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July 2, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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A Tale of Two Students
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the latest episode of Radio Renaissance.
I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is not the indispensable and irreplaceable Paul Kersey.
Mr. Kersey is otherwise engaged.
I can assure you, however, that he has not fallen victim to some fashionable disease, nor has he run off with a chorus girl.
And as far as I know, he is not looking for undiscovered South Sea islands.
And let us hope that he rejoins us sometime soon.
But for the time being, at least on this episode, I'm flying solo and I apologize in advance for the inevitable pilot errors that I am likely to commit.
Now, as usual, this has been a big week for anyone who has the slightest interest in race-related matters in the United States or around the world.
But the biggest news, as far as American Renaissance is concerned, was the cancellation without warning.
of our YouTube video channel as well as our YouTube AMREN podcast channel.
And I know that many of you, approximately 20,000 a week, of you were listening to our podcasts on YouTube.
So, I'm afraid that you'll have to find us elsewhere.
One of the best places to find all of our podcasts, of course, is at our webpage.
That's amran.com.
We have an entire archive there.
As far as our YouTube videos are concerned, the videos are now primarily available at bitshoot.com.
You know, it was, I suppose, inevitable that YouTube would drop the hammer on us.
Although it was a disappointment, I must say.
And now, when you go to what used to be a live link, it says, this video is no longer available because the YouTube has been terminated.
And that's the case for over 200 videos.
Looking on the bright side, I suppose we should be grateful that approximately 20 million views took place of our videos without our having to spend a dime.
So, again, that's looking on the bright side, but after having built up about 130,000 followers over many years of effort, it is a bit of a jolt to have the rug pulled out from under us, especially because we really had no warning.
We had no strikes against us.
YouTube ordinarily grants you two strikes and then dumps the channel on the third strike.
We had no strikes.
And for quite some time, we hadn't had any videos censored.
We hadn't had any video pulled down or restricted, to use one of their euphemisms, on making it nearly inaccessible.
So there you go.
YouTube has decided that what we say is too loathsome even to be refuted.
And it is a trite thing to say, of course, but you would think that in a nation that prides itself on freedom of speech, that the best way to counter incorrect information or mistaken conclusions, if that is what YouTube thought we were guilty of, would be to provide other information.
Counter information.
But as I have often said, actually deciding that you have to muzzle someone is the most graceless way of admitting that you have no arguments against the person that you are muzzling.
And so we join a number of distinguished other broadcasters in the outer brightness.
I won't call it outer darkness because there are so many alternative platforms now available to us But Red Ice, of course, is one of the people that pioneered the Outer Brightness and we'll be joining them on a number of different platforms.
So there you go.
Bye-bye YouTube.
I suppose in a way we should feel liberated.
We now don't have to keep looking over our shoulders and the things that we used to say that we worried about and wondered whether or not we would be punished for expressing ourselves freely So, this is an important turning point in American Renaissance.
YouTube was, I'm sorry to say, our major platform for outreach to people who were otherwise unaware of us, but that window has slammed shut with a bang.
However, it is our determination to continue to make podcasts, as I'm doing today, and videos, as I expect to do tomorrow, and we will make them better and better and better, and we will counter these censors with information that is just so good that they will just have to sit back and goggle in frustrated astonishment.
But, as far as the news of the week is concerned, I'd like to start with a tale of two students.
The first student is one that many of you probably heard of, Jaden McNeil at Kansas State University.
He made a joke on Twitter, a one-line joke, and it went as follows.
Congratulations to George Floyd on being drug-free for an entire month.
A little edgy, I suppose.
Some people might call it not very tasteful, but I think it's pretty doggone funny.
George Floyd has been drug-free for an entire month.
No question about that.
Well...
This one tweet set Kansas State University on its ear and turned it inside and out.
No doubt to the great delight of student Jaden McNeil, the president of the university, Richard Myers, he tweeted the following.
The insensitive comments posted by one K-State student hurts our entire community.
These divisive statements do not represent the values of our university.
We condemn racism and bigotry in all its forms.
Now, I'm not quite sure why it's racist to make a comment about George Floyd.
Nothing that Mr. McNeil said about George Floyd had anything to do with his race.
But I suppose if you say something critical of a black man, that's racism and bigotry.
Then the president, President Myers, goes on to say, we are launching an immediate review of the university's options.
In other words, they're deciding whether or not they can figure out some way to expel Jaden McNeil.
They want to say, he goes on to say, Black Lives Matter at Kansas State University.
