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From the New York Times news section:
A Retired Prosecutor’s Quest for Recognition
Stephanie Wright discovered that her name was omitted from a history book. She fought to get it put back.
By Trip Gabriel
March 18, 2023CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — What is the weight of history?
For Stephanie Wright, it’s as slight as the thinnest of books, a 259-page volume that has upended her life for months and set her on an unusual and determined quest for recognition. …
None of it had anything to do with what was in the book. It’s what was left out that bothered her — her name.
Ms. Wright was a federal prosecutor in Iowa who made history in her own way. She was an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of Iowa, the first African American prosecutor in the office. For 24 years, from 1994 until she retired in 2018, she was the only Black prosecutor in the federal district, which spans the largely rural northern half of the state.
Last year, flipping through a new book — “The History of the District Court in the Northern District of Iowa (1882-2020)” — Ms. Wright turned to Appendix A. It included a list of 88 assistant U.S. attorneys who had worked in the prosecutor’s office over more than a century. To her shock and dismay, her name was missing.
The book was published by the Northern District of Iowa Historical Society, a volunteer group. Ms. Wright, who had never been a member but had ordered two copies of the book, fired off an email pointing out the omission.
Within minutes, she received an apology from C.J. Williams, a federal judge and historical society member, who called the omission “clearly inadvertent.” Ms. Wright’s name was the only one left off the list of assistant U.S. attorneys that had surfaced so far.
“Our focus was on the content of the book, not the appendices,” Judge Williams wrote in an email. …
In a state of agitation, Ms. Wright sent another email to the history society to convey “shock and disappointment” and to demand action. She asked that an online version of the book be updated, that two corrected hard-bound copies be printed for her at no cost and that notices run in Iowa newspapers that the book had been fixed.
The omission, Ms. Wright wrote, “erased my name from history.”
The online version of the book was corrected, but Ms. Wright was told it was “cost prohibitive” to print a new hardback version. No notice would be forthcoming in newspapers.
She was not assuaged.
“I’m not going to be forgotten,” Ms. Wright said in an interview. “This country has ignored Black women — Black people — and we don’t find out about our history until years later.”
She was having lunch in a restaurant in Cedar Rapids, where the Northern District is based and where, for all of Black History Month in February, she had paid $4,000 for a billboard at the top of a downtown building. It featured a picture of her in a white dress with arms crossed, and the message: “Stephanie Johnson Wright, First African American Assistant U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Iowa (1994-2018).” …
No more than 100 copies of the book are in print, and it’s shelved in only a handful of libraries in the Midwest that are not open to the public.
“You saw the movie ‘Hidden Figures’?” she said, referring to the Oscar-nominated film about three Black female mathematicians at NASA in the 1960s. “I didn’t even know those women existed. I think there are probably a lot of people who were the first in their families, the first in this country. But they decided they wouldn’t speak up. But by doing that, you are preventing someone else who can be encouraged and inspired.” …
She wrote that she did not believe her omission from the history book was an accident. She claimed “intentional discrimination” against her as a Black woman, which she said was part of a pattern that began when she was an assistant U.S. attorney.
Eventually, they print up some corrected pages with adhesive backing with her name on it and paste them into the books in libraries.
The tone of this story is a little light-hearted. Even Trip Gabriel appears to be tiring of the Outraged Black Woman Discovers Another Manifestation of Systemic Racism beat.
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She paid for a $4000 billboard posting bragging about her “first”?
What a narcissist.
Some obscure volunteer published listing of former “assistant” district federal prosecutors? This is what she’s fussing about?
She’s not married, right? Or dating?
Of course she sees this accidental omission as part of a larger conspiracy against her. So, both a narcissist and histrionic crazy tin foil hat wearer. Maybe Trump was behind this…
She probably already has her giant granite tombstone waiting at the local cemetery. Listing all of her many path-breaking accomplishments. Let’s all wish her godspeed for use of that.
She might consider Chicago for venting her rage:
Sorry we forgot ya lady.
“The omission, Ms. Wright wrote, “erased my name from history.””
I’ve never heard of her, and I’ve already forgotten her, so consider the erasure a tentative success.
Donald Trump believes that he will be arrested on Tuesday.
Stories like this are another reminder of how both blacks and whites are mentally stuck in the 20th century.
Imagine this lady complaining to an Indian or Asian-dominated community organization in Indian or Asian majority area.
You’ll notice that outside of Twinkie, there’s no Indian and Asian commentators here. They don’t care about our squabbles and morality. They have their own.
Blacks and whites need to stop living in the past.
“Stephanie Wright discovered that her name was omitted from a history book. She fought to get it put back.”
Related – I was out at a bar last night* and of course the NCAA sportsball tournament is on every TV in the place and I saw an interesting bit of subliminal programming come up on a commercial promoting the very event that was being televised. The graphic read “Change History” as some dusky tarantula headed honor student slam dunked a ball and proceeded to behave as if he just landed a craft on a meteor a million light years away….
Anyway.. change history… is an interesting phrase isn’t it? Incorrect as it is considering that one can make history but not actually change the past. But then again one can change the written events of the past, and that is exactly what the current masters of the narrative are doing. Black women actually did have something to do with the moon landings past processing information, you see? American History did actually begin with the arrival of the first slave ship carrying Africans to the New World. And so on. So anyway… it’s seems to me they are just gloating a bit about what they are doing in a subtle way to the glib white men who still invest time in watching these future criminals run and jump around on a wooden floor.
*Any Chicago area readers who enjoy the nostalgia of 80’s glam rock, a band called Hairbangers Ball are a local tribute band to that genre and are absolutely fantastic to see perform live.
……careful ,we could have another grand jury …..just play it safe and say the Russians did it…..Putin, the all-purpose boogie man.
She’s fussing about the fact that she is not mentioned in a book titled “The History of the District Court in the Northern District of Iowa (1882-2020)” even though she worked in that very office as a prosecutor for 24 years.
Her reaction might be over the top and in any case when it comes to problems lawyers face my reaction tends to be, “well, cry me a river!”, but it does seem a bit strange they left her out.
I think it’s a little closer to the idea of entitlement, rather than mentally stuck in the 20th century–though that’s not far fetched.
Isn’t this black lady retired prosecutor exhibiting what is often called ‘a chip on the shoulder.’
