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The dumbing down of black intellectual culture has been a noteworthy trend that nobody dares notes. From W.E.B. Du Bois to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X Kendi …

From the New York Times opinion page:

Erasing Black History Is Not the Role of the College Board
Feb. 4, 2023
By Mara Gay

Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board.

… [College] Board officials tried to assure the crowd that they had not bent to censorious political pressure from the country’s increasingly brazen right wing. “If this were true, it would be a terrible stain on this country and on the College Board,” said the College Board’s C.E.O., David Coleman.

But in fact, when the College Board unveiled the final curriculum for the AP course the day before, it turned out that the board had removed from the core material a handful of vital Black thinkers and some important subject matter. They downgraded the study of Black Lives Matter, of reparations, of queer life and of incarceration. They removed prominent writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and bell hooks, who have helped so many people understand the relationship between race, class and feminism.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican of Florida, had earlier vowed to ban the course, which the state’s Department of Education has said, “lacks educational value.” He had objected to much of the material the board removed. The board issued a statement denying that its action was in response to Mr. DeSantis, saying it determined on its own that the course was too dense and needed fewer secondary sources.

It is no coincidence that the Black writers under assault, like Mr. Coates and Ms. hooks, have been militant in refusing to allow America to forget.

Some of my articles on ex-blogger TNC:

The First Rule of White Club

“All Is Fog”

 
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  1. At least my man DeSantis is fighting.

    He–and other “conservatives”–need to move beyond “single issuing” this and that piece of nonsense and make the full, clear broad case against minoritarianism, and for the fundamental right of productive normies to live according to our norms and culture–separating if necessary.

    This struggle against genocidal minoritarianism needs to be understood and fought as an existential one.

    • Agree: Patrick in SC
    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @AnotherDad

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous, @James Forrestal, @Cato, @Art Deco

    , @J.Ross
    @AnotherDad

    I am afraid that DeSantis is there specifically to be a dive taker, and I wait for proof otherwise.

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @AnotherDad

    Yes, AD, DeSantis fights, and he wins. They say Ron DeSantis is on the Warpath, like it's a bad thing.

    Replies: @neutral

    , @Colin Wright
    @AnotherDad


    '...This struggle against genocidal minoritarianism needs to be understood and fought as an existential one.'
     
    You also need to quit looking at the puppets and think about the puppeteer.

    It's not that Ta-Nahesi Coates et al exist. It's that the New York Times et al sponsor them.

  2. He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that’s the company line. It isn’t clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren’t just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of ‘Moonlight’ which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for ‘Moonlight’ is a bit contrived and based purely on it’s ideological credentials because he’s convinced if he’ll doesn’t he’ll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!

    Well, it’s over 6 years later and he doesn’t have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Altai3


    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism.
     
    A guy who wanted to stop clapping. Tsk.

    He didn't get the memo: all efforts are to cram the zeitgeist into film and film criticism.
    , @Mark in BC
    @Altai3

    Like the Twilight Zone episode with Billy Mumy where everyone loved everything he did lest they be sent into the cornfield.

    , @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Altai3

    "He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film"

    Well that's certainly a silly idea. Doesn't he know that EVERY black man is Superman? Doesn't he watch TV commercials? Doesn't he read his own books? Wait a second, don't answer that one.

    , @Barnard
    @Altai3

    I figured he would never get the Superman script done, but Coates doesn't seem to be producing any content at all right now. This is the first time I have heard his name mentioned in over a year. He hasn't been contributing to The Atlantic either. Is he starting to fade away?

    Replies: @Nicholas Stix

    , @Prester John
    @Altai3

    In other words, he sleeps with the fishes.

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Altai3

    Steve has mentioned this film, but it doesn't look like he reviewed it. How important can it be?

    Who wants to watch black homos for 11 minutes, let alone 111?

    Replies: @Jack D, @Known Fact

    , @Corpse Tooth
    @Altai3

    they aren't just trying to quietly kill it

    From what I can gather this is going on, but in hushed tones. Unless it's Black Panther black-centric content loses money. The fanatical energy seems to have shifted back to homosexuality -- fitting, considering the numbers of gay goys and gay Jews in the business -- and the elite-imposed transgender contagion. The thing is, most non-blacks don't want to work with blacks because blacks are a massive pain in the ass. The cost-benefit doesn't pan out.

    , @Lurker
    @Altai3

    I just went to IMDb to bestow a 1/10 rating on Moonlight only to find I had already done so at some point since 2016.

    I hope everyone else knows what to do.

  3. Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board.

    I’m so confused. Is “Gay” her name, her pronoun, her sexual orientation, all of the above, a & b but not C, etc.?

    I didn’t read her essay past that.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Matthew Kelly

    I figured it was her state of mind. Not that one; the happy, jovial one.

  4. Anonymous[115] • Disclaimer says:

    Steve, one of your followers who was big in the manosphere and an expert in PEDs was found dead recently:

    “YouTube’s ‘Penis Enlargement’ Grifter Suffers Bloody Death in Thailand”

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtubes-penis-enlargement-grifter-leo-rex-suffers-bloody-death-in-thailand

    Leo Rex, a self-described “masculinity biohacker” famous for once declaring himself the “foremost expert in penis enlargement” on his popular YouTube channel, died mysteriously Monday inside an apartment in the coastal Thai city Pattaya.

    While local cops haven’t declared Rex’s cause of death, details they released paints a grisly scene that suggests the American influencer may have been brutally killed following a struggle.

    Police say Rex, who’s legal name is Laith Abdallah Algaz, was found face down in a bathroom, surrounded by cannabis, antidepressants, bipolar disorder medication, sleeping pills, and “muscle-boosting antibiotics.” He was naked besides a black shirt, had a black eye and still had blood “flowing from his mouth and nose” when cops arrived, reported Bangkok Business News…

    Rex, who ran the YouTube channel Leo and Longevity, had amassed 123,000 subscribers at the time of his death. Most of his videos highlighted bogus science that required disclaimers in each video before he dished out quacky advice.

    While the channel discussed topics like bodybuilding, experimental health supplements, steroids, and his experience taking different drugs, like psychedelics, Rex’s most popular videos were about his journey to growing a “supraphysiological” penis.

    As bizarre as it sounds, the channel’s most-viewed video was titled “How to Build a Better Penis” and had nearly a half-million views. In it, Rex told his followers he’d successfully grown his manhood two inches through a system of pumping and weights.

    • LOL: Meretricious
  5. They downgraded the study of Black Lives Matter, of reparations, of queer life and of incarceration.

    I’d like to read how these subjects were originally presented to high schoolers in the un-DeSanitized version of the course.

    Is it just, “Reparations: White people won’t pay them because they stingy. Incarceration: White people lock up innocent Blacks out of envy and racist hatred. Etc. Etc.”?

    Or do they try to dazzle the adolescents with academic mumbojumbo and doubletalk?

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @Daniel Williams

    "A little from Column A...."

    , @Hibernian
    @Daniel Williams

    Both of the above.

  6. the country’s increasingly brazen right wing

    As opposed to the country’s left wing, which has always been brazen

    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @ScarletNumber

    Brazen right wing is the leftoid version of uppity negros

  7. @AnotherDad
    At least my man DeSantis is fighting.

    He--and other "conservatives"--need to move beyond "single issuing" this and that piece of nonsense and make the full, clear broad case against minoritarianism, and for the fundamental right of productive normies to live according to our norms and culture--separating if necessary.

    This struggle against genocidal minoritarianism needs to be understood and fought as an existential one.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @J.Ross, @Achmed E. Newman, @Colin Wright

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    • Agree: Pop Warner
    • Replies: @Pixo
    @AndrewR

    Take your BDS BS on back to Beirut, Bin Ladin.

    https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/USA-Israel-Eagle-has-landed.jpg

    Nothing more based than high fertility nationalist whites colonizing brown lands. But you side with Islamic barbarism. Sad.

    https://w3.chabad.org/media/images/235/dTaY2356687.jpg

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @SFG, @anonymous

    , @Anonymous
    @AndrewR


    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.
     
    DeSantis while in Congress also supported the regime change in Ukraine and arming the neo-nazi militants.
    DeSantis also supported regime change in Syria and arming the moderate Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists there. DeSantis also supports war with Iran and China.

    DeSantis on Iran: “They will stop at nothing to end our way of life.”


    https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/05/31/PTAL/7c5b175e-b72e-46d6-b5cf-aea1ad33a1cf-Photo_1.jpeg

    Replies: @Pixo

    , @James Forrestal
    @AndrewR


    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS
     
    Excellent point, though perhaps it might be better phrased as "Your boy Ron forced all government contractors to sign an oath of loyalty to a foreign government -- the semitic supremacist regime in Tel Aviv."

    And of course, two of DeSantis' first acts as governor were to:
    1. Hold a state cabinet meeting in occupied Palestine, and
    2. Sign a bill that required public universities in Florida to ban any and all criticism of semitic supremacism in general, and of the settler-colonialist regime in Palestine in particular.

    Looks like Daddy's boy is suffering from a terminal case of internalized tribalism.
    , @Cato
    @AndrewR


    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.
     
    So, who would you prefer as your next President?

    Replies: @AndrewR

    , @Art Deco
    @AndrewR

    There is no 'genocidal apartheid state' in Israel, except in your rancid imagination.

  8. I’ll be really impressed if they put Thomas Sowell on the curriculum.

    • Thanks: Vito Klein
    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @International Jew


    I’ll be really impressed if they put Thomas Sowell on the curriculum.
     
    Sowell's priceless contribution is his concept of vision conflict. "Unconstrained" nails the white progressive mind perfectly. What drives black progs is another question. Ideology? Grift? Emotion? Madness? Voodoo?

    Replies: @Curle

  9. Ibram X Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates pale in comparison to Fredrick Douglas both in achievment and intellect. Slip Douglas in the agenda, The students would learn some real history as well.

