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From the North Carolina Democratic Party Facebook page:
Keith Lamont Scott was shot at 3:54 pm that day. Rioting in Charlotte broke out by 8pm.
From the Winston-Salem Chronicle:
Mothers of the Movement urge blacks to vote
Mothers of the Movement urge blacks to vote
September 22by Cash Michaels
FOR THE CHRONICLE
They are members of a dreaded club they say no one wants to join. Their black children were all killed, either by a law enforcement officer, or someone with a gun. In each case, their child was an innocent victim, not only of the deed, but of the lack of justice that followed.
They are known as “The Mothers of the Movement,” and they captivated the nation last July when they walked out on stage during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Three of them – Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton; and Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland – spent Monday and Tuesday of this week speaking at events in the African-American communities of Greensboro at N.C. A & T University, Durham, Charlotte and Fayetteville, sharing their pain, and urging their audiences to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election.
The Clinton campaign sponsored the mothers’ tour.
During their hour-long session at North Carolina Central University’s School of Law Monday in Durham, the mothers talked to students there about how their children were killed, how the black community must mobilize to stem the escalating tide of police killings and why they individually believed Hillary Clinton when she met with them, and promised, if elected president, that she would work to reform the criminal justice system so that police officers are held to greater accountability in incidents involving the killing of innocent citizens.
Shortly after their campaign stop in Charlotte on Tuesday at 2 pm, anti-police rioting broke out in that unfortunate city.
My column this week in Taki’s Magazine, “Hillary Held Hostage,” discusses how Mrs. Clinton has left herself a hostage to events such as BLM riots and Muslim immigrant terrorism. But her own role in egging on these disasters should not be ignored either.
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Yeah it’s interesting to note how the last names of the mothers don’t match up with the kids. Like Mike Brown’s mom’s last name was McSpadden. Trayvon’s mom’s last name was Fulton. I wonder if it has to due with what sociologists refer to as “multi-partner fertility”.
"Serial polygamy"
"anthropogenic r-selection"
"temporary amazonian zone"
"arachnid mating mimicry"
"hyphenated surname empowerment"
"patriarchy-free zone"
"Great Society mating patterns"
Mike Brown's mom was 16 & unmarried when she had him. He lived with various relatives and was living with his grandma in a Section 8 unit in Ferguson.
White female cop Betty Shelby will find a lot of company under the bus, won’t she?
Betty has already been consigned, unjustly, to the deplorables basket. As a card-carrying deplorable I say "welcome, we 'deplorables' understand your plight."
Nobody here can look at the bright side.
In many countries people can’t quickly tell who is and who is not physically dangerous to them. In America, especially recently, you can.
the dreaded club no one wants to join , baloney. money, fame, travel, worshipful whites, of course the kid’s gotta be killed by cops not other blacks
Cash Michaels?
Was this really a factor? It’s not like they needed much prompting to go on anti-white riots in Milwaukee when a black cop shot an armed black man. Or were the Mothers in town then?
From the article “the escalating tide of police killings.” Oh well, even if a statistical lie or a totally false assertion, they didn’t say “tsunami” or “tidal wave.” Should we consider this real verbal restraint??
It’s a paradox. If there could be such a thing as “Fathers of the Movement,” there’d be no need for a movement. Not that the MSM will admit to noticing.
Well, “dreaded club no one wants to join” plays better on a Pulitzer nomination than “winners of the ghetto lottery”.
Sandra Bland’s mom? If she’d had paid her daughter’s bail, Sandra wouldn’t have gone for a long dive while dressed in a short rope. Since when can the mothers of suicides claim to be victims of white racism? Well. since the liberals turned the world inside out, upside down, and rinsed it twice. But I am surprised she could pry herself free of the Lane Bryant outlet Mall where I’m sure she’s going through the millions she earned by letting her clearly insane daughter rot in the hoosegow.
Wild theory: the elites are unleashing these riots on North Carolina in retaliation for the bathroom law.
Would be kind of funny if Charlotte gets punished for doing the *coughs* "right" thing.
Another theory is that the Democrats are stirring the pot to get out the black vote. Problem for them is that while it may very well increase the black vote (reliably around 90% Democrat), idiocy like what is happening in Charlotte also galvanizes the white vote for the law and order candidate. (Trump). Trump's been compared to Andy Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt...perhaps a more apt comparison would be Richard Milhous Nixon?Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Ed
The phrase “Mothers of the Movement” is just begging for a scatological send-up.
Like the old Campbell Soup ads with NFL players and their moms...except this time for fiber supplements.
effin’ matriarchy
They could also have kept their names after marriage. But…given that that’s more of an upper-middle-class thing, you’re probably right.
Steve, you’ve blogged before about how Trump is sort of naturally driven by personal feuding, which made him a natural and eager fit for his appearances on WWE. I think you’re right about that, and the following claim seems highly plausible to me:
“Did Trump decide to run when Obama mocked him as a birther conspiracy theorist at White House dinner?”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802949/Did-Trump-decide-run-Obama-mocked-birther-conspiracy-theorist-White-House-dinner.html
” Donald Trump ally Roger Stone suggested Trump decided to run for president after the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Stone, speaking in a new Frontline documentary, said Trump was ‘motivated’ by President Obama jabs during a comedy routine
The president made fun of Trump for peddling the ‘birther’ conspiracy theory and for his job as a reality TV host
‘These are the kinds of decisions that keep me up at night,’ sniffed Obama, talking about which D-lister to throw off Trump’s show ‘The Apprentice’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htt91G2qDwMReplies: @Jack Hanson, @e, @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland
John McWhorter, who I generally respect, has a piece that touches on the tension blacks feel towards the police in Time: http://time.com/4504014/colin-kaepernick-kneel/.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve – but on the flipside, it’s a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter’s point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.
Not to mention that McWhorter thinks Ebonics is a genuine language, because it has a consistent syntax and actual semantics for Ebonics-speaking _____ (I hesitate to fill in the blank, it may be a hate crime).
Next up, the bleating of sheep, the mooing of cows and the grunting of pigs all qualify as human languages.
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of young black men - and probably a majority of young white men - don't fit into the new urban paradigm, which is largely defined by aging, propertied white baby boomers and docile minorities. Most blacks are a poor fit for it, yet there they are.
Young white men who don't fit in just leave the city and get a job in a majority white community where their work is valued. Take white veterans for example. How many would you find in upscale urban centers? Very few, but if you leave town and drive for about fifteen minutes they're all over.
Blacks don't have that option for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons being that blue collar work requires certification and demonstrable literacy. Your average young black male has neither the skills nor the squeaky clean record required for decent paying non-college jobs. He's stuck in the city with no prospects and he adheres to a culture that is, if not entirely criminalized, rife with infractions at every turn.
Blacks are getting squeezed from pretty much every direction, and as the Obama presidency proves even their political supporters don't have the will or ability to find a workable solution. They'll just propose more programs and regulations, squeezing them harder and harder thereby guaranteeing periodic outbursts of violence.
Thomas Jefferson was right about the blacks. They need to go their own way, and we need to leave them alone and free to do so. They can't be white, and they don't want to be. I don't blame them for that.Replies: @unpc downunder, @Ed, @AnotherDad
They are not 'different parts of the nation'. They are completely different nations altogether. Nor do blacks and whites have different viewpoints on this issue, so much as on every issue. Also noteworthy is that the black rent-a-mob rioters no longer even require a "racist" white cop to start their looting, arson and hysteria.
That is who they are in the core of their beings. That is their innate sense of morality. And like the most extremely violent adolescents, they always have excuses, justifications. It is always YOUR fault they had to riot.
Liberals back in the antebellum period - who, for you permanent anti-Semites as well as lovers of all things from 'original America,' were virtually 100% WASP - made the Negro the Sacred Cow of America. The bloodlust of that Liberalism with Negro as sacred cow was not satisfied by the Civil War, which we perhaps should call The War to Establish the Sacred Cow Negro, nor by Reconstruction. It will not be satisfied by these riots. 1000 Reginald Dennys could be dragged from vehicles and beaten on the same day, and the Liberal bloodlust for the Sacred Cow Negro would not be satisfied.
Whatever genetic propensities toward violence that blacks may have, the simple fact is that they have been worsened by the American Elites who have made the Negro the nation's first Sacred Cow. The Scared Cow knows it can destroy entire villages, a whole province, and not only will it not get butchered; it will get worshipped all the more.
Blacks know that deep in their guts.
I worked with some in my youth during my time as a club bouncer. They all had the same distrust/dislike of cops as any Dindu. They all had experience with "The System". The essential difference is that they knew they'd get dropped like 4th period Latin if they even blinked ugly at law enforcement. Cops, black, white or other, will think twice before drawing down on a black perp. With a white, the have no compunctions at all.Replies: @jake, @Bill Jones
Hillary probably thinks the way Obama does about black riots. They ‘help her’ by keeping blacks riled up, and she’s hoping they’ll turn out to vote for her instead of staying home, assisted by whites rather like my boneheaded liberal relatives. My mother and father were both carrying on about how horrible the shooting of this poor black guy was, who was just minding his own business reading a book. I pointed out the cops said the guy had a gun, not a book, and that he had an extensive criminal history, but they were not willing to listen or consider the facts. Hillary knows her supporters well.
Hillary wants Trayvon II all over the media to pick up her sagging poll numbers. Trying to terrorize your way into the White House is an unusual step, but then Hillary is Livia Drusilla all over. She’s a figure right out of ancient Rome at its most corrupt.
At least when Lyndon Johnson bombed people and failed to win in Vietnam, he had enough grace to decide not to run for the presidency again because he thought that made him unelectable. Even though Hillary has dropped bombs all over the Middle East and screwed up a whole long string of governments, leaving us with scarcely an ally over there, she does not think that way.
Not many Dindu thugs read books. How many ghetto looking Negroes do you see at your local Barnes & Noble?
I, however, implore you to reconsider the analogy with LBJ. Describing LBJ as having "enough grace" strikes me as borderline farcical. He exhibited the antithesis of grace or class. There was so much dirt on him, he knew he would never make it through another term.
Many of the rioters believe that the cop who shot the man is white. No doubt had the police officer been white, we would hear the oft-repeated statement we’ve become so accustomed to hearing: “a white police officer shot a black man.” Not that the facts matter much to the rent a mob crowd anyway. According to one legal expert (forgot who) being interviewed on CNN, as many as 70 percent of the people arrested have been from out of state.
The Antifa, BLM folks pretty much get away with anything in and around Chicago
National Activists Fly In As Charlotte Police Protests Continue
By Ann Doss Helms
[email protected]
September 22, 2016
I guess the moral is, if you offend tender sensibilities (or commit those evil racist micro-aggressions), you get riots and looting.
What kind of job is "national activist?" I recall Governor Palin making light of Obama's job as a community organizer and wondering what kind of job that was.
But she and other leaders said the department’s rush
Leaders. This brings to mind the GOP elite - an organization of generals leading an army with no voters behind them. Why are these leaders flying in when their "troops" are stuck back at home base? Could it be that there's money floating around and they're trying to tap into the money stream?
There is not enough attention and common understanding on how these movements are financed and how these leaders and activists make a living.
It’s a coincidence that they spoke 1:54 before he was shot. Not good timing, though.
I hate to say this is a feature, not a bug. They know this is more likely to excite the dem base for than the trump voters against. The trump voters are already aware.
Wait a minute. Sandra Bland wasn’t killed by a cop, or by someone with a gun. She was killed by Sandra Bland, with a garbage bag.
It’s not like I would expect a journalist to do basic fact-checking, but are they really still trying to sneak her in?
We know what happens when riots like this happen during a competitive election campaign, we have the Nixon-Humphrey 1968 election.
I’ll have to hand it to my parents’ and grandparents’ generations, I think both the original Nixon and the late 60’s new left are better than the new ones.
The two symbols of my generation’s decadence is that Nixon and Humphrey were distinguished war veterans from middle class backgrounds (as were Ike, McGovern, Carter, Dole) while Hillary sits on a tawdry $100 million fortune but looks like a bum compared to Trump’s inherited/scammed fortune.
Stay fetal, Charlotte.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
Its way beyond that as a problem, its not different parts of the nation not communicating, its completely different nations that happen to be on the same land.
LOL! That must bother Hillary. She’s worked like a dog for 16 years to enrich herself and a hilariously straightforward ethnic guy who’s much richer shows up and steals the show. Imagine Trump as Dangerfield in Caddy Shack. Except he’s a WASP.
Your Trump-punk rock analogy got you a namecheck in Douthat’s column the other day. Did you catch this comment by one Don B in NYC?
[It] appears to me that the NYT has crossed a moral rubicon that I find very disturbing. “Mr. Douthat writes, “The alt-right-ish columnist xxxxx xxxxx made the punk rock analogy as well.” I used x’s because I, unlike Mr. Douthat, will not give any oxygen to the name of an “alt-right-ish” writer. I’m wondering how an alt-right, (which means white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic), -ish writer earns the right to be quoted by a NYT columnist.
