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From Pioneer Press in Minnesota:
St. Paul activist Melvin Giles one of seven to receive $55,000 grant for rest and recuperation
By JARED KAUFMAN | [email protected] | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2023 at 7:46 a.m.With $55,000, Melvin Giles can buy a lot of fuel — er, bubbles.
Giles, a lifelong Rondo community activist and urban gardener in St. Paul, is known for blowing bubbles as a central part of his peace advocacy. In addition to co-leading the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance and spreading joy with bubbles, Giles also installs peace poles, simple monuments with the inscription ‘May peace prevail on Earth’ in several languages.
And as a “Star Trek” fan, he considers himself a time traveler — looking backward in time to draw lessons from the past, and looking generations into the future at a better world.
His ethos, simply put: “The peace poles are my time traveling vehicles, and the bubbles are the fuel,” he said.
He’s also one of seven inductees in the new Black Legacy and Leadership Enrichment Initiative, a pilot program that awards unrestricted grants of $55,000 to local activists so they can rest, recharge and ultimately better serve the community.
The other inductees include DejaJoelle, an artist who uses dance and spirituality to promote healing; Farji Shaheer, a violence-intervention specialist who specifically works to guide survivors away from retaliation; Anura Si-Asar, the founder of a publishing company and K-12 education program aimed at African cultural heritage; Corenia Smith, a community organizer and policy advocate for reproductive justice and violence prevention; Princess Titus, who guides people of all ages toward healthier eating patterns and trauma responses; and Antonio Williams, a voting-rights advocate and formerly incarcerated community mentor.
The grant initiative is a collaboration between the Minneapolis-based Cultural Wellness Center and the Pohlad Family Foundation, which over the past several years has crystallized a focus on racial justice and housing stability.
Carl Pohlad was a local financier and owner of the Minnesota Twins who was worth $3.6 billion at his death in 2009.
The grants are an investment not in activists’ work but in themselves as people to support their personal well-being, said community elder Atum Azzahir, the center’s executive director. And before they can rest, they have to figure out how to rest.
“The whole process is: Study yourself as you try to rest,” Azzahir said. “These are very busy, very active, very intensely committed people, and we know, for them, to rest is going to be a study.”
So over the next year, grantees will work through the Cultural Wellness Center’s flagship self-study curriculum, which views rest as more than just taking a break from external forces that wear a person down. True recuperation, Azzahir said, means engaging in deep internal reflection so a person can emerge strengthened and feeling whole.
From this perspective, getting a massage or taking a trip, for example, are meaningfully effective only when they’re undergirded by this active introspection process. The point of the legacy grants is to give community activists the resources to do both, Azzahir said — to allow themselves to realize that, yes, maybe a weeklong solo retreat would indeed be restorative, and then to depart for seven days without worrying about whether their family will have food on the table.
As Azzahir suspected, Giles said this mindset shift isn’t necessarily intuitive in our culture.
“It’s hard for people to get into that mode because we are so busy being on the treadmill that says do, do, do, do,” Giles said. “Like we are human do-ings, instead of human be-ings.”
Watching racism and neglect and disinvestment affect your grandparents, then your parents, then you — it can have a weathering-down effect on a person, Azzahir said. She grew up in Mississippi and, as an activist, has spent her career working to build back strength and rootedness in African-descendent communities.
“I remember Emmett Till’s murder,” she said. “I remember all of those things that are planted in our memory, as Black people. What the Cultural Wellness Center is about is healing our memory.”
Grantees in the initiative will ultimately be given a budget of $70,000: The no-strings-attached recuperation grant of $55,000, plus an additional $15,000 to support the community initiatives to which the activists might have otherwise devoted time and effort had they not been taking time for self-improvement.
Participants were selected by a 10-person screening committee; community elders helped devise the evaluation criteria, including questions on the clarity of applicants’ personal conceptions of rest and on the work that a year of rejuvenation might help them perform more strongly. Out of 162 written applications, 60 people were invited to attend in-person interviews and, ultimately, seven were chosen. The pilot program is scheduled to last for three years, for a total of 21 grantees.
As for Giles, he’s hoping that the recuperation enabled by the grant will allow him to time-travel into the future and focus on the “legacy” portion of the Black Legacy and Leadership Enrichment Initiative.
Considering how much damage black activists have done to Minneapolis over the last three years, paying them off to do nothing but nap for a year might be a brilliant strategy.
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“I remember all the things that are planted in our memories…..”. Yeah, especially the false ones.
https://www.culturalwellnesscenter.org/personnel/atum-azzahir/
That's what tax dollars are for. To help people, especially lifelong civic servants, when they need the help the most, like when they are recovering after a lifetime of service and injured or destitute because they spend all their time helping others and hardly think about themselves, like Melvin does every day... What would you rather have your tax dollars doing, buying bombs? Please get real.
What have you done for your community for the last 50 years? Melvin has been working tirelessly for you and it the whole time. Sit down and be quiet about things you know nothing about.
Maybe we should pay white "men" to take a rest. Or better yet put them to useful work. When we have too much free time on our hands we go out and kill people.Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose, @Patrick in SC, @Bing Bang BQQ
Steve, are you going to review the Super Mario Bros. movie? It’s doing big numbers at the box office.
The key number here is seven. This is an illustration of what Malcolm X said about dem programs. How unlikely is it that these seven know each other?
Care to share?Replies: @J.Ross
Yeah, when we hear “Atum Azzahir”, we immediately think of magnolias.
Rondo is a traditionally black neighborhood once shattered by the Interstate coming through. This happened to several white neighborhoods in the Cities as well, but Rondo is the only one that has a “reunion” every summer. Give them credit for that.
It’s also small and adjacent to Frogtown, now known as “Little Mekong”. Not sure if Frogtown was named after the amphibian or the French Canadian, but all those little Asian bodegas are not known for “rest”.
Isn't that more than half a century ago?
Doesn't this smack of grasping at straws to explain the failure of the shiftless losers to achieve anything?Replies: @Art Deco
These are one of the less obnoxious of bleeding-heart initiatives.
One at a time, that is.
https://www.worldpeace.org/peacepoleproject/
Rondo is less than 20 miles from the birthplace of Little Free Libraries in Hudson, Wisconsin, and Saint Paul and Minneapolis is where they really took off at first. But the ones in Rondo don’t do well. They’re often empty, or nearly so. Whether that’s because few people contribute, or because the books are stolen and sold I couldn’t tell you.
““I remember Emmett Till’s murder,” she said. ”
Likely a lie.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nevin-taylor-cwc
Not altogether impossible she's on the level.
Likely a lie."
I googled her. She was 77 in 2020 so she was old enough to be aware of his death in 1955.
If so, then she should certainly have sympathy for those of us whites still traumatized by the Knoxville murders of Christian and Newsom, which occurred much more recently in 2007, especially since much of the coverage of these horrific crimes has been shoved down the memory hole.Replies: @newrouter, @Mike Tre
Serious money available for race hustlers these days.
So long as it’s not Twin Cities’ residents or my tax money, yeah, why not? It’s peanuts in the big picture of how much money Mr. Pohlad died with, but one wonders if he imagined even the littlest bit would be blown on black wastrels like these rather than his fellow actual Minnesotans.
One also wonders if Melvin Giles, time traveler, could send Miss Azzihir back to 1950s Mississippi to rescue Emmitt Till from his fate by telling him ahead of time to stop acting like a nigger.
More Merle Haggard, cause why not?
Are we rolling down hill, like a snowball headed for hell?
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There are a dozens of lines from Merle that could be deployed in describing events these days. The only writer I've seen that can match him is Thomas Jefferson.
OT, but perhaps a useful site, showing a history of which babies names are up and down in a fairly large number of countries – I was pleased to see that in Hungary 600 boys were called Nimrod, after the mighty hunter, and 400 after an even mightier chap called Attila.
https://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/hungary/2021
In the former England and Wales, the most popular boys name is the name of the Prophet, in it’s various Muhammad/Mohammed/Mohammad/Muhammed/Mohamed forms.
But all is not lost! Despite the huge number of black or chav names like Jaxxon, there are some Odins and Lokis and some Vladimirs!
On the distaff side, Edwardian names are returning, after all the original bearers have died off. Lily, Florence, Ivy. Ava is back too.
You’re probably not tuned into “African ways of knowing”:
https://www.culturalwellnesscenter.org/personnel/atum-azzahir/
OT: Greg Abbott might be doing it for cynical reasons, but it’s till the right thing to do. The Blacks! and their fellow travelers are up in arms over it, but whatever. This guy is lucky this didn’t happen in a blue state.