    • Agree: Bardon Kaldian
  10. @ScarletNumber

    the country’s increasingly brazen right wing
     
    As opposed to the country's left wing, which has always been brazen

    Replies: @AndrewR

    Brazen right wing is the leftoid version of uppity negros

    • Agree: Prester John
    • Thanks: beavertales
  11. Coates and Kendi seem like disciplined thinkers compared to the most-overrated-of-them-all, the poet Amanda Gorman, who read one of her high-school-drama-club level works at Biden’s inauguration:

    [MORE]

    ‘The Hill We Climb’

    When day comes we ask ourselves,
    ‘where can we find light in this never-ending shade,’
    the loss we carry,
    a sea we must wade?
    We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
    We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
    and the norms and notions
    of what just is
    isn’t always just-ice.
    And yet the dawn is ours
    before we knew it,
    somehow we do it.
    Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
    a nation that isn’t broken
    but simply unfinished.
    We, the successors of a country and a time
    where a skinny Black girl
    descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
    can dream of becoming president
    only to find herself reciting for one.
    And yes, we are far from polished,
    far from pristine,
    but that doesn’t mean we are
    striving to form a union that is perfect.
    We are striving to forge a union with purpose,
    to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and
    conditions of man.
    And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
    but what stands before us.
    We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
    we must first put our differences aside.
    We lay down our arms
    so we can reach out our arms
    to one another.
    We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
    Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
    That even as we grieved, we grew;
    that even as we hurt, we hoped;
    that even as we tired, we tried;
    that we’ll forever be tied together, victorious,
    not because we will never again know defeat
    but because we will never again sow division.
    Scripture tells us to envision
    that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
    and no one shall make them afraid.
    If we’re to live up to our own time
    then victory won’t lie in the blade
    but in all the bridges we’ve made.
    That is the promise to glade,
    the hill we climb
    if only we dare it,
    because being American is more than a pride we inherit —
    it’s the past we step into
    and how we repair it.
    We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
    rather than share it
    would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
    And this effort very nearly succeeded.
    But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
    it can never be permanently defeated.
    In this truth,
    in this faith we trust,
    for while we have our eyes on the future,
    history has its eyes on us.
    This is the era of just redemption
    we feared at its inception.
    We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
    of such a terrifying hour
    but within it we found the power
    to author a new chapter,
    to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.
    So while once we asked,
    ‘how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe,’
    now we assert,
    ‘how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’
    We will not march back to what was
    but move to what shall be:
    a country that is bruised but whole,
    benevolent but bold,
    fierce, and free.
    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
    Our blunders become their burdens.
    But one thing is certain:
    If we merge mercy with might,
    and might with right,
    then love becomes our legacy
    and change our children’s birthright.
    So let us leave behind a country
    better than the one we were left with.
    Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
    we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
    We will rise from the gold-limned hills of the west,
    we will rise from the windswept northeast
    where our forefathers first realized revolution,
    we will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
    we will rise from the sunbaked south.
    We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover
    in every known nook of our nation and
    every corner called our country,
    our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
    battered and beautiful.
    When day comes we step out of the shade,
    aflame and unafraid.
    The new dawn blooms as we free it.
    For there is always light,
    if only we’re brave enough to see it,
    if only we’re brave enough to be it.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Giant Duck


    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
    Our blunders become their burdens.
     
    She got that part right.
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Giant Duck

    Glade is a verb now? Division and envision are an identity, not a rhyme.


    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
     
    How true. For us.

    Our blunders become their burdens.
     
    Jennifer Roback Morse put this beautifully: Adults take the cross off their shoulders, only to place it on their children's. She was condemning divorce, outright. That was probably not on Miss Gorman's agenda, let alone her hosts'.


    This girl is a cut or two above Robin Di Maya Angelou.

    Replies: @AndrewR

    , @Bardon Kaldian
    @Giant Duck

    Crap doesn't last. Ask Soviet literary "giants". Ask Herbert Spencer. Ask ...

    , @No jack London
    @Giant Duck

    That's longer than Trump's best speech. The 8 minute inaugural address.

  12. OT – this has to a record for a vicious killer to have picked up a groupie:

    Kentucky woman Brittney Hislope ‘lovesick’ for Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger

    https://nypost.com/2023/02/04/kentucky-woman-is-lovesick-for-idaho-killer-bryan-kohberger/

    Of course in the old days serial-killer groupies were just nuts and were content to be nuts privately. In the internet age, who knows – perhaps she’s just doing it for the publicity. Still nuts though.

  13. W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.

    • Replies: @Muggles
    @ATBOTL


    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.
     
    Though several quick bio sources fail to mention his parents, yes.

    What I glean from Wikipedia's garbled family history is that both of his parents had some European heritage though also African.

    So he is "Obama black" in that sense.

    Interesting.

    He died in Ghana, so an immigrant to Africa at the end, in his later communist incarnation.
    , @Anonymous
    @ATBOTL


    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.
     
    Du Bois was a mixed-race proxy warrior for the Spingarn brothers, two Jewish lawyers from New York City who founded the NAACP.

    https://youtu.be/O_AICBsBeoM
    , @fish
    @ATBOTL

    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.



    Ahhh....didn't vote for Biden then.

  14. College board member in the New York Lies: incoherent and homosexual nonsense.
    Anoymous on 4chan: You actually think the housing market will crash and wipe out all the boomers and you’ll be able to swoop in and buy a home at market value? Think again. They’re already feverishly changing the laws so foreign nationals, mostly from China, can buy up all their over priced real estate with printed money, while you work for an ever deflated wage. They will then donate the money to charity as a last ditch effort to get into heaven and leave you all their worthless Chinese made junk as inheritance. You will NEVER own a home.

  15. Indulging blacks in their fantastical beliefs about history and their role in it has been a massive mistake. I appreciate DeSantis, but we need a lot more people in positions of power to have the courage to say ‘no’ more often.

    • Replies: @mc23
    @Arclight

    I don't see this making anyone happy


    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1622089920645931009?s=20&t=vSDMjK9oyv2X3RTAsiN2oQ

    Replies: @AndrewR, @bomag, @possumman, @Patrick in SC

    , @HammerJack
    @Arclight

    Blacks didn't believe much if any of the current nonsense until they were instructed by our (cultural élite). Yes, ditsy-brained white women did a lot of the damage, but they didn't invent it.

    Review our nation's history in the 20th century and you can see it starting in movies of the 1940s and 50s, then in television shows during the 60s and 70s, and in the Academy during the same period. Newspapers and magazines pretty much the whole time.

    Virtually every single example contains one common thread.

    Replies: @Ron Mexico

  16. @AnotherDad
    At least my man DeSantis is fighting.

    He--and other "conservatives"--need to move beyond "single issuing" this and that piece of nonsense and make the full, clear broad case against minoritarianism, and for the fundamental right of productive normies to live according to our norms and culture--separating if necessary.

    This struggle against genocidal minoritarianism needs to be understood and fought as an existential one.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @J.Ross, @Achmed E. Newman, @Colin Wright

    I am afraid that DeSantis is there specifically to be a dive taker, and I wait for proof otherwise.

  17. Anon[205] • Disclaimer says:

    Apparently there was a school board meeting where someone noted how inflammatory and psychotic Coates’ descriptions of whites were. Chris Hayes had a very recent interview with Coates where they kick things off by briefly discussing that school board meeting (I don’t know the details), and Coates protested that you can take any book and take a line out of context.

  18. If HS students get college credit for AA AP, what courses are they going to take in college?

    • Thanks: HammerJack
  19. Blacks cause problems but a large part of the reason they cause problems is because of policies instituted by white liberals. You need to deal with the white liberal elites in order to solve the black problem. These white liberal elites present themselves as being of superior intelligence and education and therefore justified in ruling over others.

    We need to start by rejecting this. A college degree does not equate to wisdom. If it did, things should have been getting better over the last fifty years as a higher percentage of the American population got such degrees. If it did, we wouldn’t have accumulated a 31 trillion-dollar national debt, have high crime levels, high inflation levels, out of control immigration, declining life expectancy and declining real incomes adjusted for inflation. We need to start valuing people with practical life experience more and move away from educational credentialism in all areas of society.

    • Agree: Nicholas Stix
    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @Mark G.


    Blacks cause problems but a large part of the reason they cause problems is because of policies instituted by white liberals.
     
    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

    (Hey, that rhymes...)

    Replies: @Mark G.

  20. This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” book and Governor DeSantis requires that book to be read in schools.

    As long as there is political hay to be made off of white guilt, activists will continue to push this. And ignoring it, or quietly dropping it from the curriculum will not work. You have to address the issue head on.

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @Father Coughlin


    This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” book
     
    That will be easily dismissed by someone pointing out that lots of white people did lots of bad things throughout recorded history.

    But the simple fact is: so did every other kind of people. It's human nature to do bad, stupid things. But we're not permitted to point that out, because it conflicts with the Ruling Class's agenda. Which is why free speech must be curtailed.

    That's where the rubber meets the road.

    This doesn’t even cover the good things whites have done, for which no other people come remotely close.

    Replies: @Father Coughlin

    , @AndrewR
    @Father Coughlin

    Importing 400,000 black slaves was wrong at the time, and its consequences have been a disaster. Even if all the slave ships were owned by small hats, most slave owners were white. A few rich white men screwed over this country for centuries and counting.

    The way forward isn't to do a mirror image of the "there's nothing wrong with black people" Orwellianism of Ibram X Kendi. It's to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    Replies: @Father Coughlin, @bomag, @Corvinus

    , @Colin Wright
    @Father Coughlin


    'This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” book...'
     
    Don't forget the sequel. Whites Did Everything Good.

    Maybe a 'thank the white man' moment at the start of every school day?
  21. … [College] Board officials tried to assure the crowd that they had not bent to censorious political pressure from the country’s increasingly brazen right wing.

    All those right wingers in charge of Google/Youtube and of America’s college campuses.

    Brazen right winger: “Um, I’m not sure I want a man in a dress telling my 8 year old he’s evil because he’s white and maybe he ought to consider transitioning into a girl.”

    Brazen censorship!

    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
  22. The College Board should substitute Adolph Reed for the apple-polishing shithead Coates, that would be an awesome redeye moon to Times tokens like Mara Gay.

  23. I’d be curious to know the demographics of who is actually taking the Black History AP test. Is it mostly blacks, or mostly woke white kids?