Lord Voldemort status of evil. He Who Must Not Be Named. You could troll this guy and the NYT by responding, I can’t breathe.
Not THAT is how you signal, ladies and gentlemen!
Go out of your way to point out a quote from an article that contains the name that you pointedly refuse to say, all to highlight how much better you are for refusing to draw attention to it.
It's like a work of art, if you think about it.Replies: @Anonymous
I thought if you were tarred as a "white supremacist," the "racist" was assumed. Also, where's "sexist, homophobe, and Islamaphobe"? I believe it's a complete package, not a "pick one from column A, two from column B" kinda deal.Replies: @Forbes
Mothers of the Bowel Movement.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
When two populations have different levels of violence (as blacks and whites do, there being far greater percentage of violent black males than there are white males) and different levels of empathy, it is very hard for the two populations to understand each other or live together.
The mainstream left, with Hillary bordering on center-left, are now in favor of engaging in drawn out and exquisite scrutiny of every single officer-involved shooting with a black man in this large country, with the explicit goal of smearing the police and stopping the good policies that has lead to huge reductions in crime since the mid-70’s to early 90’s peak.
That’s how the left loses in American politics.
Ross’s Steve Sailer-naming NYT’s column does good work capturing how the Democrats are flirting with a self-inflicted loss this election, and how they did it once before in the Nixon-Reagan era:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/opinion/campaign-stops/clintons-samantha-bee-problem.html
Ross not only winked over at us, but also at too at those of us who make the effort to know and understand the history of Western Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_Reaction
This article sends a message:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3801796/He-allowed-drive-away-alive-White-motorist-armed-GUN-filmed-driving-slowly-crowd-protesters-Charlotte.html
If you live around blacks, get armed.
Given the destruction of the black family perpetrated by liberals, what can you expect?
On the other hand, evil people who deatroy families for political gain don't deserve the term "liberal". Something more sinister is befitting. Like "progressive".
"Did Trump decide to run when Obama mocked him as a birther conspiracy theorist at White House dinner?"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802949/Did-Trump-decide-run-Obama-mocked-birther-conspiracy-theorist-White-House-dinner.html
" Donald Trump ally Roger Stone suggested Trump decided to run for president after the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner
Stone, speaking in a new Frontline documentary, said Trump was 'motivated' by President Obama jabs during a comedy routine
The president made fun of Trump for peddling the 'birther' conspiracy theory and for his job as a reality TV host
'These are the kinds of decisions that keep me up at night,' sniffed Obama, talking about which D-lister to throw off Trump's show 'The Apprentice'"Replies: @Anonymous, @Yep, @Forbes
I remember watching that when it happened and thinking, “Why is Donald Trump there?” and “Man, Trump looks really pissed off” as Obama gave his speech and made fun of Trump while everyone in the audience was laughing except for the stone-faced Trump.
People respond in different ways to perceived slights. Some disregard high command and take their tank division to go fight the whole French Army piece by piece. Others run for President so they can try to save America.Replies: @guest, @reiner Tor
Obama's birth certificate was just a cap stone or cover story to hide his past. I have heard one long forgotten blogger who I wish I could name refer to it as a McGuffen. When David Axelrod hid Obama's school transcripts, selective service records, medical records, Baptismal records, etc., he used the birth certificate as a poison pill or passive aggressive boobie trap to blow up whoever tried to uncover his past. After all, any one who is interested just cannot accept the legitimacy of the first African American President.
The only thing more enjoyable than watching President Trump rub Obama's nose in the proverbial cow pie will be watching Obama's supporters gasp when he does it.Replies: @27 year old, @melendwyr
Betty Shelby will consider being thrown under the bus a major upgrade to her status – but she won’t be able to enjoy that status improvement.
Betty has already been consigned, unjustly, to the deplorables basket. As a card-carrying deplorable I say “welcome, we ‘deplorables’ understand your plight.”
North Carolingians have taken on almost demonic significance in the half-hourly news breaks I hear on Disney’s ESPN radio net. Is the state Dem party out to lunch? Or do elite leftists forget the difference between Bubba and spouse despite shared surname? Seems like an own goal. Somewhere, Carville winces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htt91G2qDwMReplies: @Jack Hanson, @e, @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland
There’s a body of evidence that Rommel being denied the Pour Le Merite drove everything else he ever did after that.
People respond in different ways to perceived slights. Some disregard high command and take their tank division to go fight the whole French Army piece by piece. Others run for President so they can try to save America.
Hillary wants Trayvon II all over the media to pick up her sagging poll numbers. Trying to terrorize your way into the White House is an unusual step, but then Hillary is Livia Drusilla all over. She's a figure right out of ancient Rome at its most corrupt.
At least when Lyndon Johnson bombed people and failed to win in Vietnam, he had enough grace to decide not to run for the presidency again because he thought that made him unelectable. Even though Hillary has dropped bombs all over the Middle East and screwed up a whole long string of governments, leaving us with scarcely an ally over there, she does not think that way.Replies: @Jefferson, @Jefferson, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Steve from Detroit
“My mother and father were both carrying on about how horrible the shooting of this poor black guy was, who was just minding his own business reading a book.”
Not many Dindu thugs read books. How many ghetto looking Negroes do you see at your local Barnes & Noble?
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
McWhorter? The same said that having a black president with a stable 2-parent family for 8 years would improve black families because they would know that that blacks really could have stable 2-parent families.
Not to mention that McWhorter thinks Ebonics is a genuine language, because it has a consistent syntax and actual semantics for Ebonics-speaking _____ (I hesitate to fill in the blank, it may be a hate crime).
Next up, the bleating of sheep, the mooing of cows and the grunting of pigs all qualify as human languages.
“Mr. Douthat writes, “The alt-right-ish columnist xxxxx xxxxx made the punk rock analogy as well.” I used x’s because I, unlike Mr. Douthat, will not give any oxygen to the name of an “alt-right-ish” writer.
Not THAT is how you signal, ladies and gentlemen!
Go out of your way to point out a quote from an article that contains the name that you pointedly refuse to say, all to highlight how much better you are for refusing to draw attention to it.
It’s like a work of art, if you think about it.
Hillary wants Trayvon II all over the media to pick up her sagging poll numbers. Trying to terrorize your way into the White House is an unusual step, but then Hillary is Livia Drusilla all over. She's a figure right out of ancient Rome at its most corrupt.
At least when Lyndon Johnson bombed people and failed to win in Vietnam, he had enough grace to decide not to run for the presidency again because he thought that made him unelectable. Even though Hillary has dropped bombs all over the Middle East and screwed up a whole long string of governments, leaving us with scarcely an ally over there, she does not think that way.Replies: @Jefferson, @Jefferson, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Steve from Detroit
‘“My mother and father were both carrying on about how horrible the shooting of this poor black guy was, who was just minding his own business reading a book.”
Not many Dindu thugs read books. How many ghetto looking Negroes do you see at your local Barnes & Noble?
The safest place to be during a Negro riot is at a Barnes & Noble. The most dangerous place to be is at a Foot Locker, a gold chain store, or a KFC.
Hillary wants Trayvon II all over the media to pick up her sagging poll numbers. Trying to terrorize your way into the White House is an unusual step, but then Hillary is Livia Drusilla all over. She's a figure right out of ancient Rome at its most corrupt.
At least when Lyndon Johnson bombed people and failed to win in Vietnam, he had enough grace to decide not to run for the presidency again because he thought that made him unelectable. Even though Hillary has dropped bombs all over the Middle East and screwed up a whole long string of governments, leaving us with scarcely an ally over there, she does not think that way.Replies: @Jefferson, @Jefferson, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Steve from Detroit
Failure really does not limit Democrats from seeking, and attaining, higher office. You just need the right positions and all is forgiven. And the best part is that you do not have to deliver on any of your promises!
Apparently, 70% of those arrested were from out of state.
We can call it a mixed metaphor.
People respond in different ways to perceived slights. Some disregard high command and take their tank division to go fight the whole French Army piece by piece. Others run for President so they can try to save America.Replies: @guest, @reiner Tor
That reminds me of Iago in Othello.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htt91G2qDwMReplies: @Jack Hanson, @e, @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland
Initially, I thought the same thing, but Trump is no fool: he knew Obama was going to take shots at him and that he’d just have to sit there and take it, which he did.
He has balls of stone.
(which means white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic)
I thought if you were tarred as a “white supremacist,” the “racist” was assumed. Also, where’s “sexist, homophobe, and Islamaphobe”? I believe it’s a complete package, not a “pick one from column A, two from column B” kinda deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htt91G2qDwMReplies: @Jack Hanson, @e, @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland
Donald is going to LOVE having Obama hand the keys to the White House over to him. I’m sure he’ll get a little dig in, something like, “Hey, now that I’m president, I’m going to have the CIA locate your actual birth certificate and academic records. I’m really looking forward to reading them.”
I can see Trump doing it the Francis Urquhart way (original "House of Cards"): "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment."
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
I’m sympathetic to blacks, too, because I was manhandled on a few occasions by the cops as a “youth” myself.
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of young black men – and probably a majority of young white men – don’t fit into the new urban paradigm, which is largely defined by aging, propertied white baby boomers and docile minorities. Most blacks are a poor fit for it, yet there they are.
Young white men who don’t fit in just leave the city and get a job in a majority white community where their work is valued. Take white veterans for example. How many would you find in upscale urban centers? Very few, but if you leave town and drive for about fifteen minutes they’re all over.
Blacks don’t have that option for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons being that blue collar work requires certification and demonstrable literacy. Your average young black male has neither the skills nor the squeaky clean record required for decent paying non-college jobs. He’s stuck in the city with no prospects and he adheres to a culture that is, if not entirely criminalized, rife with infractions at every turn.
Blacks are getting squeezed from pretty much every direction, and as the Obama presidency proves even their political supporters don’t have the will or ability to find a workable solution. They’ll just propose more programs and regulations, squeezing them harder and harder thereby guaranteeing periodic outbursts of violence.
Thomas Jefferson was right about the blacks. They need to go their own way, and we need to leave them alone and free to do so. They can’t be white, and they don’t want to be. I don’t blame them for that.
A lot of low skilled jobs now require having a well documented work history. For example, its hard to get work as an airport baggage handler an inner city security guard without good references, even though the work itself isn't very demanding in terms or skills or IQ.Replies: @guest
However, there are two correctable problems:
1) Mass low-skill immigration which has brought essentially an unlimited supply of higher quality low skilled labor into competition with blacks.
and
2) The normalization and promotion of black non-compliance--with white norms, with any authority, heck with anyone--as authentically "black" and "keeping it real". Essentially promoting their own separateness from white\mainstream society.
Both of these things were significantly better and hence the prospects of blacks to "integrate" actually looked significantly better back when i was a pup--the bad old days of say 1960--then they are now. And both those things are highly promoted by the "left", the Democratic party.Replies: @Desiderius
Yes!
Like the old Campbell Soup ads with NFL players and their moms…except this time for fiber supplements.
Clinton will win a landslide.
Trumps supporters consist of fools who think there is racism against whites and that blacks don’t face racism
― Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
We all wish, but I am sure that Obama and the current CIA director Brennan (appointed by Obama) have already made sure that is not possible.
This is doubly likely, considering that before Obama appointed him, his company accessed and may have altered Obama’s passport files, paving Obama’s path to the white house in the first place.
The rabbit hole gets really funky when you read all the theories claiming that Brennan is a closet Muslim.
Who the heck knows anymore? He speaks Arabic and lived in many Islamic countries for a long time, so it is not completely crazy…
CIA chief in Saudi Arabia.
http://youtu.be/7VQbAhqHoAo
He just told the Congressional Black Caucus that he voted for the Communist Party ticket in '76 - thus I have no doubt the transition from Marx to Muhammad would've been all that hard for him (see: Muslim convert Carlos the Jackal)
“Matrifocal family”
“Serial polygamy”
“anthropogenic r-selection”
“temporary amazonian zone”
“arachnid mating mimicry”
“hyphenated surname empowerment”
“patriarchy-free zone”
“Great Society mating patterns”
The NC bathroom law was in response to a Charlotte ordinance, IIRC.
Would be kind of funny if Charlotte gets punished for doing the *coughs* “right” thing.
Another theory is that the Democrats are stirring the pot to get out the black vote. Problem for them is that while it may very well increase the black vote (reliably around 90% Democrat), idiocy like what is happening in Charlotte also galvanizes the white vote for the law and order candidate. (Trump). Trump’s been compared to Andy Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt…perhaps a more apt comparison would be Richard Milhous Nixon?
Roger Stone, an old Nixon trickster, is working for Trump. (Yes, I know, he either quit or was fired early in the campaign, but I think that was just convenient.) He may have a few surprises up his sleeve.