Her grievance is due to a lack of the recognition she believes she’s entitled. Hardly seems worthy of the news section in the NYT–but the NYT gotta keep up the ‘white supremacy’ schtick.
Depends what percentage of those Asians went to woke universities and become good “global citizens”
Wasn’t she involved in at least one memorable case in the text of the book, or do they leave off all the involved attorneys’ names (that would piss me off)?
Eventually, they print up some corrected pages with adhesive backing with her name on it and paste them into the books in libraries.
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This sort of thing was done routinely 25 years ago.
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What a narcissist.
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She’s lived in a cultural matrix which promotes that. It’s a passable wager she was roughly normal when she was 14.
No, see, that’s the problem. Tin foil hats are not made to fit black women’s heads. More racism of course…
I remember now that Looney Tunes understood the Angry Black Woman thing even back in the day. They used a male Martian as to not be too blatant about it. He looks Afro-Martian though.
Both sides are idiots here. “It was “cost prohibitive” to print a new hardback version”? I could go down to Kinkos and print 100 copies of a change page for $5 total. Then another $63 for 1st class postage to mail the change page to each library. This woman got pissed because they stonewalled her instead of doing the right thing
I have had cars where there was a mistake in the owner’s manual and they just glue in a new page instead of changing all the manuals. If this is good enough for some billion $ car company it’s good enough for the Iowa Historical Society.
Sad.
While the winters always sucked, Iowa used to be a pretty nice, congenial whitetopia–a neighbors helping neighbors kind of place. My dad told me he only saw blacks a few times growing up (probably on a visit to Cedar Rapids). (The first time he ever left Iowa was when he joined the Navy and was sent to Great Lakes for boot camp. Weekend leave to Chicago was a whole new world.)
Rude to abuse Iowans with this obnoxious narcissistic ABW. Probably some fed felt Iowans could use some prosecutorial diversity–good and hard.
BTW, do not think you can escape there and enjoy the whitetopia of old Iowa. While still a whitetopia relative to the nation, it’s been rapidly blackening and Latinizing in recent decades. And I can testify that there are even Asians in the Des Moines Costco. Iowa is diverse!
Mr iSteve, you wrote recently about remote connections to famous people.
We had an elderly neighbour round for dinner recently. Afterwards we were talking about books when she mentioned that her grandfather had corresponded with Tolstoy.
The fact that it wasn’t Pushkin is clear evidence of anti-black prejudice.
I can’t even keep track of the supposed “crimes” Trump is accused of.
I will say that these openly political prosecutions of Trump are a good thing for America.
The establishment actual rips off their patina of “fairness” and “law” with this. Even Republican normies who feel (as I happen to) that Trump’s done his stint as president and could best be a patriot supporting nationalist candidates and pushing the transformation of the party, will see the abusive establishment’s prosecutions as vindictive political attacks. And hopefully become both more cynical and angrier with these goons.
She didn’t want an erratum slip. She wanted reprinted, corrected hardbacks. Car owner’s manuals aren’t produced for incipient megalomaniacs with enough free time to harass the manufacturers.
No, they won’t care, not if they’re in control of the local area. Indians and Asians don’t care about blacks or their grievances about red-lining in the 1940s.
Sure, they’ll use it a cudgel against whites if needed, but it’s a tool, not a morality.
Whites are laughably narssictic. We believe that everyone thinks like us and that our “natural rights” apply to everyone. Neither is true.
Again, how many Indians and Asians post here. None. They view the world differently.
Stop it Jack.
It’s not the Iowa Historical Society, it’s some tiny volunteer group–probably a few ex-judges and prosecutors–who self-published northern district history from their own pockets. (You’ll note she was never a member, supporting any of this historical stuff. She was paying real money to have a billboard of herself uglifying Cedar Rapids.) This women was so unmemorable they screwed up and didn’t have her name in some list. They–good Iowans–immediately apologized and fixed it online. They eventually–with this woman narcissistically gas bagging–dipped into their own pockets again to provide page update fix ups.
There’s a limit to how much normal people should cater to obnoxious whiners.
Doesn’t matter. Indians and Asians would, at best, laugh at her if she tried this stuff on them.
Whites and blacks are living in the past, even as the future overtakes them. Interesting to watch.
Again, how many Indian and Asian commenters do you get here. None, outside of Twinkie. They don’t care about blackity, black, black nonsense.
They also don’t care about Jewy, Jew, Jew nonsense.
Remember, the opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference.
Nobody fuckin’ cares, nor should they, ever.
Take the billboard money and go someplace fun, you old hag. Aruba, perhaps. Would probably bitch it’s too hot.
The same US Treasury and IRS that is breaking people’s balls for not getting a 1099 for any payments over $600 is….okay with a payment from a foreign CCP entity to an unnamed party simply called “Biden” without a Social Security nor Tax ID number. Under socialism, some animals are more equal than others.
If this whole Biden business were totally legitimate, they would simply get a check or wire and take it to their bank without all these machinations. They’re jumping through all these hoops because it’s filthy and dirty and they know it.
Trump is a vain guy who wanted to bang a blonde big-breasted porn star. That he employed an idiot disloyal fixer like Michael Cohen to pay her off, embarrassing. But a crime?
It’s gonna be anudda insarekshun!
March 21, 2003 – shock and awe in Baghdad
March 21, 2023 – mayhem in Manhattan (?)
She must not have been the Clarence Darrow of the Northern Iowa District if no one remebered her name. Funny that she mentioned the fake ‘hidden figure’ gals. In real life, her work up there was probably just as important as theirs was to NASA. Hilarious.
but it does seem a bit strange they left her out.
Not strange, just careless. They likely left other people out, but the other people did not bother to look at the book if they’re still around to do that.
As WOR talk show host Mark Simone has observed, if Trump wanted to be left alone by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg he should have pushed someone onto the subway tracks, bashed in a pedestrian’s head with a brick, or held up a bodega. Bragg has shown no interest in prosecuting those types of crimes. New York City is experiencing street crime at pre-Giuliani levels and all Soros-funded Bragg wants to think about is putting Donald Trump in jail. I’m sure he’d insist on doing the body cavity search himself.
C’mon, Steve. I didn’t even read this stuff. Give us another essay on golf or sportsball. You know already that this other crap has been well-established. Hey, but thanks for keeping on keeping on and tallying up all the anti-White efforts at this point in history. You will be remembered slightly more than I will be after you and I are dead. Slightly.