    Either way, if they broke down the test scores by race they would inevitably discover that the white kids are getting all the high AP scores. And then they’d have to write an article about how Black History is yet another example of white supremacy.

    • LOL: Vito Klein, bomag
    • Replies: @40 Lashes Less One
    @Hypnotoad666

    As a stoner, wigger high school student, I probably would have loved AP Afro-history. I assume we'd have watched all three and a half hours of the Malcolm X biopic.

  24. @Arclight
    Indulging blacks in their fantastical beliefs about history and their role in it has been a massive mistake. I appreciate DeSantis, but we need a lot more people in positions of power to have the courage to say 'no' more often.

    Replies: @mc23, @HammerJack

    I don’t see this making anyone happy

    • Thanks: Patrick in SC
    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @mc23

    It's more accurate to call this kosher black supremacism than simple anti-whiteness.

    The part where she silenced the boy talking about the illuminati and the NWO made me almost think this was a satire of wokeness, but in 2023 we know there's no way Disney would allow that.

    Replies: @Adghjjhfddg

    , @bomag
    @mc23


    I don’t see this making anyone happy
     
    Yeah.

    -- an indulging of extremism

    -- drifts into anti-black propaganda: the only thing blacks can hang their hat on is slavery. Nothing else to note. Reflects poorly on their ancestors who were unable to avoid the institution, or actively sold their people into it, were unable to negotiate or fight their way out of it. Only thing left is to beg for reparations. Such a negative message.

    How about, instead of this, we get a cartoon where a reparations study group announces blacks don't need reparations; that they are strong, proud, and quite able to overcome past grievance by their own devices; that not only don't they need payments, they will now all go to pay.gov and regularly donate to reduce the national debt. For the good of all.
    , @possumman
    @mc23

    All farm machinery deserves reparations---John Deere--New Holland - Massey Ferguson-New Idea-etc----every tractor and manure spreader gets a check----Yaaaayyyy

    , @Patrick in SC
    @mc23

    Wow.

    And remember: That is the Disney Corporation. That is not just some guy or gal with a blog or who is ranting on TikTok. That is mainstream woke-ism.

  25. OT — Trump never was a Russian asset, but Biden has been an obvious Chinese asset for years. Chatter: uniformed servicemen are starting to talk about why Bai Dien did not want anything to happen to happen to his boss’s balloon. Not just photographing but seeing through. “Wandering” along where we have weapons cached. And the big guy protected it for days and then lied about it being a regular thing.

  26. @International Jew
    I'll be really impressed if they put Thomas Sowell on the curriculum.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    I’ll be really impressed if they put Thomas Sowell on the curriculum.

    Sowell’s priceless contribution is his concept of vision conflict. “Unconstrained” nails the white progressive mind perfectly. What drives black progs is another question. Ideology? Grift? Emotion? Madness? Voodoo?

    • Replies: @Curle
    @Reg Cæsar

    “What drives black progs is another question. Ideology? Grift? Emotion? Madness? Voodoo?”

    It’s a cult that happens to be useful to financiers.

  27. Tan-Sissy Coates works. Maybe Mara Gay approves?

  28. “So what has made this rather pathetic person so immensely popular with whites?

    The secret behind Coates’ appeal to white liberals is that he’s not very smart. He’s not likely to bring up awkward facts that don’t fit The Narrative. Why not? Because he can’t remember them.”

    HAHAHA! What great writing. Tell us how you really feel, Steve!

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @JimDandy

    https://i.ibb.co/YBvMwD2/Screenshot-20211031-235542-Daily-Mail-Online.jpg

    Replies: @fish

  29. Love the hyperbole.

    Dropping some secondary sources (e.g., Genius T. Coates) and specific topics (e.g., reparations) from an A.P course on African-American History is “Erasing Black History”.

    If only.

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
  30. @AnotherDad
    At least my man DeSantis is fighting.

    He--and other "conservatives"--need to move beyond "single issuing" this and that piece of nonsense and make the full, clear broad case against minoritarianism, and for the fundamental right of productive normies to live according to our norms and culture--separating if necessary.

    This struggle against genocidal minoritarianism needs to be understood and fought as an existential one.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @J.Ross, @Achmed E. Newman, @Colin Wright

    Yes, AD, DeSantis fights, and he wins. They say Ron DeSantis is on the Warpath, like it’s a bad thing.

    • Replies: @neutral
    @Achmed E. Newman

    De Santis is the ultimate cuckservative. His warpath will lead to war against Russia, China and Iran, he is the ZOG dream candidate, which means he is just another anti white nightmare.

  31. I would have no problem placing superlatives next to overrated black so-called masterpieces, provided the word “black” precedes the film/book/artwork reviewed.

  32. Aren’t reparations egalitarian?
    Meaning that every race will have to chip in because we’re all in this together?
    Everybody is supposed to help in the community, it takes a village, and other clichés.

    • Replies: @Adghjjhfddg
    @Viva Ramon Mercader

    No. As Steve has pointed out, there are schemes to pay for reparations primarily with estate taxes, mansion taxes, wealth taxes, other luxury taxes that will disproportionately burden whites, mostly sparing blacks. As Steve has further noted, one reason for the emphasis on “equity” in DIE is that they want the EQUIY in our homes, savings, and investments

  33. In the debate over this course, the assumption by many writers has been that this will be a course for blacks. I think that many of the seats in the room will be filled by whites, burnishing their wokeness credentials for college applications. The admissions committees will know that the students are not sincere in their interest in the subject matter, but the important thing to Admissions will be that these students are taking a knee; as we need to admit some white guys, let it at least be these capitulating ones.

    The upshot will be that thousands of white students will feel compelled to take this unendurable course. High-IQ whites feel obliged to sit there looking fascinated; nodding open-mouthed in wonderment agreement; fastidiously writing every word the teacher says. But the most galling part will be knowing their black colleagues taking the course can kick-back and get the A grades. The whites will work very hard to get an A-minus so that this course does not destroy their GPA. This will reduce time they could be spending on other courses.

  34. OT — Has anyone outside the midwest been able to follow the East Palestine, Ohio situation?

    • Replies: @Known Fact
    @J.Ross

    That train derailment and evacuation? Hadn't heard a word, with everyone watching the balloon, and now that awful earthquake

    , @Known Fact
    @J.Ross

    It seems to be mostly poor white people, so that might explain why so little national media

    , @Gabe Ruth
    @J.Ross

    I don't watch the news so not really relevant to your question, but I hadn't heard anything about the train accident. Read the CNN story, messaging seems a little weird. No one can return to the 1 mile evacuation zone for the foreseeable future?

  35. @Reg Cæsar
    @International Jew


    I’ll be really impressed if they put Thomas Sowell on the curriculum.
     
    Sowell's priceless contribution is his concept of vision conflict. "Unconstrained" nails the white progressive mind perfectly. What drives black progs is another question. Ideology? Grift? Emotion? Madness? Voodoo?

    Replies: @Curle

    “What drives black progs is another question. Ideology? Grift? Emotion? Madness? Voodoo?”

    It’s a cult that happens to be useful to financiers.

  36. @Mark G.
    Blacks cause problems but a large part of the reason they cause problems is because of policies instituted by white liberals. You need to deal with the white liberal elites in order to solve the black problem. These white liberal elites present themselves as being of superior intelligence and education and therefore justified in ruling over others.

    We need to start by rejecting this. A college degree does not equate to wisdom. If it did, things should have been getting better over the last fifty years as a higher percentage of the American population got such degrees. If it did, we wouldn't have accumulated a 31 trillion-dollar national debt, have high crime levels, high inflation levels, out of control immigration, declining life expectancy and declining real incomes adjusted for inflation. We need to start valuing people with practical life experience more and move away from educational credentialism in all areas of society.

    Replies: @AceDeuce

    Blacks cause problems but a large part of the reason they cause problems is because of policies instituted by white liberals.

    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

    (Hey, that rhymes…)

    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @AceDeuce


    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

     

    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties? That can't be explained by genetics alone because there wouldn't be such a large genetic shift in such a short period of time.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Jamsportle, @AceDeuce

  37. @Daniel Williams

    They downgraded the study of Black Lives Matter, of reparations, of queer life and of incarceration.
     
    I’d like to read how these subjects were originally presented to high schoolers in the un-DeSanitized version of the course.

    Is it just, “Reparations: White people won’t pay them because they stingy. Incarceration: White people lock up innocent Blacks out of envy and racist hatred. Etc. Etc.”?

    Or do they try to dazzle the adolescents with academic mumbojumbo and doubletalk?

    Replies: @HammerJack, @Hibernian

    “A little from Column A….”

  38. @Arclight
    Indulging blacks in their fantastical beliefs about history and their role in it has been a massive mistake. I appreciate DeSantis, but we need a lot more people in positions of power to have the courage to say 'no' more often.

    Replies: @mc23, @HammerJack

    Blacks didn’t believe much if any of the current nonsense until they were instructed by our (cultural élite). Yes, ditsy-brained white women did a lot of the damage, but they didn’t invent it.

    Review our nation’s history in the 20th century and you can see it starting in movies of the 1940s and 50s, then in television shows during the 60s and 70s, and in the Academy during the same period. Newspapers and magazines pretty much the whole time.

    Virtually every single example contains one common thread.

    • Replies: @Ron Mexico
    @HammerJack

    "Virtually every single example contains one common thread." The Norman Lear's of the world?

  39. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism.

    A guy who wanted to stop clapping. Tsk.

    He didn’t get the memo: all efforts are to cram the zeitgeist into film and film criticism.

  40. @Matthew Kelly

    Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board.
     
    I'm so confused. Is "Gay" her name, her pronoun, her sexual orientation, all of the above, a & b but not C, etc.?

    I didn't read her essay past that.

    Replies: @bomag

    I figured it was her state of mind. Not that one; the happy, jovial one.

  41. @Father Coughlin
    This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, "Whites Did Nothing Wrong" book and Governor DeSantis requires that book to be read in schools.