TLDR version: White guy accidentally drives into the middle of a spontaneous unpermitted BLM march in downtown Austin. The local Blacks! think he did it on purpose and start beating on his car. Another white guy in the crowd confronts the driver and points a gun at him and the driver shoots and kills him with his own gun and three years later gets convicted of murder by local the Soros prosecutor. Greg Abbott says he is going too pardon him as soon as he can. MSM loses its mind.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-pardon-us-army-sergeant-daniel-perry/
Is it a thing now, wheeling one's paralyzed fiancee to a big crowd of protesters, as peaceful as they may turn out to be?Replies: @JR Ewing
I say this doesn’t go far enough. I say, require recipients of public assistance to install peace poles or participate in community healing projects.
Then I remembered, only a private foundation started by a businessman would do this. No government would take action to make people less likely to cause mayhem. Government thrives on mayhem.
TLDR version: White guy accidentally drives into the middle of a spontaneous unpermitted BLM march in downtown Austin. The local Blacks! think he did it on purpose and start beating on his car. Another white guy in the crowd confronts the driver and points a gun at him and the driver shoots and kills him with his own gun and three years later gets convicted of murder by local the Soros prosecutor. Greg Abbott says he is going too pardon him as soon as he can. MSM loses its mind.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-pardon-us-army-sergeant-daniel-perry/
Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @res, @Achmed E. Newman, @duncsbaby, @Tex
Abbott is an idiot for announcing his intention in advance, while this guy is (presumably) still in lockup. Some mook is liable to shank him out of spite, just to keep him from being pardoned. Better put his arse in protective custody until the ink is dry on the deal and he’s out the gate.
I'm sure "moderate" AG Merrick Garland will be along any minute now to impose double jeopardy on dear Mr. Perry.
Presumably, these stipends replace the income lost while these grifters are resting. So I wonder, what is the starting salary for an experienced, bubble-blowing, peace pole constructor?
Hey! This Minnesota! It’s some kinda place, eh?
Oh. You betcha.
This is comic.
It’s called welfare. Old News
Ah yes, rest from that well-known attribute of black Americans of excessive work. Really this grant is on-brand though – the parasitic black activist class only exists from the indulgence of goodwhites who toss money at them like a grandparent hoping their most disappointing but charismatic grandchild will settle down and accomplish something like they always say they are trying to do despite a number of past failures. These activists have no self-conception apart from their non-whiteness, which is probably unconsciously enhanced by the fact that they get by thanks to all the institutions funded by white money that provide the grants they depend on.
I do feel bad for the non-governmental black working and middle class, which has a lot of members who get up every day and do jobs that are important to keeping society and business functioning and who are never, ever, held up as something to aspire to by black or white cultural gatekeepers. Instead we are treated to stories of supposedly oppressed and exhausted activists who have fake African names and whose ‘work’ consists of snuffling around for the next handout.
...so are there really many to feel bad for? You can relax.
To read Ron talking about the rise of China,and how China’s economy is, in reality,much larger than it is perceived to be,and then go to these,sorryto be mean😥,buffoons with their warmed over blackified New Age horseshit,is rather frustrating.
They are ” activists,” which means grifting layabouts,and now they need to rest. So they can reflect and contemplate. But also,maybe go to Jamaica and party.
We’re tired y’all
Likely a lie.Replies: @Art Deco, @Kylie
There’s a man named Ahmad Azzahir living around Minneapolis. As far as I can tell, he and his wife are the only people with that name around Minneapolis. Mr. Azzahir’s wife is named ‘Mary Louise’. Mary Louise Azzahir, previously Mary Louise Taylor, is just shy of 80. You can see here on the LinkedIn profile of one Nevin Taylor that he refers to ‘Atum Azzahir’ as his mother.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nevin-taylor-cwc
Not altogether impossible she’s on the level.
OT, of course, but this might be the biggest Diplomatic
I’ve ever seen.
The Head of the European Union has to wait in line to get her passport stamped before leaving China on a regular passenger jet after being ignored for two days.
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/chinas-unwelcoming-stance-toward-eu-chief-von-der-leyen-lauded-by-ex-french-mep-articleshow.html
It’s hard not to laugh, so I did. You should too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDSJ4pAipoReplies: @J.Ross, @Bill Jones
If he could convince his co-ethnics to blow bubbles instead of what they currently do, I could get behind this.
“Considering how much damage black activists have done to Minneapolis over the last three years, paying them off to do nothing but nap for a year might be a brilliant strategy.”
Makes abundant sense really. After all, a major objective in all this race hoo-ha has always been “gettin’ lotsa free she-it.”
I say it’s good idea, but even better would be a paid holiday abroad. We could also use the rest. This could also apply to all kinds of militants, not just the black ones.
...but I strongly suspect they wouldn't be dumb enough to go.
Load up a Carnival Cruise ship and then sink it?
Like hands off policies for dealing with the homeless, this attracts more problem people. Some of them may not enjoy winters in Minneapolis, but that won’t be enough to keep many of them away. This strategy is doomed to fail.
A little OT but–who actually funded Antifa etal during the Summer of George anyway? I never saw any names (other than Soros who is obvious and conveniently remote from where the action was).
There was a clear as day chain linking Zuckerberg to the bricks through the shop windows and no-one did a damn thing about it.
Do you know Melvin? He has been serving the St. Paul community for a lifetime, never taking breaks from endless work and duties far, FAR beyond ANY call of civic service, and beyond what you could even comprehend. Pay the man and be quiet. He is worth 1000 times as much.
That’s what tax dollars are for. To help people, especially lifelong civic servants, when they need the help the most, like when they are recovering after a lifetime of service and injured or destitute because they spend all their time helping others and hardly think about themselves, like Melvin does every day… What would you rather have your tax dollars doing, buying bombs? Please get real.
What have you done for your community for the last 50 years? Melvin has been working tirelessly for you and it the whole time. Sit down and be quiet about things you know nothing about.
Maybe we should pay white “men” to take a rest. Or better yet put them to useful work. When we have too much free time on our hands we go out and kill people.
Flak-catching the Mau-mauers.
This is the black version of the MacArthur Genius Grants
Not at all. Since we all know that every single *Black!* person is a Genius, they would have to give MacArthur level money to all 40 million of them.
And that's on top of the reparations dosh.
As the Talmud has it “Sleep for the wicked is a pleasure for them and a pleasure for the World.”
TLDR version: White guy accidentally drives into the middle of a spontaneous unpermitted BLM march in downtown Austin. The local Blacks! think he did it on purpose and start beating on his car. Another white guy in the crowd confronts the driver and points a gun at him and the driver shoots and kills him with his own gun and three years later gets convicted of murder by local the Soros prosecutor. Greg Abbott says he is going too pardon him as soon as he can. MSM loses its mind.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-pardon-us-army-sergeant-daniel-perry/
Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @res, @Achmed E. Newman, @duncsbaby, @Tex
The people who are losing their mind over it are the same sort of people who said that Kyle Rittenhouse was looking for trouble because he showed up to a protest with a rifle, just as did the guy that Perry shot.
Yes, but that was different. Rittenhouse, (the monster!), crossed State lines!Replies: @Mr. Anon
Here’s my review of Super Mario Bros: the movie is crap and made exclusively for little kids. I took my 12 year old daughter to see it and she enjoyed it. I found it to be insufferable and took a nap instead.
Good quote. There’s a related one from Talmudic scholar Woody Allen: “There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
Parasites feeding parasites.
One wonders what Carl Pohlad would think about this use of his money? The sort of people who make a career out of giving away other people’s money, are precisely the people you do not want giving away other people’s money.
Of course, ultimately this money comes from productive people. Carl Pohlad could make money banking because there were a lot of productive farmers (and other businessmen) in Minnesota who worked hard, managed their farms well, produced a profit sufficient to pay back their loans and feed their families.
The value of a dollar of these “resting” stipends comes from America having a long history of productive people working hard, building up America’s capital, productive capability and power.
And the houses and cars and nice meals these resting “activists” will enjoy all come from actual productive people doing real work.
People who would be quite happy and much better off, without these parasites around.
The productive vs. the parasites. The eternal battle.
Where are those children now?
Until the next round of “activists” try to run the grift (e.g. causing trouble and expecting to be paid off to stop).
Incentives matter.
Yet another opportunity to plug my Negro Nap Time comedy sketch.