Good grief. Even a rural Iowa judicial district probably has what, 3 or 4 AUSAs working there at any given time? The vast majority of them would have been omitted, because it’s just not that notable of a billet.
I like this ongoing battle between Another Dad and Jack D. I take the side of Another Dad, even though he must hate me for not impregnating my wife and having her squeezing out 5 or 6 White babies.
You guys please continue to go at it. I’m sitting here eating popcorn.
This woman makes me think of a line in John Updike’s The Coup in which he describes a “poster of Lenin, goateed and pince-nezed, staring upwards with the prophetic fury of a scholar who has just found his name misspelled in a footnote.”
Not all corrupt politicians/civil servants are black, but all black politicians/civil servants are corrupt.
Shouldn’t that be Bogeyman? You may have been thinking of this guy:
It’s not the $68, it’s the pain in the ass of doing it.
And why should they? It’s some retirees doing this from interest. Why doesn’t she get off her ass and produce her own book?
Can I be this obnoxious as well, or does one have to be black?
That’s possible and I think those other people should check as well.
After all, you never know – “The History of the District Court in the Northern District of Iowa (1882-2020)” might yet become the next “Harry Potter” and if that happens they will be kicking themselves for not being as thorough as Mrs. Wright!
Actually I think this was all a devious plan concocted by writers and/or publisher:
1. slight a woman of colour
2. get publicity
3. profit?
I wish them luck. I haven’t read it (obviously), but in my opinion this book deserves to climb the bestseller lists just for its catchy title alone!
Pierogis?
Or that other local specialty?
Lemme check, my XL sheet … nope, Buzz I only had you and your lovely bride down for 3 to 4 babies.
But … I’m not a hater. (My hate has to be earned.) Happy you are making the life you two want … even if we all miss those 3.5 kids.
“Boogeyman” is an accepted spelling. I prefer it. “Bogeyman” describes my golf game.
There are Asian, Indian, and Muslim commenters here. They just tend to post in topics in which their ethnic group (or a rival ethnic group) is being discussed. Other bloggers here (like Anatoly Karlin) seem to get more commenters from these ethnic backgrounds.
They seem to have near zero interest in White vs Black racial conflicts. Even when they live in Western countries, they have almost total disinterest in their new adopted “homelands.” They are, however, absolutely vicious when attacking their ethnic rivals and defending their particular tribe.
They behave like colonizers and tribal fanatics. As far as they’re concerned, their primary concern is to maximize political power & resource acquisition for their tribe. The fate of Whites & Blacks is totally irrelevant to them.
Sadly enough, these individuals are our new ruling class. While they may not actually give a damn about social justice, you can be sure that they will capitalize on the Woke grift to the maximum possible extent.
“Assistant U.S. Attorney,” as impressive as the title sounds, is a job you can get right out of law school for an annual salary of $56,000. “Deputy District Attorney” is the same, with the same salary. These titles are like being a “Vice President” at a bank. Half the bank employees are vice presidents, with the other half being tellers. They need the lofty title when dealing with people with money. And prosecutors need or want the bloated title, even though they are in the same salary range as public defenders.
Entry-level government legal jobs cannot pay back student loans, so anyone with any ability will steer clear of them. If you can afford not to worry about student loans you clerk for a couple of years with judges.
More than half of assistant U.S. attorneys are hired mid-career to higher GS levels and make six figures, but they pad out the office with newly minted grads, often black or otherwise affirmative action.
This passage hints at a “rest of the story”:
“Intentional discrimination” is ridiculous; what a paranoid thought! This is MAGA country, you ain’t getting in our little vanity press book! So what happened? The above passage hints at a possibility. There may not have been an accessible and consistent source of data for the volunteer compilers, so they may have paged through sampled documents or court filings taking names off them, or done searches in the databases of documents. Perhaps this lady was genuinely “marginalized,” for good reason. Maybe she was incompetent but unfireable as a black women, and she was not assigned any cases that mattered or made it into appellate opinions or whatever, so her name just didn’t appear very often.
I’d like to know more about the “pattern” of treatment of her that she alludes to, and which the journalist should have picked up on and asked about and investigated further with her former colleagues, on background. Staying in a low-paying job where she may have been doing paralegal work to keep her busy, and where there may have been some personal friction, for thirty-eight years, may be a hint that she was not hireable elsewhere. Assistant U.S. attorneys go on to judgeships, criminal defense in firms, start their own firms, or enter politics. Lesser capable U.S. attorneys become corporate general counsels, become law professors at minor law schools, or go into NPOs in jobs that don’t strictly require a law degree. It sounds like none of those fields was open to her. So she must have been a real number, and her behavior over this inadvertent slight points in that direction.
Perhaps the reason they forgot about her is because she didn’t do much while she worked there. It would be interesting to know how many cases she successfully handled, and how that compared to the others in her position.
I’m not even assuming that she performed poorly. I’m just noting that she makes no reference to her job performance in the airing of her grievance. The only “accomplishment” she mentions is being the first black person to work there.
If you’re writing some minor, seldom-to-be-read history of your workplace and you know you can’t get away with criticizing a former co-worker, the next best alternative is to leave them out completely – which is what the author did.
Then why don’t you do that? Why don’t you contact them right now and offer to help pay for the reprint?
This woman, who provided no support in time or money to the organization that wrote and published the book, dropped $4,000 of her own money on a freakin’ billboard that will only be seen for a month. She could have offered to cover all or part of the cost of a reprint for far less than that. Did she?
“Hey, I know I haven’t done anything to support you guys, but I’d love to help cover the cost of correcting the mistake. Oh, and in the future I’d like to remain a dues-paying member in good standing and maybe help with some of your work. Let me know if there’s anything I can do! You guys were so great to work with, and I’d love to continue our relationship in retirement!”
Something tells me that a woman who reacted the way she did wasn’t exactly a pleasure to work with.
I always wonder about these ladies at NASA. Supposedly, even today, it is hard for a woman to break into a STEM field. In the past is was supposed to be totally a man’s world. How hard would it have been for black women to join NASA 60 years ago? NASA, for the STEM world, is the major leagues. You think we would have heard about these ladies in the past, before the great Woke Age, just because they were so unusual? If these ladies made it into NASA then couldn’t any women get a run of the mill STEM job back then? Which is it, they were hiring black women at NASA 60 years ago, or it hasn’t been possible for women to get into STEM positions until recently, and even then it is hard? Something doesn’t add up!