We will continue to fight for social justice.
Well, I guess social justice doesn't include freedom of speech.
You then went on to say students who do not want to treat people with dignity and respect should consider whether K-State is the right place for them.
Now, I wonder just how many people treat white students with indignity and lack of respect.
You can insult white students all you like, and K-State is going to be a happy, happy home for you.
Now, apparently it was the athletes, black athletes in particular, who most objected to this message of congratulation to George Floyd.
And so the head basketball coach, Bruce Weber, He tweeted, I'm united with all our K-State student
athletes for using their voices to stand up to racism and injustice.
This disgusting comment is not representative of the K-State that I know and love.
I strive to continue to work with our team on solutions against all hate.
Well, the Dean of Students and all the bigwigs sounded off about this.
Again, I'm sure that Jade McNeil is laughing uproariously at this terrible commotion he has prompted with a single line.
Now, the interesting thing, of course, is that the black athletes have decided not to practice and not to play unless Mr. McNeil is expelled.
Well, Kansas State is a public university, the First Amendment applies, and it would be very difficult for them to expel a student no matter what he says, so long as it's not libelous, I should think.
But, you know, if this is typical of black athletes, and increasingly it is, if one single one-line joke about George Floyd makes it impossible for them to play their sports, I think we need a new concept.
The new concept would be black fragility.
We're always being told how fragile white people are.
You accuse them of racism and they deny it?
Well, that is proof.
Of white fragility.
Well, this is black fragility of the most pathetic kind.
One little joke, and a rather clever one at that.
And they are so unmanned that they are incapable of attending a practice.
Now, what in the meantime has happened to Mr. McNeil?
He has been called a coward, and as he tweeted back, coward?
I'm one of the few people in this country willing to stand up against the mob.
He's now getting unmistakable death threats.
Will the university denounce those death threats?
Not so far as I know.
You can imply that you're going to eliminate a student whose opinions you disagree with physically.
And the university doesn't seem to care.
It's interesting to note that the local town of Manhattan, Kansas was the scene of a fake hate crime in 2017 and one right on campus itself in 2018.
Fake hate crimes.
Nothing happened to those hoaxers.
That's okay.
Well, Back to this question about student-athletes threatening not to practice and not to play unless someone they dislike is expelled.
Well, Kansas State released a statement on this threatened boycott just last Saturday evening, and it said, K-State Athletics, along with President Richard Myers and university leadership, respect and support our student-athletes in standing up in the fight against
racism?
Frankly, I don't understand. If you are on a team and you refuse to attend practice,
and if you say that you're not going to play in a game, no matter what your demands are,
shouldn't you be kicked off the team?
I just don't understand.
And if you're on scholarship, isn't a scholarship, isn't that dependent on your willingness to play the game?
If you stop playing the game, shouldn't your scholarship be revoked?
All this seems entirely and Just blindingly obvious to me, but apparently I just don't understand the way university sports work.
And so instead of these black athletes who are going on what seems to me to be an essentially unauthorized and illegal strike, they're not being fired.
It's poor Mr. McNeil, Jaden McNeil, who's the target of this mob attack, not just by the administration, but by people who are offering to eliminate him physically now.
I don't know Mr. McNeil personally, but I do know people who know him personally, and apparently he is a very, very solid guy.
A case-hardened, so to speak.
He's not going to back down.
He is having a roaring good time, and I applaud him.
I think we need a hundred Jaden McNeils all across the country.
Now, I told you that this was a tale of two students.
I have a rather sadder student to tell you about.
This was someone at something known as Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.
There was a young woman who was a student at that university, and she put together an 11-second video.
I believe it was a TikTok video, but I'm not all that familiar with these platforms that the young and the up-and-coming are using these days.
But she was wearing a shirt that made it clear that she was a student at Hardin Simmons and in this video she reacted to the news that say a black person kills a black person.
Well nothing happens.
What happens if a black person kills a white person?
No reaction.
Well, what happens when a white person kills a black person?
Well, then she had this background of flames and she started gesticulating.
In other words, there's no uproar when blacks kill each other or if a black kills a white, but if a white person kills a black person, oh boy, there is all hell to pay.
Now, this is really a rather obvious thing, isn't it?
She has noticed a pattern.
She has noticed a pattern that is so blindingly obvious that you'd have to have two malfunctioning eyes in order to have missed it.
However, She is no longer a student.
Now, I don't know if she was forced to resign.
I don't know if she was just persuaded to go or whether she was actually expelled.