I surely hope so.
This theory that riots gets blacks to the polls hasn't panned out for the Dems. It didn't work in'14 post-Ferguson in Ferguson.
Hey, notice how our current CIA director referred to Palestine a few times in discussing all the Islamic countries he has known and loved?
Curiouser and curiouser.
Now I read that he voted for the Communist party candidate for president in the 70’s!
Haha!
http://www.infowars.com/cia-director-brennan-admits-voting-for-communist-party-in-1976/
BTW, he admitted that while talking at a panel promoting more diversity in the CIA.
well instead of sending the mothers of the movement she could have sent the poet laureate: Juan Felipe Herrera.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/55752
This might be the appropriate poem for our year.
Echoing the baseball is a white man’s game theme you posted about last week:
“Mariners catcher says all people involved with Black Lives Matter movement should be ‘locked behind bars like animals’”
http://www.businessinsider.com/mariners-catcher-steve-clevenger-black-lives-matters-people-animals-2016-9
“Mariners catcher says all people involved with Black Lives Matter movement should be ‘locked behind bars like animals’”
I wonder what percentage of MLB players are going to vote for Donald Trump?
Marriage, LOL
Trump is going to need a proverbial Dr. Kynes to be Judge of the Change and a Thufir Hawat to clean out all the sabotage devices.
"Did Trump decide to run when Obama mocked him as a birther conspiracy theorist at White House dinner?"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802949/Did-Trump-decide-run-Obama-mocked-birther-conspiracy-theorist-White-House-dinner.html
" Donald Trump ally Roger Stone suggested Trump decided to run for president after the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner
Stone, speaking in a new Frontline documentary, said Trump was 'motivated' by President Obama jabs during a comedy routine
The president made fun of Trump for peddling the 'birther' conspiracy theory and for his job as a reality TV host
'These are the kinds of decisions that keep me up at night,' sniffed Obama, talking about which D-lister to throw off Trump's show 'The Apprentice'"Replies: @Anonymous, @Yep, @Forbes
I’ve always thought Trump deciding to run had something to do with the fact that he was the only person who compelled Obama to release his birth certificate. I remember being surprised that the Obama White House took Trump so seriously considering the birther stuff had been around a few years at that point. It must’ve have been a big signal to Trump that liberals saw him as a real threat.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
When of the Charlotte protesters yelled at a reporter “tell the truth!”. They believe the media lies and covers up for whites the way we believe the media lies and covers up for blacks.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
In other words: they can’t really be considered part of the same nation.
That's how the left loses in American politics.
Ross's Steve Sailer-naming NYT's column does good work capturing how the Democrats are flirting with a self-inflicted loss this election, and how they did it once before in the Nixon-Reagan era:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/opinion/campaign-stops/clintons-samantha-bee-problem.htmlRoss not only winked over at us, but also at too at those of us who make the effort to know and understand the history of Western Europe.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_ReactionReplies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @Jason Liu
“The alt-right-ish columnist Steve Sailer made the punk rock analogy as well.”
Way wait. Ross is putting Steve in the alt-right camp? Really? I never knew whether Steve accepted that designation, or whether he would decline being included in the alt-right in any official capacity. Sometimes various groups like HBD; Milo; Breitbart; etc. blend together and can appear to be an official part of the alt-right, but its very confusing as to which groups are part of the alt-right and which ones are technically not a part.
I have a feeling that both Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer would very much like Steve to have a more official part of their grouping, but who knows if he would accept their offer? Side note, I’m puzzled sometimes as to why Mr. Taylor hasn’t invited Steve to speak at his American Renaissance conferences.
I suppose one could always just ask him whether Douthat’s inclusion of him with the alt-right is accurate from his perspective.
When Pat Buchanan was running for President in 2000 I think it was (a hopeless cluster of a third-party campaign) he said the first thing he would do upon taking his oath of office would be to turn to his predecessor and say “You have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attorney,……………….”
"Mariners catcher says all people involved with Black Lives Matter movement should be 'locked behind bars like animals'"
http://www.businessinsider.com/mariners-catcher-steve-clevenger-black-lives-matters-people-animals-2016-9Replies: @Jefferson, @Forbes
“Echoing the baseball is a white man’s game theme you posted about last week:
“Mariners catcher says all people involved with Black Lives Matter movement should be ‘locked behind bars like animals’”
I wonder what percentage of MLB players are going to vote for Donald Trump?
Trumps supporters consist of fools who think there is racism against whites and that blacks don't face racismReplies: @ic1000, @Louis Renault
Stronger Together
I appear to have eaten something bad today. Later I had the Mother of All Movements.
She will most certainly be acquitted of manslaughter given the circumstances. Suspect continually disobeys police instructions, walks away to his vehicle, shrugs off a taser, continues to the vehicle and seems to reach in the back window, whereupon the female cop shoots him.
Doesn’t matter if he was just reaching for a toothpick. That was the green light as far as police procedure is concerned.
As far as the Charlotte fiasco is concerned, Ingram is right – get the cameras out of there and everyone loses interest and goes home. If they don’t, give them a final warning, then send in the gendarmes to crack a few heads. It’s what Rudy would do.
I don’t see how the Riots in Charlotte hurts Hillary. And when, not if they spread, to other parts of the nation, I wouldn’t think it would hurt Dems at all.
Its not 1968; the demographics make Whites a functional minority here already. The majority of infants born last year were non-White. Anti-White riots, which is what the Charlotte riots and BLM riots in general, appeal to not just Blacks, but other non-Whites liking the domination displays that Black rioters engage in; and figuring their turn for dominance over Whites is coming as well.
Anti-White riots turn out not just Black voters, but Hispanic ones, eager to see more opportunities for looting as in the Rodney King riots, and even Asian ones. Sure, Korean and Vietnamese shop owners don’t like being looted, but every other non-White just salivates at the idea of kicking out Joe White guy from his job and taking it.
And the loss of majority home ownership among Whites makes the incentives different. Homeowners are allergic to riots, non-homeowners tend to be roughly indifferent. Certainly the London Riots where Whites were famously forced to strip by hulking and low IQ Black rioters helped … elect Saddiq Khan. UKIP has only 1 MP; and Labor is full on loony anti-White left, with no end in sight.
Of course, those with property will defend what they have, which is often damn little. A billionaire can write off the loss of a multi-million dollar yacht, or a villa. Joe Average with $100K in equity in his house will fight and die for it; and kill for it. This will not end well; a Cold Civil War can turn RED HOT in an instant — general Black burning, looting, and home invasion of suburbs as Hillary! seeks every bit of advantage. It might get her both elected. And end the US as a nation.
Indeed, the US may already be finished irrespective of the next election.Replies: @jake
Look what happened after the Black Rodney King riots in LA.
Black mayor Tom Bradley replaced by White Republican, Blacks have been basically put down , ethnically cleansed from Southern California.
Asian and Arab merchants don t like rioting Blacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htt91G2qDwMReplies: @Jack Hanson, @e, @Harry Baldwin, @Prof. Woland
If Donald Trump becomes President he will sit on top of the largest information gathering organization in the world. I have no doubt that either all at once or little by little, Obama’s past, which he has spent so much time and resources hiding will get leaked out much to his ever lasting shame. Someday, it will probably be proven that BHO got over promoted just about every step of the way due to affirmative action. It also might be proven that he never registered for selective service and that he wrote all types of atrocious radical dreck in college.
Obama’s birth certificate was just a cap stone or cover story to hide his past. I have heard one long forgotten blogger who I wish I could name refer to it as a McGuffen. When David Axelrod hid Obama’s school transcripts, selective service records, medical records, Baptismal records, etc., he used the birth certificate as a poison pill or passive aggressive boobie trap to blow up whoever tried to uncover his past. After all, any one who is interested just cannot accept the legitimacy of the first African American President.
The only thing more enjoyable than watching President Trump rub Obama’s nose in the proverbial cow pie will be watching Obama’s supporters gasp when he does it.
That's how the left loses in American politics.
Ross's Steve Sailer-naming NYT's column does good work capturing how the Democrats are flirting with a self-inflicted loss this election, and how they did it once before in the Nixon-Reagan era:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/opinion/campaign-stops/clintons-samantha-bee-problem.htmlRoss not only winked over at us, but also at too at those of us who make the effort to know and understand the history of Western Europe.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermidorian_ReactionReplies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @Jason Liu
Right, it’s going to take a lot more than a Thermidor to defeat the left. Reaction is not enough, ideological revolution is needed. The right needs to not just hold power, but also undermine the legitimacy of leftist ideas over the long run.
The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won't get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don't let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don't have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.Replies: @CCZ, @27 year old, @Almost Missouri, @Jim Don Bob, @RonaldB
Would be kind of funny if Charlotte gets punished for doing the *coughs* "right" thing.
Another theory is that the Democrats are stirring the pot to get out the black vote. Problem for them is that while it may very well increase the black vote (reliably around 90% Democrat), idiocy like what is happening in Charlotte also galvanizes the white vote for the law and order candidate. (Trump). Trump's been compared to Andy Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt...perhaps a more apt comparison would be Richard Milhous Nixon?Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Ed
This is perceptive.
Roger Stone, an old Nixon trickster, is working for Trump. (Yes, I know, he either quit or was fired early in the campaign, but I think that was just convenient.) He may have a few surprises up his sleeve.
I surely hope so.
I posted something similar on another blog but more useful here. One of the things we must do is directly challenge the university marxism.
The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won’t get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don’t let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don’t have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.
I was excited because I thought that using a a test indicated they would be a great company to work for, but their salary offer was insultingly low.
Point is, small companies are doing it under the radar and large companies may be Chabging too - EY announced they were dropping college degrees as a requirement.
The writer Decius also said in his Flight 93 Election article (http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/) that the administrative state is the greatest threat to our liberty because it is unaccountable. This is a feature as far as the left is concerned.
Several comments have noted that the Griggs v. Duke Power decision would forbid the use of IQ tests. In fact, Congress has the power to strip the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court from any area of legislation. Who knows what is possible if a Republican Congress and President are elected?
You would also have to do away with the fiction of affirmative action. Blacks and other non-Asian minorities would obviously be seriously under-represented in any employment area employing IQ tests. I would speculate the reinstating the concept of private property and freedom of association might actually benefit some blacks. If companies are allowed to use IQ tests, but not required to do so (because of having to objectively justify their hiring decisions), they might look at non-IQ factors, such as honesty, work ethic, perseverance, etc that might lead them to hire a minority who is not the next in line on a strict IQ basis.Replies: @guest
I was thinking that myself. Also did she hit that ghetto lottery?
By Ann Doss Helms
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September 22, 2016I guess the moral is, if you offend tender sensibilities (or commit those evil racist micro-aggressions), you get riots and looting.Replies: @TangoMan
National Activists Fly In As Charlotte Police Protests Continue
What kind of job is “national activist?” I recall Governor Palin making light of Obama’s job as a community organizer and wondering what kind of job that was.
But she and other leaders said the department’s rush
Leaders. This brings to mind the GOP elite – an organization of generals leading an army with no voters behind them. Why are these leaders flying in when their “troops” are stuck back at home base? Could it be that there’s money floating around and they’re trying to tap into the money stream?
There is not enough attention and common understanding on how these movements are financed and how these leaders and activists make a living.
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of young black men - and probably a majority of young white men - don't fit into the new urban paradigm, which is largely defined by aging, propertied white baby boomers and docile minorities. Most blacks are a poor fit for it, yet there they are.
Young white men who don't fit in just leave the city and get a job in a majority white community where their work is valued. Take white veterans for example. How many would you find in upscale urban centers? Very few, but if you leave town and drive for about fifteen minutes they're all over.
Blacks don't have that option for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons being that blue collar work requires certification and demonstrable literacy. Your average young black male has neither the skills nor the squeaky clean record required for decent paying non-college jobs. He's stuck in the city with no prospects and he adheres to a culture that is, if not entirely criminalized, rife with infractions at every turn.
Blacks are getting squeezed from pretty much every direction, and as the Obama presidency proves even their political supporters don't have the will or ability to find a workable solution. They'll just propose more programs and regulations, squeezing them harder and harder thereby guaranteeing periodic outbursts of violence.
Thomas Jefferson was right about the blacks. They need to go their own way, and we need to leave them alone and free to do so. They can't be white, and they don't want to be. I don't blame them for that.Replies: @unpc downunder, @Ed, @AnotherDad
“Your average young black male has neither the skills nor the squeaky clean record required for decent paying non-college jobs.”
A lot of low skilled jobs now require having a well documented work history. For example, its hard to get work as an airport baggage handler an inner city security guard without good references, even though the work itself isn’t very demanding in terms or skills or IQ.
I think only trayvon’s parents were married at one point. I could be wrong but they at least acted like a married couple. There were pics of them going on vacations as a family unit.
