News and Views

By Rich Kozlovich 

 

Well, it looks like we have another Road to Damascus convert.  Alan Dershowitz has dropped out of the Democrat party for its blatant antisemitism.  Okay, I get that, but he just now noticed?  What about all the other vile stuff they've been promoting for all of his life, and he never noticed that?  Amazing!  Well, this epiphany doesn't make up for all the damage he's supported for all these years, and at his age, he won't have to wait long to answer for it.   

The Chaney's, daughter and father, have gone off the deep end supporting Kamala, because Trump is such a danger to democracy, and Bush says he's not endorsing anyone.  It's not just Trump either, Liz is also supporting Ted Cruz's opponent.  

 

So, what's that all mean?   

 

It means they support antisemitism, higher prices for all the essentials, higher energy costs, higher taxes, outrageous theft by the federal government on "unrealized capital gains" , more regulations, more spending, more debt, more government bureaucracy, they love the CCP, and less freedom.  But it's Trump who is the danger to democracy.  The Chaney's have no shame, and could care less what their choice of ignorant arrogance would do to America, and now conservatives will shun them and the left will laugh at them.  What fools, right along with Mitt Romney, Dennis Kucinich, and Susan Collins. 

You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say?  Yeah, well, I don't have that, but entirely too many pretty good writers do.  Let's start out with this foundational reality!   Polls are crap, and it drives me crazy when conservatives cite polls in states claiming Kamala Harris is ahead, which Brian C. Joondeph a regular writer at American Thinker does.  However, he also had this to say about Colorado:

Surprisingly illegal immigration and the border fall far behind the economy. That may change as news of Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment buildings in Aurora Colorado, Chicago, Dallas, and New York City makes headlines. Many other cities likely have or will face the same.  An illegal alien truck driver killed a Colorado man and received less than a one-year prison sentence. Deportation? Fat chance in sanctuary Colorado. Voters may change the 2024 election mantra to “It’s the border, stupid.”

 

Then we have The Harris Mystique by Matthew Continetti outlining how Kamala has crashed and burned consistently and yet is now running for President saying the Pravda media is totally committed to Kamala, with "84 percent positive coverage" in her first month as a candidate, a far cry from Trump’s 89 percent negative coverage during the same period", but claims, "worshipful press coverage doesn’t fully explain the reversal of Harris’s fortunes." I disagree.  Any upswing, which I don't really believe exists, is a massive nationally organized effort by the left following the Goebbels philosophy of keep repeating lies until they become truth. 

 

The Pravda media is so contemptible and so vile no corruption of thought, lies, or the twisting of facts will stand in the way of this organized effort to totally scam the public into believing Kamala is sharp as a tack..... ooops!    Isn't that what they told the world about Biden?  Then the very next day after his debate with Trump demanded he drop out of the race because he was a babbling idiot.  Remarkable!  You gotta really admire those media guys, they really know a babbling idiot when they see one.  That's meant as a snark for those who don't get it.  

The Biden/Harris administration imposed almost $1.4 trillion in regulations, wants to end right to work laws, and tax the Nation to the tune of another $5 trillion of new taxes over 10 years, and this is the trend in each and every state run by the Democrats, and seemingly the left loves it.  Those a just a few of the stunningly unpleasant realities of Kamala Harris the Pravda media will continue to hide, misdirect, forget about, twist the facts, lie, and falsely accuse other's of doing the things the Obama cabal are in reality actually doing.   They are cause of higher costs.  An administration so filled with incompetence and stupidity, I would think they should scare everyone with their treasonous actions and decisions. 

Now here's something really resonating with conservatives.  Trump has promised to purge the federal bureaucracy by creating "..... a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government — and making recommendations for drastic reforms.” And that needs done badly.  

We know the very young are rarely impacted by covid, and we also know the damage these false vaccines represent to those who've taken the shots, and the damage is serious. So, what's the deep state wanting to do, inject very small children with these false vaccine, gene altering chemical compounds.  Some one needs to go to jail over this, and it's long overdue for Americans to recognize these "seven myths" of our medical system, and the damage these "myths' represent.   

In western civilization the idea of a religious war is anathema.  There's only one problem with that.  Western civilization has no say in that.  If a religious movement decides to declare war based on their religious principles, then it's a religious war, and Islam has been at war with civilization for all of it's existence, including today!  We really do need to get that.

The lawfare claims by the left against Trump are starting to come unglued.  A Manhattan attorney working for..or with.. Bragg admitted it was all a corrupt farce for personal political gain for Bragg.  Judge Merchan has decided to put off his sentencing until after the election in order make sure there's no appearance of election interference.  Hogwash, this whole trail was clearly set to do just that. It's being claimed he fears sentence him now because no matter what schemes he's hatched, Trump's polls skyrocketed, and he fears sentencing him will help in his re-election bid.  Well, there may be some truth to that, but what I believe is he sees the handwriting on the wall, and he knows if trump is elected there's going to be an RICO investigation on all this lawfare corruption nationwide, and he'll be a part of it. 

 

 The Congressional Black Caucus has issued new guidelines for corporations to use in adopting their diversity, equity and inclusion policies, as if this is anything but a scam.  DEI is nothing short of the acceptance of incompetence without consequence, and they need to be told to shove it.  If they really want to improve the conditions in black America they need to stop lying and recognize it's not racism that's black America's problem.  It's single parent families, and the black churches bear a large degree of responsibility for that.

 

For years politics in black America was centered in black churches, assuming that's still true, what have we seen? Radicals like Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Amos Brown, and others, blaming all of their problems on whites. Black academics are equally to blame. Not one word about illegitimacy, the real root of their problems.

If you want a stable successful society, you start with a stable foundation, the family, made up of a man, a woman, and their children. Let them address that, and then we won't have to talk about DEI. 

Remember when the Pravda media highlighted .....  24/7 ...with outrage I might add... every time Bush went to his home in Texas insisting he was neglecting his duties and responsibility as President?    Well, it appears Ole Joe spent over forty percent of his time on vacation, and no one noticed.  Imagine that.  