But Dr. Eric Bruntmeyer, president of the university, would not exactly explain what happened, but confirmed that she is no longer a student.
And, Dr. Eric Bruntmeyer added, hate speech or racist comments by anyone are completely unacceptable.
Again, hate, racism, simply porting out facts that everyone knows to be true.
It used to be that you would be persecuted for stating things that you knew to be true, but that most people thought were untrue.
One thinks of people like Galileo.
who talked about the earth rotating around the sun.
Nowadays you can be persecuted and punished and apparently expelled from university by saying things that not only are true, that you know are true, but that everyone knows to be true.
A very sad thing.
So, again, we need more cases like that in Kansas State University and fewer cases like that of Hardin-Simmons University.
Just an update on some of the things that are happening.
The kind of thing, as a matter of fact, that the student at Hardin-Simmons was making her little video about, which got her in so much trouble.
Let me update you on what happened last Saturday in Chicago.
In the Windy City, four children were among the 46 people who were shot just on Saturday, just on a single day.
Ten of those 46 were killed.
Three of the dead were children.
One was a 10-year-old girl killed by what appears to be a stray bullet while she was inside her house.
Now, it was about 9.40 p.m.
when a bullet came through a window and struck her in the head, killing her instantly.
The suspicion is that shots may have come from a group of males, as the reports always put it, who began shooting at each other on the block.
Now, no race specified, but I have a suspicion that the bullet was fired by one of our melanin-enhanced fellow citizens.
No one was taken into custody, as is so often the case.
And earlier that afternoon, a one-year-old boy was killed and his mother was wounded.
The woman and her child were driving home from a laundromat just after 2 p.m., broad daylight, on a Saturday.
When a gunman pulled up alongside them in another vehicle and opened fire, bam, bam, bam, on a mother and a child.
Now, she was hit, but was not badly injured, managed to get to the hospital.
But the poor boy, by name of Sincere Gaston, young Sincere, is no longer with us.
He lived in South Chicago.
Now, my question under these circumstances, is Sincere's mother cooperating with the police?
This is an element that I mentioned in our last podcast that is so frequently part of these episodes that the victims don't bother to cooperate with the police.
You can be attacked.
It was the case I was thinking about last week was a fellow who'd lost a three-year-old son.
Three-year-old son killed and he is not cooperating with the police to find out who it was killed his son.
Is she cooperating the police?
Well, news reports are silent on that question.
So you see, if black lives matter, Really cared about black lives?
Wouldn't they be worried about this one-year-old boy?
Wouldn't they be worried about the 10-year-old girl who was shot in her home, killed by a bullet to the head, instantly, probably intended for some other person?
But in any case, no, Black Lives Matter doesn't care, and so the person at Hardin Simmons University is absolutely 100% correct.
Blacks kill each other, nobody cares.
It's only when whites kill each other that somebody cares.
We all know this, but she has paid the price for stating the obvious.
These are sad times indeed.
Moving on to Mount Rushmore of all places, the Democrat party put out an official tweet that read as follows, Trump has disrespected native communities time and again.
Now he's holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore.
White supremacy at Mount Rushmore.
A region once sacred to tribal communities.
That was the extent of their tweet.
Now, how did they manage to drag white supremacy into this story?
The tweet linked to an article from The Guardian That quotes an Oglala Lakota tribe member, Nick Tilson, president of a local activist group, as calling Mount Rushmore a symbol of white supremacy.
And so apparently, if you are the President of the United States, and you want to have a rally, scheduled for this Friday, at Mount Rushmore, you are celebrating white supremacy, at least according to Mr. Tilson, and according to the Democrat Party.
Now, Mr. Tilson, of course, wants the whole monument torn down, probably blown up, but there you go.
It's, uh, he's going to have a firework celebration there and the president will speak.
The Democrats apparently pulled this down after it was criticized because there are people still apparently among the Democrats who think that Mount Rushmore, simply speaking, Mount Rushmore isn't really a defense of white supremacy.
But this is certainly an indication of what some of the insiders in that party think.
And let us be reminded of who is memorialized at Mount Rushmore.
That is George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Now, it's true that they are increasingly under attack for all the obvious reasons, the most obvious being that they were white men.
As far as we know, they were cisgendered and they were heterosexual.
Just to add to their long lists of crimes and sins, Now, I am pleased to discover that South Dakota's governor, and South Dakota, of course, is where Mount Rushmore is located, Kristi Noem.
In a recent tweet, she said that she would protect Mount Rushmore from the radicals who want to tear it down.