I was just in Cedar Rapids. There is a lot to do there for such a small city in the middle of Iowa. Along with Iowa City down the road, it is really a dynamic area.
She should move to San Francisco and collect her $5 million reparations check.
Problem solved…
“Complex, expensive, drawn-out, and hostile” is the case-management paradigm of most attorneys; the top attorneys; perhaps your own attorney, sorry. She is simply reflexively defaulting to this. Years ago I read about an attorney who failed to clean-up the unsightly weeds on his front lawn, so they homeowners association got it done and sent him a bill. The attorney sued the association, alleging they owed him thousands of dollars because they had removed exotic plants that he had growing on his lawn.
Dr. Wernher Von Braun’s name seemed to be missing from the CBS and ABC retrospectives for the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. An astounding insult to the guy who pushed for the moon landing on the force of will power.
The first black woman to serve for a time as an (not “the”) *assistant* district attorney in a portion of… Iowa. Have I got this right? Well, guess she really made some serious history there, Hugh Betcha. I mean, who can forget the immortal name of the first Thracian to serve as second assistant secretary to the lieutenant governor of Phrygia.
“The history on which I am entering is that of a period rich in disasters, terrible with battles, torn by civil struggles, horrible even in peace.” — Tacitus
Speaking as a fellow Wright, I think she’s got it wrong.
It’s not the color or the gender, it’s the name. My staggering achievements have been overlooked as well.
So she was the first affirmative action 85 IQ moron affirmative actioned through high school, college, law school and into a government job. Read the affirmative action lawsuits. Upper left of the filing you’ll find the law firm and names of the attorneys suing on behalf of an illiterate moron suing for a job in which they were incapable of performing. Read the names of plaintiff’s lawyers Goldberg Goldman Goldstein Bergman Eisenberg Silverstein BrillStein Becker Stein jews jews jews.
Read the names of the lawyers on the anti White side of every lawsuit since Brown vs Topeka.,
Not all Jews are anti White lawyers litigating anti White lawsuits. But most anti White lawyers are Jews.
Like Andrew Weissman charging Donald Trump
with paying or not paying a prostitute. Think Jewish puppet black DA Alvin Bragg is charging Trump with that ridiculous charge? No, it’s his puppet master, Jew Andrew Weissman.
And most donors to anti White organizations like NAACP, ADL AJC SPLC are jews. They’re proud of the destruction they’ve committed. Just the Jewish Brown vs Topeka. Millions of White children and teachers abused by black savages since for 70 years. As ADL AJC NAACP ACLU sued every school district in the country that tried to protect White children from the savages. And won the cases. And judges obeyed their Jewish masters. And ordered the public schools to allow the savages to do as they wanted. Which was and is to abuse and torture White children and teachers.
The day the Spartan children too young for military were encouraged to beat and abuse the helots to keep them in line.
I believe Jack D when he mentions two children, a boy and a girl. I don’t believe another Dad, the bizarro fertility fetishist has any kids at all. Because of his hatred and contempt for women and teen girls.
My husband and his two brothers have 17 grandchildren and one great grandson among the three of them. The grandchildren will be financially able to produce an entire tribe of blue eyed blonde browny White kids.
I’m probably well, husband and I are the biggest producers of White children on UNZ. If another not a dad wants more White children in America he should have had a nice big family.
Maybe they were exotic plants. Glad we’ve never lived in a HOA. Even with a couple acres there’s. always the Buttinskys telling everybody what to do and how to do it. And doing dreadful things to the environment like planting ivy and feeding raccoons.
No, they have almost total uninterest. They are hardly disinterested. You spelled out their interests yourself in your next paragraph:
And your next:
They have an interest all right– a vested interest.
Exactly. That’s my point. Steve and his merry band of CivNats seem to believe that non-whites will eventually come to their senses and accept Anglo-Saxon Enlightenment principles.
They won’t because those principles are not natural laws like gravity but a way of living designed by and for a certain group of people.
That’s what Steve and the other white CivNats get wrong.
Probably wasn’t a fair prosecutor either.
I’ll support Trump every bit as much as he has supported the J6 defendants.
Regrettably I’ve never been to Iowa (it’s on my list), but Iowa has been to me. One time I had a project which I had to finish pronto, so needed some solitude and peace and quiet. A friend who was a grad student at Cornell had a little apartment in Ithaca, and she was away for the summer, so she let me have it to work in for a few weeks. Ithaca is nice and quiet in the summer because most of the students are gone.
Once I got there, I discovered that the summer sun in Ithaca was brighter and hotter than I had expected, and I hadn’t brought a hat. So I went into a convenience store and bought the first baseball cap I saw, which said IOWA on it in big letters, guess it meant their football team.
For reasons I never really understood, Ithaca in the summer was positively crawling with… Iowans. The friendliest, nicest people on Earth, and whenever I walked down the street and they saw my hat, they chirped out, “Hey, are you from Iowa? WE’RE from Iowa too! Let us take you to lunch, and we can all talk about Iowa!” I picked up enough Iowanese from the first two lunches to convincingly fake being a native later on. I didn’t always let them pay for lunch, but I did enjoy the spontaneous unexpected friendly company, being alone in the place.
So if you’re ever stranded in a small college town and you want to make a lot of instant friends, buy a hat or a sweatshirt or a tote bag with IOWA on it, and they will come to *you*!
My guess: ‘Wright’ was alphabetically last on their list and it got left behind on a cut-and-paste or over a page break.
To DEMAND action! Not a polite observation that perhaps the editors committed an oversight and a request to please consider a revision for the sake of rigorous historical accuracy.
Then again, race aside, no shock that we have a federal prosecutor who is a grandstanding, power-hungry bully.
I wonder what her career was like. Some AUSA’s stay a short time after getting useful trial experience, others go career. I suppose that in the Northern District of Iowa there aren’t as many opportunities to jump to a law firm. Did she ever make Senior Deputy Assistant Section Chief or whatever?
There’s a Cornell College in Iowa, which has a little chip on its shoulder. We were here first!
(https://www.cornellcollege.edu/about-cornell/where-we-are/not-in-ithaca.shtml).
Maybe the Iowans want to go to the other Cornell to see how it measures up.