Ya just gotta really hand it to those media boys, they really know what's going on.  Unless they don't what you to know what's going on, and don't want you to know what's going on.  

Now, who could find fault wit that?

New Pakistani Muslim Mayor Says City is Racist After Winning Election by 97%

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Akron, Ohio’s first Pakistani Muslim mayor is convinced that America is racist. 

Despite winning a challenging mayoral election by 97% in which he was the only candidate on the ballot after the Republican candidate was disqualified, Shammas Malik has never stopped talking about how racism is everywhere in the country and the city that elected him.

“He’s going to be the face of equity and diversity,” a Malik ally claimed.

And the face of diversity believes that everything about Akron, including its Innerbelt defunct highway system, is racist. “The choice to build the Innerbelt is a great example of systemic racism,” he claimed. “Projects like the Innerbelt explain our sickening racial wealth gap,” he contended elsewhere. And “one great example” of Akron’s racism, he lectured, was the Innerbelt which “was designed to help suburban commuters get to downtown Akron quicker.”

Malik’s solution to most problems, from highways to law enforcement, is to blame racism.

In 2022, Jayland Walker, who had led police on a chase the previous night, shot at officers and then tried to flee while wearing a ski mask, was shot and killed leading to BLM race riots.

Malik showed up at a protest against the grand jury’s refusal to indict the 8 police officers for shooting a man in a ski mask who had opened fire at them and was reaching into his waistband and then raising his arm before they finally opened fire on the suicidal man.

“There can be no justification for the brutal amount of force in the video of Jayland’s last moments,” Malik insisted while not making it clear what the correct amount of force police should use when they think a man wearing a ski mask in June is about to shoot at them.

Malik started his time in office by appointing a Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and doubling down on his claim that the country and the city are deeply racist hellholes.

“The very real history of racism in America is more than just history, it shapes the systems and institutions around us today,” Malik claimed.

Those are the same systemically racist institutions which allowed Shammas Iqbal Qammar Malik, the 32-year-old son of a Pakistani immigrant, to head one of the largest cities in Ohio. Institutions so deeply racist that they elevated him above all the other white primary candidates and then gifted him an uncontested election after less than four years on the City Council.

Malik claimed that the “history of racism means that the race of a baby born in Akron today will have a huge impact on their life experience – from the likelihood that they will live past infancy, to the amount of money they will earn in a lifetime.” What did Malik’s own race determine?

Mayor Shammas Malik’s father, a Pakistani immigrant, who used different names, left him and his American mother, a liberal University of Akron professor, had other secret kids, and was later arrested for wire fraud and impersonating an Air Force officer.

Despite that, both Malik and his brother Najim were able to intern at the Senate. Malik went on to intern at the Department of Defense, attend Harvard Law School and get the highest possible position in city government after only a few years on the job.

That is how incredibly racist America and Akron are.

As a student, Shammas Malik had been a member of the terrorist-linked Muslim Student Association before graduating to intern at the terrorist-linked Muslim Public Affairs Council. Multiple MSA leaders and officials have gone on to fight for Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups. MPAC’s leaders have defended Hamas as well as other Islamic terrorist groups.

After working as a government and policy intern for MPAC, Malik moved on to the leftist Center for American Progress and then as an intern in the Pentagon’s legal office working on federal litigation involving national security and military commissions trials for Al Qaeda terrorists.

And he has learned one thing from all his experiences. America is terrible.

Malik Shammas claimed that America “killed thousands of civilians through drone and airstrikes across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, etc. across the last 20 years – feeding into the recruitment of horrific terror groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS.”

White people, like his mother and her family, an environmentalist who married his wealthy Pakistani dad, according to Malik, have far too much money because of systemic racism.

“White families have almost 10 times as much wealth as black families, in large part because of systemic barriers that prevent black families from accessing home ownership and creating intergenerational wealth,” Shammas Malik argued.

One reason Shammas Malik is the mayor is that he dominated the Democrat party mayoral primaries by outraising all the other candidates with over $300,000: a record setting amount for a local election. Wealth is evil and racist except when it comes from his old law firm.

Malik claimed white people suffer from “implicit bias” to be remedied with critical race theory.

“The reason we need a true and accurate teaching of race in school is because there’s unconscious bias,” Malik argued. “When folks talk about critical race theory being taught in public schools, we know by now that they’re not actually talking about critical race theory,” he argued another time. “What they’re alarmed about is a more honest, fuller accounting of race in our history.”

By “our history”, he doesn’t mean the incredibly racist system in Pakistan where a foreigner of another religion would never have a chance at a top position, and would be lucky not to be killed for even trying, but in the country that gave him every possible opportunity and advantage.

During the pandemic, Malik’s priority was racism. “Certainly it will be very important to find out how much race and class plays into this virus, here and nationwide,” he urged.

After the Supreme Court outlawed racial discrimination in college admissions (known by the misleading name of ‘affirmative action’), Malik, a Harvard Law alum, complained that, “systemic racism is real. To fix it, we have to be willing to acknowledge the problem in the first place. Today’s decision is a huge step backwards in the fight for freedom and justice for all people.”

Even the rising crime caused by pro-crime activists like him, was blamed on systemic racism.

“Like many cities, Akron is facing a crisis of gun violence, with 26 homicides so far this year, as well as necessary calls for reimagining our policing and oversight processes to address systemic racism and increase public trust,” the future mayor contended.

Ending the murders would require empowering the police to fight crime. Instead, Mayor Shammas Malik appointed a new DEI director and blamed systemic racism and the cops.

There was a time when immigrants would be grateful for the opportunities of this country, but many have since learned that it’s much more effective to be ungrateful and hateful instead.

“The vote for someone who is not the traditional white male profile is something that we as a community should celebrate,” a Malik ally claimed.