    As long as there is political hay to be made off of white guilt, activists will continue to push this. And ignoring it, or quietly dropping it from the curriculum will not work. You have to address the issue head on.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @AndrewR, @Colin Wright

    This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” book

    That will be easily dismissed by someone pointing out that lots of white people did lots of bad things throughout recorded history.

    But the simple fact is: so did every other kind of people. It’s human nature to do bad, stupid things. But we’re not permitted to point that out, because it conflicts with the Ruling Class’s agenda. Which is why free speech must be curtailed.

    That’s where the rubber meets the road.

    This doesn’t even cover the good things whites have done, for which no other people come remotely close.

    • Agree: bomag
    • Replies: @Father Coughlin
    @HammerJack

    “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” is shorthand for "There is no cognizable claim against whites, and any claim that might be cognizable, fails". I thought that title might be a bit long for purposes of an Unz comment black.

  42. @Giant Duck
    Coates and Kendi seem like disciplined thinkers compared to the most-overrated-of-them-all, the poet Amanda Gorman, who read one of her high-school-drama-club level works at Biden's inauguration:



    ‘The Hill We Climb’

    When day comes we ask ourselves,
    ‘where can we find light in this never-ending shade,’
    the loss we carry,
    a sea we must wade?
    We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
    We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
    and the norms and notions
    of what just is
    isn’t always just-ice.
    And yet the dawn is ours
    before we knew it,
    somehow we do it.
    Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
    a nation that isn’t broken
    but simply unfinished.
    We, the successors of a country and a time
    where a skinny Black girl
    descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
    can dream of becoming president
    only to find herself reciting for one.
    And yes, we are far from polished,
    far from pristine,
    but that doesn’t mean we are
    striving to form a union that is perfect.
    We are striving to forge a union with purpose,
    to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and
    conditions of man.
    And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
    but what stands before us.
    We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
    we must first put our differences aside.
    We lay down our arms
    so we can reach out our arms
    to one another.
    We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
    Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
    That even as we grieved, we grew;
    that even as we hurt, we hoped;
    that even as we tired, we tried;
    that we’ll forever be tied together, victorious,
    not because we will never again know defeat
    but because we will never again sow division.
    Scripture tells us to envision
    that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
    and no one shall make them afraid.
    If we’re to live up to our own time
    then victory won’t lie in the blade
    but in all the bridges we’ve made.
    That is the promise to glade,
    the hill we climb
    if only we dare it,
    because being American is more than a pride we inherit —
    it’s the past we step into
    and how we repair it.
    We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
    rather than share it
    would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
    And this effort very nearly succeeded.
    But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
    it can never be permanently defeated.
    In this truth,
    in this faith we trust,
    for while we have our eyes on the future,
    history has its eyes on us.
    This is the era of just redemption
    we feared at its inception.
    We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
    of such a terrifying hour
    but within it we found the power
    to author a new chapter,
    to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.
    So while once we asked,
    ‘how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe,’
    now we assert,
    ‘how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’
    We will not march back to what was
    but move to what shall be:
    a country that is bruised but whole,
    benevolent but bold,
    fierce, and free.
    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
    Our blunders become their burdens.
    But one thing is certain:
    If we merge mercy with might,
    and might with right,
    then love becomes our legacy
    and change our children’s birthright.
    So let us leave behind a country
    better than the one we were left with.
    Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
    we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
    We will rise from the gold-limned hills of the west,
    we will rise from the windswept northeast
    where our forefathers first realized revolution,
    we will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
    we will rise from the sunbaked south.
    We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover
    in every known nook of our nation and
    every corner called our country,
    our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
    battered and beautiful.
    When day comes we step out of the shade,
    aflame and unafraid.
    The new dawn blooms as we free it.
    For there is always light,
    if only we’re brave enough to see it,
    if only we’re brave enough to be it.

    Replies: @bomag, @Reg Cæsar, @Bardon Kaldian, @No jack London

    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
    Our blunders become their burdens.

    She got that part right.

  43. @JimDandy
    "So what has made this rather pathetic person so immensely popular with whites?

    The secret behind Coates’ appeal to white liberals is that he’s not very smart. He’s not likely to bring up awkward facts that don’t fit The Narrative. Why not? Because he can’t remember them."

    HAHAHA! What great writing. Tell us how you really feel, Steve!

    Replies: @HammerJack

    • Thanks: JimDandy
    • Replies: @fish
    @HammerJack

    it isn't possible that someone who looks that ridiculous can have such an impact on society!

  44. @Achmed E. Newman
    @AnotherDad

    Yes, AD, DeSantis fights, and he wins. They say Ron DeSantis is on the Warpath, like it's a bad thing.

    Replies: @neutral

    De Santis is the ultimate cuckservative. His warpath will lead to war against Russia, China and Iran, he is the ZOG dream candidate, which means he is just another anti white nightmare.

    • Disagree: Achmed E. Newman
  45. @AndrewR
    @AnotherDad

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous, @James Forrestal, @Cato, @Art Deco

    Take your BDS BS on back to Beirut, Bin Ladin.

    Nothing more based than high fertility nationalist whites colonizing brown lands. But you side with Islamic barbarism. Sad.

    • LOL: Gabe Ruth
    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @Pixo

    Please tell me you're trolling

    , @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Pixo

    Are you the cringe commenter formerly known as Lot ? Very similar content to him.

    Lot’s last comment: June 1, 2021

    Pixo’s first comment: June 2, 2021

    Cohencidence?

    , @SFG
    @Pixo

    I’m fine with the second bit, but Americans aren’t obligated to defend any country other than the USA unless it’s in our genuine national interest (which of course you would claim it was)…

    , @anonymous
    @Pixo

    Strange position for someone supposedly supporting white racial interests to take.

  46. @AceDeuce
    @Mark G.


    Blacks cause problems but a large part of the reason they cause problems is because of policies instituted by white liberals.
     
    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

    (Hey, that rhymes...)

    Replies: @Mark G.

    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties? That can’t be explained by genetics alone because there wouldn’t be such a large genetic shift in such a short period of time.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Mark G.


    ...then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties?
     
    Not to mention white. Bastardy went up four- or fivefold among us, too, to reach 1960's Negro level.

    That can’t be explained by genetics alone because there wouldn’t be such a large genetic shift in such a short period of time.
     
    Exactly. For both races.
    , @Jamsportle
    @Mark G.

    Back in the 1950's, Los Angeles police Chief Parker pointed out that the Black homicide rate was ten times the White rate, and had been so for a long time. The usual Black on Black stuff. What happened in the 1960's is that, without the threat of lynch mobs, Blacks began reaching out to other communities. The problems were always there, we just stopped seriously trying to contain them.

    -Discard

    , @AceDeuce
    @Mark G.


    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties?
     
    Hurr-ka! Durr-ka! iT's AlL wYpIpO's FaUlT!

    So, White liberals implemented government mandates that required negroes to commit crimes and have out of wedlock babies? Was that like some house to house campaign, where they compelled the previously saintly negroes to do these heinous things at the point of a bayonet, or was it just a signed, sealed law of the land type directive?


    "Oh, Lawdy, Massa Lyndon! I'z jes' wantin' to study my calculus book in peace while listenin' to muh Mozart record up in heah'. Why comes you makes me rob de convenience sto' and shoots de' clerk? Den', y'all makin' me knock Fu'snickia up and has her have a bastard chil' ? Oh, Jeebus, carry me home! I'z don' wanna live dis' way!"

    Replies: @Mark G., @AndrewR

  47. Our old homie dawg Ta-Nehisi
    Comes across as rather bisi.
    Thus he annoys
    normie girls and boys,
    but he really impresses his pisi.

    For this to work, you have to know how he says his name:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Nehisi_Coates

    The views of one Ibram X Kendi
    are becoming increasingly trendi.
    The cost of the nation’s
    forthcoming reparations
    are bound to be frighteningly spendi.

    • Replies: @the one they call Desanex
    @Reg Cæsar

    Sad! AF! And you stole my rhymes Kendi, trendy, and spendy.
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/dont-count-out-tnc-in-the-race-grift-race/#comment-4293868

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  48. @Giant Duck
    Coates and Kendi seem like disciplined thinkers compared to the most-overrated-of-them-all, the poet Amanda Gorman, who read one of her high-school-drama-club level works at Biden's inauguration:



    ‘The Hill We Climb’

    When day comes we ask ourselves,
    ‘where can we find light in this never-ending shade,’
    the loss we carry,
    a sea we must wade?
    We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
    We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
    and the norms and notions
    of what just is
    isn’t always just-ice.
    And yet the dawn is ours
    before we knew it,
    somehow we do it.
    Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
    a nation that isn’t broken
    but simply unfinished.
    We, the successors of a country and a time
    where a skinny Black girl
    descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
    can dream of becoming president
    only to find herself reciting for one.
    And yes, we are far from polished,
    far from pristine,
    but that doesn’t mean we are
    striving to form a union that is perfect.
    We are striving to forge a union with purpose,
    to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and
    conditions of man.
    And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
    but what stands before us.
    We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
    we must first put our differences aside.
    We lay down our arms
    so we can reach out our arms
    to one another.
    We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
    Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
    That even as we grieved, we grew;
    that even as we hurt, we hoped;
    that even as we tired, we tried;
    that we’ll forever be tied together, victorious,
    not because we will never again know defeat
    but because we will never again sow division.
    Scripture tells us to envision
    that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
    and no one shall make them afraid.
    If we’re to live up to our own time
    then victory won’t lie in the blade
    but in all the bridges we’ve made.
    That is the promise to glade,
    the hill we climb
    if only we dare it,
    because being American is more than a pride we inherit —
    it’s the past we step into
    and how we repair it.
    We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
    rather than share it
    would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
    And this effort very nearly succeeded.
    But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
    it can never be permanently defeated.
    In this truth,
    in this faith we trust,
    for while we have our eyes on the future,
    history has its eyes on us.
    This is the era of just redemption
    we feared at its inception.
    We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
    of such a terrifying hour
    but within it we found the power
    to author a new chapter,
    to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.
    So while once we asked,
    ‘how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe,’
    now we assert,
    ‘how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’
    We will not march back to what was
    but move to what shall be:
    a country that is bruised but whole,
    benevolent but bold,
    fierce, and free.
    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
    Our blunders become their burdens.
    But one thing is certain:
    If we merge mercy with might,
    and might with right,
    then love becomes our legacy
    and change our children’s birthright.
    So let us leave behind a country
    better than the one we were left with.
    Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
    we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
    We will rise from the gold-limned hills of the west,
    we will rise from the windswept northeast
    where our forefathers first realized revolution,
    we will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
    we will rise from the sunbaked south.
    We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover
    in every known nook of our nation and
    every corner called our country,
    our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
    battered and beautiful.
    When day comes we step out of the shade,
    aflame and unafraid.
    The new dawn blooms as we free it.
    For there is always light,
    if only we’re brave enough to see it,
    if only we’re brave enough to be it.

