for guarding their roads if they think arsonists are about. The
Tillamook Burn was larger and more devastating than these fires but are we to blame climate
change ? Environmentalists and Liberals who do not even live out West, who did not rely upon
Logging, placed their concerns about the Spotted Owl and Virgin Forests about the danger of
Forest Fires and the livelihood of Loggers and the Towns and Peoples who depended upon
Logging. Managed Logging of Forests is not an inherently evil act. Clearing the bush and dead
trees is not bad in and of itself. Let Logging companies responsibly manage sections of the
Forrests, let Towns clear fire breaks around their perimeters. Place large Water towers in
strategic points throughout the Forests, huge mounds of dirt/sand/gravel next to them so that
the Firefighters have what they need to fight the fires. Force developers to build houses 50
feet apart. Require fireproof roofs, require thinning of trees in housing developments.
Require volunteer Fire Departments in every neighborhood so that if they do nothing else,
they can cut a fire break, water down the grasses around their neighborhoods, chase and
extinguish embers, something/anything versus fleeing their homes without putting up a fight.
"... dry conditions exacerbated by climate change coupled with an unusual windstorm ..." May
I add that a couple of other things have also contributed to making the fires worse or making
them harder to manage? For a century or so, in California, Oregon and Washington we have not
been letting the normal, periodic fires burn. Consequently, a great deal of fuel has built up
on the forest floor. Second, folks have increasingly been building homes or even
neighborhoods in places which have historically seen such normal, periodic fires.
@Robert Yes. But now controlled burns are a bit problematic, given the droughts, the heat,
the massive fuel loads from all the dead trees. It's just so easy for the controlled burns to
get out of control.
Hi, I am from Clackamas County metro. Every time a FaceBook "Friend" (and I personally know
all of mine) posted a rumor, I tried to find the footage from any of our 4 local news
stations to depute their post but they just shared another one. One said she didn't trust KGW
8 the local NBC station and when I told her the same story was on KPTV 12, the local Fox
station. She said, "I'm just stressed"
@David Biesecker Remember that half the people are of below average intelligence. That may
answer the existence of the small percentage of conspiracy theorists. One problem is social
media provides free and outsized loudspeaker systems that enables them to find each other.
@M.i. Estner First, let me identify myself as a liberal Democrat who has a masters degree. I
find it more than disheartening when half of the country, or half of rural or not formally
educated folks are said to have low intelligent quotas, critical thinking skills or
analytical abilities. You better believe that when a highly trained Eastern Oregon
firefighter is assessing how to save peoples lives, homes and land, has to quickly act with
their many faceted skill set and are calling on abilities you or I would not be able to
fathom. Same with farmers of large pieces of complicated crops and land. Same with city
managers, librarians, and social workers for the elderly--all having low city budgets. What
about the veterinarians, doctors and nurses in rural areas? This is exactly the same as
calling Black or Hispanics people of lower intelligence. And, there are different types of
intelligence. I know a literary critic, a liberal Democrat, who doesn't have the critical
thinking skills to run her own home or raise her children. If you look, you can see these
same differences in any group. It has to do with the way people are raised, what they are
using their skill sets for, what information they are used to consuming, money, ideology,
etc...And it has to do with being devalued for growing your food, producing your meat,
chicken and eggs. I'm not excusing the violence, guns, racism and hatred. These divides have
been with us for ages. Please don't stoke the fires.
If we have a selfish federal government, then we will have selfish states and people.
Everyone is for himself or herself. No one will think about other people or public good. It
all started from the top
In 2017, 2018, and 2019 northern California's new phenomenon of forceful 40 to 60 miles per
hour winds - in Fall, no less - caused old and aging electrical equipment to malfunction. As
a consequence, too much of Santa Rosa burnt to the ground, and the entire town of Paradise
ceased to exist. This year during the heat of a hotter than usual summer following yet
another dry winter, we had dry lightning strikes from Sonoma County to Santa Clara County and
beyond.
Yes, the science is clear and you fail to mention it. The forest fires reach critical mass
and spread because of the surplus of dead or dying trees. They are there because the federal
government essentially no longer allows logging on its vast landholdings and also fails to
allow controlled burns to clean out the tinderbox. I won't bother attaching a link because
any Google search proves the point. Why focus on hysteria and rumermongering among the
Deplorables? Come on, Mr. Kristof, you were a Deplorable once (when you were a kid growing up
in the countryside) as was I. Please defend them sometimes, particularly when the actual
causes are so well documented.
@Stuck on a mountain Western States are working to clear the brush from forests where, due to
our previous incomplete understanding of forest ecology, fires were suppressed for a century.
However, the cost is astronomical and there are millions of acres left to clear. Spending
their entire forest management budgets fighting current wildfires doesn't help. We've been
doing controlled burns for decades but in many areas, they're now too dangerous. Dry forests
and a dense understory can quickly turn a "controlled burn" into a conflagration. Many
ranchers and timber companies who profit from our state and national forests seem unwilling
to pay to keep those forests healthy. People who live in or near forests mostly have incomes
too low to pay for forest management. The National Forest Service, Department of the Interior
and USDA have made some progress, but the problem is huge. Saying we can prevent forest fires
by allowing larger timber harvests is an oversimplification. No solution to this complex
issue will be simple, perfect or cheap.
Wacky conspiracy theories to explain seemingly bizarre and unusual occurrences have been
around since the dawn of human cognition. But in an electronic/social media age, these get
spread even faster than a wind-blown fire climbs a canyon hillside. Previously, they were
spread one set of ears at a time; now millions of eyes can read them every second. And that
is a major part of the problem.
As a grad student in sociology, having lived through the 60s and participated in the
counterculture, I was deeply intrigued by the social construction of reality - how we come to
share a taken-for-granted world. This is a long-standing concern within sociological social
psychology. We examined how language, interpersonal communications, media and social
structure shaped ones perception of one's self, what is real, what's important. At the time,
however, this was considered theoretical and academic. 40 years later, understanding how
Americans' realities have come to diverge is no longer armchair social science. It's urgent
and in our faces, as is the question of how can we heal this terrible fracturing of our
world?
@DeHypnotist Yes. When studying for the degree in and then teaching sociology in my early
years, I learned that, too. But, I have to admit, it's actually taken all the decades of life
since then, and now the obvious confirmation of it by this current 'reality' to actually
realize, deep down in my guts, that we 'make up' our so-called 'social reality' simply to
serve the most basic of biological requirements: the need to dominate in the deadly
completion with the other 'tribes' of our species just to survive. We are, after all, animals
like all the others, no matter how much we blab about how much 'smarter' we are.
@Alex B The primal driver, deep in the core of our brain, is usefully thought of as
"reptilian." Cold-blooded. Egoistic. Hedonistic. And, in extreme cases, narcissistic, and,
heaven forbid when all three are present...
I lived for a few years in Brazil when it was a dictatorship. The similarities between Brazil
and what is happening in the US is startling. The police were being used to quell peaceful
protesters and the justice system co-opted by authorities, fear mongering were present, just
as now in the US....
I didn't live in the US from 1977-1999, only visiting on short trips. That enabled me to see
changes in society that were slow and not seen by those residing here. And when I came back
permanently I could feel immediately a deep change....
Perhaps an apt metaphor for the "danger sign ahead" is the approach of a Category three
hurricane and it's increasing in intensity. One of the stark disconnects is between the
message in an article like this and the politicians and citizens who are little concerned
about tempering rhetoric and elevating the importance of eschewing misinformation. We are in
the Misinformation Age and the victims of a cyber war, evolving into a civil war.
@ML What is happening here? These are the beginnings of what happened in Germany in the 30s.
Over there the reason was the loss of WWI. Here, is the obvious decline of the American
lifestyle and we have not seen anything yet. The range of the economic decline is covered by
7 trillion dollars in phony money. I fervently hope and pray that is not too late to stop the
process. All men and women of goodwill have to rally to restore a sane, and one, country .
Stay safe! It is going to get worse before it gets better.
@FunkyIrishman Right on. Water is an enormous issue waiting to happen here -- and Wisconsin
is estimated to have between 10 and 20 percent of the world's fresh water (depending on how
it's calculated and whether that includes some of Lakes Michigan and Superior. A Dept. of
Climate, Weather and Water would be a logical cabinet department.
@FunkyIrishman And polluting the potable water continues sometimes by the most resolvable
modern approaches: sewers and water treatment plants. Reagan ended federal funding for sewers
leaving septic systems (and now ancient sewers) where sewers would lead to protected fresh
water. All the medicines, chemicals, and toxins seep unseen but very real into fresh and also
salt water. We are not a modern nation any more.
Looks like neoliberal Dems are playing with fire. Another couple of such success stories and
Biden can safely enroll to the assisted living senior citizen community where he belongs. This is
an excellent way to mobilize Trump voters. Just look at the comments section of this story.
This is somewhat similar to hysteria in Germany in 1930th.
Notable quotes:
"... And Costco was once a retail store. Bravo! Today transformed into a political party? ..."
Costco has halted sales of Palmetto Cheese, a popular brand of pimento cheese spread that
had been offered in over 120 of its stores, after the company's owner triggered outrage with a
Facebook post criticizing Black Lives Matter.
A sign posted at a store in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, indicates that Palmetto Cheese has
been discontinued and will not be ordered again by Costco. The retailer hasn't made a statement
on its decision, but the move came after consumers called for a boycott of the brand because of
social media comments by Palmetto Cheese's owner, Brian Henry.
"This BLM and Antifa movement must be treated like the terror organizations that they
are," Henry said in an August 25 Facebook post that has since been deleted. He wrote the
message in response to the alleged shootings of three white people by a black man in
Georgetown, South Carolina. He complained that BLM and Antifa were being allowed to
"lawlessly destroy great American cities and threaten their citizens on a daily basis"
and declared "All lives matter. There, I said it. So am I a racist now?"
The reaction on social media was swift, with commenters calling Henry a racist. Activists
jumped into action with a boycott campaign against Palmetto Cheese. A Twitter account was set
up mocking the company as "Appropriation Cheese," because of its use of a black woman on
its packaging who worked for the company before dying earlier this year.
Activists on the Appropriation Cheese page celebrated Costco's decision and pressed for
more. One commenter on Tuesday thanked Costco and demanded that Kroger, Lowes Foods and other
retailers cancel Palmetto Cheese. Another boycott supporter called on Publix Super Markets to
drop the product, saying: "Costco pulled Palmetto Cheese because of the open racism of its
owner. We are hoping you are considering the same." Still another said: "Attention
Corporate America. This is how you ally."
But others lamented Costco's move and the divisiveness it represents. "This is how
divided the country has become," one commenter tweeted. "Even store chains are picking
sides now. This is insane." There were those who defended Henry, saying that criticizing
the group doesn't mean that one is racist.
Henry, who also is mayor of the small South Carolina coastal town of Pawleys Island, may
have squandered a chance to inspire a boycott-backlash movement – like that which Goya
Foods enjoyed after its owner was vilified for praising President Donald Trump – when he
issued an apology on September 3.
He said his comments were "hurtful and insensitive."
"I spent the last 10 days listening and learning," Henry said. "The conversations
I have had with friends, our staff, the community and faith-based leaders provided me with a
deeper understanding of racial inequality and the importance of diversity
sensitivity."
Henry added that his family and company will donate $100,000 in the first year of a new
foundation set up to improve race relations, and Palmetto Cheese will rebrand its product
"to be more sensitive to cultural diversity." In addition to having a picture of a black
woman, the current packaging refers to Palmetto Cheese as "the pimento cheese with
soul."
The company sold more than 15 million units last year in about 4,000 stores. Henry warned
that a boycott would only hurt the hundreds of people employed by the company in South
Carolina.
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uncledon 8 hours ago
I
guess I'm a racist as I believe all lives matter! I believe that people have a reason and the
right to peacefully protest. People do not have a right to murder, to plunder, to destroy
properties and businesses, to loot and set fires! If these things are done under the BLM
movement it is lawlessness. If we are to have a peaceful and productive society we need law and
order not total chaos. If the BLM wants to make change, (and change is sorely needed) then sets
some rules in your organized protest that gives it strength and power. Every smashed window,
every fire, every looted business and every intimidation to innocent bystanders is a reason for
people like myself not to support your cause.
KarlthePoet 9 hours ago
It's too bad that the
American consumers haven't started a boycott of the Jewish Banking Cartel, which ultimately
controls the US government and Wall Street. A cheese spread isn't the problem in America.
JG1547 10 hours ago
And the stupidity continues. Sad
CrabbyB 7 hours ago
Avoid social media
other than trying to garner sales. Avoid any chit-chat or opinions, just bare minimum contact
that suits your business purpose and that's it. The mob harmed but using Fakebook as a soapbox
was the big mistake
VillageIdiot34 4 hours ago
Keep it up amerimutts.
With this rate of
acceleration we are talking civil war before Christmas. I can already see it; the corporate
communists, backed by every globalist for-profit corporations against "real capitalism has
never been tried" gang. Less fighting abroad, more fighting domestic. It's a win/win for
everyone else
Jack The Man 3 hours ago
Absolutely right and principled action by
Costco. And BTW, who on earth would like to eat this processed garbage anyway?
rightmove 5
hours ago
And Costco was once a retail store. Bravo! Today transformed into a political party?
I'm in Australia and won't be shopping at Costco. The customer can decide if the BLM impacts
their choice of merchandise, not the damn seller.
Mistermal 6 hours ago
According to Webster's
Dictionary: "The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political
purposes." Costco CEO simply told the truth. BLM is an openly racist, violent hate group.
Alan
Hart 3 hours ago
Will Costco also ban Israeli goods - because of their criticism of PLM
(Palestinian Lives Matter)...??
Flyingscotsman 3 hours ago
Simple, boycott Costco. I bet all
these so called republican white Supremacist racists spend more there , than all these keyboard
woke warriors!
Augury Unhappy Bird Watcher, State of Grave Doubt
Sept. 20
Oregon's racial demographics White alone, percent 86.7% Black or African American alone,
percent 2.2% Alabama's racial demographics White alone, percent 69.1% Black or African American
alone, percent26.8%
"... We are witnessing a political game of chess where the only pieces being moved are the pawns, while the king and queen sit safely on a different board. ..."
@
6:29
""There needs to be unrest in the streets as there is unrest in our lives"" When the elite oligarchy ignore peaceful
protests, you get aggressive uprisings. It's human nature and good ol' fashioned patriotism.
So, it appears the War on Populism is building
toward an exciting climax. All the proper pieces are in place for a Class-A GloboCap color
revolution , and maybe even civil war. You got your unauthorized Putin-Nazi president, your
imaginary apocalyptic pandemic, your violent identitarian civil unrest, your heavily-armed
politically-polarized populace, your ominous rumblings from military quarters you couldn't
really ask for much more.
OK, the plot is pretty obvious by now (as it is in all big-budget action spectacles, which
is essentially what color revolutions are), but that won't spoil our viewing experience. The
fun isn't in guessing what is going to happen. Everybody knows what's going to happen. The fun
is in watching Bruce, or Sigourney, or "the moderate rebels," or the GloboCap "Resistance,"
take down the monster, or the terrorists, or Hitler, and save the world, or democracy, or
whatever.
A Black Lives
Matter activist in Washington has gone into social media hiding after her efforts to dox a CVS
drugstore manager for calling the police on two suspected shoplifters didn't go over as
swimmingly as she planned.
The chain of events began when the woman, Charity Sade, started recording police who were
questioning two black men outside a CVS store. At one point, an officer warns one of the
suspects not to interrupt him while he's talking to the other man, saying "His freedom is
dependent on your actions." Sade then interjects, asking the officer for his name and badge
number.
She then films another video of herself confronting the CVS manager inside the store for
calling the police. The manager explains that it's company policy to contact the police when a
shoplifter exits the store without paying for merchandise. He added that he chose not to press
charges against the men, but asked the police to inform them that they could no longer shop at
his store.
Sade then berates the manager, saying, "It's not your merchandise. It's the store's. So,
you know what happens... You decided to call the police on two black people that stole, that
allegedly took something from the store because you're willing to uphold the policy, and they
could have lost their lives."
When the manager replied that he follows CVS policy, not the woman's policy, Sade said,
"So you're willing to risk someone's lives for what, $30,000 a year?"
The manager told her that he saw no such risk, thanked her and began to walk away, at which
point Sade asked for his name. When he refused to answer, she asked another employee. The
manager shot back: "No one's going to tell you my name when you're in here videotaping us so
that you can try to elicit some sort of violence. It's not going to happen." Sade then
attempted to turn the tables, accusing the manager of trying to elicit violence against the
black men by calling the police.
The woman, who identifies herself as a comedian, activist and teacher, posted the videos to
her Twitter account on Thursday, including a picture of the CVS manager and the policeman's
badge number, along with hashtags #BLM and #PeopleOverProperty. To her surprise, reaction was
overwhelmingly negative and she later made her Twitter account private and deleted her
Instagram account. She also attempted to organize a protest outside the store on Facebook.
Twitter users saved Sade's videos before access to her accounts was blocked, enabling the
discussion of her conduct to continue. Author and media critic Mark Dice called her a BLM
"Karen," while conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said anyone who disagreed with
the CVS manager's explanation "should be institutionalized." Journalist Jessica
O'Donnell of The Blaze said that lowering standards
for black people, suggesting that they should be allowed to shoplift, is "actually the
racist thing in the scenario."
ByTony Cox, a US journalist who has written or edited for Bloomberg and
several major daily newspapers. Black Lives Matter may finally have found its bridge too
far – the point of absurdity and overreaching vileness that finally destroys support for
the "Marxist" political movement in all but the most extreme reaches of the left.
BLM has offered up many self-fails in recent weeks, the sort of anecdotes that stick in the
minds of observers and turn the tide of public opinion against a cause that millions of
Americans were eager to support initially. Even more than the group's nonsensical demands --
such as defunding police departments and "remaking" the US political system – its
tactics are making it impossible for politically independent Americans to support.
Those tactics have included spreading false rumors about an Aug. 10 police shooting in
Chicago, then racing downtown to loot the city's most posh retailers, then defending the theft
as
"reparations." Then there was the mob attack on a white motorist in Portland, who was
pulled from his truck and brutally beaten before
being left motionless in the street, and the torching of black-owned businesses around the
nation.
Other incidents have brought the senselessness closer to home for many Americans, such as
the BLM groups that marched through residential streets of such cities as Seattle and Portland
late at night, threatening homeowners and chanting such messages as, "Wake up, wake up, wake
up motherf***er, wake up." Other BLM mobs have descended on outdoor restaurants from
Washington to Rochester, New York, screaming at diners and demanding displays of obedient
solidarity, such as raising a fist.
But Saturday night's BLM debacle was the
clincher, as protesters blocked the emergency room entrance and exit at a Los Angeles hospital
after two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were ambushed and shot repeatedly in their
parked patrol car for no apparent reason. The protesters blocked the ER while yelling "We
hope they die," prompting the Sheriff's Department to send out a tweet saying, "People's
lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through."
As if that wasn't bad enough, as deputies tried to arrest a protester who refused to
disperse, a reporter for government-funded National Public Radio interfered and had to be
arrested, the Sheriff's Department said. The reporter,
Josie Huang , did not identify herself as a journalist and didn't have any press
credentials with her, the department said.
Protesters taunted police outside the hospital, saying such things as, "You're all f***ing
dying one by one ."
A video on social media also showed a celebratory reaction at the scene of the shooting,
where a smiling witness said repeatedly, "They just aired the police out, ni**a."
Evidence of the damage that the anti-racism protest movement is doing to itself is showing
up in polling, including President Donald Trump gaining ground on Democrat challenger Joe Biden
in the presidential race. In Oregon, where violent protests have dragged on for more than 100
straight days, 66 percent of respondents in a DHM
Research poll said they disapprove of the demonstrations. To put that in perspective, a
Republican presidential candidate hasn't won in Oregon since 1984.
Trump has had some success in painting Biden and other Democrats as enablers of rioting. The
shifting political winds prompted CNN host Don Lemon to sound an alarm late last month, saying
Democrats were trying to ignore the problem and risked losing votes in November.
Biden has tried to take a more strident tone against rioting since then and said Sunday that
the Los Angeles shooting was "cold-blooded" and "unconscionable." He said the
shooter "must be brought to justice." Trump took the excoriation further, saying that if
the deputies die, "fast trial, death penalty for the killer – only way to stop
this."
Understanding that they'll need strong voting support from people in the protest movement,
Democrats are trying to walk a fine line between condemning rioters and condoning violence.
Their hope is that the pieces can be picked up after the election.
"I'm voting for the guy who knows how to restore justice and peace, not the guy who
incites more violence," financial adviser Lili Balfour said on Twitter.
"If Trump wins, we'll be in a civil war for the next four years. I'm ready for peace and
reconciliation."
Therefore Biden speaks out against shooting police, but he's quiet about celebration of
shooting police and wishing death upon them.
But actions like what we witnessed Saturday night in Los Angeles are just too repugnant to
look the other way. Americans who are asked to raise a fist in support of BLM or vote for the
demonstrators' chosen candidate can't help but cringe about the conduct of whom they're
standing with.
By Diana Bruk , a Russian-American journalist living in New York, who has written for The
New York Times, The Paris Review, Cosmopolitan, Esquire and Elle, amongst other
publications.
Many people who previously would have never considered voting for Donald
Trump will now do so due to the excesses of the social justice brigade. The Left's failure to
understand basic human psychology could decide the election.
I've always considered myself a soft Liberal. But the last few months have really brought
out my conservative side, and I'm not the only one. I've recently spoken to several working
class people who were told they were being laid off just before getting an email saying the
company was looking to "diversify its staff," and their responses were all the same:
"F**k this, I'm voting for Trump."
One of my issues with social activism has always been that it centers around an idea and
doesn't take basic human psychology into account. I understand that racism in America exists
and should be eradicated. I understand and agree with the fact that there should be more people
of color in white collar positions. I also understand that white, working-class people have
families to feed and bills to pay, and that the only natural response to being fired and
replaced by a person of color is to vote for Trump as a means of revenge.
I'm ashamed to say I've had to fight off the same thoughts in the last few weeks. I'm white
and well-educated, so, by Liberal standards, I'm automatically privileged. But I don't have
family money to fall back on, and need and want to work. I used to get a decent amount of
assignments and opportunities from a Facebook group for female writers, but, lately, every post
says "BIPOC writers only." Theoretically, I'm all for it. If I were lounging around
daddy's pool posting socially aware updates all day, I'd be even more for it. But I'm not and I
also need to eat.
Russian-American immigrants have been more pissed off than I've ever seen them lately, and I
understand why. In addition to all of the usual issues, they have to deal with feeling like
they're black and white at the same time. To be light-skinned means getting fired or otherwise
attacked for not being a person of color. But to have an accent and need to work to make a
living makes you a minority. Social media makes it seem like everyone is either a 'Karen' or
'Straight Outta Compton,' but there's a lot of in between, and those are the people who are
being forgotten. And they're the ones who vote.
When I tell my social justice friends that there are a lot of working class white people who
feel marginalized right now, their response is always the same: "Well, that's how black
people have felt for a long time." I totally get that and I agree. But there's a difference
between justice and revenge. And it's also an election year. The Black Lives Matter movement is
important, but it's so poorly timed that, were I a conspiracy theorist, I would say that the
Republicans were behind it all along.
So this is my message to all of my social justice friends: I know you mean well, but be
smart about this. None of us wants Trump to get re-elected. We're already stuck with Acceptable
Under the Circumstances Joe Biden because of all of the in-fighting between Elizabeth Warren
supporters and Bernie Sanders aficionados.
You have to understand that being antagonistic is just going to make the Other Side feel
defensive and lash out. This is, once again, basic human psychology, and it will not get you
the results you want, and then you're just going to whine and moan about it as usual.
I saw a viral Simpsons clip recently that summed things up nicely. An elephant runs through
the Republican National Convention, which has banners saying "We want what's worst for
everyone" and "We're just plain evil." Then it runs through a Democratic National
Convention, which has banners saying "We can't govern" and "We hate life and
ourselves." I get that you feel guilty for being white and wealthy and having a lot when
others have so little. Recognize that, own it, and stop being so self-righteous about it.
Recognize that posting hateful comments on the walls of people whose opinions differ from
yours is cyber-bullying, which you are purportedly against. Recognize that hating on people who
are having anxiety attacks over wearing masks and the general situation means bullying people
with mental health issues, which you are also purportedly against. And recognize that if you
are going to make large swaths of people feel attacked by Democrats, you are pushing them right
into Trump's stiff, unstable embrace.
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In short black people are used as pawns in the political struggle between two neoliberal
clans fighting for power, using students without perspectives of gaining meaningful employment as
a ram. We saw this picture before in a different country. And riots do reverse gains achieved in
civil right struggle since 1960th, so they are also net losers. Racial tensions in the USA
definitely increased dramatically.
Notable quotes:
"... Bottom line: "Critical Race Theory", "The 1619 Project", and Homeland Security's "White Supremacist" warning represent the ideological foundation upon which the war on America is based. The "anti-white" dogma is the counterpart to the massive riots that have rocked the country. These phenomena are two spokes on the same wheel. They are designed to work together to achieve the same purpose. The goal is create a "racial" smokescreen that conceals the vast and willful destruction of the US economy, the $5 trillion dollar wealth-transfer that was provided to Wall Street, and the ferocious attack on the emerging, mainly-white working class "populist" movement that elected Trump and which rejects the globalist plan to transform the world into a borderless free trade zone ruled by cutthroat monopolists and their NWO allies. ..."
"... This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look beyond the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows. There lies the cancer that must be eradicated. ..."
"... The current situation cannot exist without the complicity of the secret services and the police. The heads of the secret services are either part of the cabal or close their eyes in fear ..."
"... There can be no single oligarch. It must be a larger group but very united by fear and a common goal. This can only be achieved if they are all Jews or Masons. Or both under a larger umbrella like some kind of pedo-ritual killing-satan worshiper. Soros can't do it alone. ..."
"... Of course politicians are corrupt and complicit but usually they are not the leaders ..."
Here's your BLM Pop Quiz for the day: What do "Critical Race Theory", "The 1619 Project",
and Homeland Security's "White Supremacist" warning tell us about what's going on in America
today?
They point to deeply-embedded racism that shapes the behavior of white people They
suggest that systemic racism cannot be overcome by merely changing attitudes and laws They
alert us to the fact that unresolved issues are pushing the country towards a destructive race
war They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are inciting
racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to office in 2016
and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to transform America into
a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
Which of these four statements best explains what's going on in America today?
If you chose Number 4, you are right. We are not experiencing a sudden and explosive
outbreak of racial violence and mayhem. We are experiencing a thoroughly-planned,
insurgency-type operation that involves myriad logistical components including vast, nationwide
riots, looting and arson, as well as an extremely impressive ideological campaign. "Critical
Race Theory", "The 1619 Project", and Homeland Security's "White Supremacist" warning are as
much a part of the Oligarchic war on America as are the burning of our cities and the toppling
of our statues. All three, fall under the heading of "ideology", and all three are being used
to shape public attitudes on matters related to our collective identity as "Americans".
The plan is to overwhelm the population with a deluge of disinformation about their history,
their founders, and the threats they face, so they will submissively accept a New Order imposed
by technocrats and their political lackeys. This psychological war is perhaps more important
than Operation BLM which merely provides the muscle for implementing the transformative "Reset"
that elites want to impose on the country. The real challenge is to change the hearts and minds
of a population that is unwaveringly patriotic and violently resistant to any subversive
element that threatens to do harm to their country. So, while we can expect this propaganda
saturation campaign to continue for the foreseeable future, we don't expect the strategy will
ultimately succeed. At the end of the day, America will still be America, unbroken, unflagging
and unapologetic.
Let's look more carefully at what is going on.
On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security issued a draft report stating that
"White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States". According to an
article in Politico:
" all three draft (versions of the document) describe the threat from white
supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S. , listed above the
immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups . John Cohen, who oversaw DHS's
counterterrorism portfolio from 2011 to 2014, said the drafts' conclusion isn't
surprising.
"This draft document seems to be consistent with earlier intelligence reports from DHS,
the FBI, and other law enforcement sources: that the most significant terror-related
threat facing the US today comes from violent extremists who are motivated by white
supremac y and other far-right ideological causes," he said .
"Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a diverse array of social,
ideological, and personal factors will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United
States," the draft reads. "Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists
will pose the most persistent and lethal threat."..(" DHS
draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat " Politico)
This is nonsense. White supremacists do not pose the greatest danger to the country, that
designation goes to the left-wing groups that have rampaged through more than 2,000 US cities
for the last 100 days. Black Lives Matter and Antifa-generated riots have decimated hundreds of
small businesses, destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of merchants and their
employees, and left entire cities in a shambles. The destruction in Kenosha alone far exceeds
the damage attributable to the activities of all the white supremacist groups combined.
So why has Homeland Security made this ridiculous and unsupportable claim? Why have they
chosen to prioritize white supremacists as "the most persistent and lethal threat" when it is
clearly not true?
There's only one answer: Politics.
The officials who concocted this scam are advancing the agenda of their real bosses, the
oligarch puppet-masters who have their tentacles extended throughout the deep-state and use
them to coerce their lackey bureaucrats to do their bidding. In this case, the honchos are
invoking the race card ("white supremacists") to divert attention from their sinister
destabilization program, their looting of the US Treasury (for their crooked Wall Street
friends), their demonizing of the mostly-white working class "America First" nationalists who
handed Trump the 2016 election, and their scurrilous scheme to establish one-party rule by
installing their addlepated meat-puppet candidate (Biden) as president so he can carry out
their directives from the comfort of the Oval Office. That's what's really going on.
DHS's announcement makes it possible for state agents to target legally-armed Americans who
gather with other gun owners in groups that are protected under the second amendment. Now the
white supremacist label will be applied more haphazardly to these same conservatives who pose
no danger to public safety. The draft document should be seen as a warning to anyone whose
beliefs do not jibe with the New Liberal Orthodoxy that white people are inherently racists who
must ask forgiveness for a system they had no hand in creating (slavery) and which was
abolished more than 150 years ago.
The 1619 Project" is another part of the ideological war that is being waged against the
American people. The objective of the "Project" is to convince readers that America was founded
by heinous white men who subjugated blacks to increase their wealth and power. According to the
World Socialist Web Site:
"The essays featured in the magazine are organized around the central premise that all of
American history is rooted in race hatred -- specifically, the uncontrollable hatred of
"black people" by "white people." Hannah-Jones writes in the series' introduction:
"Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. "
This is a false and dangerous conception. DNA is a chemical molecule that contains the
genetic code of living organisms and determines their physical characteristics and
development . Hannah-Jones's reference to DNA is part of a growing tendency to derive
racial antagonisms from innate biological processes .where does this racism come from? It
is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the historical DNA of American "white people." Thus, it
must persist independently of any change in political or economic conditions .
. No doubt, the authors of The Project 1619 essays would deny that they are predicting
race war, let alone justifying fascism. But ideas have a logic; and authors bear
responsibility for the political conclusions and consequences of their false and misguided
arguments." ("The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history", World Socialist Web
Site)
Clearly, Hannah-Jones was enlisted by big money patrons who needed an ideological foundation
to justify the massive BLM riots they had already planned as part of their US color revolution.
The author –perhaps unwittingly– provided the required text for vindicating
widespread destruction and chaos carried out in the name of "social justice."
As Hannah-Jones says, "Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country", which is to
say that it cannot be mitigated or reformed, only eradicated by destroying the symbols of white
patriarchy (Our icons, our customs, our traditions and our history.), toppling the existing
government, and imposing a new system that better reflects the values of the burgeoning
non-Caucasian majority. Simply put, The Project 1619 creates the rationale for sustained civil
unrest, deepening political polarization and violent revolution.
All of these goals conveniently coincide with the aims of the NWO Oligarchs who seek to
replace America's Constitutional government with a corporate Superstate ruled by voracious
Monopolists and their globalist allies. So, while Hannah-Jones treatise does nothing to improve
conditions for black people in America, it does move the country closer to the dystopian dream
of the parasite class; Corporate Valhalla.
Then there is "Critical Race Theory" which provides the ideological icing on the cake. The
theory is part of the broader canon of anti-white dogma which is being used to indoctrinate
workers. White employees are being subjected to "reeducation" programs that require their
participation as a precondition for further employment . The first rebellion against critical
race theory, took place at Sandia Labs which is a federally-funded research agency that designs
America's nuclear weapons. According to journalist Christopher F. Rufo:
"Senator @HawleyMO and
@SecBrouillette have
launched an inspector general investigation, but Sandia executives have only accelerated
their purge against conservatives."
Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory,
race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees -- and all
dissent will be severely punished. Progressive employees will be rewarded; conservative
employees will be purged." (" There is a civil war erupting
at @SandiaLabs ." Christopher F Rufo)
It all sounds so Bolshevik. Here's more info on how this toxic indoctrination program
works:
"Treasury Department
The Treasury Department held a training session telling employees that "virtually all
White people contribute to racism" and demanding that white staff members "struggle to own
their racism" and accept their "unconscious bias, White privilege, and White
fragility."
The National Credit Union Administration
The NCUA held a session for 8,900 employees arguing that America was "founded on
racism" and "built on the blacks of people who were enslaved. " Twitter thread here and
original source documents
here .
Sandia National Laboratories
Last year, Sandia National Labs -- which produces our nuclear arsenal -- held a
three-day reeducation camp for white males, teaching them how to deconstruct their
"white male culture" and forcing them to write letters of apology to women and people of
color . Whistleblowers from inside the labs tell me that critical race theory is now
endangering our national security. Twitter thread here and original source
documents
here .
Argonne National Laboratories
Argonne National Labs hosts trainings calling on white lab employees to admit that they
"benefit from racism" and atone for the "pain and anguish inflicted upon Black people. "
Twitter thread here .
Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security hosted a Training on "microaggressions,
microinequities, and microassaults" where white employees were told that they had been
"socialized into oppressor roles. " Twitter thread here and original source
documents here
." (" Summary of
Critical Race Theory Investigations" , Christopher F Rufo)
On September 4, Donald Trump announced his administration "would prohibit federal
agencies from subjecting government employees to "critical race theory" or "white privilege"
seminar. ..
"It has come to the President's attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent
millions of taxpayer dollars to date 'training' government workers to believe divisive,
anti-American propaganda ," read a Friday memo
from the Office of Budget and Management Director Russ Vought. "These types of 'trainings'
not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its
inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce The
President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using
taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions."
The next day, September 5, Trump announced that the Department of Education was going to see
whether the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project was being used in school curricula
and– if it was– then those schools would be ineligible for federal funding.
Conservative pundits applauded Trump's action as a step forward in the "culture wars", but it's
really much more than that. Trump is actually foiling an effort by the domestic saboteurs who
continue look for ways to undermine democracy, reduce the masses of working-class people to
grinding poverty and hopelessness, and turn the country into a despotic military outpost ruled
by bloodsucking tycoons, mercenary autocrats and duplicitous elites. Alot of thought and effort
went into this malign ideological project. Trump derailed it with a wave of the hand. That's no
small achievement.
Bottom line: "Critical Race Theory", "The 1619 Project", and Homeland Security's "White
Supremacist" warning represent the ideological foundation upon which the war on America is
based. The "anti-white" dogma is the counterpart to the massive riots that have rocked the
country. These phenomena are two spokes on the same wheel. They are designed to work
together to achieve the same purpose. The goal is create a "racial" smokescreen that conceals
the vast and willful destruction of the US economy, the $5 trillion dollar wealth-transfer that
was provided to Wall Street, and the ferocious attack on the emerging, mainly-white working
class "populist" movement that elected Trump and which rejects the globalist plan to transform
the world into a borderless free trade zone ruled by cutthroat monopolists and their NWO
allies.
This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look
beyond the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows. There lies the cancer
that must be eradicated.
A good article, but no mention of who exactly these oligarchs are. Or why so many of them
are Jewish.
Or why so many Zionist organisations support BLM and other such groups.
Mike, not mentioning these things will not save you. You will still be cancelled by
Progressive Inc.
This seems like a good explanation of what is happening. I wonder whether too many people
will fall for the propaganda, though. It is the classic effort to get the turkeys to support
thanksgiving.
The deserved progress and concessions achieved by the civil rights struggles for the Black
community is in danger of deteriorating because Black leadership will not stand up and
vehemently condemn the rioting and destruction and killing, and declare that the BLM movement
does not represent the majority of the Black American culture and that the overexaggerated
accusations of "racism" do not necessitate the eradication and revision of history, nor does
it require European Americans to feel guilt or shame. There is no need for a cultural
revolution. The ideology and actions of BLM are offensive and inconsistent with American
values, and Black leaders should be saying this every day, and should be admonishing about
the consequences. They should also use foresight to see how this is going to end, because the
BLM and their supporters are being used to fight a war that they can never win. And when it's
over, what perception will the rest of America have of Black people?
@sonofman g to TPTB. Better to have an amorphous slogan to donate money to than an actual
organization with humans, goals and ideas which can be held up to the light and critically
examined.
The whole sudden race thing is a fraud to eliminate the electoral support Trump had
amassed among blacks before Corona and Fentanyl Floyd. In line with what Whitney says, the
globalists need to take down Trump. And the race card has always been the first tool in the
DNC's toolkit. When all else fails, go nuclear with undefined claims of racism.
Almost every big magazine has a black person on the cover this month. Probably will in
October too. Coincidence? Sure it is.
They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are
inciting racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to
office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to
transform America into a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
I'm shocked that they're trying to sell this Q-tier bullshit about Trump fighting the deep
state.
The reality about Trump is that he is the release valve, the red herring designed to keep
whitey pacified while massive repossessions and foreclosures take place, permanently
impoverishing a large part of the white population, and shutting down the Talmudic
service-based economy, which is all that is really left. It is Trump's DHS that declared a
large part of his white trashionalist base to be terrorists.
The populist majority never had anyone to vote for. This system will never give them one.
They aren't bright enough to make it happen.
Agree. Barack Obama in particular will go down in history a real disgrace to the legacy of
the US presidency. He is violating the sacred trust that the people of the United States
invested in him. What a fraud!
Good post Mr. Whitney especially about "white supremacy" garbage .which has only been
going on since the 90s! You know, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Elohim City and Okie City, militias,
"patriot groups," etc. This really is nothing new. And, since so many remember the "white
supremacy" crapola was crapola back in the 90s, I'd say everyone pretty much regardless of
race over the age of 40 knows there is, as it says in Ecclesiastes in the Bible, "there is
nothing new under the sun." And, if you home schooled your kids back then, then you kids know
it as well. Fact is this: the DHS as with every other govt. agency is forced to blame "white
supremacy" for every problem in this country because who the heck else can they blame? Jews?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh when pigs fly After all, Noahide just might be around the
corner ..
Sheriffs have a lot of legal power. Ultimately, the battle is privatized money power
vs Joe Citizen/Sheriffs.
This sheriff is working a Constitutional angle that says: Local Posse (meaning you.. Joe
citizen) working with the Sheriff department to protect your local community. Richard Mack is
teaching other Sheriffs and (some Police) what their Constitutional power is, and that power
doesn't include doing bidding of Oligarchs.
Sheriffs are elected, and their revenue stream is outside of Oligarchy:
So Donald Trump suddenly discovers that racial Bolshevism is the official policy of
his own executive branch – a mere 3 years and 8 months after assuming the
position
... Looks like the same old flim-flam they pull every four years. No matter who wins, the
Davos folks continue to run the circus and fleece the suckers dry.
Because it is. Substitute "the ethnic Russian middle class are class enemies" for
"Anglo-American are all racists" and there you have it. Permission for a small organized
minority to eliminate a whole class on ideological grounds...
I live in a former communist country in Eastern Europe with corrupt politicians, oligarchs
and organized crime.
America was a country with a minor corruption and in which the oligarchs, although
influential, were not united in a small group with decisive force. Now America is slowly
slipping into the situation of a second-hand shit-hole country.
Is that I can see the situation more clearly than an American citizen who still has the
American perception of his contry the way it was 30 years ago.
Essential thing:
1) The current situation cannot exist without the complicity of the secret services and
the police. The heads of the secret services are either part of the cabal or close their eyes
in fear .
2) There can be no single oligarch. It must be a larger group but very united by fear and
a common goal. This can only be achieved if they are all Jews or Masons. Or both under a
larger umbrella like some kind of pedo-ritual killing-satan worshiper. Soros can't do it
alone.
3) Of course politicians are corrupt and complicit but usually they are not the
leaders
4) BLM are exactly the brown shirts of the new Hitler.
Soon we will se the new Hitler/Stalin/ in plain light.
Thirty black children murdered recently; zero by police / BLM & 'the media' say
nothing: https://www.outkick.com/blm-101-volume-7-the-lives-of-innocent-black-kids-do-not-matter/
BTW:
– Last year, the nationwide total for all US police forces was 47 killings of unarmed
criminals by police during arrest procedures.
– 8 were black, 19 were white.
Though blacks, relative to their numbers, committed a vastly higher number of crimes, hence
their immensely greater arrest rate.
@Justvisiting urally, it is nonsense -- nasty, power-hungry, censorious nonsense.
It is the opposite of scientific or empirical thought -- science can not accept theories
which are not capable of falsification. (Take astrology -- actually, don't ! -- what ever
conclusion it comes to can never be wrong : Dick or Jane didn't find love ? Well, one
of Saturn's moons was retrograde & Mercury declensed Venus (I don't know what it means
either) . or Dick went on a bender & Jane had a whole bad hair week.
Frankly, to play these pre-modern tricks on us is just grotesquely insulting. That some are
falling for it is grotesquely depressing.
Another ringer from Mike Whitney! Keep 'em comin', brother.
We are not experiencing a sudden and explosive outbreak of racial violence and mayhem.
We are experiencing a thoroughly-planned, insurgency-type operation that involves myriad
logistical components including vast, nationwide riots, looting and arson, as well as an
extremely impressive ideological campaign.
Yup. TPTB have been grooming BLM/Antifa for this moment for at least 3-4 years now, if not
longer. Here's a former BLMer who quit speaking out three years ago about the organization's
role in the present 'race war':
It is very clever politics and (war) propaganda. You break down and demoralise your
enemies at the same time as assuring your own side of it's own righteous use of violence.
This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look
beyond the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows.
Nailing it.
4. They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are
inciting racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to
office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to
transform America into a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
Which of these four statements best explains what's going on in America today?
If you chose Number 4, you are right.
If we believe this – we need to act like it. These are "enemies, foreign and
domestic ". This isn't ordinary politics, it arguably transcends politics.
What hope is there without organization?
And whatever is done – don't give them ammunition. The resistance must not be an
ethno-resistance.
But he is either naive or a bad manager, as his hires are deadly to his aims. And the
management criticism is big, because as a leader that is mostly what he does.
That he gets information to affect US policy for good, from outside of his circle of
trusted personnel, is a sad state of affairs.
@Robert Dolan ds that it would have ended on day one were it not officially sanctioned
and the rioters protected from prosecution. Why hasn't the Janet Rosenberg/Thousand
Currents/Tides Foundation connection with the BLM/DNC/MSM cabal, as well as with Antifa and
social media, been the major investigation on Fox News? Why haven't Zuckerberg, Zucker, et al
been arrested for incitement to commit federal crimes, including capital treason to overthrow
the duly elected president? (Just a few rhetorical questions for the hell of it.) What's so
galling is that the cops and federal agents are being used as just so many patsies who are
deployed, not to protect, but deployed to look like fools and be held up for mockery as
pathetic exemplars of white disempowerment.
The officials who concocted this scam are advancing the agenda of their real bosses, the
oligarch puppet-masters who have their tentacles extended throughout the deep-state and use
them to coerce their lackey bureaucrats to do their bidding.
Agree, but where is President Trump? He was supposed to appoint undersecretaries and
assistant secretaries and deputy undersecretaries and Schedule C whippersnappers on whose
desks such outrages are supposed to die.
I've thought from the beginning that this lack of attention to "personnel as policy" --
with Trump overestimating the ability of the ostensible CEO to overcome such intransigence --
was one of his major failures. I am sympathetic, as there are not many people he could trust
to be loyal to his agenda, much less to him, but this is a disaster in every agency
Few years ago I watch a clip secretly recorded in Ukrainian synagogue where Rabi said
"first we have to fight Catholics and with Muslims it will be an easy job" ...
Thanks to Mr Whitney for being able to cut through the fog and see what's going on behind
it. The term "white supremacist" wasn't much in public use at all until the day Trump was
elected then suddenly it was all over the place. It's like one of those massive ad campaigns
whose jingle is everywhere as if some group decided on it as a theme to be pushed. They're
really afraid that the white working class population will wake up and see how the country is
being sold out from underneath their feet hence the need to keep it divided and intimidated.
Like all the other color revolutions everywhere else they strike at the weak links within the
country to create conflict, in the US case it's so-called diversity. There's billions
available to be spent in this project so plenty of traitors can be found, unwitting or
otherwise, to carry out their assignments. The billionaire class own most of the media and
much else and see the US as their farm. They have no loyalty whatsoever and outsource
everything to China or anywhere else they can squeeze everything out of the workers. They
want a global dictatorship and admire the Chinese government for the way it can order its
citizens around.