Mike Brown’s mom was 16 & unmarried when she had him. He lived with various relatives and was living with his grandma in a Section 8 unit in Ferguson.
Would be kind of funny if Charlotte gets punished for doing the *coughs* "right" thing.
Another theory is that the Democrats are stirring the pot to get out the black vote. Problem for them is that while it may very well increase the black vote (reliably around 90% Democrat), idiocy like what is happening in Charlotte also galvanizes the white vote for the law and order candidate. (Trump). Trump's been compared to Andy Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt...perhaps a more apt comparison would be Richard Milhous Nixon?Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Ed
The irony is that according to a recent NYT poll, blacks in NC support HB2 and the governor pulls in double the support that Trump does. He gets a grand total of 10% of the vote.
This theory that riots gets blacks to the polls hasn’t panned out for the Dems. It didn’t work in’14 post-Ferguson in Ferguson.
Seems to be some Black Lives Matter mini-protests in Compton…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c6d_1474561694
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of young black men - and probably a majority of young white men - don't fit into the new urban paradigm, which is largely defined by aging, propertied white baby boomers and docile minorities. Most blacks are a poor fit for it, yet there they are.
Young white men who don't fit in just leave the city and get a job in a majority white community where their work is valued. Take white veterans for example. How many would you find in upscale urban centers? Very few, but if you leave town and drive for about fifteen minutes they're all over.
Blacks don't have that option for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons being that blue collar work requires certification and demonstrable literacy. Your average young black male has neither the skills nor the squeaky clean record required for decent paying non-college jobs. He's stuck in the city with no prospects and he adheres to a culture that is, if not entirely criminalized, rife with infractions at every turn.
Blacks are getting squeezed from pretty much every direction, and as the Obama presidency proves even their political supporters don't have the will or ability to find a workable solution. They'll just propose more programs and regulations, squeezing them harder and harder thereby guaranteeing periodic outbursts of violence.
Thomas Jefferson was right about the blacks. They need to go their own way, and we need to leave them alone and free to do so. They can't be white, and they don't want to be. I don't blame them for that.Replies: @unpc downunder, @Ed, @AnotherDad
The best suggestion I’ve heard in the last ten years to address this problem was from a Buffalo area Republican congressman. He said that the unemployed black men in buffalo should be setup to work in area fields at a decent wage $15 an hour I believe. That’s probably ambitious. At any rate he was denounced as racist and walked it back.
I notice that instapundit is in the Daily Mail for being suspended by Twitter for the tweet “Run them down.”
He was actually linking to reports that cars were being stopped on the highway by rioters and their occupants were in danger.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802303/Glenn-Reynolds-UT-Knoxville-law-professor-told-Twitter-followers-run-Charlotte-protesters.html
I am sure there is a lot of pressure to “Shut him down.”
I hope it only makes him stronger.
The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won't get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don't let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don't have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.Replies: @CCZ, @27 year old, @Almost Missouri, @Jim Don Bob, @RonaldB
Regarding “legalize IQ tests for employment,” perhaps unlikely to happen because of Griggs Vs Duke Power, which prohibits employment tests (when used as a decisive factor in employment decisions) that are not a “reasonable measure of job performance.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Take it easy on that frail, diseased old lady unaccountably running for the presidency of Earth’s most powerful nation — it’s clear she has significant, perhaps severe neurological problems.
She can’t stand longer than a few minutes and needs the assistance of at least two stout men flanking her at all times.
She has seizures brought on by stress, heat, loud noises, and bright lights.
She has uncontrolled coughing attacks that last several minutes.
She undoubtedly qualifies for (and probably receives) Social Security disability.
It was HER TURN in 2008, when she was in better health, but had her coronation stolen from her by a magic negro (TM).
Her husband has humiliated her repeatedly, in public.
What a pathetic creature. And what a pathetic nation that this is the best the Democratic Party could do.
One important difference: neither the crimes of 1972 nor their subsequent cover-up involved the threat of violence.
Otherwise leave the cameras in, let the looters and the gangsters do their thing, and Trump gets another series of free TV commercials, far better than anything his team could have produced. The Democrats have totally lost their minds.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
“…illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.”
They are not ‘different parts of the nation’. They are completely different nations altogether. Nor do blacks and whites have different viewpoints on this issue, so much as on every issue. Also noteworthy is that the black rent-a-mob rioters no longer even require a “racist” white cop to start their looting, arson and hysteria.
I think Trayvon’s dad might beg to differ – he definitely showed up in tandem with our own national pestilence Al Sharpton on a whirlwind black church tour, gleefully clutching actual trash cans full of donated cash on the pulpit (after Sharpton passed the plate around a couple extra times).
Personally I think Trayvon was up to his old tricks, casing homes for future burglaries when Zimmerman stumbled upon him.Replies: @I, Libertine
Yes, but the right Justices could overturn that. And Congress could amend Title VII. Its something that would pass under the radar but would undermine the power of academia.
It's in the Constitution.Replies: @guest, @ben tillman
John Brennan, the ultimate quisling dhimmi.
He just told the Congressional Black Caucus that he voted for the Communist Party ticket in ’76 – thus I have no doubt the transition from Marx to Muhammad would’ve been all that hard for him (see: Muslim convert Carlos the Jackal)
Steve spoke at a Taylor event about 7 years ago.
I’m not sure Steve has strong views on the application of Norse theology to modern America, or “The Ways of Men” so he might not fit in at a Spencer event.
In many countries people can't quickly tell who is and who is not physically dangerous to them. In America, especially recently, you can.Replies: @bomag
But we can’t do anything about it, except give them a genius grant.
It’s not just about a sustainable and fair planet anymore; it’s about taking over a sinking ship.
With all undue respect to today’s world leaders who may have given it their darndest, in light of the abysmal performance by the predominantly male leadership on Spaceship Earth at present, isn’t it time to give a more feminine perspective a shot? Buckminster Fuller thought so? His wisdom about the overall superiority of a feminine paradigm of leadership was published in a 1968 McCall’s Magazine article, entitled “Why Women Will Rule the World”.
https://buckyworld.me/2016/07/28/women-take-over-spaceship-earth/
Charlotte is taking on water and going down. Women and children first.
A successful president (or politician for that matter) must have fingerspitzengeful..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengefühl
Trump seems to have it in droves, difficult to explain his dizzying ascension otherwise (I would agree Bill Clinton had it too).. A two-term president usually has it!
Fingerspitzengefühl
Financial Times leader – “Trump is a terrible isolationist who will bomb the Middle East at the drop of a hat”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3f16e476-7e5c-11e6-8e50-8ec15fb462f4.html
TL/DR; author Philip Stephens recycles the last 200 NYT op-eds, fails to condemn cartoon frogs, demonstrates the value of a Jesuit education to argumentational gymnastics.
They’re frit.
Elsewhere, NYT – “Hillary Clinton’s Outrage Machine”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/us/politics/hillary-clinton-media-david-brock.html
People respond in different ways to perceived slights. Some disregard high command and take their tank division to go fight the whole French Army piece by piece. Others run for President so they can try to save America.Replies: @guest, @reiner Tor
But he did get the Pour le Mérite.
Obama's birth certificate was just a cap stone or cover story to hide his past. I have heard one long forgotten blogger who I wish I could name refer to it as a McGuffen. When David Axelrod hid Obama's school transcripts, selective service records, medical records, Baptismal records, etc., he used the birth certificate as a poison pill or passive aggressive boobie trap to blow up whoever tried to uncover his past. After all, any one who is interested just cannot accept the legitimacy of the first African American President.
The only thing more enjoyable than watching President Trump rub Obama's nose in the proverbial cow pie will be watching Obama's supporters gasp when he does it.Replies: @27 year old, @melendwyr
Hopefully he spills the beans on Harvey Dent while he’s at it
The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won't get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don't let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don't have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.Replies: @CCZ, @27 year old, @Almost Missouri, @Jim Don Bob, @RonaldB
I don’t know if it was legal or not but one company I applied this summer to had me take a 1960s era “computer programmer aptitude battery” test which seemed suspiciously close to an IQ test. It was a software company but not a programming job.
I was excited because I thought that using a a test indicated they would be a great company to work for, but their salary offer was insultingly low.
Point is, small companies are doing it under the radar and large companies may be Chabging too – EY announced they were dropping college degrees as a requirement.
We can’t have blacks working fields. That’s what Mexicans are for. I can’t believe that stupid white racist didn’t know that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengefühl
Trump seems to have it in droves, difficult to explain his dizzying ascension otherwise (I would agree Bill Clinton had it too).. A two-term president usually has it!Replies: @AndrewR
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Fingerspitzengefühl
Wow. Despite how any of us feels about this movement, how can anyone claim that the loss of a son is worth whatever subsequent “rewards” one receives afterward? And this “fame” and “worship” will not last, nor will it be all that rewarding in the end.
But I think that the actual mammas of these thugs probably think that it's worth it. They generally don't really give a damn about their kids anyway. They usually have several different baby-daddies. If a woman cares about her children at all, she would be very selective about the father of her children. They don't make the least effort to provide a stable life for their children. These so-called mothers could work hard, get the hell out of the hood, and not put out until they find a man with a job with a reasonable chance of sticking around to raise his children. (There are black men around like that.) The mothers can make sure that their children, especially their sons, try hard in school, get a decent education and stay out of trouble. (This assumes that they have gotten out of the ghetto.) Around here, we like to talk about IQ. So no, these kids probably won't end up going to Harvard or being brain surgeons, but they can manage to grow up without getting shot by the cops (or by black criminals in the hood) and live a decent life.
You're right. The fame and worship won't last. But you are giving way to much credit to the ghetto lottery winners if you think that they are concerned in the least. They have either almost no ability or no desire to pan or think ahead.
For people without a strong future time preference, what matters is NOW.
In my experience in a 70% black city (three decades nearly), including ER work, the mommas only start to really dearly care deeply and profoundly about they chilluns when death happens.
It is a form of primitivism that is very difficult to comprehend, coming out of K-reproduction-strategy genetics, where each child is precious. It's difficult to comprehend the lack of tenderness of mothers toward their newborns/infants/toddlers, even more difficult to comprehend their viciousness or indifference to them.
It is death that gives a child's life meaning in that primitive mindset. The fashionable current spin on this, supplied heartily by Bolshevists, is Victimization. Clinging to Victimization means keeping the worship of death alive in every aspect of life.
The Dems play on this for their own power, and it stinks.
Trayvon’s dad was very involved in his son’s life. You can tell his affection for him through pics. He often broke down during interviews whereas I don’t recall his mother doing that. The reason he was staying with his dad was he was getting into a lot of trouble in Miami.
Personally I think Trayvon was up to his old tricks, casing homes for future burglaries when Zimmerman stumbled upon him.
Its not 1968; the demographics make Whites a functional minority here already. The majority of infants born last year were non-White. Anti-White riots, which is what the Charlotte riots and BLM riots in general, appeal to not just Blacks, but other non-Whites liking the domination displays that Black rioters engage in; and figuring their turn for dominance over Whites is coming as well.
Anti-White riots turn out not just Black voters, but Hispanic ones, eager to see more opportunities for looting as in the Rodney King riots, and even Asian ones. Sure, Korean and Vietnamese shop owners don't like being looted, but every other non-White just salivates at the idea of kicking out Joe White guy from his job and taking it.
And the loss of majority home ownership among Whites makes the incentives different. Homeowners are allergic to riots, non-homeowners tend to be roughly indifferent. Certainly the London Riots where Whites were famously forced to strip by hulking and low IQ Black rioters helped ... elect Saddiq Khan. UKIP has only 1 MP; and Labor is full on loony anti-White left, with no end in sight.
Of course, those with property will defend what they have, which is often damn little. A billionaire can write off the loss of a multi-million dollar yacht, or a villa. Joe Average with $100K in equity in his house will fight and die for it; and kill for it. This will not end well; a Cold Civil War can turn RED HOT in an instant -- general Black burning, looting, and home invasion of suburbs as Hillary! seeks every bit of advantage. It might get her both elected. And end the US as a nation.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Jack ryan, @Jack Hanson
Election of Hillary will likely end the US as a nation with or without riots.
Indeed, the US may already be finished irrespective of the next election.
So everybody should call for peaceful separation. Let Liberals have the rich northeast and the rich pacific coast, as well as the upper midwest from Erie across to Minneapolis. Let them invite every Negro, every Moslem, every Jew crazy enough to want to be around that many Moslems and blacks, and every gay from the rest of the states. As Mormons hate Trump, let the Libs have Utah, NV, AZ, and ID.
We'll take all Christian or moral or cultural conservatives from their areas.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
You are correct: there is no possible reconciliation on a large scale on this point. For a majority of blacks, it is always tit for tat. If a cop kills an armed black man with a rap sheet 10 pages long, that means blacks by the thousands are justified in rioting, no matter how many people get dragged out of cars and beaten, no matter how much property is destroyed, no matter how many deaths occur.