    Replies: @bomag, @Reg Cæsar, @Bardon Kaldian, @No jack London

    Glade is a verb now? Division and envision are an identity, not a rhyme.

    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.

    How true. For us.

    Our blunders become their burdens.

    Jennifer Roback Morse put this beautifully: Adults take the cross off their shoulders, only to place it on their children’s. She was condemning divorce, outright. That was probably not on Miss Gorman’s agenda, let alone her hosts’.

    This girl is a cut or two above Robin Di Maya Angelou.

    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @Reg Cæsar

    In many (if not most) cases, it's more harmful for a child to live in a house with two parents who hate each other than it is for the parents to split up. Ultimately the problem is twofold:

    1. Far too many people don't do their "due diligence" when it comes to choosing a mate. My parents married in 1964 when cohabitation wasn't really a thing. My mom told me shortly before she died that she wouldn't have married my dad had they lived together before marriage. Not the most pleasant thing to hear from one's mother, but I respected her honesty. And frankly it would have prevented a lot of problems, both in her life and in the lives of the kids she wouldn't have created. It probably would have made my dad's life better but probably not too much because he's pretty oblivious to almost everything.


    2. Once people do marry, they often don't want to work hard enough to maintain marital harmony. In many cases, neither spouse does. In others, one spouse does and the other doesn't. But it can be done if both spouses are willing to compromise enough.

    My parents had a very rough spell during their third decade of marriage. My mother wrote him a letter (which I didn't find until after she had died) telling him she didn't love him anymore and she wanted a separation. I don't know what he did in response but, soon after she gave him that letter, their marriage did get better. They started sleeping in the same bed again for the first time in years. This lasted until she passed away 20 years later. But unfortunately she still wished that she hadn't married him.

    I've never been married and I am childfree. Part of me wants a wife and kids but I don't feel like I need it. Religious people and the "we need more white babies" crowd often judge me for this but I don't care. The world is overpopulated, and I don't need to risk all the terrible things that can result from marriage and parenthood.

    Replies: @Jamsportle, @Reg Cæsar

  49. @Mark G.
    @AceDeuce


    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

     

    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties? That can't be explained by genetics alone because there wouldn't be such a large genetic shift in such a short period of time.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Jamsportle, @AceDeuce

    …then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties?

    Not to mention white. Bastardy went up four- or fivefold among us, too, to reach 1960’s Negro level.

    That can’t be explained by genetics alone because there wouldn’t be such a large genetic shift in such a short period of time.

    Exactly. For both races.

  50. @Pixo
    @AndrewR

    Take your BDS BS on back to Beirut, Bin Ladin.

    https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/USA-Israel-Eagle-has-landed.jpg

    Nothing more based than high fertility nationalist whites colonizing brown lands. But you side with Islamic barbarism. Sad.

    https://w3.chabad.org/media/images/235/dTaY2356687.jpg

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @SFG, @anonymous

    Please tell me you’re trolling

  51. @Father Coughlin
    This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, "Whites Did Nothing Wrong" book and Governor DeSantis requires that book to be read in schools.

    As long as there is political hay to be made off of white guilt, activists will continue to push this. And ignoring it, or quietly dropping it from the curriculum will not work. You have to address the issue head on.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @AndrewR, @Colin Wright

    Importing 400,000 black slaves was wrong at the time, and its consequences have been a disaster. Even if all the slave ships were owned by small hats, most slave owners were white. A few rich white men screwed over this country for centuries and counting.

    The way forward isn’t to do a mirror image of the “there’s nothing wrong with black people” Orwellianism of Ibram X Kendi. It’s to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    • Thanks: Gore 2004
    • Replies: @Father Coughlin
    @AndrewR

    It doesn't have to be Orwellian. Defendants are acquitted in civil court every single day. And it's not because nothing unfortunate or untoward happened.

    , @bomag
    @AndrewR


    The way forward is to acknowledge the truth
     
    Yes, but with modern travel and language games it comes to all nice places: what to do with a grifter and parasite class that shows up and demands recompense for differing abilities? Probably should have kept cultivating a stricter ethnic consciousness: a reservation system for us all.
    , @Corvinus
    @AndrewR

    “It’s to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries”

    This is the truth— A bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately European, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    To the topic at hand, it was selection by omission by Mr. Sailer. He knows there are other more notable and worthy black intellectuals today. But it makes no difference if you or I or he feel that Coates or Hooks are hacks. I thought he and you were a champion of freedom of speech. Why is DeSantis ordering the whitewashing of history?

    Replies: @Colin Wright

  52. Segues nicely from the previous piece about the impact of black neighbourhood violence on young black brains. Coates’ brain makes the case that damage is permanent (if afflicted on top of a vacuum).

  53. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    Like the Twilight Zone episode with Billy Mumy where everyone loved everything he did lest they be sent into the cornfield.

  54. @HammerJack
    @Arclight

    Blacks didn't believe much if any of the current nonsense until they were instructed by our (cultural élite). Yes, ditsy-brained white women did a lot of the damage, but they didn't invent it.

    Review our nation's history in the 20th century and you can see it starting in movies of the 1940s and 50s, then in television shows during the 60s and 70s, and in the Academy during the same period. Newspapers and magazines pretty much the whole time.

    Virtually every single example contains one common thread.

    Replies: @Ron Mexico

    “Virtually every single example contains one common thread.” The Norman Lear’s of the world?

  55. @Giant Duck
    Coates and Kendi seem like disciplined thinkers compared to the most-overrated-of-them-all, the poet Amanda Gorman, who read one of her high-school-drama-club level works at Biden's inauguration:



    ‘The Hill We Climb’

    When day comes we ask ourselves,
    ‘where can we find light in this never-ending shade,’
    the loss we carry,
    a sea we must wade?
    We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
    We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
    and the norms and notions
    of what just is
    isn’t always just-ice.
    And yet the dawn is ours
    before we knew it,
    somehow we do it.
    Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
    a nation that isn’t broken
    but simply unfinished.
    We, the successors of a country and a time
    where a skinny Black girl
    descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
    can dream of becoming president
    only to find herself reciting for one.
    And yes, we are far from polished,
    far from pristine,
    but that doesn’t mean we are
    striving to form a union that is perfect.
    We are striving to forge a union with purpose,
    to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and
    conditions of man.
    And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
    but what stands before us.
    We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
    we must first put our differences aside.
    We lay down our arms
    so we can reach out our arms
    to one another.
    We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
    Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
    That even as we grieved, we grew;
    that even as we hurt, we hoped;
    that even as we tired, we tried;
    that we’ll forever be tied together, victorious,
    not because we will never again know defeat
    but because we will never again sow division.
    Scripture tells us to envision
    that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
    and no one shall make them afraid.
    If we’re to live up to our own time
    then victory won’t lie in the blade
    but in all the bridges we’ve made.
    That is the promise to glade,
    the hill we climb
    if only we dare it,
    because being American is more than a pride we inherit —
    it’s the past we step into
    and how we repair it.
    We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
    rather than share it
    would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
    And this effort very nearly succeeded.
    But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
    it can never be permanently defeated.
    In this truth,
    in this faith we trust,
    for while we have our eyes on the future,
    history has its eyes on us.
    This is the era of just redemption
    we feared at its inception.
    We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
    of such a terrifying hour
    but within it we found the power
    to author a new chapter,
    to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.
    So while once we asked,
    ‘how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe,’
    now we assert,
    ‘how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’
    We will not march back to what was
    but move to what shall be:
    a country that is bruised but whole,
    benevolent but bold,
    fierce, and free.
    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
    Our blunders become their burdens.
    But one thing is certain:
    If we merge mercy with might,
    and might with right,
    then love becomes our legacy
    and change our children’s birthright.
    So let us leave behind a country
    better than the one we were left with.
    Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
    we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
    We will rise from the gold-limned hills of the west,
    we will rise from the windswept northeast
    where our forefathers first realized revolution,
    we will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
    we will rise from the sunbaked south.
    We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover
    in every known nook of our nation and
    every corner called our country,
    our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
    battered and beautiful.
    When day comes we step out of the shade,
    aflame and unafraid.
    The new dawn blooms as we free it.
    For there is always light,
    if only we’re brave enough to see it,
    if only we’re brave enough to be it.

    Replies: @bomag, @Reg Cæsar, @Bardon Kaldian, @No jack London

    Crap doesn’t last. Ask Soviet literary “giants”. Ask Herbert Spencer. Ask …

  56. But what are those bell hooks?
    Something to do with bell curves? With hooked noses six roubles each? Confused..

  57. @mc23
    @Arclight

    I don't see this making anyone happy


    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1622089920645931009?s=20&t=vSDMjK9oyv2X3RTAsiN2oQ

    Replies: @AndrewR, @bomag, @possumman, @Patrick in SC

    It’s more accurate to call this kosher black supremacism than simple anti-whiteness.

    The part where she silenced the boy talking about the illuminati and the NWO made me almost think this was a satire of wokeness, but in 2023 we know there’s no way Disney would allow that.