You are exactly right. Trump is doing his part (knowingly or unknowingly, but probably
knowingly) to accomplish the NWO objectives. He was not elected in 2016 in spite of NWO
desires, as most Trump supporters think, but rather precisely BECAUSE of NWO desires.
The NWO probably also wants him to win again this year, and if so then he will win. The
reason the NWO wanted him in 2016 (and probably wants him to win again) was primarily to
neutralize the (armed) Right in this country so they wouldn't effectively resist the COVID-19
scamdemic lockdown tyranny and BLM/Antifa riots.
@Trinity While I tend to agree with you that it looks like a race war, the question is
why is it happening now? If it were just a race war promoted by radicals in BLM and Antifa,
it does not explain the nationwide coordination (let's face it the faces of BLM and Antifa
are not that smart or connected), the support and censorship of the violence by the MSM and
the support of Marxist BLM by corporations to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is a color revolution in the making and may come to a peak after Nov. 3rd. Whitney is on
to something, there is much more going on behind the "smoke and mirrors" and AG Barr (if he's
not part of it) should be investigating it.
They indicate that powerful agents -- operating from within the state– are
inciting racial violence to crush the emerging "populist" majority that elected Trump to
office in 2016 and which now represents an existential threat to the globalist plan to
transform America into a tyrannical third-world "shithole".
I keep reading such nonsense in the comments above. the so-called populist majority does
not get it, Trump is not placed here to stop the Globalist agenda, that is an electioneering
stunt. Look at what he has actually and really done.
How has he stopped the Globalist move forward?? By the Covid plandemic being
allowed to circle the globe and shut down the US economy and social norm? By moving our high
tech companies to Israel? Giving Israel and their Wall Street allies what is left of US
credit wealth? Draining the swamp with even more Zio-Neocon Swamp creatures in the govt than
ever? Moving the embassy to Jerusalem and all requests per Netanyahu's wish list? A real
anti-Globalist stand? Looting the Federal Reserve for the Wall Street high fliers, who
garnered more wealth during the crash test run of March-April and are sure to make out with
even more for the coming big crash?
Phoney stunts of stopping immigration or bashing China. Really? China is still rising
propelled by Wall Street and Banker funds. I have not seen any jobs coming home, lost more
than ever in US history this year. Only lost homes for the working and middle classes.
How is Populist America standing up for their constitutional rights which is being
shredded a little more each day? Standing up for their Real Interests, which are eroded and
stolen on an almost daily basis by Trump's NY Mafia and Wall Street Oligarchs. Jobs gone for
good and government assistance to the needy disappearing, as that is against the phoney
Republic individualism, that you must make it on your own. Right just like the big goverment
assistance always going to the big money players and banks, remember as they are too big
to let fail!
Dreaming that Trump is going to save White America from the Gobalists is just
bull corn . From whom BLM? Proven street theatre that will disappear on command. I
actually have come to learn that some Black leaders are speaking out intelligently for street
calm and distancing themselves from BLM.
Problem with the USA is the general population is so very dumbed down by 60 years of MSM
– TV s and Hollywood mind control programming that the public prefers professional
actors like Reagan and Trump over real politicians, and surely never chose a Statesman or
real Patriotic leader. the public political narrative is still set by Fox , CNN and
MSNBC .
The deep state is so infiltrated and overwhelmed with Zio and Globalist agents, that it is
now almost hopeless to fix. Sorry to point out but Trump is best described as the Dummy
sitting on his Ventriloquist's lap (Jared Kushner).
Situation is near hopeless as even here on Ron Unz Review the comments are so
disappointing, almost 80% are focused on the Race as the prime issue and supportive of Trump
fakery (not that I support Biden and Zio slut Kamil Harris either).
In sum, beyond putting their MAGA hats on, White America is more focused more on
playing Cowboy with their toy guns, AR's and all than really getting involved politically to
sort things out to get American onto a better track. Of course, this is not taken seriously
as it might call for reaching out to other American communities that are even more
disenfranchised: African- Americans and Latinos.
@David Erickson nted him in 2016 (and probably wants him to win again) was primarily to
neutralize the (armed) Right in this country so they wouldn't effectively resist the COVID-19
scamdemic lockdown tyranny and BLM/Antifa riots.
Covid and BLM/ANTIFA are just window dressing for the financial turmoil. "Look over here
whitey, there's a pandemic" and "look over here whitey, there's a riot" is much preferred to
whitey shooting the sheriff who comes to take his stuff.
Wave the flag and bible while spreading love for the cops, and the repossessions and
evictions should go off without a hitch. Yes, Trump is a knowing participant.
"My impression is that BLM, Antifa and other protestors are well aware of this"
Like all good Maoists the cult white kids of antifa rigidly adhere to the mission statement
and stick the inconvenient truth in the back of their mushy minds. BLM ... is a mercenary.
Can you imagine any other groups rioting and destroying American cities for over 3 months?
Imagine if the Hells Angels or some other White biker gang was doing what Antifa and BLM are
doing? Hell, imagine if it were a bunch of Hare Krishnas pulling this shit off? Hell, I think
the local mayors, police, and other law enforcement employees wouldn't even take this much shit
even if the rioters were Girl Scouts. We are talking 3-4 months of lawlessness, assaults,
rapes, murders ( cold blooded premeditated murders at that) and still the people in charge let
this shit go on night and day. IF the POTUS doesn't have the authority or the power to stop
shit like this from going on then what the hell do we even vote for anyhow? Granted, I see the
reason for not being ruled by a dictatorship, but who in the hell can justify letting these
riots go on? One can only assume that both the republicants and the demsheviks are fine with
these riots because no one seems in a hurry to shut them down or arrest the hombres funding
these riots. Who is housing and feeding the rioters? Who is paying their travel expenses? I'm
sure most everyone in Washington knows who the people are behind these riots but don't expect
any action anytime soon.
This is a class war dolled-up to look like a race war. Americans will have to look beyond
the smoke and mirrors to spot the elites lurking in the shadows. There lies the cancer that
must be eradicated.
That's true to a large degree, but
It is indeed an attempt to liquidate the working and lower middle class. Most of the
American working and lower middle class, obviously not all, is White. So predictably we have
these calls for White Genocide. Agreed and good to see the tie-in with the Coronavirus Hoax
lock downs, too, which also spread the devastation into minority communities under the guise of
public safety.
The one question that remains unanswered is why the major cities were targeted for
destruction. Obviously these are the playgrounds of the oligarchs and have been decimated. We
will learn soon enough.
The Reverend William Barber is the only genuine black leader I am aware of.
And he makes a pointn of not speaking only for blacks, but for all disadvantaged communities,
including poor whites. IMO he is the real deal, and I very much hope he takes the lead in
articulating genuine community values of respect and equality for all, including basics such as
decent health care and food access.
The pressure exerted on someone like Barber by the BLM forces in the media and other
institutions is enormous.
I wish Ron Unz would invite him to write something for the UR.
If after reading the headline you thought that is is one of the Russian universities got
financing from NED and is preparing to teach our grant-eaters "the science of color
revolutions", then you are mistaken.
It is the USA Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, which now offers 101 of
color revolution preparation in a course called "Overthrow the State" for its American students
and the subject of the course is the USA, not the xUSSR space.
According to the course description, it "puts every student at the head of a popular
revolutionary movement that seeks to overthrow the current government and create a better
society." Among questions discussed:
How will you gain power?"
How will you communicate with the masses?
How do you plan to improve people's lives?
How will you deal with the past?
These are the questions that the University course answers. To get a diploma in the course
"how to overthrow the state" you will need to pass 3 tests. It will be necessary to write your
"Manifesto" after studying historical examples and revolutionary thought from Franz Fanon to
Che Guevara, Mahatma Gandhi and representatives of the revolutionary movement. You will also
have to "write a compelling essay about rewriting history" and a "white paper" (white paper is
a kind of business plan, but it is written for an audience that is not related to
business).
Univrsity of Washington and Lee is so
progressive, that in July the faculty voted to remove the name of Robert Li from the name of
the University.
After ample media jaw-jawing over whether the Democratic presidential nominee would loudly
and proudly repudiate some of the present violent protesting in America's streets, Joe Biden
(if briefly) denounced the hard Left on Monday. "Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not
protesting. Setting fires is not protesting," the former vice president said in Pittsburgh, in
a rare day trip from Delaware; he has rarely traveled since the dawn of COVID-19 in the United
States. "None of this is protesting -- it's lawlessness, plain and simple. And those who do it,
should be prosecuted."
"Violence will not bring change," Biden continued. "It will only bring destruction. It's
wrong in every way. It divides, instead of unites. It destroys businesses -- only hurts the
working families that serve the community. It makes things worse across the board, not better."
And, in the signature line of the speech, Joe Biden summed up a lifetime of political appeal:
"You know me. You know my heart. You know my story. Ask yourself, do I look like a radical
socialist with a soft spot for rioters?"
It was effective. Still, Biden's address Monday hardly tied up all loose ends.
After his speech, fresh polling implied additional trouble for his campaign.
Emerson College , respected in the field, released research that found President Trump down
only two percent in the contest, with a double digit performance with African-Americans and
support among Hispanics nearing forty percent, both surprising. It's one poll, but it's
startling stuff. Since Biden declared his candidacy in 2019, his duel with Donald Trump has
been one-sided.
Despite press incentives to couch the race as anybody's game, Trump vs. Biden so far had had
all the makings of a rout, and without a traditional campaign, even a boring one at that (a
shocking statement on anything that involved Donald Trump). From the president's termination of
internal pollsters last year that showed him to the ex-veep losing badly, to Biden's astonishing,
intimidating comeback in the primary to the Democratic nominee's record of utter political
dominance since crisis opened up in America, it had not been a pretty picture for the White
House.
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But that's now plainly shifted. Some partisans in early summer made the case that
relative administration restraint on violent protests in America's cities (including the
capital of Washington, D.C.) would lay bare the nature of certain left-wing tactics.
Politically, at least, it's beginning to look prescient. While overdone analogies to the mayhem
of 1968 abound -- the Nixon-Humphrey race occurred in a time closer to World War I than the
current year -- it's clear, now, that some devotees of the Democrats are, in fact, undermining
the cause.
Americans are fleeing the
city. Bad news for the donkey: some might argue that's a tacit rejection of liberal
politics. And it's certainly a reality Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien is licking his chops
to exploit. Urban America is almost monolithically controlled by the Democratic Party. And, in
a stunning reversal after decades of urban triumph, the city has become a political albatross.
Biden notoriously made his bones in his early political life as a sensitive ear on the
anxieties, reasonable or not, of white suburbanites. Speculation about senility aside, he would
seem to know what's up.
That's why Biden made a tactical error, in later veering off-message -- after the initial
upbraiding of his own side. He repudiated violence, but then engaged in both-siderism. He
implied the canard that anti-fascist chaos has been met with equal, odious might by the far
Right. It hasn't. The most recent, known victim of political violence was a
Trump-supporting man in Portland, Oregon. Whatever you think of his politics, he was
apparently essentially executed in the streets of a major American city.
Images of burned-out ruins in Kenosha, Wisconsin permeate cyberspace. Add in, for instance,
insane reports (if true) of laser attacks on law enforcement, and it's not hard to see how this
gets dicey in a hurry for the Democrats. The party's monofocus on police killings of
African-Americans, an essential issue, falls flat with the public when there is a failure to
also address the larger toxic brew that is the country's problems right now. So, true to form,
Biden strayed further from his initial path by talking, at bizarre length, about Russian
President Vladimir Putin and the dubious
Russian bounties story, where plenty of regional experts say the dust is far from settled.
"Donald Trump is determined to instill fear in America," Biden closed. "That's what his entire
campaign for the presidency has come down to: fear."
The former vice president then declined to take questions, failing to allay fears that he
only speaks when he absolutely has to.
Senator Harris did not say "riots'. To claim that she did is to promote a clear falsehood.
She said "protests". No American should have a problem with protests.
I don't really like either candidate and was all set to write in another name as a protest
(Andrew Basevich). Here is what changed my mind:
https://cwbchicago.com/2020... Click on the embedded video. This attack was folllowed up
by another vicious attack on a senior a couple of days later:
https://cwbchicago.com/2020...
I am not expecting any miracles in a second Trump term but I am one of many voters who
think Biden is a mere placeholder for the more radical Harris.
Trump's best hope for re-election are a) more examples of urban unrest/local politicians
failing to keep order and b) Biden continuing to show he is losing his marbles, particularly
in a debate. He will probably get both, but he would help himself out by hesitating just a
bit every time he feels like shooting off his mouth, which turns of a lot of people,
particularly wavering voters.
"... 'Mostly peaceful protests' are like the 'moderate rebels' in Syria - propaganda constructs that do not exist in the real world. The people who owned the burning cars and whose businesses were destroyed will not be relieved by such phrasing. ..."
"... Joe Biden's attempt to swing Republican voters to his side has failed . At the same time he has rejected many of the issues progressives favored. This will hurt the election turn out the Democrats will need. Add to that the unrest which plays into Trump's hands. The Democrats who fear that are right ..."
"... he sole focus on Antifa as the problem Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. ..."
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said Wednesday he hasn't done enough to focus on damages caused
by some city protests over the last three months and the fallout from coronavirus. He
called on the community to help him come up with better solutions to city issues.
During the last months the Magnificent Mile in Chicago
was looted - twice. Yesterday new riots and looting occurred in Minneapolis after a rumor
of another police killing incited some people :
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo tried to dispel rumors that spread on social media about the
death of the unidentified Black man, who was suspected in a Wednesday afternoon homicide
and fatally shot himself on the Nicollet Mall as officers approached several hours later.
His death, which was captured on city surveillance video and released by police within 90
minutes, nonetheless sparked protests and unrest in the heart of downtown.
The video confirmed the police account of what happened and showed the man glancing over
his shoulder before pulling out the gun and firing, then collapsing to the ground as a
half-dozen witnesses ran away with their hands in the air. The officers, one of whom had
his gun drawn, shooed a remaining witness away and kicked the suspect's gun away before
performing chest compressions.
Last Sunday police in Kenosha, Wisconsin proved to be too incompetent to arrest a man
they had already had under control . They shot him 7 times into the back when he was
trying to get into his car. Nights of rioting followed. Buildings were burned down and businesses
were looted.
Yesterday a white teen with a semi-automatic weapon had the stupid idea to join others in
'protecting the businesses' in Kenosha from further looting. He ended up killing two people
and wounding more after he was attacked by some of
the rioters. The teen was arrested and he is facing charges but I doubt that he is guilty of
more than sheer stupidity and manslaughter in self defense.
The cycle of violence will likely continue. There are too many racist in the police and the level
of U.S. police training seems to be abysmal. There is also too much tolerance for violence
within the general community.
Politically this plays into Trump's law and order campaign. The Democrats have lauded
Black Live Matters and the protests but have hardly spoken out against the rioting and
looting that comes with them.
This CNN chyron from yesterday
evening is an expression of their position:
'Mostly peaceful protests' are like the 'moderate rebels' in Syria - propaganda
constructs that do not exist in the real world. The people who owned the burning cars and
whose businesses were destroyed will not be relieved by such phrasing.
Joe Biden's attempt to swing Republican voters to his side
has failed . At the same time he has rejected many of the issues progressives favored.
This will hurt the election turn out the Democrats will need. Add to that the unrest which
plays into Trump's hands. The Democrats who
fear that are right :
"There's no doubt it's playing into Trump's hands," said Paul Soglin, who served as mayor
of Madison, on and off, for more than two decades. "There's a significant number of
undecided voters who are not ideological, and they can move very easily from Republican to
the Democratic column and back again. They are, in effect, the people who decide elections.
And they are very distraught about both the horrendous carnage created by police officers
in murdering African Americans, and ... for the safety of their communities."
Trump, of course, is positioning himself as the antidote to urban unrest. "So let me be
clear: The violence must stop, whether in Minneapolis, Portland or Kenosha," Vice President
Mike Pence declared in his Republican convention speech Wednesday night, with Trump looking
on. "We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every American of every
race and creed and color."
Republicans had chided Joe Biden and other Democrats for not calling out the violence in
the aftermath of the Blake shooting. Biden immediately addressed the shooting, but didn't
condemn the ensuing violence until Wednesday in a video posted on social media.
Despite Trump's failure to bring the pandemic under control his job approval rating
continues to be high
while Biden's lead in the polls
is shrinking . The United States seem to have a higher tolerance for avoidable death by
guns or viruses than other societies have. It is not the only point that makes it exceptional .
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thanks b... it really looks like an empire in fast decline.... i don't believe the usa
constitution took into consideration the idea of corporations... also as you note - the
tolerance for violence or death as with covid is indeed much greater... i guess more people
have to have guns as it is in their constitution, and so much for public medicare... it is
like a dream about public finance and somewhere way off in the distant future... i don't
believe it is going to matter who wins this coming election, as the divisiveness is so
pronounced, it will be hard to build bridges.. it seems like no one is interested in building
bridges between the opposing sides either... all the politicians are mostly looking after
corporations and special interest lobbies - israel and etc. etc... sad kettle of fish...
Very fair analysis, I enjoyed this piece. You are absolutely right, the terrible training
and general ineptitude of the police is at the core of the problem. The protesters recognize
this and there are many salient examples to fuel the outrage. However, the solutions they
call for don't address this root problem and alienate many moderate voters. Defund the
police? This will make the police more responsible? The whole thing is a mess with no real
solutions in sight.
In my opinion, the problem is the hiring and personnel practices in US police departments.
Police officer is a critical job, you must often make snap judgments in tense situations, and
you have the power to do violence to others. But police officers are paid similarly to car
mechanics, not even as much as many private security guards! The most responsible and wise
Americans do not become police officers, they pursue other careers where their talents are
better rewarded. Then, if a great person makes it into the police force, there is no way to
distinguish themselves by excellent performance and rise quickly through the ranks. The red
tape in the personnel system is suffocating. The best officers leave for private
opportunities, leaving the police force to make do with the rest.
Given the US political system, where decisions are made based on which simple slogan can
rally the crowd, I don't see any hope of this improving. It would take a redesign of the org
structure and personnel management of the entire system. Far more likely that leaders make
some symbolic, token changes so they can claim to have "done something." The dysfunction of
the US government is starting to be noticeable in almost every area...
Thanks for this insightful essay and thanks for the last link to the chilling must read
essay by Larry Romanoff on the Unz Review. I simply don't know the answer to the multiple
problems faced by the US but isn't that the job of the professional politicians? It seems
none would even begin to address any of the mind blowing issues raised by Romanoff. In a
previous era many of those crucial issues would be career ending third rail, touch and die.
Times have been forever changed by events. I have the feeling the general populace won't put
up with the present archaic and parasitical structures for long. Hang on for a bumpy
ride.
The conclusion is unfortunately correct, but t he sole focus on Antifa as the problem
Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. Who do you
believe is more dangerous, Antifa or White Supremacist militias? The Feds are well aware that
WS groups are using the protests to destroy property and trying to set off a race war, but
the media and politicians are remarkably silent about the role of White Supremacists in the
violence, unless something happens that is too hard to ignore, like 'Umbrella Man.'
... as for antifa, what exactly have they done? who are they? is there an
organization?
My pet theory is that they are an off-shoot of JDL. Ready to turn any legitimate protest into
a riot for the evening news. Because Zionists need to protect the Zionist asshats that run
USA/Empire.
That's why they're (still) so mysterious. That's why the US government can never seem to
understand who they are. Antifa are the domestic "White Helmets" ready to support YOUR
protest. Except not.
the problem is
a. the hiring and personnel practices in US police departments by sabre <= @ 5.
b. the inner economic contradictions arising from secular decline. <= vk @ 7
c. media focus on Antifa <= according to B.
d. events and failures orchestrated to heightened economic oppression <= norecovery @
21
e. Business as usual while the country burns AU1 @ 34
f. repressive authoritarian state militancy and Trump @ 37..
g. All three shooting victims <= self-defense<= white, <= felons. gm 48
h. A JDL offshoot.. Jackrabbit @ 58
I say the problem of "unsatisfied rising discontent" is to be expected When anyone in a
democratic society fails to be heard, by all concerned, little recourse remains to those with
a grievance but to ....XXXXX
A very strong constitutional issue exists in these riots =>. The First Amendment
<=was not in the Federalist construct of Aristocrats and the corporate empires they owned.
The effort to control America is hidden deep inside the words and court interpretations since
the Constitution of the United States of America was imposed on Americans.
The Aristocrats in America wanted a British Colonial government without British
Aristocrats ; they wanted a government with a strong army so it could protect them from
Angry Americans! The Aristocrats and their corporations still in America after Britain was
defeated wanted to control the profits that could be made in America, much in the same
fashion as the British Colonial Government had helped its corporations, investors, and
bankers before the war to control who got the profits that were made in America.
The Federalist wanted a government the Aristocracy could use to exploit America ;
the federalist wanted to govern the behaviors and direct the toils of those in America in
such a way that only one federal government could do. In fact the so called Framers wanted a
royal government, tried to make George Washington, King.
Remember the Declaration of Independence was in 1776 , the America states defeated
the British Government in 1778, the Constitution of the USA did not come into being until
1788. During that 10 years John Hanson was the first President of the United States of
America.. Samuel Huntington, Thomas McKeeny, and others were President of the United States
of America. The British were gone, George Washington was appointed general to remove the
British corporations, Investors, and bankers from America, that was accomplished in 1778. The
American Aristocrats wanted to own America. George Washington was selected to be the general
of the Army because his wealth made him famous enough to attract mercenaries to fight the
British at Valley Forge. At the time the Constitution in Philadelphia was developed, George
was in Mt. Vernon.
The Aristocratic Convention in Philadelphia, was a meeting, designed to terminate
involvement by the newly emancipated American in American politics. The result of the
Convention in Philadelphia was a document which outlined how control of America could be
returned to the American Aristocrats, a document which would make the Aristrocrat powerful
again, the same Aristocrats who had previously used the British Government, to control
Americans. Check it out what were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and the
like doing in America while America was a British Colony (before 1776)? The Aristocrats
wanted a government that would allow America Aristocrats to direct and a government they
could use to control Americans.
The anti-federalist tried to refuse ratification of the denial to be against the
peoples involvement in their own government but the best the anti-federalist could do
against, the strong powers behind the Constitution, was to force the Federalist to add to
their regime change Constitution ten basic promises, <=these promises were in the form of
amendments and are known as the Bill Of Rights [BOR]: Anyway the first amendment of the BOR
reads.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of
grievances.. But, but but it does not say Congress will make every law necessary to
enforce the protection of the first Amendment.
So why can't those who are protesting be allowed to live so they can be heard? Why can't
their grievances be listed and placed on the national ballot? Let everyone be heard.. explore
every aspect of their concerns and accommodate those with a Grievance to rejoin our
democratic society, ask the nation to settle the issues dissenters have ? When the
Aristocrats use the government to impose their will on risings, they do so by eliminating
bystander awareness and deny everyone but a few to be involved; worse, they allow media to
promote, one side of the issue (no must carry rule).. this narrowing of participants happens
until nothing remains but conflict between bottom up grievance . . and top down power.. and
believe me that is the goal.. to divide and conquer.
"... BLM and Antifa having corporate sponsers makes them a little fascist, too, not to mention ideologically intolerant. The daughtets and sons of the spoiled upper-middle class. ..."
"... he sole focus on Antifa as the problem Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. ..."
BLM is not a protest movement, it's not even a civil rights movement. It's a Trojan
Horse funded by sinister globalist troublemakers
BLM is blamed for Antifa violence.
The Democrats and the media have encouraged this madness from the very beginning by
praising the protests while downplaying the magnitude of the damage.
That the rioting helps Trump and that establishment Democrats (Republican-lite)
support Trump is completely overlooked.
But it will change and change won't be pretty. The state will deploy all its assets
to reclaim its monopoly on violence. You can bet on that. Security will be reestablished
with brute force and an iron fist. A Crackdown is coming and the innocent are going to be
crushed along with the guilty.
Just as I said @Aug28 13:47 #199. Antifa+militia violence are a prescription for a
stronger police state.
@102 Karlof...i agree, your analysis is spot on, but where does a leftist put their
political energy when the two options are right-wing fascist and right-wing fascist-lite?
BLM and Antifa having corporate sponsers makes them a little fascist, too, not to
mention ideologically intolerant. The daughtets and sons of the spoiled upper-middle
class.
I would love a more sharing society, don't know how to get there. USA is probably a lost
cause, and as VK states, that is probably a good thing for the rest of the world.
Here is something to chew on. I live in portland and the first time I saw Antifa spring up
was back in 2009. Rose City Antifa organized a boycott of a local cooperatively owned bike
shop. They plastered the town and all the bike racks in the city saying to boycott the worker
owned business. What was it's crime you ask?, to get such treatment. The bike shop hosted a
meeting and speakers forum held by Portlanders for 911 truth. Draw your own conclusions
here.
What many are doing here, in the heat of battle, is forgetting that this is not a "civil
war," it is class war. The ruling class is pursuing its classic tactic of "divide and
conquer." Those divided are under the influence of the propaganda of the ruling class, and
continue to damage each other, rather than their true enemy the ruling class. This must be
made clear, in order to unite the working class, that they may exercise there true power and
crush the ruling class. There is no other way.
The conclusion is unfortunately correct, but t he sole focus on Antifa as the problem
Imo just shows the power of the media and politicians to shape the narrative. Who do you
believe is more dangerous, Antifa or White Supremacist militias? The Feds are well aware that
WS groups are using the protests to destroy property and trying to set off a race war, but
the media and politicians are remarkably silent about the role of White Supremacists in the
violence, unless something happens that is too hard to ignore, like 'Umbrella Man.'
... as for antifa, what exactly have they done? who are they? is there an
organization?
My pet theory is that they are an off-shoot of JDL. Ready to turn any legitimate protest into
a riot for the evening news. Because Zionists need to protect the Zionist asshats that run
USA/Empire.
That's why they're (still) so mysterious. That's why the US government can never seem to
understand who they are. Antifa are the domestic "White Helmets" ready to support YOUR
protest. Except not.
actually, there is NO such thing as "Antifa". Antifa is as made up as ISIS/Ali Queda is.
Antifa is a vague term loosely applied toward a group of people who are fed up with all the
fake "Capitalism" and are willing to fight against it.
Some may even not be "Antifa" but fake "Antifa" created for propaganda purposes. Exactly how
the notorious "red brigade" in Italy who kidnapped Aldo Moro and killed him. And the Red
Brigade was supposed to be Communist also; finny that, since Aldo Moro was about to create a
coalition with the Communists and he is prevented from accomplishing that by
"Communists".
But b is essentially correct, the average American moron™ is now fed up with all the
riots and looting and is siding with trump. But that's only because the Average American
moron™ (I have trademarked it, so dont try to steal it) is so stupid, they cannot even
think about anything, they live in a very simple good vs bad world.
"... Now, what I think is, charging blacks and injuns and all for every white invention they use, one at a time would be a motimgator long job and use more paper than eating a McDonald's hamburger. It could lead to enough of what that Wall Street newspaper calls cross licensing ..."
"... I mean, you could charge a nickel every time Lateesha or Deewan or Lasagna read a book, which might bring in twelve dollars a year, or used a Smith and Wesson, for whole boxcars of dollars. Probably the easy thing would be to rent the whole damn civilization with only one license, like driving a car. ..."
"... I reckon we'd haul in enough money to buy enough rockets to blow up a thousand weddings and little children in Afghanistan and Eye-ran and maybe some kindergartner kids in Venezuela, wherever that is. Then they'd all have American values and love us. ..."
"... I figure when she's yowling into a microphone that probably Abraham Lincoln or Moses or somebody invented, it's that Cultural Appropriation again and she owes money. I mean, without that microphone shed have to go back to smoke signals or drums. ..."
"... Anyway, women are taking over everything, most of them crazy. Along with Rachel Tension and Oprah, we've got that Clinton woman ..."
"... And now we've got Joe Biden, who ain't nothing but a titless Hillary on days when he can remember who he is, and pretty much nothing at all the rest of the time. ..."
If some people can't go as Bugs Bunny, then nobody can't go as anything. Fair is fair. So if
you little sister goes as Aunt Jemima that makes pancakes, the BLM bandits will try to lynch
her.
I reckon black folks ought to be a little quieter. Since they didn't invent writing, or
reading, or 'rithmetic or electricity or clothes or pretty much anything, then any time they
use them things they're doing Cultural Appropriation. It's just common sense. Of course, I
guess a Chinaman could say whites do it too when they use paper and gunpowder, without the
which we couldn't have bombs and rockets and federal forms nine pages long that no one since
Adam can figure out.
Now, what I think is, charging blacks and injuns and all for every white invention they use,
one at a time would be a motimgator long job and use more paper than eating a McDonald's
hamburger. It could lead to enough of what that Wall Street newspaper calls cross licensing,
Mr. McWilliams said, and he knows everything, to keep a whole rat pack of lawyers in business
forever instead of drowning them, that would be better.
I mean, you could charge a nickel every
time Lateesha or Deewan or Lasagna read a book, which might bring in twelve dollars a year, or
used a Smith and Wesson, for whole boxcars of dollars. Probably the easy thing would be to rent
the whole damn civilization with only one license, like driving a car.
I reckon we'd haul in enough money to buy enough rockets to blow up a thousand weddings and
little children in Afghanistan and Eye-ran and maybe some kindergartner kids in Venezuela,
wherever that is. Then they'd all have American values and love us.
But we got other news to gnaw on. I keep reading about this gal Rachel Tension and how she's
causing all kinds of bile along with Oprah. I don't know about Rachel but Oprah's gone all
skinny on us and I reckon it makes her want to make more fuss about whatever she's thinking
about. Oprah used to be all porked up and looked like three hundred pounds of fatback with legs
and if you'd had a oil well you wanted to shut down you could have used her for a plug. I hear
there's less Oprah now, though. Which is about how much I can use.
Anyhow, she's running on these days about how white people is criminals and brutes and they
need to get in touch with what they're feeling, that might mean their girlfriend or I don't
know what, but she don't like them. White people, I mean. Well, I guess. But I figure when
she's yowling into a microphone that probably Abraham Lincoln or Moses or somebody invented,
it's that Cultural Appropriation again and she owes money. I mean, without that microphone shed
have to go back to smoke signals or drums.
Anyway, women are taking over everything, most of them crazy. Along with Rachel Tension and
Oprah, we've got that Clinton woman that's even older than Ann Coulter and probably sleeps all
day in some cave, hanging by her toes, and Elizabeth Warren, that used to be a Injun but cured
it with a shot of DNA. And now we've got Joe Biden, who ain't nothing but a titless Hillary on
days when he can remember who he is, and pretty much nothing at all the rest of the time. Which
might be a good reason to vote for him. We've had a long string of Presidents who did know who
they were, and it ain't been real satisfactory.
Finally the world' s gone soft in the head, like Aunt Minnie that granddad used to keep in the attic. I just saw where Walt
Disney, that I thought was dead but anyway, he's going to make a movie about Peter Pan and he want's Mike Tyson to be Tinker
Belle. She´s kind of like a lightening bug in a little green dress and throws sparks everywhere. Now if I remember right, Tyson
weighs about two-forty buck nekkid and holding a helium balloon so it's hard to imagine him twinkling around in the air and
flashing like a fifty cent flashlight with a loose switch, but I don't know much about movies. Anyway there was this woman, I
think her name was Lupita Marimacha or anyway some Meskin thing, that talked for Mr. Disney, that I thought was dead. She said
these times are progressive, which I think means soft in the head, and we can't be heteronormative or chromapejorative and we
had to be gender fluid. I saw it in the newspaper or I couldn't spell it. I wasn't sure what kind of gender fluid she meant but
I knew I didn't want to think about it. I guess it means we´ll have to watch Mike Tyson flying around in some kind of girly
clothes, which is all right on a girl but I worry about them on Mike, and maybe it worries him too.
... ... ...
Write Fred at [email protected] . Put the letters pdq anywhere in the subject line so
Google don't disappear your letter.
"... Anyone who has ever overcome any obstacle in life knows that if you spend all your time worrying about how insurmountable it is, you will never overcome it. ..."
"... I am not going to spend my time begging the white man to undergo unconscious bias training, it'll distract me from doing what does work, which is getting kids to learn their algebra, turn up on time and deliver. ..."
"... You're some PR guy, you work in town, you earn a nice bit of money, you have a nice flat and car. But you put a black box on Instagram and you're now a cool non-racist. You're a good guy. ..."
"... Actually doing good takes a lifetime. The thing about doing good is that it gets you enemies. You're not part of the group. ..."
"... expected to accept and acknowledge that they've been unavoidably socialised into racism, that they have internalised white supremacies and they need to affirm this in meetings and talk about how they are to dismantle the system of whiteness. ..."
"... expected to testify to a particular kind of racism that they are experiencing in almost every sphere of their lives and if they fail to do this then they either have internalised white supremacy or are callously trying to advantage themselves at the expense of other people of colour. ..."
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he toxic ideology of the BLM movement is promoted by its race campaigners at the expense of
any other idea. Unless you agree with its false claims and the underlying belief that Britain
is intrinsically racist, you are the enemy.
Negotiating your way around any conversation centred on race has become a social minefield.
Say the wrong thing and 'boom!' you're treated as a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan
and ostracised from your bien pensant pals for life.
BLM campaigners in the UK push one line: black people are the permanent victims of
oppression, white people are collectively guilty of perpetuating discrimination.
That's it. No ifs, no buts, no grey areas, no dissent. Own it!
In this country, BLM is a secretive, opaque umbrella
organisation of many different groups with no distinct leadership yet, somehow, through
marches, pulling down statues and by seizing hold of the narrative on social media, they have
become the arbiters on race matters.
But maybe some relief is here. The newly-launched Equiano Project , named after the 18th Century former
slave Olaudah Equiano , the British African
community's first political activist, brings a cool breeze of common sense into the stifling
atmosphere created by the UK adherents of the Black Lives Matter movement and their toxic,
imported brand of identity politics.
Founded by 24-year-old Inaya Folarin Iman, a writer, campaigner and former Brexit Party
candidate, the project wasted no time
getting down and dirty on this hot topic, with an online event this week that could have a
lasting effect on the tone and content of the race conversation in Great Britain.
London head teacher Katharine Birbalsingh
tore into the notions of unconscious bias training, decolonising the school curriculum and
making the study of historical black figures compulsory, pointing out that the latter is just
the sort of institutional racism that BLM decries.
She said " Anyone who has ever overcome any obstacle in life knows that if you spend all
your time worrying about how insurmountable it is, you will never overcome it.
" I am not going to spend my time begging the white man to undergo unconscious bias
training, it'll distract me from doing what does work, which is getting kids to learn their
algebra, turn up on time and deliver. "
Miss Birbalsingh, admittedly, does have form on the race debate, as the head of what the BBC
calls 'Britain's
strictest school.'
Speaking in June about Instagram's 'Black Box Day' – where users posted a black box
image on their account – the head teacher unloaded on the woke middle classes posting
messages online.
She said, " You're some PR guy, you work in town, you earn a nice bit of money, you have
a nice flat and car. But you put a black box on Instagram and you're now a cool non-racist.
You're a good guy.
" Actually doing good takes a lifetime. The thing about doing good is that it gets you
enemies. You're not part of the group. "
Ah, Miss Birbalsingh, you are a gem! But I digress...
Back at the Equiano Project event, academic Helen Pluckrose also took aim at BLM, explaining
the effects of their poisonous dogma on both sides of the race divide.
White people are, she said, " expected to accept and acknowledge that they've been
unavoidably socialised into racism, that they have internalised white supremacies and they need
to affirm this in meetings and talk about how they are to dismantle the system of
whiteness. "
Meanwhile, members of the BAME community were " expected to testify to a particular kind
of racism that they are experiencing in almost every sphere of their lives and if they fail to
do this then they either have internalised white supremacy or are callously trying to advantage
themselves at the expense of other people of colour. "
Pluckrose, something of an avid Twitter user, has hit the nail bang on the head. So maybe
the Equiano Project, a broad collection of, let's face it, mainstream liberals and
similar-minded academics, will prove to be the advance guard. Their input into the narrative on
race in Britain is certainly welcome.
Because, as a direct result of the deeply divisive BLM dogma, we saw the emergence of the
FF Force in London at the weekend, with their paramilitary gear, balaclavas, raised fists
and aggressive posturing all pushing the claim that Britain is so racist that the only hope
black people have is to organise their own resistance.
Forgive me for being blunt, but all this is garbage of which it now seems I'm not the only
one disinclined to digest. So thank heavens that the reinforcements for the voices of sanity
have arrived.
And not a moment too soon.
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Radicals have never had a sense of humor. They are unbalanced. "In jest, there is truth". --
Roman proverb. Radicals has problems with truth. Therefore, they don't like humor.
"... Monty Python was the pinnacle of contemporary comedy precisely because it drew attention to the absurdity of modern society and it pompous hypocrisy ..."
big female BLM supporter wearing a nappy mask that says "i can't breathe" on it
soccer mom says "well take the stupid mask off"
MartinG , 3 hours ago
How many Wokesters does it take to change a light bulb?
One to complain that the light bulb is white.
One to complain that the light is white.
One to blame boomers for wearing out the old bulb.
One who doesn't know how.
And one Wokester who says there must be change as he changes the bulb.
tardpill , 3 hours ago
the only one that can possibly change the bulb with it out being a racist privilege is not
available because they are too busy burning **** down
DaBard51 , 2 hours ago
You forgot:
--One who complains that there isn't enough diversity in light bulbs.
--One who says "Bulb Lives Matter!"
--One who complains that screwing the bulb is sexist.
--One who can't decide whether the bulb is DC or AC.
When nine hundred years old you become, look this good you will not.
<edit> whoever up-voted, my thanks. Shadow-banned, I am not, now, I see...
Roger Casement , 3 hours ago
They are the joke.
philipat , 2 hours ago
Yes, and that is why humor is so important, especially at the margin. Politicians,
especially Democrat politicians, don't like comedy because it draws attention to the
absurdity of most of what they do.
Monty Python was the pinnacle of contemporary comedy precisely because it drew attention
to the absurdity of modern society and it pompous hypocrisy. It gave me more laughs more
consistently than anything I have come across since. 'God speed John, you stay with what you
believe and ***k the humorless wokesters who need to get a life and lighten up for their own
sake and for that of all the rest of us!
45North1 , 2 hours ago
An Antifa member, a BLM'er and a Proud Boy go into a Bar.....
EvlTheCat , 2 hours ago
"Woke" in itself is a joke and a oxymoron, which if you know the definition makes it
ironic also. Touches all bases John.
Moral
reformation by abuse is not going to work. Frankly, the actual irrelevance of this to
ownership of the country is one reason why it is allowed, a way to neuter real opposition. It
prevents solidarity between the lowers, while fostering illusions about select minorities. Wasn't there some guy who actually
wrote about the Obama, who betrayed all communities including black, under the title We
Were Eight Years in Power?
Notable quotes:
"... Defund is a stupid idea......changing the operating rules makes more sense. I blame the MSM for pushing minority headlines. ..."
"... It's not up to blacks on whether police are defunded or not. It's up to "woke" and privileged, liberal white lawmakers who think they know better than their constituents, both white and black on what's best for them. ..."
"... Has anyone else noticed that as the protests have developed, that those protesting and demanding defunding of the police are predominately white people of university enrolement age? Paid to protest by whom? ..."
"... Our guess is most probably George Soros, US Democrats and our friend Bill Gates. All for what the destruction of the society that allowed them to become obscenely wealthy. ..."
"... The state of US domestic insecurity: citizens don't trust the enforcers of the power structure, but don't want to be thrown to the wolves, whether it's black or white. ..."
Despite Black Lives Matter protests raging across the country and moves to defund police departments or cut back their budgets, a
new poll suggests black citizens don't support the efforts to remove cops from the streets.
The Gallup
poll
,
released Wednesday, was conducted throughout July and involved over 36,000 adults across the US.
A whopping 81 percent of
black respondents said they want police to spend the same amount of time in their neighborhoods that they already do or to have
even more of a presence. The results are similar across races, with 88 percent of white Americans, 83 percent of Hispanic
Americans, and 72 percent of Asian-Americans all saying the same thing.
The poll also confirmed that
black Americans are more likely to see police presence in their communities, with 73 percent of respondents answering that they
notice cops in their neighborhoods
"sometimes"
or
"very
often."
That's compared to 65 percent of non-black respondents.
While that gap could be seen as supporting the charge that black communities are overpoliced, it had little impact on whether
citizens wanted more or less police presence.
"The slightly elevated frequency with which
Black Americans see police in their neighborhood has limited impact on their preferences for changing the local police presence,"
Gallup
wrote in their findings.
About a third of black
citizens who responded that they
"often"
see police in their neighborhoods said they
would like there to be less of a presence, but over 50 percent in that category don't want any change.
The poll did also show that
very few black Americans are confident a run-in with a police officer will go well. Only 18 percent said they were very confident
such an encounter would go well, while 43 percent said they were somewhat confident. That distrust of police actually jumps over
to the general public, with 48 percent saying they were very confident an encounter with an officer will go well, while 37
percent were only somewhat confident.
While the results show a
general apprehension to trusting police, especially among black Americans, there is little from the poll that supports the
efforts in cities across the US that are either
slashing
police
department budgets or moving to completely
abolish
them.
"The majority of all other Black Americans, including those who are 'not too confident'
about receiving considerate police treatment, want the police to spend the same amount of time, with additional percentages
favoring more time,"
Gallup concludes.
Since the death of George
Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, Black Lives Matter protests have taken place in major cities across the country, with some in
places like Portland, Oregon, turning violent and requiring a federal response.
But if Gallop's results are
to be trusted, defunding police is not the answer most citizens support, even black Americans.
Defund is a stupid idea......changing the operating rules makes more sense. I blame the MSM for pushing minority headlines.
Colin
39 minutes ago
It's not up to blacks on whether police are defunded or not. It's up to "woke" and privileged, liberal white lawmakers who
think they know better than their constituents, both white and black on what's best for them. Same old Democratic story that's
been playing for over a century.
Alpoz
42 minutes ago
Has anyone else noticed that as the protests have developed, that those protesting and demanding defunding of the police are
predominately white people of university enrolement age? Paid to protest by whom?
Our guess is most probably George Soros, US
Democrats and our friend Bill Gates. All for what the destruction of the society that allowed them to become obscenely
wealthy.
As i quote from Issac Asimov, The Stars Like Dust. "They don't want equality, they want to rule."
pogohere
2 hours ago
The state of US domestic insecurity: citizens don't trust the enforcers of the power structure, but don't want to be thrown to
the wolves, whether it's black or white.
Guldar Tate
14 minutes ago
Why is this even an issue? A vocal minority of mostly fake leftist caucasians are the main ones pushing this
"defund the police" issue. Just like how nearly half the people you see at BLM rallies are caucasians. The
founder and funder of BLM, George Soros is a caucasian as well. Then someone finally does a poll, that
shouldn't need to be done, to show what should be obvious to a normal human being, that most so called black
people want police.
D Green
2 hours ago
Irrelevant, really. As long as there is a state, there will
be enforcers so
we'd better learn to love them...full stop! Indeed, the reason for our present predicament stems from one
critical edict that we've largely eschewed: as citizens, our primary task is to OBEY.
Obedience
is our raison
d'être. In the exceedingly rare event the justice system gets it 'wrong,' wait patiently in your comfortable
jail cell until the state generously offers you a tough-but-fair plea deal, or, if you're really lucky, grants
you the privilege of sorting it out before an impartial judge and a jury of your wise peers. Why is that so
hard for some people?
It also begs a series of increasingly absurd questions: is a person who's only 1/16th black
"allowed" to use the n-word? What if they're another dark-skinned minority, but not technically
black? The arguments over whether white rappers or fans of hip-hop culture are "allowed" to use
the word can be downright farcical, and completely gloss over the real issues - generational
poverty, separate-but-unequal race-based policing tactics, mass incarceration, the
school-to-prison pipeline - that continue to cause immense suffering in black communities, even
as corporations pour millions of dollars into the coffers of Black Lives Matter and other
race-grifters.
Adopting melanin-based double standards only fans the flames of racial animus. It's become
painfully clear that the leaders of the BLM organization do not really want a post-racial
society where all groups live together in harmony - they want division along every "
intersectional " line in existence, and are willing to invent a few to further atomize
the working class while collecting fat checks from corporations terrified of running afoul of
the new thought police.
This aim does not reflect the wishes of the vast majority of black activists, a growing
number of whom are speaking out
against BLM's cooptation of their efforts. But those who profit off racism will do anything to
ensure it continues.
The owner of a Cuban restaurant in Louisville has decried a list of 'diversity demands sent
to him and dozens of other small business owners by Black Lives Matter activists - which
include guaranteeing that at least 23% of staff are black, 23% of the business's supplies are
from black-owned retailers, and 1.5% of their net sales go to black charities. They also need
to publicly display a sign showing their support for the movement.
If they don't comply, the business owners face a series of "repercussions," including social
media shaming, 'invasive reclamation' where black owned businesses would set up competing
'booths and tables' outside the stores, and they would have 'their storefronts fucked with,'
according to the
Daily Mail .
The letter was sent to business owners in the city's 'NuLu' East Market District during a
July 24 protest which forced some area businesses to close. BLM argues that the neighborhood
was only able to flourish after a housing project was demolished in the 2000s, which 'robbed
the black community of opportunities and wiped out their homes,' according to the report.