In politics and in so many other areas, merely not being white is its own achievement. And by being only half-white, Malik has achieved half of something.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.  Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

Man Accuses Walmart of Racism, Demands “Unlimited Free Lifetime Shopping”

"He sustained injuries such as headaches and chest pain from the emotional stress"

January 11, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield 12 Comments 

DEI in a nutshell. Endless grievance and bottomless demands.

In one of the complaints, [Robert] Jackson claims that he is suing for “false pretense of shoplifting” that occurred in March 2021 at a Walmart store in Omaha, Nebraska. Jackson said in a separate complaint filed the same day that he suffered “civil rights violations based on race/color” at the Nebraska Walmart.

Both of Jackson’s suits request relief up to $100 million or “unlimited free lifetime shopping at any Walmart,” additionally asking that any court fees be paid by the defendant on the plaintiff’s behalf. Jackson’s 2021 lawsuit says that he sustained injuries such as headaches and chest pain from the emotional stress of the incident as well as “frequent pain from too tight handcuffs of being detained.”

Sure it’s easy to laugh, but wait until Ben Crump or Al Sharpton get involved..........To Read More....

 

St. Paul Schools Kicked Out Cops, Staff Are Too Terrified to Work

By Daniel Greenfield July 16, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog

 “Divesting in police is investing in black lives,” St. Paul School Board Director Chauntyll Allen declared as the district voted not to renew its contract with the St. Paul Police Department.

It was 2020 and the heyday of the Black Lives Matter race riots over the drug overdose death of violent career criminal George Floyd. Police defunding fever was running high in the Twin Cities.

A Somali Muslim student with the last name Omar claimed that police officers had “brutalized multiple Muslim girls” and attacked their hijabs. After the vote, Omar claimed that removing police officers “means better safety and less trauma for black and brown kids”.

Another student named Muhammad promised that “removing police from schools is an important step toward true safety.”

Three years later true safety has been officially achieved.

A St. Paul Public Schools survey found that 55% of high school staff feel unsafe at work. 71% of staffers had seen physical violence in school and 40% were worried about weapons in schools.

The two most popular requests made by the terrified school staffers are to get serious about punishing violent students and to bring in police officers to restore safety and security.

The Black Lives Matter campaign to “save black lives” by keeping police officers out of school led to the stabbing death of Devin Scott: a 15-year-old black teenage boy by a 16-year-old black teenager in a high school hallway. Scott’s memorial service was commemorated by a drive-by shooting in which passengers in a white car opened fire and shot three teens at the service.

The youngest victim of that shooting was 14-years-old. Police stopped a 16-year-old with a gun but aren’t sure if he was one of the shooters or one of those being shot at. Earlier another 16-year-old had been shot in the head across the street from St. Paul’s Central High School.

“This incident, that Devin Scott was killed in, he would not have been killed if a police officer was present to intervene rather than school staff,” Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said.

“I agree with him,” Anthony Scott, Devin’s uncle, said.

St. Paul schools had replaced school resource officers, who were police, with school support liaisons who were supposed to “build relationships with students”. The social workers proved to be useless when protecting staff or stopping a teenage boy from being stabbed to death.

“There is a level of support that is required from time to time that we’re just not equipped to do as a school staff,” Superintendent Joe Gothard warned. Without the police, the staff have to call the cops to stop an attack and wait for them to arrive. “Seconds and minutes really do add up.”

The cops have now been stationed outside schools, because the BLMers don’t want them inside, but parents and students are demanding that the cops come in from the cold.

Valeria Barrios-Sanchez, a student who saw Devin murdered, asked for the police to come back. “I am a senior, and this is supposed to be my most memorable year. It will be. Unfortunately, I have to remember it as the year I witnessed a homicide,” she told board members. “I implore the board to make a decision to help the future generations at Harding.”

“If we don’t address school safety, we will continue to victimize our most vulnerable population, which are young black men. They are the ones being shot and stabbed. For sure there is a school to prison pipeline. But there is also a school to hospital to morgue pipeline,” a former parent and track coach warned.

Ali Alowonle, an Asian “Liberatory Educator”, a teacher and DEI activist whose pronouns are “they/she”, however ranted that the district needed to divest from police and focus on “restorative practices, ethnic studies curriculum and instruction, reimagining family.”

If only an ethnic studies curriculum had been there when Devin was stabbed.

“Folks have been dying to get Police back in the buildings to monitor our black children,” Chauntyll Allen fumed. A school resource officer, according to her, “is still a killer cop.”

But it wasn’t a cop that killed Devin, but one of the beneficiaries of St. Paul’s embrace of Black Lives Matter and its pro-crime policies. A cop didn’t kill Devin, Chauntyll Allen’s policies did.

When the St. Paul board voted 5-1 to remove cops from schools, they also voted 5-1 to kill Devin and to let gang members and teenage drug dealers terrorize their employees.

What’s happening in St. Paul schools reflects the larger crisis over police defunding and rising crime that has wrecked the Twin Cities.

In 2021, St. Paul set a new record for murders and increased again in 2022. Pro-crime policies like police defunding and crime legalization, along with support for Black Lives Matter, has led to murders of mostly black people. High schools are at the bleeding edge of the crime wave.

Pro-crime policies have cost lives in and out of the schools. And yet the Left has not given up claiming that violent crime is a problem that can be solved with ethnic studies and a whole range of buzzwords. When police were pulled out of schools, activists claimed that would make black students safer. The students aren’t safe, neither are the workers, nor is anyone else.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles.  Thank you for reading.

Black-on-Black Whiteness

By Daniel Greenfield April 02, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog

City Councilwoman Latrisha Vetaw is black. She was raised by a single mother on food stamps and became the first member of her family to graduate from college.

She’s also allegedly a racist and a white supremacist.

In an unexpected twist, Latrisha and Minneapolis City Council President ‘Andrea’ Jenkins, a black man who claims to be a woman, who was terrorized by the Black Lives Matter protesters he supported, were accused of racism against black people.

The accuser, Tyeastia Green, Minneapolis’ former racial equity director, claims that Latrisha and ‘Andrea’ created “an unsafe and unhealthy work environment for black people.” According to Green, black politicians employed “weapons of whiteness” to sabotage her efforts to fight “institutionalized racism” and impose Ibram X. Kendi’s anti-racism on the already battered city.

