A propos de reparations

Has anyone mentioned that blackmailers always come back for more?

The fearless troll in the White House, maybe?

Piling it on for the election

To its regularly scheduled shows encouraging blacks to see racism in the clouds, on slices of toast, and in tree rings CNN will add regularly scheduled programming to encourage women to see sexism in all the same places.

In both cases, of course, it will go with much saying that the solution - the only solution - is to vote to put Democrats in power.

Update 8/22/20.

BBC News is running a beautifully photographed, brilliantly produced series on African history emphasizing the achievements of sub-Saharan civilization and the beastly horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and European imperialism/colonialism.

BBC's 1619 project.

Deeply biased history as justification for racism against whites and a deeply racist political agenda.

CNN blasts out using the virus for race propaganda, again

The explanation for racial and ethnic disparities in infection rates, severity of infection, and death from infection is the accompanying disparities in relative wealth or relative poverty.

And it is by no means as if only nonwhites in America are poor.

There are far more poor whites than nonwhites in this country, and this means they are in the same ways disproportionately victims of the virus, too.

This is certainly an argument for public action to ensure every American has good quality health insurance and everyone in America has good quality medical care.

Not a peep about that on any "news" network.

Not on Fox since it would put their idiot viewers on notice.

Not on CNN, MSNBC, or BBC because howling about race works so much better for today's Democrats and the Democratic racist/racial left.

This is much worse than spinning.

CNN has turned what could and should have been a news-rich story revealing the stunning difference relative wealth or poverty makes regarding virus risk of infection, severity, and death in the US and indeed the world as a whole into a blistering attack of racist/racial vitriol.

An attack on America and an attack on white America.

To them, there is only one explanation and you know what it is, "systemic racism", "a history of racism", "the legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism".

These variables affect whether you live, die or get help during the pandemic

Still, the disparities are indeed stunning.

Black, Latino and Native American people are nearly three times as likely to  ebe infected with Covid-19 than their White counterparts. Those three groups are about five times as likely to be hospitalized. And people of color across the board are more likely to die of the virus.

. . . .

Race affects who is able to flee from a viral hotspot to a second home and who shares a roof with family members across generations. It affects who is able to work remotely and who has to leave home to keep society afloat. It affects who has easy access to testing and who puts off treatment because they're worried about the costs.

In other words, as the US approaches six million confirmed coronavirus cases, race plays a major role in who lives, who dies and who gets help.

Meanwhile, Sharon Stone shares sister's battle with COVID-19, blaming "non-mask wearers" and urging followers to "vote to live"

Instagram.

She tells an awful story.

She says "they're lying" a lot, and is right.

Weird sexist bit at the end about women, protecting families, and the virus.

GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, tests positive for COVID-19

If he's much like his Dad I despise him already

But this is all racist, anti-white bullshit.

As is this, by the way, and it's relevance will be apparent to readers of this Newsweek article.

Whites are more comfortable with O than with, say, Louis Farrakhan, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X., Jeremiah Wright, or even the younger (or just more candid?) version of Al Sharpton, so they are lauded as real while O is scorned as magical and - no kidding - articulate.

Georgia Democrat Faces Calls to Drop Out of Senate Race Over 'Racist' Novel

The book, which is likely not very good, far from flatteringly depicts a white racist who's maybe more than a little bats and - big surprise - often uses the word "nigger" in his thoughts.

For this and other, like literary sins, the black chairwoman of the George Democratic Party castigates Matt Lieberman mightily, as does James Woodall, the president of the Georgia NAACP.

The character just might be a satiric version of Trump, particularly since the author says the book was written after the Charlottesville affair.

At the time, Trump memorably spoke to the nation of the good people among the neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and other alt.right demonstrators in that city.

And as to the n-word, he was often reported back than as a frequent flier.

Lieberman, an attorney and former principal of an Atlanta Jewish school, is one of 21 contenders running in the special election for Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-Ga.) seat.

He rejected criticism over his novel in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, saying he penned the story in response to the white supremacist neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Lieberman referred to it as a  “clear-eyed and honest look at racism in America.”

“The fact that I published this book has been known since I began this campaign last year, so an attack surfacing only now is testament to the strength of my candidacy today,” he said.

He rejected call to drop out of the race.