Beatscape , 20 minutes ago
This is BLM trying to see how far they can push their agenda -- do they have such a
universal mandate that they are now above the law? Per the legal code:
Extortion is a felony offense that is punishable by up to three years in prison. If the
defendant has made extortion demands but the victim never complied or consented, he or she
can be charged with attempted extortion.
In the current environment, anyone that dares to criticize even a fine point of the BLM
movement in public is in danger of losing their job and being ostracized. No wonder BLM wants
to defund and defang the police, they want to engage in various criminal activities with
impunity. And, the 'white guilt' crowd is actually fighting to allow this to happen.
Unreal...
OGAorSAD , 37 minutes ago
Formal extortion that will go unpunished....
Revolver2019 , 24 minutes ago
This guy is capitulating way too much! You cannot have it both ways with Marxists. You
cannot support BLM, but then offer your own terms to them to be negotiated.
He of all people should know that Marxists do not negotiate and there is no limit for what
they demand and what they want from you. You give an inch, they will then demand a mile. If
you draw a line they will steam roll you and take you out . Its all or nothing with
Marxists!
People need to realize this for their own safety. I see too much of it. People want to
appease, but on their terms. WAKE UP!! This guy is doing nothing good for his restaurant or
community because he says he supports BLM, but.... There is no BUT - All or you die! Having
both ways is quick recipe for disaster.
Grow some cajones and take one side - fully! Preferable to be the good side.
jughead , 1 hour ago
Sounds like a RICO case to me. Book em Donald.
LightBeamCowboy , 53 minutes ago
Isn't making threats or committing violence to achieve political ends the legal definition
of terrorism?
aloha-snackbar , 56 minutes ago
And lastly a cash payment due weekly for protection from nefarious and organized thugs who
may due harm to you and establishment... Chicago beer wars 1930... and today...
TheDayAfter , 41 minutes ago
Brilliant Point. Slap the RICO Act on BLM and Antifa, and see them run into Oblivion.
Stu Pedassle , 3 minutes ago
Who are the officers / decision makers? Gotta hand it to the Soros crowd, one thing they
have gotten right is keeping this movement going apparently without a definable structure /
command center to go after by the DOJ
neidermeyer , 1 hour ago
If it were me I'd burn the place down , collect the insurance money and go someplace safe,
the business is effectively worth nothing at this point... The local government is complicit
and you just can't win in that scenario.
LetThemEatRand , 1 hour ago
The worst nightmare of the Blue Team is that BLM splits the party by targeting Hispanic
voters, who will shift Red Team.
Welfarebum , 36 minutes ago
BLM is now a political party. But they are a unique political party, in that nobody is
allowed to criticize or oppose them or their views. Because of this unique status, they have
become extremely dangerous and need to be scrutinized by all critical-thinking,
freedom-loving citizens. I am not a racist in opposing BLM any more than I'm a rapist for
questioning the motives of the me too movement. y_arrow
DaBard51 , 54 minutes ago
BLM demands quotas? Illegal. per US Supreme Court (2009)
Not sure how the Cubans do business, but if the BLM tries this extortion **** with Mexican
restaurants around here, then some headless corpses of BLM activists are going to start
appearing around the place.
Musum , 1 hour ago
He took to Facebook to accuse them of 'mafia tactics'
Neoconservatism is BLM in Jewish face.
"Mafica tactics" is how we conduct ourselves on the geopolitical stage.
Welcome to America.
BaNNeD oN THe RuN , 49 minutes ago
Exactly, this is just a "lite" version of Trump threatening to ban Tik-Tok, then
encouraging Microsoft to buy it for a reduced price. Or demanding that Germany pay more
tribute to their troops occupying the country for 70+ years.
Leading by example, or the Art of the Deal (shakedown).
What stands in the way of conversation between exploited people of different races is the
white noise of liberal nonsense, which, incidentally, seems to be growing exponentially
because it never runs up against reality and its rasping frictions.
The national conversation about race needs to be short and simple: " All colours and
ethnicities are subject to the exploitation of members of a ruling class that knows no
barriers of race, culture, religion or sex. Which has in common only bad behaviour. A ruling
class which owes its continued existence and its impunity, despite its evident criminality,
to the refusal of its victims to unite and act in their own interests."
And these are among the least original thoughts on offer. Humanity has known these things
since the days when it lived in caves and sent Birthday Cards to chimpanzees.
Let us put this Hydroxychloroquine nonsense to bed for the last time.
Whilst any form of fever mitigation is likely to have a place, however small, in the nurses'
quiver of helpful practices, the promotion of this particular drug, which is known to have
often mortal side effects in vulnerable people, is dangerous and dishonest. Chicken soup and
lime juice are other much less dangerous alternatives over which the Pharmaceutical
Protection Racket has no control. The same can be said of a regime of patient care, loving
attention and good accommodation- full time staff in properly equipped facilities working in
an atmosphere in which the loss of any life is recognised as a social tragedy and a
defeat.
"... Does the mass media think they can “hide the ball” while Seattle turns into a war zone? Seriously–in the Internet age? They _can’t_ be that stupid, can they? ..."
Does the mass media think they can “hide the ball” while Seattle turns
into a war zone? Seriously–in the Internet age? They _can’t_ be that
stupid, can they?
(When I put on the tin foil hat it whispers to me “they know, they are lying on
purpose, they want Trump re-elected to improve their ratings, and they want to anger voters
by lying about Seattle”. Then I take off the tin foil hat and I say
“Na–they really are that stupid.”)
there is a difference between Prudent speech and Free speech.
When punishment for voicing dissenting opinion includes physical assault it doesn't much
matter how rare the actual instances of physical violence are
Notable quotes:
"... Of course, it is not (yet) possible to determine the exact racism quotient of each individual, so exemplary cancellations are the means of influencing individuals to modify their behaviour. I appreciate that "racism quotient" and "exemplary cancellation" make me sound like one of those right-wing Orwell cosplayers, but I can't think of a better way of putting it. ..."
Cancel culture, I suggest, matters most when our ability to access diverse opinion is
curtailed as a result of speech policing, either by algorithms or individuals, especially in
the run-up to an election. Self-censorship in universities is equally important. When Chomsky
signed the Harper's letter, he reported he receive a great many letters of support from
academics terrified of being cancelled.
We're coming out of a certain kind of (neo-)liberal consensus in which politics was viewed
as a mostly technocratic business of setting laws in the abstract. That perspective was
sufficient to get some things right: many blatantly discriminatory laws have been repealed
across the Western world over the last 70 years. But it turns out that racism and sexism
don't require explicitly racist or sexist laws on the books: they can subvert neutral-seeming
laws to their purposes, and can bias the behaviour of individuals and networks of individuals
to the extent that widespread discrimination can continue...
The other strand focuses on the moral reform of white people. It proceeds from the
assumption that the law has only a limited role in moral conduct, and that the evidence of
the last 50 years is that removing explicitly racist legislation, and even legislating
anti-racism (e.g. affirmative action) isn't enough to secure good outcomes. If your
individual acts have the practical outcome of furthering or defending racist interests, then
you are part of the problem. The demands here are much harder to define. Rather than focusing
all attention on a specific reform that can be enacted in a single moment by an executive or
legislature, attention is cast broadly across all actions occurring at all times by all
people. Of course, it is not (yet) possible to determine the exact racism quotient of
each individual, so exemplary cancellations are the means of influencing individuals to
modify their behaviour. I appreciate that "racism quotient" and "exemplary cancellation" make
me sound like one of those right-wing Orwell cosplayers, but I can't think of a better way of
putting it.
All of this intersects with the modern reality of social media: things that "normal"
people might be able to say in a bar or a cafe discussion with friends or colleagues are now
part of the permanent public record, searchable and viewable by millions. Social media
provides excellent tools both for taking things out of context and re-contextualising them.
Secondly, "brands" or organisations are now direct participants, and can be subject to public
pressure in much more visible ways than previously.
I'm a big fan of biological metaphors; they keep one humble about the inevitability of
unintended consequences. The metaphor gets strained when it moves from external viral spread
to internal immune response, though; in the former, we're assuming a team of informed medical
professionals, seeing things from the "outside" with the authority implied by specialized and
objective knowledge. I'm not sure who these people correspond to in the world we inhabit,
where even the real doctors have trouble getting traction.
The internal immune response feels like a closer match, as surface protein markers are
proxies for identity, microbes display "false flags" to avoid detection, and auto-immune and
inflammatory responses often do more damage than the threats they're reacting to.
On both levels of metaphor, it seems clear that the structure of social media is explicitly
designed to create and exploit "virality"; we need to rethink what this means for us.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/social-distancing-social-media-facebook-misinformation
" No one seems to reflect here that silencing people because of their politics is
historically and usually the preserve of those with the power to silence – that is,
conservatives. Be careful what you wish for."
And here we have the cancel culture "problem" in a nutshell. The complaint isn't that
Musgrave lost a job or is literally forbidden to speak or even lacks reasonable ways to be
heard. The complaint is that blog found him distasteful and doesn't want him commenting
there. This isn't a right to speak issue, it's a demand to be heard issue.
Far worse things are done to BLM protesters. Being denied a blog posting? Try being denied
the right to even assemble, and shot with tear gas and rubber bullets. That didn't stop me
from protesting. Being denied a blog post and hearing some harsh criticism is nothing.
I broadly agree with the points about free speech in the post, and Waldron's arguments,
but I don't think it's right to equate the debate about "cancel culture" with these
issues.
John's understanding of it is even more dismissive (and imo off-target).
being cancelled means having to read rude things said about you by lots of unimportant
people on Twitter, as opposed to engaging in caustic, but civilised, debate with your peers
in the pages of little magazines
It seems to me cancel culture is both an ethos and a tactic. The ethos involves a zero
tolerance approach to certain ethical transgressions (eg overt expressions of racism) and an
absolute devaluation of people who commit them. The tactic is based around achieving cultural
change by exerting collective pressure as consumers on managers of corporations (or
corporation-like entities, like universities) to terminate transgressors, as a way of
incentivising other emplpoyees to fall into line. It seems to me to be heavily shaped by and
dependent on American neoliberalism as the ethos is both punitive and consumerist and the
tactic is dependent on at-will employment and managers' deference to customer sentiment, and
while most of its current "successes" have been broadly of the Left there's no reason to
assume that will be the case in future. I think it does represent a weakening of liberal
norms of freedom of discussion and I think Chomsky's right to be concerned.
There's nothing new about speech codes. Puritans and others refused to employ the Book of
Common prayer demanded by the Act of Uniformity of 1662. Scolds and speech police can be
found among agnostics, people of faith, and across the political spectrum. Nor is the common
sense exercise of good judgement regarding when, or if, to suggest to a friend he, she, or
they might like to lose a little weight, or to refrain from pointing out the questionable
personal grooming habits of a colleague, client, superior, or family member.
Do I need to declare my beliefs and opinions on every topic freely in every forum. In my
own case, no. And there's a big difference between being shunned and being imprisoned, or
executed, for mocking the wrong text or monarch.
As I courtesy, I might well avoid broaching topics I'm aware may distress another. But
that's a far cry from what's happening in modern old media. Bari Weiss evidently had her
privileges to write and edit others freely severely curtailed. And, yes, I'm aware that she
had cancellation issues of her own. But forcing James Bennett to resign, who put Ta-Nehisi
Coates on the cover of the Atlantic, for permitting a US senator to publish an op-ed in the
NYT?
We need a diverse set of values and beliefs, argues Henry, J. S. Mill, and others. The
head of Google is just now trying to explain why "Washington Free Beacon, The Blaze,
Townhall, The Daily Wire, PragerU, LifeNews, Project Veritas, Judicial Watch, The Resurgent,
Breitbart, the Media Research Center, and CNSNews" somehow disappeared from the Google search
engine.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/29/google-ceo-dodges-question-on-blacklisting-of-conservative-websites/
Cancel culture, I suggest, matters most when our ability to access diverse opinion is
curtailed as a result of speech policing, either by algorithms or individuals, especially in
the run-up to an election. Self-censorship in universities is equally important. When Chomsky
signed the Harper's letter, he reported he receive a great many letters of support from
academics terrified of being cancelled.
When punishment for voicing dissenting opinion includes physical assault it doesn't much
matter how rare the actual instances of physical violence are. I spoke with an American
colleague employed this week who stated that any dating which is going on among staff and
adults of one kind or another on campus is done in secrecy, if at all. Do Democrats feel that
they're better off having thrown Al Franken under the bus?
Adhering to speech codes and surrendering to a tiny, highly vocal mob seems a very bad
idea to me, and I suspect, many, many others. We don't quite know what to do with the
screaming adolescents of varying ages, but we wish they'd stop yelling.
The good news is that we live in societies, for the most part, which permit the upset to
act out freely. I wonder whether the folks currently trying to burn down the US federal
courthouse in Portland believe their rights to privacy must be respected? The
double-standards on display roil what should be reasonable debate. It should be possible to
disagree civilly with anyone.
Trying to get someone fired, or shunned, for any reason, is about the saddest waste of
energy and time I can imagine – I mean, talk about a poverty of imagination. It's
happened to me here on occasion. When the pitchforks come out, I know my opponents 'got
nothing.' That's small solace, however, when watching those I'd prefer to respect do their
best to stifle debate.
Relative to other nations, we enjoy liberties others can only dream of. These liberties
are worth protecting. I'm not sure we're doing such a good job.
With all due respect, you – like the great majority of people – fail to
understand the dynamics involved. 'Cultural Marxism' isn't political Marxism. It is a method
– a tool if you wish – used by the oligarchs who wield true power to 'divide and
rule' (not least by deflecting attention from the yawning gulf that lies between their own
excesses and monstrous wealth on the one hand, and the increasing indigence of the great mass
of people on the other). It is called 'Cultural Marxism' purely because it uses Marx's
technique of dividing society into a small clique of 'oppressors' and 'the masses' who are
'oppressed'. Marx, of course, had the capitalists in mind when he wrote of the oppressors,
and the proletariat naturally were the oppressed.
Today, the last thing the oligarchs desire is a unified and organised proletariat with
'agency': that would constitute a serious threat to their existence. Instead, they divide the
sacred role of 'the oppressed' into a multitude of more or less fissiparous groups, whom we
are all aware of, but of which those comprising 'BAME' are perhaps the most useful. Others
include feminists (more or less all young women in today's world), homos, those suffering
from sexual dysphoria (that's 'trannies' in today's 'Newspeak') and the disabled.
These groups will never discover any common ground between themselves, and thus will fight
among themselves for the scraps thrown from the oligarchs' table. No danger there, and that's
just how they planned it. As for the 'oppressors', there are no prizes for guessing that they
are White, heterosexual (i.e. normal) males.
So much for your fear of actual Marxism. As for 'the government', it is important to
understand that no government in today's West is invested with any meaningful power. Not only
are they not 'sovereign' but they are little more than puppets, dancing to their masters'
dismal tunes.
Who are these oligarchs – these Masters of the Universe? That's a story for another
day. But you won't go far wrong if you place the word 'oligarchs' in triple parentheses
@71 psychohistorian - "Do they understand the West is top/bottom and not
left/right?"
That's an excellent formulation. One almost suspects that asking anyone, within a bit of
context, if "the banker" is a left/right entity or a top/down entity would get the same
answer. How to explore and expand this potential common ground?
I have no answers, but it would be instructive to devise the way to ask this group, or any
group - and every group - that question, and then to offer the formulation as you put it, in
a way that makes sense to them, so that they understand where the true enemy is.
In other words, what you're asking seems to be the key to abandoning lateral struggles
within the oppressed class and healing all rifts to create solidarity against the oppressor -
switching from a horizontal struggle to a vertical one.
Such a simple thing, and the source of all revolutionary success, but could it be simply
conveyed?
How this can be done, and who can move such things forward, I don't know but I do know
that the effort to make things ever more clear is never wasted effort, and this is one key
part of the puzzle.
@71 psychohistorian - "Do they understand the West is top/bottom and not left/right?"
I'd say intuitively they do have some understanding of that, but in general aren't
economically/politically savvy/educated enough to frame it that way.
There seems to be a basic belief that the contradictions in our crony and corrupt
capitalist system are what is driving the inevitable collapse, and least amongst a
segment...it is a pretty diverse group.
An important problem is the conflation of public opprobrium actual sanctions like being
fired. This is mainly a problem in the US because of employment at will
No. The cancel culture is just a new incarnation of the old idea of religious and
pseudo-religious (aka Marxist or Maoist) "purges". A new flavor of inquisition so to speak.
The key idea here is the elimination of opposition for a particular Messianic movement, and
securing all the positions that can influence public opinion. As well as protection of own
(often dominant) position in the structure of political power (this was the idea behind Mao
"cultural revolution")
You probably can benefit from studying the mechanic of Stalin purges. Mechanisms are the
pretty similar ("History repeats ", etc) .
If opposition to the new brand of Messianism is suppressed under the smoke screen of
political correctness, the question arise how this is different from Stalinist ideas of
"Intensification of the class struggle under socialism" and Mao Red Guards excesses (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensification_of_the_class_struggle_under_socialism
)
You can probably start with "Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the
Soviet Union, 1924-1953 (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes)"
A new book which waits for its author can be similarly titled "Policing US neoliberalism :
Repression and Social Order in the USA 1980-2020") ;-)
Here is one thought-provoking comment from the Web:
GeeBee, August 1, 2020 at 7:42 am GMT
The government will eventually be Marxist
With all due respect, you – like the great majority of people – fail to
understand the dynamics involved. 'Cultural Marxism' isn't political Marxism. It is a method
– a tool if you wish – used by the oligarchs who wield true power to 'divide and
rule' (not least by deflecting attention from the yawning gulf that lies between their own
excesses and monstrous wealth on the one hand, and the increasing indigence of the great mass
of people on the other).
It is called 'Cultural Marxism' purely because it uses Marx's technique of dividing
society into a small clique of 'oppressors' and 'the masses' who are 'oppressed'. Marx, of
course, had the capitalists in mind when he wrote of the oppressors, and the proletariat
naturally were the oppressed.
Today, the last thing the oligarchs desire is a unified and organised proletariat with
'agency': that would constitute a serious threat to their existence. Instead, they divide the
sacred role of 'the oppressed' into a multitude of more or less fissiparous groups, whom we
are all aware of, but of which those comprising 'BAME' are perhaps the most useful. Others
include feminists (more or less all young women in today's world), homos, those suffering
from sexual dysphoria (that's 'trannies' in today's 'Newspeak') and the disabled.
These groups will never discover any common ground between themselves, and thus will fight
among themselves for the scraps thrown from the oligarchs' table. No danger there, and that's
just how they planned it. As for the 'oppressors', there are no prizes for guessing that they
are White, heterosexual (i.e. normal) males.
So much for your fear of actual Marxism. As for 'the government', it is important to
understand that no government in today's West is invested with any meaningful power.
Not only are they not 'sovereign' but they are little more than puppets, dancing to their
masters' dismal tunes.
Who are these oligarchs – these Masters of the Universe? That's a story for another
day. But you won't go far wrong if you place the word 'oligarchs' in triple parentheses
Where will America's productivity miracle come from?
Public education is not teaching students what they need to know to compete in the global
economy.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, math scores of U.S. students rank
30th in the world. The East Asian peers of today's American students will eat their lunch in
the growth industries of tomorrow.
Here's where Black Lives Matter has a real opportunity.
The protests. The riots. The calls for reparation payments. Social justice wealth transfers.
White privilege taxes. All the nonsense. Where's the strategy? Where's the long-range
'strategery'?
No doubt, those selling BLM T-shirts in Walmart parking lots are exercising gumption. But
it's not gonna cut it. Moreover, like bingo winnings, reparation payments will be quickly
squandered while the unhappiness remains.
And as far as we can tell the BLM movement is empty of ideas and without
direction.
lay_arrow
chubbar , 14 minutes ago
"If BLM was strategic"?????? Holy ****, if they were strategic they'd be making damn sure
that testing, like SAT scores, were no longer accepted as proof of accomplishment or
learning. Oh, wait?.......
Let's all agree, blacks don't want a "head to head" test, EVER.
I don't give a crap what they say, they don't want to be judged on MERIT, they love the
skin color test. That way they can always claim racism instead of ability.
libtears , 40 minutes ago
The BLM Movement is definitely empty of ideas and clear leadership. Their supposed goals
are all over the map from day to day. They are rudderless mobs of filthy vagrants and
criminal elements make up most of their movement.
What's going on which is credited to BLM has nothing to do with black people for the most
part. Commies have co-opted this movement and are engaging in anarchy to take down the system
of government. They will do whatever they want at all costs because they believe they have
the moral high ground. They are radicals just like people call them.
The best thing that could happen is for these loser mayors and governors to enforce the
law against these mobs of filthy scum.
How can you even reason with a mob of idiots that don't even have one, if not a hierarchy
of leadership and clear goals that they agree upon?
These people are taking a page out of the Bolshevik book on revolution. And they're much
weaker than the Bolsheviks, mentally and physically. One good thump on the head and these
b!tches are crying.
The longer the public allows teaching institutions to promote BLM the worse this sh!t is
going to get.
...
JaxPavan , 42 minutes ago
The Ford Foundation gave BLM $100 million to engage in terrorism. Who do you think bought
all those ultra high end looting vehicles?
quanttech , 39 minutes ago
Indeed, the BLM organization is primarily funded by mostly white-run corporations and
foundations. The money rules.
HopefulCynical , 22 minutes ago
And WHO is in control of the Ford Foundtion? WHO?!
Board of Trustees - Ford
Foundation -- most are Wall Street types. So participation in color revolutions including
Russiagate (of which American Maidan is the third stage) and high level of influence of
intelligence agencies on decisions and financing is a natural thing. The board includes such
interesting figures as Chief Investment Officer and Vice President for Investments, The
Rockefeller University and Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems. Foundation is a strong supporter of
LGBT+
Summary of eRumor:
The Ford Foundation has pledged $100 million in support to Black Lives Matter, leading to calls
for a boycott of Ford.
The Truth:
It's true that the Ford Foundation has pledged $100 million to the Black-Led Movement Fund
(BLMF), a coalition of social justice organizations endorsed by Black Lives Matter.
But the Ford Foundation hasn't been connected to the Ford Motor Company for more than 40
years.
First, we'll start out by providing some background about Black Lives Matter, BLMF and the
Movement for Black Lives since the connections between these organizing and fundraising
networks can be confusing.
In July 2016, the Ford Foundation
announced that it would partner with Borealis Philanthropy, Movement Strategy Center and
Benedict Consulting to found BLMF. In turn, BLMF will serve as a donor network supporting the
Movement for Black Lives
, a social justice movement endorsed by Black Lives Matter, according to a foundation blog
post:
The Movement for Black Lives has created an opportunity for philanthropy to see and learn
from new and dynamic forms of social justice leadership and infrastructure. To support and fund
this thriving movement, philanthropy itself has had to adapt. Meanwhile, leaders have kept
donors' good intentions in check with candid reminders of how philanthropy can hurt a movement,
as well as how it can help. Listening and learning is central to Ford's approach, as we strive
to be a thoughtful, effective social justice funder at this critical time.By partnering with
Borealis Philanthropy, Movement Strategy Center, and Benedict Consulting to found the Black-Led
Movement Fund, Ford has made six-year investments in the organizations and networks that
compose the Movement for Black Lives.
The Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), led by Borealis Philanthropy, is a collaborative and
pooled donor fund established by the Ford Foundation and Anonymous Donors. In partnership with
donors and activists, the BLMF aims to support philanthropic and field-building activities that
strengthen the next generation of social justice leaders. Specifically, the collaborative
effort supports the infrastructure, innovation and dynamism of intersectional Black-led
organizing that have become integral components of what many call the Movement for Black Lives
(M4BL).
Rumors about the Ford Foundation pledging more than $100 million to Black Lives Matter went
viral after the announcement. The Washington Times
reported that Black Lives matter had cashed in with the Ford Foundation's donation -- and,
aside from (falsely) implying that Black Lives Matter would receive the entire $100 million
donation, the report was factually correct. But, as similar reports spread across social media
and conservative news sites, details started getting fuzzy. Freedom Daily, a right-wing
website, demonstrates how that happened in a post
calling for a Ford boycott that was shared nearly 30,000 times on social media within a
week that begins:
Ford just donated $100 million dollars to Black Lives Matter.
The Washington Post reported: street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly
awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others
eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour.
This story (and calls for Ford boycotts that followed it) made three critical errors: it
confused the Washington Post with the Washington Times , it confused the Ford
Motor Company with the Ford Foundation, and it confused the Black-Led Movement Fund with Black
Lives Matter.
In reality, the Ford Motor Company and the Ford Foundation are completely separate
organizations since the 1970s. Henry Ford's son, Edsel, started the Ford Foundation in 1936 with
an initial gift of $25,000. The foundation took in huge bequests from Henry and Edsel's estates
upon their deaths in the 1940s and grew to become the biggest philanthropy in the world at the
time.
Edsel's son, Henry Ford II, was involved in the Ford Foundation up until 1976, but the
foundation began selling off Ford stocks in the 1950s and moved its headquarters from Dearborn,
Michigan, to New York City in the 1960s. Ford II resigned over the foundation's " march to the
left " in 1976, and no Ford family member has served on the board of trustees since. Today,
the Ford Motor Company has a separate nonprofit arm, the Ford Fund , and is in no
way connected to the Ford Foundation.
In the end, the Ford Foundation and the Ford Motor Company are completely separate
organizations. And the Ford Foundation pledged $100 million to the Black-Led Movement Fund,
which is not the same thing as Black Lives Matter. That's why we're calling this one truth and
fiction.
Feelings don't care about facts. The mass hysteria that's gripped
the Western world after the death of George Floyd can't be explained in rational terms. Police
are shooting fewer
unarmed black men each year, and most of the shootings are justified. Police are more likely to
shoot a
non-threatening white than a non-threatening black. In the Floyd case specifically, there's
nothing
that shows racial bias by police officers, and Floyd was on drugs and resisting
arrest . Minneapolis police procedure
allowed neck pressure in some circumstances. Former police officer Derek Chauvin's conduct
wasn't extraordinary. But the facts are almost irrelevant. We're dealing with faith ,
religious ecstasy. We're in the midst of BLMania.
Collective frenzies aren't new. Almost every American knows about the Salem witch trials,
during which Christians claimed they saw demons and devils. Evil had to be rooted out, whatever
the cost. Arthur Miller's fictional re-telling in The Crucible , originally meant to
criticize McCarthyism, now reads like a satire of SJWs .
In 1536, Anabaptists took over Münster, Germany, and tried to establish a divine
kingdom. Would-be prophet Jan Matthys cannot have been a charlatan; he must have believed he
was chosen by God, because he rode out almost by himself to attack a besieging army. He was
instantly killed, but that didn't shake the faith of his followers. In 1917, hundreds of people
in Fátima, Portugal, claimed they saw the sun dance in the sky. The Catholic Church,
which often debunks alleged visions and miracles, declared this "worthy of belief."
Still, because of the doctrine of Original Sin and man's fallen nature, Christians are
reminded not to " immanentize the eschaton " and
seek heaven on earth. If Christians are delusional, can go only so far. "Secular" movements
have no such restraints. During the last century, tens of millions were butchered in Russia,
China, Cambodia, and other places in the name of the Brotherhood of Man, with the
revolutionaries often creating cults of personality to replace older faiths and heroes. The
Revolutionary Communist Party, which can be found
burning American flags around the country, has its own cult of personality
around leader Bob Avakian .
During the French Revolution, a "Cult of Reason" was established, with Robespierre as high
priest. Busts of the assassinated revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat replaced crucifixes in some
churches. During the Spanish Civil War, anarchists burned churches, shot at statues of Jesus,
murdered clergy, and desecrated the dead to pave the way for a new order. The Communards
executed Archbishop Georges Darboy during the Paris Commune and destroyed the original
Vendôme Column because it glorified empire. The famous French protests of May 1968, which
strongly influenced the current intellectual climate, had a utopian, religious flavor. Would-be
revolutionaries destroyed property as they spray-painted the following slogans:
Ann Coulter analyzed mobs in her 2011 book Demonic . She heavily cited Gustave Le
Bon's famous 1895 book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind . Miss Coulter said a
mob is "an irrational, childlike, often violent organism that derives its energy from the
group" and is "intoxicated by messianic goals." One chapter is called "Imaginary Violence From
the Right Vs. Actual Violence From The Left." This is especially prescient. CHAZ/CHOP
"security" in Seattle
murdered a black teenager and wounded another because they thought right-wing
paramilitaries would attack any second (no one has been arrested for these shootings). As
cities burn, NBC
reports that "an expert" thinks the real threat is "far right" violence.
The "messianic goal" Miss Coulter wrote of is human equality. The premise is that if
existing social institutions are removed, a natural and authentic human equality will emerge.
Even the past must be destroyed to make this possible. The French Revolution remade the
calendar, with 1792 as Year Zero. All culture and history from the past was irrelevant because
everything was to be built anew. Rousseau famously wrote that "man is born free and everywhere
is in chains." This comes from assuming that man is a blank slate and that people are born
equal. If there is inequality, it can only be because of unjust institutions or exploitative
social forces.
Who is the boogeyman? Many once believed it was the Church: Voltaire's "
infâme ." Some blamed kings; Jefferson's post-revolutionary writings show
paranoia about "monarchial" tendencies. Many believe capitalism is the enemy, but I'd argue
that most progressives today believe the fundamental problem is "whiteness."
What is whiteness? Psychology Today says
it's "an unfairly privileged exclusionary category, based on physical features, most notably a
lack of melanin." Many others who study "whiteness" say something similar. Whiteness is a
social construct used to justify domination, slavery, and economic exploitation today.
There are three obvious objections to this.
This
is clearly not true . Third, it assumes that those with power use white racism to
exercise privilege. However, almost every powerful corporation openly supports Black Lives
Matter and opposes white racial consciousness. Though "whiteness as property" is a common
theme in "whiteness studies," there are benefits
to being labeled non-white, which is why some whites fake their racial identity and some
groups
organize politically so the government won't call them white.
"Whiteness" has become the explanation for all "the evils of the modern world."
Critical race theorists are right to say that "whiteness" is socially constructed; what they
fail to understand is that they created its modern meaning.
Most race realists, Identitarians, and white advocates know Susan Sontag's quote that the
"white race is the cancer of human history." She also said America, which is "the culmination
of Western white civilization," is guilty of causing global suffering. The full context is even
more revealing: "The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary
government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine
ballets, et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the
world."
In this sentence, she concedes three things that would be politically incorrect today.
First, Western
civilization is white civilization . Second, despite the pathetic claims of
some
journalists and academics , Sontag recognized that white civilization isn't simply built on
domination of non-whites, and that it has produced things of great value. Third, Sontag admits
that some (if not all) progressive accomplishments such as "the emancipation of women" are
products of "this particular civilization." "Morgoth's Review" made this same point , noting that when
progressives try to destroy "whiteness," they are dynamiting the foundations of their own
liberal, universal worldview.
However, Sontag still thought white civilization was irredeemable because it "eradicates
autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads" and threatens the planet. Whiteness wasn't cancer
just because it was bad. Sontag meant that whiteness, like cancer, grows, metastasizes, and
consumes. It never seemed to occur to Sontag that this universalizing, homogenizing force
"eradicated" authentic European cultures too. If "Western culture" is Netflix, Amazon, and
Hollywood, I'm with the Third World anti-imperialists.
Still, at least Sontag recognized that whites had a real culture, at least in the past. Her
intellectual successors are worse. They accepted her view the whiteness is cancer while denying
any value to our culture and our standards. Instead, " Whiteness
Studies " and "Critical Race Theory" criticize "white" civilization because of its
standards. The National Museum of African American History and Culture identifies objective,
rational linear thinking, cause and effect relationships, and hard work to be "whiteness" and
therefore "racist." Everything can therefore be "racist" or in need of
"decolonization," including math ,
grammar ,
grades , SAT and
ACT tests ,
bar exams , and
artificial intelligence .
This ends in denying truth itself. Claire Lehmann found a slide at an education
conference in Washington that said that "if you conclude that outcomes differences [sic] by
demographic subgroup are a result of anything other than a broken system, that is, by
definition, bigotry." Actually, bigotry is "obstinate or intolerant
devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices." We've now come full circle, and define bigotry
as not being bound by opinions and prejudices. The way many academics and journalists
talk about whiteness is worse than anything Susan Sontag said.
This is the thinking of a fanatic religious sect, like the one Jim Jones
led . "We were too good for this world," Jones said before the infamous mass suicide. While
progressives haven't yet gone that far, they clearly enjoy the feeling of "woke" moral
righteousness, which has replaced the sense of being "elect" that some Protestant sects once provided .
Much as the French revolutionaries replaced saints with Jacobins during the Terror, today's
woke disciples are creating their own saints, with "Big George" Floyd taking the place of
Christ. Insufficient adulation for Floyd cost
one priest his job. BLMania is even consuming the churches themselves.
Black Lives Matter is more sacred than the American flag or Christ.
Federal agents , police , military ,
athletes , politicians , and many others
all genuflect before BLM. Many would never bow before God. This new, powerful faith even has a
liturgical
calendar and a hymn built on a sacred myth.
Worse, because this creed is impervious to truth, it must always seek new scapegoats (or
devils) for egalitarianism's continuing failure. Despite the constant funding, programs, and
repression, equality never arrives. The late Lawrence Auster's " First Law of Majority/Minority Relations In
Liberal Society " holds that "the more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group
behaves, the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions
about that group's bad behavior." Likewise, the more blacks fail, the more fictional portrayals
of black superiority must be created, from Black
Panther to
Black Is King . And the more whites give, the more fiercely they must be accused of
bigotry for wanting good
schools ,
classical music , or even
video games left alone.
The egalitarian revolution is a Permanent Revolution. BLMania will constantly devour its
children . It will continue until it is stopped by superior power. Even Robin DiAngelo,
author of White Fragility and high priestess of the Anti-Racist
Church of the Damned , is no longer pure enough.
The late Noel Ignatiev , editor of
Race Traitor , famously said that "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity."
However, he said that this wasn't a call to violence against whites. "When we say we want to
abolish the white race, we do not mean we want to exterminate people with fair skin," he
said . "We
mean that we want to do away with the social meaning of skin color, thereby abolishing the
white race as a social category." I question this. If I cited Shlomo Sand's
The Invention of the Jewish People to deconstruct Jewish identity, religious claims,
and Israel, one might rightly suspect I had an anti-Jewish motive.
Still, let's assume Ignatiev was sincere. Could we "abolish the social meaning of skin
color" today? Skin color is more important as a social category than at any other time in
decades. Those with power may say whites are just a "social construct," but they have no
trouble telling who is white and who is not when it comes to affirmative action. The media view
almost all economic, political, and cultural issues through a racial lens. Indeed, with a
separate black
"national anthem ," graduation
ceremonies , and
separate events for non-whites , we're seeing the return of segregation. It may even be the
beginning of America's breakup along racial lines.
"Wokeness" holds that whites are racist no matter what we do. "White racism" is the new
original sin. Fighting one's own racism is a lifelong struggle -- one that ultimately can't be
won. "Whiteness" is also responsible for great evil. If all whites are racist and "whiteness"
is evil, isn't it best just to eliminate whites? Some whites may even want to join this racial
death drive, exhausted, ashamed, and despairing after decades of relentless anti-white propaganda . Even
those whites who don't want to surrender psychologically may see no hope, and become a "
defeated and despairing
race ," in Steve Sailer's words.
What can we call this death-cult? Some leftists, including Ignatiev, called for "abolishing"
the white race. It's tempting to call it " Abolitionism ." However, this word is
forever linked with (whites) ending slavery. Some leftists may eventually use the term,
but it will never catch on. Still, it is useful because of its vivid history. Many 19th century
abolitionists were not peaceful idealists but blood-crazed fanatics , who
cloaked their dreams of war and slaughter in apocalyptic, Biblical language. John Brown, whose
band began its infamous raid on Harpers Ferry by killing a free black man, is the primary
example.
The creed's violence, militancy, and destructiveness lead me to call it
Eradicationism. Like some Christian sects, whites who embrace it want collectively to abandon
the world, if not through suicide then by failing to reproduce. Instead of making the world
better "for ourselves and our posterity," they will expunge their blood guilt by ending their
line. White Saviors share a curious mix of self-hatred and self-exaltation, something we see
when white protesters post themselves indulging in BLMania online.
Eradicationism will be with us for some time. Regardless, our course is clear. Facts are
important, but statistics don't move mountains. Faith does. We must act with faith in victory , in
service to a great ideal. Our Western tradition tells us to do our duty to uphold
the cosmic order . This chaotic time will be an opportunity for racial rebirth. Steel
yourself against this death cult that has hijacked our civilization. Reject BLMania. We were
meant for something great. We shouldn't fear this time of struggle, which is demonstrating what
we've been warning of all along. We should welcome it. The American experiment in equality
couldn't have ended any other way.
Good summary of the points we are all familiar with by now.
"Whiteness" has become the explanation for all "the evils of the modern world."
If black people weren't so bad at practically everything, we wouldn't have to play this
game where everyone goes overboard to avoid talking about race realism, or scientific racism.
India encountered White Western Civilization, basically absorbed parts of it, and came out
the other side as the people they always were. Same with China. Same with Japan. Same with
Mexico. Etc. The Western World has also encountered other civilizations as the weaker party
to an extent, and likewise absorbed or fought back, and came out the other side still being
themselves. The Mongols and the Ottoman Turks, just to name a couple of examples, both
enslaved white people. We are not all sitting around moaning about it centuries later and
saying that's why we can read or do math. That realization forces people down a path where
they have to believe against all the evidence that there was something extremely different
about the way white people treated black people for them to turn out this way. And as a
corollary that there is something very different about white people that makes them uniquely
evil.
Or, alternatively, you could just think about your own actual experiences with real black
people you have met in life and notice that you generally have to talk to them like they are
special needs children and they are really really dumb and aggressive. And then it all makes
sense.
We are witnessing something extraordinary, the death of what some call 'liberal
progressivism' or what I prefer to call 'American atheistic humanism.' It's a hell of a thing
to watch. What's next is anybody's guess. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.
I'd like to share some of the things I do to maintain strength and sanity.
1 exercise and work out.
2 do not watch television.
3 associate with non-cucked Catholics and practice the Faith
4 read voraciously, especially the classics and lives of the saints.
5 flirt with women regularly (not the fat ones)
6 set aside resources for 'fallout.' If and when shit hits the fan I'm prepared for a long
winter.
This list could be a expanded. These are the big things I've integrated into my daily
life.
1. Exercise
2. Never watch television
3. Read books written before the "Woke" era and never any book written by a Jew, not even Ben
Shapiro. I always google the authors before I read anything.
4. Use bookmarks instead of search for the vast majority of the content you look at online.
Search is a tool Silicon Valley uses to "recommend" woke content.
Of course, these rules only apply in the current times of information warfare where
everyone is trying to demoralize you and subvert anything you think is valuable.
That civilization lasted for approximately 280 years, and disappeared without a trace
around 1400 AD.
As you walk around the ruins of an obviously civilized people, there is one question that
goes through everyone's mind.
What happened?
This was before there were settlers from Europe, and the land is empty for many miles
around so there are no obvious enemies anywhere to be found.
It is unlikely that an earthquake or flood or other natural event destroyed the
city–there seems to be no physical evidence to support that. Perhaps there was a long
dry period (since this is Arizona) but long enough to destroy the entire civilization?
Then there is the little voice in your head that says the most likely
explanation–"They must have destroyed themselves, probably based on some horrible
ideology or religious fervor."
Bottom line–insanity is toxic, and can destroy a civilization.
There is no arguing with insanity, there is no negotiating with insanity, there is no
solution for insanity.
Civilizations must have the will to remove the insane people from the territory before
they destroy it–or they will become just another forgotten ruin on the landscape.
The hatred for whiteness in America comes from 70 years of massive number of Jews who in
many parts of the country dominated public schools and universities in teaching and
leadership positions in academia.
Black person to white person: "your ancestors enslaved my ancestors"
White person to black person: "your ancestors along with the Arabs enslaved my ancestors
in the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years up until the 1800s"
White person to black person: "you have never been a slave and neither have I"
White person to black person: "all white majority nations have outlawed slavery, have
outlawed segregation, have enshrined equal rights into law, and have outlawed the taking of
land by force"
White person to black person: "many black majority nations have not outlawed slavery, have
not outlawed segregation, have not enshrined equal rights into law, and still take land by
force"
White person to black person: "man up like my ancestors did and go to Africa and free the
slaves, put your blood, sweat, and tears on the land and get it done like my ancestors
did"
White person to black person: "you can't blame white people for black criminality and for
black underperformance in society, most black people are not criminals and many black people
perform and overperform in society, so stop being racist towards white people and take
responsibility and build something"
The unemployed. Without hope and nothing to show for, members will do anything to proof
thy can. In history famous for doing the ting attacking the unarmed, on orders. Controlling
is their hidden desire. Makes them the ideal public servant. Handicapped only by lack of the
brain part called working IQ. In war of times of change, needed badly by ones who own a
little of that stuff wile steering the ship named state..
It seems some people(such as this author) are viewing the current situation through one
prism, and I think it has multiple causations.
1.Militarized police abuse of the general population is real – especially the
poor(soft targets). As incidents pile up, resistance grows.
2.Funding by various political entities are responsible for the political strengthening of
BLM and other groups as controlled opposition and used as divide and conquer tactics.
3.The progressive left is low hanging ripe fruit for the former, especially after the
election of Donald Trump.
4.An education system pumping out SJW's at an exponential rate.
5.Now just add poverty and depravity from a lockdown.
George Floyd or no George Floyd the current situation(or new religion) was just a matter
of time.
This anti-whiteness among Liberal whites reminds me of old Gnostic cults. They sought to
overcome the flesh to achieve heaven on earth. Some took it so far as to avoid reproduction.
I don't think any took it so far as to adopt the children of other races.
It is a privilege to read UNZ everyday. It is important for everyone who is kind at heart,
reading this article and others who are concerned about this actual insanity made sane, is
nothing more than a movement to draw foolish people, black, white and everyone else, to drink
just another flavor of Koolaid, into self-selecting their genetic discontinuation in the New
World. It is a sublime process supported by the powers that be – to thin the hierd.
Don't be alarmed by this. All shall pass. BLM is a part of the culling process – and
you may or may not be aware of it: opioids & legal & illegal drugs, obesity,
dumberism, political extremism on either side, China/Russia bashing, J bashing, and so on.
Stay sure-footed. Understand the motivations of the PTB, and truly understand WHY they must
take action for the good of the human race. It is only thru these operations, the wiser among
us can & must understand why the human herd must be culled. And if you have a problem
with that, please do stand first in line with the many lines & flavors of protesters,
refuseniks & freedom fighters. The New World will truly be a better place for better
human beings. Anyone who wants to get in to the New World & must first qualify with
kind-heartedness, a strong obligation responsibility to better oneself & the community in
which we live in. Forget all the political terms of democracy, freedom, liberty, capitalism,
& such. It will simply be a New World where people are healthy in mind, body & soul.
The crazies, psychopaths & criminals will not survive. It will be a much better world.
And, the Powers that be are creating every sort of selection process to sift thru humanity's
strata. If you are possibly fit for the New World, this comment will ring bells – and
all will be clear to you. If not, go ahead and disagree with me . G*d bless you – for
we will in time bow (or made to bow) to our Master(s). If you can't accept that, well, you're
not likely to make it, and neither will your progeny . Please discern.
@American
Citizen 2.0 rey.
BLM handlers know this and that is why it encourages ANTIFA and BLM to group together and at
the same time discourages for decades any attempt by whites to associate in leagues,
groupings, unions, sindicats etc. Look what hapenned to Proud Boys.
The second in which 100 whites joined together the ruling elite put the leaders in prison and
dismembered the white group.
United we surely stand, divided guaranteed to fall.
We must learn from the Jews – tribalism, fight for our kind no matter what.
They do not give a shit if you exercise, don't watch tv, read books etc. You are not a threat
to them.
A threat is 1000 sheep + one lion.
In the last year of his Presidency (2015) Barack Obama in an interview made the following
observation:
Obama: "What is also true is that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in
almost every institution of our lives -- you know, that casts a long shadow. And that's still
part of our DNA that's passed on. We're not cured of it."
Interviewer: "Racism"
Obama: "Racism. We're not cured of it."
Few, if any of the cognoscenti who constantly lecture Americans 24×7 on the ubiquity
of "racism" and daily pounce on yet another politician or celebrity who breaks the strict
rules of "Diversity-Speak," bothered to decode the President's remarks so that the average
American might get a sense of what he was in for. They can be boiled down to: "Racism has
always been the defining feature of American life and will be far into the future." What
then, we might wonder, is the "cure," and who gets to say that it has been successful and the
patient is whole and released from treatment?
Obama chose the wrong metaphor. His view of race is better expressed in theological terms.
"Racism" is America's "original sin." It was, and still is, committed exclusively by white
people, and no matter what metaphor you care to use, consider it a permanent fixture of
American society. "We shall overcome someday." But, sorry Pal, not today. With sin comes
guilt, and white America now finds itself confronted with guilt, virtually unlimited
guilt.