    • Replies: @Adghjjhfddg
    @AndrewR

    That scene hinted at, played with, and quickly dismissed black conspiracy lunacy and antisemitism, and anti-whiteness, while affirming the Left’s mandate to censor dissent

  58. @Giant Duck
    Coates and Kendi seem like disciplined thinkers compared to the most-overrated-of-them-all, the poet Amanda Gorman, who read one of her high-school-drama-club level works at Biden's inauguration:



    ‘The Hill We Climb’

    When day comes we ask ourselves,
    ‘where can we find light in this never-ending shade,’
    the loss we carry,
    a sea we must wade?
    We’ve braved the belly of the beast.
    We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace,
    and the norms and notions
    of what just is
    isn’t always just-ice.
    And yet the dawn is ours
    before we knew it,
    somehow we do it.
    Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
    a nation that isn’t broken
    but simply unfinished.
    We, the successors of a country and a time
    where a skinny Black girl
    descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
    can dream of becoming president
    only to find herself reciting for one.
    And yes, we are far from polished,
    far from pristine,
    but that doesn’t mean we are
    striving to form a union that is perfect.
    We are striving to forge a union with purpose,
    to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and
    conditions of man.
    And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
    but what stands before us.
    We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
    we must first put our differences aside.
    We lay down our arms
    so we can reach out our arms
    to one another.
    We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
    Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
    That even as we grieved, we grew;
    that even as we hurt, we hoped;
    that even as we tired, we tried;
    that we’ll forever be tied together, victorious,
    not because we will never again know defeat
    but because we will never again sow division.
    Scripture tells us to envision
    that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
    and no one shall make them afraid.
    If we’re to live up to our own time
    then victory won’t lie in the blade
    but in all the bridges we’ve made.
    That is the promise to glade,
    the hill we climb
    if only we dare it,
    because being American is more than a pride we inherit —
    it’s the past we step into
    and how we repair it.
    We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
    rather than share it
    would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
    And this effort very nearly succeeded.
    But while democracy can be periodically delayed,
    it can never be permanently defeated.
    In this truth,
    in this faith we trust,
    for while we have our eyes on the future,
    history has its eyes on us.
    This is the era of just redemption
    we feared at its inception.
    We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
    of such a terrifying hour
    but within it we found the power
    to author a new chapter,
    to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.
    So while once we asked,
    ‘how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe,’
    now we assert,
    ‘how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?’
    We will not march back to what was
    but move to what shall be:
    a country that is bruised but whole,
    benevolent but bold,
    fierce, and free.
    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
    Our blunders become their burdens.
    But one thing is certain:
    If we merge mercy with might,
    and might with right,
    then love becomes our legacy
    and change our children’s birthright.
    So let us leave behind a country
    better than the one we were left with.
    Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
    we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
    We will rise from the gold-limned hills of the west,
    we will rise from the windswept northeast
    where our forefathers first realized revolution,
    we will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
    we will rise from the sunbaked south.
    We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover
    in every known nook of our nation and
    every corner called our country,
    our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
    battered and beautiful.
    When day comes we step out of the shade,
    aflame and unafraid.
    The new dawn blooms as we free it.
    For there is always light,
    if only we’re brave enough to see it,
    if only we’re brave enough to be it.

    Replies: @bomag, @Reg Cæsar, @Bardon Kaldian, @No jack London

    That’s longer than Trump’s best speech. The 8 minute inaugural address.

  59. @Reg Cæsar
    @Giant Duck

    Glade is a verb now? Division and envision are an identity, not a rhyme.


    We will not be turned around
    or interrupted by intimidation
    because we know our inaction and inertia
    will be the inheritance of the next generation.
     
    How true. For us.

    Our blunders become their burdens.
     
    Jennifer Roback Morse put this beautifully: Adults take the cross off their shoulders, only to place it on their children's. She was condemning divorce, outright. That was probably not on Miss Gorman's agenda, let alone her hosts'.


    This girl is a cut or two above Robin Di Maya Angelou.

    Replies: @AndrewR

    In many (if not most) cases, it’s more harmful for a child to live in a house with two parents who hate each other than it is for the parents to split up. Ultimately the problem is twofold:

    1. Far too many people don’t do their “due diligence” when it comes to choosing a mate. My parents married in 1964 when cohabitation wasn’t really a thing. My mom told me shortly before she died that she wouldn’t have married my dad had they lived together before marriage. Not the most pleasant thing to hear from one’s mother, but I respected her honesty. And frankly it would have prevented a lot of problems, both in her life and in the lives of the kids she wouldn’t have created. It probably would have made my dad’s life better but probably not too much because he’s pretty oblivious to almost everything.

    2. Once people do marry, they often don’t want to work hard enough to maintain marital harmony. In many cases, neither spouse does. In others, one spouse does and the other doesn’t. But it can be done if both spouses are willing to compromise enough.

    My parents had a very rough spell during their third decade of marriage. My mother wrote him a letter (which I didn’t find until after she had died) telling him she didn’t love him anymore and she wanted a separation. I don’t know what he did in response but, soon after she gave him that letter, their marriage did get better. They started sleeping in the same bed again for the first time in years. This lasted until she passed away 20 years later. But unfortunately she still wished that she hadn’t married him.

    I’ve never been married and I am childfree. Part of me wants a wife and kids but I don’t feel like I need it. Religious people and the “we need more white babies” crowd often judge me for this but I don’t care. The world is overpopulated, and I don’t need to risk all the terrible things that can result from marriage and parenthood.

    • Replies: @Jamsportle
    @AndrewR

    The world is not overpopulated with capable honest people. The more of them, the better.

    You are a coward. Good that you've not reproduced.

    -Discard

    Replies: @AndrewR

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @AndrewR


    In many (if not most) cases, it’s more harmful for a child to live in a house with two parents who hate each other than it is for the parents to split up.
     
    Not most. Research has shown that this is not true of low-conflict marriages. Dr Morse at the Ruth Institute calls this assumption part of "Divorce Fantasy World". Judith Wallerstein did a longitudinal study which backs this up.

    Nicki King at the Howard Center (right next door to the Rockford Institute) has made a career of collating such research. They want you to subscribe to read it, but fortunately much of it is cross-posted on the Sydney-based Mercatornet.com.

    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/page/3/
    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/
    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/page/6/

    "Staying together for the sake of the children" was ancient wisdom. Marriage is-- or was-- about duty. Love is what followed. Perhaps that is why arranged marriages fare better.

    Sucking it up was part of being an adult.


    https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/p/peterdrucker/120334/peterdrucker1-2x.jpg

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

  60. “the country’s increasingly brazen right wing”

    The sheer effrontery of it all! Why don’t they know their place?

    Mara Gay, the comical commissar:

  61. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    “He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film”

    Well that’s certainly a silly idea. Doesn’t he know that EVERY black man is Superman? Doesn’t he watch TV commercials? Doesn’t he read his own books? Wait a second, don’t answer that one.

  62. @AndrewR
    @Father Coughlin

    Importing 400,000 black slaves was wrong at the time, and its consequences have been a disaster. Even if all the slave ships were owned by small hats, most slave owners were white. A few rich white men screwed over this country for centuries and counting.

    The way forward isn't to do a mirror image of the "there's nothing wrong with black people" Orwellianism of Ibram X Kendi. It's to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    Replies: @Father Coughlin, @bomag, @Corvinus

    It doesn’t have to be Orwellian. Defendants are acquitted in civil court every single day. And it’s not because nothing unfortunate or untoward happened.

  63. @HammerJack
    @Father Coughlin


    This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” book
     
    That will be easily dismissed by someone pointing out that lots of white people did lots of bad things throughout recorded history.

    But the simple fact is: so did every other kind of people. It's human nature to do bad, stupid things. But we're not permitted to point that out, because it conflicts with the Ruling Class's agenda. Which is why free speech must be curtailed.

    That's where the rubber meets the road.

    This doesn’t even cover the good things whites have done, for which no other people come remotely close.

    Replies: @Father Coughlin

    “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” is shorthand for “There is no cognizable claim against whites, and any claim that might be cognizable, fails”. I thought that title might be a bit long for purposes of an Unz comment black.

  64. @Reg Cæsar
    Our old homie dawg Ta-Nehisi
    Comes across as rather bisi.
    Thus he annoys
    normie girls and boys,
    but he really impresses his pisi.



    For this to work, you have to know how he says his name:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Nehisi_Coates


    The views of one Ibram X Kendi
    are becoming increasingly trendi.
    The cost of the nation's
    forthcoming reparations
    are bound to be frighteningly spendi.

    Replies: @the one they call Desanex

    Sad! AF! And you stole my rhymes Kendi, trendy, and spendy.
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/dont-count-out-tnc-in-the-race-grift-race/#comment-4293868

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @the one they call Desanex

    "Wendy" didn't fit anywhere. There weren't many alternatives.

  65. @mc23
    @Arclight

    I don't see this making anyone happy


    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1622089920645931009?s=20&t=vSDMjK9oyv2X3RTAsiN2oQ

    Replies: @AndrewR, @bomag, @possumman, @Patrick in SC

    I don’t see this making anyone happy

    Yeah.

    — an indulging of extremism

    — drifts into anti-black propaganda: the only thing blacks can hang their hat on is slavery. Nothing else to note. Reflects poorly on their ancestors who were unable to avoid the institution, or actively sold their people into it, were unable to negotiate or fight their way out of it. Only thing left is to beg for reparations. Such a negative message.

    How about, instead of this, we get a cartoon where a reparations study group announces blacks don’t need reparations; that they are strong, proud, and quite able to overcome past grievance by their own devices; that not only don’t they need payments, they will now all go to pay.gov and regularly donate to reduce the national debt. For the good of all.

  66. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    I figured he would never get the Superman script done, but Coates doesn’t seem to be producing any content at all right now. This is the first time I have heard his name mentioned in over a year. He hasn’t been contributing to The Atlantic either. Is he starting to fade away?

    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @Barnard

    (Are you now again permitting me to comment, Ron, or is it back to the game you played last night, of limiting me to one “agree” once on one article, before telling me (on a new article, on which I hadn’t commented) that I was “posting comments too quickly”?)

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is a very lazy man. He never does any research, has no intellectual curiosity, and steals the work of racial socialist Whites. For instance, he ripped off his redlining shtick from White, racial socialist professor Thomas Sugrue.

    He also has zero tolerance for disagreement. His comment threads at his atlantic blog were comprised of White “allies” who relentlessly sucked up to him. One time, a White reader mildly disagreed with him, but opened his comment with so much sucking up to him that Coates didn’t even seem to notice the mild disagreement that followed.