See also from The Hill Matt Lieberman faces calls to drop out of Georgia Senate race over 'racist an discriminatory' tropes in 2018 book

"Battle of Seattle"?

How many towns are actually affected by the rioting, and how serious is the mess in those towns?

The Democratic media are siding with Democratic local authorities and changing the subject, attacking the Duce (Trump is Mussolini!) and the federales (Jackbooted thugs! Unconstitutional incursions! Unmarked cars!).

The GOP media (meaning Fox and a bunch of websites) are attacking the Democratic local authorities as so many red (Commie) foxes policing henhouses (The cities are on fire! They're coming to your city! The rioters want to destroy America and the Democrats want the same thing!).

A much worse and more prolonged Battle of Seattle x 50 or a light breeze in a few teacups?

Coverup by the one side and wild exaggeration by the other?

The Lincoln Project's newest ads.

How it starts. The Nazi president.

Trumpfeld. The Alzheimer's president.

(By the way, count back by sevens = count back by ten and add three, each time.)

(Or, count back by sevens = [100 - (7 x n)], starting with n = 1. But that seems harder rather than easier.)

Ask yourself what is the agenda so many Democrats seem to agree rioting, weeks of rioting, can be legitimately used to advance?

Because while lots of Democrats are defending it, some officials are actually enabling and even to a degree participating in the rioting.

To advance that agenda.

Probably most Democrats are not on board for all that radical racial stuff, and independents certainly aren't.

In a very real sense, the party has been hijacked by lots of people, including loads way more radical than the Bernie Bros.

And the Bros, starting with Bernie, have been pretty clear all along what they think of Democrats.

Why are Indian geographic names OK but sports team names not?

Rivers and mountains and islands have Indian names.

Political units and geographic features are named after tribes or individuals.

The name of Pontiac, for example, is used as a place name and an auto brand.

Not one white person has ever been offended by the Sarah Lee or Betty Crocker brands or images.

The Irish don't riot once a year or take a knee to protest the nickname of Notre Dame's football team.

This is one the country would have been better off not seeing.

Talk about race hate.

Talk about black skin privilege.

Kaepernick denounces 4th of July as ‘celebration of white supremacy’

Along with a video showing images of the Ku Klux Klan, police brutality, slavery and lynchings, Kaepernick wrote: “Black ppl have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized + terrorized by America for centuries, & are expected to join your commemoration of ‘independence’, while you enslaved our ancestors. We reject your celebration of white supremacy & look forward to liberation for all.”

Letting his Rev. Wright flag fly.

Sometimes you push "send" when you should just push "delete".

For sure, the alt.right will be using this tweet as recruiting material.

Maybe now it's Trump's turn to play Biden and sit tight while these endless demonstrations of hatred for America, black and white, wear on.

But, nope, he's still out there defending honors for the Confederacy and its leaders, as well as all the rest.

Asked about honors for Washington today Tammy Duckworth, whom I never liked for the job, anyway, stammered and stumbled and gave no answer.

The Democratic sympathizing media are still calling them protesters and even peaceful protesters but now they seem to be mostly vandals looking for more to destroy in the name of their politics, and to hell with everybody else's.

38 days of disorder now in some cities.

Cancel culture, BLM ideology, and Krugman's Red Guards

Don't recall seeing much, if any, of this on CNN or MSNBC.

Or BBC News, for that matter.

All of them too busy as cheerleaders and megaphones for the mob and the key mob propaganda points of BLM.

Not being a Fox viewer or regular reader I didn't know Krugman has lost his mind, for example.

(But I have noticed the long articles on their site are often exceptionally information rich.)

Paul Krugman, professors seek top economist's removal from influential job for criticizing Black Lives Matter

Quite a lot of information in this story.

Gregg Re doesn't like what Herr Krugman and these Cultural Revolutionaries are doing.

Neither does Andrew Sullivan, a well-known political moderate.

(Whose job may be in jeopardy.)

Nor does Michael Walzer, a much honored leftist intellectual.

An interesting story about a white radical destroyer of statues, described as "antifa".

One about the leader of the Times' extraordinary weaponization of history, The 1619 Project. 

Think Howard Zinn, but with a lot more vitriol.

NRO on the project. As history, it's worthless propaganda.

I have the impression the position of the right on racism in law enforcement under Trump is much as it has been for decades, that there is little or no racial bias in law enforcement and no institutional racism in America.