@Miro23
motherland. Imperialism has been a long term disaster for the West.
Stupid white people – Yes, yes, people here blame the Jews but let's be honest here,
if it was the Jews who helped contribute, who happily lapsed it up and performed the dance?
The stupid white people! Had the stupid white people been more intelligent, they would have
put two and two together and stopped the madness along time ago. Instead they are worshipping
George Floyd.
Look, I'm no leftie liberal. I want white people to survive and prosper. But honestly, I
see alot of sins and ultimately stupidity at the white man's feet. I blame him more then
anyone else.
"... Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order. ..."
"... Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance. ..."
"... The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of George Soros's major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and curiously , Ben & Jerry's Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000. ..."
"... That front since 2009 received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations and again, Ben & Jerry's ($50,000). ..."
"... And Garza's SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712 "organizers" in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among others. ..."
"... Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi headed the FRSO's Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously with a "staff" of two it got money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry's ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group . ..."
"... The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described their role: "The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America." ..."
"... Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to "democrats and progressives." As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign of Joe Biden. ..."
"... What is clear from only this account of the crucial role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America. ..."
"... The role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would suggest. ..."
Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led
regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs
and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish
communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with
heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied
those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous
organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous
moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to
not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US
Constitutional order.
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman
pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd , and look at what has taken place
across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were
well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully only to be taken over by well-trained
violent actors. Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent
protests -- Black Lives Matter and Antifa (USA). Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed
uniformly in black and masked (not for coronavirus to be sure), vandalizing police cars,
burning police stations, smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats. Use of Twitter and
other social media to coordinate "hit-and-run" swarming strikes of protest mobs is evident.
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of
primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968. I lived through those events in 1968 and what is
unfolding today is far different. It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that
toppled Milosevic in 2000.
Gene Sharp: Template for Regime Overthrow
In the year 2000 the US State Department, aided by its National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) and select CIA operatives, began secretly training a group of Belgrade university
students led by a student group that was called Otpor! (Resistance!). The NED and its various
offshoots was created in the 1980's by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow
specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO. In fact, they get
their money from Congress and from USAID.
In the Serb Otpor! destabilization of 2000, the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in
Belgrade selected and trained a group of several dozen students, led by Srđa Popović,
using the handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated to Serbian, of
the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution. In a post mortem on the Serb events,
the Washington Post wrote, "US-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in
virtually every facet of the anti-drive, running tracking polls, training thousands of
opposition activists and helping to organize a vitally important parallel vote count. US
taxpayers paid for 5,000 cans of spray paint
used by student activists to scrawl anti-Milošević graffiti on walls across
Serbia."
Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid
of 'intelligence helmet' video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their
environment. Bands of youth converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell
phones, would then overwhelm police. The US government spent some $41 million on the operation.
Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that
mocked the authority of the ruling police, showing them to be clumsy and impotent against the
youthful protesters. Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the
scenes.
The Color Revolution Otpor! model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange
Revolution with logo and color theme scarves, and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution.
Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to launch the Arab Spring. In all
cases the NED was involved
with other NGOs including the Soros Foundations.
After defeating Milosevic, Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution training
center, CANVAS, a kind of for-profit business consultancy for revolution, and was personally
present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street where also
Soros money was reported.
Antifa and BLM
The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since
May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we
understand the CIA's Color Revolution playbook.
The impact of the protests would not be possible were it not for a network of local and
state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters, even
to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the
heart of downtown to occupation by protesters.
In recent years major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken
over by what one could call radical left candidates. Often they win with active backing of
organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations.
In the US House of Representatives the vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are
all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America. Clearly without sympathetic
Democrat local officials in key cities, the street protests of organizations such as Black
Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact.
To get a better grasp how serious the present protest movement is we should look at who has
been pouring millions into BLM. The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit anonymous
organization form. However, their online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa "cells"
join up with BLM chapters.
FRSO: Follow the Money
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to
protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin by a white
Hispanic block watchman, George Zimmermann. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi
were all were connected with and financed by front groups tied to something called Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States
formed out of something called New Communist Movement that dissolved in the 1980s.
On June 12, 2020 the Freedom Road Socialist Organization webpage states, "The time is now to
join a revolutionary organization! Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization If you have been
out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you've been thinking about the
difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this
country needs. Capitalism is a failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and
oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The
unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism
is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road
Socialist Organization is
working for ."
In short the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now
being used to call for a revolution against capitalism. FRSO is an umbrella for dozens of
amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM. What is interesting about the
self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is not
so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of
well-endowed tax-exempt foundations.
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front
groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of
Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward
Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very
established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of
George Soros's major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote
Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and
curiously , Ben
& Jerry's Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000.
Garza also got major foundation money as Executive Director of the FRSO front, POWER, where
Obama former "green jobs czar" Van Jones, a self-described "communist" and "rowdy black
nationalist," now with CNN, was on the board. Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City
Alliance, a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification. That front since 2009
received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations
and again, Ben & Jerry's ($50,000).
And Garza's SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712
"organizers" in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller
Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among
others. With the Forward Together of FRSO, Garza sat on the board of a "multi-racial
organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and
policy to catalyze social change." It officially got $4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012
and 2014, the organization received a total of $2.9 million from Ford Foundation ($655,000) and
other major
foundations .
Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi
headed the FRSO's Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously with a "staff" of two it got
money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations
for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry's ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group .
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization that is now openly calling for a revolution against
capitalism in the wake of the Floyd George killing has another arm, The Advancement Project,
which describes itself as "a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization." Its
board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a
former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. The FRSO Advancement Project
in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations including Ford
($8.5 million), Kellogg ($3 million), Hewlett Foundation of HP defense industry founder ($2.5
million), Rockefeller Foundation ($2.5 million), and Soros foundations ($8.6 million).
Major Money and ActBlue
By 2016, the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump,
Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network. That year the Ford
Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund
(BLMF), "a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for
Black Lives coalition" in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros foundations had already
given some $33 million in
grants to the Black Lives Matter movement . This was serious foundation money.
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the
Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described
their role: "The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to
organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and
immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national
conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America."
The Movement for Black Lives Coalition (M4BL) which includes Black Lives Matter, already in
2016 called for "defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for
illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a
universal basic income, and
free college for blacks ."
Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the
donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to
"democrats and progressives." As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign
of Joe Biden.
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests. Now major corporations such as Apple,
Disney, Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue
under the name of Black Lives Matter, funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a
Democrat President Biden. Perhaps this is the real reason the Biden campaign has been so
confident of support from black voters.
What is clear from only this account of the crucial
role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is
a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America.
The
role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial
companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper
and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would
suggest.
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Facts matter. According to the FBI, in 2019, only 49 police were killed in the line of
duty while dealing with felonious suspects. Forty nine. Nearly as many cops were killed that
year in accidents. On the other hand, nearly 1000 suspects/criminals were killed by police in
2019.
It is also true that only 9 unarmed Blacks were killed by police in 2019. On the other
hand, 20 unarmed Whites were killed by police that year.
Last year, Black perps killed over 8,000 Americans. The vast majority of the victims were
other Blacks. However, when interracial murders do occur, Blacks lead all other racial/ethnic
groups in this category. Blacks in America–who comprise about 13% of our nation's
population–commit over half of all the homicides. This racial pattern of violence in
America has been true for as long as crime records have been kept.
Conclusion: Blacks are apparently the most dangerous race. Even WEB Dubois complained
about the problem of Black violence a century ago. It persists.
Rioters will be no threat to America. Civil war takes millions of participants.
On the news you see maybe at a max, some 500-1000 people in various cities across America
rioting at 2am in the morning..burning shit. Even if Rioting is happening in 100 cities and a
thousand participants in each riot that is still only 100 X 1000 = 100,000 anarchist making
the news each night?????
America has 328,000,000.00 Citizens. Where is the Civil War??? The Media spins this shit
to epic proportions and scares and terrorizes everyone.
If the guns actually do come out and people start shooting the police and national guard,
trust me the return fire would put a stop to it very quickly.
What we are seeing now is the Police completely restrained and bunch of snowflakes
throwing temper tantrums. If the Police were actually activated and told to crack heads these
snowflakes would flee back to their Mom's basement and resume playing x-box.
A real civil war would mean the immediate arrest and detention of anarchist groups like
BLM. The Department of HomeLand Security would take over and these shit heads would simply
start disappearing arrested and offshored to some interrogation gulag under the Patriot Act
rules of engagement for fighting Terrorism.
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Why was the person holding the toddler down not arrested also?
As bad as that was, Isaiah Jackson is a criminal with a long record. You can imagine that he
is a depraved young man. But look at what a middle-aged special ed teacher in DeKalb County
(Atlanta) said about Jackson's stunt:
I don't suppose The New York Times , the Washington Post , NPR, or any of the
other mainstream media outlets will trouble themselves to notice this egregious act of racial
hatred a grown black man visited upon a crying white toddler -- all for the cause of Black
Lives Matter. Racial hatred and violence doesn't just go one way. Can you imagine having your
child (white, black, and otherwise) in Brian Papin's class? That man -- both these men -- have
so much race hatred in their hearts.
Whatever the sentiment behind the [BLM] signs and murals, they're triggering racists and
Trump supporters. In a nation built on devaluing and endangering Black people, even a
suggestion of compassion is more than some thin-skinned bigots can abide.
More:
White America needs every possible reminder of its culpability in pushing this nation to
the brink of disaster. Deface every Black Lives Matter mural, and it won't change the urgency
of a movement far bigger and more resilient than a single moment or slogan.
Besides, if politicians, business owners, and ordinary white people are serious about
change, they should replace those Black Lives Matter murals and billboards with another three
words that acknowledge and proclaim the only path toward eradicating systemic racism and
making this nation whole: "End White Supremacy."
Every possible reminder.
UPDATE.3: Another, less onerous case of child abuse on behalf of the BLM cause:
UPDATE.4: Seems to me that Isaiah Jackson might be exploring ways of instantiating
the thoughts and
theories of Prof. Tommy Curry, who has written that all whites are evil and cannot be
counted on to change, and that the only way to achieve black liberation from their malign
influence might be through violence. Would Tommy Curry approve of what this monster Jackson has
done to that child? I'm sure he would not. But this is where his hateful racist rhetoric leads.
If you hold people to be evil by virtue of their race, then in what sense is a child innocent?
Curry wrote in one of his academic papers that there are no innocents when it comes to racism
and colonialism. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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edited for the New York Post , The Dallas Morning News , National Review ,
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Advocate . Rod's commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal ,
Commentary , the Weekly Standard , Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other
publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written
four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming , Crunchy Cons , How Dante Can
Save Your Life , and The Benedict Option .
BLM is mostly about black narcissism. Opportunities for blacks in the USA are not that bad.
And partially the fact that they are unable to use them and lift themselves from poverty like
immigrants from the USSR, who started here without money and knowledge of the language, did tell
us something important.
To a certain extent the live of the part of population in the USSR was as close to slavery
as we can get. And I am not talking only about prisoners of Gulag. Volga Germans (who actually
were invited to the country by Peter the Great) were definitely another such a group,
especially after the start of WWII.
So in some ways the current and previous generations of USA blacks are a privileged part of
the USA population who never experienced this level of hardships, persecution and lived
uneventful but free from severe deprivations life in comparison with the immigrants from the
USSR during this period.
I am the proud grandchild of Germans from Russia immigrants. They were called "Dirty
Russians" and were often paid less than the law required for their stoop work thinning beets
in the fields becaue they could not read English to learn how much they were supposed to be
paid. They had escaped the Bolsheviks who stole their farms for the failed communist
experiments in factory farming and communal farming.
They endured the prejudice with dignity and with a determination that they would work hard
so their children and grandchildren could enjoy the freedoms of the USA. I have the photos of
my grandparents on my mom's and my dad's side as they obtained their citizenship.
Thank you. I think a lot of emigrants from Russia/USSR during the period of 2017-1980 can
relate to this experience.
Cutting the defense budget by a modest 10 percent could provide billions to combat the pandemic, provide health
care and take care of neglected communities.
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Fifty-three years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. challenged all of us to fight against three major evils: "the
evil of racism, the evil of poverty and the evil of war." If there was ever a moment in American history when we
needed to respond to Dr. King's clarion call for justice and demand a "radical revolution of values," now is that
time.
Whether it is fighting against systemic racism and police brutality, defeating the deadliest pandemic in more than
a hundred years, or putting an end to the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, now is the time to
fundamentally change our national priorities.
Sadly, instead of responding to any of these unprecedented crises, the Republican Senate is on a two-week
vacation. When it comes back, its first order of business will be to pass a military spending authorization that
would give the bloated Pentagon $740 billion -- an increase of more than $100 billion since Donald Trump became
president.
Let's be clear: As coronavirus
infections
,
hospitalizations
and
deaths
are
surging to record levels in states across America, and the lifeline of unemployment benefits keeping 30 million
people afloat expires at the end of the month, the Republican Senate has decided to provide more funding for the
Pentagon than the next 11 nations' military budgets combined.
Under this legislation, over half of our discretionary budget would go to the Department of Defense at a time when
tens of millions of Americans are food insecure and over a half-million Americans are sleeping out on the street.
After adjusting for inflation, this bill would spend more money on the Pentagon than we did during the height of
the Vietnam War even as up to 22 million Americans are in danger of being evicted from their homes and
health
workers
are still forced to reuse masks, gloves and gowns.
Moreover, this extraordinary level of military spending comes at a time when the Department of Defense is the only
agency of our federal government that has not been able to pass an independent audit, when defense contractors are
making enormous profits while paying their CEOs outrageous compensation packages, and when the so-called War on
Terror will cost some $6 trillion.
Let us never forget what Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a former four-star general, said in 1953:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from
those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
What Eisenhower said was true 67 years ago, and it is true today.
If the horrific pandemic we are now experiencing has taught us anything it is that national security means a lot
more than building bombs, missiles, nuclear warheads and other weapons of mass destruction. National security also
means doing everything we can to improve the lives of tens of millions of people living in desperation who have
been abandoned by our government decade after decade.
That is why I have introduced an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that the Senate will be voting on
during the week of July 20th, and the House will follow suit with a companion effort led by Representatives Mark
Pocan (D-Wis.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). Our amendment would reduce the military budget by 10 percent and use
that $74 billion in savings to invest in communities that have been ravaged by extreme poverty, mass
incarceration, decades of neglect and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Under this amendment, distressed cities and towns in every state in the country would be able to use these funds
to create jobs by building affordable housing, schools, childcare facilities, community health centers, public
hospitals, libraries and clean drinking water facilities. These communities would also receive federal funding to
hire more public school teachers, provide nutritious meals to children and parents and offer free tuition at
public colleges, universities or trade schools.
This amendment gives my Senate colleagues a fundamental choice to make. They can vote to spend more money on
endless wars in the Middle East while failing to provide economic security to millions of people in the United
States. Or they can vote to spend less money on nuclear weapons and cost overruns, and more to rebuild struggling
communities in their home states.
In Dr. King's 1967 speech, he warned that "a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
He was right. At a time when half of our people are struggling paycheck to paycheck, when over 40 million
Americans are living in poverty, and when 87 million lack health insurance or are underinsured, we are approaching
spiritual death.
At a time when we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth, and when
millions of Americans are in danger of going hungry, we are approaching spiritual death.
At a time when we have no national testing program, no adequate production of protective gear and no commitment to
a free vaccine, while remaining the only major country where infections spiral out of control, we are approaching
spiritual death.
At a time when over 60,000 Americans die each year because they can't afford to get to a doctor on time, and one
out of five Americans can't afford the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe, we are approaching spiritual
death.
Now, at this unprecedented moment in American history, it is time to rethink what we value as a society and to
fundamentally transform our national priorities. Cutting the military budget by 10 percent and investing that
money in human needs is a modest way to begin that process. Let's get it done.
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The Republican Party released a scathing advertisement against a Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founder.
Taking aim at Patrisse Cullors, the GOP played
a clip from a 2015 interview in which she identified herself and fellow co-founders of the organization as "trained Marxists."
"I actually do think we have an ideological frame. We are trained Marxists," the ad, released on Thursday, shows Cullors saying.
"... In Washington, a taxpayer-funded museum implicitly endorsed this radical rhetoric last week, when it described some basic tenets of American life – rationality and the justice system to name two – as traits of "whiteness" that should be "deconstructed." ..."
"... These catch-all buzzwords make it perfectly OK for rioters to tear down public monuments, loot and pillage stores and businesses, beat other minorities to a pulp, lay siege to police stations, and take up arms against the state. If you disagree with this, however, you're the racist. ..."
In a bizarre video
captured in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night, a man who goes by the name of 'Princess' was punched by a Black Lives Matter
protester, allegedly for the crime of being flamboyantly gay. Both Princess and his attacker are black.
Once Princess was punched,
protesters descended on his attacker and held him as they debated how to mete out justice. Some thought a black man should
punch him. Others argued that punching him was a crime, and a white man should take the fall, because oppression, and systemic
something or other.
"Let the white man do it,"
one black woman shouted. A white man did eventually step
up to the plate and punch the man, and mob justice was served.
Was anything about this
encounter fairer or more just than the criminal justice system that BLM wants abolished? Because abolishment is what they
want, and this is not just a fringe position among their more loudmouth activists. The Black Lives Matter Global Movement
lists defunding police departments as a top priority, and they're winning.
Just ask the NYPD, who've
seen their plainclothes unit disbanded, a billion dollars slashed from their budget, and more than two dozen officers assigned
to protect a 'Black Lives Matter' mural on Fifth Avenue.
Some go further. Speaking
in Portland on Friday, Lilith Sinclair – a self-described
"afro-indigenous non-binary
local organizer"
– called for the abolition of the
"United States as we know it."
In
Washington, a taxpayer-funded museum implicitly
endorsed
this
radical rhetoric last week, when it described some basic tenets of American life – rationality and the justice system to name
two – as traits of
"whiteness"
that should be
"deconstructed."
The problem with
deconstructing the notions of blind justice that have held the USA together until now is that BLM offers nothing to replace
them but the nebulous and constantly shifting ideas of
"power," "privilege,"
and
"oppression."
Its
self-righteous commissars have used these ideas to act out all manner of personal prejudices.
Like activist Monica
Cannon-Grant, a columnist with the Boston Globe and darling of the Democratic establishment in Massachusetts. She's currently
campaigning to get progressive Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley re-elected, and recently recorded a video slandering Pressley's
opponent, black Republican Rayla Campbell.
According to Cannon-Grant, Campbell is betraying her
"melanin"
by remaining married
to a white man, and isn't a real
"n***a"
because of the
"white
penises [she] rides."
This is a woman described by the Boston press as the face of the Black Lives Matter movement in the
city.
Even more bizarre are the
white BLM activists who took turns hurling
racist
abuse
at a black police officer in Portland last week. Racism, it seems, is perfectly fine when it's directed at a cop,
because oppression, and systemic something or other.
These catch-all buzzwords
make it perfectly OK for rioters to
tear
down
public monuments,
loot
and
pillage stores and businesses,
beat
other minorities
to a pulp, lay siege to police stations, and
take
up arms
against the state. If you disagree with this, however, you're the racist.
We all have our
prejudices, and that's OK. Contrary to what many believe, these assumptions are
hard-wired
into
our brains through thousands of years of evolution. Though we no longer fear spears and arrows from rival tribes, we still
favor our own
"in-group,"
and are wary of those who appear and act differently. We
don't just exhibit racial preferences, but also
preferences
for
those of a similar gender or sexual orientation, or those who support the same sports team.
America's criminal justice
system, for all its faults, has been astoundingly effective until now in creating a harmonious environment for the various
tribes and ethnicities that call the US home.
On the other hand, the
Black Lives Matter movement has been effective in codifying the prejudices of a small number of black Americans and deciding
that this ethno-narcissism and in-group preference should supplant that system. BLM's enablers in the media and in Washington
have decided that to be on the
"right side of history,"
the rest of America must
throw their support behind this ethno-narcissism.
Sooner or later, whatever
its actual wording, the Pledge of Allegiance will translate as
"with liberty and justice
for all, depending on your privilege, and systemic something or other."
It will be an example of the "Bradley Effect" only if this transparent effort to depress
turn-out succeeds and Trump supporters stay home because they think his re-election is
hopeless.
However, unless what we are seeing is some kind of rope-a-dope, the President's own
behavior so far may depress the votes among those who in 2016 put him over the top. I am one
of these.
That's true that Trump was a disappointment for many (probably majority) of low and middle
income voters who voted for him in 2016. But I think more powerful factors are now in play that
can override Trump inaptness and his betrayal of voters and his election promises.
The BLM movement codified the prejudices of black ethno-nationalists and is fully supported
by neoliberal Dems as the last desperate attempt to topple Trump. Kind of "stage three" of the
Purple color revolution (with Russiagate and Ukrainegate as previous two).
Effectively, neoliberal Dems decided that ethno-narcissism and in-group preference can serve
as a smoke screen of their coziness to Wall Street and their utter disregard of the interests
of common Americans in having decent jobs and stemming the sliding standard of living (which
led a large part of working class to vote for Trump in 2016).
They bet that can became the new ideology of Democratic Party creating rag tag coalition
from disaffected minorities and East and West Coast financial and technocratic elite as well as
selected groups of professionals. In short the groups who are net winners from neoliberal
globalization and are not that affected by outsourcing of jobs. I think this is a huge
mistake.
IMHO this might became a very powerful, may be the decisive factor that favors Trump in 2020
re-election.
In fact, I suspect that BLM enablers in the neoliberal MSM actually are working for Trump
re-election. In no way the rest of America will throw their support behind ethno-narcissism and
BLM bigoted underbelly with the new Red Guards running amok.
These catch-all buzzwords about racial justice make it perfectly OK for rioters to tear down
public monuments, loot and pillage stores and businesses, beat others who do not conform to
their views, lay siege to police stations, and take up arms against the state. If you disagree
with this, however, you're the racist. This trick will not work.
Truth be told, the USA criminal justice system, for all its faults, has been reasonably fair
and effective in creating a harmonious environment for the various tribes that exist in modern
USA.
And it egregious to call the USA a racist country, if we compare it for example with Israel
or even Russia, to say nothing about various "stans", or China.
Just look at the cost of smartphone that they display at the riots and you instantly get a
certain impression about income of their parents
Notable quotes:
"... And their radicalism would be resisted, Lasch predicted, not by the upper reaches of society, or the leaders of Big Philanthropy or the Corporate Billionaires. These latter, rather, would be its facilitators and financiers." ..."
A section quoted by Crooke in the piece karlof1 linked to
"A social revolution that would be pushed forward by radical children of the bourgeoisie.
Their leaders would have almost nothing to say about poverty or unemployment. Their demands
would be centred on utopian ideals: diversity and racial justice – ideals pursued with
the fervour of an abstract, millenarian ideology.
And their radicalism would be resisted, Lasch predicted, not by the upper reaches of
society, or the leaders of Big Philanthropy or the Corporate Billionaires. These latter,
rather, would be its facilitators and financiers."
And Crooke's thoughts..
"So, what can we make of all this? The US has suddenly exploded into, on the one hand,
culture cancelation, and on the other, into silent seething at the lawlessness, and at all
the statues toppled. It is a nation becoming angrier, and edging towards violence.
One segment of the country believes that America is inherently and institutionally
racist, and incapable of self-correcting its flawed founding principles – absent the
required chemotherapy to kill-off the deadly mutated cells of its past history, traditions
and customs.
Another, affirms those principles that underlay America's 'golden age'; which made
America great; and which, in their view, are precisely those qualities which can make it
great again."
Right now, BLM is a cash cow for the Democrats, earning them a whopping $1.67 billion in
corporate donations so far, with a billion of that coming from Bank of America.
Here's a chart of that HUGE donation pool on BLM:
However, the problem is that, if you go to the organization's webpage and hit the "donate"
button, you're not actually giving that money to BLM. Instead, it takes you to a page for a
group called ActBlue.
What is ActBlue?
ActBlue is a not-for-profit organization that "enables left-leaning nonprofits, Democrats,
and progressive groups to raise money on the Internet by providing them with online fundraising
software."
And they say their mission is to "empower small-dollar donors".
Somebody must have forgotten to tell corporate America that little tidbit.
But there's more
If you go to opensecrets.org, a site that tracks where the money goes in charity, you'll get
an idea of where ActBlue's money goes.
Now, this claim has been disputed by both ActBlue and BLM, but it's hard not to see how this
connection could be made between the money BLM is raking in and these massive ActBlue
donations. If this is true, if BLM is nothing more than a donation front for the DNC, would
that change anybody's mind about giving to them?
"... By David Kerans , historian of Russia and financial analyst. He has held appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities, as well as at Wall Street investment houses. ..."
"... "It sees America as in its essence not about freedom but oppression. It argues, in fact, that all the ideals about individual liberty, religious freedom, limited government, and the equality of all human beings were always a falsehood to cover for and justify and entrench the enslavement of human beings under the fiction of race. It wasn't that these values competed with the poison of slavery, and eventually overcame it . It's that the liberal system is itself a form of white supremacy ..."
"... "This view of the world certainly has "moral clarity." What it lacks is moral complexity. No country can be so reduced to one single prism and damned because of it. American society has far more complexity and history has far more contingency than can be jammed into this rubric." ..."
"... " the banks frankly own the place." ..."
"... "wall of propaganda" ..."
"... "racial capitalism" ..."
"... "cancel culture" ..."
"... "all lives matter" ..."
"... "silence is violence" ..."
"... "Putin apologist." ..."
"... " a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate in favor of ideological conformity" ..."
"... "a vogue for public shaming and ostracism", a "tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty" ..."
"... "calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought." ..."
"... "resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion," ..."
"... "We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists, who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement. This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time." ..."
"... Think your friends would be interested? Share this story! ..."
By
David
Kerans
, historian of Russia and financial analyst. He has held appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale
Universities, as well as at Wall Street investment houses.
Should the issue of racism really trump all of America's other flaws, such as runaway wealth inequality, out of control
military spending, a corrupt finance system, an oligarchic mass media, and a throttled democracy?
Headcounters inform us
that 15 to 25 million people have turned up in the past six weeks for demonstrations related to Black Lives Matter (BLM),
making this one of the biggest waves of civic engagement in American history. A few reforms to policing are under discussion,
and we see some shifts in political leanings – polls indicate enthusiasm for Trump ebbing, pessimism about the direction of
the country rising, and support for reduced funding of police departments. But surely something broader is afoot?
It isn't difficult to see
that the BLM movement is making a real mark in two ways. In the conceptual realm, many BLM-supporting scholars are promoting
an unabashedly narrow understanding of the driving forces of American history and power structures, ardently centered on
racial
oppression
.
On the ground, meanwhile, a strong current of left illiberalism has taken shape, wherein a minority of strident activists are
imposing their orthodoxy on race-related matters with a fervor approaching Red Scare McCarthyism.
Andrew Sullivan
, writing in The Intelligencer, has aptly characterized BLM's analytical approach:
"It sees America as in its essence not about freedom but oppression. It argues, in fact,
that all the ideals about individual liberty, religious freedom, limited government, and the equality of all human beings were
always a falsehood to cover for and justify and entrench the enslavement of human beings under the fiction of race. It wasn't
that these values competed with the poison of slavery, and eventually overcame it . It's that the liberal system is itself a
form of white supremacy
"This view of the world certainly has "moral clarity." What it lacks is moral
complexity. No country can be so reduced to one single prism and damned because of it. American society has far more
complexity and history has far more contingency than can be jammed into this rubric."
Allow yourself a moment to
survey the country's primary problems. Your list might include:
Runaway global warming,
plausibly a threat to all forms of life on earth within the foreseeable future.
A finance system that
fuels corruption and capital flight from all over the world to
"offshore"
banking
havens
–
meaning primarily UK dependencies and the US – thereby hollowing out their tax bases, and ours. The amounts are staggering, in
the tens of trillions of
dollars
.
Runaway wealth inequality,
which correlates
persuasively
to
every measurable human pathology, across every geography, across all wealth groups. The biological consequences of the
stresses accompanying inequality are heavy, and even punish the
rich
,
as Richard G Wilkinson and Kate Pickett elaborate throughout their book The Spirit Level.
About 150 million
Americans
live
with chronic disease, attributable partly to pollution from pesticides, plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc, and, likely also to
the stress effects of wealth inequality.
The Pentagon's colossal
budget –
unauditable
and
thus unaccountable to Congress – sucking out ever increasing resources, and inclining the US to stoke international tensions
so as to justify the river of money.
A higher-education constellation steered more to producing profit than mature citizens, with a consequent erosion of America's
human
capital
on
various planes.
A throttled democracy,
where the trivial controls over campaign fundraising allow big-money donors and corporations to influence politicians. Senator
Dick
Durbin
(D-Illinois) expressed his despair about crafting meaningful banking regulations back in 2009:
" the
banks frankly own the place."
And so the stimulus package gives hundreds of billions to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin with
virtually no
controls
and
with corrupt
outcomes
,
but without public uproar.
An oligarchic mass media
that erects a
"wall of propaganda"
(political commentator Cenk Uygur's phrasing)
against anything smelling like social democracy – and, I would add, any gesture of rapprochement with Russia, among other
taboo subjects, including climate change, and military
intervention
.
Are any of these issues
dependent on the legacy of American slavery? America has myriad challenges to face, the vestiges of slavery and racism among
them, not above them. Contorting analytical approaches to prioritize the perspective of racial oppression obscures more than
it illuminates. America needs citizens better informed on all of the crises listed above.
The trajectory of the
George Floyd demonstrations seems to illustrate the risk of BLM becoming myopic.
BLM
architects
in the academy insist that the goal is to end
"racial capitalism"
via a
color-conscious
version
of
social democracy, but the race-grievance dimension – once presented as all-eclipsing – drowns out all other messages. And so
the mass media has easily channeled the demonstrations into very narrow terrain: demands to reduce police budgets and ensure
accountability for rogue cops. (Not so long ago, be it noted, BLM leadership cozied up to numerous corporate donors, and has
looked decidedly not revolutionary to keen critics such as social commentator
Paul
Street
.)
Meanwhile, BLM's
self-righteous repudiation of America has found potent application in its culture wars. An armada of aggressive online
social-justice warriors has honed a seemingly unbridled
"cancel culture"
–
including iconoclasm (toppling statues, for example), conformity control (condemning the phrase
"all
lives matter"
, or anything
else
that
might somehow
dilute
anti-racist
messaging), demanding participatory anti-racism on their terms (
"silence is violence"
,
for
instance
), denunciations (branding any level of skepticism racist, and often insisting that beliefs straying from their
line threaten the physical safety of black
people
),
and punishment. Plenty of people accused of racism – or simply racial insensitivity, or
less
–
have been fired, some even after making self-abasing confessions to their perceived sins, because their employer fears the
wrath of the woke mob.
BLM did not invent any
dimension of cancel culture, ie, the exclusion of tainted persons, groups or institutions from communication venues or
respectful attention. Recall, for instance, the McCarthyist anti-communist witch hunts, or the establishment's branding of
anyone doubting the Russiagate narrative as a
"Putin apologist."
But BLM's
stridency and moral certitude has fomented cancel culture.
Cancel culture is not
risk-free to progressive causes. In 2017, its #metoo emanation claimed the career of Senator Al Franken, one of the most
progressive senators – an outcome many of his colleagues
regret
.
And this is not an epiphenomenon. On July 7, Harper's Magazine published an
open
letter
from more than 150 cultural luminaries, including left-wing icons Noam Chomsky and Gloria Steinem, expressing grave
alarm over
" a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken
our norms of open debate in favor of ideological conformity"
,
"a vogue for public
shaming and ostracism", a "tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty"
, and
"calls
for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought."
They warn that
"resistance
must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion,"
and lament the cowardly obedience of corporate
and university leaders in bowing to digital woke-mob demands.
"We are already paying the
price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists, who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the
consensus or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement. This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of
our time."
Let's hope that message
gets through.
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Opal Tometi is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants . She is the oldest
of three children and has two younger brothers. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona , and now lives in
Brooklyn, New
York . She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Arizona[10] and a
Masters in Communication and Advocacy from Arizona State University . On May
7, 2016, she received an honorary doctor of science degree from Clarkson University . [11] Tometi is
a former Case Manager for survivors of domestic violence and still provides community education
on the issue.
Tometi worked as Co-Director and Communications Director, prior to becoming Executive
Director of BAJI. Her contributions included leading organizing efforts for a rally for
immigrant justice and the first Congressional briefing on black immigrants in Washington DC.
[ citation needed ]
Garza was born in Oakland, California , on January 4,
1981. She grew up as Alicia Schwartz in Marin County in a mixed-raced and
mixed-religion household, with a Jewish stepfather and an African American mother.
[1] Garza
identifies as Jewish. [2] The family ran an
antiques business, assisted later by her younger brother, Joey. [1] In her teens,
Alicia engaged in activism, promoting school sex education about birth control . [3] Enrolling in the
University of California,
San Diego (UCSD), she continued her activism by joining the student association and calling
for higher pay for the university's janitors. In her final year at college, she helped organize
the first Women of Color Conference, a university-wide convocation held at UCSD in 2002.
[4] She graduated in 2002
with a degree in anthropology and sociology. [5]
In 2003 she met Malachi Garza, 24, a transgender man and a community activist. In 2004,
Alicia came out as queer to
her family. In 2008, she married Malachi and took the name Garza, settling in Oakland . [1][3]
Career [
edit ]Black Lives Matter [
edit ]stop saying we are not surprised. that's a damn shame in itself. I continue
to be surprised at how little Black lives matter. And I will continue that. stop giving up on
black life. Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.
Alicia Garza's Facebook post on July 13, 2013, responsible for sparking the Black
Lives Matter movement [6]
With Opal Tometi and
Patrisse Cullors ,
Garza birthed the Black Lives Matter hashtag.
[7][8] Garza is credited
with inspiring the slogan when, after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman of murder in the death of
Trayvon Martin , she
posted on Facebook "I
continue to be surprised at how little Black lives matter... Our lives matter." Cullors shared
this with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. She was also struck by the similarities of Trayvon Martin to her younger
brother, Joey, feeling that it could have been him killed instead. [9] The organization
Black Lives Matter was spurred on by the killings of black people by police in recent media and
racial disparities within the U.S. criminal legal system. Concerns were over violence from the
police, mass incarceration ,
police
militarization , and over-criminalization . [10] In
particular, the movement was born and Garza's post became popularized after protests emerged in
Ferguson,
Missouri , where an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer.
[11]
Garza led the 2015 Freedom Ride to Ferguson, organized by Cullors and Darnell Moore that launched the building
of BlackLivesMatter chapters across the United States and the world. [12] However, Garza
does not think of the Black Lives Matter Movement as ever being created. She feels her work is
only a continuation of the resistance led by black people in America.
[10] The movement and
Garza are credited for popularizing the use of social media for mass mobilization in the United
States; a practice called "mediated mobilization". This practice has been used by other
movements such as the #MeToo movement . [13]
The
Movement for Black Lives was created following concerns over the way that Black Lives
Matter had become synonymous with the Ferguson riots . The Movement for Black Lives is the largest
group inside the Black Lives Matter movement's network. This group directs their activism based on Garza's advocacy style, [ dubious
– discuss ] which works
outside of the existing power structure as a way to avoid what they see as the organizational
failures of past black activist groups. They reject traditional tactics and avoid making
connections and compromises with politicians. The group also puts those with the most
marginalized identities in leadership positions. In 2015, The Movement for
Black Lives created the Policy Table in an attempt to translate their goals into a policy
platform. This involved initiatives that give bail money to black mothers who could not afford
it and a land-rights initiative. [10]
Cullors was born in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Pacoima , a low-income neighborhood in
the San Fernando
Valley . [1] She became an
activist early in life, joining the Bus Riders Union as a
teenager. [1]
Cullors recalls being forced from her home at sixteen when she revealed her queer identity to her parents.
[2] She was
involved with the Jehovah's Witnesses as a child, but
later grew disillusioned with the church. She developed an interest in the Nigerian religious
tradition of Ifá ,
incorporating its rituals into political protest events. She told an interviewer:
For me, seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my
conditions -- how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as
part of a larger fight, a fight for my life. [3]
She later earned a degree in religion and philosophy from UCLA . [1]
Career
Cullors teaches at Otis College of Art and
Design in the Public Practice Program. [4] She also teaches in
the Master's Arts in Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College.
[5][6]
Cullors credits social
media being instrumental in revealing violence against African Americans, saying: "On a
daily basis, every moment, black folks are being bombarded with images of our death ... It's
literally saying, 'Black people, you might be next. You will be next, but in hindsight it will
be better for our nation, the less of our kind, the more safe it will be." [12]
The root cause of all those flash points are Anglo-American -Israelis Imperialism. Lets
not pretend US-UK-Israel are not joined at the hip. Thats where much of the anti-American
sentiment comes from. Most of the protesters are white who were ticked off at the lockdowns
and police excesses (arresting Moms taking kids to park) but MSM hijacked the narrative. Many
also are tired of our foreign conflicts and income inequality at home, not to mention
ridiculous incarceration rates for non violent crimes (highest in world).
The BLM narrative is an attempt to divide the country and prevent people from uniting
against a common enemy. They are the elite corporate-Government-philanthropic partnership
that seeks to restructure society and push through a global reset after destroying the real
economy. Order out of chaos.
"I am referring to how the US society will deal with a virulently anti-US coalition of
minorities which hate this country and everything, good and bad that it stood for in the
past. Right now the US elites are committing national suicide by not only failing to oppose,
but also by actively supporting the BLM thugs and everything they stand for: BLM & Co.
remind me of Ukronazis whose main expression of national identity is to hate everything
Russian – the BLM thugs do the same thing: their entire worldview is pure hatred of the
hetero White male and the western civilization; and just as the Ukies regale each other with
stories about the "ancient Ukrs" the BLM folks imagine that they will somehow turn the US
into a type Wakanda before expelling (or worse) all those who are not willing to hand over
their country to roaming gangs of illiterate thugs."
That nonsense is right out of the likudite divisive psywar front called american
conservative talk radio: limbaugh*, hannity, levin and the rest of the zionazi-(very)gay
extremist shills that make up the bulk of the neocon psywar machine. Sad to see saker reduce
himself to that very low level of neocon horse manure, but when massa calls, the beholden
comply
*limbaugh is dying of lung cancer, poor guy that Karma's a suka. ;-D
The saker is over exaggerating the impact of the US marxists inc BLM.
It's all media controlled, they control the heat at any given moment, when things start
getting out of hand or against the direction they want it to go they just launch a media
blackout. Simple.
All the media companies are controlled by the same people, just like our reality.
If / when Biden gets in you won't hear about BLM anymore, it's all switched off just like
that.
This article is good as always, but the conclusion has a fishy sheen of Economist
glibness: like the Economist, it sounds good, except when you know something about the topic;
then you start thinking, wait, maybe the arcane exotic stuff is all wet too.
The BLM analysis up there is pure ideology, and frankly silly. BLM is nerf protest,
pretend revolution, a feckless diversion from the aims of this authentic and spontaneous
rebellion. The black guys in the streets know it's bullshit and they say so. BLM is
Democrats frantically trying to climb on the bandwagon and hijack it, divert it toward
innocuous crap. Pulling down statues is the least threatening activity this regime can
imagine.
Statues have nothing whatever to do with American culture or folkways. Statues are civic
religion, not culture. BLM is government cheese, like Washington on a horse. You should be
watching M4BL, it's their rebellion. And what do they want? The one thing that will destroy
this regime. Peace. Not hippy-dippy peace but the human right to peace in the full meaning of
the Santiago Declaration before US satellites bowdlerized it as a resolution. M4BL and its
memory-holed NGO allies want to end state violence at home and abroad through struggle and
international solidarity. They're determined to stop US aggression and repression. That will
destroy the USA as we know it. Which is exactly what we need.
Tucker Carlson escalated the ongoing war between FOX News and CNN Wednesday, bringing
attention to Don Lemon for breathtaking hypocrisy on issues of black family culture.
TUCKER CARLSON: If you're running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on tv because
they are compliant. They will say what they are told. They will tell the audience with the
moment demands. They will level stray from the script and that's exactly what Mr. Lemon is
doing. Seven years ago it was a different country and people were kind of a lot to say what
they thought was true. At the time, here's what Don Lemon was saying about black communities.
Watch this.
DON LEMON: More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of
wedlock. That means absent fathers. And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an
express train right to prison and the cycle continues. So, please, black folks, as I said if
this doesn't apply to you, I'm not talking to you. Pay attention to and think about what has
been presented in recent history as acceptable behavior. Pay close attention to the hip-hop and
rap culture that many of you embrace. A culture that glorifies everything I just mentioned,
thug and reprehensible behavior, a culture that is making a lot of people rich, just not you.
And it's not going to.
TUCKER CARLSON: Wow. Can you imagine what would happen if Don Lemon or his bodybuilding
buddy over there or any of these people said something like that? On CNN tonight or MSNBC? It
would be their last live broadcast ever. They would be fired immediately. You can't express
views like that. So they don't.
Let me be clear: Cops are
not shooting black men
for no reason . Things are better for blacks today than for most of our history and for
blacks
anywhere else .
But the fact remains that impressions are real. Many blacks really do think they should fear
police and other government agencies. We must accept this. Denying it, or explaining why blacks
have nothing to fear, is pointless.
A historical analogy: Blacks' fears and resentments are reminiscent of those among
Sudeten-Germans in
the Czechoslovak Republic before World War II. When the
Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled in 1918, the German-speaking people of Bohemia , later called Sudetenland , suddenly found
themselves under Czech rule. Most non-German observers thought the country was a bastion of
democracy in Central Europe. But the Sudeten-Germans, like American blacks, did not perceive
the state in which they lived as democratic or even fair.
It is a hard thing to be ruled by an alien race; and I have been left with the impression
that Czechoslovak rule in the Sudeten areas for the last twenty years, though not actually
oppressive and certainly not 'terroristic,' has been marked by tactlessness, lack of
understanding, petty intolerance and discrimination, to a point where the resentment of the
German population was inevitably moving in the direction of revolt.
Like the Sudeten-Germans , American
blacks are "moving in the direction of revolt." They have been ruled by an "alien race" much
more alien than the
Czechs were to the Germans, the period of rule has been 400 long years, mostly in
slavery
.
Runciman wisely suggested that the Sudeten-German areas be ceded to Germany for the good of
both nations. His mistake was thinking that
Adolf Hitler was an honest broker and would maintain the deal struck at Munich, but that
aside, Runciman's proposal was a form of restitution; i.e., giving the Sudeten-Germans some
form of justice, however imperfect it might have been.
a: a restoration of something to its
rightful owner
b: a making good of or giving an equivalent for some injury
2: a legal action serving to cause restoration of a previous state
Restoring a "previous state," returning blacks to the state before the wrong was done, is
the restitution the U.S. should offer to repair the damage done by slavery.
Let's return to the situation before 1619, when the first African slaves
landed in Virginia, before the transatlantic
shipment of millions of Africans to the New World for sale.
Marcus Garvey, in my opinion the greatest black leader in modern history, created the
Universal Negro Improvement Association to just that end. His group purchased steamships to
return blacks to their motherland.
Unhappily, the era's Cheap Labor lobby encouraged the government to charge him with mail
fraud, leading to his
deportation from the U.S. (he was a Jamaican immigrant) and to
the collapse of his 5-million-strong movement, the largest black movement in our history.
Cheap black labor was more important than the freedom and well-being of blacks or the end of
the racial problems in the United States for those long-ago Chamber of Commerce
types.
The Black Muslim faith was founded on the concept of the return to the Motherland as well,
although current black Muslims seem content with trying to create a back state here or taking
over the US altogether.
And before them both, of course, was the American Colonization Society
, formed in 1816 to encourage the voluntary emigration of blacks. Its members and supporters
included James Madison ,
Henry Clay, and,
famously, Abe Lincoln himself, although the 16th president stopped talking about the idea
after the War Between the States.
How practical it was to send blacks back to Africa by sailing or steamship will never be
known. But today, international airline travel is affordable to all: a
ticket from the U.S. to Ghana, host of the 2019 Year of Return , can be had
for less than $1,000 . Airline capacity to Africa appears to be enormous and underused,
which offers any large-scale program of return the possibility of substantial per-seat savings
[ Africa Aviation Outlook 2019: Change may be in the air – at last ,
CentreForAviation.com, January 31, 2019].
As well, $14 trillion in reparations for slavery, as proposed by Black Entertainment
Television founder Robert Johnson, would easily cover the cost of sending all 37.1 million
American blacks to Africa, with more than $10 trillion left for generous resettlement packages.
[
BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery, CNBC,
June 1, 2020]
That's a lot of money. But it also solves a problem, at least for blacks who feel hunted and
unsafe in the white jungle.
Of course, returning to Africa should be voluntary, and blacks who consider themselves
Americans and do not feel hunted or discriminated against should not be forced to return to a
country and continent they do not know or even want to know.
But for the BLM activists, for those convinced the deck in the U.S. is stacked against them,
repatriation permanently repairs the continuing "legacy of slavery." To participate, blacks
would have to renounce American citizenship and accept the passport of an African country.
