Shooting in New Mexico

City of Albuquerque removes statue of Juan de Oñate

I do not support the taking down of this statue, statues of Columbus, or other statues erected essentially to celebrate the European peopling of the US and the Americas.

The indigenista Children of Zinn consider the white settling of the Americas to be an atrocity and racist crime all by itself, and insist there was a general white genocide of the natives though Indians are far more numerous today than ever in the past.

I don't endorse or in the least accept their view of this history.

All the same, it ought to be illegal to show up at any demonstration with a weapon.

Demonstrators illegally defaced and attempted to tear down a statue in an act of race hatred and a man attempted to stop them with physical intervention.

Shoved to the ground, he took out a gun and shot a demonstrator.

He was then surrounded by armed militia in camos and wearing riot gear.

The man was arrested.

There is some dispute about whether he was a member of the militia, who are being described in the media as vigilantes who showed up armed to prevent the crowd harming or taking down the statue.

The Republican Party continues to exist because white Democrats have no balls.

Republicans, on the other hand, have no brains.

Red Guards in the UK try to take over higher education

Only fifth of UK universities have said they will 'decolonise' curriculum

And evident approval of these demands by The Guardian is part of why I never contributed money to The Guardian.

The Guardian is too far left for me on race issues.

Well, identity issues in general, actually.

Didn't like their stand on the Elgin Marbles, either.

Eliot and her politics

Silas Marner, by George Eliot.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Doesn't sound like a leftist, does she?

Have you heard of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa?

Her utter lack of sympathy with Molly, Godfrey's abandoned wife, speaks volumes.

Chapter 12, for example.

And why is Silas a miser, come to that?

For saving his money or for his anguish at its theft?

It is all he has to keep him from death from exposure or starvation.

But Eliot cannot see that, she cannot paint it into his character.

She sees him full of concern for his gold, but she, and so he, sees nothing of what it is for.

Or she sees it but gives it no weight, at all.

Out of the mouths of babes and indiscreet politicians

Of course, CNN is delighted to do him as much harm as it can, as quickly as it can.

What a wonderful stroke of the hatchet!

'Watermelon smiles' and 'piccaninnies': What Boris Johnson has said previously about people in Africa

Many are those who agree with his assessments of who is at fault for what.

Rather fewer are those who share the scornful dismissiveness of his "watermelon smiles" remarks.

Maybe Trump, though.

Who will ever forget his tirade about immigration from "shithole countries", referring to Haiti and various other places, including some African states.

Everybody but white people . . . .

is allowed to be a racist and espouse racist theories of this, that, and the other thing.

Indigenism, for instance.

'Stolen lands': dozens arrested as Hawaiians protest $1.4bn telescope

"Genocide" now seems in Canada to mean "hate crime".

And yet, has it been shown these killings were all of them even that?

No, on second thought it looks like it just means the killers are assumed to have picked for victims women whose murderers, they think, the authorities won't try very hard to find and properly punish.

And that's actually bullshit, too.

There is only one reason these killings are being labeled genocide: the victims are Indians.

And the label is only conditional.

If and when the identity of a killer is learned, the label will be removed if, and only if, the killer is not white.

Or maybe if, and only if, the killer is an Indian.

Either way, at bottom, this is just indigenist victim bullshit and white man bashing.

Canadian Inquiry Calls Killings of Indigenous Women Genocide

Paul Tuccaro, a member the Mikisew Cree First Nation in northern Alberta, said he hoped the report would hold accountable any police officers who failed the women.

Mr. Tuccaro’s younger sister Amber, 20, disappeared in August 2010, he said. 

The mother of a 14-month-old son, she vanished after hitching a ride. 

Her remains were found in a farmer’s field, and a killer has never been found.

Mr. Tuccaro said it was accurate to call the killings a genocide.

“Whoever is doing what they’re doing, they think they can kill all these women, and nothing will come of it because they’re just ‘Indians,’” he said.

While we're asking why Trump is still attacking Obama, Hillary, and John McCain . . . .

why is anybody still attacking colonialism?

Absolutely brilliant television

Maybe not brilliant history, or brilliant political comment.

But amazing TV.

Black Earth Rising

How did John Goodman know to jump into this?

How on Earth did they find Michaela Coel, who is amazing in her role?

Wonderful.

Is this the best thing Blick has ever done?

Thank you, Netflix.