That is who they are in the core of their beings. That is their innate sense of morality. And like the most extremely violent adolescents, they always have excuses, justifications. It is always YOUR fault they had to riot.
Liberals back in the antebellum period – who, for you permanent anti-Semites as well as lovers of all things from ‘original America,’ were virtually 100% WASP – made the Negro the Sacred Cow of America. The bloodlust of that Liberalism with Negro as sacred cow was not satisfied by the Civil War, which we perhaps should call The War to Establish the Sacred Cow Negro, nor by Reconstruction. It will not be satisfied by these riots. 1000 Reginald Dennys could be dragged from vehicles and beaten on the same day, and the Liberal bloodlust for the Sacred Cow Negro would not be satisfied.
Whatever genetic propensities toward violence that blacks may have, the simple fact is that they have been worsened by the American Elites who have made the Negro the nation’s first Sacred Cow. The Scared Cow knows it can destroy entire villages, a whole province, and not only will it not get butchered; it will get worshipped all the more.
Blacks know that deep in their guts.
Which is why we need a major change in police procedure. The lives and rights of citizens are more important than the procedures and lives of cops. They work for us, we can change their rules of employment. They don’t like it, they are free to find honest work.
Not THAT is how you signal, ladies and gentlemen!
Go out of your way to point out a quote from an article that contains the name that you pointedly refuse to say, all to highlight how much better you are for refusing to draw attention to it.
It's like a work of art, if you think about it.Replies: @Anonymous
Insightful and delightful comment. Thanks.
Indeed, the US may already be finished irrespective of the next election.Replies: @jake
If you mean that within another 20 years or so it will fracture – you may well be correct. It is a failed empire of liberalism, virtually as awful as the USSR was minus only the Gulag.
So everybody should call for peaceful separation. Let Liberals have the rich northeast and the rich pacific coast, as well as the upper midwest from Erie across to Minneapolis. Let them invite every Negro, every Moslem, every Jew crazy enough to want to be around that many Moslems and blacks, and every gay from the rest of the states. As Mormons hate Trump, let the Libs have Utah, NV, AZ, and ID.
We’ll take all Christian or moral or cultural conservatives from their areas.
Yes, this is the crux of it. Everything else is downstream.
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that people like our host are doing just that, however (unintentionally) stealthily. The bad news is that you can’t beat something with nothing. The Left’s somethings (Cult Marx, White Privilege, Feminism, etc.) are all false and the Right’s criticisms of them are correct. But being correct as a critic doesn’t make you inheritor of the throne. To inherit the throne you not only have to depose the usurper, you have to show you’re the legitimate heir.
So far, the Right has been correct, if only partially effective, at discrediting the Left’s ascendancy. But the throne can’t just remain vacant. I don’t know if this is some natural law, or if it is just that people in general are too immature to go about their lives without some ruling ideology, but whatever the reason, it is apparent that a vacant throne attracts vagrants, so it needs to be occupied, and the more right and Right the occupier, the better.
Unfortunately, if the current Left is a Coalition of the Fringes united by the Left’s falsehoods and group-hate, the current Right consists of Confederation of the Anti-Fringes united by disgust with the Left’s lies and threats to their livelihoods and lives. Unfortunately, the Left’s lies are a Something (based on an identifiable though false theme) while the Right’s anti-lies are ultimately a Nothing because they lack any unifying theme other than resistance, and a Nothing, however true, will never beat the Something, however false.
The DOJ was sending people to infiltrate the Trayvon protests for some reason, probably to guide them and make it their tool. Now Clinton tries to exploit blacks for her own gain by pretending to be on their side and manipulating them. All this has been outrageously irresponsible. The US has had these racial fissures as it’s weak point and for these politicians to try to reap some personal advantage by hyping racial conflict really risks having it all get out of control. They’re doing harm to the US with all this but what do they care, there’s some benefit in it for them.
I’m glad you said “perpetrated”. It’s about time we recognized the truth– the collapse of social structure in the ghetto was brought about on purpose. Fools on the right ask, “Didn’t they read the Moynihan Report?” Damn right they did– and followed the script perfectly! (Except for the part about “don’t”.)
On the other hand, evil people who deatroy families for political gain don’t deserve the term “liberal”. Something more sinister is befitting. Like “progressive”.
The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won't get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don't let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don't have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.Replies: @CCZ, @27 year old, @Almost Missouri, @Jim Don Bob, @RonaldB
Mostly agree. The two political things corrupting academia are:
1) the Griggs v. Duke Power decision and related decisions/laws/regs/policies that make academic degrees de facto employment prerequisites, and
2) the deluge of federal money mainly via student loans.
The first has diverted millions of people into the academic machine that neither need it nor are needed by the academy. The second has financed this diversion and made the academy financially dependent on something that is unnecessary and even contrary to its purpose.
Maybe a saner Supreme Court could overturn Duke, maybe Congress. Others who are better informed legally can speculate. The encircling weeds of laws/regs/policies need to be cleared too though. It’s not a silver bullet fix. And I’ll guarantee the Left will oppose this clean-up every step of the way. It’s just what they do.
Your proposals for cleaning up the student loan scam may work. The Fed just turning off the spigot would work too. They won’t do it voluntarily though. Like many things nowadays, I think it may only be resolved by a massive currency collapse, which of course will have many other … um …. effects.
She can't stand longer than a few minutes and needs the assistance of at least two stout men flanking her at all times.
She has seizures brought on by stress, heat, loud noises, and bright lights.
She has uncontrolled coughing attacks that last several minutes.
She undoubtedly qualifies for (and probably receives) Social Security disability.
It was HER TURN in 2008, when she was in better health, but had her coronation stolen from her by a magic negro (TM).
Her husband has humiliated her repeatedly, in public.
What a pathetic creature. And what a pathetic nation that this is the best the Democratic Party could do.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
She’s the Nixon of Sex, in covering up his crimes. If she was being a good wife, then Nixon was being too good a boss.
One important difference: neither the crimes of 1972 nor their subsequent cover-up involved the threat of violence.
It’s simpler than that. Congress could pass a law allowing IQ tests and stipulate that the law is not subject to judicial review.
It’s in the Constitution.
I’m sure that commenter tyrone did not mean that he would personally think it is worth it to lose a son for the money, fame, and worship that comes with having your son killed by a cop.
But I think that the actual mammas of these thugs probably think that it’s worth it. They generally don’t really give a damn about their kids anyway. They usually have several different baby-daddies. If a woman cares about her children at all, she would be very selective about the father of her children. They don’t make the least effort to provide a stable life for their children. These so-called mothers could work hard, get the hell out of the hood, and not put out until they find a man with a job with a reasonable chance of sticking around to raise his children. (There are black men around like that.) The mothers can make sure that their children, especially their sons, try hard in school, get a decent education and stay out of trouble. (This assumes that they have gotten out of the ghetto.) Around here, we like to talk about IQ. So no, these kids probably won’t end up going to Harvard or being brain surgeons, but they can manage to grow up without getting shot by the cops (or by black criminals in the hood) and live a decent life.
You’re right. The fame and worship won’t last. But you are giving way to much credit to the ghetto lottery winners if you think that they are concerned in the least. They have either almost no ability or no desire to pan or think ahead.
Personally I think Trayvon was up to his old tricks, casing homes for future burglaries when Zimmerman stumbled upon him.Replies: @I, Libertine
A phrase comes to my mind when I think of the kid who would look like Obama’s kid if one of Obama’s kids was a boy: “the exception that proves the rule.”
http://www.vdare.com/posts/the-forgotten-barbara-jordan-commission-on-immigration Trump should use the late Black Democrat Representative Barbara Jordan as a wedge to pop over Hillary’s head in the upcoming debate. Wedges can be subtle and insinuative or you can use the thin edge as a handle to hammer your opponent. Trump can denounce the Black Lives Matter rioters and then state that US government immigration policy is harming Black workers. This will signal to White voters that he will strongly side with Black Americans when it is warranted. Trump can say that Bill Clinton himself called for Barbara Jordan to take a thorough look at US immigration policy. The Jordan Commission recommended that legal immigration should be reduced and that illegal immigration should be stopped cold. Trump will have to acknowledge that he has used foreign worker visas to staff some of his businesses. Trump can say that he played by the rules as they stood at the time, but that the US government’s immigration policy going forward must favor the interests of US workers first.
Do any of these out of state rioters who arrested, do they ever get prosecuted?
The Antifa, BLM folks pretty much get away with anything in and around Chicago
Hillary wants Trayvon II all over the media to pick up her sagging poll numbers. Trying to terrorize your way into the White House is an unusual step, but then Hillary is Livia Drusilla all over. She's a figure right out of ancient Rome at its most corrupt.
At least when Lyndon Johnson bombed people and failed to win in Vietnam, he had enough grace to decide not to run for the presidency again because he thought that made him unelectable. Even though Hillary has dropped bombs all over the Middle East and screwed up a whole long string of governments, leaving us with scarcely an ally over there, she does not think that way.Replies: @Jefferson, @Jefferson, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Steve from Detroit
The first part of your comment was spot on, and I especially sympathize with your having “boneheaded liberal relatives.” Outside of my immediate family, my relatives could out-liberal the ACLU. The second part of your comment on Hillary having no shame about her past abject failures is also spot on, and it works not only for all Democrats but even many Republicans.
I, however, implore you to reconsider the analogy with LBJ. Describing LBJ as having “enough grace” strikes me as borderline farcical. He exhibited the antithesis of grace or class. There was so much dirt on him, he knew he would never make it through another term.
The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won't get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don't let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don't have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.Replies: @CCZ, @27 year old, @Almost Missouri, @Jim Don Bob, @RonaldB
Here (http://www.aei.org/publication/decentralization-deference-and-the-administrative-state/) is a good article about what can be done to rein in the administrative state. I am not as hopeful as Wallison.
The writer Decius also said in his Flight 93 Election article (http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/) that the administrative state is the greatest threat to our liberty because it is unaccountable. This is a feature as far as the left is concerned.
I’m talking about something when he was a junior officer, so he took his troops over the Alps and captured a shit ton of Italians.
Really intrigued by the out of town arrest rate during recent events in Charlotte. I wonder what it would take to clarify what the out of town rates were during other recent protests. I know of at least one unemployed SJW who made it to Ferguson, MO ‘to support the protests’ – always wondered where he got the funds for the travel.
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of young black men - and probably a majority of young white men - don't fit into the new urban paradigm, which is largely defined by aging, propertied white baby boomers and docile minorities. Most blacks are a poor fit for it, yet there they are.
Young white men who don't fit in just leave the city and get a job in a majority white community where their work is valued. Take white veterans for example. How many would you find in upscale urban centers? Very few, but if you leave town and drive for about fifteen minutes they're all over.
Blacks don't have that option for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons being that blue collar work requires certification and demonstrable literacy. Your average young black male has neither the skills nor the squeaky clean record required for decent paying non-college jobs. He's stuck in the city with no prospects and he adheres to a culture that is, if not entirely criminalized, rife with infractions at every turn.
Blacks are getting squeezed from pretty much every direction, and as the Obama presidency proves even their political supporters don't have the will or ability to find a workable solution. They'll just propose more programs and regulations, squeezing them harder and harder thereby guaranteeing periodic outbursts of violence.
Thomas Jefferson was right about the blacks. They need to go their own way, and we need to leave them alone and free to do so. They can't be white, and they don't want to be. I don't blame them for that.Replies: @unpc downunder, @Ed, @AnotherDad
Good comment Bill.
The main reason is certainly their long evolutionary history in tropical Africa and the average set of mental traits that’s the evolutionary product of that.
However, there are two correctable problems:
1) Mass low-skill immigration which has brought essentially an unlimited supply of higher quality low skilled labor into competition with blacks.
and
2) The normalization and promotion of black non-compliance–with white norms, with any authority, heck with anyone–as authentically “black” and “keeping it real”. Essentially promoting their own separateness from white\mainstream society.
Both of these things were significantly better and hence the prospects of blacks to “integrate” actually looked significantly better back when i was a pup–the bad old days of say 1960–then they are now. And both those things are highly promoted by the “left”, the Democratic party.
"Did Trump decide to run when Obama mocked him as a birther conspiracy theorist at White House dinner?"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3802949/Did-Trump-decide-run-Obama-mocked-birther-conspiracy-theorist-White-House-dinner.html
" Donald Trump ally Roger Stone suggested Trump decided to run for president after the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner
Stone, speaking in a new Frontline documentary, said Trump was 'motivated' by President Obama jabs during a comedy routine
The president made fun of Trump for peddling the 'birther' conspiracy theory and for his job as a reality TV host
'These are the kinds of decisions that keep me up at night,' sniffed Obama, talking about which D-lister to throw off Trump's show 'The Apprentice'"Replies: @Anonymous, @Yep, @Forbes
Until the Dem party anointed him in 2004, Obama, then with two part-time jobs, hadn’t even risen to the level of the D-list. Obama really makes a habit of exposing his insecurities.