That view seems not to be shared even by most whites, these days.

Very likely, when Americans say they agree with the ideas of BLM this is what they mean.

Very likely, they otherwise have no idea what those ideas are.

There is no pleasing everyone. Certainly not history's losers.

Native Americans to protest against Trump visit to Mount Rushmore

Oh, gee, we'd better dynamite the whole thing, then.

They will push until they hear falling glass, you know.

Tired of it, yet?

Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down?

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.

Who told him to always take the side of the devil?

Next he'll be defending introduction of German monuments to Hitler.

Trump, Pelosi at loggerheads over Confederate monuments in US South

President Donald Trump on Wednesday ruled out a change to US military bases named after Civil War Confederate leaders, pushing back on pressure to rid public places of monuments honoring the once pro-slavery South.

"These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great A merican Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom," Trump said in a tweet.

"My Administration will not even consider renaming these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations. Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with," he wrote.

. . . .

Ten bases honouring generals from the secessionist South, which lost the Civil War and its struggle to preserve slavery, are in the spotlight. They include the famous Fort Bragg, Fort Hood in Texas and Fort Benning in Georgia.

He may need to veto something as it looks like enough GOPsters in the senate support changing these names to pass something.

Senate Armed Services on collision course with Trump over Confederate names

The Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted to require the Pentagon to rename military bases and other assets named after Confederate generals, a move that puts the Republican-led panel on a collision course with the White House.

The committee adopted an amendment to the annual Pentagon policy bill that gives the Defense Department three years to remove the names of Confederate generals from U.S. military assets, according to a source familiar with the closed-door proceedings.

The language, adopted by voice vote as President Donald Trump preemptively threatened to veto any defense bill that did just that, affects massive bases like Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Benning in Georgia. 

But it also goes further and includes everything from ships to streets on Defense Department property.

Full disclosure.

I personally oppose ending commemoration of Washington, Jefferson, or even Columbus, leading figures of the history of the US or the New World, because of their - grave, indeed - sins since they are not celebrated, commemorated, held up to admiration, or even merely memorialized for their sins.

But I quite agree that celebration of historic figures precisely for their sins is not acceptable.

And I personally oppose leftist indigenism regarding the Americas, Africa, or anywhere at all.

Where are the worst of the race based attacks?

Recall the persistence of the conspiracy theory that HIV was invented by white people to depopulate Africa?

Nothing that bad out there, yet, about this Coronavirus?

The 1619 Project

There is a current of American political and historical thought that makes race conflict the center and even the motor of American history.

At least to an extent, this reputedly is so of the Times' 1619 Project.

All that about race goes a very long way to making all but totally invisible the role of class conflict.

Think of the current fixation of Democratic and "lame stream" media on the disproportionate adverse impact of every ill and harm related to the Coronavirus and to societal and governmental efforts to deal with it.

The disparities noted are invariably racial.

But who does not see that they would still exist if we were a racially homogeneous country?

And how could we fail, in that case, to see that these are disparities of impact by social class and occupation?

That the homeless and the outcast, the hands-on and manual laborers among the working class, the small business people teetering on bankruptcy and poverty, are on the wrong end of this stick, as of so many others?

Including on the wrong end of unchecked and unrecognized criminal violence by the police, for example?

There have been repeated favorable mentions of the project on Morning Joe, and today there was an extended discussion of it.

I came in late to the show and only caught a few of the last moments of that discussion.

Joe S seemed uncomfortable with the topic or some issues related to it.

Biden should create his own Task Force of public health experts to give briefings on the virus, what's happening and what's wrong and what's needed

It's never too early to start up Radio Free Europe, is it?

The more Bozo tries to keep his public health people off stage the more chance Biden's own Task Force will have to steal the issue and the pulpit.

And all the better if Fauci and Birx jump ship, or at least publicly echo crucial points made by Biden's team.

Trump will keep them on only to keep them quiet, anyway.

They haven't been seen in public in nearly two weeks, says Chuck Todd.

But then Chuck just now said Montana is, among the lower 48, the state with largest land mass.

No doubt he meant area and somehow forgot both Texas and California.

But that's our source.

Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger

Sure, the virus can't be the only issue.

But it needs to be the leading issue.