We'll see for how long she holds the line, but she sounds like a staunch lady to me.
She went on to say, the more we focus on the flaws of these men that are on our mountain, the less likely we are to recognize the virtues and the lessons we can learn from their lies.
Well, that's a very even-handed and rather wise observation, it seems to me.
If they had flaws, and all humans do have flaws, what good does it do to constantly focus on them and ignore the great contributions they made to the United States?
So, good for you, Governor Noem, and we'll see, as I mentioned earlier, just for how long she can hold this courageous line.
Now I mentioned Abraham Lincoln, who was up on Mount Rushmore.
Well, University of Wisconsin at Madison, the flagship university in that state, has a statue of Abraham Lincoln It has, for more than a century, sat atop the university's Bascom Hill.
It's something of a landmark and is a very popular backdrop for graduate photos.
Do a selfie with Abe seems to be what people want to do when they graduate.
Well, the Black Student Union is all dead set against Abraham Lincoln.
The Black Student Union points out, and I quote, just because he was anti-slavery doesn't mean he was pro-Black.
So clearly, in order to survive as a statue, or perhaps even as a living human being, you can't simply be neutral.
You have to be pro-Black.
And Chancellor Becky Blank of the University of Wisconsin, let me quote her.
When the totality of his tenure is considered, Lincoln is widely acknowledged as one of our greatest presidents, having issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
I guess that's accomplishment number one.
Persuaded Congress to adopt the 13th Amendment ending slavery.
Accomplishment number three.
Those things are important and must come first.
And then he preserved the Union during the Civil War.
I guess that's kind of an afterthought.
And Chancellor Blank, Becky Blank, not a name that I would like to carry around for the rest of my life, but Becky Blank, acknowledged that while the school has a lot of work to do to, quote, address systemic racism and oppression, she doesn't approve removing the statute.
So they're going to have to address systemic racism and oppression.
I imagine that's going to be a long and lifelong affair for the university, but she's not yet on the side of removing the statue.
Well, the spokesman for the Black Student Union, let me quote him again.
For them to want to protect a breathless, lifeless statue more than they carry about the experiences of their black students, it's just a horrible feeling.
Got that?
They want to protect a breathless, lifeless student.
And the fact that the black students don't like Abraham Lincoln.
That they care more about the statue than the subjective unpleasantness of the black students when they have to walk by this wicked, wicked white man.
It's a horrible feeling as a student.
As a black and brown student on campus.
She said.
Now, I wonder if she really is black and brown.
Well, we don't know.
But maybe she is one of those lucky people who combines diversity of the best sort and is black and brown.
Now, as you probably recall, in Madison, two statues were recently torn down right in downtown Madison.
One was the statue of an abolitionist, Colonel Hans Christian Haig, an immigrant.
He was torn down and thrown into Lake Monona.
Also, as you may recall, on that same evening, the mob pulled down something called the Forward Statue.
The Wisconsin Historic Society said that this statue, which is a woman, a woman sort of in a graceful pose with uplifted arm, obviously symbolizing goodness, truth, beauty, and progress.
She was the paragon of devotion and progress.
She had to go too, I guess.
Well, she did have obviously Caucasian features.
Very bad.
Well, you know, let's get back to Becky Blank.
She doesn't know the half of what Abraham Lincoln was up to.
And maybe, you know, if somebody really filled her in on just what a wicked, wicked white man Abraham Lincoln was, she would agree that he has to come down in a hurry.
And I suspect that many of our listeners today Well-informed, though ye be, are not aware that Abraham Lincoln, while he had the Civil War in his hand, you'd think he'd be a busy guy, but he also appointed a commissioner of emigration.
Emigration of blacks.
On August 4th, 1862, he appointed a Methodist minister by the name of James Mitchell to be in charge of getting rid of the slaves that Lincoln expected to free.
He did not want them.
running around in the United States of America, and he was a great advocate of both abolitionism and what was known as colonization.
So, of course, was James Mitchell.
In 1848, James Mitchell took the job of Secretary of the American Colonization Society of Indiana.
The Colonization Society, as you know, was something that was started to Free slaves, or by the freedom of slaves, and ship them, in the case of the Society, to Liberia.
And it was as the capacity of his secretary of the chapter in Indiana that James Mitchell first met Abraham Lincoln.
And the members of the Illinois Colonization Society repeatedly asked Lincoln to speak at their meetings, and he obliged.
Well, first in 1853 and second in 1855.