To the ghetto crowds and rioters, the race of the cop who did the shooting doesn’t matter–or make a difference. All cops are blue, and form the occupying, oppositional army (or the biggest gang in the ‘hood). The race/ethnicity of the cop is a distinction without a difference (just ask any black cop working in the inner city).
A Black cop murders a Black thug, so why did these Mulignans in Charlotte take out their anger on a White guy? Not only that he is not even a police officer.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/shock-video-homeless-white-man-attacked-charlotte-agitators/
Riots are Mulignans excuse to physically attack White people, steal electronics, steal junk food, steal weaves, and steal Air Jordan sneakers. There is no social political message behind it, it's just pure thuggery.
I thought if you were tarred as a "white supremacist," the "racist" was assumed. Also, where's "sexist, homophobe, and Islamaphobe"? I believe it's a complete package, not a "pick one from column A, two from column B" kinda deal.Replies: @Forbes
I usually endorse the whole panoply of deplorables when the subject comes up. No sense leaving anything off your curriculum vitae.
I realize the left doesn’t have the desire for logical coherence–or just having their ideas make at least a little bit of sense–that guys like i do. (I they did mass immigration couldn’t be in their list as it’s at odds with pretty much everything else–jobs, income inequality, upward mobility, women’s rights, LGBT nonsense, the environment, global warming, “smart growth”, sustainability–that they babble on about.)
Still exactly why is Trayvon’s mom a “mother of the movement”? Zimmerman was never a cop.
So the movement is really about the right for young blacks to coldcock “whites” then proceed to smack their heads into concrete without getting shot?
Good to know!
I actually imagine Trump will feign complete indifference towards Obama, while Trump’s fingerprints remain absent from any paper trail of disclosure about Obama. We’ve become so accustomed to Obama blaming Bush for everything adverse under the sun that we can’t imagine another president doing otherwise.
I can see Trump doing it the Francis Urquhart way (original “House of Cards”): “You might very well think that; I couldn’t possibly comment.”
"Mariners catcher says all people involved with Black Lives Matter movement should be 'locked behind bars like animals'"
http://www.businessinsider.com/mariners-catcher-steve-clevenger-black-lives-matters-people-animals-2016-9Replies: @Jefferson, @Forbes
Demonstrating for all, Twitter is for twits.
However, there are two correctable problems:
1) Mass low-skill immigration which has brought essentially an unlimited supply of higher quality low skilled labor into competition with blacks.
and
2) The normalization and promotion of black non-compliance--with white norms, with any authority, heck with anyone--as authentically "black" and "keeping it real". Essentially promoting their own separateness from white\mainstream society.
Both of these things were significantly better and hence the prospects of blacks to "integrate" actually looked significantly better back when i was a pup--the bad old days of say 1960--then they are now. And both those things are highly promoted by the "left", the Democratic party.Replies: @Desiderius
With blacks voting upwards of 90% for the party of our (almost exclusively white) ruling class, I’d say they’re following white norms better than whites are. Maybe we should look at those norms and those rulers. We might find some strange bedfellows willing to do likewise.
Actually Humphrey stayed a civilian throughout World War II–he was 4-F. Amazing isn’t it–there were something like 20 million WW2 vets who voted in that election, 50 million if you count spouses and children, and hardly anybody raised a stink about “chickenhawks” or “where was Hubert?”.
Keith’s wife just released a video of her husband’s shooting. Pretty much favors the cops’ account in every respect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/us/charlotte-keith-scott-shooting-video.html
Many are having a hard time remembering (even though it happened just a few days ago) that the riots started because of the lie that he was carrying a book, not a gun.
By the time he is pointing a weapon at the cops, it is too late, because one or more of them will be close to dead.
Why is that? It takes on more 0.5 seconds for someone to perceive that an action has been taken and to then fire their own gun. In that time, Scott could have raised any weapon, pointed it and fired two shots.Replies: @Chris Mallory
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve - but on the flipside, it's a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter's point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.Replies: @neutral, @The most deplorable one, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Bill P, @Yep, @Lurker, @anon, @jake, @Brutusale
Do you know any poor whites from the wrong side of the tracks?
I worked with some in my youth during my time as a club bouncer. They all had the same distrust/dislike of cops as any Dindu. They all had experience with “The System”. The essential difference is that they knew they’d get dropped like 4th period Latin if they even blinked ugly at law enforcement. Cops, black, white or other, will think twice before drawing down on a black perp. With a white, the have no compunctions at all.
I was one and slept on many park benches until I decided in my late teens that the combination of a dead mother and a violent alcoholic father should not be definitive.
Of course, finding out that I've got this numbers thingie that banks were willing to pay six figures for back in the early '80's didn't hurt.
The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won't get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don't let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don't have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.Replies: @CCZ, @27 year old, @Almost Missouri, @Jim Don Bob, @RonaldB
I really like the direction of your solution. You’re proposing a systemic, rather than administrative or forced, solution to a problem.
Several comments have noted that the Griggs v. Duke Power decision would forbid the use of IQ tests. In fact, Congress has the power to strip the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court from any area of legislation. Who knows what is possible if a Republican Congress and President are elected?
You would also have to do away with the fiction of affirmative action. Blacks and other non-Asian minorities would obviously be seriously under-represented in any employment area employing IQ tests. I would speculate the reinstating the concept of private property and freedom of association might actually benefit some blacks. If companies are allowed to use IQ tests, but not required to do so (because of having to objectively justify their hiring decisions), they might look at non-IQ factors, such as honesty, work ethic, perseverance, etc that might lead them to hire a minority who is not the next in line on a strict IQ basis.
Its not 1968; the demographics make Whites a functional minority here already. The majority of infants born last year were non-White. Anti-White riots, which is what the Charlotte riots and BLM riots in general, appeal to not just Blacks, but other non-Whites liking the domination displays that Black rioters engage in; and figuring their turn for dominance over Whites is coming as well.
Anti-White riots turn out not just Black voters, but Hispanic ones, eager to see more opportunities for looting as in the Rodney King riots, and even Asian ones. Sure, Korean and Vietnamese shop owners don't like being looted, but every other non-White just salivates at the idea of kicking out Joe White guy from his job and taking it.
And the loss of majority home ownership among Whites makes the incentives different. Homeowners are allergic to riots, non-homeowners tend to be roughly indifferent. Certainly the London Riots where Whites were famously forced to strip by hulking and low IQ Black rioters helped ... elect Saddiq Khan. UKIP has only 1 MP; and Labor is full on loony anti-White left, with no end in sight.
Of course, those with property will defend what they have, which is often damn little. A billionaire can write off the loss of a multi-million dollar yacht, or a villa. Joe Average with $100K in equity in his house will fight and die for it; and kill for it. This will not end well; a Cold Civil War can turn RED HOT in an instant -- general Black burning, looting, and home invasion of suburbs as Hillary! seeks every bit of advantage. It might get her both elected. And end the US as a nation.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Jack ryan, @Jack Hanson
Nah
Look what happened after the Black Rodney King riots in LA.
Black mayor Tom Bradley replaced by White Republican, Blacks have been basically put down , ethnically cleansed from Southern California.
Asian and Arab merchants don t like rioting Blacks
I worked with some in my youth during my time as a club bouncer. They all had the same distrust/dislike of cops as any Dindu. They all had experience with "The System". The essential difference is that they knew they'd get dropped like 4th period Latin if they even blinked ugly at law enforcement. Cops, black, white or other, will think twice before drawing down on a black perp. With a white, the have no compunctions at all.Replies: @jake, @Bill Jones
Exactly. Bad whites know they are not sacred cows. They know that if they act up too much, their heads will get cracked. Bad blacks know the world is their oyster because: racism
It’s gonna get really costly really fast if every last cop–white but also other–has to undergo the Racial Orthodoxy auto-da-fe of being charged with manslaughter for shooting within the ROEs someone who acts and reacts as you described.
OTOH I guess that involves transferring your and my wages and savings and taxes to the Benjamin Crumps. Which is super-mega-economy-size Social Justice and Repamarations, eh?
You and Tim recall this to my mind:
Steve, you’ve made it!
Also, fewer middle and working class families send their kids to parochial schools because of the cost of saving for college. That gives the progressives many more years to indoctrinate the kiddos even before they get to college.
However, they can give the tests and then not use them as a decisive factor in employment. Rather they can hold them and wait and see if the job performance has a strong correlation to the test scores. If so, then they can establish that the tests do predict performance.
I would guess he was denounced by the owners of said fields who 1) don’t wish to pay $15/hr. and 2) know that blacks are more dangerous and less productive than hispanics and whites.
I think HRC sending her people to Charlotte before the rioting indicates her perceptiveness, her ingenuity, and her aggressiveness in dealing with opportunities. These are desirable qualities in a leader.
Still not buying the “liberals broke blacks” argument. Reversion to the mean is the rule, and that’s what happened. They may have helped hasten the process, or not done enough to delay it.
Obviously I’m fine with using it rhetorically.
Hmm. How do I wonder aloud how rioters can “stop” cars on the highway, without using the trigger phrase, “run them down.”
It’s a delicate matter. I think I’ll just say that rioters stopping me in my car on a highway is going to be a matter of physics, one not limited by (my) psychology, and leave it at that.
Trumps supporters consist of fools who think there is racism against whites and that blacks don't face racismReplies: @ic1000, @Louis Renault
It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.”
― Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
A lot of low skilled jobs now require having a well documented work history. For example, its hard to get work as an airport baggage handler an inner city security guard without good references, even though the work itself isn't very demanding in terms or skills or IQ.Replies: @guest
How do illegal aliens get jobs, then? Not only do they have no work history, or only recent work history, they could have been serial killers in their home country for all a potential employer knows. There’s something else going on with blacks.
What is that something else that is going on with Blacks?Replies: @guest, @anon
Does anyone know of a comparison of the number of deaths/assaults for BLM compared to the KKK over the past 2 years? It would seem to be an interesting point of comparison.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-kkk-and-mass-racial-killings/Replies: @JosephD
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/us/charlotte-keith-scott-shooting-video.html
Many are having a hard time remembering (even though it happened just a few days ago) that the riots started because of the lie that he was carrying a book, not a gun.Replies: @Peripatetic commenter, @Jim Don Bob, @Chris Mallory
Seems they are making much of the claim that he was not pointing a weapon at the cops, but it must be remembered:
By the time he is pointing a weapon at the cops, it is too late, because one or more of them will be close to dead.
Why is that? It takes on more 0.5 seconds for someone to perceive that an action has been taken and to then fire their own gun. In that time, Scott could have raised any weapon, pointed it and fired two shots.
I worked with some in my youth during my time as a club bouncer. They all had the same distrust/dislike of cops as any Dindu. They all had experience with "The System". The essential difference is that they knew they'd get dropped like 4th period Latin if they even blinked ugly at law enforcement. Cops, black, white or other, will think twice before drawing down on a black perp. With a white, the have no compunctions at all.Replies: @jake, @Bill Jones
“Do you know any poor whites from the wrong side of the tracks?”
I was one and slept on many park benches until I decided in my late teens that the combination of a dead mother and a violent alcoholic father should not be definitive.
Of course, finding out that I’ve got this numbers thingie that banks were willing to pay six figures for back in the early ’80’s didn’t hurt.
Read Unz’s piece on the KKK
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-kkk-and-mass-racial-killings/
Seems like they demand it be their oyster because racism, but the police keep shooting them and other blacks really keep shooting them.
Several comments have noted that the Griggs v. Duke Power decision would forbid the use of IQ tests. In fact, Congress has the power to strip the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court from any area of legislation. Who knows what is possible if a Republican Congress and President are elected?
You would also have to do away with the fiction of affirmative action. Blacks and other non-Asian minorities would obviously be seriously under-represented in any employment area employing IQ tests. I would speculate the reinstating the concept of private property and freedom of association might actually benefit some blacks. If companies are allowed to use IQ tests, but not required to do so (because of having to objectively justify their hiring decisions), they might look at non-IQ factors, such as honesty, work ethic, perseverance, etc that might lead them to hire a minority who is not the next in line on a strict IQ basis.Replies: @guest
Original jurisdiction, yes. But SCOTUS has appellate jurisdiction over everything under the sun. If they didn’t, SCOTUS would just tell Congress to “Sit down, little boy. Fundamental freedoms, and so forth,” anyway. Who would stop them? Federal regulators don’t need Congress to go after employers. They need money, obviously, but when did Congress ever use the power of the purse against their executive overlords on anything that truly mattered?