In the late ‘90’s, San Francisco had a pair of identical twins, about 25, who went around town in their IOWA letterman’s jackets. They were striking because they looked sorta like the Hanson brothers from “Slapshot,” though a bit bulkier. I worked with one of them for a while at a Biglaw firm. He was friendly but guarded, certainly not loquacious.
Seems to be a pretty thin resume based on the article.
My own resume as a lawyer isn’t that of, say, Rudy Giuliani, but then I’m not putting up billboards.
“Something tells me that a woman who reacted the way she did wasn’t exactly a pleasure to work with.”
Something tells me that a woman who looks the way she does would have reacted the way she did.
Seems to be a pretty thin resume based on the article.
My own resume as a lawyer isn’t that of, say, Rudy Giuliani or Johnnie Cochran, but then I’m not putting up billboards.
Pathetic on multiple levels. First anything in Northern Nowheresville. First minor role in Northern Nowheresville. Clearly, by the sin of omission, did not contribute to the content of human welfare in Northern Nowheresville to force her entry into the content of the book. Given the poster posturing, BS a in Billings, Nowheresville.
Last year I heard Spanish at a worksite in Newton. I’m returning for a visit in June and wonder what I’ll find.
New York City is experiencing street crime at pre-Giuliani levels
Where? I was just in New York, walked around Manhattan at night and it seems just fine. None of my friends or business colleagues who live in NYC seem to have noticed either. I have spent plenty of time in Philly and I remember New York in the 1980s. There is still no comparison. Even an incompetent liberal prosecutor‘s office can’t change the fact that NYC demographics have changed for the better since Dinkins’ time. Less blacks = less crime.
OK, of course both Donald and Vlad may have days when they wish they were boogie men instead of bogeymen .
To have “left her out” they had to have known she worked there. No mention of whether the historical society had that information.
Printing up a page to correct the oversight — since it seems that the editors pleaded nolo contendere — is a reasonable solution. I haven’t seen such a thing recently, but I have occasionally read old books or academic books in which a page of “Errata” has been slipped into the volume. Nothing to burn down any cities over.
My guess would be she prosecuted a lot of drug mules.
Currently, the median salary in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Cedar Rapids for a lawyer with < 3 years experience is $77,000 a year. She worked there for 24 years. Right now, the minimum salary for a lawyer past her 10th anniversary is $87,600. About 1/3 of those who cadge a JD degree are unable to build a career in law. (In her case, it was a 2d career).
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It's a reasonable wager she was irritated with her supervisors for promotions not granted and cases not assigned her.
And why should they? It’s some retirees doing this from interest. Why doesn’t she get off her ass and produce her own book?
Indeed! Sounds like a NYT’s best seller to me.
On the one hand, I can understand being upset at being left out, even in a minor work like this. On the other, she ably demonstrates the risk employers take on by hiring black women with an inflated sense of their own importance.
While much of the lack of ‘representation’ in various fields is due to demand outstripping supply, part of it is that given an alternative hiring managers will go with a candidate who is likely to be lower maintenance.
Although there is a likely probability her omission from the book was an honest oversight. In the bubble world of DA’s offices, the game of politics is more important than your successes in the court room.
Judging by from what can be gleaned of her personality here, she may have been a good prosecutor, but sucked at the game of politics.
I can picture this woman, being an insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, clueless bitch, like her soul sister , that black mayor who just got her ass kicked out in Chicago.
They probably hated her guts.
I wasn’t the one who made the error. When you make an error, you take REASONABLE steps to correct it (even if you are dealing with someone who is unreasonable).
A reasonable step in this case would have been to print and circulate an errata page. I don’t know the sequence of the interaction but, I’m guessing, she called and demanded that they reprint all the books and they said, “no, sorry we can’t – we don’t have the money.” What they should have said was, “no, sorry we can’t – we don’t have the money for that. We will however, print and mail out an errata page.” This might or might not have satisfied her (probably not) but it would have made them look better because it would show that they were the reasonable ones and it was not just a fight between two equally stubborn opponents.
Now this is hard. The natural response when someone is being an asshole to you is to be an asshole back to them. But that’s not necessarily the right response.
That’s not how it works. Bragg has a big office and it’s not like the prosecution of Trump is taking away from the prosecution of street crime. When they prosecute abortion doctors in Texas, does that prevent them from prosecuting street criminals too? You can do both.
Theoretically, the pursuit of justice is supposed to be color blind and divorced from politics but in reality it isn’t. Letting street criminals go is political and prosecuting Trump is political. The job of DA is highly political – this is why it is an elective office in most places, including Manhattan. Bragg got 84% of the votes in his most recent election in Nov ’21, so the voters of Manhattan must like the way that he is running his office.
Now you obviously don’t like the way that Bragg is running his office, but the voters of Manhattan disagree with you. BTW, do you think prosecuting Trump will make Bragg more or less popular with the voters of Manhattan?
https://toddwschneider.com/maps/nyc-presidential-election-results/#9.75/40.6995/-73.946
So the voters of Manhattan get what they deserve, but TBH, street crime in NY is not that bad in comparison to say Baltimore. NYC has become so expensive to live in that most of the lowest element have left the city.
Trump lives in FL right? And he is going to allow the state of NY to arrest him? Wouldn’t that require the assistance and permission of the state of FL? Or are we going to send US Marshals to arrest a man for a non violent misdemeanor?
Are extradition proceedings no longer a thing?
Hell hath no fury like a black woman. Luckily, she’ll get tired and have to take a nap soon.
East Asians do tend to be meek and compliant. This is frustrating to me as well. And they often give lame takes like these– obvious Orientals in general are not that peaceful, otherwise there wouldn’t have been so many civil wars propelling outward emigration.
And why is one black female able to physically dominate multiple Chinese males? Who is the one being cowardly? The reaction from a rational person at this video should be scorn, not sympathy.
That said these daily “reaction posts” by Mr. Sailer to MSM are pretty repetitive, and can be in short time just as well done by GPT-4.
That’s nothing. My old high school (alma mater? high school from which I graduated?) lists sports statistics going back to the late 90’s on their website. I however played in the 1980’s so none of my impressive achievements (such as being the first person with my name to score 3 runs in a baseball game) are listed. It’s like I never even existed.