Black people have come a long way and can be accused of being white supremacists too.

Black-on-black whiteness is a real problem in Minneapolis where nearly half the city council is black. With only 5 white people on the council, most of whom worship at the shrine of anti-racism and denounce their white privilege, whiteness has to come from somewhere.

That means black people accusing each other of racism. Or, as Green put it, “Blacks can utilize antiblackness and racism against other blacks.” The death of Tyre Nichols, allegedly at the hands of black police officers, was blamed on systemic racism. The Pulitzer Center offers a session on the historical revisionism of the 1619 Project to convince black people “how we may have internalized and come to believe white supremacist fallacies about who we are.”

Political accusations of black whiteness used to be hurled at conservatives like Justice Clarence Thomas or talk show host Larry Elder, but, as in Minneapolis, black leftists are accusing each other of whiteness or anti-blackness which, in the age of critical race theory, are the same thing.

While black-on-black whiteness accusations were flying around Minneapolis, 1,600 miles and a whole other climate away over in Phoenix, Gov. Katie Hobbs, the self-elected new Democrat governor of Arizona, signed the CROWN Act in the presence of former white NAACP president Rachel Dolezal. The CROWN Act is a fashionably foolish piece of legislation which claims that wearing hair in dreadlocks is a civil right and should be protected as such.

Rachel Dolezal, who is white but identifies as black, has dreadlocks. The CROWN Act claims to protect black people, but what it actually does is protect anyone with dreadlocks including Dolezal, who identifies as ‘Nkechi’ and works with the African American Museum of Southern Arizona. But that’s what happens when race is reduced to a hairstyle that came as part of a black nationalist cultural movement or, even more often, a set of political attitudes.

In critical race theory, whiteness is defined as the norms of white people (even when they’re actually the norms of most successful cultures and countries) while blackness and other forms of ‘minoritization’ have to be defined in opposition to whiteness. That led the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to post its infamous chart describing individualism, family, hard work, the scientific method, rational thinking, correct grammar, avoiding conflict, and politeness as examples of whiteness.

Defining yourself by what you are not is the classic racist facility. Racists take their identity from demonizing the ‘other’ and then gain validation from their superiority to their own invented boogeyman. In one of the least surprising ironies of academic racism, all the endless analyses of how ‘whiteness’ others minorities in just this manner became a handbook for turning white people into the ‘other’ and then defining minorities as the opposite of white people.

Even if that meant rejecting family, individualism and politeness along the way.

Black-on-black whiteness overlays the familiar paradigm of ‘acting white’ with a political gloss. But defining whiteness and blackness through such externalities is how Councilwoman Latrisha Vetaw became a white supremacist and Rachel Dolezal became black. In her memoir, Dolezal claimed that her first marriage broke up because she was “too black” for her husband.

Who, unlike her, actually was black.

Dolezal or Nkechi, a single mother who wears dreadlocks, was convicted of welfare fraud, and earns money from sex work, is a white person’s grotesque parody of a black woman that has the same relationship to it that transgender men imitating women do to the real thing.

Rachel Dolezal insists that race is a “social construct” much as cross-dressing men argue that sex is a social construct. And when fundamental identities are reduced to social constructs then everything becomes a matter of presentation. Women, as J.K. Rowling noted, become an idea in a man’s head, similarly black people become an idea. And once black people are an idea, they can just as easily be accused of being tainted by whiteness: another idea of race.

The old creed of post-racial tolerance believed that white and black people were different in body, but the same in their souls. The new creed of anti-racist intolerance insists that we’re irreconcilably different inside but that our externalities are just a set of ideas. In this world, black people can suffer from ‘anti-blackness’ and even beyond colorism, micro-racial battles abound.

If no one is truly black except that they think so, anyone can either willingly swap their race like Rachel or come down with a case of internalized whiteness. The only way to disprove accusations of black-on-black whiteness is with militant racial virtue signaling. And that’s what Tyeastia Green, the former equity boss of Minneapolis, has to offer when going after a black transgender council president and a black councilwoman. If race is an idea, then the only way to truly belong is by becoming a militant stereotype. Just ask Rachel who gave it her best shot.

Racism, as we used to know, is debilitating to both the haters and the hated. The damage to the hated is more obvious while the self-destruction of the haters is more subtle. The haters lose touch with their identity, their anger becomes the touchstone of their authenticity and they feel lost without it. They gain validation from their purity and purge each other in paranoid sprees.

Racists start out believing that identity is biological only to come to believe that it’s ideological.

Black nationalism had embraced this idea early on. Nationalists devoutly chant, “skinfolk ain’t kinfolk” in their endless internecine disputes. They hold up the familiar templates, Uncle Tom or Uncle Ruckus, claiming that they love black people even as they have come to hate them.

What they’re left with is a world of black-on-black whiteness in which no black person can ever truly be black, but Rachel Dolezal can. Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.  Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

Daniel Greenfield Unleashed

By Rich Kozlovich 

I love listing Daniel's articles. While he graciously allows me to publish his articles from his blog, the Frontpage pieces can only be linked, and they're worth the effort. There isn't an issue he's not dealing with.  He's prolific, he's insightful, he's factual, he's invariably ahead of the curve and he's invariably right.   So, enjoy. 

America’s Drug Trade is ‘Made in China’, "Roughly 75 percent are linked to China." This isn’t news to anyone who has been following the pot business in California. Not the “legal one” which proved to be a mostly worthless boom up there with cryptocurrency. Just ask Med Men which wanted to be the Apple of drugs. The illegal one though is increasingly looking like it’s Made in China even when it’s grown in America...............

Biden Honors Activist Who Accused America of Racism and Genocide - Another anti-American leftist from the list of Biden’s National Humanities Medal honorees. Bryan Stevenson’s presence on the list of Biden honorees isn’t surprising. The central figure of ‘Just Mercy’ was already spewing his racial poison at the National Prayer Breakfast. He’s received plenty of honors and here’s a national one from an activist whose signature talking point is, “I don’t think slavery ended in 1865. I think it just evolved..............