But the hard fact is, opportunity often comes knocking disguised as hard work. Ten million
or 15 million English-speaking blacks with American know-how and a pocket full of resettlement
money would certainly spur economic growth for the whole region, and perhaps counterbalance the
growing Chinese infiltration of the continent. Some have already moved there at their own
cost, and are happy to be in the land of their people.
A return to the Motherland -- restitution in kind -- would give social, mental, emotional,
economic and perhaps even physical benefits to American blacks.
For whites in the Historic American Nation, it would give all the same -- plus the added
knowledge that the debt of slavery is paid in full, this country's
original sin , as it is always called, washed away.
Divorce is another and somewhat more familiar way to think of it. The marriage of the two
main racial groups here has never worked and has not turned out well despite all efforts for
improvement -- as the founders of the American Colonization Society, not least
The Great Emancipator himself, predicted
.
Four hundred years in, the death of one man can lead to near rebellion, destruction of our
cities and death on the streets. A bad marriage needs to be ended, so let's start talking about
property division and payout.
It's time to face the truth and recognize that Marcus Garvey was right, and that the U.S.
would be wise to fund the only possible and reasonable form of restitution for slavery -- an
orderly resettlement to the Motherland of those blacks who believe they are oppressed
155 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after the Voting and Civil Rights acts.
Let me be clear: Cops are
not shooting black men
for no reason . Things are better for blacks today than for most of our history and for
blacks
anywhere else .
But the fact remains that impressions are real. Many blacks really do think they should fear
police and other government agencies. We must accept this. Denying it, or explaining why blacks
have nothing to fear, is pointless.
A historical analogy: Blacks' fears and resentments are reminiscent of those among
Sudeten-Germans in
the Czechoslovak Republic before World War II. When the
Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled in 1918, the German-speaking people of Bohemia , later called Sudetenland , suddenly found
themselves under Czech rule. Most non-German observers thought the country was a bastion of
democracy in Central Europe. But the Sudeten-Germans, like American blacks, did not perceive
the state in which they lived as democratic or even fair.
It is a hard thing to be ruled by an alien race; and I have been left with the impression
that Czechoslovak rule in the Sudeten areas for the last twenty years, though not actually
oppressive and certainly not 'terroristic,' has been marked by tactlessness, lack of
understanding, petty intolerance and discrimination, to a point where the resentment of the
German population was inevitably moving in the direction of revolt.
Like the Sudeten-Germans , American
blacks are "moving in the direction of revolt." They have been ruled by an "alien race" much
more alien than the
Czechs were to the Germans, the period of rule has been 400 long years, mostly in
slavery
.
Runciman wisely suggested that the Sudeten-German areas be ceded to Germany for the good of
both nations. His mistake was thinking that
Adolf Hitler was an honest broker and would maintain the deal struck at Munich, but that
aside, Runciman's proposal was a form of restitution; i.e., giving the Sudeten-Germans some
form of justice, however imperfect it might have been.
a: a restoration of something to its
rightful owner
b: a making good of or giving an equivalent for some injury
2: a legal action serving to cause restoration of a previous state
Restoring a "previous state," returning blacks to the state before the wrong was done, is
the restitution the U.S. should offer to repair the damage done by slavery.
Let's return to the situation before 1619, when the first African slaves
landed in Virginia, before the transatlantic
shipment of millions of Africans to the New World for sale.
Marcus Garvey, in my opinion the greatest black leader in modern history, created the
Universal Negro Improvement Association to just that end. His group purchased steamships to
return blacks to their motherland.
Unhappily, the era's Cheap Labor lobby encouraged the government to charge him with mail
fraud, leading to his
deportation from the U.S. (he was a Jamaican immigrant) and to
the collapse of his 5-million-strong movement, the largest black movement in our history.
Cheap black labor was more important than the freedom and well-being of blacks or the end of
the racial problems in the United States for those long-ago Chamber of Commerce
types.
The Black Muslim faith was founded on the concept of the return to the Motherland as well,
although current black Muslims seem content with trying to create a back state here or taking
over the US altogether.
And before them both, of course, was the American Colonization Society
, formed in 1816 to encourage the voluntary emigration of blacks. Its members and supporters
included James Madison ,
Henry Clay, and,
famously, Abe Lincoln himself, although the 16th president stopped talking about the idea
after the War Between the States.
How practical it was to send blacks back to Africa by sailing or steamship will never be
known. But today, international airline travel is affordable to all: a
ticket from the U.S. to Ghana, host of the 2019 Year of Return , can be had
for less than $1,000 . Airline capacity to Africa appears to be enormous and underused,
which offers any large-scale program of return the possibility of substantial per-seat savings
[ Africa Aviation Outlook 2019: Change may be in the air – at last ,
CentreForAviation.com, January 31, 2019].
As well, $14 trillion in reparations for slavery, as proposed by Black Entertainment
Television founder Robert Johnson, would easily cover the cost of sending all 37.1 million
American blacks to Africa, with more than $10 trillion left for generous resettlement packages.
[
BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery, CNBC,
June 1, 2020]
That's a lot of money. But it also solves a problem, at least for blacks who feel hunted and
unsafe in the white jungle.
Of course, returning to Africa should be voluntary, and blacks who consider themselves
Americans and do not feel hunted or discriminated against should not be forced to return to a
country and continent they do not know or even want to know.
But for the BLM activists, for those convinced the deck in the U.S. is stacked against them,
repatriation permanently repairs the continuing "legacy of slavery." To participate, blacks
would have to renounce American citizenship and accept the passport of an African country.
But the hard fact is, opportunity often comes knocking disguised as hard work. Ten million
or 15 million English-speaking blacks with American know-how and a pocket full of resettlement
money would certainly spur economic growth for the whole region, and perhaps counterbalance the
growing Chinese infiltration of the continent. Some have already moved there at their own
cost, and are happy to be in the land of their people.
A return to the Motherland -- restitution in kind -- would give social, mental, emotional,
economic and perhaps even physical benefits to American blacks.
For whites in the Historic American Nation, it would give all the same -- plus the added
knowledge that the debt of slavery is paid in full, this country's
original sin , as it is always called, washed away.
Divorce is another and somewhat more familiar way to think of it. The marriage of the two
main racial groups here has never worked and has not turned out well despite all efforts for
improvement -- as the founders of the American Colonization Society, not least
The Great Emancipator himself, predicted
.
Four hundred years in, the death of one man can lead to near rebellion, destruction of our
cities and death on the streets. A bad marriage needs to be ended, so let's start talking about
property division and payout.
It's time to face the truth and recognize that Marcus Garvey was right, and that the U.S.
would be wise to fund the only possible and reasonable form of restitution for slavery -- an
orderly resettlement to the Motherland of those blacks who believe they are oppressed
155 years after the end of slavery and 50 years after the Voting and Civil Rights acts.
Back home, no doubt, they will be "free at last, free at last, Lord God almighty, free at
last!"
Their home is America. Not sure I agree with reparations. That would certainly make things
worse. The elite would soon find a way to get their hands on most of them.
Reparations if paid should be paid by the British-and EU. The US ended the legal
importation of slaves upon its formation. Obviously, a few states controlled by a small
number of large plantation owners continued the practice until the Civil War ended it as
punishment for trying to break free of the North.
Lets also not forget the many indentured servants (estimated at 300,000) many of whom were
forced to the colonies against their will ( irish catholics and England's/Scotlands poor). In
theory they were free after working a number of years as slaves but this was not always
enforced. Also because the holder of the indentured servant was not the owner, some were
treated even more poorly than African slaves who were valued capital of their owners. Indeed,
the 500,000 Africans imported into British North America are now 41 million strong. If the
rest of the 9.5 million slaves imported to other areas of the Americas multiplied in same
proportion the Americas combined would have a population of 800 million African Americans .
The total population today of north and south America combined (All races) is 1 billion with
only 100 million being of African descent (40% in US despite receiving only 5% of the slaves
from Africa).
Now that said, have African Americans been subject to many indignities? Yes, no doubt, and
the war on drugs has disproportionately affected them. We definitely should stop
incarcerating young men and woman for non violent crimes like drugs, and stop breaking up
families who need financial assistance. That said, many immigrants of other
races/religions/ethnic regions have been subjected to discrimination. Assimilation has been
the key for them, but the education system (and MSM) starting with bussing (50 years ago)
seeks to continue promoting the divisions between white and black and thus holding back
progress.
As they said during the cultural revolution, behind every angry black there is a
Jew , that is as true today as it was back in the 60's. Blacks wouldn't be such a problem
if it weren't for the Jews indoctrinating, enslaving (with welfare), instigating, and egging
them on. Send all the Jews back to Israel, and the blacks can be put back in their place by
learning individual accountability like everyone else. The most violent ones and the race
hustlers can be sent with their Jew masters to Israel.
Expulsion of 10m is a lot cheaper than 38m with restitution. We don't have $14Trillion to
give away, our national debt is already at $23Trillion.
This is the most fair, even compassionate solution. Africa is a magnificently beautiful
place. The fruit grows plentifully. The marijuana is the best on Earth. Chickens are
everywhere. There's no need for shoes or even down jackets. The music and dance scene is like
nothing else. There are no American police at all. Many white women will visit and hopefully
stay on.
Well, being that government programs never end, and often morph, the question arises
that after all the blacks are gone who is next, and next, and next, and finally, what is
left?
Well, LIFO (last-in, first-out) means that the last people forcibly expatriated
will be religious whites from the North-east, I guess.
That said: LIFO is generally not permitted under IFRS (although they're permitted under
GAAP). Under IFRS inventory (i.e., stock and we are livestock) must be accounted for using
FIFO. Under FIFO it's the whites who have to fuck off beck whence they came. (Protip: that's
why unions prefer LOFO: last-on, first-off).
.
There are abundant historical records regarding who owned what land at the point in time
when the proto-US_Death_Machine declared that only it could buy land from natives.
There's a Supreme Court case about it: Johnson & Graham's Lessee v.
McIntosh , 21 U.S. 543 (1823) , and as part of its discussion of the
background of the case it outlines the completely invalid claims to land already owned by
other peoples that were made from 23 May, 1609 onwards.
Simply reverse those false claims – which were not claimed as spoils of war, and
cannot support a claim of terra nullius , because the lands were already occupied by
people who had a recognisable system of land title.
That would put ownership of all Federal land, and all subsequently-alienated Federal land,
back in the hands of the people from whom it was falsely taken.
That would only affect land acquired without 'clean hands' – i.e., probably 99% of
the continental US (Louisiana doesn't get a pass, because it was acquired from a State whose
claim was fraudulent: ditto Alaska).
That's what would happen if people took morality and ethics seriously: things acquired
by fraud remain the property of the person defrauded, in perpetuity – and if the
fraudster improves the property they obtained by fraud, that's just too fucking bad for
them.
That said: there is land that was acquired with 'clean hands' – by the
voluntary alienation of land from its prior owners, by a person authorised to do so, for good
consideration, with no coercion or duress.
That is true in every colony in history: those contracts were almost never with agents of
a government, and must be honoured. And they were documented at the time, and the original
owners don't dispute that they happened.
(Disclosure: that's how my white predecessors got ownership of their land in New
Zealand).
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That said: back to " reparations and repatriation "
Far from the masturbatory fantasies of the " Pay the dindus off, then ship 'em out
", there is zero chance that the US political class implements even a voluntary
"reparations + resettlement" scheme, for fear that there would be a significant number of
takers.
It would be unimaginably bad optics, and probably the final nail in the "city on a hill"
Exceptionalist horse-shit that the US Death Machine has used on its most-gullible dumbfucks
for 200 years.
Any smart-but-non-"insider" black who turned his nose up at $100k plus a ticket to Africa,
would be out of their fucking mind. I would take that bet tomorrow, and I'm not African.
If the US announced such a policy tomorrow, by next Wednesday they would have half the US
black community signed up. If the blacks had any sense they would insist on payment in specie
(e.g., gold) so that they didn't have to worry about the US government delaying payment until
after the US hyperinflates its currency to death.
The reason for that last sentence Russia and China are in the process of ending the USD's
reign as reserve currency. Pricing oil an gas in non-USD is the first step.
Repatriation and to Africa.
What an excellent idea.
Hopefully we in Britain and Europe could latch on and emulate your freeing up of people and
helping them to re establish their lives in their homelands.
We have tens of millions – many many tens of millions of imported islamics in
Europe.
A great deal more dangerous – according to our security experts – islamics openly
intent on creating the European Caliphate on the blood of we the European people if
necessary, if we don't flee..
We in Europe are on course for a continental wide bloody Balkan style bloodbath as they
import and let the countless killers and radicals loose all over our continent.
America would be doing the American blacks a real kindness by helping them home to the
countries of their origin.
And you could do us a favour, backing Europe, in doing the same to a vicious and dangerous
islamic invasion force – a far greater threat than even BLM.
The islamic invasion of Europe is serious and they mean business as they did in the theft of
Kosovo and the mass murder of Serbs and others..
Slaughter next on a vast scale.
They don't even bother to hide their intent.
Start with blacks, then you can work your way toward Illegals, Stupid White folks of whom
there are millions. And last but certainly not least .America's very special people who
created all the fore mentioned disastrous groups. The Goys Know.
There are many American blacks in SA. They seem to have adopted it as a homeland, because
it is a western built-up country (for Now). Not a single slave was from SA, too far south
Show me a group of immigrants that weren't fighting with one another . The Irish fought
the Italians, the Germans had to fight the Americans, the Polish fought the Ricans, Blacks vs
them all sometimes, etc. I remember in the 60s , heading into little Italy in Chicago –
to see a girlfriend and it wasn't pleasant for this blonde haired, blue eyed boy. Today, it's
not as bad with the Italians, Irish, Germans etc. as it was, but it hasn't changed with the
Blacks and some Latino areas. But this was the NWO Government Plan all along. Divide the
people and keep the melting pot in turmoil, in order to continue the lies, theft, murder,
that it takes, to keep the Corporate NWO in control. And the NWO has been around , for a long
long time. Wanna send the Blacks to Africa , well send some more to Israel too.
"OK, Let's Give Them Reparations -- If They Go Back to Africa"
I suppose the same could be said to all the descendents of the colonials who invaded North
(and South too probably) America and stole the land from the natives already living
there.
Been there done that. In South Africa the Apartheid government sought to dismantle the
British Colonial Structure which it had inherited, and return tribal lands to blacks and turn
them into self-governing states. Many white farmers had to sell their land at rock-bottom
prices to the government in order to achieve this. I met a bitter son of such a farmer
recently.
Apart from being torpedoed by the liberal West and mostly jewish orgnisations (who also
represented the interests of the mining magnates Oppenheimer and De Beers) , the blacks
themselves were incapable of running even their small Bantustans. Incompetence, corruption
and crime were rampant and eventually white administers and army officers took over most of
the key institutions in the Bantustans.
Of course that was not enough for them, they wanted it ALL. And ALL they got. Now ALL of
SouthAfrica resembles the erstwhile Bantustans.
You are mistaken if you think blacks in the US are interested in a fair or equitable
solution. They want reparations, AND political power, IN the US, in order to rule OVER
whites. This is the real agenda and unless whites fight back, it is not going away. They are
not stupid, they know what Africa looks like, they know that half of Africa would migrate to
Europe given half a chance, and they do not want to go back there.
Let's be humanitarians here. The ones who've reached their 65th birthday by a certain year
should be allowed to live out their lives here if they want. Otherwise they can be deported
with the rest if they'd like.
stupid racists. You have been fucked and gutted by the Zionists for the last 100 years and
yet, foolishly. blame Blacks and other non whites for your misery.
Pheeeeew! the propaganda is now unapologetic and more ridiculous and flowing non-stop
lies, tormeted twists and insane tangents all the way, in creating justification for
something the Unz s building towards, contrbuting to developing..something horrific for
america – and for Black people especially.
watch then, observe as the Unz Review topples headlong into murderous irrelevance, into a
garbage bin, ready for the dump of history a historical dump. there are lots of them about
the Unz seemingly most suitable for the one Adolf Hitler occupies
the Unz review was some kind of half decent blog. with stuff like this Boehm's article
here this blog is becoming rapidl, pure propagandistic garbage, something relative to the
wartime Germany that is often described as Nazi murderous, genocidal behavior and the
preparation for justification of such in the minds of the people with garbage like this
polluted river flow from Boehm
the Unz Review is well on its way to irrelevance. lets hope it does not contribute to a
stop along its way at #1936 Berlin, with all of us on the train.
Good point.
The "chamber of commerce" types want to make a quick buck, or maximize profits for their
poorly run businesses, and become dependent on cheap foreign labor. They did this without
thinking of the social consequences hundreds of years ago, importing Africans. Now today,
it's mass immigration from all over the world -- again, businesses not thinking about the
long term social consequences.
Voluntary return to Africa was the Policy the Lincoln wanted to support, and which ended
with the conspiracy and murder.. Some see the Policy as the reason for the assassination, ie
Lincoln was murdered for the same reason as Marcus Garvey was removed – to keep the
cheap labor and to keep the working class caught in internal strife which ruling class
exploits as "racism"- the term being a modern word
Boss> "Why doan y'all fight each other for dis dollar?"
The fellas I worked with @ the Army some of them took their pensions and social security
and their bibles and did go to Africa we talked about it. Understand, they loved America, but
it was obvious that it was not working out.
The Black Muslim faith was founded on the concept of the return to the Motherland as
well, although current black Muslims seem content with trying to create a back state here
or taking over the US altogether.
Most blacks aren't content with simply going their own way. They wish to rule over whites
with an iron fist and forcibly confiscate all of our wealth if not murder us off. That's the
textbook definition of racial hatred and racial supremacy yet they are called "civil rights"
crusaders by the Jewish media.
The masses of blacks are pretty ignorant and do think they are being targeted by "racist"
police and "racist" white people but most of the leaders of BLM and other black extremist
movements know better and just exploit the ignorance and natural antipathy towards whites of
most blacks to gain political power and money.
Send the Jews back to where? They're from Russia, mostly, and Russia doesn't want them.
Palestine isn't for them either. Best if they just stay on here and behave themselves, and if
you smarten up enough to see that they do. But there's not much chance of that happening.
The author wrote that with 10-15 English speaking blacks with American money and
American know how blah blah would make some kind of a difference in Africa.
For a start millions of black Africans already speak english.
99.9% of American blacks for all the ebonic trash they spew about Africa have never been
to that continent. They will receive a most unpleasant surprise when they arrive in their new
homeland.
Liberia should serve as a warning to them all. What was supposed to be a homeland for
slaves who wished to return to Africa is in essence another black shit hole on the
continent.
Bros, there are no subsidised housing, food stamps and welfare over there. Where is you
going to live ?
And that repatriation money you is coming with will spend out because y'all dont know to
manage your finances.
And the black police, black military and dictators ..oooooooooo weeeeeeeeee ! Dem boys
never heard about human rights. Few jobs as well my Bros and what da jobs they got goes to
family and tribal members. Looting, burning and tearing down statues dere = AK 47 time by the
security forces. All dat is why blacks in Africa wants to come here while you dumb niggers
wants to go there.
If youse can't make it in the US with all dem perks and freeness youse cannot make it in
Afreeka.
US blacks may be 99% retarded but that 1% of intelligence tells them dey gots a better
deal here.
So, crackers. dem boys aint going nowhere. We is stuck with dem HERE.
They are not know for any thinking whatsoever, in the moment, short, medium or long term.
That results from their cranium being mostly bone with a small barely functioning squishy
glob THEY refer to as a brain.
The old idea is little too late in formulating. It should have been thunk of back in the
day before Barak Hussein Obama became president of these united states before a white
Christian woman. Now charge the half African Barry O to lead his people back to Wakanda,
where he would be the first chancellor (blacks like fancy words) of the United States of
Africa (we can legally change our name to America, plain and simple!). It can be achieved
with the "American" military might in case radicals here and in the dark continent (it would
be enlightened soon with the arrival of 40 millions of "African Americans" the figure
includes the men and women who're married to Wakandans) opppse the idea. It would be good for
all around being that Africa is so huge. And the best part is that all Einsteins, Steinems,
Freuds, Rands et al can go with them to help build it or eff it up depending upon your point
of view, from nearby Israel. Last but not least, the dirty yellow rat (chinaman) would be
sent packing from exploiting the ignorant natives with the arrival of the crips and bloods,
i.e. feral black bipeds I am all in!
14 trillion dollars to repatriate our now-useless "farm machinery" would be a bargain.
After repatriation, within a few years, the USA would be a paradise.
That would leave the USA with only one other major problem: the jews.
Now, what to do with our most troublesome "minority"-the jews? They already have money and
own the banking system, own the mainstream media and popular culture, and would be difficult
to dislodge ((them)) from their present "supremacist" position.
We could declare those who espouse "judaism" to be "agents of a foreign government" and
expel them from all government, banking, corporate, media and cultural systems within the
country. Jews would also be prohibited from operating and being board members of the various
philanthropic "foundations" within the USA.
All jewish "freak shows" (holohoax museums) would be "repurposed" as public schools.
Schoolchildren would be educated on the ways the jews used the "system" to perpetuate that
"hoax of the twentieth century" for so long.
If ((they)) do not accept these changes, they can get out of the country along with the
negroes.
As the old saying still applies: "behind every negro, there is a jew", ((they)) can go to
Africa along with their "pets".
"Gaggle" is for geese.
Likewise:
A pod of whales;
A flock of sheep;
A pride of lions;
A herd of cattle;
A murder of crows;
A riot of niggers.
So, how about a cancer of Jews?
FWIW-any debate that talks about "conditional reparations" as a way of solving problems
needs expert issues entrepreneurship from a very strong intellectual and moral foundation. I
don't think we have that foundation yet.
Consider unintended consequences:
Ten million or 15 million English-speaking blacks with American know-how and a pocket
full of resettlement money would certainly spur economic growth for the whole region . . .
'.
Really? What's to prevent those recently resettled American Blacks from using their
resettlement money not to spur economic growth, but instead to demonstrate their commitment
to their African homeland by purchasing shitloads of Soviet-era military equipment, and,
worse, purchasing the first African nuclear weapon from a rogue state or other bad actor.
I favor debate on the merits of distancing people from one another, and I liked this
article. But, we have far smaller fish to fry, such as ending affirmative action, and we
don't seem to have the gumption to fry them. (Exceptions for those very costly legal
challenges to specific affirmative action policies.)
Jul 6, 2020 Thomas Sowell/Black Wisdom Matters – The Impact of Culture
A look at how black culture has affected the advancements of blacks in America. Thomas
Sowell, Walter E Williams, Jason Riley, Shelby Steele and Glenn Loury.
Blacks have had their reparations and then some. Matter of fact, THEY (The Blacks) OWE
WHITES REPARATIONS AND AS A WHITE MAN, I WOULD GLADLY CALL IT EVEN IF BLACKS LEAVE AMERICA
AND OTHER TRADITIONALLY WHITE NATIONS AND ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COME BACK.
Correct me if I am wrong, but did not Blacks not even have to fight for their freedom
because a bunch of Whites did that for them in the American War Between The States, where
over 700,000 Whites died ensuring the Black man's freedom. REPARATIONS PAID IN FULL. Matter
of fact some things never change because ignorant Whites and other outcasts still fight for
Blacks in the year 2020, although it is the Whites who are enslaved this time around and the
Blacks who are the privileged class. I know this sounds retarded but America in 2020 is
retarded. When you consider that the AFRICANS IN AMERICA were originally bought and sold by
their own people, so it isn't as if the White man went to Africa and captured free Africans,
they were already enslaved and more than likely brutalized far worse by their own, than the
White man.
Welfare generation after generation, affirmative action laws that have allowed unqualified
Blacks to receive jobs over better qualified Whites, etc. REPARATIONS PAID IN FULL AND THEN
SOME, THE BLACKS NOW OWE WHITES.
Destruction of our major cities, MILLIONS of White victims over the years to Black
violence. How many Whites have been raped, murdered or beaten at the hands of Blacks from
1865-2020, IT WOULD TOTAL MILLIONS. White cops killing or beating Blacks? Compare that number
to the number of White cops who have been beaten or killed by Black thugs or better yet,
compare that number to the number of Whites killed by cops.
I think Blacks have been paid their reparations and then some and THEY OWE US and THEIR
ANCESTORS, if not for being shipped from Africa, most would be living in squalor and swatting
flies from their face while they dropped a deuce on their dirt floor. This is nothing but
more EXTORTION AND THEY LEARNED THOSE TECHNIQUES FROM THE KING OF EXTORTION RACKET. You wanna
guess who the king of the extortion racket is?
Americans need the goofy libertarian musings of some kid who grew up in Whitopia,Wisconsin
and shuffled off to chase poontang in Southeast Asia about as much as my pet bird needs an
Ipad.
As someone who lives in the USA and know people of all kinds of ethnicities I can tell you
for certain that the AA community, to the extent there is one, is not headed for "revolt" any
more than any other sector. What we are headed for is chaos and some kind of multi-headed
civil-war. Most "black" people are not stupid and will not want to go "back" to Africa.
Garvey had a point in his time when conditions were pretty bad but it's different now. Our
problem is that we have "racialized" our society by insisting that race is the a central part
of our identity that is encouraged by every f*cking form I fill out so we are in this sense a
deeply racist society because we are encouraged to think about race all the time by the
public and private authorities that rule our lives.
This article puts things to the logical end of racialism and racism. I've been to Africa
and have know Africans and they don't have that much in common with most American "blacks"
who are often of mixed race. The culture and music are very different as anyone familiar with
African music can tell you–there are some similarities to be sure but that comes, in
some ways, from the almost ubiquitous influence of James Brown on African music.
Can't we stop this bullshit? There are some people of African origin who are "revolting"
but, if you notice, there are just as many "white" of various ethnicities who demonstrated
and rioted. These people are not the majority of either ethnicity. People are tired of the
same old corrupt shit that continually gets worse because we are so easily divided along
racial lines as the oligarchs laugh all the way to the bank.
@orionyx g conquered.
The are caucasian and Khazars.
So far this search for another area to purloin and occupy has led to the problems, certainly
in Georgia and the Ukraine.
Much of the recent trouble in the Ukraine were created by the USA dual citizen neo cons.
They were, it is rumoured, intent on taking the Crimea as the new 'zion', however Putin
– their most loathed adversary – saw it coming and acted.
The Jews mass murdered and terrorised the Russians for some 70 years.
The Jews made up the greater part of the Bolsheviks and inflicted communism on the Russians
with no mercy.
Russia didn't want them back.
I don't see any actual arguments nor have you given any examples of statements you
consider to be lies. Your post amounts to nothing except a barrage of vituperation. Some of
us can be swayed with a combination of facts and reasoned argument, perhaps you could try it
sometime.
@Anon the Dems will steal the next election and use the "hands up, don't shoot" Trojan
horse to provide cover for combatants once invasion of the suburbs gets underway.
Furthermore, the Black Panthers, BLM types, and former ACORN revolutionaries will become
Obama's internal security force that's as well-funded, armed, and numerous as the US military
as he promised, making door-to-door gun confiscation and looting inevitable and effectively
unopposed by "all hat/no horse" conservatives pointing to the number of guns their atomized
and demoralized supporters own. Eventually, the Republican Party that conservatives stupidly
believe has their back will be run out of town, that is, if its members can be located hiding
out among Antifa and the like.
@SteveK9 %-meaning that it probably was 30-35% in real life. (The rate for whites at the
time was 3-4%).
That's different from children in two parent homes. If a kid was born to married parents,
he/she wasn't a b@stard. If daddy left a day later, the kid was fatherless just like most
b#stards were.
Adding the illegitimate kids w/out dads to the legitimate kids whose dad bailed on the
family, the fatherless rate in negro homes back then was probably well over 50%.
And what, specifically, were the "strong incentives" for groids to bail on their families?
LOL.
Anything to avoid assigning blame to negroes, I swear ..
– https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kw/crichton.html
exc.: " The noble savage is a fantasy, and it was never true . That anyone still
believes it, 200 years after Rousseau, shows the tenacity of religious myths"
@Anonymous onghold of the white race – Russia – will lock its doors for sure
and Britain is full for a start.
Like many others I have grave doubts if the big mouths and their arsenals – the last
gasp of any pretense of American masculinity – will actually stand and fight.
Forget the Alamo .
The Crocketts and Bowies are long gone.
The Mexicans are invading and running loose all over the USA , occupying it for free –
how the mighty have fallen.
Texas – joke – they are occupying the whole country.
Speaks volumes for the degeneracy and collapsing of the latest Roman Empire. as it goes down
to the neo. black, barbarians.
The only way any of them will accept is if they get some gibs. $100,000 per, conditioned
upon renunciation of U.S. citizenship would be a small price to pay to solve the problem.
This is a good, (tongue-in-cheek?) article. However, the overall goal of our present civic
unrest is societal destabilization – not the attainment of justice or "fairness
(whatever that is supposed to be)."
The operative Hegelian dialectic is: Thesis – the USA treasures its sovereignty and
is, therefore, a speed-bump to attainment of a Globalist, one-world order; Antithesis –
create intractable societal destabilization by pitting class against class, race against
race, and by bankrupting the country (where various patriotic elements are not permitted to
derive solutions); and Synthesis – restoration of order by total destruction of
individual freedoms in favor of statist, tyrannical control.
And the "problem" cannot be solved via public debate and negotiation, because the
"Progressive" leadership – which is truly controlling events via having seized
near-total domination over the MSM, educational system, courts, etc. – will not permit
any solution at variance to the overall "solution" of one world sovereignty.
The fact that Russia and China are disputing the one-world trajectory suggests that,
unless some great-power accommodation is made, both internal and external stress for the USA
is just beginning.
When you make blanket statements like "European Americans complain about the Africans they
stole and shipped to ", you are making a terrible error in thinking.
Facts are hard. Math is hard. But thinking from facts, reality, while hard work in the
short run, will pay off in less work in the long run. If you get it right now, you won't
prescribe programs for reform that will lead us down many dead ends–more work in the
long run.
Facts and math aren't emotionally satisfying, won't help you cheat your opponents or tilt
the table to favor your friends, but generally, the long way around is the short way
home.
On May 29, two federal security officers guarding a courthouse in Oakland, California,
were ambushed by machine-gun fire as elsewhere in the city demonstrators marched peacefully
to protest the killing of George Floyd. One of the guards, David Patrick Underwood, died as a
result of the attack, and the other was wounded. For days, conservative news broadcasters
pinned the blame on "antifa," the loosely affiliated group of anti-fascist anarchists known
to attack property and far-right demonstrators at protests. But the alleged culprit,
apprehended a week later, turned out to be a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant named Steven
Carrillo, the head of a squadron called the Phoenix Ravens, which guards military
installations from terrorist attacks.
According to prosecutors, Carrillo and an accomplice, 30-year-old Robert A. Justus Jr.,
were part of the "boogaloo" movement, a patchwork of right-leaning anti-government
libertarians, Second Amendment advocates, and gun enthusiasts all preparing for another
American civil war.
Authorities say that when they went to apprehend Carrillo at his residence, he attacked
them with pipe bombs, killing a police sergeant named Damon Gutzwiller. Investigators found a
boogaloo-themed patch in a vehicle used by Carrillo. And Carrillo had scrawled boog, along
with various boogaloo slogans, in his own blood on the hood of a car."
Or better still, why don't you all go to where you came from?Who are you to send them
anywhere, they are the only ones, that didn't come by their own will!
@silviosilver years. But it was still Czech kingdom, not German. So the "Sudetens" were
inside old Czech historical borders.
The problem was that once Hitler came to power in 1933, Czechs were faced with a large
German minority adjacent to Germany. Political agitation against Czechs took off and
Freikorps (German militias) were established to undercut Czech authority. The "Sudetens"
welcomed Hitler since they considered Czechs to be inferior to them ("Untermenschen").
In German history books, they are mad at Hitler that he undid 700 years of eastward
expansion. I guess now they have to start all over again, this time using EU as their
tool.
@padre o Europe when all the raping, looting, thieving, nonwhite parasites go back to
where they are from? Btw, where are you from, (((amigo?))) How about the "Jews" going back to
where they are from and leave Palestinians alone?
They ( the Blacks) were sold by their own people to not only Whites, but Jews and Arabs as
well.
Who are you to tell anyone anything, (((amigo?)))
Jews, Arabs, Pakis, Southeast Orientals, Africans/Blacks, East Indians, MIXED RACE
HISPANICS, etc., the only way these people can live in first world nation is to ride on the
back of Whites. Btw, (((amigo))), Native Americans can't stand Blacks or Mexicans.
Plan 1: Libtards and Blacks get California, Nevada and Oregon. (Keep Washington or San
Diego for access to the Pacific). Also, all SJW agitators are exiled to this new country. You
Libtards don't believe in race differences? Fine. Have fun with your 40 million Negroes and
Mestizos.
Plan 2: let Blacks have the naturally developing Black Belt in the South. Mestizos get the
Southwest which they already dominate.
Whites and a small minority of intelligent and patriotic Browns (Asians and Hispanic
Michelle Malkin types. et al) get the rest. (95% White and 5% patriotic Browns sounds good to
me). Also a few hundred Clarence Thomas / Ben Carson types – because of their service
– are allowed to stay if they prefer.
I used to prefer Plan 2, but seeing all the spoiled White brats taking part in the Black
Antifada, I'm starting to think certain Whites deserve Blacks. Some people need to get a dose
of what they espouse and vote for good and hard.
When that greasy puerto rican spickkk in Cleveland kidnapped those girls and held them for
years, and the cops finally rescued them, they didn't leave the girls there to stay with the
spickk family and live their lives. No, they took them back to where they came from. You
don't leave kidnap victims there at the scene of the crime–the biggest remedy is to get
them home.
And the longer they've been there is a bug, not a feature. They shouldn't have been
brought here in the first place. If you had a tumor or a wart, bragging about how long you
have had it is kind of stupid. You need to fix it. It doesn't belong.
Nobody would be that foolish! Odd isn't it though, nobody has suggested (yet) that whites
are repatriated to Europe leaving the Americas to the Indians and blacks.
definitely an interesting piece with some thoughtful comments. all this deserves our
attention. how about a bit more of a classic liberal approach? allow any native born american
to expatriate with their taxes wholly or partially refunded and money for resettlement based
on some equitable formula. conditioned on their being barred from ever again obtaining
american citizenship, at least without first paying huge penalties. this will allow anyone to
go anywhere willing to have them. a voluntary exchange between the citizen and state. let the
market decide.
some stunning remarks on CNN, declaring protests in the streets were perfectly acceptable
while canceling other large events through September.
De Blasio joined CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday evening, discussing the evolving pandemic
and policy response by City Hall to mitigate the spread in the city. He said social justice
warriors were too important after months of protests have yet produced an outbreak in
cases.
"This is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the
kinds of gatherings we're used to, the parades, the fairs -- we just can't have that while
we're focusing on health right now," de Blasio told Blitzer.
Looks like not all MSM are hopeless. "Newsweek" published an unusually sane piece by a
reasonable black guy "Why black lives don't matter to 'Black Lives Matter'", where he exposes
BLM for what they are: opportunistic frauds
"... In 2013, the national outcry over Trayvon Martin's death and George Zimmerman's acquittal sparked a national outcry over racial injustice. Amid this controversy, three activists, Patrisse Cullors , Alicia Garza , and Opal Tometi , started a hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, which soon went viral. They then founded the national Black Lives Matter organization. ..."
"... No doubt, the organization itself was quite radical from the very beginning. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors described herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as "trained Marxists" in a recently resurfaced video from 2015. ..."
"... The official Black Lives Matter organization is Marxist ..."
"... Such a divisive ideology only fuels perpetual conflict, not progress toward reconciliation. By failing to drive this toxic extremism out loudly and clearly from their side of the issue, the large majority of Black Lives Matter supporters -- who simply seek reform, justice, and reconciliation -- take a chainsaw to any chance of achieving common ground and consensus. ..."
n Monday night, Terry Crews was grilled over his criticism of Black Lives Matter by CNN host
Don Lemon. As Gina Bontempo pointed out on Twitter : "Don
Lemon did everything he could to talk over Terry and silence him as soon as they started
approaching what the BLM organization is *really* about."
So what is Black Lives Matter really about?
Many conservatives insist Black Lives Matter is a Marxist, anti-police, radical organization
that wants to tear down America . Meanwhile, most liberals simply view Black Lives Matter as a
heroic movement and powerful slogan signaling support for racial justice and opposition to
police brutality.
Both are right.
There is Black Lives Matter™️, and there is "black lives matter."
Black Lives Matter as a broad sentiment and movement then gained national attention and name
recognition after the 2014 deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Meanwhile, the official
group expanded and many more local chapters formed.
No doubt, the organization itself was quite radical from the very beginning. Black Lives
Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors described herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as
"trained Marxists" in a recently
resurfaced video from 2015.
"We actually do have an ideological frame[work]," Cullors said
of her organization. "We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological
theories."
Meanwhile, the national organization's official
platform , published in 2015, contained a specific call to "[disrupt] the
Western-prescribed nuclear family structure."
At the local level, official Black Lives Matter chapters are essentially far-left front
groups that use racial justice as a Trojan horse for leftist policy and ideology. For example,
the official organization Black Lives Matter DC openly dedicates itself to "creating the conditions
for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy,
capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism."
Image credit: Johnny Silvercloud, Flickr
Unsurprisingly, conservatives have bashed the radical group en masse.
"Black Lives Matter is an openly Marxist, anti-America n group," conservative commentator
Mark Levin said . "There's no denying
it. And it is fully embraced by the Democrat Party and its media and cultural
surrogates."
"Black Lives Matter is a Marxist movement," Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted . "Black Lives
Matter is not about police, it's not about race, it's not about justice. It's about making us
hate America so they can replace America."
"You know, I know plenty of people who are for Black Lives Matter. A lot of them are nice
people," Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
recently said . "I'm not mad at them. I disagree I think Black Lives Matter is
poison."
These kinds of conservative criticisms of Black Lives Matter are widespread. And on one
hand, they're right : The official Black Lives Matter organization is Marxist, is anti-American
in its values, and its views are rightfully alarming to anyone who believes in the
Constitution, capitalism, and civil society as we know it.
But in applying their reflexive response to all Black Lives Matter supporters, conservative
critics are failing to see the forest for the trees.
Most of these people, I suspect, don't even know that there is an official Black Lives
Matter organization. And I'm sure hardly any of them could name Patrisse Cullors or Alicia
Garza.
Whether it's where I'm from in deep-blue Massachusetts or where I live now in Washington
D.C., walking by a Black Lives Matter sign sticking out from someone's yard is just about an
everyday occurrence. After the death of George Floyd, more of my acquaintances, friends, and
relatives than I could count posted #BlackLivesMatter.
Many others changed their picture to a black square or otherwise signaled their support for
the movement.
I can personally guarantee you that the vast majority of these people, while liberal, do not
support ending capitalism or dismantling the family. Conservatives are led astray as soon as
they apply their (valid) criticisms of Black Lives Matter™️ the organization to
the Black Lives Matter movement and its supporters broadly.
Image Credit: John Lucia, Flickr
Just look at the way some on the Right responded to Sen. Mitt Romney after he attended a
Washington, D.C. protest against police brutality, telling reporters he did so "to make sure
that people understand that Black Lives Matter."
Here's a sampling of how hostile the response was from some conservative pundits on
Twitter:
Even President Trump attacked Romney over it:
No matter how you feel about the conservative Mormon senator politically (and I'm far from a
fan), no one can credibly argue that Romney supports destroying the nuclear family, ending
capitalism, or abolishing the police.
Meanwhile, Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana faced a similar unfair backlash when he announced his
support for Black Lives Matter and
unveiled a modest police reform proposal :
It may well be true that in particular conservative circles, everyone is well aware of the
obscure history of the Black Lives Matter founders' Marxist roots. But the average person on
the street and the average person who shares the hashtag are most certainly not. And the
movement itself has become something much bigger, broader, and more benevolent than the
original organization.
However, it's by no means just conservatives who err in their approach to Black Lives
Matter. For one, many on the Left fail to acknowledge at all the Marxist roots of the official
Black Lives Matter organization, and thus, paint anyone who objects to the organization as
racist, unthinkingly inveighing: "How could anyone not support black lives?" This kind of
clever naming of a controversial movement, similar to "Antifa" supposedly standing for
"anti-fascist," makes it easy to baselessly paint critics as extreme and immoral. Yet this is a
reductive oversimplification that serves only to divide.
So, too, much of the blame for the Black Lives Matter perception gap lies with liberals,
Democrats, and others who support the movement for failing to adequately distance themselves
from the radical organization.
For example, I visited one of my favorite coffee shops in Arlington, Virginia over the
weekend. Like many a hipster coffee shop, it had a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and
had a fundraiser going on for the cause as well. But I was dismayed to read the flyer and
notice that the proceeds of the fundraiser were going to the official Black Lives Matter DC
organization -- yes, the same one that openly wants to abolish capitalism.
Now, I highly doubt that the owners of this coffee shop, even if they are progressives or
Democrats, actually support Marxism. More importantly, I'm certain that most customers who
donated, even in the liberal-leaning neighborhood, do not realize they are donating to a
Marxist, anti-American revolutionary organization by participating in the fundraiser. But they
are.
Many a mainstream liberal has signaled support for the generic "black lives matter" cause by
sharing fundraisers that, if you look closely, go to official Black Lives Matter organizations
that do not actually represent their views. Meanwhile, liberal-leaning media outlets such as MSNBC
regularly platform official members of the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement and pass the
radical activists off as within the mainstream.
From corporations to politicians to random Facebook users, Black Lives Matter supporters
need to do a much better job distancing themselves from the radical organization at the root of
their slogan. (Or, alternatively, they should come up with a new and different slogan that
doesn't have such malign associations.)
This lack of due diligence is lazy and irresponsible, but more importantly, it's
dangerous.
Marxism is a vicious ideology, and it's one that is rooted in a divisive vision of
irreconcilable class conflict. As important economist Ludwig von Mises
noted ,
"According to the Marxian view... human society is organized into classes whose interests stand
in irreconcilable opposition." Moreover, as Mises explains ,
Marxists believe that people's very thoughts ought to be determined by their class and that
those who differ from the prescribed worldview are class traitors.
Such a divisive ideology only fuels perpetual conflict, not progress toward reconciliation.
By failing to drive this toxic extremism out loudly and clearly from their side of the issue,
the large majority of Black Lives Matter supporters -- who simply seek reform, justice, and
reconciliation -- take a chainsaw to any chance of achieving common ground and consensus.
When Don Lemon took issue with Terry Crews's take on Black Lives Matter, Crews was
crystal clear , saying, "This is the
thing. It's a great mantra. It's a true mantra. Black lives do matter. But, when you're talking
about an organization, you're talking about the leaders, you're talking about the people who
are responsible for putting these things together. It's two different things."
We need more of that kind of clarity in our discourse. Right now, the debate over "Black
Lives Matter" is muddled and confused. Liberals and conservatives alike need to make an effort
to listen and understand the other side's perspective, not the strawman caricature of it used
as a punching bag in partisan echo chambers. Until both sides take the time to understand each
other, we will keep talking past each other -- and any real progress or harmony will remain a
fantasy.
snedly arkus, comment 121, starts off interesting and then descends into typical
anti-communist lunacy. Really sad to see how bourgeois psyops of the 20th century still have
victims.
BLM is Marxist? I wish. I'm not sure why conservatives think tarring anything and
everything that they find themselves in opposition to as "communist" or "Marxist" does
anything other than increase interest in these ideas among those being tarred, who weren't
Marxist to begin with but who are all of a sudden being turned on to scientific socialism.
You realize they have access to the primary texts, right? They can read Capital for
themselves and find out, for themselves, that it is the greatest economics textbook ever
written, to this day, and that it and it alone provides a foundation for a scientific
understanding of capitalist political economy. That's my story, at least. I have the Tea
Party to thank for the fact that I'm a Marxist, and I never would have found out about Marx
if they didn't make the laughable claim that President Obama was one of his acolytes.
Go to BLM's homesite and you will find their mission statement. It clearly says the
movement was founded and grounded in Marxist thought, with a side of identity-politics (in
this case, a trio of black lezbians who say Marxism ultimately stems from Queer-theory, or
vice versa, I forget).
Irrespective of whether their proposed iteration of Marxist thought is intrinsically
correct is the question, of course.
I absolutely concur however, with "Republicans", that their methodology with their action
is indeed intrinsically Marxist, because it involves the putting aside of dialectics and
philosophy with the intention of clear material ends in mind. Whether or not they themselves
are able to articulate these ends is another matter.
You made me link and look. There might be some claim there that BLM is Marxist, I can't
find it quickly and the site is such a disaster it's not worth the trouble.
Their site is slightly larger than last time I looked. Still dominated by t-shirt sales
and vague LGBTQ mush. They need a web page designer and editor badly. What is most notable is
a total absence of content. Vague is too nice. Supposedly a huge organization with a big
budget, nothing to show for it. Purposely set up so you can't find out anything. My guess
would be the site is managed from a cubicle at Langley, with instructions to the
clerk-in-charge to keep it simple, keep it impenetrable. This is not a popular movement in
any sense at all.