To be fair, the billboard idea never occurred to me so I credit her for her “Innovations in Whining. ”
Meanwhile, in news the NYT should focus on: Stupid is the new normal.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-normal-new-york-lower-math-and-english-proficiency-standards-due-poor-test-result
It would have been funny if they’d told her “Oh. We left you out because you’re black. We’re trying to erase your name from history”.
Maybe they can erect a poster of this forgettable woman in the library of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Would that please her? I doubt it.
Speaking of UNI, the Panthers’ athletic website has completely erased any evidence that they once had men’s and women’s gymnastics teams, after they cancelled both in order to put the money into football. I was a conference champion and there is no longer any evidence of that accomplishment. But I got on with life and raised a family and had a successful career.
Get on with life, honey. You are not the center of the universe.
That she was looking for her name probably means she had reason to assume
they want to forget her 😀
The job of DA is highly political
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It shouldn’t be. They should be allocating manpower according to a rough calculation of marginal benefit, and the calculation of the marginal benefit should be influenced by the severity of the crime as manifest in the statutory law written by legislators.
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Ideally, neither the DA nor the state attorney-general would be elected officials. They’d be lawyers who had spent at least the equivalent of four years working in a prosecutors’ office or a state attorney-general’s office. They would be nominated by an executive with the advice and consent of a body of legislators or chosen by a vote of a body of legislators. They would be subject to rotation-in-office rules. (1) they could not serve more than 12 years in any bloc of 14, (2) without regard to how long they’ve served, they would be compelled to retire when they reached their 76th birthday, and (3) their tenure would be subject to quadrennial retention-in-office referenda or to irregular petition recall after they’ve served for a grace period.
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Now, Larry Krasner was admitted to the bar in 1987. How much time had he spent as a working prosecutor prior to being promoted by the sorosphere? Joshua Shapiro was admitted in 2002. How much time had he put in as an employee of a state attorney-general’s office? The answers are zero and zero.
its very annoying how cuck east asians rationalize this meekness to other races as peacefulness when in reality it is pure cowardice towards other races while they kick down on other asians exclusively. CCP regime unfortunately embodies this principle just as much as US-occupied regimes like japan and s.korea. its like Ah Q saying he is morally superior when he bows down to the stronger lol
“Angry Black Woman”.
Aren’t they all?
Being an asshole to someone who just started being an asshole may not be the best response. I prefer de-escalation myself. But being an asshole to someone who is constantly an asshole, sometimes for years, is often the only choice you have.
Some of these people had the good fortune to work with this particular asshole for all or part of 24 years. I doubt this was their first altercation, and I’m not going to be the one to judge the appropriateness of their response. There’s a lot going on here that we aren’t hearing about. As I wrote above, she makes no effort to defend her time in position by appealing to any of her genuine accomplishments, and no one else seems to come to her defense.
Some people, like the authors of the book, may just want to show more decorum or may not want to get into a public spat with a woman who was so narcissistic that she dropped $4,000 of her hard-earned money on a stupid billboard.
“to get into a public spat with a woman who was so narcissistic that she dropped $4,000 of her hard-earned money on a stupid billboard.”
Hard-earned? You sure bout dat, Willis?
Simone does point out that David Dinkins was a fine honest man — although a lousy mayor
He was a pleasant man and not a dirtbag. He also had a serious education and his family when he was growing up was in small business. As politicians go, fairly appealing.
OTOH, his finances were a mess and he blew off filing his tax returns several years in a row. It proved to be embarrassing for him.
Good point, but be careful-being a grammar nazi can go too far.
Presumably, she worked the cases she was assigned, then went home at the end of the day, sometimes taking reading with her. Evidently, she wasn’t assigned any cases which members of the public might remember. I’m not seeing how her ‘lack of accomplishment’ is an issue. The billboard business is pathological, however.
NYT:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Considering all the fucked up people out there who produce spawn, I should have made some myself. My wife would have been a great mother. This is all my fault, but it’s too late now.
You are a lunatic, and deserve to be treated as such.
So says a card-carrying MAN OF UNZ!
On one hand, I get it: Books carry a lot of weight as part of the historical record. A person relying on these books for research would not receive accurate information.
On the other hand…how many people are going to be interested in this? How many research projects are going to dependent on this detail?
If it was me, and I felt that passionately about it, I’d try to find some way to have the books reprinted at my own expense.
“Either they’re playing with their elbows more or I’m playing with my face more.” Attributed to then-Rookie Kiki Vandeweghe on the difference between college ball and the NBA.
Trump may WANT to get arrested because it will bring him publicity.
Extradition is mandatory under the Constitution:
To confirm this, Congress passed the first rendition act in 1793.
Yes, there is a procedure for extradition but the grounds for denying extradition are extremely narrow and limited – e.g. you have arrested the wrong man and not the person named in the extradition documents. It is not discretionary on the part of the extraditing state. If you’ll notice, most criminals, even if they intend to plead not guilty, do not fight extradition to other states in the US because it is usually useless to fight it. “We think that your indictment is bullshit” is not one of the statutory grounds for refusal.
If you can be arrested for a misdemeanor (generally speaking you can) then you can be extradited for a misdemeanor. Alaska and Hawaii don’t usually ask for extradition for misdemeanors because the state requesting extradition has to pay for transportation and housing of the fugitive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_States
PS I’m sure that if they indict Trump, it will be for a felony and not a misdemeanor.
I think the point is just to get the indictment. What happens after that is not that important to them. It will be treated a proof of a crime. If Trump runs against Biden in 2024, Biden will not want to debate him. He probably intends to refuse to do so on the grounds that Trump is an indicted criminal. So it’s necessary to set that up.
When he was testifying before congress, Matt Taibbi was baffled when Rep. Dan Goldman of New York started quizzing him about “the two indictments by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that definitively established that Russia interfered in our 2016 election through social media disinformation, and a hack and leak operation.”
Goldman has a J.D. from Stanford Law, is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney from the Southern District, and the former lead counsel of one of the Trump impeachments, yet he asserted that an indictment establishes evidence of a crime.
I think Jerry Brown got away with refusing to extradite someone to South Dakota ca. 1975. It’s mandatory until it’s not.
it does seem a bit strange they left her out.
Doesn’t it seem strange that when the Oscars runs the scroll of the actors who died the previous year, they inevitably leave out some fairly big names?