Biden Honors Pro-Cuba Activist Who Praised Castro, “What impressed me most [about meeting Castro]"...........Biden’s list of National Humanities Medal honorees include Johnnetta Cole. The Clinton administration was forced to drop her over her ties to Cuba.............But we live in an era in which Karen Bass was made mayor of Los Angeles by the unified votes of ballot harvesters and their conveniently late-arriving ballots, so why not Cole? What’s a little affection for a mass-murdering Communist monster among Democrat pals?.............

Biden Honors Anti-American Open Borders Activist, "Reclaim land illegally acquired from Hispanos"....The thing to do with the National Medal of Arts would be to abolish it or to hand it out to every single resident of the country so it becomes completely irrelevant. But no Republican administration has been willing to do that. So invariably it becomes an opportunity to honor a few lefty celebs and sneak in assorted worse figures. Biden’s National Medal of Arts awards include Judy Baca. She’s not a household name unless you live in Arizona, Texas or California and have some memory of the debates over illegal migration.  Here’s a flashback..............

SVB Bailout Forces Americans to Pay Higher Fees to Bail Out Chinese Corps, Woke capital is bleeding Americans on behalf of China....Sorry. I missed the party memo. It’s not a “bailout”, they’re being “made whole”. In my SVB article, I noted the presence of Chinese capital in the bank. One reason for that is that SVB had limited guardrails for Chinese money...........Now, Biden’s Treasury Sec Janet Yellen confirmed that Communist Chinese capital will also get bailed out..............

Ex-Marine Shot in Terrorist Attack in Israel, Returns Fire, "He is a firearms instructor, and trained people exactly for these moments."...The Taylor Force Act, which banned further funding to the PLO until it stops paying terrorists to kill, was named after Taylor Force, a former Army officer who was stabbed to death in Jerusalem, whose family is now suing the Biden administration for violating the law by providing “aid” to the terrorists.  Yesterday, David Stern, a former marine, was shot in Hawara alongside his wife Rachel Stern.  Hawara is an Arab Muslim terror village where recently two young men were shot and killed while waiting in traffic.............The Biden administration has demanded that Israel investigate the death of terrorist propagandist Shireen Abu Akleh from the Al Jazeera terror network. There should be an investigation of the PLO funding of the shooter who attacked David Stern and his wife.

SF Dems Campaigned Against Gun Violence With Gang Member Who Killed 15-Year-Old, Three weeks later, Madrigal railed against gun violence at a rally at San Francisco City Hall....This story isn’t unusual. What’s unusual is that it was exposed in the San Francisco Chronicle. Gang members are a regular feature of urban politics and the assorted protests against the criminal justice system.  Consider this a perfect embodiment of a pro-crime party that loves criminals and hates victims...........

IRS Allows PFLP Terrorists to Fundraise Through Leftist Nonprofit, The terrorist group behind the 2019 terrorist attack was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. And the IRS is accused of allowing it to fundraise through a leftist nonprofit group. One name that keeps coming up in the Freedom Center’s investigations of nonprofits is the Alliance for Global Justice. AFGJ was spun off from the Nicaragua Network which had been set up to support the Sandinista Marxist terror regime. It went on to operate the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in support of the narcosocialist Maduro regime in that country...........

 

 

Daniel Greenfield Unleashed

Who’s Running America? - Two of the three branches of government are in the hands of the mentally incapable.  Last week the Senate Democrat majority was hospitalized with Senator John Fetterman dispatched to a psych ward and Senator Dianne Feinstein, who doesn’t seem to know where she is, hospitalized for shingles. Fetterman and Feinstein didn’t let being hospitalized slow them down and went right on co-sponsoring bills even though the former had to be hospitalized because he couldn’t take care of himself and the latter no longer recognized colleagues.Even in the Senate, Fetterman couldn’t understand what was being said and Feinstein wasn’t aware that she had announced her retirement. Despite that there are press releases from their offices and they’re cosponsoring legislation as if they’re functional and able to make decisions........ 

It’s Not Censorship When They Do It -  Both sides agree that children should not be exposed to inappropriate materials. The New York Times has run dozens of shrill and false stories accusing Florida of banning books. The paper has numerous stories about what it calls “book bans”: virtually all of them involve removing sexual content from schools at the behest of parental groups and conservatives. And then it runs this. Should Classic Children’s Books Be Updated for Today’s Young Readers? New York Times The Times largely links to an op-ed, ‘The Truth About the ‘Censorship’ of Roald Dahl’ arguing that it’s no big deal. “Making changes, even rather sweeping ones, to classic works of literature is not as controversial as some would like to imagine.”......

Iraqi Prime Minister to Solve Nation’s Problems With Solar Panels -I have yet to see a problem that can't be fixed by putting up solar panels.  Hope and change. I have yet to see a problem that can’t be fixed by putting up solar panels. I believe we can all agree that what Iraq, a miserable war-torn hellhole in a permanent state of civil war (yes, long before we got there) whose only real resource comes out of the ground, needs is a climate policy. Iraq’s prime minister Sunday promised sweeping measures to tackle climate change — which has affected millions across the country — including plans to meet a third of the country’s electricity demands using renewable energy. If Iraq can’t change the weather by putting up solar panels and windmills, who can?............  

Blue-Eyed Hollywood Millionaire of Spanish Descent Claims to be Racism Victim - “There’s a lot of subtle racism".  You may remember Guillermo del Toro from The Shape of Water, one of the worst movies to ever win an Oscar, or the almost equally bad Blade II, or the recent Netflix campaign for Pinnochio that makes him seem like the next Walt Disney. But you may not realize that Del Toro, born to a Spanish automobile pioneer in Mexico was a victim of… racism. After offering his support to animators, del Toro opined about the racism that he has faced at various points in his career as a Mexican filmmaker. I didn’t realize Mexican filmmakers were a race.........  