There is "BLM", the mass movement which resembles a network of contentious and largely
autonomous activist circles (i.e., there is no central leadership), and then there is "BLM" a
501c-something organization that exists for young middle class "people of color" to get some
activist credentials that look good on applications to elite colleges. I'm guessing you're
talking about the latter, but conservatives confuse that (maybe deliberately) for the
former.
thanks fnord.... unfortunately many people don't make these distinctions and some are not
interested in making them either... i wonder how the black panther party would have done in
this day and age? as it was they were infiltrated by the cia-fbi and made to appear
completely different then their mandate, but of that no one will be reporting on
factually...
NemesisCalling @152: "I merely stated that their [BLM] methodology is akin to any
Marxist movement."
Really? I totally missed where BLM was organizing tenant associations, labor unions, and
farmers' associations. Thanks for cluing me in on the fact they were doing these things!
I stated that their methodology is the same, not their mission statement. I have said
since the beginning of these shenanigans that their intent isn't to cast a light on our
current neoliberal plight. Then they would have to admit that whites are just as affected as
they are. And these racially divisive tactics must stand!
They view themselves as the historically oppressed class where only government
intervention (in this case, getting rid of POTUS) will ensure their material ascension into
"mattering." At least they looked at the Marxist playbook, eh?
They are gathering up the feeble-minded and guilt-ridden whites among us as their
vanguard. To what end?...obviously to get Uncle Joe to help them out.
But you can't see how x can be subbed for y in this case?
If you say American history has been building to a point where black lives can finally
matter if only we do...*static* *garble* *warble*...then everything will be ok, but we have
to make sure that we...*hiss* *static* *hiss*. Do you understand?
If we are talking about the material ascension of a historically victimized class of
people, we are talking about the Marxist-playbook.
But in this case, you are right...it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck, but it isn't
a duck.
The BLM looks like an intrinsically American phenomenon (racial wars, the unsettled racial
question, etc. etc.). They don't look Marxist at all.
But your point highlights us a potentially interesting information: the hidden fear
Americans of from the post-2008 era have of communism.
After 2008, the word "socialism" suddenly came to forefront, as if from nowhere, in the
USA. This must certainly have generated a timor among the traditional American
population.
From your comment historic here in this blog, you seem to be highly susceptible to
conspiracy theories. The fact that you don't doubt an American is Marxist merely from the
fact he/she states she's Marxist gives us a sign Americans like you have a deep respect and
fear for the term.
Are Americans really afraid of a communist revolution happening in their own soil?
Of course I am worried about Marxist infiltration. I am a Catholic. I want as little
government as possible. And, furthermore, this is America. It is not a potential Marxist
utopia and will never be one except by the barrel of a gun, but in that case you will have
100 million+ guns pointed right back atcha.
I respect Marxism for its contributions to the laborer's plight. But I also respect
Marxism for its ability to destroy western philosophy. But the Magna Carta, the Declaration
of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, these were all brought forth long
before Marx and they are enough to work off.
The CCP has a polluted form of Hegelianism, which is the absolute knowledge of Hegel's
Logic, or the ability to project such knowledge in its appearance. It is a powerful force on
the world stage. And I do not underestimate it.
We Americans have room, liberty, and faith.
I respect China in its natural traditions and feel that the CCP can do wonders for its
people if it ceases the world dominance aspect of its Hegelian-Marxism and return to the
teachings of the Tao Te Ching and stay within its lanes.
Is it too late to call it a draw and avoid the bloodshed? I hope so, but *shakes
8-ball*..."outlook grim."
"Will Europeans shy away from the Outlaw US Empire's determination to fail, see the rising
East as their future savior, and abandon their chosen Neoliberal path for it's not too
late?"
I'm wondering, karlof1, whether our oligarchs in the US might themselves see the writing
on the wall, (as well as the Europeans if not before them) simply as this country and those
become so crippled by what is happening thanks to the remorseless onslaught of the covid
virus, that all pretenses of having an 'economy' fly out the window. This came to my mind as
I looked at a photo on another site of a group of protesters advancing with pitchforks on NY
Hamptons estates. The pitchforks turned out to be plastic, but the headline did not say that,
and had I been on or near such a happening, the mere fact that they could have been real but
were not, would have given me considerable pause.
There has been a flexibility about protests in the past, a large amount of goodwill on the
part of protesters while enduring the state's inflexibility. That, it seems to me, is going
to change.
The pitchforks may not remain plastic much longer. Desperate times make for desperate
people. Surely a modicum of self preservation resides in the hearts of the well to do. They
have the power to change course, but time's running out.
The answer is "not always" due to existence of "What the matter with Kansas" effect.
People can and do vote against their economic interests, although this is more common for
lower strata of population then for the elite.
This is the essence of the current play by the Neoliberal Democrats. Mike Whitney pointed
out that their support of black population is just a tactical trick:
The protests are largely a diversion aimed at shifting the public's attention to a
racialized narrative that obfuscates the widening inequality chasm (created by the Democrats
biggest donors, the Giant Corporations and Wall Street) to historic antagonisms that have
clearly diminished over time. (Racism ain't what it used to be.)
The Democrats are resolved to set the agenda by deciding what issues "will and will not"
be covered over the course of the campaign. And– since race is an issue on which they
feel they can energize their base by propping-up outdated stereotypes of conservatives as
ignorant bigots incapable of rational thought– the Dems are using their media clout to
make race the main topic of debate.
In short, the Democrats have settled on a strategy for quashing the emerging populist
revolt that swept Trump into the White House in 2016 and derailed Hillary's ambitious grab
for presidential power.
The plan, however, does have its shortcomings
Let's be clear, the Democrats do not support Black Lives Matter nor have they made any
attempt to insert their demands into their list of police reforms. BLM merely fits into the
Dems overall campaign strategy which is to use race to deflect attention from the gross
imbalance of wealth that is the unavoidable consequence of the Dems neoliberal policies
including outsourcing, off-shoring, de-industrialization, free trade and trickle down
economics. These policies were aggressively promoted by both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as
they will be by Joe Biden if he is elected. They are the policies that have gutted the
country, shrunk the middle class, and transformed the American dream into a dystopian
nightmare.
They are also the policies that have given rise to, what the pundits call, "right wing
populism" which refers to the growing number of marginalized working people who despise
Washington and career politicians, feel anxious about falling wages and dramatic demographic
changes, and resent the prevailing liberal culture that scorns their religion and patriotism.
This is Trump's mainly-white base, the working people the Democrats threw under the bus 30
years ago and now want to annihilate completely by deepening political polarization, fueling
social unrest, pitting one group against another, and viciously vilifying them in the media
as ignorant racists whose traditions, culture, customs and even history must be obliterated
to make room for the new diversity world order. Trump touched on this theme in a speech he
delivered in Tulsa. He said:
"Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our
heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down
statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent
crime in our cities."
He then went off the rail, but still the part of his analysis reproduced above looks pretty
prescient.
As
Medium reported you can use this list as a guide in what businesses you wish to support.
Please also consider using this list the next time someone makes the argument that we are
living in a white supremacist country with institutionalized racism. If major companies
consider supporting violent rioters and looters good for their bottom line, your cause isn't
oppressed.
The statue, dedicated in 1984, is the latest monument to be destroyed in what President
Trump dubbed the "left-wing cultural revolution" by "angry mobs."
According to the
Baltimore Sun , the Columbus statue has been the site of a wreath-laying ceremony right
before the annual Columbus Day parade, which, in 2019 was replaced with the Italian Heritage
Festival.
Republican state delegates and Italian-American activists held a press conference at the
statue last month to ask Gov. Larry Hogan and Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young to
preserve and protect the memorials , following activists' comments about pulling down the
monuments themselves and the introduction of a City Council bill this week to rename one of
them in honor of victims of police violence.
The downed statue is one of three monuments to Columbus in Baltimore. -
Baltimore Sun
BLM thugs have already started going after patriots. They ambushed our governor at the
small town of Ackley Iowa. They were stalking her as she visited companies providing
essential services during the pandemic. Her driver refused to stop, likely saving her life.
One BLM thug was hit but not seriously injured. They are not waiting to run out of statues.
We ordinary Americans must be heavily armed at all times now. Midwest states are full of
illegals, who serve the left as an army. Open civil war is upon us whether we would have it
or not.
warsev , 3 minutes ago
What these malicious rioters don't realize is that they are handing the November election
to DJT and Republicans for senate and house. Average Americans look on the footage that
accompanies this article with revulsion; for the ideas and the people behind them. Trump will
walk away with 2020. Just keep it up, loony lefties.
vic and blood , 4 minutes ago
We have been in a race and culture war with multiple factions for some time. The presumed
winner is not overtly participating.
Most white people are oblivious, though that is changing. Too bad we are demographically
doomed.
SolidGold , 1 minute ago
Divide and conquer. Who creates that genius?
NumberNone , 12 minutes ago
Was in downtown Baltimore less than 2 years ago, it felt like you were one person away
from someone that wanted to rob you. The downtown had all the usual suspects of faux high end
shopping but the vibe was one of John Wayne Gacy in his clown suit...it had all the look and
feel that was supposed to make you happy but it was rotten to the core.
Whoa Dammit , 13 minutes ago
We can't keep coddling these stupid brats. It's time to start making their parents pay for
the mess and destruction that their ill raised offspring cause.
GoldRulesPaperDrools , 17 minutes ago
Protesters == pavement apes
House of Cards , 17 minutes ago
Terrorists you mean
Watt Supremacissss , 16 minutes ago
Crybullies.
GoldRulesPaperDrools , 15 minutes ago
Redundant but accurate ... +100_000
Silver Savior , 17 minutes ago
Columbus was a dickhead anyway.
NumberNone , 9 minutes ago
So we tear apart the country for a guy that held a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach...if
you're gonna pass judgement and replace other people's icons you might want to make better
choices.
Blackdawg7 , 43 minutes ago
I've never been a fan of Christopher Columbus but witnessing these know-nothing
sanctimonious twits destroy public property while virtue signalling makes my blood boil.
Workdove , 44 minutes ago
Not worth the 10 years in jail...
vic and blood , 50 minutes ago
History's losers are terrorizing, and soon to be tyrannizing us because Caucasians are too
civilized and docile.
Every race and tribe is programmed by God to attempt to dominate.
As an adherent of the non-aggression principle, I don't care for the binary choice, but
accept it.
Either dominate or be dominated. Only cucks believe in co-existence. I assure you our
rivals do not believe in peaceful co-existence.
unionbroker , 1 hour ago
Christopher Columbus sails out into the unknown where no man has gone before. What the
**** has BLM done. Put the statues back up and throw BLM in the water
We can't keep coddling these stupid brats. It's time to start making their parents pay for
the mess and destruction that their ill raised offspring cause.
They probably can pus a smartphone instead of demolished monuments. Their view of police as a
brutal occupying force is naive, because police is just a muscle, and it is not "white supremacy"
that is behind them. They are fighting sypmtom, not the root case.
We all remember those shots. American troops are entering Baghdad. A tank stops somewhere in
the city, cautiously, in the vicinity of a Saddam Hussein monument. After a few minutes of
apparent inactivity, a crowd is beginning to form around the monument. The crowd is not all
that big. It rallies around the figure of Iraq's president. Soon an American soldier climbs the
monument and puts an American flag on it. An Iraqi intervenes, so the flag is replaced with the
Iraqi one. And then, then some individuals begin to climb the statue, a crane arrives from
somewhere, a steel rope is attached to the monument and the crane drives slowly back, taunting
the line and gradually slanting the president's image to its feet. Eventually the figure drops
to the ground and the cheering people dance around it, deliver it kicks and carry some of the
pieces that fell off in the process away.
The alien forces have conquered the capital city of the enemy and performed an age-old
ritual that victors used to perform in the presence of the vanquished: Americans demolished the
material symbol of the enemy's sovereignty and by doing it they also humiliated the routed
nation.
In the nineties of the 20th century we could all see angry Russians in Moscow, but also
angry Poles in Warsaw and equally angry residents of other European capitals tearing down
monuments from the communist era, especially those of Comrade Felix Dzerzhinsky, the notorious
head of the Cheka (from:
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Since the dawn of history monuments would be put up and torn down. Either act reflected a
huge political, social, religious or demographic change. Monuments are erected by common
consent of the majority of a given (national, social, religious, political) community, in which
case they are wanted as a tribute to or a memory of the community's most cherished heroes or
values, or they are enforced by occupying forces, in which case they are hated by those against
whose will they have been put up.
Monuments are only desecrated, defaced, toppled or destroyed by the enemies of those who
built them. Americans in Iraq and a part of Iraqi nation was against Saddam Hussein; a rather
large part of the Russian nation nurtured bitter memories concerning the henchmen of their
ancestors like Felix Dzerzhinsky, so they vented their anger on his images the moment an
opportunity presented itself. The divide between those who put up the monuments and those who
hated the sight of them was in each case insurmountable. What was dear to the former, was
abhorrent to the latter.
Recently a huge wave of monument desecration and monument removal has swept the United
States and to a much lesser extent Europe. It is mostly the heroes of the American South
– generals of the Army of the Confederate States – that are targeted, but not only.
Also abolitionists, 1) fighters for
American independence of other nationalities, 2) Christian
missionaries 3) and even Jesus
Christ himself. 4) John Wayne may
not be spared the same fate either 5) so much so that
a monument to a Portland elk – his ancestor was presumably a slave owner and the elk
– a confirmed racist – fell victim to the rage of American iconoclasts.
6)
All this is taking place amid riots caused by the death of a frequent prison inmate who was
caught by the police while suspected of paying with counterfeit money. The activists of the
Black Lives Matter movement, supported by Antifa 7) and heavily
sponsored by the powers that be and spurned on by the democrats performed the usual acts of
protest: burning cars and looting shops. This time two qualitatively new elements have been
added: one is the toppling or desecration of monuments and the other is forcing the police
officers to knee to the rioters. All this is happening because it is wanted by at least a
significant part of the establishment, democrats in the first place, who having failed to
impeach Donald Trump, having stopped America's and the world's economies due to the so called
pandemic now are playing another trump card in yet another effort to thwart the president
incumbent from being elected for the second term.
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Shamelessness as a revolutionary act ( which see )
The democrats have decided to use American blacks to create chaos and make a distressing
impression on US citizens who should come to the conclusion that Donald Trump is not capable of
running the country. History provides ample examples when a part of the elites willing to
topple the current ruler would resort to the help of the masses in order to force the ruler's
abdication or resignation. Such was the case in France in the run-up to the French Revolution,
such was the case in Russia in the run-up to the Russian revolution. In France it was the
so-called third class that was used for the purpose, in Russia it was the proletariat, now in
the United States it is the easily excitable blacks. History teaches us that a genie let out of
the bottle cannot be put back at a moment's notice. Either the democrats have not been
attentive during their history classes or their hatred of Donald Trump is so intense that they
don't care.
What is happening now in the Land of the Free makes the whole world wonder. It fits the
definition of a cultural revolution – modelled on its Chinese or Bolshevik predecessors
– or a colour revolution known from the streets of Belgrade, Tunis, Cairo, Tbilisi, Kiev
and many other places. If the latter is the correct interpretation then the question arises
whether this time the process was initiated – as usual – by the CIA or whether it
is the boomerang hitting back the thrower. Be that as it may – power struggle apart
– the events reveal a few important things.
[1] Americans are not a uniform, coherent nation and never will be: it is always blacks
against whites, though the discrimination laws are a thing of the past, how much more slavery.
Assimilation or integration – so much propagated in Europe in view of the influx of the
people from the Third World – does not work in the least. The two races share the same
terrain, language and religion and still remain far part.
[2] Monument desecration and removal is a fight against memory. Memoriae damnatio or the
Orwellian black hole is a well-known historical phenomenon. Invaders of Egypt necessarily
obliterated the images of pharaohs; Arab conquerors smashed images of ancient heroes or
Christian saints; Christians would destroy pagan idols; Byzantine iconoclasts raised their
hands against paintings depicting Jesus Christ and saints; protestants would do the same a
couple of centuries later in northern and western Europe; French revolutionaries would even
stoop down to extracting corpses of the long-dead French kings – Capetians, Valois,
Bourbons – and desecrating them; Bolsheviks in Russia would do the same with the remnants
of the tsarist past; even worse: factions of Bolsheviks would delete from very recent memory
yesterday's comrades.
[3] The BLM movement is racist to the core. It is aimed against whites and whites alone. It
is strong because it is supported by the democratic party and its adherents and a number of
foundations. That it is anti-white is evident. White actors have been discouraged from
impersonating or even voicing characters of colour, which, however, is not the case when it
comes to black actors who are increasingly frequently cast in typically white roles. It is only
and exclusively whites who are accused of being racist.
[4] Humiliation of the white population and especially of the police. The pictures of white
people kneeling to blacks and of the policemen – armed to their teeth – to the
rioters have been spread worldwide. It is an act of humiliation pure touted of course as an act
of interracial reconciliation and mutual respect.
[5] As usual, whenever a black gets killed in a squabble or a scuffle African-Americans,
Antifa and the mainstream media are quick to pass judgement without waiting for the court
sentence, which runs counter to the well-established procedure that no one is deemed guilty
until proven. The pressure exerted by the rioters and the media without doubt negatively
affects the decision of the judges who later deal with the case.
[6] What is happening is certainly wanted by a large part of the establishment or else it
wouldn't have been happening. Black rioters know that they can enjoy a lot of leeway and they
act accordingly, looting and burning and showing disrespect for the law and the police. Many a
mayor or police chief – usually a democrat and a black – under the pretext of
deescalating the conflicts withdraws the law enforcement units from parts of the city that they
are in charge of. Consider the so-called autonomous zones in Seattle and New York held for a
time by rioters. The powers that be could suppress the riots within 24 hours if they only
wanted to. As it is, they are using irascible black communities (agitated by Antifa activists)
to create turmoil and thus to achieve political goals. Just picture to yourself a rally of
genuine Nazis raising their hands in the Roman salute: how long would they hold a public
space?
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People occupying parts of the city called autonomous zones remind the Kiev Maidan
protesters. They spend days and nights doing nothing, but somehow they do not go hungry. In
both cases the police are either inactive or indolent. The Maidan riots in Kiev brought about
the change of the government. The powers that be must be counting on the same in the Dis-United
States of America.
How do we know that the riots are instigated, sponsored and used by the powers that be?
Precisely because of the inactivity and indolence of the police, because of the inactivity and
indolence of local; authorities, because of the media's condoning tone towards the events.
Lastly, history teaches us that revolutions, are made by means of popular protests and these
protests are paid by very rich individuals. Professional revolutionaries whose task it was to
destabilize Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries were in the
pocket of Alexander Parvus (born: Israel Gelfand) and Jacob Schiff. Individuals that later
became the driving forces of the coup d'etat – Leon Trotsky (born: Lev Bronstein),
creator of the Red Army – did not have to bother about their living.
The deletion of historical memory and the renunciation of the heroes of the past paves the
way for replacing the United States of America with something new. Maybe the Union of Soviet
States of America? At present it is the images, effigies, and monuments that are beheaded,
trampled upon, kicked and drowned. Tomorrow it may very likely be people. Such are the dynamics
of any revolutionary movement.
You can be fired for criticizing BLM, because in essence this is apolitical movement run by regular Dem NGOs careerists.
Immunity from criticism is a sign of totalitarism.
Imagine for a moment that you're on a sports team that has never won a championship game,
that only rarely wins a game at all, that comes in near or dead last in the rankings season
after season after season. And imagine you want to win for once – not just a few games,
but a winning season, making it through playoffs and into the finals, and maybe even take home
the championship, something your team has never done before. But looking at your team, most of
the players aren't that great, those that are don't work together well, they fight amongst
themselves more than the other teams, each of them tries to steal the glory from the other
players only to fail spectacularly when they do. Your current coach, who's been coaching the
team for decades, tells the players it's not their fault that they keep losing, the refs are
just biased against them, the game is rigged, and everyone deserves an equal number of points
regardless of how well they play. When refs make a call against them, they start a fight
instead of accepting the call and playing better to overcome the setback. Instead of focusing
on improving as players or as a team, they're taught to complain about the rules of the game
itself. Don't hate the player, hate the game. But along comes a new coach offering a new style
of management. The new coach wants to kick the worst players off the team while making the
remaining players train harder to improve their skills and organize around supporting the best
players on the team. They're expected to show good sportsmanship even if the refs sometimes
make a bad call, and channel any anger or frustration over those calls into playing harder. If
you were on the team and wanted to actually win once in a while, which coach would you want
leading you?
As black Americans riot, loot their neighborhood stores, and burn down black owned
businesses over the death of a methhead who likely died because of an overdose of multiple
drugs and not because of the knee on his neck
[1] https://www.unz.com/article/or-did-george-floyd-die-...rdose/ (fentanyl overdoses are
known to cause breathing problems and Floyd had no serious injuries to his neck or elsewhere
from the officers who arrested him) who cared so little about black lives he once threatened to
shoot a pregnant black woman during a robbery/home invasion and his own black kids didn't even
recognize him on tv, we must ask what is so different about the black community that they could
be trolled by the media into destroying their own cities to protest the death of a man who
contributed nothing to the black community. That they would do this at a time when the media
has warned against any and all mass gatherings aside from these protests due to fears of
coronavirus, which blacks are dying from at a higher rate than whites, even as the media tells
white conservatives to avoid mass gatherings such as the recent Trump rally in Tulsa, should
make the left wing media's total disregard for black lives obvious even as they heap lip
service on the Black Lives Matter movement and organization, but blacks across the country have
chosen to ignore the warnings about a disease that has killed tens of thousands of black
Americans so far this year in order to protest the death of about ten unarmed blacks per year
by police.
Blacks have never been the most successful race in America (and are even less successful in
most of the rest of the world), but American blacks, who have a significantly higher average IQ
than their African cousins, aren't usually as collectively stupid as they have been so far in
2020 as they destroy their own communities and risk death by a disease much deadlier than the
police to protest the death of a man who would likely have died from the drugs in his system
regardless of whether or not the police arrested him (though they did overwhelmingly vote to
re-elect Barack Obama in 2012 after his disastrous war in Libya screwed up a once prosperous
African nation so badly that you can now openly buy black slaves there, effectively
re-establishing the African slave trade thanks to America's first black President).
If black Americans want to improve their situation, they need honest and constructive
criticism of their current problems as a group and the underlying causes of those problems.
As hundreds of millions of dollars are being donated by corporate interests to the
Soros-affiliated Black Lives Matter organization behind the protests that turned to riots
that have destroyed their small business competition and are preventing the reopening of the
economy in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown, it's hard to see how any of that money will be
spent in ways that actually improve the quality of life or economic prospects of the average
black American, let alone make up for the destruction of so many local and black owned
businesses caused by the riots.
It's unclear how the money BLM has raised is actually being spent aside from the few
million paid to the organization's staff and consultants and the 6% of their funds that have
gone to the local chapters that they claim are supposed to be running the show, and many
activists have raised questions about just where the money is going.
[2] https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/18/black-lives-matte...tants/ The pseudo-socialist
elites like Soros who are funding the movement for their own purposes likely do not have the
best interests of the black population at heart, and the millions raised in previous years do
not seem to have been used to help the black community prosper and improve.
Nor have the variety of socialist programs that blacks have voted for through the Democratic
Party improved their community much. The average black household is more than twice as likely
to receive some form of welfare than the average white household and three times as likely to
receive direct cash assistance.
[3] https://www.amren.com/features/2015/10/welfare-whos-...s-not/
But despite the fact that whites, who pay more in taxes to find these programs, have large
portions of our wealth redistributed every year to blacks through socialist programs like, EBT,
Section 8, Medicaid, and TANF, no amount of free food and shelter seems to be enough to help
black Americans rise economically.
Rather, the opposite seems to be true, as blacks learn to settle for free stuff and a
welfare lifestyle rather than pushing themselves to succeed. Nor do the affirmative action
programs that exist in admissions to most colleges help blacks, as they appear to actually
lower academic performance and graduation rates among black students as they increase the
number of black students in the colleges that practice affirmative action.
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20130511043833/http://ww...AL.pdf
And despite the claims that the high crime rates in black communities – some of which
exceed the crime rates of even the most violent third world countries – are caused by
poverty and a lack of opportunity, no amount of free stuff to alleviate poverty or affirmative
action to provide opportunity has brought the crime rate in the black community down to
anywhere near the low level in the white community.
Crime has dropped since the early 1990s due to the removal of lead from gasoline
[5] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-up...-2018/ , but the massive gap in
crime rates between blacks and whites has remained even as levels of lead exposure among blacks
have dropped massively and can no longer be used to explain away their high crime rates.
Despite being only 13% of the population, blacks commit more than half the murders in the
US, and a solid majority of their victims are black (though they kill hundreds more whites and
members of other races each year than the other way around). If BLM actually cared about
black lives, the thousands of extra blacks murdered by other blacks beyond the number who would
be murdered if they had the same murder rate as whites would be a higher priority than the
dozen or so unarmed black men killed by police each year (many of whom were engaged in violent
crime or, like George Floyd, didn't die strictly due to police violence). But they're not, and
the progressive left will never so much as admit that blacks have a higher violent crime rate
for reasons other than poverty, let alone find a solution to it.
Nor can historical racism explain the difference in outcomes between blacks and whites. East
Asians were considered colored under Jim Crow laws in many southern states (their segregation
from whites was upheld in the 1927 Supreme Court case Lum v. Rice), while lighter skinned
immigrants from Mexico and south and central America were generally considered white and given
the privileges that came with that status.
The Japanese specifically were put into internment camps during WWII, facing even stricter
legal discrimination than blacks during that time. And yet, if you're the descendant of
Japanese Americans who lived here through internment and segregation, odds are you make more
money than the average white American, while Hispanic/Latino Americans whose ancestors were
often considered white during that time have a lower average income.
Black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean also have a higher average income (though
this may be due in part to selection bias), as do immigrants from India, while the Jews, who
regularly claim to be the most oppressed group in history, have a much higher average income
than white Americans and are roughly 20 times as likely to be billionaires as the average
American after running our central bank for most of the past century.
Black Americans are doing significantly better than blacks in any other part of the world,
including the descendants of the black Africans who sold most black Americans' ancestors into
slavery. If historical discrimination and multigenerational trauma were as big a part of the
reason for the American black community's problems as leftists like to claim, Jews should be
among the poorest people in the world, while blacks in places that spent very little time under
colonial rule, such as Ethiopia and Haiti, should be among the most prosperous black
communities in the world. Instead, the opposite appears to be true.
This isn't to say that no systemic racism exists – after all, we have a media that
tells blacks it's important to have mass gatherings during a pandemic while telling white
conservatives to avoid mass gatherings, so if the Wuhan Flu is anywhere near as dangerous as
the media says, our left wing media is actively attempting to kill thousands of blacks by
encouraging them to increase their risk of contracting the virus while telling white
conservatives to avoid any possibility of contracting the virus (unless they actually believe
the virus is a hoax or the threat is overblown, in which case they're just suppressing
conservative voices as usual). We also have a drug war which was escalated in part by Nixon,
whose staff has since admitted that part of the reason for his push to increase drug arrest was
to suppress blacks who had mostly switched to voting Democrat by that point. But while there is
some evidence of racial bias in arrests for drug crimes, where blacks make up a larger
percentage of drug arrests than drug users, there does not seem to be any anti-black bias in
enforcement of violent crimes, where blacks are much more likely to commit rape, assault, and
robbery according to victimization studies and crime reports, and the racial breakdown of
people accused of violent crime is much closer to the racial breakdown of people arrested for
violent crime than it is for drug crimes. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey
from the Bureau of Justice, blacks are more than twice as likely to be offenders of violent
crime as to be victims, bigger than the difference between men and women, while whites and
Asians are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent crime.
[6] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rhovo1215.pdf table 12
Whites commit about 2.3 times as many total violent crimes as blacks (while making up about
5 times as much of the population) according to the NCVS, and according to the FBI's Uniform
Crime Report, 2.5 times as many whites as blacks are arrested for violent crimes
[7] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-t...ble-43 , so whites seem more
likely to be arrested than blacks after adjusting for their crime rate (though this may be
affected by differences in racial classification between the two and may vary by specific
crime; the NCVS hasn't provided a racial breakdown for specific crimes since 2006).
There's also evidence that police are equally if not more likely to use excessive and deadly
force against white suspects than black suspects according to a study by a black Harvard
professor.
[8] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/11/no-...-prof/ So the claims of systemic
bias by police against black Americans seem largely exaggerated, and if blacks are targeted
more by police, it probably has more to do with the fact that police are called on to deal with
black suspects far more often than to protect black victims.
But simply pointing out how wrong the left's assessment of both the black community's
problems and their proposed solutions to those problems is isn't – and shouldn't be
– enough. The rioting the left continually provokes black Americans into will likely
worsen every election year until a real solution to the black community's problems of poverty
and crime can be found. If the Trump right wants to win over a sizable number of black votes,
or if the far right wants to avoid being trolled into a costly race war by globalist elites who
want to destabilize our country and instead turn all races against the rootless elites who have
been playing us all for fools, we will have to offer the black community a real solution to
their plight, a lasting and long term solution that gives them the opportunity to rise above
their current problems.
The first step is to acknowledge that the differences in outcomes between white and black
Americans have less to do with systemic factors that affect blacks and whites differently and
more to do with cultural and genetic differences that cause whites and blacks to behave
differently. There are significant genetic differences between different races. About 5% of the
genes that differ between humans are exclusive to particular geographically bounded hereditary
groups
[9] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/us/gene-study-ide...y.html – what most of us
would refer to as races, but what university academics must be careful to differentiate from
race with technical mumbo jumbo in order to not have their research defunded by the
socialist/progressive/social justice left.
Even if social conceptions and divisions of race from 50+ years ago were not based in
genetics, we can divide people into clear genetic hereditary groups that correspond closely
enough to the racial groups most people are familiar with – Europeans/Caucasians,
Sub-Saharan Africans, East Asians, South Asians/North Africans, and Native Americans have
similarities within their groups and differences from other groups that make them distinct
groups that can be identified by their genes.
In addition to the portion of our genome that's exclusive to particular racial hereditary
groups, there are millions of genes that are more common in certain racial and ethnic groups
than others. For example, the MAOA gene affects the development of neurotransmitters in your
brain, and one particular variant/allele of that gene (known as the two repeat allele) makes
you more prone to impulsive and violent behavior.
[10] https://pastebin.com/w5c8ftd4 That allele is recessive and exists on the X chromosome,
meaning a woman must have two copies of the allele while men only need one copy for the gene to
express itself and result in impulsive and violent behavior, making men more likely to display
such behavior than women.
About 5% of black men have that particular allele, as compared to 0.1% of white men. That
gene is not a perfect predictor of violent behavior, but it is a contributing factor to the
significantly higher violent crime rate seen among black men in particular.
Another gene, the ADRA gene, affects empathy and emotional memory. The ADRA2b allele is
associated with a greater ability to remember emotions and what causes them, affecting your
ability to predict other people's emotions and understand how your actions affect others.
[11] https://www.unz.com/pfrost/a-genetic-marker-for-empathy/ That gene appears to be about
5 times as common in Caucasians as in full blooded Africans, but closer to twice as common in
American whites as American blacks, and even more common in certain Asians than in Europeans.
The ADRA2b allele may partially explain why Asian and European communities seem to be more
cooperative and peaceful on average than African and African American communities.
Just as there are genes that impact our personality traits, there are also genes that impact
intelligence. Over 1000 genes have been identified that impact intelligence. Considering that
intelligence is estimated to be somewhere between 50-80% genetic, and that there have been
significant differences in average IQ between blacks, whites, yellows, reds, browns, and
whatever other racial or ethnic groups don't want to consider themselves part of one of those
categories that have remained fairly stable for decades even as environmental, social, and
economic factors changed significantly, it's likely that most of the difference in average
intelligence between different racial and ethnic hereditary groups is due to genetic
differences. Intelligence has a significant impact on both educational attainment and career
success that likely explains a lot more of the difference in attainment between the average
member of different races than discrimination.
In order to understand the difference in outcomes between different races, we have to
understand the genetic differences that cause them. No one gene completely determines a
person's personality or intelligence – heck, 1000 genes don't completely determine either
of those things, but they do have a strong enough impact on them that they can't be ignored,
particularly when talking about group averages and large scale societal trends such as violent
crime rates and average incomes. People who want to see blacks succeed beyond where they're at
today often reject the genetic argument for our different levels of success because admitting
that the differences between us are genetic makes them seem inherent and unchangeable, making
it unacceptable within their worldview. But the opposite is true – we live in an
evolutionary world where humanity has changed immeasurably just in the past few thousand years
and is continuing to change. Populations are shaped by their environment and evolve to adapt to
their environment very quickly.
How quickly can people adapt? It depends, but one indicator is the fox domestication
experiment that took place in Russia. Russian researchers took a species of fox that had never
been domesticated and selectively bred them to see how many generations it would take to
domesticate them. The first generation behaved largely hostile to the researchers, often
reacting with fear and anger and attempting to attack their handlers even when being fed. But
some of the foxes were more hostile than others, and some were more passive and showed
occasional signs of friendliness. The ones who showed more friendliness and less hostility were
selected to breed more while the ones who showed the most hostility to their handlers were not
allowed to breed. It took 6 generations for the first fox who behaved like a mostly
domesticated animal – showing affection to humans, only attacking their handlers when
provoked, making noise and movements to attempt to communicate with their handlers – was
born. Within 10 generations about 18% behaved like domesticated animals. At 20 generations,
over a third did, and by 30 generations about three fourths did.
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Trut Today, after over 40 generations, nearly
all of the foxes born behave like fully domesticated animals.
If 40 generations is at least enough time to cause as major a change as going from a wild,
hostile animal to a friendly domesticated animal, something which involves a significant
population wide shift in a large number of genes affecting personality, it's likely that 40
generations would be more than enough time to close the gap between blacks and whites –
assuming the right kind of selective pressure. 40 generations in humans is about 1000 years,
which may seem like a long time, but significant shifts in behavior would be seen within just a
few generations. American blacks have already been adapting to white society for centuries, and
it's likely the harsh selective pressure of the slavery and Jim Crow eras, as well as the
mixing of some European DNA into most American blacks during that time, helped accelerate the
process and explains why American blacks are doing so much better than blacks in Africa and
places like Haiti where they did not intermix and did not face the same levels of selective
pressure from whites. And if the differences between blacks and whites are not as big as the
differences between domesticated and wild animals, then we can expect it to take less time to
catch black Americans up to white Americans – provided they face harsher selective
pressure to remove the worst members of their population from their gene pool and encourage the
best to breed more.
No serious evolutionary biologist believes selective pressure would not work to cause
significant changes in a population. Of course the tens of thousands of years of evolutionary
separation between different racial hereditary groups living in different environments,
particularly after the development of organized civilizations which came with their own forms
of selective pressure, caused us to develop different traits, and of course we are continuing
to evolve and adapt to our ever changing environment. Noted evolutionary biologist Richard
Dawkins has even stated that eugenics obviously would work, and that any objections to it (of
which he has many) must be made on ethical grounds because the scientific evidence solidly
supports the idea that you can change the traits of a human population over time through
selective pressure, just as you can for any other species.
[13] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/17/ric...eugen/ So the question for the
black population, once they've accepted the scientific evidence that they are more prone to
violent crime and less capable of attaining economic success due to genetic differences, is not
whether or not they can change this fact – of course they can. The question is whether or
not they should, and if so, how they should and what the selective pressure needed to cause the
changes they want to make to their people should look like. Is it more unethical for blacks to
selectively remove the most aggressive, impulsive, unteachable, and crime prone members of
their community to improve the community as a whole, or to continue to be mired in poverty and
crime, unable to rise above their current station in life, to remain the butt of every racist
joke for generations to come?
Even if blacks choose not to use eugenic selection to improve as a people, there are many
ways biological realism can help them. Even if you reject the idea that race is genetic and not
just skin color, skin color matters more than people like to admit. Darker skin makes it harder
to produce enough vitamin D from sunlight, so black people need to live in areas with more
sunlight (closer to the equator) to get an adequate amount of vitamin D, and may be healthier
working outdoors rather than adopting the indoor office work lifestyle of lighter skinned
whites and east Asians who need less sunlight to be healthy.
This may help to explain why northern cities that never had Jim Crow laws and outlawed
slavery far earlier often have even higher violent crime rates among the black population than
southern cities where historical oppression supposedly affected blacks there more. Perhaps
blacks in northern cities like Detroit, Chicago, and New York would be better off moving south
to sunnier climates where they can be healthier, and perhaps whites in the deep south –
particularly Florida, the sunniest state in the country and the one state where there seems to
be an abundance of crazy white people – should move further north to climates where they
don't get too much sun.
Environment can affect people in a lot of ways, both the natural environment and the social,
political, and economic environment, but often those effects are the exact opposite of what the
left likes to claim. Take gun control, for example. White leftists claim greater availability
of guns increases violent crime. The exact opposite seems to be true. Blacks and Hispanics have
about half as high a gun ownership rate as whites, and yet commit far higher rates of violent
crime.
[16] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/the...holds/ Blacks are also much
more likely to be arrested for gun control and weapons law violations according to FBI arrest
rate stats, making up about 43% of those arrested but only about 6% of gun owners, one of the
few areas of crime (along with drug laws, another victimless crime) where blacks actually are
disproportionately far more likely to get arrested relative to whites after adjusting for
differences in behavior between blacks and whites, and in this case it's because of the
policies of Democrat politicians that blacks overwhelmingly vote for.
Part of the reason why violent crime is higher in black and brown communities than in white
communities is likely that in white communities where gun ownership rates are high, violent
crime is much more likely to result in the criminal's death. This creates an environment where
criminals (and therefore people who are more crime-prone) are regularly removed from the gene
pool, resulting in much lower crime rates in the long run, while in black and brown
neighborhoods criminals are much more likely to survive and benefit from their criminality,
resulting in the genes that make them crime prone being more likely to be passed on. Modern gun
control may only have been around for a few generations, long enough to make small changes in
the frequency of genes that contribute to criminality but not long enough to explain the full
difference. Historically, whites have practiced selective removal of criminals for large
portions of their history – the Romans used crucifixion for hundreds of years to remove
criminals and anti-social types from the European gene pool, and hangings and public executions
of criminals were common for much of later European history, long enough to have a significant
impact on their gene pool, while the African populations American blacks are descended from
typically did not have organized or codified legal systems that sought to remove bad actors
from their populations until after contact with Eurasian peoples. If blacks want to catch up in
removing criminals from their communities but don't want to use direct eugenics to remove
people with specific genes from their gene pool, perhaps rolling back gun control and
encouraging the more responsible members of their community to own and learn to use guns so
they can defend their communities from the criminals who prey on them would be a good step in
that direction, though whites (particularly white urban leftists) who live near their
communities will be understandably wary of the most violent people in America wanting higher
rates of gun ownership, even if they will go to great lengths to hide that fact and conceal
their racism by arguing for gun control on other grounds.
If black Americans want to improve their situation, they will need to change their strategy,
both culturally and politically. Welfare programs enable the least capable among them to
survive at the expense of the most capable, preventing them from evolving to be more capable,
and eliminates the need for stable families. Gun control enables the survival of criminals at
the expense of the innocent. Many of the policies blacks are tricked into voting for by white
leftists are terrible for their community; even the most virulent racists who want to lynch
black criminals would be better for their community than white leftists who want to make
criminality thrive in the black community, and the meritocratic portion of the conservative
movement and Republican Party that prides itself on valuing individual ability over group
identifiers would likely do far more good for the black community than the progressive movement
and Democratic Party that have tricked blacks into destroying their own families and
communities for decades. Simply leaving the Democrat plantation for the Trump Republicans will
be enough to get the black community started on the path towards a better future. But it may
not be enough in the long run. Blacks do have some genetic strength, such as higher rates of
genes like the 577R allele of the ACTN3 gene that makes your muscle fibers more powerful and
makes those who have it capable of running faster, and they seem to have plenty of musical
talent if their history of inspiring jazz, rock, rap, and other new genres of music is any
indication. Preserving those strengths as they try to remove their weaknesses may not be easy,
and in the case of their strength and speed it may not even be necessary as we head towards a
more automated and tech-centric future where intellect will likely matter even more and
physical ability even less than they do now in our modern era where intellectual work generally
pays far more than physical work. Blacks will need to do some soul searching as a community to
determine what direction their people need to head in to survive and thrive in the future and
how best to get there.
A sports and game metaphor written by someone who is totally unaware of the history of gaming
and sports in the US.
"When refs make a call against them, they start a fight instead of accepting the call and
playing better to overcome the setback. "
You have got to kidding. Any attempt to pin bad sportsmanship on blacks is just scatter
gunned with whites having apoplectic fits not only over the rules, but why=o makes the rules,
why are there rules . . .
The founders had a life essentially paid for by the British people. Thy free press, free
speech, trial by jury, common law, capital markets, a stable currency, basically unfettered
access to the world's oceans, representative government here an abroad -- though the one
complaint that made some sense was having representation in Great Britain proper.
Th British people secured paid for protection of the colonies, provided cheaper goods than
foreign providers, even permitted the colonies slaves . . .
n yet the founders were constantly whining about not being free. They got wealthy off of
Great Britain's protection, but they complained about taxes and having to food to the
military that served their interests . . . in fact they complained about everything. They
even complained that Parliament wanted the treaties with the native Americans respected,
Danial Boone and company weren't having it.
trying to make a case of poor sportsmanship in light of who we are as a people and a
nations -- -
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- –
Perfect example of the kind on nonsense is the above statement.
"If 40 generations is at least enough time to cause as major a change as going from a
wild, hostile animal to a friendly domesticated animal, something which involves a
significant population wide shift in a large number of genes affecting personality, it's
likely that 40 generations would be more than enough time to close the gap between blacks and
whites – assuming the right kind of selective pressure."
That's 40 generations denied access to the same tools and even the rules muchless the
playing field. You make that astounding above observation in the same article you grant out
"Jim Crow"
Laughing . . . Jim crow is the founders making up rules that benefit them -- getting as
much s they could minus the need to compete with several millions. Laugh. But by all means
let's not talk about bending the rules.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Black were not tricked into anything. Generally they were by and large rejected by the
party with whom they share the most in common regarding ideology and as result, sided with
the party who would at least consider their issues. There was no trick. If there was it was
the belief that the party of Lincoln would best represent them as equal citizens and if not
equals at least would not support policies and processes that undermined their hard work and
value.
uhhh no Mr. glen Beck, the blacks who made it though the gate of white acceptance probably
didn't spend their time addressing issues of color by way of complaint -- those issue were
front and center and they set about dealing with them as they were -- as well as the business
at hand. In fact a look at the record is that whites were obsessed with issues of color.
no mixing laws
no walking in the side walk laws
no shopping without permission laws
no being out a lone laws
no venturing into the wrong neighborhood laws
no talking back laws
only certain type of employment laws
no using the pool laws
no promotions over white people laws
no going to school going to school with whites laws
no going to school period
. . .
and of course no sending in the police when called by blacks laws (though largely
unwritten)
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
List for me the number of alleles associated with any cognitive aspect of of our biology
and explain how they operate. Further note the distinct differences between said structures
as they are among the varying people on the planet.
Laughing; it's a strange twist to read about changing the game via some manner of
biological manipulation, though the author has absolutely no idea what aspect of biology to
change to acquire x behavior. But why should that stop him from his unmoored
rationalizations.
"American blacks are descended from typically did not have organized or codified legal
systems that sought to remove bad actors from their populations until after contact with
Eurasian peoples. "
Utter and compete nonsense. The african civilizations are myriad and those that retained a
verbal orals history operated in some of the complex social high context systems that ever
existed. I have a a few more responses, but you are out in left field in ball park that is
playing a game that is made from whole cloth cotton seed. what you mean o say is that the mot
of the african civiliations we are aware on did not have a written system, that we are are
aware if. That is some thing miles a light years different than they did have one. . No the
oral traditions are chocker block loaded with codes and rules of social order -- ij fact high
context societies, such as existed in the continent have a system o social order that
deferred to the benefit of the group. Which in many respects made them ideal slaves and why
whites were not inclined to invite them to read about the society in the west with its
individual demands, because it would have made slavery even more a problem from the tensions
surrounding the society in which they were enslaved -- speaking of playing by the rules
--
we believe all men are born as to equal standing -- the country setting up the rules and
then . . .
"but don't tell the slaves that . . . " Laughing
There's not enough wool here to fill a small zip lock bag muchless be pulled over one's
eye's.
Now let's compare your metaphor to what happens when whites aren't bending the rules and
crying foul and having a temper tantrum every time a black moves in net door or taking the
ball and running away.
Dominant players in track and field.
Dominant players in Basketball
Dominant players in baseball
Dominant players in Football
Wait a minute that's all genetics in your mind. Laugh. The point is that when allowed to
play and play by the same rules – blacks do fairly well and much much more.
But I am going to skip rope back to early US history and see blacks how blacks operated
when the gate keepers of by sheer force of will , chance and the grace of God blacks did get
into the system.
And let's start with Mr. Beck's gambit that backfired to his intentions.
It is interesting that if some blacks embrace socialism, they would reject private property,
because all property is theoretically owned by the state under that system.
And the necessary implication is that under that system the individual is owned by the
state. In reality, people own themselves. A person's body is their property. Their eyes,
their hair. The fruits of their labor, their tools, their property are their property.
So if some blacks accept socialism, they must necessarily accept slavery. They are then
slaves to the state. Ironic. In this age of nonsense and deception, freedom is slavery.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was
smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or
quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213 th Amendments
to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper
General.