On one occasion, he said this, if slavery could be eliminated and the slaves returned to their long lost fatherland, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.
But back to James Mitchell, Commissioner of Immigration.
Lincoln asked him to oversee the establishment of colonies overseas for freed slaves.
And Mitchell did some poking around and he found some what he thought were promising areas in Central America.
And as it turned out, he shipped 500 freed blacks off to a place called Vash Island off the coast of Haiti.
But the colonization plan failed miserably.
The blacks weren't able to sustain themselves and most of them came back in a year.
But something else that Commissioner of Immigration James Mitchell did was he organized on August 14, 1862, an address to what is known as a deputation of Negroes at the White House.
He invited a group of black ministers to come to the White House.
And what were they asked to do?
Abraham Lincoln invited them to come in order to ask them to clear out.
He wanted them to persuade all of their fellow blacks to leave the country.
The full text of this address to a deputation of Negroes is available easily online or in books.
And I'll just quote a few lines.
Abraham Lincoln said, You and we are different races.
We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races.
Whether it is right or wrong, I need not discuss.
But this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly.
Many of them by living among us while ours suffer from your presence.
Your race suffers and so does ours.
Then he went on to say this in the middle of the Civil War.
Let me remind you.
But for your race among us there could not be war.
Really quite remarkable, isn't it?
This is, as I understand it, the very first time that a group of blacks had been officially invited to the White House in some kind of formal capacity.
Blacks, of course, had set foot in the White House as servants.
And in some cases, probably even as slaves.
But this is the first time that they were officially invited, and they were invited so that the President of the United States could tell them, uh, fellas, please go away.
It is really rather a harsh thing.
But I suspect that if Chancellor Becky Blank knew about this, she might agree.
That the folks at Madison were right.
The statue of Lincoln, even if it has presided over the campus for more than a century, had better be torn down in the name of Black Lives Matter.
Well, there is another monument.
It has taken a bit of a beating.
This one is in Denver, Colorado.
It is a monument called the Pioneer Monument.
It was created by an artist, Frederick McMunnies, and was erected in 1911.
And the local art society describes it thus.
There are bronze figures of the Hunter, the Prospector, the Pioneer Mother and Child, And at the top, at the very top on a pillar, is Kit Carson.
Well, you see, the city has decided to take down Kit Carson.
For the time being, and who knows for how much longer, the hunter, the prospect, the pioneer mother and child have been left in place.
But Kit Carson had to go.
It's the latest statute to be taken down by Denver.
A few others were toppled by protesters, but the city was just a hop ahead of the crowd because people have been shouting, if they don't do it, we will.
Well, what are Kit Carson's sins?
Well, aside from being white and heterosexual and cisgender and walking on two legs, apparently he was in the eyes of Native Americans, as we now must call them, an enemy of the Indian.
The fact is, Kit Carson, among all the people who roamed the West, was probably more familiar with Indians, spent more time with Indians, and more sympathetic with Indians than just about anybody alive.
He grew up playing with fox and sack Indian children.
By the time he was a grown-up man, he could speak a dozen Indian languages.
And Kit Carson, whose name was actually Christopher, Christopher Carson, he married an Indian woman.
Her name was Singing Grass.
They had two daughters together.
And when she died, he married yet another Indian woman.
Her name was Making Out Road.
But she did not want to look after his two daughters by the former marriage, so his marriage, the second marriage, did not last.
Now, Kit Carson, of course, was famous for being a remarkable scout, trapper, mountain man, survivalist.
He could travel enormous distances through untracked territory.
He was really quite a remarkable woodsman.
And, of course, he fought for the Union during the Civil War.
He worked for John Fremont, and he did have a number of engagements with Indians, and there's no doubt that when it was necessary, he did kill Indians.
But he had a very nuanced understanding of Indians.
He recognized that some were friendly, some were potentially hostile, some were dangerous, and you had to flee them.
Some were going to kill you if you didn't kill them.
But on the whole, he was really quite a humanitarian when it came to Indians.
Once, in 1862, he was ordered by General James Carlton to kill all male Indians within a certain group, and he refused.
He was really a tireless, tireless spokesman for the interests of Indians.
This does not stop Tessa McLean speaking for the American Indian Movement of saying, the Kit Carson statue to us represents genocide.
He was an Indian killer.
Well, he was an Indian lover.
He had two children.
Well, so there you go.