No, no, no. SCOTUS has the prestige, the civil service has the real power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/us/charlotte-keith-scott-shooting-video.html
Many are having a hard time remembering (even though it happened just a few days ago) that the riots started because of the lie that he was carrying a book, not a gun.Replies: @Peripatetic commenter, @Jim Don Bob, @Chris Mallory
These morons are not even smart enough to come up with a good lie. Someone -might- have believed that a multiply-convicted felon was sitting in his car watching porn or the NFL on his phone, but reading a book! C’mon, man!
Obama's birth certificate was just a cap stone or cover story to hide his past. I have heard one long forgotten blogger who I wish I could name refer to it as a McGuffen. When David Axelrod hid Obama's school transcripts, selective service records, medical records, Baptismal records, etc., he used the birth certificate as a poison pill or passive aggressive boobie trap to blow up whoever tried to uncover his past. After all, any one who is interested just cannot accept the legitimacy of the first African American President.
The only thing more enjoyable than watching President Trump rub Obama's nose in the proverbial cow pie will be watching Obama's supporters gasp when he does it.Replies: @27 year old, @melendwyr
If there was any dirt on Obama, the documentation has probably been destroyed by now.
Obviously I'm fine with using it rhetorically.Replies: @melendwyr
Perhaps we can say that liberals ‘took the safeties off’. The potential danger is inherent, but the protective and preventative mechanisms were disengaged.
“How do illegal aliens get jobs, then? Not only do they have no work history, or only recent work history, they could have been serial killers in their home country for all a potential employer knows. There’s something else going on with blacks.”
What is that something else that is going on with Blacks?
Hostility, surliness, general incivility, a propensity towards violence, much of it senseless. A general poor work ethic, easily offended, and lack of discipline. Juts my general observations and impressions after over thirty-five years in the work force dealing with blacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/us/charlotte-keith-scott-shooting-video.html
Many are having a hard time remembering (even though it happened just a few days ago) that the riots started because of the lie that he was carrying a book, not a gun.Replies: @Peripatetic commenter, @Jim Don Bob, @Chris Mallory
Her video put the cops in even worse light. The 3-4 cops who started the assault were all in plain clothes. They were wearing tactical vests with police on the back, but there did not appear to be any markings on the front. Those cops were not in marked vehicles. A uniformed cop did show up, but it doesn’t look like he did much to get the situation under control. So this guy was sitting in his truck minding his own business when 3-4 steroid addicted thugs rushed him, all of them screaming contradictory orders that would be impossible to follow. Any reasonable person would attempt to defend themselves. This was a murder pure and simple.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/breaking-keith-scott-fired-gun-police-2005/
By the time he is pointing a weapon at the cops, it is too late, because one or more of them will be close to dead.
Why is that? It takes on more 0.5 seconds for someone to perceive that an action has been taken and to then fire their own gun. In that time, Scott could have raised any weapon, pointed it and fired two shots.Replies: @Chris Mallory
Does not matter. Cops are paid to take those risks. If officer safety is more important than the life of a citizen, then that government employee needs to quit and find honest work. Possession of a firearm by a citizen should never give the government employees free reign to shoot the citizen, PERIOD. Cops work for us, we are the masters and they are the servants.
It's in the Constitution.Replies: @guest, @ben tillman
That is definitely not in the Constitution. Anyway, the official position of Official Judicial/Legal Theory has it that judicial review is inherent in due process. Good luck getting that out of the Constitution.
I'm not an expert by any means, but there is some history of jurisdiction stripping by Congress. I don't think it's as simple as implied by the first commenter who brought it up, though. A big problem is that the Supreme Court, for all practical purposes, has unlimited power to interpret its own jurisdiction. If the Supreme Court ruled jurisdiction stripping unconstitutional and assuming for the sake of argument that they were clearly wrong, who could stop them?Replies: @Jim Don Bob
Do you think the tests collating with actual performance would make a difference? As if social science and the judicial establishment will throw their hands up and admit, “Yup, you got us!” Let me tell you, intelligence tests are outlawed precisely because they are useful in hiring, and everybody knows it.
What is that something else that is going on with Blacks?Replies: @guest, @anon
There is a difference between a lack of history and an apparent bad history. Hey-zeus could’ve been an armed robber in his home country, you don’t know. But if a criminal background check turns up Tyrone’s ’08 conviction, you know. Ya dig?
But that’s just one thing. What else is wrong with black people, besides criminal records? Unwillingness to work. Recognition of their unfitness for work by potential employers. And so on. I see blacks as being an immeasurably greater discipline risk.
Typical spergy libertarianish nonsense with no connection to the real world. If it was as simple as telling cops to stop worrying about their personal safety so much, the problem would have been solved long ago.
Its not 1968; the demographics make Whites a functional minority here already. The majority of infants born last year were non-White. Anti-White riots, which is what the Charlotte riots and BLM riots in general, appeal to not just Blacks, but other non-Whites liking the domination displays that Black rioters engage in; and figuring their turn for dominance over Whites is coming as well.
Anti-White riots turn out not just Black voters, but Hispanic ones, eager to see more opportunities for looting as in the Rodney King riots, and even Asian ones. Sure, Korean and Vietnamese shop owners don't like being looted, but every other non-White just salivates at the idea of kicking out Joe White guy from his job and taking it.
And the loss of majority home ownership among Whites makes the incentives different. Homeowners are allergic to riots, non-homeowners tend to be roughly indifferent. Certainly the London Riots where Whites were famously forced to strip by hulking and low IQ Black rioters helped ... elect Saddiq Khan. UKIP has only 1 MP; and Labor is full on loony anti-White left, with no end in sight.
Of course, those with property will defend what they have, which is often damn little. A billionaire can write off the loss of a multi-million dollar yacht, or a villa. Joe Average with $100K in equity in his house will fight and die for it; and kill for it. This will not end well; a Cold Civil War can turn RED HOT in an instant -- general Black burning, looting, and home invasion of suburbs as Hillary! seeks every bit of advantage. It might get her both elected. And end the US as a nation.Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Jack ryan, @Jack Hanson
Do you ever leave your goonfort and interact with real people versus caricatures you invent?
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-kkk-and-mass-racial-killings/Replies: @JosephD
I’ve seen UNZ’s piece. I get the philosophical point that KKK violence is massively over represented in the media. But I was looking for raw counts of the black on white violence done by BLM vs. KKK. I think that would be a more compelling point to someone who wasn’t already a fellow traveler.
HATE FACT ALERT LIBERALS AND BLACKS RUN TO YOUR SAFE SPACES NOW, in the history of mankind way more people have died from bee stings than have died from the hands of the KKK. The KKK are paper tigers.
Then they will have to make something up and leak it.
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A helpful heads up for anyone who may live in the area:
Road closures for DC museum grand opening start Friday night
Road closures in downtown D.C. will begin as early as 7 p.m. Friday and continue through the weekend for the grand opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
I’ve heard the new museum is next door to the ‘Great Timing Hall of Fame’.
In other news:
Va. woman riding on mattress on top of van dies after fall
Police believe Sidney Zelaya Gonzalez, of Culpeper, Virginia, and the driver of the van — a 41-year-old woman who has not been identified — were attempting to transport the mattress a short distance when Gonzalez fell and hit the pavement, police said. — here I think “Va. woman” is not used in the eg Martha Washington sense.
What is that something else that is going on with Blacks?Replies: @guest, @anon
“What is that something else going on with blacks”?
Hostility, surliness, general incivility, a propensity towards violence, much of it senseless. A general poor work ethic, easily offended, and lack of discipline. Juts my general observations and impressions after over thirty-five years in the work force dealing with blacks.
Mecklenburg County/Charlotte City leans democratic, especially in the areas where these riots are occurring.
“This was a murder pure and simple.” – Police in the US is out of control. Police in plain clothes is worse. They are often high on some drugs.
Exactly how are they "out of control"? -- I mean aside from the numerous instances recently when they've stood by while marauding "protesters" destroyed property and perpetrated violence against people with the wrong skin color.
How come the police are not out of control in racially homogeneous White countries?
I blame America's racial demographics before I blame American cops.
The police in Poland for example do not have to deal with Keith Lamont Scott and Michael Brown types. The police in Poland do not have to deal with race riots.Replies: @utu
Cops in plain clothes contributed to the fiasco that got a teenager shot in my neighborhood six years ago.
Thay way they remind people to behave.Replies: @guest
Arguably it is in the Constitution. The judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court and inferior courts that Congress establishes. So, every court other than the Supreme Court is established by Congress. The power to establish inferior courts presumably includes the power to limit their jurisdiction. Except in rare instances where the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction, the Constitution gives it appellate jurisdiction “with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
I’m not an expert by any means, but there is some history of jurisdiction stripping by Congress. I don’t think it’s as simple as implied by the first commenter who brought it up, though. A big problem is that the Supreme Court, for all practical purposes, has unlimited power to interpret its own jurisdiction. If the Supreme Court ruled jurisdiction stripping unconstitutional and assuming for the sake of argument that they were clearly wrong, who could stop them?
It's in the Constitution.Replies: @guest, @ben tillman
Of course, Congress could do that, but it would be pointless. The Constitution’s “Supremacy Clause” necessitates judicial review of every statute.
It seems that Scott has a history of shooting at cops:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/breaking-keith-scott-fired-gun-police-2005/
Police in the US is out of control.
Exactly how are they “out of control”? — I mean aside from the numerous instances recently when they’ve stood by while marauding “protesters” destroyed property and perpetrated violence against people with the wrong skin color.
The biggest benefit of cops is when they are clearly visible.
Thay way they remind people to behave.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it necessitates it. If SCOTUS had to go through every law to see if it passes constitutional muster they wouldn’t do anything else. That’s why it took so damn long for them to assert the individual right to bear arms. They had to be in the mood, and they had to have the right case.
Things are different when it’s something they do want to defend, unlike the 2nd amendment. It takes much less for SCOTUS to be in the mood to overturn freedom of association in favor of low-IQ goons, for instance.
Thay way they remind people to behave.Replies: @guest
I’ve never understood why they dress like ninjas, then emblazoned themselves with “police” in bold letters. They want the element of surprise and to clearly identify themselves? Why not pick one or the other?
Unless they’re just looking for plausible deniability when they Waco people.
The Supremacy Clause makes the Constitution and federal laws superior to state laws that conflict. It doesn’t really have anything to do with judicial review of laws passed by Congress.
“To the ghetto crowds and rioters, the race of the cop who did the shooting doesn’t matter–or make a difference.”
A Black cop murders a Black thug, so why did these Mulignans in Charlotte take out their anger on a White guy? Not only that he is not even a police officer.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/shock-video-homeless-white-man-attacked-charlotte-agitators/
Riots are Mulignans excuse to physically attack White people, steal electronics, steal junk food, steal weaves, and steal Air Jordan sneakers. There is no social political message behind it, it’s just pure thuggery.
How does SCOTUS apply superior constitutional law in the face of contradictory lower laws without judicial review? Riddle me that.
It was suggested that Congress could make a law and stipulate that this law is not subject to judicial review. Someone else responded that this would be pointless because the Supremacy Clause permits [or in his words "necessitates"] judicial review. My last comment explained that the Supremacy Clause does not concern judicial review of this sort of law (i.e., a law passed by Congress) but only concerns judicial review of state laws that conflict with federal law.Replies: @guest, @guest
“Police in the US is out of control.”
How come the police are not out of control in racially homogeneous White countries?
I blame America’s racial demographics before I blame American cops.
The police in Poland for example do not have to deal with Keith Lamont Scott and Michael Brown types. The police in Poland do not have to deal with race riots.
In Europe they have different rules of engagement and different policing culture. Emphasis is on de-escalation. Shooting to wound and not to kill is preferred. Also they do not put upper limits on IQ when hiring.
Since you have mentioned Poland... In Poland they used to have a warning shot policy before firing at a suspect until they got trained by FBI to abandon it and shoot to kill at first attempt. Now they have some fatalities due to police actions. Other countries in Europe are less servile to America and they have kept some old school more flexible rules of engagement.
Yesterday I was driving through Bronx and was passing by a black man standing with hands up who was being interrogated by plain cloth policemen. I found it kind of funny because the only men with hands up in Europe (where I grew up) I saw in WW II movies. In the movies you did that because Nazis could shoot you with impunity if you did not raise your hands up. American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks.Replies: @BB753, @eah, @Jefferson, @anon
“I’ve seen UNZ’s piece. I get the philosophical point that KKK violence is massively over represented in the media.”
HATE FACT ALERT LIBERALS AND BLACKS RUN TO YOUR SAFE SPACES NOW, in the history of mankind way more people have died from bee stings than have died from the hands of the KKK. The KKK are paper tigers.