    I once disagreed with him. He blocked my comment, permablocked me at his blog, and had me permablocked on the entire atlantic site.

    I guess that explains the tone of subservience at his blog—he blocked and permablocked anyone who failed to bow down to him.

    Eventually, however, even White subservience proved to be insufficient for him, and he abolished all commenting.

    That’s the mentality of black supremacism—first, reduce all Whites to yea-saying slaves, then silence them all, then kill them all.

    Replies: @International Jew, @Achmed E. Newman

  67. @mc23
    @Arclight

    I don't see this making anyone happy


    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1622089920645931009?s=20&t=vSDMjK9oyv2X3RTAsiN2oQ

    Replies: @AndrewR, @bomag, @possumman, @Patrick in SC

    All farm machinery deserves reparations—John Deere–New Holland – Massey Ferguson-New Idea-etc—-every tractor and manure spreader gets a check—-Yaaaayyyy

  68. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    In other words, he sleeps with the fishes.

  69. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    Steve has mentioned this film, but it doesn’t look like he reviewed it. How important can it be?

    Who wants to watch black homos for 11 minutes, let alone 111?

    • LOL: BB753
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Reg Cæsar

    IIRC (2016 was a long time ago), Moonlight was important because 2016 was a Special Year for Black People in Hollywood. I forget why - maybe this was the year when Hollywood would finally give Black People the Recognition that They Deserve. But then it turns out that every year is a Special Year for Black People and the Recognition that They Deserve is to win 100% of all awards, so that anything less than 100% is Racism. And then Hollywood got bored with the fashion of giving Black People (who are also Gay - DOUBLE Pokemon Points!) the Recognition that They Deserve and instead decided to give Transexuals the Recognition that They Deserve instead. Anyway, giving Black People the Recognition that They Deserve culminated with two black guys getting in a fist fight on live TV before a (ever shrinking) world wide audience. So much for that.

    Last night at the end of the Grammies they had some sort of pointless long rap song sung by about 8 different black male singers - it occurred to me that if they tried this with white men it would be Racist and Hell to Pay. The black men sat at an endlessly long banquet table that was overflowing with piles of food and swigged champagne. I mean literally tons of food - I've never seen that much food in my life. I think the message is that Blacks are Kangz and deserve Royal Banquets. I suppose that once blacks get their $5 million checks, this will be what the dinner table will look like in every black home. I'll bet that Henry VIII or Louis XIV didn't have that much food on their tables, certainly not all that fresh fruit in February. The only thing I could think of as I watched this is that I hoped that someone would actually eat all that food and that they wouldn't throw it in the trash when the show was over.

    , @Known Fact
    @Reg Cæsar


    Who wants to watch black homos for 11 minutes, let alone 111?

     

    You (and your kids) can get two pretty explicit minutes of it piped right into your own home, thanks to a Big Pharma ad that was running regularly on college football afternoons and who knows where else
  70. @Reg Cæsar
    @Altai3

    Steve has mentioned this film, but it doesn't look like he reviewed it. How important can it be?

    Who wants to watch black homos for 11 minutes, let alone 111?

    Replies: @Jack D, @Known Fact

    IIRC (2016 was a long time ago), Moonlight was important because 2016 was a Special Year for Black People in Hollywood. I forget why – maybe this was the year when Hollywood would finally give Black People the Recognition that They Deserve. But then it turns out that every year is a Special Year for Black People and the Recognition that They Deserve is to win 100% of all awards, so that anything less than 100% is Racism. And then Hollywood got bored with the fashion of giving Black People (who are also Gay – DOUBLE Pokemon Points!) the Recognition that They Deserve and instead decided to give Transexuals the Recognition that They Deserve instead. Anyway, giving Black People the Recognition that They Deserve culminated with two black guys getting in a fist fight on live TV before a (ever shrinking) world wide audience. So much for that.

    Last night at the end of the Grammies they had some sort of pointless long rap song sung by about 8 different black male singers – it occurred to me that if they tried this with white men it would be Racist and Hell to Pay. The black men sat at an endlessly long banquet table that was overflowing with piles of food and swigged champagne. I mean literally tons of food – I’ve never seen that much food in my life. I think the message is that Blacks are Kangz and deserve Royal Banquets. I suppose that once blacks get their $5 million checks, this will be what the dinner table will look like in every black home. I’ll bet that Henry VIII or Louis XIV didn’t have that much food on their tables, certainly not all that fresh fruit in February. The only thing I could think of as I watched this is that I hoped that someone would actually eat all that food and that they wouldn’t throw it in the trash when the show was over.

    • LOL: AnotherDad
  71. @Pixo
    @AndrewR

    Take your BDS BS on back to Beirut, Bin Ladin.

    https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/USA-Israel-Eagle-has-landed.jpg

    Nothing more based than high fertility nationalist whites colonizing brown lands. But you side with Islamic barbarism. Sad.

    https://w3.chabad.org/media/images/235/dTaY2356687.jpg

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @SFG, @anonymous

    Are you the cringe commenter formerly known as Lot ? Very similar content to him.

    Lot’s last comment: June 1, 2021

    Pixo’s first comment: June 2, 2021

    Cohencidence?

    • Agree: Mike Tre
    • Thanks: AndrewR
  72. @mc23
    @Arclight

    I don't see this making anyone happy


    https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1622089920645931009?s=20&t=vSDMjK9oyv2X3RTAsiN2oQ

    Replies: @AndrewR, @bomag, @possumman, @Patrick in SC

    Wow.

    And remember: That is the Disney Corporation. That is not just some guy or gal with a blog or who is ranting on TikTok. That is mainstream woke-ism.

    • Agree: Kylie
  73. I was just recently wondering what happened to ole Tennessee Coates . Last I heard was two years ago when he was writing un-produced scripts for super-hero movies and he made one of the super-villains Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. Apparently that was a bit much even for J.J. Abrams.
    Perhaps he just got tired of slaving away as a content generator for Steve Sailer and is resting on his laurels.

    • Replies: @Corpse Tooth
    @Alfa158

    After desecrating a few of my childhood superheroes in the pages of Marvel Comics, JJ Abrams (natch) brought the bulbous lipped Tee Hee into the lucrative position of writing scripts that no one wants. If Tee Hee truly had a conscience he'd stop urinating on beloved characters created by talented whites, a lot of which are Jews, and develop his own characters and stories. But Tee Hee doesn't have a sense of shame or the ability to create: he's an apparatchik, a racialist demagogue with moobs.

  74. bell hooks? Bell Hooks! BELL HOOKS! There, I feel better now

  75. @J.Ross
    OT -- Has anyone outside the midwest been able to follow the East Palestine, Ohio situation?

    Replies: @Known Fact, @Known Fact, @Gabe Ruth

    That train derailment and evacuation? Hadn’t heard a word, with everyone watching the balloon, and now that awful earthquake

  76. @J.Ross
    OT -- Has anyone outside the midwest been able to follow the East Palestine, Ohio situation?

    Replies: @Known Fact, @Known Fact, @Gabe Ruth

    It seems to be mostly poor white people, so that might explain why so little national media

  77. @Pixo
    @AndrewR

    Take your BDS BS on back to Beirut, Bin Ladin.

    https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/USA-Israel-Eagle-has-landed.jpg

    Nothing more based than high fertility nationalist whites colonizing brown lands. But you side with Islamic barbarism. Sad.

    https://w3.chabad.org/media/images/235/dTaY2356687.jpg

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @SFG, @anonymous

    I’m fine with the second bit, but Americans aren’t obligated to defend any country other than the USA unless it’s in our genuine national interest (which of course you would claim it was)…

  78. @J.Ross
    OT -- Has anyone outside the midwest been able to follow the East Palestine, Ohio situation?

    Replies: @Known Fact, @Known Fact, @Gabe Ruth

    I don’t watch the news so not really relevant to your question, but I hadn’t heard anything about the train accident. Read the CNN story, messaging seems a little weird. No one can return to the 1 mile evacuation zone for the foreseeable future?

  79. @ATBOTL
    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.

    Replies: @Muggles, @Anonymous, @fish

    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.

    Though several quick bio sources fail to mention his parents, yes.

    What I glean from Wikipedia’s garbled family history is that both of his parents had some European heritage though also African.

    So he is “Obama black” in that sense.

    Interesting.

    He died in Ghana, so an immigrant to Africa at the end, in his later communist incarnation.

  80. I think it would be helpful to NYT readers to have, printed next to their editor’s commentary, the exact streets/neighborhoods where they and their families actually reside (no specific addresses).

    Along with, for that neighborhood, the racial composition of that. Also some financial info on cost of rents and ownership.

    “Revealed preference” is an economist’s term for researching what people actually do, versus what they say.

    How many of their special anti White pleaders live in mainly non White buildings, and low or middle income neighborhoods?

    NYC residents are famously all about real estate. Would add perspective on their actual love of diversity.

    “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”

  81. @Reg Cæsar
    @Altai3

    Steve has mentioned this film, but it doesn't look like he reviewed it. How important can it be?

    Who wants to watch black homos for 11 minutes, let alone 111?

    Replies: @Jack D, @Known Fact

    Who wants to watch black homos for 11 minutes, let alone 111?

    You (and your kids) can get two pretty explicit minutes of it piped right into your own home, thanks to a Big Pharma ad that was running regularly on college football afternoons and who knows where else

  82. Anonymous[121] • Disclaimer says:
    @AndrewR
    @AnotherDad

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous, @James Forrestal, @Cato, @Art Deco

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    DeSantis while in Congress also supported the regime change in Ukraine and arming the neo-nazi militants.
    DeSantis also supported regime change in Syria and arming the moderate Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists there. DeSantis also supports war with Iran and China.

    DeSantis on Iran: “They will stop at nothing to end our way of life.”

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @Anonymous

    He will make a fine President.

    https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2021/10/04/casey-desantis-and-family-1200x800.jpg

    Replies: @Post-Postmodernist

  83. @AndrewR
    @Father Coughlin

    Importing 400,000 black slaves was wrong at the time, and its consequences have been a disaster. Even if all the slave ships were owned by small hats, most slave owners were white. A few rich white men screwed over this country for centuries and counting.