The prelude would be a bunch of white employees slipping off their shoes and setting up lawn chairs and pallets for the OSHA-mandated “Negro Nap Time (Second Shift)” from 2 – 3 pm. The setting would be places like an absurdly over-stocked fine crystal shop and a white employee heroically dives (slow-motion, nimbly twisting in mid-air to avoid knocking over the highball glasses) to catch a decanter somebody bumps off a display.
Or a diner, and some noisy customer comes in and loudly orders a patty melt and onion rings while being frantically shushed by the waitress. The worried cook has sweat running off him, arranging pot lids and baking pans (quietly!) over the griddle and fry station to muffle noise from the cooking food as a nearby napping negro opens an accusatory eye. Another employee sprints over with a blankie and stuffed toy, rolling the napping negro onto his other side and tucking him in while frantically murmuring a sleepy-time ballad, “Hush little baby don’t you cry …”
Negro Nap Time!
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TLDR version: White guy accidentally drives into the middle of a spontaneous unpermitted BLM march in downtown Austin. The local Blacks! think he did it on purpose and start beating on his car. Another white guy in the crowd confronts the driver and points a gun at him and the driver shoots and kills him with his own gun and three years later gets convicted of murder by local the Soros prosecutor. Greg Abbott says he is going too pardon him as soon as he can. MSM loses its mind.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-pardon-us-army-sergeant-daniel-perry/
Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @res, @Achmed E. Newman, @duncsbaby, @Tex
Oh the wokemon points. I guess if you don’t have them yourself then pushing someone in a wheelchair who has them is enough to transfer the glory. The fiancée part is fascinating.
Emmett Till, peace be upon Him!, was not acting.
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” I don’t feel no ways tired.” — Hillary Clinton trying to get sum street cred, yo.
Don’t know that.
Care to share?
Like, where do you put the ring?
It's also small and adjacent to Frogtown, now known as "Little Mekong". Not sure if Frogtown was named after the amphibian or the French Canadian, but all those little Asian bodegas are not known for "rest".https://youtu.be/hfvegiuYHB4Replies: @Bill Jones
Wasn’t that in the ’60s
Isn’t that more than half a century ago?
Doesn’t this smack of grasping at straws to explain the failure of the shiftless losers to achieve anything?
It would be a step in the right direction. Think of it as buying the dog a bone so he won’t chew the furniture.
Likely a lie.Replies: @Art Deco, @Kylie
““I remember Emmett Till’s murder,” she said. ”
Likely a lie.”
I googled her. She was 77 in 2020 so she was old enough to be aware of his death in 1955.
If so, then she should certainly have sympathy for those of us whites still traumatized by the Knoxville murders of Christian and Newsom, which occurred much more recently in 2007, especially since much of the coverage of these horrific crimes has been shoved down the memory hole.
That's some Blaq history that needs more attention during February.Replies: @Kylie
I doubt this old bat was meticulously scanning the newspapers in 1955 accumulating data on every racial injustice of the day. But I could be wrong.Replies: @Kylie
I’ve lived around a lot of blacks, but I’ve never seen much evidence of such a class. More the reverse; lower-level government employees of various stripes, noticeably given to doing remarkably little actual work.
…so are there really many to feel bad for? You can relax.
Isn't that more than half a century ago?
Doesn't this smack of grasping at straws to explain the failure of the shiftless losers to achieve anything?Replies: @Art Deco
Most people don’t achieve anything beyond getting through life.
That's what tax dollars are for. To help people, especially lifelong civic servants, when they need the help the most, like when they are recovering after a lifetime of service and injured or destitute because they spend all their time helping others and hardly think about themselves, like Melvin does every day... What would you rather have your tax dollars doing, buying bombs? Please get real.
What have you done for your community for the last 50 years? Melvin has been working tirelessly for you and it the whole time. Sit down and be quiet about things you know nothing about.
Maybe we should pay white "men" to take a rest. Or better yet put them to useful work. When we have too much free time on our hands we go out and kill people.Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose, @Patrick in SC, @Bing Bang BQQ
Bravo.
Thanks. The contrast with the way they treated Macron adds to the comedy. And says something abut China’s priorities. Does anyone here understand China’s political relationship with France and the EU well enough to explain (or point to an explanation)?
The EU is not a Sovereign State, sovereignty still, notionally at least, resides with the countries.
China has treated her as a bureaucrat.
She apparently spent the little time she had with Xi telling him to change his attitude toward Russia. She clearly is seen as a mere messenger for the Bronze Age Death Cult in Washington.
She won't be back.
The thing that won't dawn on the dumb bitch for a while is that an ever increasing number of countries just won't be returning her call.
The speed with which Africa is moving for the Russia/China model rather than the condescending Imperialism of the West is surprising to me. None of this, of course, will get much attention from the usual media whores.Replies: @Alden
But my guess is this is mostly China simply pissing all over these phony "European" leaders and saying basically "we want to deal with the people actually in charge". France is an actual nation--though a highly demographically degraded one now--with nukes. The EU is ... a bureaucracy.Replies: @BlackFlag
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/emmanuel-macron-sparks-anger-europe-vassal-us-china-clash
Is there some way to fly them off and them not bring them back? Like, to Kinshasha?
…but I strongly suspect they wouldn’t be dumb enough to go.
Load up a Carnival Cruise ship and then sink it?
Take a stroll through your nearest ‘hood. Everyone there is getting paid to do nothing, even the ones with jobs.
The prelude would be a bunch of white employees slipping off their shoes and setting up lawn chairs and pallets for the OSHA-mandated "Negro Nap Time (Second Shift)" from 2 - 3 pm. The setting would be places like an absurdly over-stocked fine crystal shop and a white employee heroically dives (slow-motion, nimbly twisting in mid-air to avoid knocking over the highball glasses) to catch a decanter somebody bumps off a display.
Or a diner, and some noisy customer comes in and loudly orders a patty melt and onion rings while being frantically shushed by the waitress. The worried cook has sweat running off him, arranging pot lids and baking pans (quietly!) over the griddle and fry station to muffle noise from the cooking food as a nearby napping negro opens an accusatory eye. Another employee sprints over with a blankie and stuffed toy, rolling the napping negro onto his other side and tucking him in while frantically murmuring a sleepy-time ballad, "Hush little baby don't you cry ..."
Negro Nap Time!Replies: @Adam Smith
Black! Power Naps Is Addressing Systemic Racism in Sleep
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TLDR version: White guy accidentally drives into the middle of a spontaneous unpermitted BLM march in downtown Austin. The local Blacks! think he did it on purpose and start beating on his car. Another white guy in the crowd confronts the driver and points a gun at him and the driver shoots and kills him with his own gun and three years later gets convicted of murder by local the Soros prosecutor. Greg Abbott says he is going too pardon him as soon as he can. MSM loses its mind.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-pardon-us-army-sergeant-daniel-perry/
Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @res, @Achmed E. Newman, @duncsbaby, @Tex
I’m gonna act like a lawyer here, even though I’ve not so much as even played one on TV:
Was said Black!, quadruple-amputee fiancee in this alleged wheelchair at the time in question? If so, what in the hell was the guy doing carrying around 3 different types of deadly weapons around, none of them particularly self-defense weapons, as a handgun would be, while wheeling this completely helpless lady (or man! OK, or man) through a crowd like this?
Is it a thing now, wheeling one’s paralyzed fiancee to a big crowd of protesters, as peaceful as they may turn out to be?
Don't you understand? Her fiancé was at a BLACK! Lives Matter rally! That means he's one of the good guys, so obviously he was MURDURED by a RASCIST ARMY GUY! This isn't complicated. Rick Perry is racist and so is Texas law that says your car is part of your castle. What the fuck does that even mean? THROW THAT DAMN RACIST IN JAIL! Next I will sue him for taking away my means of wheelchair propulsion.
OT – Steve you’ve been awfully quiet on the Masters this year. Tiger Woods withdrew rather than finish in last place, claiming plantar fascitis(?!). He looks like he hurts from head to toe.
I remember some informal meeting he called with some other pro golfers, last year IIRC, rallying the troops around the PGA flag. There was brief news footage of him walking with his son to the confab and he was limping heavily then. He is 47 and nearly lost his right leg in that wreck. Time to hang up the spurs.
BTW, Jeremy Renner is a miracle of grit and modern medicine. Also, heavy and tracked equipment–takes more brains and attention to detail than people think.