Hillary seems to have this effect wherever she goes.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/23/hillary-clinton-sponsored-secretive-arab-spring-program-that-destabilized-middle-east/
Are you asking how does the Supreme Court invalidate state laws without judicial review? It doesn’t. Judicial review of state laws is derived from the Supremacy Clause. However, judicial review of federal laws is not derived from the Supremacy Clause.
It was suggested that Congress could make a law and stipulate that this law is not subject to judicial review. Someone else responded that this would be pointless because the Supremacy Clause permits [or in his words “necessitates”] judicial review. My last comment explained that the Supremacy Clause does not concern judicial review of this sort of law (i.e., a law passed by Congress) but only concerns judicial review of state laws that conflict with federal law.
U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2, "This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof..."
Federal laws not made in pursuance of the Constitution are illegal.Replies: @ben tillman
How come the police are not out of control in racially homogeneous White countries?
I blame America's racial demographics before I blame American cops.
The police in Poland for example do not have to deal with Keith Lamont Scott and Michael Brown types. The police in Poland do not have to deal with race riots.Replies: @utu
In France and UK you have similar demographics and killing by police is approx. 100 time smaller per capita. Keep in mind that 2/3 killed by police in the US are Whites.
In Europe they have different rules of engagement and different policing culture. Emphasis is on de-escalation. Shooting to wound and not to kill is preferred. Also they do not put upper limits on IQ when hiring.
Since you have mentioned Poland… In Poland they used to have a warning shot policy before firing at a suspect until they got trained by FBI to abandon it and shoot to kill at first attempt. Now they have some fatalities due to police actions. Other countries in Europe are less servile to America and they have kept some old school more flexible rules of engagement.
Yesterday I was driving through Bronx and was passing by a black man standing with hands up who was being interrogated by plain cloth policemen. I found it kind of funny because the only men with hands up in Europe (where I grew up) I saw in WW II movies. In the movies you did that because Nazis could shoot you with impunity if you did not raise your hands up. American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks.
Exactly how are they “out of control”?
No they don't. There is not a single city in France and The U.K that is 35 percent Black like Charlotte.
"American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks."
There is not a single country on the planet with a large Black and or Brown population where the police don't act like an occupational force.
For example here is article about South African police murdering 38 miners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_killings
And of course the police in countries like Brazil and Mexico murder way more civilians than American police officers do.
You must be an extremely sheltered Liberal if you don't believe the level of police aggressiveness is tied to the racial demographics of a nation.Replies: @utu
In Europe they have different rules of engagement and different policing culture. Emphasis is on de-escalation. Shooting to wound and not to kill is preferred. Also they do not put upper limits on IQ when hiring.
Since you have mentioned Poland... In Poland they used to have a warning shot policy before firing at a suspect until they got trained by FBI to abandon it and shoot to kill at first attempt. Now they have some fatalities due to police actions. Other countries in Europe are less servile to America and they have kept some old school more flexible rules of engagement.
Yesterday I was driving through Bronx and was passing by a black man standing with hands up who was being interrogated by plain cloth policemen. I found it kind of funny because the only men with hands up in Europe (where I grew up) I saw in WW II movies. In the movies you did that because Nazis could shoot you with impunity if you did not raise your hands up. American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks.Replies: @BB753, @eah, @Jefferson, @anon
I agree with you on every point except when it comes to Blacks. US Blacks are probably the most violent population on earth and nearly impossible to police.
It was suggested that Congress could make a law and stipulate that this law is not subject to judicial review. Someone else responded that this would be pointless because the Supremacy Clause permits [or in his words "necessitates"] judicial review. My last comment explained that the Supremacy Clause does not concern judicial review of this sort of law (i.e., a law passed by Congress) but only concerns judicial review of state laws that conflict with federal law.Replies: @guest, @guest
What are you talking about? Judicial review of federal laws is derived from the supremacy clause, too. Not only the supremacy clause, because there’s also the roundabout due process argument. But what else do you think it means when judges rule federal laws void because they are unconstitutional? Why wouldn’t the supremacy clause have something to do with that?
There’s no distinction between unconstitutional federal laws and unconstitutional state laws. Both are subject to the supremacy test.
It was suggested that Congress could make a law and stipulate that this law is not subject to judicial review. Someone else responded that this would be pointless because the Supremacy Clause permits [or in his words "necessitates"] judicial review. My last comment explained that the Supremacy Clause does not concern judicial review of this sort of law (i.e., a law passed by Congress) but only concerns judicial review of state laws that conflict with federal law.Replies: @guest, @guest
Here’s the relevant text:
U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2, “This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof…”
Federal laws not made in pursuance of the Constitution are illegal.
I'm not an expert by any means, but there is some history of jurisdiction stripping by Congress. I don't think it's as simple as implied by the first commenter who brought it up, though. A big problem is that the Supreme Court, for all practical purposes, has unlimited power to interpret its own jurisdiction. If the Supreme Court ruled jurisdiction stripping unconstitutional and assuming for the sake of argument that they were clearly wrong, who could stop them?Replies: @Jim Don Bob
As the great Andre Jackson said in Worcester v. Georgia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia), “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”.
There is -nothing- in the Constitution that gives -any- judge the power to declare -any- law passed by -any- legislature unconstitutional. Congress can stop this crap anytime it wants to.
Are they having BLM members handling the road closures for the grand opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture? If not, seems like a missed opportunity.
Not to mention that they will steal you blind. Walmart closed a local store in a diverse neighborhood saying they couldn’t make any money. Wonder why?
Yeah, they could build some fires to channel traffic!
Yes, it’s not as if black is really any kind of camoflage during the day. Somebody wearing all black stands out in normal circumstances. My friendly local SWAT team also sports a device with a sword, shield, and lightning bolts. The intent of such displays by the police is either to intimidate the public or to make themselves feel like badasses – neither of which strikes me as a legitimate thing for public employees to do.
You are projecting white/European genomic views of offspring onto people from a population with a high likelihood of having very different ones.
For people without a strong future time preference, what matters is NOW.
In my experience in a 70% black city (three decades nearly), including ER work, the mommas only start to really dearly care deeply and profoundly about they chilluns when death happens.
It is a form of primitivism that is very difficult to comprehend, coming out of K-reproduction-strategy genetics, where each child is precious. It’s difficult to comprehend the lack of tenderness of mothers toward their newborns/infants/toddlers, even more difficult to comprehend their viciousness or indifference to them.
It is death that gives a child’s life meaning in that primitive mindset. The fashionable current spin on this, supplied heartily by Bolshevists, is Victimization. Clinging to Victimization means keeping the worship of death alive in every aspect of life.
The Dems play on this for their own power, and it stinks.
In Europe they have different rules of engagement and different policing culture. Emphasis is on de-escalation. Shooting to wound and not to kill is preferred. Also they do not put upper limits on IQ when hiring.
Since you have mentioned Poland... In Poland they used to have a warning shot policy before firing at a suspect until they got trained by FBI to abandon it and shoot to kill at first attempt. Now they have some fatalities due to police actions. Other countries in Europe are less servile to America and they have kept some old school more flexible rules of engagement.
Yesterday I was driving through Bronx and was passing by a black man standing with hands up who was being interrogated by plain cloth policemen. I found it kind of funny because the only men with hands up in Europe (where I grew up) I saw in WW II movies. In the movies you did that because Nazis could shoot you with impunity if you did not raise your hands up. American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks.Replies: @BB753, @eah, @Jefferson, @anon
Answer my question:
Exactly how are they “out of control”?
In Europe they have different rules of engagement and different policing culture. Emphasis is on de-escalation. Shooting to wound and not to kill is preferred. Also they do not put upper limits on IQ when hiring.
Since you have mentioned Poland... In Poland they used to have a warning shot policy before firing at a suspect until they got trained by FBI to abandon it and shoot to kill at first attempt. Now they have some fatalities due to police actions. Other countries in Europe are less servile to America and they have kept some old school more flexible rules of engagement.
Yesterday I was driving through Bronx and was passing by a black man standing with hands up who was being interrogated by plain cloth policemen. I found it kind of funny because the only men with hands up in Europe (where I grew up) I saw in WW II movies. In the movies you did that because Nazis could shoot you with impunity if you did not raise your hands up. American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks.Replies: @BB753, @eah, @Jefferson, @anon
” France and UK you have similar demographics”
No they don’t. There is not a single city in France and The U.K that is 35 percent Black like Charlotte.
“American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks.”
There is not a single country on the planet with a large Black and or Brown population where the police don’t act like an occupational force.
For example here is article about South African police murdering 38 miners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_killings
And of course the police in countries like Brazil and Mexico murder way more civilians than American police officers do.
You must be an extremely sheltered Liberal if you don’t believe the level of police aggressiveness is tied to the racial demographics of a nation.
Keep in mind that even if we remove Black and Latino deaths from police statistics the rate of killing by police in the US is still 40 times higher than in Europe. Blacks are killed at higher rate per capita of their population because they have more interaction with police per capita. But if you calculate the death by police per number of interaction with police the kill rates are almost the same for Blacks, Whites and Latinos. You can read about it in Miller et al. "Perils of police action: a cautionary tale from US data sets" (2016) in Inj Prev 2016;0:1–6. doi:10.1136/.
Police kills because they can. They can do it usually with impunity. Society (Whites) and media seem to give them the license to kill and thus does not scrutinize their actions. Black community is the only one to object and protest it under a misguided banner of racism because racism (real or perceived) unifies them. The problem is the police and their rules of engagement that need to be changed. You just do not shoot people like that! Learn to de-escalate!
In Europe they have different rules of engagement and different policing culture. Emphasis is on de-escalation. Shooting to wound and not to kill is preferred. Also they do not put upper limits on IQ when hiring.
Since you have mentioned Poland... In Poland they used to have a warning shot policy before firing at a suspect until they got trained by FBI to abandon it and shoot to kill at first attempt. Now they have some fatalities due to police actions. Other countries in Europe are less servile to America and they have kept some old school more flexible rules of engagement.
Yesterday I was driving through Bronx and was passing by a black man standing with hands up who was being interrogated by plain cloth policemen. I found it kind of funny because the only men with hands up in Europe (where I grew up) I saw in WW II movies. In the movies you did that because Nazis could shoot you with impunity if you did not raise your hands up. American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks.Replies: @BB753, @eah, @Jefferson, @anon
If you think France and the United Kingdom have similar demographics to the USA (to say nothing of a totally different history, culture and mentality) you are divorced from reality sport.
Yeah, you’re right, he had no way of knowing if they were really cops…because white guys pretending to be cops are always going into black housing projects and pulling guns on black felons who aren’t allowed to have guns, but have guns anyway. Happens all the time.
U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2, "This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof..."
Federal laws not made in pursuance of the Constitution are illegal.Replies: @ben tillman
Right. When a judge considers a case featuring a conflict between a statute and the “supreme Law of the Land”, he has to make a choice. The judge has to declare either the statute or the Constitution invalid.
Oh OK, you’re probably correct.
I’m sure that’s how they do it in Libertardian/Sperg World. Here, we want sane people in uniform, not suicidals. And servants are not drawn to police work. Again, this is one of those real-world things.
In Sperg World, they do it all the time, yes.
No they don't. There is not a single city in France and The U.K that is 35 percent Black like Charlotte.
"American police acts too much like an occupational force in foreign territory. You are barking at a wrong tree blaming it on Blacks."
There is not a single country on the planet with a large Black and or Brown population where the police don't act like an occupational force.
For example here is article about South African police murdering 38 miners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_killings
And of course the police in countries like Brazil and Mexico murder way more civilians than American police officers do.
You must be an extremely sheltered Liberal if you don't believe the level of police aggressiveness is tied to the racial demographics of a nation.Replies: @utu
“the level of police aggressiveness is tied to the racial demographics of a nation.” – This part of your statement is partly correct because the so called diversity reduces social cohesion and solidarity of society. For this reason it is sickening what is being done to Sweden with immigration that exhibited the highest level of social cohesion and solidarity. America from day one had no social cohesion on account of Indians which was unavoidable and slavery which was avoidable. However the problem of police aggressiveness goes deeper into American psyche and inherent philosophy.
Keep in mind that even if we remove Black and Latino deaths from police statistics the rate of killing by police in the US is still 40 times higher than in Europe. Blacks are killed at higher rate per capita of their population because they have more interaction with police per capita. But if you calculate the death by police per number of interaction with police the kill rates are almost the same for Blacks, Whites and Latinos. You can read about it in Miller et al. “Perils of police action: a cautionary tale from US data sets” (2016) in Inj Prev 2016;0:1–6. doi:10.1136/.
Police kills because they can. They can do it usually with impunity. Society (Whites) and media seem to give them the license to kill and thus does not scrutinize their actions. Black community is the only one to object and protest it under a misguided banner of racism because racism (real or perceived) unifies them. The problem is the police and their rules of engagement that need to be changed. You just do not shoot people like that! Learn to de-escalate!