Some things about living still weren't quite right, though. April for instance, still drove
people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took
George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen- year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had
a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short
bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap
radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government
transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to
keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel's cheeks, but she'd
forgotten for the moment what they were about.
The BLM-Antifa Marxist revolution under the cover of ending "systemic racism" is controlled
by the ruling elite through foundations, progressive think tanks, wealthy liberals - and
corporate CEOs you'd think know better.
Success depends on the help of opportunistic Democrat politicians who believe raising a
clenched fist and parroting BLM will get them elected or re-elected, thus perpetuating a system
of crony capitalism and endless war behind a kinder and gentler Democrat facade that is now
falling away.
If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a
method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men
promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the
perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not
a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.
The ruling elite, the financial class that has profited so mightily from riots and violence,
will not allow Marxists and black hoodie nihilists to spawn a violent revolution.
Chocura750 , 4 minutes ago
I doubt very much that there is any significant ideological thinking in 99% of the BLM
protestors. Imagine for a minute that George Floyd wasn't murdered, do you think that the BLM
organizers could get 100 people to protest capitalism and rally for socialism.
ProsperD9 , 9 minutes ago
Looks like BLM is about to get canceled. They committed the biggest cardinal sin that can
ever be committed on this earth. They can shoot all white babies, they can take over a
nursing home and strangle all the old white people, they can paint the white house
black...but one thing they CANNOT do... .drum roll please ...criticize IsraHell. Looks like
they've done the deed and about to be canceled. Read about it
BLACK LIVES MATTER 'CANCELED' AFTER CRITICIZING ISRAHELL.
HenryJonesJr , 20 minutes ago
More doom **** .... This kind of hyper-ventilating nonsense might sell well in highly
urbanized, totally dependent regions of America, meaning cities. But the majority of
Americans - white, black and brown - despise the idiotic Left and all their violence and
insanity.
"... "I'ma stab you, and while you're struggling and bleeding out, I'ma show you my paper cut and say, 'My cut matters too,'" she declared in the TikTok clip. ..."
"... Holding back tears, Janover said she'd "worked really hard" to receive a position at the company, and complained that her contract had been terminated even though Deloitte claims to "stand against systemic racism." ..."
A Harvard graduate has reportedly lost her job after posting a now-viral TikTok video in
which she vowed to assault anyone who didn't support the Black Lives Matter (BLM)
movement.
...
Claira Janover became an overnight sensation after several news outlets caught wind
of a video in which she threatened to attack anyone "entitled" enough to believe
that "all lives matter."
"I'ma stab you, and while you're struggling and bleeding out, I'ma show you my paper
cut and say, 'My cut matters too,'" she declared in the TikTok clip.
...Holding back tears, Janover said she'd "worked really hard" to receive a
position at the company, and complained that her contract had been terminated even though
Deloitte claims to "stand against systemic racism."
..."File under Schadenfreude or Karma," noted conservative firebrand
Michelle Malkin.
...Janover's firing is unusual as it marks a rare case of 'reverse' cancel culture.
Social-justice activists have typically been the ones using social media to attack anyone who
is suspected of holding politically incorrect views.
If there's any doubt as to BLM being A DNC pac, this email was sent to me by ActionNetwork.org today.
For weeks, we have watched the result of our rallying cries, organizing, and activism
materialize across the entire country. And as so many join this movement, it's important
that everyone has the resources they need to keep fighting.
Earlier this month, Black Lives Matter Global Network sent out a membership survey --
and the feedback has truly shown the widespread dedication to our movement. The fight for
Black liberation and an end to white supremacy is just getting started. Together, we will
continue to push for progressive, radical solutions that affirm that Black lives
matter.
So many new freedom fighters have joined this movement. Right now, people everywhere are
asking how to be better advocates for Black liberation and how to have conversations with
friends and family regarding ending white supremacy in America. Many simply just want to
know how to help.
And an overwhelming majority want to learn more about #DefundPolice. The Black Lives
Matter creative team is working on a series of resources, including videos, that break down
how we divest from the police and invest in Black lives.
Check out this graphic that walks through the steps of divesting and investing, and then
share on social media platforms so we can show the world what defunding the police actually
looks like.
#Here's how we #DefundThePolice
This graphic breaks down HOW we divest from policing and the steps that come after
that.
Remember, divestment leads to investment. Once we defund the police, we can make
structural change in our communities across the country through initiatives like hiring
more teachers and counselors, implementing restorative and mental health services, and
more.
Will you take a minute to share this graphic to show people how defunding our police can
make our communities safer?
The fight continues to defund the police, and the fight will continue long after
that.
@botazefa work sent out a membership survey -- and the feedback has truly shown the
widespread dedication to our movement. The fight for Black liberation and an end to white
supremacy is just getting started. Together, we will continue to push for progressive,
radical solutions that affirm that Black lives matter.
So many new freedom fighters have joined this movement. Right now, people everywhere are
asking how to be better advocates for Black liberation and how to have conversations with
friends and family regarding ending white supremacy in America. Many simply just want to know
how to help.
If there was any doubt that BLM sees their movement as race war, this should erase said
doubt
Every life unjustly killed deserves justice. In the cause to make things right, I will not
join a movement that has nearly everything wrong. More innocent lives have now been killed
(including cops) since these predominantly violent protests began over George Floyd's horrific
death. What about the black lives
killed in this nationwide chaos? Do they matter?
"Well, you don't have to agree with everything. Just pick out the good things in the
#BlackLivesMatter movement," I'm told. Really? Let's apply that same logic to another example.
I've been repeatedly approached to partner with New Black Panthers in anti-abortion billboard
campaigns. We agree on the violent injustice of abortion, and that's it. Our worldviews are
diametrically opposed. But, but, but they believe unborn lives matter ! That
doesn't matter. Their mission is not my mission. I cover all of this in-depth in my new
podcast, Life Has Purpose .
Yes, #BlackLivesMatter. But Truth matters. As a Christian, the Church should be leading on
these issues instead of sheepishly following a deceptive movement hostile to the Gospel.
The original BLM founders, the #BlackLivesMatter Foundation (BLMF), created it to
radically shift culture. The far-left Ford Foundation, the world's largest population control
organization, vowed in 2016 to raise
$100 million for the Movement for
Black Lives (MFBL) -- a nationwide coalition of BLM groups (including BLMF). MFBL released
a shocking manifesto of policy
positions that are deeply political and deeply disturbing.
Drawing mostly from those positions, here are the top 10 reasons why I will never
support the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
The premise isn't true. I hate racism. And I hate when it's used as a political weapon.
According to the FBI's latest
homicide statistics, I'm 11 times more likely to be killed by someone of my own
brown complexion than a white person. Also, a comprehensive 2019 study concluded: "White officers are not
more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers." Every loss of life is tragic,
but Washington Post's database
on police-involved deaths puts things into further context. In 2020, among those killed were
(all males): 2 Native Americans, 9 Asians, 46 Hispanics, 76 blacks, 149 unlabeled individuals
and 149 whites (whose deaths don't get reported by national mainstream media). Only nine
black individuals were actually unarmed .
There is no goal of forgiveness or reconciliation. None. It's never mentioned on their
sites. You can't talk about the sins of the past and expect to move forward if there is no
intention of forgiveness. I'm tired of the deeply prejudiced oppressed/oppressor critical race
theory paradigm. It's not Gospel-centered. This should, immediately, be a deal-breaker for
Christians.
It's all about Black Power. It's plastered all over the MFBL website. BLMF founders explain their "herstory": "It became
clear that we needed to continue organizing and building Black power across the country." I
don't promote a colorblind society; I love all of our diverse hues of skin. But I'm so much
more than my pigmentation. Martin Luther King promoted " God's power and human power. " I'm with
him.
They completely ignore fatherhood. From BLMF : "We disrupt the
Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended
families and 'villages' that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the
degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable. " Well, every "village" that
has fatherless families is a village that suffers higher crime rates, higher drug usage, higher
abortion rates, higher drop-out rates, higher poverty rates, and so much more. #DadsMatter.
They demand reparations. Ok. Sooooo, I guess the white half of me will have to pay the black
half of me? If progressives want to push reparations, start with the Party of Slavery and Jim
Crow -- the Democrat Party! Let them ante up. But the #BlackLivesMatter movement bizarrely
demands :
"Reparations for full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and
currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education retroactive forgiveness of
student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs." Uhhh, good luck with that.
They want to abolish prisons and police forces. And cue utter chaos. MFBL asserts : "We believe that prisons, police and all
other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished..."Defund and remove the police have been rallying cries. That would be anarchy in
any community. I advocate some needed police reforms and better community/police
relations, but this is just foolishness.
They are anti-capitalism. Oh the irony of this declaration made by a movement that is the result of
capitalism: "We are anti-capitalist. We believe and understand that Black people will never
achieve liberation under the current global racialized capitalist system." The videos that
make us aware of police brutality are captured on phones that are a result of capitalism. The
best way to elevate people out of material poverty? Capitalism. This system is why the United
States is the most
charitable nation.
Colin Kaepernick supports it. A " biracial" adoptee , Kaepernick is now
obsessed with his "blackness." He idolizes the late murderous Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and
worships Malcolm X (just see his social media feeds). Malcolm X was anti-integration,
pro-violence and a member of the virulently racist Nation of Islam (who forced him out).
Kaepernick makes millions from Nike -- a company whose entireExecutive Leadership Team is white (isn't
this white supremacy???) -- that makes its shoes in the most murderous regime in the
world. Kaepernick, of course, is completely silent on that. But you know,
#SocialJusticeWarrior.
Apparently, not all black lives matter. Pro-abortion BLMF declared : "We deserve and thus
we demand reproductive justice [aka abortion] that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our
identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to
thrive." Aborted children don't thrive. BLM groups announced
"solidarity" with "reproductive justice" groups back in February 2015. You cannot
simultaneously fight violence while celebrating it.
"... This is a red herring, designed to divert one's eye from the real financial inequality (in all nations) and place it solely on race. No racial inequality in wealth between any X and Y households among the 99% comes anywhere near the wealth inequality between the 1% and the 99%. ..."
It's not surprising that the Black Lives Matter protests took place at the same time as the
lockdowns. The looting, rioting and desecration of statues provided the perfect one-two punch
for those who see some tactical advantage in intensifying public anxiety by exacerbating racial
tensions and splitting the country into two warring camps. Divide and conquer remains the modus
operandi of imperialists everywhere. That same rule applies here. Here's more background from
an article at the Off-Guardian:
"It is no coincidence that another Soros funded activism group Black Lives Matter has
diverted the spotlight away from the lockdown's broader impact on the fundamental human
rights of billions of people, using the reliable methods of divide and rule, to highlight the
plight of specific strata's of society, and not all.
It's worth pointing out that BLM's activity spikes every four years . Always prior to the
elections in the US, as African Americans make up an important social segment of Democrat
votes. The same Democrats who play both sides like any smart gambler would. The Clintons, for
example, are investors into BLM"s partner, the anti-fascist ANTIFA. While Hilary Clinton's
mentor (and best friend) was former KKK leader Robert Byrd.
BLM is a massively hyped, TV-made, politicized event, that panders to the populist and
escapist appetite of the people. Blinding them from their true call to arms in defense of the
universal rights of everyone . Cashing in on the youths pent-up aggression . And weaponising
the tiger locked in a rattled cage for 3-months, and unleashed by puppet masters as the
mob
As a general rule of thumb, it is safe to assume that if a social movement has the backing
of big industry, big philanthropy or big politics, then its ideals run contrary to citizen
empowerment." (" The Co-opting
of Activism by the State ", Off-Guardian)
Black Lives Matter protests provide another significant diversion from the massive
destruction of the US economy. This basic plan has been used effectively many times in the
past, most notably in the year following the invasion of Iraq. Some readers will remember how
Iraqis militants fought US occupation forces following the invasion in 2003. The escalating
violence and rising death-toll created a public relations nightmare for the Bush team that
finally settled on a plan for crushing the resistance by arming and training Shia death squads.
But the Bushies wanted to confuse the public about what they were really up to, so they
concocted a narrative about a "sectarian war" that was intended to divert attention from the
attacks on American soldiers.
In order to make the narrative more believable, US intel agents devised a plan to blow up
the Shia's most sacred religious site, the Golden Dome Mosque of Samarra, and blame it on Sunni
extremists. The incident was then used to convince the American people that what was taking
place in Iraq was not a war over foreign occupation, but a bitter sectarian conflict between
Sunnis and Shia in which the US was just an impartial referee. The killing of George Floyd has
been used in much the same way as the implosion of the mosque. It creates a credible narrative
for a massive and coordinated protests that have less to do with racial injustice than they do
with diverting attention from the destruction of the economy and sowing division among the
American people. This is a classic example of how elites use myth and media to conceal their
trouble-making and escape any accountability for their actions.
Whitney is not wrong in that neoliberal elites use identity politics as a diversion even as
they increase their share of the pie at the expense of everyone else. To distract people, they
incite one group against another through their media outlets.
That said, the extreme racial inequality in wealth between black and white households are
impossible
to ignore . The Federal Reserve of San Francisco released a report a few years ago on
racial wealth inequality in the Los Angeles area which found shocking differences. Even some
Asian groups like Vietnamese or Koreans did badly. Only Asian Indians and Chinese had higher
wealth than whites but those groups are very elite with a large share of recent immigrants.
So, those who are correct in saying idpol are used to incite the masses must nevertheless
grapple with these feudal conditions at the heart of the modern American economy. They will
fuel unrest unless nothing is done and throwing up your hands isn't an option, it's an
admission of intellectual defeat.
,,,The media hyping this one death to high heaven, the instantaneous protests, the statues,
calling Trump "authoritarian" (thats the regime change signal, when they call you
'authoritarian').
Classic CIA coup. It hasnt worked, but it aint over till November.
What we can glean from this incident, is that there is a vast secret state operating
within the government, media and the DNC, that does not accept our system of government, does
not accept the results of elections and will lie, cheat and steal to achieve their nefarious
objectives. That's the lesson of Russiagate that has to be applied to both the lockdowns and
the Black Lives Matter protests. They are just the next phase of the ongoing war on the
American people.
What is that state? Who is that state? Who has that kind of power? Who had the power to pull
off the 9/11 inside job and put America into endless wars in the Mideast?
...And just because the rich are taking advantage of this crisis doesn't mean the crisis
isn't real. To believe that would be to believe a logical fallacy. Talib will set you
straight.
...How many are neocons? How many are liberal internationalists? How many of them toe the
pro-Israel, pro-war, pro-open borders, pro-multi-cult, anti-white, anti-"deplorables",
invade-the-word, invite-the-world line that is a hallmark of international Zionism?
The percentage fluctuates as fortunes and enterprises wax and wane, but about 1/3 of
Billionaires are Jews. Based on where they donate their money and the causes and politicians
they support, overall perhaps 90-95% are neocons/liberal internationalists (functionally
speaking, really the same thing). Those are after all the policies that help them accumulate
vast power and riches.
Yes, feudal conditions created by 30 years of mass migration to the United States, in
numbers unparalleled in World history, by Third World populations. American blacks have
suffered the most from this elite project to destroy the white middle-and-working classes.
Blacks have been given every opportunity to pull themselves up. The money and programs that
have been thrown their way have been unbelievable. Some have taken it; most have not. Not
having kids before you get married is another good piece of advice.
The best thing that could happen to the Blacks would be to strip away their dependency. No
more welfare, no more food stamps, no more getting into universities when you didn't earn it.
Let them grow up, own it. Making them into dependents has crippled them, and they wear their
victimhood well. (And there are lots of Whites in that bucket too.) All the do-gooders in the
world can't help those who don't help themselves.
That said, things are now going to change, and not for the better.
No amount of protest or government policy can change the racial income inequality. As Thomas
Sowell, and Walter Williams among many others have said for years, Blacks have to start by
creating stable families, desire for education and a strong work ethic. I can only imagine what
the future is gonna look like for anyone lacking those things. And I'd imagine that the
Democratic tolerance for these "protests" is going to decrease once they assume federal
power.
This is a red herring, designed to divert one's eye from the real financial inequality
(in all nations) and place it solely on race. No racial inequality in wealth between any X and
Y households among the 99% comes anywhere near the wealth inequality between the 1% and the
99%.
If you aren't already living in the castle or the manor house, you are the serfs. Welcome to
the new world, same as the really old world. That 700 year experiment in increasing prosperity
and freedoms for the masses is a genie they've been trying to put back in the bottle for some
time already.
Blacks are poorer because of lower IQ and poor impulse control. In the US they only
average an IQ of 85 which is a one standard deviation below whites. In Africa, it's closer to
70. They commit more crimes which means they end up in jail more often and on more serious
charges. Either get a clue or shut up.
Everybody knows the challenges Blacks face. You mentioned some. Why do you have to so
angrily throw it in their faces?
Blacks have never presented any collective risk to whites. Not when when whites bought them.
Not when in shackles. Never. They are the punching bag for every uncivilized low/average IQ
piece of white trash who needs someone to blame.
Making a fetish of IQ is just another way of throwing up your hands and saying nothing can
be done. I remember when I worked in a prison I noticed the blacks I saw on average smarter
than the average white. Then I look up their IQs (everyone is tested) and the scores didn't
correspond well with actual intelligence. It occurred to me that if you are illiterate, and
antisocial, it would be almost impossible to accurately gauge intelligence. If your numbers
were right , there would be millions of blacks walking around with 65 IQs, not able to find
their way home much less break into your house.
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Seth Smith, a UC Berkeley student, was shot and
killed the other day in what appears to be a random act of violence. Police are trying to
solve the murder. Smith was a white man. UC's chancellor Carol Christ e-mailed to faculty,
staff, and students a note of condolence that included this paragraph:
We realize this is a difficult time for those of you who knew Seth. It is important to
know that individuals may express their grief differently and we need to respect the
different ways people react and support each other in the days and weeks ahead. Many of you
may have had a close relationship with Seth and are feeling a sense of loss and disbelief.
Others, like many of us, are experiencing stress, grief and anxiety related to the
coronavirus pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black
Americans.
This is sickening. There is nothing that cannot and will not be racialized and
politicized by our ruling class.
They have specific workouts named after dead black people. For example:
MONIKA DIAMOND
Monika Diamond, a 34-year-old Black transgender woman, business owner and LGBT+ activist,
was tragically killed in Charlotte, North Carolina on March 18, 2020. Diamond's death is
believed to be the fourth violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in
2020.
From the Human Rights Campaign: "These victims were killed by acquaintances, partners or
strangers, some of whom have been arrested and charged, while others have yet to be
identified. Some of these cases involve clear anti-transgender bias. In others, the victim's
transgender status may have put them at risk in other ways, such as forcing them into
unemployment, poverty, homelessness and/or survival sex work. Sadly, 2020 has already seen at
least 15 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent
means. We say at least because too often these stories go unreported -- or misreported."
Before the workout, follow @humanrightscampaign and read their article: A National
Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in the United States in 2019
Last week the Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ+ people are protected from employment
discrimination, however there are still few explicit federal legal protections for
transgender or gender-expansive people. After the workout, check out Freedom For All
Americans and follow @freedom4allusa.
The Monika Diamond Memorial Workout is on YouTube or Instagram.
Here is the workout memorializing a dead black trans woman. It includes "double pushup
burpees," because there's really no better way to honor a dead black trans woman than by doing
double pushup burpees. You cannot make this up:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cGvuNdW6PJU
The man arrested for shooting Monika Diamond is Prentice Bess , a black man who knew
Diamond (born Jeremy Whitted). I have searched online and seen no reason to believe that the
murder was a bias crime, much less a racially motivated one, as both alleged killer and victim
are black. But let's not let pass a moment to exploit the dead for social justice purposes.
These stupid workouts are "I love my dead gay son" (from the black
comedy Heathers ) level virtue signaling.
This passage from Live Not By Lies reveals what these totalitarians are up to:
One of contemporary progressivism's commonly used phrases -- the personal is
political -- captures the totalitarian spirit, which seeks to infuse all aspects of life
with political consciousness. Indeed, the Left pushes its ideology ever deeper into the
personal realm, leaving fewer and fewer areas of daily life uncontested. This, warned
[Hannah] Arendt, is a sign that a society is ripening for totalitarianism, because that is
what totalitarianism essentially is: the politicization of everything.
Infusing every aspect of life with ideology was a standard aspect of Soviet
totalitarianism. Early in the Stalin era, N. V. Krylenko, a Soviet commissar (political
officer), steamrolled over chess players who wanted to keep politics out of the game.
"We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess," he said. "We must condemn
once and for all the formula 'chess for the sake of chess,' like the formula 'art for art's
sake.' We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a
Five-Year Plan for chess."
This is not innocent, this stuff. Everything in life must be subject to this ideology.
Everything.
Run by veteran "non-profits careerists" movement is highly suspect
Notable quotes:
"... The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws -- racism, poverty, militarism, and materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced. ..."
"... much of what passes for popular and progressive, grass-roots activism has been co-opted, taken over and/or created by corporate America, the corporate-funded " nonprofit industrial complex ," and Wall Street's good friend, the Democratic Party , long known to leftists as "the graveyard of social movements." This " corporatization of activism " (University of British Columbia professor Peter Dauvergne's term) is ubiquitous across much of what passes for the left in the U.S. today. ..."
"... What about the racialist group Black Lives Matter, recipient of a mammoth $100 million grant from the Ford Foundation last year? Sparked by the racist security guard and police killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Garner, BLM has achieved uncritical support across the progressive spectrum, where it is almost reflexively cited as an example of noble and radical grass-roots activism in the streets. That is a mistake. ..."
"... I first started wondering where BLM stood on the AstroTurf versus grass roots scale when I read an essay published three years ago in The Feminist Wire by Alicia Garza, one of BLM's three black, lesbian and veteran public-interest careerist founders. ..."
"... Why the prickly, hyperidentity-politicized and proprietary attachment to the "lives matter" phrase? Garza seemed more interested in brand value and narrow identity than social justice. Did she want a licensing fee? Wouldn't any serious, leftist, people's activist eagerly give the catchy "lives matter" phrase away to all oppressed people and hope for their wide and inclusive use in a viciously capitalist society that has subjected everything and everyone to the soulless logic of commodity rule, profit and exchange value? Who were these "charismatic Black men many are rallying around" in the fall of 2014? ..."
"... I couldn't help but wonder about the left-progressive credentials of anyone who gets upset that others would want to have a "conversation" (as Garza put it) about how their lives matter too. Is there really something wrong with a marginalized Native American laborer or a white and not-so "skin-privileged" former factory worker struggling with sickness and poverty wanting to hear that his or her life matters? For any remotely serious progressive, was there anything mysterious about the fact that many white folks facing foreclosure, job loss, poverty wages and the like might not be doing cartwheels over the phrase "black lives matter" when they experience the harsh daily reality that their lives don't matter under the profits system? ..."
"... My concerns about BLM's potential service to the capitalist elite were reactivated when I heard a talk by Garza's fellow BLM founder, Patrisse Cullors (another veteran nonprofit careerist). Cullors spoke before hundreds of cheering white liberals and progressives in downtown Iowa City in February. "We are witnessing the erosion of U.S. democracy," she said, adding that Donald Trump "is building a police state." Relating that she had gone into a "two-week depression" after Hillary Clinton was defeated by Trump, Cullors said she wondered if BLM had "done enough to educate people about the differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton." She described Trump as a fascist. ..."
The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. It is
forcing America to face all its interrelated flaws -- racism, poverty, militarism, and
materialism. It is exposing evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society.
It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of
society itself is the real issue to be faced. -- Martin Luther King Jr., 1968
You don't have to be one of those conspiratorial curmudgeons who reduces every sign of popular
protest to "George Soros money" to acknowledge that much of what passes for popular and
progressive, grass-roots activism has been co-opted, taken over and/or created by corporate
America, the corporate-funded "
nonprofit industrial complex ," and Wall Street's good friend, the Democratic Party , long known to
leftists as "the graveyard of social movements." This "
corporatization of activism " (University of British Columbia professor Peter Dauvergne's
term) is ubiquitous across much of what passes for the left in the U.S. today.
What about the racialist group Black Lives Matter, recipient of a mammoth $100 million
grant from the Ford Foundation last year? Sparked by the racist security guard and police
killings of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Eric Garner, BLM has achieved uncritical support
across the progressive spectrum, where it is almost reflexively cited as an example of noble and
radical grass-roots activism in the streets. That is a mistake.
I first started wondering where BLM stood on the AstroTurf versus grass roots scale when I
read an essay published three years ago in The Feminist Wire by Alicia
Garza, one of BLM's three black, lesbian and veteran public-interest careerist founders. In
her "Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement," Garza wrote:
"Black lives. Not just all lives. Black lives. Please do not change the conversation by
talking about how your life matters, too. It does, but we need less watered down unity and a
more active solidarities with us, Black people, unwaveringly, in defense of our humanity. Our
collective futures depend on it."
Denouncing "hetero-patriarchy," Garza described the adaptation of her clever online
catchphrase ("black lives matter") by others -- "brown lives matter, migrant lives matter,
women's lives matter, and on and on" (Garza's dismissive words) -- as "the Theft of Black Queer
Women's Work."
"Perhaps," she added, "if we were the charismatic Black men many are rallying around these
days, it would have been a different story."
From a leftist perspective, this struck me as alarming. Why the prickly,
hyperidentity-politicized and proprietary attachment to the "lives matter" phrase? Garza seemed
more interested in brand value and narrow identity than social justice. Did she want a licensing
fee? Wouldn't any serious, leftist, people's activist eagerly give the catchy "lives matter"
phrase away to all oppressed people and hope for their wide and inclusive use in a viciously
capitalist society that has subjected everything and everyone to the soulless logic of commodity
rule, profit and exchange value? Who were these "charismatic Black men many are rallying around"
in the fall of 2014?
And how representative were Garza's slaps at "hetero-patriarchy" and "charismatic Black men"
of the black community in whose name she spoke? Would it be too hetero-patriarchal of me, I
wondered, to suggest that maybe a black male or two with experience of oppression in the nation's
racist criminal justice system ought to share some space front and center in a movement focused
especially on a police and prison state that targets black boys and men above all?
I defended the phrase "black lives matter" against the absurd charge that it is racist, but
I couldn't help but wonder about the left-progressive credentials of anyone who gets upset
that others would want to have a "conversation" (as Garza put it) about how their lives matter
too. Is there really something wrong with a marginalized Native American laborer or a white and
not-so "skin-privileged" former factory worker struggling with sickness and poverty wanting to
hear that his or her life matters? For any remotely serious progressive, was there anything
mysterious about the fact that many white folks facing foreclosure, job loss, poverty wages and
the like might not be doing cartwheels over the phrase "black lives matter" when they experience
the harsh daily reality that their lives don't matter under the profits system?
My concerns about BLM's potential service to the capitalist elite were reactivated when I
heard a talk by Garza's fellow BLM founder, Patrisse Cullors (another veteran nonprofit
careerist). Cullors spoke before hundreds of cheering white liberals and progressives in downtown
Iowa City in February. "We are witnessing the erosion of U.S. democracy," she said, adding that
Donald Trump "is building a police state." Relating that she had gone into a "two-week
depression" after Hillary Clinton was defeated by Trump, Cullors said she wondered if BLM had
"done enough to educate people about the differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton."
She described Trump as a fascist.
Muhammad Ali's only biological son says his father would have despised the "racist" Black Lives Matter movement and endorsed all
races, never singling "anyone out." ''My father would have said, 'They ain't nothing but devils.' My father said, 'all lives matter,'"
Muhammad Ali Jr. told the New York Post.
The 47-year-old son of the legendary boxer, who is often noted as a cultural trailblazer for black Americans, did not stop at
connecting his father to the "all lives matter" position. He also said Ali would have supported President Donald Trump --
the late athlete endorsed both Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan when they were running for the presidency.
Ali Jr. himself blasted the Black Lives Matter movement as "racist."
"It's not just black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody's life matters. God
loves everyone -- he never singled anyone out. Killing is wrong no matter who it is," he said.
Ali Jr. also pushed back against anti-police sentiments and defended officers against accusations of systematic racism.
"Police don't wake up and think, 'I'm going to kill a n****r today or kill a white man,'" he said. "They're just trying
to make it back home to their family in one piece."
He did acknowledge, however, that Derek Chauvin, the former officer now infamous for video showing him with his knee on the late
George Floyd's neck while he said he couldn't breathe, was "wrong" and corrupt cops should be "locked up."
Ali Jr., who lives in Florida, also singled out Antifa, the group recently recognized by Trump as a terrorist organization.
"They're no different from Muslim terrorists. They should all get what they deserve. They're f**king up businesses, beating
up innocent people in the neighborhood, smashing up police stations and shops. They're terrorists – they're terrorizing the community.
I agree with the peaceful protests, but Antifa, they need to kill everyone in that thing," he said.
Some conservatives have embraced Ali Jr.'s rebuttal of BLM and celebrated his blunt words on social media.
You want to talk about a well-thought-out and spot-on rebuttal to Black Lives Matter?.... Check this out from Muhammad Ali
Jr. -- so many people are WAKING UP 👊🏿 https://t.co/w9XgSnMGtT
-- ✭ Wayne Dupree ✭ (@WayneDupreeShow)
June 20, 2020
The official Muhammad Ali Twitter account, run by his estate, has shown support for the Black Lives Matter movement and posted
generally supportive messages from some of the boxer's other children.
Demonstrations across the nation over the death of George Floyd have continued devolving into chaos in recent days with protesters
pulling down numerous historical monuments, vandalizing property, and turning to violence in places like the activist-run Capitol
Hill Autonomous Zone, also called CHAZ, in Seattle.
"... In the memo, Barr identified members of the right-wing "Boogaloo" movement and the anti-fascist movement known as Antifa as the top targets of the task force. ..."
"... The task force's mission will be to develop information about "extremist individuals, networks, and movements," share data with local authorities and provide training to local prosecutors on how to wage cases against anti-government extremists. ..."
"... people associated with Antifa. ..."
"... "There are some groups that don't have a particular ideology, other than anarchy. There are some groups that want to bring about a civil war -- the Boogaloo group has been on the margin of this as well," he said earlier this month , adding that the Justice Department would find "constructive solutions." ..."
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1289 Comments Attorney General William Barr on Friday directed the Justice
Department to form a task force dedicated to combating "anti-government extremists," according
to a memo obtained by
The Washington Post , raising the stakes in the government's response to nationwide
protests.
Barr argued in the memo that anti-government agitators had infiltrated peaceful
demonstrations against police brutality and systemic racism and "engaged in indefensible acts
of violence designed to undermine public order."
"Among other lawless conduct, these extremists have violently attacked police officers and
other government officials, destroyed public and private property, and threatened innocent
people," Barr wrote. "Although these extremists profess a variety of ideologies, they are
united in their opposition to the core constitutional values of a democratic society governed
by law. ... Some pretend to profess a message of freedom and progress, but they are in fact
forces of anarchy, destruction and coercion."
In the memo, Barr identified members of the right-wing "Boogaloo" movement and the
anti-fascist movement known as Antifa as the top targets of the task force.
Craig Carpenito, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, and Erin Nealy Cox, the U.S. attorney for
the Northern District of Texas, will head the task force, which will also include
representatives from the FBI and other prosecutors' offices.
The task force's mission will be to develop information about "extremist individuals,
networks, and movements," share data with local authorities and provide training to local
prosecutors on how to wage cases against anti-government extremists.
"The ultimate goal of the task force will be not only to enable prosecutions of extremists
who engage in violence, but to understand these groups well enough that we can stop such
violence before it occurs and ultimately eliminate it as a threat to public safety and the rule
of law," Barr wrote.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill
regarding the memo.
Barr said in
an interview with NPR on Thursday that the Department of Justice has launched
"approximately 300 investigations" nationwide, including into some people associated with
Antifa.
Barr has sought to take a tough posture on anti-government groups since some early protests
over George Floyd's death in Minneapolis turned violent.
"There are some groups that don't have a particular ideology, other than anarchy. There are
some groups that want to bring about a civil war -- the Boogaloo group has been on the margin
of this as well," he
said earlier this month , adding that the Justice Department would find "constructive
solutions."
BLM are not Marxists. they are Maoists and toppling statues is a natural thing for them, much like it was for "Red Guards" during
China "cultural revolution"
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"... The Last Supper ..."
"... "No one would seriously argue that the Pieta or the Last Supper should be torn down or painted over," ..."
"... "Shaun King is just being ridiculous and provocative, and writing an article about his mad claims is just legitimising them," ..."
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A leading activist's remarks that all "statues, murals, and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother" represent
"gross white supremacy" shows that radical, racialised politics has no limit to its targets.
The problematic statues row has now taken a turn from political iconoclasm to literal iconoclasm with depictions of "white Jesus"
next on the hit list for some of Black Lives Matter's more hardcore proponents.
Activist Shaun King has called for all the statues,
murals, stained glass windows and paintings depicting the Messiah as having European features to come down because they are a
"gross form of White Supremacy."
To illustrate his point, King makes the perceptive observation that when Jesus, Mary and Joseph
went into hiding while Herod engaged in a spot of infanticide in 1 AD Judea, the family hid in Egypt, not Denmark, so they would
"
blend in.
"
This is exactly the sort of mission creep many people worried about when the whole statues issue started to pick up steam last
month. It began with slave owners, and one can see the argument there for taking them down, but it is worth noting that the statues
themselves were not erected for their services to the Transatlantic slave trade.
Then in America, they moved onto their national heroes, like Washington and Jefferson, again because they owned slaves. Again,
one can understand the argument that they shouldn't be venerated because of this fact, but they aren't praised for being slave owners
but for founding the United States of America.
Before we knew it, we were at Ulysses Grant, who lead the Union Armies in the Civil War to end slavery, but because he married
into a slave owning family, he too must be torn down. Defeating the Confederacy wasn't enough to save him. Then Theodore Roosevelt
was next on the list because of white supremacy, (although he wasn't the Roosevelt who actually interred Americans in camps based
on their race in World War II, that was FDR).
But even with the pace with which this movement has declared former icons persona non-grata, to jump from Teddy Roosevelt to Jesus
is extraordinary. Were Mr. King's demands to be met, and "all statues of the White European they claim to be Jesus" to come down,
that would amount to the destruction of some of the finest works of art in existence.
Michelangelo's Pieta, gone, Da Vinci's Last Supper, erased, Raphael's Transfiguration, wiped, Donatello's Crucifix, torn down,
and that would be just if we targeted artists who share their names with turtles who know karate. And the Sistine Chapel? Razed to
the ground, along with the smashing of the stained-glass windows of virtually every church and cathedral in Europe.
This erasure of history would make the destruction of the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries in 16th-century England
look like child's play.
The simple fact of the matter is that Jesus has, throughout history, been portrayed as looking like any number of races, and those
usually reflect the race of the artist. Black artists have portrayed him as having African features, Asian artists have done something
in their image, and so European artists obviously portrayed him as looking European. Which is kind of the point of Jesus: all his
followers are supposed to be able to see themselves in him. As a result of living in the Western world, that means, to Western eyes,
he has more often been portrayed as looking like a white European.
Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a
form of white supremacy. Always have been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where
they went?EGYPT!Not Denmark.Tear them down.
Yes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends
should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should
all come down.
There is also the fact that for a large chunk of history, Europe is where Christianity blossomed. In the Middle East, where yes,
Jesus was born, a very different religion, with a very different view on depicting religious figures arose, which perhaps goes some
way to explaining the paucity of paintings of Christ in this part of the world. The fact that Jesus plays second fiddle to Mohammed
in Islam and is regarded as a false prophet in Judaism, might explain why there are fewer depictions of him in the immediate vicinity
of the Sea of Galilee.
One also has to have quite a conspiratorial mind to conclude that 'white supremacy' was top of the agenda for the likes of Da
Vinci and Raphael. Couldn't they just be artists painting and sculpting their interpretation of what Christ looked like? Could the
depictions of him as looking more European not just be down to those being the kind of people they hung around with?
I mean, if we're getting into the weeds about this, it's probably quite unlikely that the historical Jesus had a rippling six
pack and sinewy biceps as he is so often shown as having. Can art not just be appreciated as art without having the artist's motivation
impugned four, five or six centuries after the fact? Given that the Transatlantic slave trade didn't begin until the 17th century,
it seems baffling to tear down art made in the centuries before.
It also raises the question of how exactly is it acceptable to depict Jesus from now on then? Given that he was a Palestinian
Jew, it seems equally unlikely that he looked like the African man he was portrayed as in Madonna's
Like a Prayer
video,
as he would look like the dirty blonde haired European in Da Vinci's
The Last Supper
. (Gosh, it's painful equating these
two very different pieces of culture in the same sentence).
This may seem like a fringe issue that is never going to happen, and it could easily be dismissed as the ramblings of someone
on the extreme left.
"No one would seriously argue that the Pieta or the Last Supper should be torn down or painted over,"
some might say.
"Shaun King is just being ridiculous and provocative, and writing an article about his mad claims is just legitimising
them,"
they may add.
This may be true, but ask yourself – in 2010, how much money would you have put on statues of Washington and Jefferson being torn
down in America? What odds would you have got on the bookies of Churchill's statue having to be boarded up in London? I don't think
you'd have even put a quid on it.
There has to come a point where a civilisation just says "enough, stop," otherwise these movements pick up steam. Several American
states have shown themselves incapable of defending their founding fathers. With Christianity dwindling year by year in the West,
how long will we be able to make a defence for these priceless works of art if they too are decided to be contrary to the prevailing
ideology of the day?
Ugly civilisations torch their history, others learn from them. Let us not become the former, just because the other side is shouting
louder than we are.
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While appearing on Fox News
Wednesday, Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome told host Martha
MacCallum that if America doesn't bend over and cave to his group's demands, they will burn
down the system and replace it.
He justified his insurrection by citing the American Revolution and claiming that the United
States is founded on violence and spreads violence around the world.
According to Fox News (Emphasis added):
"You have said that violence is sometimes necessary in these situations," host Martha
MacCallum told Newsome. "What exactly is it that you hope to achieve through violence?"
"Wow, it's interesting that you would pose that question like that," Newsome responded,
"because this country is built upon violence. What was the American Revolution, what's our
diplomacy across the globe?
"We go in and we blow up countries and we replace their leaders with leaders who we like.
So for any American to accuse us of being violent is extremely hypocritical."
MacCallum clarified that her question was based off comments she had heard Newsome utter
in various interviews.
"I said," Newsome told the host, " if this country doesn't give us what we want, then we
will burn down this system and replace it . All right? And I could be speaking figuratively.
I could be speaking literally. It's a matter of interpretation.
"Let's observe the history of the 1960s, when black people were rioting," he went on. "We
had the highest growth in wealth, in property ownership. Think about the last few weeks since
we started protesting. There have been eight cops fired across the country."
Newsome never said what he wanted to replace the United States with, but given the
Marxist background of BLM, we have a pretty good idea
He refused to condemn the rioting and later claimed to be a Christian, calling Jesus Christ
a black revolutionary who was assassinated by the government.
"I love the Lord and my Lord and savior," Newsome said. "Jesus Christ is the most famous
black radical revolutionary in history. And he was treated just like Dr. King. He was arrested
on occasion and he was also crucified or assassinated. This is what happens to black activists.
We are killed by the government."
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Analysis carried out by the Pew Research Center has revealed that just one in six protesters
turning out at BLM demonstrations in the US are actually black.
The research notes that the plurality of those present at the gatherings have been white
people.
The full breakdown reveals that just 17 percent of protesters were black, while 46 percent
were white.
A further 22 percent were Hispanic, with eight percent being Asian, the analysis highlights.
Perhaps even more telling is the demographic breakdown in terms of political affiliation.
Almost four out of every five "protesters" identified as Democrats or Democrat-leaning, with
fewer than 17 percent identifying as Republicans.
The findings dovetail with comments made by BET Founder Robert Johnson yesterday, who noted
that most black Americans "laugh" at white people attempting to bring down monuments and cancel
everything they deem to be "racist". Johnson said that white people "have the mistaken
assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at
these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue
of a Civil War general who fought for the South."
"You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the
same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows." Johnson said in an
interview with Fox News.
"Look, the people who are basically tearing down statues, trying to make a statement are
basically borderline anarchists, the way I look at it," he continued, adding "They really
have no agenda other than the idea we're going to topple a statue."
"It's not going to give a kid whose parents can't afford college money to go to college.
It's not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black
workers are paid. And it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps." Johnson
urged.
"It's "tantamount to rearranging the deck chairs on a racial titanic. It absolutely means
nothing." Johnson asserted.
"... It's because the Democrats think that kowtowing to BLM will give them the winning edge in the November balloting. That's what it's all about. That's why they draped themselves in Kente cloth and knelt for the cameras. They think their black constituents are too stupid to see through their groveling fakery. They think that blacks will forget that Joe Biden pushed through legislation "which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of time sentences could be reduced for good behavior." ..."
"... The stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump debates. They should leave him in his basement and hope for the best. They feature political ads where Biden slurs his speech! These are professionals, so it tells me they spent all day and did 40 takes and this was the best he could do. The election will be great comedy, or perhaps ..."
"... Clinton is the best evidence that certain people agree to be blackmailed in exchange for power, as Andrew Anglin wrote this week. ..."
"This is not a momentary civil disturbance. This is a serious, and highly organized
political movement It is deep and profound and has vast political ambitions. It is insidious,
it will grow. It's goal is to end liberal democracy and challenge western civilization
itself. This is an ideological movement Even now, many of us pretend this is about police
brutality. We think we can fix it by regulating chokeholds or spending more on de-escalation
training. We're too literal and good-hearted to understand what's happening. But we have no
idea what we are up against. ..These are not protests. This is a totalitarian political
movement and someone needs to save the country from it." Tucker
Carlson
Tucker Carlson is right, the protests and riots are not a momentary civil disturbance. They
are an attack the Constitutional Republic itself, the heart and soul of American democracy. The
Black Lives Matter protests are just the tip of the spear, they are an expression of public
outrage that is guaranteed under the first amendment. But don't be deceived, there's more here
than meets the eye. BLM is funded by foundations that seek to overthrow our present form of
government and install an authoritarian regime guided by technocrats, oligarchs and
corporatists all of who believe that Chinese-type despotism is far-more compatible with
capitalism than "inefficient" democracy. The chaos in the streets is merely the beginning of an
excruciating transition from one system to another. This is an excerpt from an article by F.
William Engdahl at Global Research:
"By 2016, Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network .. That
year the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led
Movement Fund (BLMF), "a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the
Movement for Black Lives coalition" in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros
foundations had already given some $33 million in
grants to the Black Lives Matter movement .. ..
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to
the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations." (
"America's Own Color
Revolution ", Global Research)
$100 million is alot of money. How has that funding helped BLM expand its presence in
politics and social media? How many activists and paid employees operate within the network
disseminating information, building new chapters, hosting community outreach programs, and
fine-tuning an emergency notification system that allows them to put tens of thousands of
activists on the streets in cities across the country at a moment's notice? Isn't that what
we've seen for the last three weeks, throngs of angry protestors swarming in more than 400
cities across America all at the beck-and-call of a shadowy group whose political intentions
are still not clear?
And what about the rioting, looting and arson that broke out in numerous cities following
the protests? Was that part of the script too? Why haven't BLM leaders condemned the
destruction of private property or offered a public apology for the downtown areas that have
been turned into wastelands? In my own hometown of Seattle, the downtown corridor– which
once featured Nordstrom, Pottery Barn and other upscale retail shops– is now a
checkerboard of broken glass, plywood covers and empty streets all covered in a thick layer of
garish spray-paint. The protest leaders said they wanted to draw attention to racial injustice
and police brutality. Okay, but how does looting Nordstrom help to achieve that goal?
And what role have the Democrats played in protest movement?
They've been overwhelmingly supportive, that's for sure. In fact, I can't think of even one
Democrat who's mentioned the violence, the looting or the toppling of statues. Why is that?
It's because the Democrats think that kowtowing to BLM will give them the winning edge in
the November balloting. That's what it's all about. That's why they draped themselves in Kente
cloth and knelt for the cameras. They think their black constituents are too stupid to see
through their groveling fakery. They think that blacks will forget that Joe Biden pushed
through legislation "which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of
time sentences could be reduced for good behavior."
According to the Black Agenda
Repor t: "Biden and (South Carolina's Strom) Thurmond joined hands to push 1986 and 1988
drug enforcement legislation that created the nefarious sentencing disparity between crack and
powder cocaine as well as other draconian measures that implicate him as one of the initiators
of what became mass incarceration. " Biden also spearheaded "the attacks on Anita Hill when she
came forward to testify against the supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas". All told, Biden's
record on race is much worse than Trump's despite the media's pathetic attempts to portray
Trump as Adolph Hitler. It's just more bunkum from the dissembling media.
Bottom line: The Democrats think they can ride racial division and social unrest all the way
to the White House. That's what they are betting on.