A great question – all the more notable for the incuriosity of our major media outlets in committing acts of journalism in pursuit of the answer. Obviously there was a lot of money and a lot of coordination going on, any as far as the press was concerned it was all organic and spontaneous. The closest admission we got to coordination in a major publication was Time’s post-election article on how various interests “fortified” the 2020 election, in which they flat out state that had Trump won we were in for another round of coordinated unrest, without actually saying who was leading the charge or who was paying for it.
But. This kind of mundane investigation, aka legwork, is something the FBI knows how to do:
1) who own the vehicles Antifa uses?
2) where do they crash?
3) where do they buy their food and who pays for it?
4) where do they get their commercial grade fireworks? (for which you need a license)
Evidently the FBI is too busy infiltrating J6, the Proud Boys and the Catholic church. Gotta know your priorities.
FBI Used Undercover Agent to Cultivate Sources among Catholic Clergy and Leadership, House Republicans Reveal
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-used-undercover-agent-to-cultivate-sources-among-catholic-clergy-leadership-house-republicans-reveal/
“This is the black version of the MacArthur Genius Grants”
Not at all. Since we all know that every single *Black!* person is a Genius, they would have to give MacArthur level money to all 40 million of them.
And that’s on top of the reparations dosh.
I know Zuckerberg threw $50mil at one shitty little foundation which later funded the rental of one of the Ryder Trucks delivering pallets of bricks to the site that nights peaceful riots.
There was a clear as day chain linking Zuckerberg to the bricks through the shop windows and no-one did a damn thing about it.
During and shortly after WW2 Chicago neighborhoods would put up memorial poles that would have the names inscribed of fallen servicemen from the various neighborhoods. Since much of Chicago turned black most of those polls were allowed to vanish. I’m told some still exist here and there.
If you’re strolling through their neighborhood, you”re not seeing them at work. Food service personnel and home health aides are not paid to do nothing.
Those were different “activists”. I doubt that there is much overlap between looters, and Trekkies who like to blow bubbles.
I remember some informal meeting he called with some other pro golfers, last year IIRC, rallying the troops around the PGA flag. There was brief news footage of him walking with his son to the confab and he was limping heavily then. He is 47 and nearly lost his right leg in that wreck. Time to hang up the spurs.
BTW, Jeremy Renner is a miracle of grit and modern medicine. Also, heavy and tracked equipment--takes more brains and attention to detail than people think.Replies: @Stan Adams
Given Steve’s fascination with the minutiae of golf-course architecture, I was expecting exhaustive coverage of the tree-falling incident. But nada.
I wouldn’t get all dewy-eyed about China’s motivation here. They probably prefer lots of little trading partners to one big one.
Food services only hire blacks as a last resort when they can’t find any Mexicans. Home health aids are usually West Indian and spend most of their time fiddling with their cell phones or grumbling about having to heat up a can of soup.
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There are 20 million employed blacks in the United States. I don't know what you fancy they're doing with themselves. You'd have fewer problems with your aunt's aides and with food service personnel if you had better manners.
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The breakdown of food service personnel per the Bureau of Labor Statistics is as follows:
White: 73%
Black: 14%
Oriental / East Indian: 7%
Miscellaneous: 7%
of these, 28% identify themselves as 'hispanic'. Seems like they 'can't find' 'Mexicans' about 3/4 of the time.
of home health aides:
White: 52%
Black: 32%
Oriental / East Indian: 11%
Miscellaneous: 3%
of which 29% identify themselves as 'hispanic'. About 9% of the black population is immigrant. so the notion that home health aides are 'usually' West Indian is...inventive.Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous
Is it a thing now, wheeling one's paralyzed fiancee to a big crowd of protesters, as peaceful as they may turn out to be?Replies: @JR Ewing
I saw her interviewed in a typical weepy MSM hagiography. As do you, I have a lot of questions.
Don’t you understand? Her fiancé was at a BLACK! Lives Matter rally! That means he’s one of the good guys, so obviously he was MURDURED by a RASCIST ARMY GUY! This isn’t complicated. Rick Perry is racist and so is Texas law that says your car is part of your castle. What the fuck does that even mean? THROW THAT DAMN RACIST IN JAIL! Next I will sue him for taking away my means of wheelchair propulsion.
Where are those children now?Replies: @Adolf Smith, @J.Ross
Epstein really had a freaky face.
That's what tax dollars are for. To help people, especially lifelong civic servants, when they need the help the most, like when they are recovering after a lifetime of service and injured or destitute because they spend all their time helping others and hardly think about themselves, like Melvin does every day... What would you rather have your tax dollars doing, buying bombs? Please get real.
What have you done for your community for the last 50 years? Melvin has been working tirelessly for you and it the whole time. Sit down and be quiet about things you know nothing about.
Maybe we should pay white "men" to take a rest. Or better yet put them to useful work. When we have too much free time on our hands we go out and kill people.Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose, @Patrick in SC, @Bing Bang BQQ
Fellow whites!
*poles
Apologies if this has been posted before, but this guy is a genius of race grifting. Hilarious.
From Mr. Pohlad’s Wikipedia biography.
Goes from Iowa to Compton to play football at a Junior College.
The Pohlad Family Foundation enjoys generous tax breaks.
– Reduce your income tax for each year in which you make a contribution – Avoid capital gains taxes depending on the characteristics of property contributed – Reduce or eliminate potential estate taxes (which can be up to 40% the value of the estate)
The government treasury loses out on a substantial chunk of revenue. So indirectly your tax money is going to this.
Everytime some politico suggests a wealth tax, I respond, why don’t we just eliminate the above legal loopholes on the existing wealth taxes. Of course the tax reductions are not the only benefits of having a foundation. PR, PR, PR…..look at how woke and wonderful we are, go us! Additionally these foundations provide excellent careers for the daughters of the very wealthy. All those Female Literature and Art History majors from pricy liberal arts colleges get make work, overpaid Director/trustee positions. Once again and indirectly still getting their inheritance. It’s a great scam, the lawyers love them too.
Considering how much damage black activists have done to Minneapolis over the last three years, paying them off to do nothing but nap for a year might be a brilliant strategy.
Reminds me of a Dire Straights song…
“Get your money for nothin and your bubbles for free…”
Welcome to the new normal.Replies: @JR Ewing
Every girlfriend or baby mama becomes a “fiancé” after a black man (or in this case a black ally) gets shot. There might have been no specific plans for a wedding or even an actual proposal, but marriage was within the realm of possibility.
Has anyone read Andy Ngo’s book? Does it get into this?
Wow. Only 400 Attilas? Looking back, it seems to be on a long. slow down-trend over time. Another really traditional boy’s name, István, also seems to be in steady decline.
Other mighty Hungarian boys’ names: Zalán, Csaba, Botond…
Von der Leyen is not an elected head of State, she was appointed.
The EU is not a Sovereign State, sovereignty still, notionally at least, resides with the countries.
China has treated her as a bureaucrat.
She apparently spent the little time she had with Xi telling him to change his attitude toward Russia. She clearly is seen as a mere messenger for the Bronze Age Death Cult in Washington.
She won’t be back.
The thing that won’t dawn on the dumb bitch for a while is that an ever increasing number of countries just won’t be returning her call.
The speed with which Africa is moving for the Russia/China model rather than the condescending Imperialism of the West is surprising to me. None of this, of course, will get much attention from the usual media whores.
Of course what the now dead guy was doing when he was menacing an Uber driver in the middle of a public street is irrelevant. Who cares?
And how do you carry three firearms (as some here note) including a large and heavy AK-47, while “pushing a wheelchair”? Did someone actually have a photo of that? Was “fiancee” carrying it across her lap? In all of the photos of this, I never saw any wheelchair.
Unless it was slung across his shoulder, and hence not fireable in that position, I don’t see how he could be doing all of that at the same time. The claim by the Soros DA was that “he didn’t have it (the rifle) raised in a firing position” is irrelevant. If you are in a vehicle surrounded by angry armed thugs, you don’t need much excuse.
Who pushes a quadruple amputee in a wheelchair down a public street full of antifa style BLM rioters? Who are deliberately blocking the street?
Note how the MSM calls these armed thugs “demonstrators” while the unarmed Jan 6 Capitol demonstrators are deemed insurrectionists and rioters, uniformly called that.
Said BLM rioters had blocked traffic and were deliberately intimidating others. What was the dead rioter’s intentions in bringing this “weapon of war” (as Comrades always call rifles) to this street blockade?