Theoretically, the pursuit of justice is supposed to be color blind and divorced from politics but in reality it isn’t. Letting street criminals go is political and prosecuting Trump is political. The job of DA is highly political – this is why it is an elective office in most places, including Manhattan. Bragg got 84% of the votes in his most recent election in Nov ’21, so the voters of Manhattan must like the way that he is running his office.
Nice mental gymnastics there to justify the railroading of Trump!
These like minded prosecutors are the same ones who “electively” choose not to prosecute blacks and Antifa, who are looting, killing, burning down the cities of the people they are voted into office to protect, so they can politically grand stand, by wasting taxpayer money and time, going after a political opponent on a bullshit charge.
And these prosecutors have openly, and brazenly made no bones about the fact that they are not going to prosecute these criminals.
You are a liar, and a gaslighter!
I wouldn’t say all. Many but not all. I would say it is around 50/50.
Philly has had a lot of corrupt black (and white) politicians go to jail but, for example, no one thought of former mayor Wilson Goode as corrupt. He is a man of God and has devoted his post-mayoral life to sincere Christian ministry. Likewise, there is no hint of corruption about Michael Nutter. (John Street, yes.) This is not to say that these men are angels but they were not criminally corrupt.
Can you be more specific?
I understand how upset you must be but to be fair, your situation is different: Your school’s website goes back only to the the late 90’s, while you played there long before then. Your achievements, remarkable as they were, fall outside of their scope. Her years of employment on the other hand were entirely within the period the book covers.
Still, there’s nothing to stop you from putting up a billboard or two, and sending an email to your local news. Tell them you identify as non-binary, that should focus their attention on this obvious injustice. How dare they to ignore the 80’s?
https://www.eonline.com/news/1367275/oscars-2023-anne-heche-charlbi-dean-and-more-left-out-of-in-memoriam-segment
Here, I Googled it for you: Anne Heche, Leslie Jordan, Paul Sorvino, Tom Sizemore, Gilbert Gottfried, Charlbi Dean, Tony Sirico, Barbara Walters, and Topol.
“A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State,”
I’m not a lawyer and I don’t care about any of this stuff on a legal level (only on a societal/political level), but as I read the above language, it doesn’t seem to apply to Trump. IIRC Trump is a legal resident of the state of Florida, viz he did not “flee from Justice” in the state of New York, viz, he didn’t rob a liquor store in Queens and then scram down to Georgia to escape being charged. He just lived in one place, then later on moved to another place, and in the intervening years the NY DA’s office had plenty of time to charge him but did not. So I call prima facie bullsh!t. But that is not a legal view, just a common-sense one. Soon to become a “Common Sense” one, as it were.
((Gottfried))((Walters))(((Topol))) !!! ???? !!!! Da nerve!
Heche – in disgrace.
Topol – only 4 days before, too recent .
Walters – not a movie actress.
Gotfried – only a voice actor.
Sorvino – I don’t know why. That was truly baffling.
The others – too obscure, although they noted a lot of technical people that the general audience would never have heard of.
I am embarrassed for not having gone over this section in the Constitution myself, Jack. One doesn’t need to be a lawyer. However, since you pasted it in, how does the fleeing of justice part apply to the Donald Trump case? He didn’t flee. He lives in Florida*, and it’s not like he moved there once he was charged and an arrest warrant had been written up.
I’m not trying to be argumentative on this – I really want to know about that part. I’d love it if DeSantis blocked any extradition. Yes, I think Trump is, if not glad he’s been threatened with arrest, taking good advantage of the publicity. That’s above all, what he cares about, publicity about HIM.
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* Well, he lives in a number of places, but I don’t think the Founders could see all that coming.
Assumes facts not in evidence, as she might say …
Hey Alden, I just want to fill in a few details that I want you to know, so here they are:
I have another sister who gave birth to four children. She had the first one when she was fifteen and I was eight. My mother said to me, crying years later, that the baby was a beautiful little girl. That baby was put up immediately for adoption, against my mother’s wishes, apparently.
Somewhere now I have a niece in her fifties — if she is still alive — whom I have never known.
So, I have four people of the next generation related to me, one of whom does not know me and who has, to me, an unknown life.
How TF do you know, or they know?
I remember when Tiger Woods, Bill Cosby, and OJ Simpson were all being described as “good family men”.
Alma mater is the proper term, although if you are also a college graduate then I would specify WHICH alma mater I was talking about.
As for your larger point, your analogy would be more valid if they listed the statistics of your teammates but not you. This woman was part and parcel of the office for 20+ years, so it is insulting for her to be left off.
For those who wonder why HBD is considered synonymous with racism, posts like this one from Steve is a point in their favor.
Good memory.
https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/20/765.html
Seemed odd with that little bit of information, but makes sense with more context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Banks#Aquash_murder_and_trial
From that link, he did not face charges in South Dakota until 1985.
Harry Baldwin: “New York City is experiencing street crime at pre-Giuliani levels”
Peter Akuleyev: “Where? I was just in New York, walked around Manhattan at night and it seems just fine. None of my friends or business colleagues who live in NYC seem to have noticed either.”
N.S.: I was tempted to ignore you, but readers from outside nyc might take that for assent. Harry is absolutely right. You? You’re ridic.
I think the average U.S. Attorney’s office employs a dozen or so lawyers. Northern Iowa would be a small office and the historical society in question likely consists of federal court employees and a few local attorneys. She was there for 24 years. Yes, they knew who she was.
It’s not grammar, it’s definition.
Ms. Wright said in an interview. “This country has ignored Black women — Black people — and we don’t find out about our history until years later.”
Hardly anybody finds out about history until years later. It isn’t history until later.
Don’t states such as Connecticut refuse extradition in capital cases to states using the death penalty?
Also, what if the infraction isn’t a crime in the “fugitive’s” new home? Does Vermont send people wanted in Cook County for concealed-carry violations back to Illinois?
The Swiss would refuse extradition in tax cases because there, evasion is a civil matter, not a crime.
Foreign extradition is different – it’s not covered in the Constitution. It’s a matter of treaty. No England doesn’t have to send death penalty cases to Alabama. Yes, CT does.
LOL. Sort of reminds me of the old saw, “If men could pregnant, abortion would be a SACRAMENT!”
To which the only real response is, If men could get pregnant, men would be women.
How you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen Iowa City?
I grew up in Cedar Rapids and spent nearly half of my adulthood there. I will say there are billboards in Chicago advertising some appeal for Chicagoans to relocate to Iowa.