Well, insofar as the American Indian Movement says he represents genocide as an Indian killer, Scott Gilmore of the City of Denver Parks and Recreation Department explained, quote, We decided it would be best, instead of people sneaking out at night and trying to pull it down, we'd be more proactive and remove the statue.
So, bye-bye Kit Carson.
As I've been saying many times, at The Right Things We're Going, there's really no white person alive.
Male, female, who is going to survive this purge?
We shall see.
In the meantime, the hostility of the other side towards people like your servant is really taking on a kind of shocking, almost banality and transparency.
I'm sure that many of my listeners are aware of who Paul Krugman is.
He is a regular opinion columnist for the New York Times.
He's also a Nobel laureate in economics.
Well, just the other day, June 30th, to be exact.
He tweeted out a story about how the virus, COVID-19, is working its way through Florida retirement homes.
The title of the story was, COVID-19 Surge Begins Reaching Older, More Vulnerable Floridians.
And there's a photograph of an old couple.
The guy is using a walker and the woman is walking along down a corridor.
They're both clearly, it's taken from the back, but they're both clearly elderly people.
Well, what was Paul Krugman's commentary on this article?
Let me quote.
Reality is coming for white supremacists driving golf carts.
What?
White supremacists.
Here are these two old people walking down a corridor.
Obviously old.
Husband and wife.
I guess he's got inside information.
This is Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mengele who survived the war.
White supremacists driving golf carts.
He seems to be happy that they're dying.
Obviously, because they're old and they're white, they have to be white supremacists.
Now, good grief, if you tweeted this sort of thing about, well, we won't go into just the obvious double standards of it all.
But there's Paul Krugman for you.
He seems to be happy, happy, happy, happy that these old people driving golf carts are going to be just dropping off thanks to COVID-19.
Now, Paul Krugman's colleague, This is someone in a different newspaper, The Washington Post.
The Global Opinions editor, Karen Attea.
Karen Attea.
Global Opinions.
Just bear that in mind for a moment.
She recently posted the following tweet.
The lies and tears of white women hath wrought the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, murder of Emmett Till, exclusion of black women from feminist movements, 53% of white women voting for Trump.
White women are lucky that we're just calling them Karens and not calling for revenge.
So, white women, who are responsible for all of these awful things, 1921 Tulsa Massacre, 99 years ago.
Well, white women are still responsible for that.
The murder of Emmett Till, back in the 1950s.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
White women, their tears and their lives brought all this about.
They are lucky that Karen Attea, whose name is Karen as well, but who is melanin enhanced, needless to say.
Melanin enhanced Karen Attea says that white women are lucky That we're not calling for revenge.
Oh dear, well imagine if you posted a few accounts of some of the gruesome crimes committed by blacks against whites and not just a hundred years ago.
Some could have happened just last week, or last month, or last year, calling for revenge.
I don't think Twitter would care for that sort of thing.
But, well, she did take the tweet down.
And she said this just had to do with a moment's outburst, but that she absolutely did not regret.
Posting the tweet.
Je ne regrette rien, she says.
And this was in her perfect French, no doubt.
So there you go.
White women are lucky that black women are not calling for revenge.
Now we're still a majority, remember.
When we become a minority, then the calls for revenge might go out in a more serious way.
Now, Karen Attia.
Again, global opinions editor.
She decides what are the opinions that show up on the opinion page of the Washington Post.
Global opinions.
Now, doesn't that suggest that we should get a representative sample of a variety of points of view?
Well, I don't think we're going to get a variety of points of view from Karen Attia.
Here's another tweet of hers that still is available for public delectation.
Regarding the heinous attack on Jussie Smollett, yet another reminder that Trump's ascendance and the resulting climate of hate has meant that lives have been increasingly at stake.
Smollett could have been killed by those thugs screaming MAGA.
Let that sink in.
Well, I guess she is handling global opinions, but she hasn't heard the news that it was all a fake.
Those thugs called Screaming Maga turned out to have been young black men in Jussie Smollett's employ.
I guess the news has not yet sunk in to Karen Attia, Global Opinion Editor at the Washington Post.
So, in any case, given the media preference for this sort of carrying on, we should not be surprised.
The Times has decided that henceforth it will capitalize the word black as a descriptor of people of African origin, but not white.
In other words, blacks get a capital B, whites don't get a capital W.
In their statement they said this, while there is an obvious question of parallelism, in other words you would expect the two groups to be treated equally, while there is an obvious question of parallelism, there's been no comparable movement towards widespread adoption of the new style for white.
Yes, white people dare not say, we'd like equal treatment.