One set of adjectives and excuses for some, another set for others. Lesson of the Day for why no intelligent person trusts “mainstream media” reporting. Pravda style.
Still got a nose?
Food services only hire blacks as a last resort when they can’t find any Mexicans. Home health aids are usually West Indian and spend most of their time fiddling with their cell phones or grumbling about having to heat up a can of soup.
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There are 20 million employed blacks in the United States. I don’t know what you fancy they’re doing with themselves. You’d have fewer problems with your aunt’s aides and with food service personnel if you had better manners.
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The breakdown of food service personnel per the Bureau of Labor Statistics is as follows:
White: 73%
Black: 14%
Oriental / East Indian: 7%
Miscellaneous: 7%
of these, 28% identify themselves as ‘hispanic’. Seems like they ‘can’t find’ ‘Mexicans’ about 3/4 of the time.
of home health aides:
White: 52%
Black: 32%
Oriental / East Indian: 11%
Miscellaneous: 3%
of which 29% identify themselves as ‘hispanic’. About 9% of the black population is immigrant. so the notion that home health aides are ‘usually’ West Indian is…inventive.
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/original_packard001b-jpg.jpg
https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20110210/ruins_of_detroit_29.jpgReplies: @Art Deco
I haven’t seen a black maid or cleaning lady in L.A. in the current century. Dunno about the rest of the state. Blacks disproportionately hold civil service-government jobs, or in education (same thing). They have otherwise just been priced out of not only the single-family home market but the 2-bedroom apartments as well. In the early 90s, pre-riot when neighborhoods were already basically segregated, I remember seeing black nannies and live-in housekeepers. In general there are fewer on-site servants now (because Boomers have a complex about that, as David Brooks noted) but more adult children in residence, even with actual day jobs but forced to live chez the ’rents’. The endless supply of Central American and sometimes Middle Eastern housecleaners is like the Angeleno version of the Old Dixie, Margaret Mitchell shtick.
How dare you promote Chris Pratt’s reprehensible oliveface act.
France was the first Western country to recognize the PRC. And tended to be more China sympathetic than others even through the Maoist insanity.
But my guess is this is mostly China simply pissing all over these phony “European” leaders and saying basically “we want to deal with the people actually in charge”. France is an actual nation–though a highly demographically degraded one now–with nukes. The EU is … a bureaucracy.
They’re just practicing their French for Chrissake, you racist.
The people who are losing their mind over it are the same sort of people who said that Kyle Rittenhouse was looking for trouble because he showed up to a protest with a rifle, just as did the guy that Perry shot.
Yes, but that was different. Rittenhouse, (the monster!), crossed State lines!
The gigantic difference is that Kyle didn’t aggressively go after people with his rifle.
Antifa threatens people who take photos/videos so I can understand why most “journalists” don’t want to put them selvesin danger.
But. This kind of mundane investigation, aka legwork, is something the FBI knows how to do:
1) who own the vehicles Antifa uses?
2) where do they crash?
3) where do they buy their food and who pays for it?
4) where do they get their commercial grade fireworks? (for which you need a license)
Evidently the FBI is too busy infiltrating J6, the Proud Boys and the Catholic church. Gotta know your priorities.
FBI Used Undercover Agent to Cultivate Sources among Catholic Clergy and Leadership, House Republicans Reveal
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-used-undercover-agent-to-cultivate-sources-among-catholic-clergy-leadership-house-republicans-reveal/
How about prisons ?
Sailer’s Corollary:
Never go to a gangbangers funeral.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11961655/Multiple-people-shot-outside-Washington-DC-funeral-home-gunman-fled-green-vehicle.html
Reminds me of a Dire Straights song…
“Get your money for nothin and your bubbles for free…”Replies: @Bill Jones
It’s a win-win. The City’s get peace, the blacks get paid just because they’re black.
Welcome to the new normal.
I think most of it was organized by 3-letter organizations; the CIA was probably the ringleader. Many of the non-government Antifa members are a mix of activists, homeless, and mentally unstable individuals. I believe the agents were given funds to distribute to the agitators as they saw fit, however, many were just happy to destroy anything and everything with the understanding that local city officials were on their side and if caught, light sentencing would be a result. The fact that there’s very little info on who funded them, it almost guarantees that dark government money was involved, otherwise the financiers would have already been revealed.
So, you really don’t know at all. And, to be certain, if Mr. Sailer had any notion of it being true, he would have reported it by now.
This is the second time I’ve seen the “rolling down hill…” line from the Hag quoted on a message forum this week. The first was without attribution and nobody noticed.
There are a dozens of lines from Merle that could be deployed in describing events these days. The only writer I’ve seen that can match him is Thomas Jefferson.
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There are 20 million employed blacks in the United States. I don't know what you fancy they're doing with themselves. You'd have fewer problems with your aunt's aides and with food service personnel if you had better manners.
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The breakdown of food service personnel per the Bureau of Labor Statistics is as follows:
White: 73%
Black: 14%
Oriental / East Indian: 7%
Miscellaneous: 7%
of these, 28% identify themselves as 'hispanic'. Seems like they 'can't find' 'Mexicans' about 3/4 of the time.
of home health aides:
White: 52%
Black: 32%
Oriental / East Indian: 11%
Miscellaneous: 3%
of which 29% identify themselves as 'hispanic'. About 9% of the black population is immigrant. so the notion that home health aides are 'usually' West Indian is...inventive.Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous
Black Labor is Magick: behold Detroit:
Care to share?Replies: @J.Ross
The only person who makes money from the government benefits office (to the degree of getting over) is the guy who sits in the office or his friends. There’s not a lot of blacks in Minnesota but there’s more than seven. This is a criminal conspiracy let in through the front door by abdicating lefties.
“Considering how much damage black activists have done to Minneapolis over the last three years”
You really seem to enjoy not offering the entire truth on these matters, Mr. Sailer. Yes, the violence in the aftermath of the Floyd case caused a shit ton of damage. But it wasn’t the activists themselves. You know better.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/05/27/one-year-later-few-charges-for-the-arson-and-destruction/
Edward Maguire, an Arizona State University criminologist, said police are most effective when their work is highly focused. Research shows that most demonstrations contain three types of people:
Protesters who are not supportive of destruction — typically the majority of the group;
protesters who are supportive of destruction, who account for a small minority;
and a small number of people who are not protesters and embed themselves in the crowd with criminal intent, he said.
If a few people are causing trouble, responding to the entire group with shows of force or mass arrests can radicalize the crowd, Maguire said. Plus, the charges typically don’t have enough evidence and fall apart in court, or are dismissed like in the Twin Cities, he said.
“Why bother making those junk arrests? Really focus on the people who are engaged in destructive and violent behavior,” Maguire said.
“I think most of it was organized by 3-letter organizations; the CIA was probably the ringleader”
So, you really don’t know at all. And, to be certain, if Mr. Sailer had any notion of it being true, he would have reported it by now.
Back about 50 years ago, my mother worked for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company in St. Louis. They started a program in which inner city black teens could earn high school credits and a small salary by working there. My mother was so puzzled that instead of making the most of this great opportunity, the black teens lay around the break room, napping. No disciplinary action was taken although I don’t think the program lasted long.
I remember thinking how fast times had changed. It’d been less than ten years since blacks were sometimes subjected to police dogs and fire hoses. Now they knew they could literally sleep on the job and get money for it and nothing was said to them or to the higher-ups at the company.
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Alex Christoforou had a good riff on this. Apparently, the plan was for Macron and Ursula to do a good cop/bad cop routine with Xi. Ursula was in charge of wagging her finger, nagging at China, and keeping Macron on script. Xi figured that out and just sent her packing so he could spend the next two days chumming it up with Macron.
The Two Greeks knock it out of the park on the "Leaks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4IpzrBH_EI
The Bronze Age Death Cult is warming up the B-Team; Poland.
The Krauts are going to love it.
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There are 20 million employed blacks in the United States. I don't know what you fancy they're doing with themselves. You'd have fewer problems with your aunt's aides and with food service personnel if you had better manners.
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The breakdown of food service personnel per the Bureau of Labor Statistics is as follows:
White: 73%
Black: 14%
Oriental / East Indian: 7%
Miscellaneous: 7%
of these, 28% identify themselves as 'hispanic'. Seems like they 'can't find' 'Mexicans' about 3/4 of the time.
of home health aides:
White: 52%
Black: 32%
Oriental / East Indian: 11%
Miscellaneous: 3%
of which 29% identify themselves as 'hispanic'. About 9% of the black population is immigrant. so the notion that home health aides are 'usually' West Indian is...inventive.Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous
In some places like Manhattan, the West Indian nurses are salient. Out in Southern California it tends to be Mexican or Filipino duopoly.