Wokeness and Cryptocurrency Were Systemic Risks for SVB and Signature - Wokeness and crypto have a few things in common. They’re both imaginary currencies that claim to exchange bad for good when they actually trade good for bad. Their value lies entirely in a state of mind. If you believe that we are heading toward an imaginary utopia, political or technocratic, they seem very exciting. Theories are no substitute for facts. Utopians run on theories that can only be implemented either through mass delusion or mass repression. And when utopian ideas infect institutions, they pose a systemic risk. It’s no coincidence that SVB and Signature were suffering from both wokeness and crypto. Why settle for one scam when you can have two?............

Hollow Sanctimony Over Hawara - What the reaction to a rare Jewish riot in Israel says about Jewish liberals.  One Sunday, two brothers, Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, young men with a bright future ahead of them were murdered while stuck in traffic in the Muslim village of Hawara in Israel. The locals celebrated their crime by singing, handing out candy and shooting off fireworks in the air. “Every day, yes! – every single day – at least 20 Jewish cars get stoned while driving through Hawara,” Shmuel Sackett, the head of a tree-planting foundation, wrote...........

 

Another ‘Negro’ Woman Professor Lying For Attention

By Mychal Massie January 30, 2023

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“Negro puh-leeze,” was a jocular phrase used by young urbanites, who considered themselves “colored,” laughed and tossed at one another during my teenage years.  After reading a summary of a Scientific American article by what purports itself to be Black Think Tank @ Duke University; I am forced to say: “Negro puh-leeze!”

The article I reference was written by Dr. Tracie Canada (Cul Ant) and titled: “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football.”  The summary reads:

“Dr. Tracie Canada wrote on the “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence, which disproportionately affects Black men.  She said that as a cultural anthropologist, she spent the last decade learning how Black college football players navigate the exploitation, racism, and anti-Blackness that are fundamental to its current system.  Dr. Canada also questions the leagues, organizations, teams, coaches, spectators, and fans who benefit from their performance and expect them to tough it out when they get hurt and applaud them when they play through these injuries.”

It is time to stop sending these people to school to get dumb.  The hebephrenic absurdity inherent in this baneful polemic cannot be overstated. This is another toxic, viscous substance used to lubricate the flim-flam machine invented and operated by pernicious neo-Leninists.  These people would claim that lions and tigers were brought to America because the African slaves feared them back in the jungle, and thus, zoos were created to keep slaves from running away.

This woman is an insult to stupidity.  She writes: “This ordinary violence has always riddled the sport and it affects all players.  But, Black players are disproportionately affected.  While Black men are severely underrepresented in positions of power across football organizations, such as coaching and management, they are overrepresented on the gridiron.”

She continues: 

“Non-white players account for 70 percent of the NFL; nearly half of all Division I college football players are Black.”

This is the favorite hypocorism for “no one suffers like we do.”  It’s too bad she doesn’t view abortion through a similar prism.  Nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood baby killing centers are located in poor mostly Colored neighborhoods.  This demographic of Americans comprise 12 percent of the population, and the smallest percentage of women of childbearing age, yet they account the highest percentage of babies killed.  They’re singularly responsible for reducing that overall demographic by more than one-third.

Her boasting of being supposedly being a cultural anthropologist reminds me of AOC claiming to have degrees in economics and international relations.  In a Twitter post Cortez tweeted at 10:05AM – February 1, 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed:  “I have a degree in economics and another in international relations from Boston University. Before that MIT honored my work in microbiology.  I’m sure some might sarcastically joke that overnight involvement with an international student isn’t synonymous with a degree program.  But, I digress.

That said, Canada’s saying she’s a cultural anthropologist, who spent the last decade learning about Black college football players and how they’re exploited is intellectually dishonest and morally opprobrious, but obviously not out of character for her.

She’s clearly one of those who goes through life cashing in on victimology and fomenting immiseration, instead of encouraging personal responsibility.

What she wrote and alleges is nothing more than a transpicuous display of invented complaint by someone who knows less than nothing about football.  I don’t watch football.  I’ve zero interest in it.  When the NFL players badmouthed my country and my flag, I wrote them off.

But, if this person were honest, she would have studied the great number of players in the years before her crayon color players were in the league.  What about the great number of players who were permanently maimed and who died in the days when they wore leather helmets with no facemasks?  

What about the days when they were allowed to do crack-back blocking and high hits were permitted?  What about the days before surgery progressed to the point it has?  What about the days when the players made only a few dollars per game and had to work outside jobs to support their families?  What about the crayon color players beating, raping, shooting, killing, stealing, fathering children out-of-wedlock, ad nauseum?

What about the players who are injured every day in the NFL, who aren’t a crayon color?  Her’s is the rawest example of attempting to capitalize on invented fantasy, that I’ve seen in my life

She should be ashamed for stooping to attempt to cash in on such invented myth.  Her feigned jeremiad called a study, reduced the anthropology department to the level of the Durham County District Attorney’s Office when Mike Nifong was the District Attorney. And, the article certainly did nothing to enhance the credibility of Scientific American magazine.

But, what the heck, it was published just in time for the 28-day agitprop festival that began as Negro History Week.

Before neo-Leninist liberals decided to punish Americans for the evil that racist Democrats perpetrated, the former slaves took pride in positive accomplishment and the pursuit of modernity. Today, the majority of these people have more disdain for modernity than an agoraphobic has for a sold-out football stadium.

About the Author

Mychal Massie

Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here

African-American filmmaker accuses Hollywood of racism and sexism following Oscar snub

By Rajan Laad January 26, 2023

Cinema is a rare art form that transcends all boundaries and brings people together. Nowhere else does a diverse group of people sit together to experience similar emotions simultaneously. Audiences are enthralled together, they laugh together, they cheer together, they jeer together, they cry together, and if the work is admirable, they applaud together.......When award nominations are announced, many in the media study the demographic groups of the nominees instead of the quality of their work.