So, yes, the Dems are exploiting the protests for political advantage, but it goes much
deeper than that. After all, we know from evidence that was uncovered during the Russiagate
investigation, that DNC leaders are intimately linked to the Intel agencies, law enforcement
(FBI), and the elite media. So it's not too much of a stretch to assume that these deep state
agents and assets work together to shape the narrative that they think gives them the best
chance of regaining power. Because, that's what this is really all about, power. Just as
Russiagate was about power (removing the president using disinformation, spies, surveillance
and other skulduggery.), and just as the Covid-19 fiasco was essentially about power
(collapsing the economy while imposing medical martial law on the population.), so too, the BLM
protest movement is also about power, the power to inflict massive damage on the country's main
urban centers with the intention of destabilizing the government, restructuring the economy and
paving the way for a Democratic victory in November. It's all about power, real, unalloyed
political muscle.
Surprisingly, one of the best critiques of what is currently transpiring was written by
Niles Niemuth at the World Socialist Web Site. Here's what he said about the widespread
toppling of statues:
"The attacks on the monuments were pioneered by the increasingly frenzied attempt by the
Democratic Party and the New York Times to racialize American history, to create a
narrative in which the history of mankind is reduced to the history of racial struggle. This
campaign has produced a pollution of democratic consciousness, which meshes entirely with the
reactionary political interests driving it.
It is worth noting that the one institution seemingly immune from this purge is the
Democratic Party, which served as the political wing of the Confederacy and, subsequently,
the KKK.
This filthy historical legacy is matched only by the Democratic Party's contemporary
record in supporting wars that, as a matter of fact, primarily targeted nonwhites. Democrats
supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and under Obama destroyed Libya and Syria. The
New York Times was a leading champion and propagandist for all of these war." (
"Hands
off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant!, WSWS)
What the author is referring to is The 1619 Project, which is a racialized version of
American history that was published by the Times on August 19, 2019. The deliberately-distorted
version of history was cobbled together in anticipation of increasing social unrest and racial
antagonism. The rioting, looting and vast destruction of America's urban core can all be traced
back to a document that postulates that the country was founded on racial hatred and
exploitation. In other words, The 1619 Project provides the perfect ideological justification
for the chaos and violence that has torn the country apart for the last three weeks. This is an
excerpt from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:
"The essays featured in the magazine are organized around the central premise that all of
American history is rooted in race hatred -- specifically, the uncontrollable hatred of
"black people" by "white people." Hannah-Jones writes in the series' introduction:
"Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. "
This is a false and dangerous conception. DNA is a chemical molecule that contains the
genetic code of living organisms and determines their physical characteristics and
development . Hannah-Jones's reference to DNA is part of a growing tendency to derive
racial antagonisms from innate biological processes .where does this racism come from? It
is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the historical DNA of American "white people." Thus, it
must persist independently of any change in political or economic conditions .
. No doubt, the authors of The Project 1619 essays would deny that they are predicting
race war, let alone justifying fascism. But ideas have a logic; and authors bear
responsibility for the political conclusions and consequences of their false and misguided
arguments." ("The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history", World Socialist Web
Site)
Keep in mind, this essay in the WSWS was written a full year before BLM protests broke out
across the country. Was Hannah-Jones enlisted to create a document that would provide the dry
tinder for the massive and coordinated demonstrations that have left the country stunned and
divided?
Probably, after all, (as noted above) the author's theory is that one race is genetically
programed to exploit the other. ( "Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country. ")
Well, if we assume that whites are genetically and irreversibly "racist", then we must also
assume that the country that these whites founded is racist and evil. Thus, the only logical
remedy for this situation, is to crush the white segment of the population, destroy their
symbols, icons, and history, and replace the system of government with one that better reflects
the values of the emerging non-Caucasian majority. Simply put, The Project 1619 creates the
rationale for sustained civil unrest, deepening political polarization and violent
revolution.
The 1619 Project is a calculated provocation meant to exacerbate racial animosities and pave
the way to open conflagration. And it has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. The
nation is split into warring camps while Washington has devolved into fratricidal warfare. Was
that the objective, to destabilize the country in preparation for the dissolution of the
current system followed by a fundamental restructuring of the government consistent with the
identity politics lauded by the Democrats?
The Democrats, the Intel agencies and the media are all in bed together fomenting unrest
with the intention of decimating the economy, crushing the emerging opposition and imposing
their despotic one-party system on all of us. Here's a clip from a piece by Paul Craig Roberts
that sums up the role of the New York Times in inciting race-based violence:
"The New York Times editorial board covers up the known indisputable truth with their
anti-white "1619 project," an indoctrination program to inculcate hatred of white people in
blacks and guilt in white people.
Why does the New York Times lie, brainwash blacks into hatred of whites, and attempt to
brainwash whites into guilt for the creation of a New World labor force four centuries ago?
Why do Americans tolerate the New York Times fomenting of racial hatred in a multicultural
society?
The New York Times is a vile organization. The New York Times attempts to discredit the
President of the United States and did all it could to frame him on false charges. The New
York Times painted General Flynn, who honorably served the US, as a Russian agent and enabled
General Flynn's frame-up on false and now dropped charges. The New York Times spews hatred of
white people. And now the New York Times accuses the American military of celebrating white
supremacism.
Does America have a worse enemy than the New York Times? The New York Times is clearly and
intentionally making a multicultural America impossible . By threatening white people with
the prospect of hate-driven racial violence, the New York Times editorial board is fomenting
the rise of white supremacy." (
"The New York Times Editorial Board Is a Threat to Multicultural America ", The Unz
Review)
The editors of the Times don't hate whites, they are merely attacking the growing number of
disillusioned white working people who have left the Democratic party in frustration due to
their globalist policies regarding trade, immigration, offshoring, outsourcing and the
relentless hollowing out of the nation's industrial core . The Dems have abandoned these people
altogether and –now that they realize they will never be able to lure them back into
their camp– they've decided to wage a full-blown, scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners war
on them. They've decided to crush them mercilessly and fill their ranks with multi-ethnic,
bi-racial groups that will work for pennies on the dollar. (which will keep the Dems corporate
supporters happy.) So, no, the Times does not hate white people. What they hate is the growing
populist movement that derailed Hillary Clinton and put anti-globalist Trump in the White
House. That's the real target of this operation, the disillusioned throng of working people who
have washed their hands of the Democrats for good. Here's more background from Paul Craig
Roberts:
"On August 12 Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, met with the Times'
employees to refocus the Times' attack on Trump . The Times, Baquet said, is shifting from
Trump-Russia to Trump's racism. The Times will spend the run-up to the 2020 presidential
election building the Trump-is-a-racist narrative. Of course, if Trump is a racist it means
that the people who elected him are also racists. Indeed, in Baquet's view, Americans have
always been racist. To establish this narrative, the New York Times has launched the "1619
Project," the purpose of which is "to reframe the country's history."
According to the Washington Examiner, "The basic thrust of the 1619 Project is that
everything in American history is explained by slavery and race. The message is woven
throughout the first publication of the project, an entire edition of the Times magazine. It
begins with an overview of race in America -- 'Our democracy's founding ideals were false
when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.'
The premise that America originated as a racist slave state is to be woven into all
sections of the Times -- news, business, sports, travel, the entire newspaper. The project
intends to take the "reframing" of the United States into the schools where white Americans
are to be taught that they are racist descendants of slave holders. A participant in this
brainwashing of whites, which will make whites guilty and defenseless, says "this project
takes wing when young people are able to read this and understand the way that slavery has
shaped their country's history." In other words, the New York Times intends to make slavery
the ONLY explanation of America.
At the meeting of the executive editor of the New York Times with the Times' employees to
refocus the Times' attack on President Trump, Baquet said: "Race in the next year is going to
be a huge part of the American story." (
"Is White Genocide Possible? ", The Unz Review)
Repeat: "Race in the next year is going to be a huge part of the American story." Either
Baquet has a crystal ball or he had a pretty good idea of the way in which the 1619 Project was
going to be used . I suspect it was the latter.
For the last 3 and a half years, Democrats and the media have ridiculed anyone who opposes
their globalist policies as racist, fascist, misogynist, homophobic, Bible-thumping,
gun-toting, flag-waving, Nascar boosting, white nationalist "deplorables". Now they have
decided to intensify the assault on mainly white working people by preemptively destroying the
economy, destabilizing the country, and spreading terror far and wide. It's another vicious
psy-ops campaign designed to thoroughly demoralize and humiliate the enemy who just happen to
be the American people. Here's more form the WSWS:
" It is no coincidence that the promotion of this racial narrative of American history by
the Times, the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and the privileged upper-middle-class
layers it represents, comes amid the growth of class struggle in the US and around the
world.
The 1619 Project is one component of a deliberate effort to inject racial politics into
the heart of the 2020 elections and foment divisions among the working class. The Democrats
think it will be beneficial to shift their focus for the time being from the reactionary,
militarist anti-Russia campaign to equally reactionary racial politics." (" The New York
Times's 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history " WSWS)
Can you see how the protests are being used to promote the political objectives of elites
operating behind the mask of "impartial" reporting? The scheming NY Times has replaced the
enlightenment principles articulated in our founding documents with a sordid tale of racial
hatred and oppression. The editors seek to eliminate everything we believe as Americans so they
can brainwash us into believing that we are evil people deserving of humiliation, repudiation
and punishment. Here's more from the same article:
"In the months preceding these events, the New York Times, speaking for dominant sections
of the Democratic political establishment, launched an effort to discredit both the American
Revolution and the Civil War. In the New York Times' 1619 Project, the American Revolution
was presented as a war to defend slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was cast as a garden variety
racist
The attacks on the monuments to these men were pioneered by the increasingly frenzied
attempt by the Democratic Party and the New York Times to racialize American history, to
create a narrative in which the history of mankind is reduced to the history of racial
struggle . This campaign has produced a pollution of democratic consciousness, which meshes
entirely with the reactionary political interests driving it." (" The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history" , WSWS)
Ideas have consequences, and the incendiary version of events disseminated by the Times has
added fuel to a fire that's spread from one coast to the other. Given the damage that has been
done to cities across the country, it would be nice to know how Dean Baquet knew that "race was
going to play a huge part" in upcoming events? It's all very suspicious. Here's more:
" Given the 1619 Project's black nationalist narrative, it may appear surprising that
nowhere in the issue do the names Malcolm X or Black Panthers appear. Unlike the black
nationalists of the 1960s, Hannah-Jones does not condemn American imperialism. She boasts
that "we [i.e. African-Americans] are the most likely of all racial groups to serve in the
United States military," and celebrates the fact that "we" have fought "in every war this
nation has waged." Hannah-Jones does not note this fact in a manner that is at all critical.
She does not condemn the creation of a "volunteer" army whose recruiters prey on
poverty-stricken minority youth. There is no indication that Hannah-Jones opposes the "War on
Terror" and the brutal interventions in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria -- all
supported by the Times -- that have killed and made homeless upwards of 20 million people. On
this issue, Hannah-Jones is remarkably "color-blind." She is unaware of, or simply
indifferent to, the millions of "people of color" butchered and made refugees by the American
war machine in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa." (" The New York Times's 1619
Project: A racialist falsification of American and world histor y", WSWS)
So, black nationalists like Malcolm X and the Black Panthers are excluded from the The 1619
Project's narrative, but the author boasts that blacks "are the most likely of all racial
groups to serve in the US military"?? How does that happen unless Hannah-Jones was coached by
Democrat leaders about who should and shouldn't be included in the text? None of this passes
the smell test. It all suggests that the storyline was shaped by people who had a specific goal
in mind. That isn't history, it's fiction written by people who have an ax to grind. The Times
even admitted as much in response to the blistering criticism by five of "the most widely read
and respected authorities on US history." The New York TimesMagazine editor in
chief Jake Silverstein rejected the historians' objections saying:
"The project was intended to address the marginalization of African-American history in
the telling of our national story and examine the legacy of slavery in contemporary American
life. We are not ourselves historians, it is true. We are journalists, trained to look at
current events and situations and ask the question: Why is this the way it is?"
WTF! "We are not ourselves historians"? That's the excuse?? Give me a break!
The truth is that there was never any attempt to provide an accurate account of events. From
the very onset, the goal was to create a storyline that fit the politics, the politics of
provocation, incitement, racial hatred, social unrest and violence. That's what the Times and
their allies wanted, and that's what they got.
The Deep State Axis: CIA, DNC, NYT
The three-way alliance between the CIA, the Elite Media, and the Democratic leadership has
clearly strengthened and grown since the failed Russiagate fiasco. All three parties were
likely involved in the maniacal hyping of the faux-Covid pandemic which paved the way for
Depression era unemployment, tens of thousands of bankrupt businesses and a sizable portion of
the US population thrust into destitution. Now, these deep state loyalists are promoting a
"falsified" race-based version of history that pits one group against the other while diverting
attention from the deliberate destruction of the economy and the further consolidation of
wealth in the hands of the 1 percent.
Behind the veil of the protest movement, the war on the American people is gaining pace.
Stopped reading the Times after the buildup to the Iraq War, when it was clear they were
lying. Everyone please stop reading the Times, and in particular stop referring to what they
are writing. Act like they don't exist. If enough do, they won't.
The stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump debates.
They should leave him in his basement and hope for the best. They feature political ads where
Biden slurs his speech! These are professionals, so it tells me they spent all day and did 40
takes and this was the best he could do. The election will be great comedy, or perhaps
This is all planned. Biden will be forced to drop out and Bloomberg or even Clinton will
arise.
"Tucker Carlson is right, the protests and riots are not a momentary civil disturbance. They
are an attack the Constitutional Republic itself, the heart and soul of American democracy."
I am reminded of david horowitz and chrissy hitchens
And how they promoted Israeli interests after first pretending to be independent thinkers
to gain creed for the switch. Standard zionazi-gay psywar tactic.
The stupidity of the Dems was shown this week when they agreed to three Biden/Trump
debates.
This is all planned. Biden will be forced to drop out and Bloomberg or even Clinton will
arise.
Stupid and planned?
Clinton is the best evidence that certain people agree to be blackmailed in exchange for
power, as Andrew Anglin wrote this week. Why should DNC care if Trump is 're-elected'? And if
they don't care, who not take a stab at installing an intersectional DNC pinnacle fraudster
via the griftiest, most insulting, infuriating way possible? They can't lose.
Chicago officials report the city's highest number of shootings in a single weekend this
year. From Friday evening to Monday morning, 102 people were shot, 14 of whom have died, five
of those killed were minors.
Several teenagers died in alleys as a result of the rampant weekend violence. A toddler was
killed on Saturday evening when he was struck in the back by a bullet as someone fired into his
father's car in Austin , on the West Side of the city.
Two teenage boys were sitting outside on a porch on Saturday evening when once noticed a red
laser pointed at him and then gun shots began to ring out. Both were taken to Mount Sinai
hospital and are in good condition.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said Sunday that violent offenders should be kept
in jail for longer because the home monitoring system is not working .
"Tears are a natural reaction to these tragic stories of violence," he said.
"But we need to do more than just cry. ... For God's sake, help Chicago cops protect our
precious children and our families."
Brown also said that he and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot had a conversation over the weekend
and that they're "on the same page," about the city's violence and the absolute need for
strategic change in approaching the issue.
"Cops are working hard. We're just chasing our tails," Brown said.
"It's shocking that no one monitors people on home monitor."
The Father's Day weekend numbers are up considerably from last weekend, when 31 people
across the city were shot, and two killed.
Though, two weekends ago, Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend in modern history, as 24
people were killed and 61 others shot.
Failure
to blame all problems suffered by minorities on racism – failure to denounce loudly
and angrily American bourgeois society's allegedly inherent bigotry, greed, and rapaciousness
– failure to acknowledge that America today is a brutal and cruel place for all but the
elite, and hellish especially for blacks, women, and gay, bi, and transgender people – is
frequently interpreted as sympathy for dark-ages-like superstition and prejudices.
I have no doubt that some progressives at times overstate the role of race in generating
disparities between blacks and whites. (I also have no doubt that some progressives at times
understate the role of race. Social science is hard.) But it is difficult to see how this is
relevant to the demands of the people protesting the murder of George Floyd, unless you can show
that their demands are unwise or unjust.
likbez , June 23, 2020 2:14 am
> I have no doubt that some progressives at times overstate the role of race in
generating disparities between blacks and whites
Jay Gould formulated it much better: "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the
other half."
This is an official policy of Democratic Party. It is called "Identity Wedge" and designed
to suppress trade unions and the struggle for better jobs and the standard of living of the
lower 80% of population. Partially invented by OSS-connected individuals from Frankfurt School
as an alternative interpretation of Marxism.
The role of LGBT is similar. Like blacks, they are expendable pawns in a bigger game
directed against trade unions and working class as a whole. "Divide and conquer" by financial
oligarchy in its most evil form.
It's all about money. If everyone were on the same economic level the police would
treat everyone the same. I won't offer any arguments to buttress that -- it's just common
sense -- it's all who they identify with. Of course it helps slip into this vision if you
were raised in the most color blind part of America, the Bronx, NY -- where if
everybody's different, so nobody's different.
A labor market that is 94% labor union free is by definition, ipso facto, a
socially/economically/politically morbidly pathological situation. When I explained the
American labor market to my late brother John he came back with: "Martin Luther King got
his people on the up escalator just in time for it to start going down for everybody."
And we were not even talking about race.
Bert Schlitz , June 22, 2020 1:17 am
It's spouting dialectical nonsense. Like they are not "virtue signaling" themselves. BLM is
really a bourgeois movement. Centrist anger blowing up. It fails because it refuses to see
reality. More productive prime age whites are killed by cops than blacks, despite 18-54 range
racial % being more tighter than previous generations. This hurts BLM. It also hurts elites
that whites 18-54 80%+ want police reform due to the body counts they are taking.
"It's all about money. If everyone were on the same economic level the police would treat
everyone the same. I won't offer any arguments to buttress that -- it's just common sense --
it's all who they identify with."
divideand conquer 1. To gain or maintain power by generating tension among others, especially those less powerful,
so that they cannot unite in opposition.
Notable quotes:
"... In its most general form, identity politics involves (i) a claim that a particular group is not being treated fairly and (ii) a claim that members of that group should place political priority on the demand for fairer treatment. But "fairer" can mean lots of different things. I'm trying to think about this using contrasts between the set of terms in the post title. A lot of this is unoriginal, but I'm hoping I can say something new. ..."
"... The second problem is that neoliberals on right and left sometimes use identity as a shield to protect neoliberal policies. As one commentator has argued, "Without the bedrock of class politics, identity politics has become an agenda of inclusionary neoliberalism in which individuals can be accommodated but addressing structural inequalities cannot." What this means is that some neoliberals hold high the banner of inclusiveness on gender and race and thus claim to be progressive reformers, but they then turn a blind eye to systemic changes in politics and the economy. ..."
"... Critics argue that this is "neoliberal identity politics," and it gives its proponents the space to perpetuate the policies of deregulation, privatization, liberalization, and austerity. ..."
"... If we assume that identity politics is, first and foremost, a dirty and shrewd political strategy developed by the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party ("soft neoliberals") many things became much more clear. Along with Neo-McCarthyism it represents a mechanism to compensate for the loss of their primary voting block: trade union members, who in 2016 "en mass" defected to Trump. ..."
I've been thinking about the various versions of and critiques of identity politics that are around at the moment.
In its most
general form, identity politics involves (i) a claim that a particular group is not being treated fairly and (ii) a claim that
members of that group should place political priority on the demand for fairer treatment. But "fairer" can mean lots of different
things. I'm trying to think about this using contrasts between the set of terms in the post title. A lot of this is unoriginal,
but I'm hoping I can say something new.
You missed one important line of critique -- identity politics as a dirty political strategy of soft neoliberals.
To be sure, race, gender, culture, and other aspects of social life have always been important to politics. But neoliberalism's
radical individualism has increasingly raised two interlocking problems. First, when taken to an extreme, social fracturing into
identity groups can be used to divide people and prevent the creation of a shared civic identity. Self-government requires uniting
through our commonalities and aspiring to achieve a shared future.
When individuals fall back onto clans, tribes, and us-versus-them identities, the political community gets fragmented. It becomes
harder for people to see each other as part of that same shared future.
Demagogues [more correctly neoliberals -- likbez] rely on this fracturing to inflame racial, nationalist, and religious antagonism,
which only further fuels the divisions within society. Neoliberalism's war on "society," by pushing toward the privatization and
marketization of everything, thus indirectly facilitates a retreat into tribalism that further undermines the preconditions for
a free and democratic society.
The second problem is that neoliberals on right and left sometimes use identity as a shield to protect neoliberal policies.
As one commentator has argued, "Without the bedrock of class politics, identity politics has become an agenda of inclusionary
neoliberalism in which individuals can be accommodated but addressing structural inequalities cannot." What this means is that
some neoliberals hold high the banner of inclusiveness on gender and race and thus claim to be progressive reformers, but they
then turn a blind eye to systemic changes in politics and the economy.
Critics argue that this is "neoliberal identity politics," and it gives its proponents the space to perpetuate the policies
of deregulation, privatization, liberalization, and austerity.
Of course, the result is to leave in place political and economic structures that harm the very groups that inclusionary neoliberals
claim to support. The foreign policy adventures of the neoconservatives and liberal internationalists haven't fared much better
than economic policy or cultural politics. The U.S. and its coalition partners have been bogged down in the war in Afghanistan
for 18 years and counting. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq is a liberal democracy, nor did the attempt to establish democracy in
Iraq lead to a domino effect that swept the Middle East and reformed its governments for the better. Instead, power in Iraq has
shifted from American occupiers to sectarian militias, to the Iraqi government, to Islamic State terrorists, and back to the Iraqi
government -- and more than 100,000 Iraqis are dead.
Or take the liberal internationalist 2011 intervention in Libya. The result was not a peaceful transition to stable democracy
but instead civil war and instability, with thousands dead as the country splintered and portions were overrun by terrorist groups.
On the grounds of democracy promotion, it is hard to say these interventions were a success. And for those motivated to expand
human rights around the world, it is hard to justify these wars as humanitarian victories -- on the civilian death count alone.
Indeed, the central anchoring assumptions of the American foreign policy establishment have been proven wrong. Foreign policymakers
largely assumed that all good things would go together -- democracy, markets, and human rights -- and so they thought opening
China to trade would inexorably lead to it becoming a liberal democracy. They were wrong. They thought Russia would become liberal
through swift democratization and privatization. They were wrong.
They thought globalization was inevitable and that ever-expanding trade liberalization was desirable even if the political
system never corrected for trade's winners and losers. They were wrong. These aren't minor mistakes. And to be clear, Donald Trump
had nothing to do with them. All of these failures were evident prior to the 2016 election.
If we assume that identity politics is, first and foremost, a dirty and shrewd political strategy developed by the Clinton wing
of the Democratic Party ("soft neoliberals") many things became much more clear. Along with Neo-McCarthyism it represents a mechanism to compensate for the loss of their primary voting block: trade union members,
who in 2016 "en mass" defected to Trump.
Initially Clinton calculation was that trade union voters has nowhere to go anyways, and it was correct for first decade or so
of his betrayal. But gradually trade union members and lower middle class started to leave Dems in droves (Demexit, compare with
Brexit) and that where identity politics was invented to compensate for this loss.
So in addition to issues that you mention we also need to view the role of identity politics as the political strategy of the
"soft neoliberals " directed at discrediting and the suppression of nationalism.
The resurgence of nationalism is the inevitable byproduct of the dominance of neoliberalism, resurgence which I think is capable
to bury neoliberalism as it lost popular support (which now is limited to financial oligarchy and high income professional groups,
such as we can find in corporate and military brass, (shrinking) IT sector, upper strata of academy, upper strata of medical professionals,
etc)
That means that the structure of the current system isn't just flawed which imply that most problems are relatively minor and
can be fixed by making some tweaks. It is unfixable, because the "Identity wars" reflect a deep moral contradictions within neoliberal
ideology. And they can't be solved within this framework.
Just like Cornell West suggested, black faces in high places hasn't solved the problem. Obama is a vivid example.
Notable quotes:
"... It is Class Warfare. There are no "Democrats" or "Republicans" .. There are the "Rich and Powerful" and then the "Rest of Us" And when we stand up, they take aim... ..."
"... Dr. Cornel West, "We have tried Black Faces in high places ..." ..."
Krystal Ball calls out D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Dem establishment for surface level support of the Black Lives Matter
movement.
Crush Inverted Totalitarianism, 12 hours ago
Speaking of black faces in high places, the entire black caucus endorsed ELIOT ENGEL over a black educater (Jamaal
Bowman)...this is aclass war, not a race war
Robert Quin, 12 hours ago (edited)
THERE IS NO DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF AMERICA! There is only Repugnican and Repugnican Lite. There is only hard right and soft right
in American politics. There is no left in power.
Electoralism is a scam. You're playing with an unplugged controller. Organise, unionize, protest, riot. If you want to vote,
you should vote third party. The Democratic party isn't part of the solution. They are playing good cop, bad cop with
republicans with both sides working for capital to impoverish the working class.
Krystal forgot one "innovation" Biden has suggested.
When talking to black community leaders in Wilmington, Joe Biden
said, "Instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there's an unarmed person coming at 'em with a knife or
something, shoot 'em in the leg instead of in the heart."
It
is Class Warfare. There are no "Democrats" or "Republicans" .. There are the "Rich and Powerful" and then the "Rest of Us" And
when we stand up, they take aim...
"... On Friday, for example, the principal of a public school in Windsor, Vermont. was dismissed from her job for posting the following words on her personal Facebook page: "While I understand the urgency to feel compelled to advocate for black lives, what about our fellow law enforcement? Just because I don't walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I'm a racist.". ..."
"... Black Lives Matter believes in force. They flood the streets with angry young people who break things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take it. Make them mad and they will set your business on fire. Annoy them and they will occupy your downtown and declare a brand new country. You're not going to do anything about it, they know that for certain. ..."
A survey this week by Rasmussen, a right-leaning pollster, found that 62 percent of likely
voters now have a favorable opinion of Black Lives Matter. At the same time, Rasmussen found
that Donald
Trump 's approval rating was 43 percent. That's almost 20 points lower.
And by the way, Trump was not alone. Black Lives Matter is far more popular than
Joe Biden , too. It's
more popular than America's religious institutions -- all of them. It's more popular than the
media, the Congress
and big business.
Black Lives Matter is more popular by double digits than both the
Democratic
and the Republican parties. It's
almost as popular as the U.S. military. It's much more popular than the
pope .
The numbers are astounding, but the polls are not the only measure of it. One picture from a
Black Lives Matter rally over the weekend in New York shows an ocean of people. Ask yourself
the last time you saw a candidate for office who was able to draw a crowd like that?
The media, in their relentlessly fawning coverage, usually described Black Lives Matter as
an activist group or a protest movement. But that's deception by understatement. Black Lives
Matter is not a collection of marchers with signs. It's not a conventional political lobby like
Planned Parenthood or the NRA. It's not pressuring Congress to pass some narrow new set of
laws.
Black Lives Matter is far more ambitious than that. It is working to remake the country and
then to control it. It's a political party.
As of now, Black Lives Matter may be the single most powerful political party in the United
States. Nobody says that out loud, but politicians understand it perfectly well. If nothing
else, they understand power; they can smell it at great distances. And that's why they're
lining up to bow before Black Lives Matter.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.: You can't really reform a department that that is rotten to the
root.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.: We've heard our people cry out, "I can't breathe!" We've heard
our people speak out, "Black Lives Matter."
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.: This is a systemic problem that requires a comprehensive
solution.
Stacy Abrams, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate: What I would say is that there is
-- there is a legitimacy to this anger. There's a legitimacy to this outrage.
None of what you just saw is a stretch for Democrats. They believe their long-term goals
align with those of Black Lives Matter. And in fact, at times, the group functions as an arm of
the Democratic Party.
More telling, though -- and more ominous -- is the response from many Republicans. They've
been happy to go along as well, or in Mitt Romney 's case, even mouth the
same slogans.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah: We need to end violence and brutality and to make sure that
people understand that Black Lives Matter.
If the leaders of Black Lives Matter are political actors -- and they are -- then by
definition, you are allowed to have any opinion you want to have about them. Black Lives
Matter wants to run the country; therefore, you can freely criticize Black Lives Matter.
Those are the rules of our system -- but not anymore.
That was the former Republican nominee for president. Let that sink in. If there was ever an
indicator of how powerful Black Lives Matter has become, you just saw it.
Republican leaders brag about their strong conservative convictions, but mostly they just
want to be on the winning team, whatever that is. That's why they pause before offending
China
. It's why when Black Lives Matter tells them to take a knee, they do.
It's all pretty strange when you think about it. If the leaders of Black Lives Matter are
political actors -- and they are -- then by definition, you are allowed to have any opinion you
want to have about them. Black Lives Matter wants to run the country; therefore, you can freely
criticize Black Lives Matter.
Those are the rules of our system -- but not anymore.
Imagine a world where you are punished for questioning the behavior of the president or for
insulting your local mayor. You probably can't imagine that. It's too bizarre. It's
un-American. But that's where we are right now. Black Lives Matter has changed the rules. And
here is their first new rule: No criticizing Black Lives Matter. You can be fired from your job
if you disobey. Many Americans have been.
On Friday, for example, the principal of a public school in Windsor, Vermont. was dismissed
from her job for posting the following words on her personal Facebook page: "While I understand
the urgency to feel compelled to advocate for black lives, what about our fellow law
enforcement? Just because I don't walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I'm a
racist.".
Unfortunately, the principal's boss disagreed. The superintendent of Windsor Schools
described the quote you just heard as "outright racist." Windsor, Vermont, by the way, is more
than 97 percent white.
Also on Friday, an economist called
Harald Uhlig lost his job at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for daring to offer even
milder criticism than that. On Twitter, Uhlig noted that Black Lives Matter had"just torpedoed
itself with its full-fledged support of #defund the police. Now is the time for sensible adults
to enter back into the room and have serious, earnest, respectful conversations about it
all."
That was a racist statement, the Federal Reserve concluded. So, they fired Harald Uhlig.
We could give you many other examples of the same thing happening. There are a lot of them.
Black Lives Matter now enjoys almost complete immunity from criticism. This is unprecedented
for an American political movement.
But Black Lives Matter is even more powerful than that. It has singlehandedly revised our
moral framework. Yes, black lives do matter. That is a statement of fact, and no decent person
doubts that it is true because it is. And it is true precisely because every life matters. We
are all human beings, every one of us. We have souls. Skin color is irrelevant to moral
value.
Until recently, this was considered obvious; saying it was regarded as a virtue. All lives
matter equally. All of us were created by God. In the end, all of us will die. Nothing can
change that -- not wealth, not fame, not race. Every life is precisely as valuable as every
other life.
By the way, that idea forms the basis of the Christian faith. It's the entire premise behind
our founding documents. And yet, suddenly, thanks to Black Lives Matter, you can no longer say
it out loud.
Affirming the fundamental equality of all people is now considered hate speech. You can be
fired for saying it. Again, many people have been.
This is a dangerous moment. How did we get here? In a word, quickly. It happened fast.
As recently as December, before the riots, most Americans did not approve of Black Lives
Matter. The group was defined in the public mind by moments like this.
Crowd (chanting): Pigs in a blanket. Fry them like bacon. Pigs in a blanket. Fry them
like bacon. Pigs in a blanket. Fry them like bacon. Pigs in a blanket. Fry them like
bacon.
"Pigs in a blanket." "Fry like bacon." "Kill the police." They yelled that at a rally. The
usual liars immediately swooped in to pretend that it never happened. The president of the
Southern Poverty Law Center wrote an entire op-ed ordering the public not to consider Black
Lives Matter a hate group.
But people could see the truth for themselves. That video was online. A lot of facts about
Black Lives Matter still reside on the internet. They have not yet been scrubbed.
This is a dangerous moment. How did we get here? In a word, quickly. It happened fast.
The group's signature demand is to eliminate law enforcement. When you first heard
protesters scream, "Defund the police," it may have shocked you. That's just crazy, you may
have thought.
A few weeks later, support for eliminating law enforcement is rising quickly in the polls.
Minneapolis is already doing it. Other cities will follow. Are you surprised? Almost no one in
public life has pushed back meaningfully against the idea of defunding the police.
The Black Lives Matter position is the only position most people hear. After a while, they
believe it. Unchallenged claims must be true. That's what most people assume, and why wouldn't
they assume that? If you strongly disagree with something, say so, otherwise, it's much more
likely to happen.
So, with that in mind, consider some of the other positions Black Lives Matter has endorsed.
The repeal of all immigration restrictions, for starters. They're for that. The legalization of
sex work -- prostitution -- they're for that, too. The destruction of the nuclear family, your
family. The forced relocation of farmland. Race-based reparations, specifically "in the form of
a guaranteed minimum livable income for all black people."
Hear that? All black people, not just the descendants of American slaves. This would
include the millions of African and Caribbean immigrants who on average now earn more than
native-born Americans. Every one of these new Americans would receive a guaranteed annual
income from American taxpayers in order to atone for the sin of -- for the sin of what
actually? Allowing them to immigrate here?
Black Lives Matter does not explain that part. No one asked them. You could be fired for
asking. What you cannot be punished for, however, is looting and burning, at least not if
you're Black Lives Matter.
Huge parts of urban landscape have been destroyed in the past month. Almost no one has been
held to account for it,. Just the opposite. You're encouraged to pretend it never happened.
In St. Louis, every rioter arrested has been released without charges. In New York, hundreds
were released without bail. Same in Washington, D.C. It's happening almost everywhere, and not
just in places controlled by elected Democrats which tells you a lot.
Fort Worth, Texas, for example, is one of the few major American cities that is led by a
Republican, Mayor Betsy Price. On May 31, a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators blocked a
bridge in downtown Fort Worth, when police arrived to disperse them, they threw rocks and
bottles of bleach. Three police officers were injured.
The mob then went on to loot and vandalize businesses. Dozens of rioters were arrested for
this. Ten days later, the city's police chief, Ed Kraus, announced that he was dropping all
charges against them.
Kraus issued a statement suggesting that the real criminals in the riot were not the
rioters, but his own police officers, whom he suggested would be reined in and perhaps
punished. "This is just one step on a long journey," Kraus wrote, sounding more like a
therapist than a cop.
The chief promised that his department was "committed to walking the path of reform with our
community." Kraus never bothered to explain exactly what his cops had done wrong. They were
cops. That was enough.
That same day, the Fort Worth School Board issued a statement declaring, "Police practices
are deeply rooted in white supremacy." Once again, no one specified which police practices
reflected white supremacy, or what that accusation even meant. It was a blanket condemnation,
but it was left to hang in the air. As usual, no one in authority pushed back against it in a
Republican-led city.
Black Lives Matter believes in force. They flood the streets with angry young people who
break things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take
it. Make them mad and they will set your business on fire. Annoy them and they will occupy
your downtown and declare a brand new country. You're not going to do anything about it, they
know that for certain.
It'll be interesting to know what happens to the murder rate in Fort Worth over the next
year. We can guess. We're seeing it all over the country. We've seen it many times through the
years. When the people in charge undermine the law, violence surges.
But there is a solution to this vortex and it's called leadership. Sixty-five years ago,
politicians throughout the American South refused to submit to the Supreme Court's Brown vs.
Board decision. Authorities in many states simply ignored the law like it didn't exist. Armed
extremist groups filled the vacuum. They used violence to make their own laws.
Ultimately, the federal government stepped in and restored order. In 1957, President Dwight
Eisenhower federalized the National Guard of Arkansas. He sent troops to Little Rock to force
Governor Orville Faubus to obey the law.
So the question is, where is our Justice Department? Right now? Is there a reason the DOJ
hasn't filed federal conspiracy charges against the people who organized and led these riots?
It's not as if we don't know who they are. Their crimes are on YouTube.
You know the reason. Black Lives Matter was involved. It is politically sensitive. No
prosecutor wants to be called a racist, as if it's racist to punish people for crimes they
committed.
You know what the victims of those crimes think? The old people who were beaten to the
ground for trying to defend their property. The shop owners whose life savings were stolen or
burned. The families of the people who were murdered during the riots, and there were quite a
few of them.
No one is defending these people. No one is punishing their attackers. Nobody cares.
Imagine how they feel about that. What recourse do they have? Do they have to torch a
Wendy's or loot a Walmart to get our attention? Let's hope not. It might be enough to have a
single national leader -- just one -- who understands what is actually going on in this country
and is brave enough to say so. That might make all the difference, and it would certainly make
the political career of the person who does it.
In the fall of 1968, a teaching assistant at San Francisco State University called George
Murray gave a speech endorsing racial violence. Murray urged black students to bring guns to
campus and "kill all the slave masters." Murray, by the way, was the "minister of education" in
the local Black Panther Party, which was the Antifa of its time.
Black Lives Matter becomes more powerful and more popular with the public. Why is that
happening exactly? Here's why: Because Black Lives Matter is getting exactly what they want
and that is the most basic sign of strength. Strength is the most appealing quality to voters
and to people and to animals.
When administrators learned about Murray's speech, they equivocated, but ultimately they
suspended him under pressure. In response to this, a group called the Third World Liberation
Front shut down the campus. Sound familiar?
They demanded the university drop all admission standards for black applicants and admit
students purely on the basis of race. The administrators were paralyzed in the face of this.
More than anything, they didn't want to be called racist. The university's president was so
terrorized by it that he quit and left.
Ultimately, the leadership of San Francisco State fell to an unlikely president, a
Japanese-Canadian academic called S.I. Hayakawa. Hayakawa was short, eccentric, wore thick
glasses, but he was completely fearless.
On December 2, 1968, Hayakawa marched into the middle of a student protest. Rioters
immediately assaulted him, but Hayakawa kept going. He climbed onto the roof of a sound truck
and ripped the wires out of the loudspeaker. San Francisco State University reopened that
day.
So here's the lesson for today's officeholders. S.I. Hayakawa became a folk hero for
standing up to the mob. He was elected to the United States Senate from California. Republicans
supported him. Voters did, too. They didn't always understand him. Hayakawa wore a Scottish tam
o' shanter cap in public and never really explained why he did.
But it didn't matter. He was brave and honest, and voters appreciated that above all. They
always do. We don't have our Hayakawa yet. Instead, we have cowards.
Our leaders are happy to talk about everything but the collapse of the centuries' old
civilization tumbling down around them. They have no idea how little credibility they have.
They have no sense of how irrelevant they have become. If you can't tell the truth when the
truth actually matters, then nothing you say matters.
Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter becomes more powerful and more popular with the public. Why is
that happening exactly? Here's why: Because Black Lives Matter is getting exactly what they
want and that is the most basic sign of strength. Strength is the most appealing quality to
voters and to people and to animals.
Three weeks ago, Black Lives Matter demanded that cities defund their police. On Monday, the
mighty NYPD, the biggest police department in our nation -- the most sophisticated police
department in the world -- bowed and announced it is
abolishing
its entire plainclothes division , 600 people. Gone for good because Black Lives Matter
wanted it done. And now it is done.
That's not bluffing. It's not posturing. It's not tweeting. That is real power. You'll
notice it did not require the usual maneuvering for Black Lives Matter to get that power. They
didn't need a team of lawyers to get it. Black Lives Matter doesn't make legal arguments.
They're not trying to convince you of anything.
Black Lives Matter believes in force. They flood the streets with angry young people who
break things, and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take it.
Make them mad and they will set your business on fire. Annoy them and they will occupy your
downtown and declare a brand new country. You're not going to do anything about it, they know
that for certain.
This is the most destructive kind of politics. We've seen a lot of it in recent years.
Organized groups did it to Brett Kavanaugh. The main point of slandering Kavanaugh was never to
block his confirmation. We misread that. They knew they probably couldn't achieve it.
The real point was to send Kavanaugh and John Roberts and the other Republican justices a
very clear message, step out of line and we will hurt your families. And judging from recent
court decisions, it worked. At times, it's very clear that supposedly conservative justices are
afraid to defy the mob.
So what message do the rest of us take from what's happened over the past three weeks? It's
very simple. The message is force is more effective than voting. Elections changed nothing.
Rioting, by contrast, makes you rich and powerful. When you riot, prosecutors will ignore
the law on your behalf. Corporations will send you millions. Politicians will kneel down before
you. It works. Violence works. That's the message.
Everyone hears that message. Until violence stops working, violence will continue.
Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue from "
Tucker Carlson Tonight " on June 15,
2020
"... Fact is that American white culture is different from black American culture. It's pathetic and sad to see our politicians and others kowtowing to people who riot, loot and vandalize. ..."
"... Finally, if blacks want to succeed, my advice to them would be keep your families together, work hard, and educate your children. ..."
"... the social engineers are winning. Today black culture is a mess, 70% of black children are born out of wedlock, crime is out of control, and anybody who tells the truth about these things is drummed out of the mainstream conversation. ..."
Over the years, I've gone from having great sympathy for black Americans to
pretty much disliking them. But it is not because of their color (I don't feel the same about
black Africans), but because of the way so many of them behave. Blacks are not going to get
over wanting "compensation" for slavery–no matter what– and, in fact, they have
an even stronger streak of racism against whites than most whites have against blacks.
Fact is that American white culture is different from black American culture. It's
pathetic and sad to see our politicians and others kowtowing to people who riot, loot and
vandalize.
America is going to go down and down. I pray it does not let off a barrage of nukes out of
frustration and arrogance.
Finally, if blacks want to succeed, my advice to them would be keep your families
together, work hard, and educate your children.
Yup, all unfortunately too true. The insurrectionists offer nothing; they can only impede,
destroy, deny but have no alternatives except spinning opium fantasies about some utopian
society. The ones directing the shadowy, organized black-clad types that are part of the
deliberate destruction are really rolling the dice on this one. It's very risky since no one
knows where this could end up going.
Blacks cause racism. Their culture has degenerated with their glorification of criminality.
It's been observed previously that black criminality has been weaponized in such matters as
breaking up white neighborhoods and grabbing the real estate. Now they brought them in in
their wake to do the looting and participate in opportunistic violence.
Apparently PC-cult-think has taken hold of many whites and now there's a religion with blacks
as an object of fetish-worship. The educational system was taken over by lefties years ago
and now we see the results. Many whites have become disgustingly craven as epitomized by
Biden with his snot rag.
The USSR came apart and collapsed. However, that's very different from the US. They spun off
the various republics and downsized to the core which was Russia. From that cohesive center
they were able to rebuild. The US has no center; everyone is scattered about with all races
and political persuasions inhabiting the same cities and towns. Were things to get worse it'd
be more like Bosnia but even they had ethnically cohesive areas.
It's hard to tell what the game plan is. Looking for the authorities to snap up the bait and
overreact so as to further chaos? Looking for martial law?
Black Americans are spoiled brats. Specifically, they are the spoiled brats of the
Yankee WASP Elites, who since the 19th century have used blacks as weapons and tools with
which to batter whites who are not WASP Elites.
"Finally, if blacks want to succeed, my advice to them would be keep your families
together, work hard, and educate your children."
Amen. Black Americans are caught in a pincer
operation between racist conservatives and liberal social engineers, and of the two groups,
the social engineers have done the most damage. From destroying the black family in the 1960s
through welfare policies designed to penalize marriage and fatherhood, to the ongoing
infliction of an LBGTQ ideology that is totally alien to black people's natural religiosity,
the liberal social engineers are waging a stealth war of cultural genocide against black
Americans.
And the social engineers are winning. Today black culture is a mess, 70% of black children are born out of wedlock,
crime is out of control, and anybody who tells the truth about these things is drummed out of the mainstream conversation.
Blacks, unlike so many immigratns from, say, Asia, speak English and have grown up in the wider American culture.
Many immigrants come not speaking any or little English to a totally unfamiliar land
(America), ask for no help yet succeed in making a decent living.
Blacks should understand
that only they can help themselves–and it begins with the family.
Wasn't George floyd really a violent dangerous criminal? Live the sword surely you shall die by one.
This man Floyd it appears was a violent criminal who threatened and attacked people. Whilst people will sorry for him wasn't this
comeuppance?
Same goes for Mark Duggan and Rodney King. These were not choir boys but rather violent nasty men who had no trouble dishing out
violence.
I feel a cup of earl grey with the lemon drizzle cake the young lad Craig bought over yesterday to the mansion. I might also start
bringing some of my house staff back as restrictions ease. Answer Save 17 Answers Relevance Anonymous 6 days ago Favourite
answer Yes, dead right.
You live by the sword, you die by the sword and those that commit criminal acts are putting their lives on the line.
A burglar risks his life every time he enters a house illegally, so if he's killed we should not mourn his demise. Anonymous 5
days ago Well, he was a counterfeiter who was under investigation and had passed some very dirty money and had some very nasty international
friends, so there's that. Of course, the leftist press is treating him like he was a kindly victim of racial hatred never touching
upon these things he really did. The left just wants to bring down entire social groupings of people and they've been putting "black
people" through the historical roller coaster since the late sixties with race riots and welfare and other insidious nasties that
no one should want or endure. 1 1 3 Paul
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Another unfounded assanine comment. No one is praising him. We are calling out bigots.
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Ludwig Lv 6 5 days ago Floyd and Chauvin
were both on the 'security' team at the El Nuevo Rodeo club, which ran the drug scene at the venue. They had a personal falling out
over the proceeds, which is why Chauvin took out Floyd. Anonymous 6 days ago Attempting to pass a counterfeit banknote isn't exactly
a violent crime that deserves to be punished by extrajudicial murder. The cops who murdered Floyd don't exactly have unblemished
records:
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