I haven’t seen a black maid or cleaning lady in L.A. in the current century. Dunno about the rest of the state. Blacks disproportionately hold civil service-government jobs, or in education (same thing). They have otherwise just been priced out of not only the single-family home market but the 2-bedroom apartments as well. In the early 90s, pre-riot when neighborhoods were already basically segregated, I remember seeing black nannies and live-in housekeepers. In general there are fewer on-site servants now (because Boomers have a complex about that, as David Brooks noted) but more adult children in residence, even with actual day jobs but forced to live chez the ’rents’. The endless supply of Central American and sometimes Middle Eastern housecleaners is like the Angeleno version of the Old Dixie, Margaret Mitchell shtick.
And to get back to a Sailer-ish topic
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/
I’d grit my grrr but as @Steve_Sailer notes:
“Considering how much damage black activists have done to Minneapolis over the last three years, paying them off to do nothing but nap for a year might be a brilliant strategy” God help me, I laughed!
I have deep empathy for ppl’s stress but my bandwidth is filled w/ppl…
-struggling to feed families
-desperate for kids to get a good education
– living in fear of gang violence
-mourning the loss of a child
-suffering agonizing pain
-assaulted/brutalized
-etc
Who face unbelievable adversity like Jacqueline “Tiger” Durand who spreads hope wherever she goes. Who reaches out to OTHERS.
Not gonna nurture a narcissistic embrace of victimhood. Its self-absorption. Its solipsism. It cripples its recipients & hurts society. It’s cruel. I reject the identity politics that lead ppl to dehumanize/deindividuate others & ignore [or cheer on] the suffering of out-groups. I also reject the childish heroes v monster paradigm overlaying the activist template [especially when ppl get PAID to be activists]. It’s Big Business!
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/original_packard001b-jpg.jpg
https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20110210/ruins_of_detroit_29.jpgReplies: @Art Deco
I’m sure you fancied posting these images was something other than non sequitur.
I also fancy this is relevant to a discussion of alleged Black employment:
https://image.mlive.com/home/mlive-media/width2048/img/news_impact/photo/22313116-standard.pngReplies: @J.Ross, @Art Deco
Was nothing said because (1) it would have been injurious to the amour propre of the executive who dreamed up the program? or (2) because the youths in question didn’t have anything to do but busywork anyway? BTW, do you have any idea how these youths were screened to be employed at McGraw Hill?
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How would I know why nothing was said? I do know my mother was a lifelong liberal totally into Negro worship. She was not at all critical of these black layabouts, just puzzled by them. In other words, she didn't tell the family this to make the blacks look bad.
Whether or not the work in question was busywork is irrelevant. It was not illegal or arduous and they were getting paid handsomely to do it. Surely you aren't suggesting employees be allowed to decide whether to work or nap on the job.
"BTW, do you have any idea how these youths were screened to be employed at McGraw Hill?"
You mean besides being poor black teens? No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDSJ4pAipoReplies: @J.Ross, @Bill Jones
One of the themes lately is that developing world leaders are actually leaders (cf Uganda lately and Mexico recently) and the developed world leaders are clueless inheritors, the third generation which cannot retain the family wealth.
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“Was nothing said because (1) it would have been injurious to the amour propre of the executive who dreamed up the program? or (2) because the youths in question didn’t have anything to do but busywork anyway?”
How would I know why nothing was said? I do know my mother was a lifelong liberal totally into Negro worship. She was not at all critical of these black layabouts, just puzzled by them. In other words, she didn’t tell the family this to make the blacks look bad.
Whether or not the work in question was busywork is irrelevant. It was not illegal or arduous and they were getting paid handsomely to do it. Surely you aren’t suggesting employees be allowed to decide whether to work or nap on the job.
“BTW, do you have any idea how these youths were screened to be employed at McGraw Hill?”
You mean besides being poor black teens? No.
Likely a lie."
I googled her. She was 77 in 2020 so she was old enough to be aware of his death in 1955.
If so, then she should certainly have sympathy for those of us whites still traumatized by the Knoxville murders of Christian and Newsom, which occurred much more recently in 2007, especially since much of the coverage of these horrific crimes has been shoved down the memory hole.Replies: @newrouter, @Mike Tre
“Knoxville murders of Christian and Newsom”
That’s some Blaq history that needs more attention during February.
That’s some Blaq history that needs more attention during February."
It needs more attention year round, especially whenever Emmett Till is mentioned.
I know a lot of people who’ve owned/managed restaurants for years, and black employees are the LAST they’re looking for, all the vaunted black chefs on TV cooking shows notwithstanding.
This is totally off-topic. Wildly, completely off-topic.
I’m kind of leery of making this comment, but for those of you who are into evolutionary biology, I found a very interesting substack. https://woodfromeden.substack.com/
Anyway, the bloggers, er, substackers seem apolitical (like 2007 kind of apolitical, so foaming-at-the-mouth Nazis by 2023 standards) I don’t want to ruin a garden, so don’t go there being assholes about HBD, but they have interesting takes on evolutionary psychology. Seriously, don’t be jerks. Even if they agreed 100% with the iSteve commentariat, they couldn’t say so.
I believe both bloggers, er, substackers, are Nordic. One I think is a zookeeper, so really a biologist, not a molecular biologist or evolutionary psychologist.
Fun fact: She was a founding member of The Spinners.
I fancied it was a smashing response to your white knighting of Black labor force participation, which I think you’ve done a few times before.
I also fancy this is relevant to a discussion of alleged Black employment:
What does that leave?
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The 'white knighting' was pointing out that the employment-to-population ratio among blacks is about 10% lower than that of the other racial categories. I point that out because (1) it is true and (2) a large fraction of the participants here haven't got a clue and say stupid things because they don't know what they're talking about.
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Now with this datum, you've told everyone that impecunious people in jobs without fringe benefits - which blacks and hispanics commonly are and young people commonly are - sign up for Medicaid. And that impecunious young people commonly give birth. I don't know what I'd do without your patient instruction.
Which is Hungarian for Steven
Being a cynic, I wonder if Abbott will actually pardon Perry. During the last 60 years I really can’t think of any White politicians who have ever done anything for the Whites who vote for them and whose taxes pay their salaries.
The black middle and working classes are all affirmative action government employees.
The EU is not a Sovereign State, sovereignty still, notionally at least, resides with the countries.
China has treated her as a bureaucrat.
She apparently spent the little time she had with Xi telling him to change his attitude toward Russia. She clearly is seen as a mere messenger for the Bronze Age Death Cult in Washington.
She won't be back.
The thing that won't dawn on the dumb bitch for a while is that an ever increasing number of countries just won't be returning her call.
The speed with which Africa is moving for the Russia/China model rather than the condescending Imperialism of the West is surprising to me. None of this, of course, will get much attention from the usual media whores.Replies: @Alden
Wonderful, it’s about time that Russia/China takes on the White Man’s Burden of caring for the Africans who can’t take care of themselves.
Hypothetical question: how could a billionaire arrange his estate such that upon his death his money would not be in an institution, fund, or trust that could be captured by progressive activists?
You couldn’t just specify that money could not be used for black people, because a progressive judge would throw that out.
The cleverest thing of this sort that I’ve ever read about is a situation where a deceased rich guy endowed an economics chair at a university to be used to hire an economics professor who studied a particular branch of economics that was on the conservative side, and not popular in academia. After the first economic beneficiary retired, the university hired someone who had nothing to do with that particular branch of economics. But the rich guy had included a provision that a second university had the right to claim the money if the first university was not carrying out the terms. This university filed lawsuit and won the endowment. So the rich guy built in a process by which thete was an incentivized other party, keeping an eye on things.
But in general courts are not sympathetic to “dead hand” trusts in perpetuity.
My half-joking proposal is we give the billionaires the government under pain of asset forfeiture. Right now the billionaire class enjoys the best of all worlds: all the power and influence and none of the consequences for disastrous policy. If we find a way to hang the consequences around their necks maybe they start making better decisions. Maybe Bill Gates gets more creative about solving Africa's problems when we make him live there and he has to personally persuade Africans to pay him taxes.Replies: @Corvinus
But my guess is this is mostly China simply pissing all over these phony "European" leaders and saying basically "we want to deal with the people actually in charge". France is an actual nation--though a highly demographically degraded one now--with nukes. The EU is ... a bureaucracy.Replies: @BlackFlag
China probably wants Europe to act independently of the US.