If you're going to capitalize blacks, better capitalize white.
No!
If a white person did that, that would be very, very bad.
Very bad.
And there is less of a sense that white describes a shared culture and history, whereas apparently black does.
You can be black.
You can be from East Africa.
You can be from West Africa.
You can be from Haiti.
You can be from the North Pole.
If you're black, You have a shared culture and history.
But if you're white, huh, eh, shared history, shared culture, huh, whoever heard of such a thing?
Then, the Times goes on to say, moreover, hate groups and white supremacists have long favored the upper-class style.
For both whites and blacks, by the way.
I've known no group that uppercase is white but lowercase is black, and So hate groups and white supremacists like the uppercase style, which in itself is reason to avoid it.
Uh-oh.
Because white supremacists and other wicked people capitalize white along with black.
We better not do it.
Well, you know, Hitler was adamantly opposed to smoking.
And he wouldn't allow any smoking in his vicinity.
Well, if Hitler was opposed to smoking, I guess we all better take up smoking and smoke at least three packs a day, huh?
Well, there you go.
Now, I guess it's all a matter of white privilege.
Blacks get a capital B, whites get a lowercase w. And you know, this sort of thing is just so common with the New York Times.
I think that the American newspaper record should change its name.
I think it deserves a new name, and I propose White Supremacy Daily Update.
I think that would fit the times right to a T. Right to a T. Now, on this question of whether or not we're going to, what we're going to capitalize and why, there is an opinion piece dated June 30th at the CNN website.
It's opinion by Mireille Grangenois.
Once again, one of our Melanin Enhanced fellow citizens.
You know, Melanin Enhanced, maybe that is a little bit disrespectful.
I should turn over a new leaf.
Instead of talking about Melanin Enhanced, I think from now on I'm going to talk about Water Melanin Enhanced.
Wouldn't that be more respectful?
In any case, one of our African American fellow citizens, Mireille Granguinos, she published a piece called, Why Saying Black with a Capital B Isn't Enough.
Well, as you know, nothing is ever enough.
But let me quote from Mireille's piece at CNN.
I'd say the B-word debate is a red herring.
If newsroom leaders don't acknowledge their own place on the spectrum of institutions that current protests are aimed at up-ending, They're missing the story.
What percentage of editors in your newsroom are African-American, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, or LGBTQ?
Question mark.
Okay.
In other words, she goes on to say that simply by capitalizing the letter B, huh, what good is that going to do us?
You have to look around.
You have to make sure there are more people who don't look like you in the newsroom.
Now, my suspicion is she probably doesn't care much about Latinos or Asian Pacific Islanders.
Pacific Islanders, does she really care how many Samoans are working in the newsroom?
Native Americans, does she really care?
She probably just wants more black people.
More black people in the newsroom.
But Uh, as she points out, these institutions are supposed to be upended and the people who are running newsrooms, white people who are running those newsrooms, they better get used to being upended and that means, frankly, out you go.
Well, moving from Mireille Agranguena to Jesus, which is a bit of a leap, I must say.
I suppose you all were aware that the Black Lives Matter activist Sean King called for bringing down any and all images that depict Jesus as a white European.
Now, there is a certain historical and anthropological legitimacy to that claim.
And my suspicion is that the historic Jesus probably looked more like Osama bin Laden than he did look like Steve Reeves, but very much he's this sort of hippie Nordic Jesus.
And Sean King goes on to say, all murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus and his European mother and their white friends.
I suppose by that he means the disciples should come down.
Now, the birth certificate of Sean King shows he has two white parents, but he goes on to claim that these images are a form of white supremacy.
Well, you know, there's white supremacy everywhere, isn't there?
So, Rasmussen has done a poll to figure out who agrees that the white hippie Jesus has to go.
Nearly one in three black Americans want to remove white Jesus from churches.
And that's a similar 28% believe that most Americans are racist.
Now, only 9% of whites will have this idea that the white Jesus statues and images should be taken away.
But 13% of other minorities want no more white Jesus.
So there you go.
Nearly 1 in 3, say, 30% of blacks want no more white Jesus, 9% want no more white Jesus, and 13% of other non-whites.
So it's still a minority.
We'll see.
Now, the Rasmussen Poll goes on to report a finding that 65% of Americans continue to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, who came to earth and died for our sins.
Now, that is a drop of 12% in just four years.
In other words, 77% four years ago believed, but only 65% now.
words 77% four years ago believed but only 65% now that seems like a very
rapid decline and four years ago yes Now among those Americans who do believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God,
A full 16% favored removing white Jesus, but 70% are opposed to that.