A few days back, the same Hollywood that sanctimoniously brands a large section of the public as bigots, was accused of bigotry for snubbing some critically acclaimed films by and about Black people. The film at the center of this controversy is Till..................Chukwu accused Hollywood of racism and sexism............Some were outraged that African American actress Viola Davis didn't clinch a Best Actress nomination for her role for The Woman King.......... So were they driven by racism and misogyny?

Before we decide that we must remember that auteurs such as Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick, never won an Oscar for directing. Harrison Ford hasn’t won an Oscar........Al Pacino didn’t win for the first two Godfather pictures or for Serpico, or for Dog Day Afternoon.  Peter O’Toole didn’t win for Becket, The Lion in the Winter, Lawrence of Arabia, or any of his other masterly performances. Ultimately in 2003, O'Toole received an honorary Oscar.......... Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, E.T., Goodfellas, Saving Private Ryan, The Shawshank Redemption, There Will Be Blood, and numerous other films that are considered classics were nominated for Best Picture, but never won the Oscar.  Robert Redford never won an Oscar for any of his memorable acting performances -- he eventually got one for Best Director......

The snub for Till may hence not necessarily be driven by racism or misogyny, but perhaps due to a lack of awareness about the film........It was inevitable that this monster would eventually turn on its creator. It will be amusing to see how they get out of this pit.......To Read More....

My Take - Is it racism, misogyny, or maybe the people who vote didn't like the films or performance? Or maybe the studio arrogantly thought they didn't have to create "buzz" since Hollywood has become a sect in the Church of Wokeness?  I have no idea, I've not seen any of the films at issue since I just don't go to the movies any longer, just as I don't watch sports any longer, and for the same reason.  

So, maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, I don't know, but since "", I've long stopped caring.    

Washington Post goes woke on Argentina and it doesn't end well for them

 

December 13, 2022 By Monica Showalter

The Washington Post ran what it must have thought was the standard wokester argument like the rest of them, upbraiding Argentina in an op-ed for not having enough black soccer players on its national team in the World Cup. "Why doesn’t Argentina have more Black players in the World Cup?" the headline read, leading to an op-ed by some El Paso wokester professor who apparently doesn't know much about Argentina, whose capital is 5,534 miles away from El Paso. The Post's vaunted fact-checkers didn't seem to know much, either. Suffice to say, it didn't go well for the Post.

The Argentines responded with fury at the sorry woman's sheer ignorance of their country (GatewayPundit has some choice replies), and the Post had to run an embarrassing correction. According to Fox News:............. To Read More

 Editor's Note:  Please take some time and review My Argentina File, which goes back to 2012.  RK

 

Obama Goes Jussie Smollett With a Fake Noose

Daniel Greenfield November 21, 2022 @ Sultan Knish Blog

 The Obama Presidential Center is only slightly less popular in Chicago than a rat with syphilis, a gang member doing a drive-by or Mayor Lori Lightfoot (ranked in reverse order of unpopularity).

The vanity memorial to the third worst president in American history has been underway for eight years. Local residents have fought it in court and community organizers have protested against it, demanding that the Messiah of Hope and Change buy them off.

“Obama himself was a bridge between communities, and this presidential center will be as well,” David Axelrod claimed. Instead, like Obama himself, the Obama Center divided everyone.

Black opponents call white supporters racists and black supporters call white opponents racists.

Truly, a wonderful reminder of the way that Obama always managed to bring us together.

Locals complain about the traffic, the noise and worry that black people will lose their homes. Others wonder why anyone actually needs a billion dollar monument to a retired politician.

When the Center was first proposed, Obama was a minor deity demanding his temple, now he’s a fallen god. Like the Clintons and Carter, he has receded into political obscurity. Once Democrats worshiped the ground he walked on, now they don’t care.

At least until the Obama Presidential Center claimed to have found a noose on the site.

The rope, commonplace on any construction site, was carefully bagged up and ominously displayed for the cameras.

Treating the rope like an emergency, the Obama Foundation paused work and issued a statement declaring that, “This shameless act of cowardice and hate is designed to get attention and divide us.”

It has been the only time anyone outside Chicago has paid attention to the Obama Center.

Which KKK member would have shown up to Jackson Park, these days filled heavily with black people, to plant a noose at what is probably the most highly secured non-military construction site? After a series of fake nooses which turned out to be as real as Jussie’s lynching, there’s every reason to be skeptical of this publicity stunt trying to make Obama relevant again.

That hasn’t stopped the Lakeside Alliance, which is handling construction, from offering a $100,000 reward for the grim roper. Construction on Chicago’s own white elephant project was halted, but “vehicles will be going in and out of the site today as Lakeside Alliance team members prepare for anti-bias training that will begin next week and to secure the site.”

If anyone working construction intentionally set up a noose to represent a proposed hanging of Obama, “anti-bias training” isn’t gonna fix that. All it’s going to do is make the construction workers dealing with cold and windy days even more miserable as they’re forced to hear lectures about their white privilege from racists who make five times more than they do.

The Obama Foundation brought in the Lakeside Alliance, a coalition of five, mostly black construction companies, because they were supposed to be handing out the work to minorities.

The public face of the Lakeside Alliance was Mamon Powers Jr, a name almost certainly taken from a Madea movie, who declared that “we put the president’s alliance together” because “I thought we black people should be in charge. We can build anything. We’ll select the white partner, most compatible with us, that believes in our vision, our mission and our goals.”

With four black-owned construction companies, which workers would be planting nooses?

It’s a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, tied together with Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR pull rope which was also mistaken for a noose and led to an FBI investigation and media outrage.

With six figures on the table, you would think that even the most fanatical members of the Lakeside KKK would have turned in their rope-bearing compadre. And yet no one has come forward to claim that $100,000. Or O.J.’s $500,000 reward for information about the real killer.

Local sleazy pols have however rushed to cash in on the fake noose.

“Hate has no place in Illinois. The noose is more than a symbol of racism,” fumed morbidly obese billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed that the rope was “disturbing” and “repulsive”: two words that have often been used to describe her face.