Maybe they consider the EU bureaucracy to be more firmly in America’s orbit. While head if states, like Macron, are more likely to defect.
Possibly heads of state are in competition with EU bureaucrats for a limited and shrinking political and economic pie?
https://www.worldpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/peace-poles-park.jpg
One at a time, that is.
https://media.heifer.org/Blog/join-the-conversation/World_Ark_Blog/2019/SEPTEMBER/peace_pole.jpeghttps://www.worldpeace.org/peacepoleproject/
Rondo is less than 20 miles from the birthplace of Little Free Libraries in Hudson, Wisconsin, and Saint Paul and Minneapolis is where they really took off at first. But the ones in Rondo don't do well. They're often empty, or nearly so. Whether that's because few people contribute, or because the books are stolen and sold I couldn't tell you.Replies: @Ron Mexico
A Vice Principal at a previous school of my employment had one of those peace poles “planted” outside the entrance, about 15 years ago. I thought it was a meaningless gesture then, but am more convinced of its meaninglessness now that this dude in MN is time traveling through these.
Well, I’m pretty sure I won’t be going to any Twins’ games anytime soon.
PolitiFact says the photo was AI generated.
https://i.ibb.co/dt49804/methode-times-prod-web-bin-7652efaa-3593-11eb-9999-78711a047ec4.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/RN6gg28/08-hillary-eating-pizza.jpgReplies: @Ron Mexico
Yes, but that was different. Rittenhouse, (the monster!), crossed State lines!Replies: @Mr. Anon
Yes, you are correct – I neglected to mention – Rittenhouse crossed State lines! A brazen act of terrorism and sedition. Nobody should cross state lines, ever! Stay in your state!
Likewise, Illinois's high point, Charles Mound near Galena, is said to be among the most difficult to reach. At 1,235 ft. It's also on private property, open-- with express permission-- a few months a year. Save it for after Whitney and Granite Peak!
The tripoint of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee is on private property which, so I've read, is fiercely protected with weapons. Try Minnesota-Iowa-South Dakota instead, a friendly and accessible short drive from Sioux Falls.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/sd/SDVALtristate_lillesand.jpg
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1645840806841024512Replies: @Anon
It probably does not occur to any of these “activists” to work. If any of these loafers were appearing before former TV court Judge Joe Brown, he would give them one word, “JOB” and even spell it for them. These are the same clowns who rioted and destroyed their own communities. People who look like them owned businesses that were victimized by the Antifa and the Burn, Loot, and Murder cults.
Before our last local book store closed, a bunch of public employee union agitators were protesting in front of our local court house. While I was buying a book, the clerk jokingly asked me where all the Republicans were. I told her they were at work. We both had a laugh. If these “activists” in the Twin Cities were at work supporting their families instead of rioting, maybe George Floyd and all the national uprising doesn’t happen.
Like me, Steve probably doesn’t know how many Super Mario Bros. movies came before it and is worried that watching it out of sequence he won’t understand any of the deep back story and references to past events and characters.
Great song, written by Blaze Foley. Blaze was a good time boy, lived his life mostly drunk, but did write at least one epic song. Blaze was shot down in 1989 at a young age by a black man who got off on a self-defense plea.
He can’t keep getting away with it.
That's some Blaq history that needs more attention during February.Replies: @Kylie
““Knoxville murders of Christian and Newsom”
That’s some Blaq history that needs more attention during February.”
It needs more attention year round, especially whenever Emmett Till is mentioned.
Where are those children now?Replies: @Adolf Smith, @J.Ross
Bad attempt anyway — since when was Epstein ever connected with boys?
I also fancy this is relevant to a discussion of alleged Black employment:
https://image.mlive.com/home/mlive-media/width2048/img/news_impact/photo/22313116-standard.pngReplies: @J.Ross, @Art Deco
>all other
What does that leave?
TLDR version: White guy accidentally drives into the middle of a spontaneous unpermitted BLM march in downtown Austin. The local Blacks! think he did it on purpose and start beating on his car. Another white guy in the crowd confronts the driver and points a gun at him and the driver shoots and kills him with his own gun and three years later gets convicted of murder by local the Soros prosecutor. Greg Abbott says he is going too pardon him as soon as he can. MSM loses its mind.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-pardon-us-army-sergeant-daniel-perry/
Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @res, @Achmed E. Newman, @duncsbaby, @Tex
Thanks for the good news.
Hell, Kylie, blacks have been sleeping on the job for 400 years. Why do you think we had the dogs and fire hoses in the first place? McGraw-Hill just didn’t know how to use them.
You couldn’t just specify that money could not be used for black people, because a progressive judge would throw that out.
The cleverest thing of this sort that I’ve ever read about is a situation where a deceased rich guy endowed an economics chair at a university to be used to hire an economics professor who studied a particular branch of economics that was on the conservative side, and not popular in academia. After the first economic beneficiary retired, the university hired someone who had nothing to do with that particular branch of economics. But the rich guy had included a provision that a second university had the right to claim the money if the first university was not carrying out the terms. This university filed lawsuit and won the endowment. So the rich guy built in a process by which thete was an incentivized other party, keeping an eye on things.
But in general courts are not sympathetic to “dead hand” trusts in perpetuity.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
This is an awful problem. Billionaire money funds all sorts of society-wrecking crap, and when the consequences spill over they just gather their families and move to their properties in Hawaii, Wyoming, Switzerland, Singapore or New Zealand. Or just sail around on obscene yachts. The marginal utility of their dollars at that point is nil; literally more money than they know what to do with.
My half-joking proposal is we give the billionaires the government under pain of asset forfeiture. Right now the billionaire class enjoys the best of all worlds: all the power and influence and none of the consequences for disastrous policy. If we find a way to hang the consequences around their necks maybe they start making better decisions. Maybe Bill Gates gets more creative about solving Africa’s problems when we make him live there and he has to personally persuade Africans to pay him taxes.
And we can thank corporate lawyers like yourself for aiding and abetting their white masters—the destruction of unions, outlandish prices for health care, deregulation, and “money = free speech” in politics. Indeed, we ought to put your kind in the stockade.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Rocko, @Zoop
This is a description of Melvin Giles:
But this is a description of why he is getting a grant:
It also seems informative that a $55,000 dollar grant is considered enough money that he can take an entire year off from whatever it is he does that actually produces income.
And here is a picture of him do, do, doing:
Abbott may not have had much of a choice. Texas, wisely, does not give its governor carte blanche to issue pardons. That job is reserved for the Board of Pardons and Paroles. I’m too busy (and lazy) to look up how much control the governor has over that board but, at least theoretically, they are independent of the governor.
I’m sure “moderate” AG Merrick Garland will be along any minute now to impose double jeopardy on dear Mr. Perry.
Lol. The first time I played the clip, at 19s I thought he said: “neighbourhoods riddled with violence and gays”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDSJ4pAipoReplies: @J.Ross, @Bill Jones
Alex’s morning stroll was where I first picked it up.
The Two Greeks knock it out of the park on the “Leaks”
The Bronze Age Death Cult is warming up the B-Team; Poland.
The Krauts are going to love it.
Likely a lie."
I googled her. She was 77 in 2020 so she was old enough to be aware of his death in 1955.
If so, then she should certainly have sympathy for those of us whites still traumatized by the Knoxville murders of Christian and Newsom, which occurred much more recently in 2007, especially since much of the coverage of these horrific crimes has been shoved down the memory hole.Replies: @newrouter, @Mike Tre
I was around 10 years old when the Rajneesh Cult thing was going down in Oregon. I never heard of it until I watched a documentary on it about 10 years ago. All said, it was a much bigger deal at the time relative to the Till thing, but 10 year olds have other priorities.
I doubt this old bat was meticulously scanning the newspapers in 1955 accumulating data on every racial injustice of the day. But I could be wrong.
Lol! She was about 11 years old in Mississippi when Till was killed in that state in 1955. But what's so hilarious is that I found an article online in which she says,
"Being 77 years old gives me a lot to try to remember. I grew up in the Jim Crow South. How was it possible for both my mother and my father to be so happy, to have so much energy and spirit, despite the atrocities leveled at them and others?"
So the blacks in Mississippi were so traumatized by Till's death that they were happy, with much energy and spirit. And of course, even though it was Till who was killed, atrocities were leveled at them.