So still, the majority is not offended by the white Jesus.
Now, I would point out that many depictions of Jesus all around the world show him as reflecting the local appearance.
There are black Ethiopian churches that depict Jesus as black.
I suppose we've got to tell them to tear that down too, but I doubt that Sean King is going to lead a movement in Ethiopia, whether he's even aware of it or not.
So moving right along to some of the things that you can say and some of the things that you cannot say.
The chief judge of the Central District of California, this includes Los Angeles by the way, he has resigned his chief judgeship.
Why?
Well, Judge Cormac J. Carney was involved in a meeting by internet, and he was praising a black court official by the name of Kiri Gray.
And among the many things he said praising her, he used the word street smart to describe her.
You're saying what a great job she'd done with the court reopening after the COVID.
Well, he then sent an apology in which he said the following.
This term, let's say street smart, was one of many words I used to recognize and compliment Ms.
Gray regarding her work on the court reopening plan.
Please know that I had no intent to offend Ms.
Gray or anyone else by my use of this term.
To me, the term means a person of great common sense, initiative, and ability to work with people and get things done.
It saddened me greatly to learn that some people view the term to be demeaning to people of color.
So, of course, he meant no harm.
And I didn't realize calling a black person street smart was demeaning.
Well, the judge didn't either.
So now he has resigned his chief judgeship.
Well, so, you know, ignorance is no excuse when it comes to things that might offend our dusky brethren.
You better know better.
You better, better, better know better.
Well, as we all know, Black Lives Matter is in the news.
It's in the news in a ferocious way.
And I just took a look at the BLM website the other day, just to refresh myself in terms of what it values, what it stands for.
And let me read to you a few little excerpts from it.
It says, Black Lives Matter began as a call to action in response to state-sanctioned violence and anti-black racism.
Now, I don't know if state sanctions applies to anti-black racism, but I suspect it probably does.
State-sanctioned violence and state-sanctioned anti-black racism.
Well, I don't know how much of that's going on, but if we live in a systemically racist and unrelievably white supremacist society, I suppose there's much of it about that I just am unconscious of.
Now, BLM, the website goes on to say, we are unapologetically black in our positioning.
Well, good.
Am I allowed to be unapologetically white?
Probably not.
Goes on to say, we see ourselves as part of the global black family.
And by the way, they do use uppercase B for black.
They're way ahead of the New York Times.
They've been that way right from the start.
Black, black, black, black.
Capital B. But then, and this is something that I'd forgotten, it had slipped my memory that BLM was founded by three women.
One of whom describes herself as a queer black woman.
That is Alicia Garza.
I had forgotten that BLM is so, well, adamantly, well, I'm not quite sure what to call it, inclusive in that respect.
So let me go back to the website and quote some of their statements.
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We build a space that affirms black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
So they are not going to be homocentric.
That's affirms black women.
Then they're going to say we foster a queer affirming network.
When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.
We do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift black trans folk, especially black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
Well, they've got all the buzzwords down, haven't they?
In any case, yes, I had forgotten just how aggressively inclusive, in this respect, BLM is.
And, as you know, the corporations of America have promised to untrouser huge wads of loot.
Much of it is going to go to BLM.
And I wonder just how these heteronormative opponents are going to spend this.
How much of it's going to be diverted from the whole black business to tearing down heteronormative thinking?
Now, final note on their website, they have a section of their website that records the past achievements of Black Lives Matter.
And this section is called Herstory.
Not History, it's Herstory.
So yes, I think, you know, this is probably a bit of cultural appropriation.
It was white feminists who first started talking about herstory, and I think they should complain.
How dare these blacks appropriate a word like herstory that was invented by white feminists?
White feminists are always being accused of excluding blacks.
Well, you know, they seem to be perfectly happy to share their lingo with black feminists.
You know, I looked a little further, snooped around on the page, and they have a lot of merchandise for sale.
You can buy a hoodie for $60.
A cap for $30.
A baseball cap for $30.
There are t-shirts that go for $30 and $40.
And you can even get yourself a Black Lives Matter face mask.
This is a COVID-19 face mask for $15.
Well, you know, with all the money that's going to be dropping from the skies and filling their coffers, you'd think they should be giving this stuff away.
But no, they're not.
They are selling that at a pretty, pretty high price.
60 bucks for a hoodie.
I guess they're going to do pretty well for themselves.
Well, anyway.
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