And for the sake of the Democrats self-presentation as the sane party looking out for all Americans their supporters must avoid seeming to see this as mostly a minorities victimization issue.

Is it OK for the black majority to make laws governing the choices of the white minority in South Africa?

I ask because of this guilt-tripper doing her level best to stoke outrage that white people will make abortion laws impacting the choices of nonwhites.

Oh, dear me.

White conservative women have played key role in abortion policy changes this year

The main storyline on reproductive rights for months now has been this: Men, many of them conservative, have moved to curtail access to legal abortion and even ban it, imposing their will upon women.

That would be the main guilt-tripping misandrist propaganda line that we are so disgusted by and so used to.

The truth, however, is more complicated.

White women have joined men, mostly but not exclusively in the Deep South, in using their conservative majorities in multiple state legislatures to make sweeping changes to abortion policies this year.

Those laws that survive legal challenges will most deeply affect women too poor to travel or move to a state with better access to abortion services. 

That’s a group that is disproportionately black and Latino — and, in the case of black women, a group that tends to support access to legal abortion. 

This gap between those making the decisions and those affected by them, experts say, is a dynamic with deep roots in American history.

And it happens the other way 'round in every American city or county where a black and overwhelmingly Democratic majority makes the rules for whites, often much more Republican, and other minorities.

Oh how awful!

Wait, is it racist to deplore black majority rule over a white minority? White nationalist? White supremacist, even?

Oh, golly.

The role of white women — long key players in dictating and constraining the reproductive choices of others — is too often discounted and overlooked, experts say. 

In 2019, new abortion restrictions were passed in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana after white women co-sponsored them, many voted for them and in one state, signed the changes into law. 

(In those four state legislatures, 48 women — almost all of them white — voted for the restrictions.)

When Democrats get like this they just make me want to puke all over them.

And regret that the Republicans want to kill me, so I can never vote for them, no matter how revolting the Democrats get.

About OITNB

My wife tells me this is the last season of Orange is the New Black.

As it has been in the past, this is truly an excellent show full of wonderful acting opportunities for people who might not otherwise see a lot of work, or such fine work, in a major and popular program.

And as I have been in the past, I am during almost every episode deeply offended by the constant undercurrent of white bashing.

I mean, shouldn't my living room, or any room where I watch TV, feel to me like a safe place?

Why, I feel like such a snowflake.

All the same, the show this season is highlighting the cruelty of Bozo's policy on the southern border, and there I cannot help but sympathize.

Family separation, child imprisonment, deportation of people who've been here since childhood - the horrors just go on and on.

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.

An isolated act of moral courage.

GOP strategists weigh in on Trump’s attacks on Rep. Omar and the Squad

Ms. Tarkanian, oddly not on Wikipedia, was absolutely right and even courageous to go on MSNBC and flat out reject the lying claim that the Duce's "go back where you came from" tweets addressed to the Gang of Four (the Squad) were racist.

She repeatedly rejected that view.

My only caveat is that she all but enthusiastically accepted the view that the tweets were "stupid".

Jury's still out on that.

Update.

Well, she's not totally alone.

Wrong-footing white people. Again. Of course.

"White privilege" is about wrong-footing white people. Again.

It's a way to put white people in the wrong. Again.

It's a way to blame white people for not suffering the indignities, whatever they are, of minority status.

It's a way to blame them, not for what they do, but for what they don't suffer.

And we always need more and new and better ways to blame white people.

And that's racism, folks.

The racism of non-whites and the orthodox American left, from mainstream liberals onward.

Harping on it is almost as popular in liberal venues as screaming denunciations of Donald Trump's racism.

Though not quite, I admit.

I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.

Not a day goes by without repeated and vicious attacks on white people of one sort or another, lots of them, echoing across the left wing noise machine, all over America.

Time to abandon NOLA

Clearly, not a viable location for city.

Rain Pounds New Orleans as a Hurricane Is Expected to Form in the Gulf

The cost of making this city livable and safe is way prohibitive.

No one outside Louisiana would favor that were it not all about constantly firing up Democratic black voters.

Democrats and their media venues will be attacking the Republicans in the White House and elsewhere for blatant racism and white supremacism no matter what they do about this, anyway, and the GOPsters know it.

So they're not apt to try all that hard to placate Democrats' race-baiting ire.