Crime in CR is NOW beginning to rival some other ignominious urban areas across the country.
Perhaps Ms Wright can start making more of a difference in this area other than providing motorists driving up and down I 380 some laughable fodder.
At whichever rate, utopia isn’t happening in CR anymore, that’s for certain
I only pointed out to note that the only “accomplishment” of her 24 years there that she bothered to mention was being the first black person to work there.
“Ms. Wright’s name was the only one left off the list of assistant U.S. attorneys that had surfaced so far.”
I.e., neither Wright, with her thousands of dollars to burn, nor the Times, with its bottomless resources, could be bothered to check.
“For a moment, Ms. Wright wondered aloud if they might have been added expressly for her visit, after she had called for an appointment.”
OK, first, “wondered aloud for a moment” is terrible English. Second, it’s bad enough that she suffers from paranoid delusions, but that she’s so un-self-aware that she does it *aloud* makes it worse.
A couple of commenters above wondered how much she really did in all those decades she worked there. Well, wonder no longer. Not much, apparently. This is all they could find:
“As a prosecutor, she won a guilty plea in the 1997 case of a cross-burning outside the home of an interracial couple. She later specialized in cracking down on businesses that ran afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act.”
The first would be a picayune misdemeanor at best if not for some “hate crime” nonsense. It also shows she was pigeonholed, perhaps willingly, into “the black stuff,” which must be slim pickings in Iowa. And even then it was a guilty plea, which means open-and-shut, no work on her part. I’d say they chose that for the racial angle, but the second half shows how thin her resume was.
ADA stuff is usually the province of private ambulance chasers. They go to local businesses, see if they’ve met every jot and tittle of the ADA- and no one does, that’s the point- find one disabled person, who’s probably already on their payroll, to claim they couldn’t get in (or better, make it a class action), and sue the poor people into a big settlement.
Obviously an AUSA doesn’t even need to go through the charade; she can just hand out tickets. Like a meter maid. Of course they and the ambulance chasers are scratching each other.
And now that she’s retired, she’s still shaking people down.
Why won’t somebody point out how she managed to maintain her beautiful black hair in pristine condition for 24 years…and untouched by her white coworkers for that time!
Given the fact that she’s bragging about being an AA hire, she’s not just a narcisist, she’s a crazy dumbshit as well. No surprise there. Since stupidity and self-awareness don’t go together.
Of course, the joke is that they’re playing up the first this, the first that to conceal the embarrassing hate fact that what it boils down to is that they’re the first Affirmative Action hire. Nothing more (but a lot less).
In other words, She, He, It was the first person hired whose Race, Gender or Sexual Orientation was more important than their competence.
Since this decision by the elite contributes to the cultural impoverishment and societal collapse that is undermining their own power, one is inclined to raise curious doubts about the competence of the elite.
I don’t think it’s anywhere near Baltimore levels yet. My son had a friend who did “Teach for America” in CR. “Teach for America” is a program that sends college graduates from top universities to serve as teachers in low-income communities. I got the feeling that he had picked CR because it was not the kind of place where your middle school students would beat you unconscious because you took away their headphones. Just a bunch of relatively compliant (if not too bright) Latino kids. Maybe in contrast to the old days where you could leave your house unlocked it’s bad but it’s nothing like what you get in cities with big black ghettoes.
You beat me to it.
Ezra Cornell founded the university, but his cousin William Wesley Cornell was merely a benefactor. Someone else founded the college.
Another fun Cornell fact: William and Ezra’s common ancestress, Rebecca Briggs Cornell, was allegedly murdered by her son Thomas II, though his guilt was and is disputed. He was put to death. A daughter, christened Innocent, was born later.
Among her descendants is one Lizzie Borden.
https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Cornell/6000000005704125004
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cornell-30
My high school left my years off the website because of racism as well as ageism. I’m a victim. That I’m too lazy to do anything about it besides whine here doesn’t lessen my suffering. At the very least, the NYT should write an entire column about me (and my hair).
I kinda like it when lawyers sue lawyers. Gives me that same warm feeling as when an insurance company’s insurer denies their claim. Shane about the people waiting for resolution on legitimate cases though.
I don’t know shit, but Mark Simone knows everyone in New York City.
Just a typical little example out of hundreds — You heard about the sinister Chinese billionaire getting hauled in by the feds last week and somehow setting his luxury apartment on fire by remote control that afternoon? Simone knows the couple who owned that apartment before him.
Yup, would be women. Never understood why this quip was always considered so wise.
Or…..
As Ramzpaul once said, “If men could get pregnant we’d have vastly different divorce and child support laws.”
Your comment wasn’t up when I wrote mine 2 down, GToD. I have the same question and await Jack’s answer too, as you do.
Mandatory, eh? ☮
Prima facie bullsh!t, indeed. ☮
I visited Georgia in 2000 and I noticed that Mexicans were working road construction. At that time in North Dakota the only Mexicans around were those working in agriculture. Now it’s uncommon not to see and hear Mexicans working construction in North Dakota. This is something that’s changed over the last 10 – 15 years. I think NoDak construction companies finally figured out they were suckers for only hiring whites & Indians from North Dakota, when they could pay Mexicans & other assorted Central Americans less money under the table.
It’s easy to laugh at these obnoxious Negroes who keep moving the goalposts of “reparations” (of which they’ve already reaped largely undeserved $$$ TRILLIONS $$$).
They know damn well they’d still be in the Stone Age if Jews, Arabs, Whites — AND fellow Stone Agers — hadn’t forcibly removed them from it. Despite a couple Jews making a fortune promoting Wakanda fantasies, deep down, these people know they’re far better off mau-mauing the White Devils than they would be left to their own devices.
For every Black who returns to Mother Africa a 1,000 Africans break into the homelands (& homes) of the despised Ice Peepo. That’s all we need to know about “reparations.”
Almost fifty years ago, my name was spelled incorrectly in the yearbook of my senior year; of course seniors are the only ones listed individually so that error is “forever.” But, I’m white, so I didn’t insist on a reprint, even a single corrected copy. My degree at that liberal arts school turned out to be professionally worthless, except for having a degree to put on my first resume. There have been many a time when I considered discarding the diploma, which I never took out of its binder.
As the saying goes “you can indict a ham sandwich.”
Never met a woke Asian before? Lucky you.