Say what you will about Obama, and there’s lots to say, he has at least avoided staging hate crimes against himself in the past. But a man desperate for attention will do anything.

Just ask Jussie.

The Obama Foundation’s fundraising has been dropping.

The messiah’s foundation wants to raise $1.6 billion for a center that dozens of schoolchildren, and frightened tourists seeking refuge from rampaging thugs will visit each year. That’s a lot of money for a guy who hasn’t been able to hand out government contracts since the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

In 2018, funding fell 30%, but still grabbed $165 million in scratch. Last year, it struggled to bring in $160 million. That was the year that Amazon robber baron Jeff Bezos wrote a $100 million check to Obama on the condition that he name the plaza after former Rep. John Lewis and then dance for his amusement every weekend on his spaceship as he leaves the earth behind.

Obama, not to put too fine a point on it, needs money. And unless Michelle becomes secretary of state or takes his old job, the number of donors willing to write him checks is declining.

The noose is convenient. Very convenient.

And while I’m not saying that Obama hired two Nigerian trainers to put a rope around his neck while shouting, “Jackson Park is MAGA country”, it’s more plausible than that 4 black construction companies in a black area planted a noose just around end-of-year fundraising.

The KKK doesn’t do end-of-the-year fundraising drives. Nonprofit foundations however do.

Work on the Obama Presidential Center has resumed. And hopefully donations have picked up to ensure that the white Obama staffers running the place can afford vegan cruises to Iceland.

But considering the trauma that greeted the finding of a rope at a construction site, and the pain inflicted on Chicago and Illinois residents by the news, I have, out of the goodness of my heart, contacted the Obama Foundation with my tip and told them where to send my $100,000 check.

Peak Absurdity In The Woke Theater

July 19, 2022 Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

Considering that I live in Manhattan, I’m sad to report that I don’t take all that much advantage of the large amount of “culture” on offer. Perhaps one, or at most two, Broadway or Off-Broadway shows per year; the Opera or Philharmonic even less frequently. (OK, I do sing in a choir that performs several times per year., sometimes even in Carnegie Hall). But I pay enough attention to know that wokism has become a bigger and bigger problem in the performing arts.

What do I mean by saying that wokism is a problem? I mean that the overarching guilt and desperate need for atonement by the elites, particularly on issues of race and gender, has become all-pervasive to the exclusion of anything else about a work or performance that might be significant. It must be that a substantial part of the audience is seeking out this atonement as a reason for going to performances. I do not understand why. For me it is a definite turnoff.

Readers may be interested in recent data points as we head toward peak absurdity. Here are a few:

• The Daily Mail reports on July 16 that American soprano Angel Blue, scheduled to sing in Verdi’s opera La Traviata in Verona, Italy on July 22 and 30, has decided to resign. The reason? In another Verdi opera, Aida, scheduled to be performed contemporaneously at the same festival, the lead role of the Ethiopian princess is to be played by a white Russian singer, Anna Netrebko, who will wear blackface makeup. Ms. Blue released a statement strenuously objecting to the planned performance by Ms. Netrebko. Excerpt: 

  “[The use of blackface makeup] is offensive, humiliating, and outright racist. I was so looking forward to making my house debut at Arena di Verona singing one of my favorite operas, but I cannot in good conscience associate myself with an institution that continues this practice.” 

  Meanwhile, Ms. Blue was to play the Parisian courtesan Violetta, clearly a white character. Any problem with that? Not that anybody mentions.

• Out there in the world of theater, TV and film, the taboos become more numerous and more strictly enforced with each passing year. Not only whites can’t play blacks, but straights can’t play gays, non-Asians can’t play Asians, and so forth. Those who violate the taboos must perform their humiliating penance. For example there was the white actress Jenny Slate, who for the first three seasons voiced the part of Missy, a black seventh-grader, on the Netflix series Big Mouth. After protests, Ms. Slate resigned in 2020, saying, among other things:  

  “Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people.” . . . Slate said that as a white woman playing a Black seventh-grader, she “was engaging in an act of erasure of Black people . . . . [My playing this role] existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy. . . .”

• And then there is Hamilton, for many years now the biggest hit on Broadway, now finishing its seventh year since opening in 2015. Nearly all of the roles are played by black actors — not just Alexander Hamilton, but also George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Aaron Burr, the Marquis de Lafayette, and others. That has continued to be true even as the original cast has rotated out and other actors have replaced them. I’ve never heard anybody even mention the racial makeup of the cast as an issue. By the way, I’ve seen the show, and it is terrific.

• And now for the peak of peak absurdity. Each summer the New York Public Theater puts on a festival of Shakespeare plays in Central Park. Currently running is Richard III. I’m no expert on Shakespeare, and I’ve never seen Richard III; but almost everybody knows some of the basic plot elements, including that Richard is deformed and that that fact is significant in the plot, and that he kills his predecessor as king and then tries to woo the guy’s wife. In this version Richard is played by a black woman named Danai Gurira, who has no visible disability. But lots of other actors in the play do have disabilities, including multiple who are deaf (and apparently use sign language — how does that even work?), and a little person. The woman whom Richard woos uses a wheelchair. Here is a picture of that scene:

  

The problem here is that Shakespeare on the stage is hard enough to figure out when the production is actually striving to have it make sense. As to this production, Johnny Oleksinsky reviews it on July 11 in the New York Post. His main point is that the whole thing leaves the audience confused and befuddled:  

“[The Central Park production of] Richard III is . . . aimless . . . [a]nd . . . awfully confusing. Our befuddlement begins straightaway and never lets up.” 

Playbill here has a long list of other reviews of this production. Most of them are very good reviews. Is that because the production is actually good, or because this production is too politically correct to pan? Hard to say without going to see it myself, and I can’t say that I am tempted to do that. Many of the reviewers also have strongly positive things to say about Ms. Gurira’s talent, but on the other hand she’s been put up to a nearly impossible task to try to pull off in this one.