I believe she remembers it. And I believe the sole reason she remembers it is that it helps her grift.
Welcome to the new normal.Replies: @JR Ewing
It’s the “Black-geld”.
I’m not smart enough to write a satire of Kipling, but it would be pretty cool if someone could.
I also fancy this is relevant to a discussion of alleged Black employment:
https://image.mlive.com/home/mlive-media/width2048/img/news_impact/photo/22313116-standard.pngReplies: @J.Ross, @Art Deco
I fancied it was a smashing response to your white knighting of Black labor force participation, which I think you’ve done a few times before.
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The ‘white knighting’ was pointing out that the employment-to-population ratio among blacks is about 10% lower than that of the other racial categories. I point that out because (1) it is true and (2) a large fraction of the participants here haven’t got a clue and say stupid things because they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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Now with this datum, you’ve told everyone that impecunious people in jobs without fringe benefits – which blacks and hispanics commonly are and young people commonly are – sign up for Medicaid. And that impecunious young people commonly give birth. I don’t know what I’d do without your patient instruction.
Liberal yts are some 24 carat marrons aint dey? DHQ, dindoo headquarters, were a little bit worried but now it looks like the day of the rope is gonna be a cakewalk!
TLDR version: White guy accidentally drives into the middle of a spontaneous unpermitted BLM march in downtown Austin. The local Blacks! think he did it on purpose and start beating on his car. Another white guy in the crowd confronts the driver and points a gun at him and the driver shoots and kills him with his own gun and three years later gets convicted of murder by local the Soros prosecutor. Greg Abbott says he is going too pardon him as soon as he can. MSM loses its mind.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/texas-gov-abbott-vows-to-pardon-us-army-sergeant-daniel-perry/
Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Mr. Anon, @res, @Achmed E. Newman, @duncsbaby, @Tex
Best news I’ve heard all day.
A news article making the reason clear showed up in my feed the next day. I looked around, and here is a good representative.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/emmanuel-macron-sparks-anger-europe-vassal-us-china-clash
didn’t read the book, but one thing he has highlighted on twitter is that antifa is actually very successful suing police for brutality after they crack down on them. So police will break up a riot using physical force. Antifa aligned lawyers will sue on behalf of the protestors and win/ get a settlement. So part of antifa’s funding actually comes from us/everyone who pays taxes.
Not sure if Steve has already commented on todays key sporting headline from the UK:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/65240196
any politician who opposes “gun control” is doing Whites a big service. Trump was 3 for 3 with SCOTUS appointees. They all voted against Sleepy Joe’s Vaxxx mandate 🙂
white security guard KOs black woman demanding reparations at target
https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-demanding-reparations-target-punched-face-security-guard-rosa-parks-moment
https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-demanding-reparations-target-punched-face-security-guard-rosa-parks-momentReplies: @bigdicknick
this is kind of a good example of how ideas from academia actually are very influential on uneducated blacks.
I miss Dilbert so much.
Yes. St Stephen of Hungary was the first Christian King, more or less. Arguably, it was his father, but his father’s baptismal name was also Steven, so it doesn’t make much difference. Steven was the first Christian King. Commonly in Europe, the first Christian monarch’s name becomes a traditional name.
I doubt this old bat was meticulously scanning the newspapers in 1955 accumulating data on every racial injustice of the day. But I could be wrong.Replies: @Kylie
“I doubt this old bat was meticulously scanning the newspapers in 1955 accumulating data on every racial injustice of the day. But I could be wrong.” [Atum Azzahir’s claim she remembers the death of Emmett Till]
Lol! She was about 11 years old in Mississippi when Till was killed in that state in 1955. But what’s so hilarious is that I found an article online in which she says,
“Being 77 years old gives me a lot to try to remember. I grew up in the Jim Crow South. How was it possible for both my mother and my father to be so happy, to have so much energy and spirit, despite the atrocities leveled at them and others?”
So the blacks in Mississippi were so traumatized by Till’s death that they were happy, with much energy and spirit. And of course, even though it was Till who was killed, atrocities were leveled at them.
I believe she remembers it. And I believe the sole reason she remembers it is that it helps her grift.
Whatever black criminals do, Whites pay them.
My half-joking proposal is we give the billionaires the government under pain of asset forfeiture. Right now the billionaire class enjoys the best of all worlds: all the power and influence and none of the consequences for disastrous policy. If we find a way to hang the consequences around their necks maybe they start making better decisions. Maybe Bill Gates gets more creative about solving Africa's problems when we make him live there and he has to personally persuade Africans to pay him taxes.Replies: @Corvinus
“Right now the billionaire class enjoys the best of all worlds: all the power and influence and none of the consequences for disastrous policy”
And we can thank corporate lawyers like yourself for aiding and abetting their white masters—the destruction of unions, outlandish prices for health care, deregulation, and “money = free speech” in politics. Indeed, we ought to put your kind in the stockade.
Of course, the US being a multi-ethnic country hasn't helped at all in moving people away from racial matters and focusing on the more economic side of things, so good luck with putting anyone in a stockade with what little power you have, though I do think perhaps that is all for the better. I wouldn't want you anywhere in power.
And we can thank corporate lawyers like yourself for aiding and abetting their white masters—the destruction of unions, outlandish prices for health care, deregulation, and “money = free speech” in politics. Indeed, we ought to put your kind in the stockade.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Rocko, @Zoop
I’m sorry your dialysis costs so much. I really don’t have anything to do with it.
https://i.ibb.co/dt49804/methode-times-prod-web-bin-7652efaa-3593-11eb-9999-78711a047ec4.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/RN6gg28/08-hillary-eating-pizza.jpgReplies: @Ron Mexico
Who are 3 people heading directly to Hell, with no chance of Purgatory, Alex?
The southernmost point in Wisconsin is easy to get to, but not from inside the state– it’s on private property. You can reach it from a state park on the Illinois side. (The east, north, and west (land) extremes are on isolated islands, but all public I believe.)
Likewise, Illinois’s high point, Charles Mound near Galena, is said to be among the most difficult to reach. At 1,235 ft. It’s also on private property, open– with express permission– a few months a year. Save it for after Whitney and Granite Peak!
The tripoint of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee is on private property which, so I’ve read, is fiercely protected with weapons. Try Minnesota-Iowa-South Dakota instead, a friendly and accessible short drive from Sioux Falls.
So. Almost 80% of the grant is paying Negro “activists” to do nothing. Admittedly, playing to their strengths. An even better scam than George Costanza’s Human Fund on Seinfeld.
Eff Tiger Woods and his opioid addiction.
The photos from that night clearly show the victim drew his assault rifle (heh) at the defendant and pointed it at him. Good for Abbott.
Do the photos show any sign of the quadruple-amputee fiancée he was pushing in a wheelchair?
And we can thank corporate lawyers like yourself for aiding and abetting their white masters—the destruction of unions, outlandish prices for health care, deregulation, and “money = free speech” in politics. Indeed, we ought to put your kind in the stockade.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Rocko, @Zoop
You don’t have the balls to put anyone in t e stockade, soiboi
That's what tax dollars are for. To help people, especially lifelong civic servants, when they need the help the most, like when they are recovering after a lifetime of service and injured or destitute because they spend all their time helping others and hardly think about themselves, like Melvin does every day... What would you rather have your tax dollars doing, buying bombs? Please get real.
What have you done for your community for the last 50 years? Melvin has been working tirelessly for you and it the whole time. Sit down and be quiet about things you know nothing about.
Maybe we should pay white "men" to take a rest. Or better yet put them to useful work. When we have too much free time on our hands we go out and kill people.Replies: @Ghost of Bull Moose, @Patrick in SC, @Bing Bang BQQ
You can only have two choices where your tax dollars are alloted, either in the form of left-wing progressivism, or bomb factories, those are your only options! At least here in Wisconsin we get some of the better choices like not subsidizing the black underclass and it’s malcontents.
And we can thank corporate lawyers like yourself for aiding and abetting their white masters—the destruction of unions, outlandish prices for health care, deregulation, and “money = free speech” in politics. Indeed, we ought to put your kind in the stockade.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Rocko, @Zoop
Your economic position would be a lot more tenable to hold without the Maoist racial philosophy behind it.
Of course, the US being a multi-ethnic country hasn’t helped at all in moving people away from racial matters and focusing on the more economic side of things, so good luck with putting anyone in a stockade with what little power you have, though I do think perhaps that is all for the better. I wouldn’t want you anywhere in power.