    The way forward isn't to do a mirror image of the "there's nothing wrong with black people" Orwellianism of Ibram X Kendi. It's to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    Replies: @Father Coughlin, @bomag, @Corvinus

    The way forward is to acknowledge the truth

    Yes, but with modern travel and language games it comes to all nice places: what to do with a grifter and parasite class that shows up and demands recompense for differing abilities? Probably should have kept cultivating a stricter ethnic consciousness: a reservation system for us all.

  84. Ta? That’s a name I haven’t read in awhile. Whatever happened to him?

    Maybe the reason people aren’t talking about Ta like they used to is because Ta’s day is over. The world has moved on. Ibram X. Kendi is the new flavor of the month.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @countenance


    Ta? That’s a name I haven’t read in awhile. Whatever happened to him?
     
    Ta-ta, Ta-.


    https://www.cartoq.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2016-Tata-Nexon-Crossover-Concept-2.jpg

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

  85. @Mark G.
    @AceDeuce


    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

     

    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties? That can't be explained by genetics alone because there wouldn't be such a large genetic shift in such a short period of time.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Jamsportle, @AceDeuce

    Back in the 1950’s, Los Angeles police Chief Parker pointed out that the Black homicide rate was ten times the White rate, and had been so for a long time. The usual Black on Black stuff. What happened in the 1960’s is that, without the threat of lynch mobs, Blacks began reaching out to other communities. The problems were always there, we just stopped seriously trying to contain them.

    -Discard

    • Agree: AceDeuce
  86. @ATBOTL
    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.

    Replies: @Muggles, @Anonymous, @fish

    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.

    Du Bois was a mixed-race proxy warrior for the Spingarn brothers, two Jewish lawyers from New York City who founded the NAACP.

  87. @AndrewR
    @AnotherDad

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous, @James Forrestal, @Cato, @Art Deco

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS

    Excellent point, though perhaps it might be better phrased as “Your boy Ron forced all government contractors to sign an oath of loyalty to a foreign government — the semitic supremacist regime in Tel Aviv.”

    And of course, two of DeSantis’ first acts as governor were to:
    1. Hold a state cabinet meeting in occupied Palestine, and
    2. Sign a bill that required public universities in Florida to ban any and all criticism of semitic supremacism in general, and of the settler-colonialist regime in Palestine in particular.

    Looks like Daddy’s boy is suffering from a terminal case of internalized tribalism.

  88. @countenance
    Ta? That's a name I haven't read in awhile. Whatever happened to him?

    Maybe the reason people aren't talking about Ta like they used to is because Ta's day is over. The world has moved on. Ibram X. Kendi is the new flavor of the month.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Ta? That’s a name I haven’t read in awhile. Whatever happened to him?

    Ta-ta, Ta-.

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @Reg Cæsar


    Great Bollywood intro!
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGEwG62Q1UQ
  89. @Reg Cæsar
    @countenance


    Ta? That’s a name I haven’t read in awhile. Whatever happened to him?
     
    Ta-ta, Ta-.


    https://www.cartoq.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2016-Tata-Nexon-Crossover-Concept-2.jpg

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    Great Bollywood intro!

  90. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    they aren’t just trying to quietly kill it

    From what I can gather this is going on, but in hushed tones. Unless it’s Black Panther black-centric content loses money. The fanatical energy seems to have shifted back to homosexuality — fitting, considering the numbers of gay goys and gay Jews in the business — and the elite-imposed transgender contagion. The thing is, most non-blacks don’t want to work with blacks because blacks are a massive pain in the ass. The cost-benefit doesn’t pan out.

  91. @Alfa158
    I was just recently wondering what happened to ole Tennessee Coates . Last I heard was two years ago when he was writing un-produced scripts for super-hero movies and he made one of the super-villains Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. Apparently that was a bit much even for J.J. Abrams.
    Perhaps he just got tired of slaving away as a content generator for Steve Sailer and is resting on his laurels.

    Replies: @Corpse Tooth

    After desecrating a few of my childhood superheroes in the pages of Marvel Comics, JJ Abrams (natch) brought the bulbous lipped Tee Hee into the lucrative position of writing scripts that no one wants. If Tee Hee truly had a conscience he’d stop urinating on beloved characters created by talented whites, a lot of which are Jews, and develop his own characters and stories. But Tee Hee doesn’t have a sense of shame or the ability to create: he’s an apparatchik, a racialist demagogue with moobs.

  92. Adjacent news; largely white brass of FDNY has resigned/retired en masse because of demotions from their ranks to make the fire department more diverse. FDNY commissioner is a woman who has never pulled anything burning out of anything except involving food and an electric stove. The whole fighting fires thing, secondary to DIE.

  93. @Anonymous
    @AndrewR


    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.
     
    DeSantis while in Congress also supported the regime change in Ukraine and arming the neo-nazi militants.
    DeSantis also supported regime change in Syria and arming the moderate Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists there. DeSantis also supports war with Iran and China.

    DeSantis on Iran: “They will stop at nothing to end our way of life.”


    https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/05/31/PTAL/7c5b175e-b72e-46d6-b5cf-aea1ad33a1cf-Photo_1.jpeg

    Replies: @Pixo

    He will make a fine President.

    • Replies: @Post-Postmodernist
    @Pixo

    I'm glad that Governor DeSantis appears to be a wholesome family man. I'm even more glad that he appears to have a solid record of effectiveness and reliability in what would indeed appear to be some of the most critical areas at present. Surely, few priorities can trump the onslaught of Woke excess.

    Now how about addressing some of the substantive and all-too-plausible claims about Mr. DeSantis that were made in the comment you have replied-to?


    DeSantis while in Congress also supported the regime change in Ukraine and arming the neo-nazi militants.
    DeSantis also supported regime change in Syria and arming the moderate Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists there. DeSantis also supports war with Iran and China.

    DeSantis on Iran: “They will stop at nothing to end our way of life.”
     

    Are none of these cause for concern? Let us assume that on the Invite the World side of the coin, DeSantis is as good as can realistically expected of any viable candidate on offer. How much more Invading are you prepared to accept?

    On the other hand, as bad as DeSantis may be on the afore-referenced matters, is there another viable candidate who --on balance-- can clearly be considered appreciably better?

    Replies: @Pixo

  94. @Barnard
    @Altai3

    I figured he would never get the Superman script done, but Coates doesn't seem to be producing any content at all right now. This is the first time I have heard his name mentioned in over a year. He hasn't been contributing to The Atlantic either. Is he starting to fade away?

    Replies: @Nicholas Stix

    (Are you now again permitting me to comment, Ron, or is it back to the game you played last night, of limiting me to one “agree” once on one article, before telling me (on a new article, on which I hadn’t commented) that I was “posting comments too quickly”?)

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is a very lazy man. He never does any research, has no intellectual curiosity, and steals the work of racial socialist Whites. For instance, he ripped off his redlining shtick from White, racial socialist professor Thomas Sugrue.

    He also has zero tolerance for disagreement. His comment threads at his atlantic blog were comprised of White “allies” who relentlessly sucked up to him. One time, a White reader mildly disagreed with him, but opened his comment with so much sucking up to him that Coates didn’t even seem to notice the mild disagreement that followed.

    I once disagreed with him. He blocked my comment, permablocked me at his blog, and had me permablocked on the entire atlantic site.

    I guess that explains the tone of subservience at his blog—he blocked and permablocked anyone who failed to bow down to him.

    Eventually, however, even White subservience proved to be insufficient for him, and he abolished all commenting.

    That’s the mentality of black supremacism—first, reduce all Whites to yea-saying slaves, then silence them all, then kill them all.

    • Replies: @International Jew
    @Nicholas Stix

    He showed the way; it was not long after he closed down comments on his articles, that The Atlantic abolished comments altogether.

    The gradual abolition of comment sections was, for me, the first clear sign that the old proudly intellectual left was turning into a bunch of fragile weenies.

    But there was an earlier sign I missed. It's that in the last few years of comments there, I was running into raving raging lunatics who wished me death and worse. I thought at the time that those were just some randos on the Internet, but in the years since I've come to realize the universities are teeming with people like that.

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Nicholas Stix


    (Are you now again permitting me to comment, Ron, or is it back to the game you played last night, of limiting me to one “agree” once on one article, before telling me (on a new article, on which I hadn’t commented) that I was “posting comments too quickly”?)
     
    I wouldn't take that personally, Mr. Stix. Mr. Unz has a very well-working site here, but I've seen occasional bugs (probably when he or someone else is messing around with the software).

    I've been called names by him, but he's never played any tricks like this on me, no matter what I give back.

    You know, the more I think about it, Ron Unz could be Colonel Kurtz in this scene and I am the photojournalist Dennis Hopper. (I also don't want to see him or his site terminated with extreme prejudice.)

    Hey, man, you don't write to the Unz, you listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-blogger in the classic sense. Uhh, I mean, sometimes he'll uhhh, well, you'll reply to a comment from him, right, and he'll just browse right by you, and he won't even notice you, and suddenly he'll grab you and you'll see a light yellow box, and he'll write "hey, you're just a random right-wing ranter.

    I mean... I'm a little man. I'm a little man. He's a great man. Uhh, I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across floors of silent seas, I mean ... I wish I had words. I wish I had words.

    Start at 02:45, Nick:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kqFwVuQ-Hg

  95. @Mark G.
    @AceDeuce


    Wrong. Well, the first three words are right, but the rest is shite.

     

    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties? That can't be explained by genetics alone because there wouldn't be such a large genetic shift in such a short period of time.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Jamsportle, @AceDeuce

    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties?

    Hurr-ka! Durr-ka! iT’s AlL wYpIpO’s FaUlT!

    So, White liberals implemented government mandates that required negroes to commit crimes and have out of wedlock babies? Was that like some house to house campaign, where they compelled the previously saintly negroes to do these heinous things at the point of a bayonet, or was it just a signed, sealed law of the land type directive?

    “Oh, Lawdy, Massa Lyndon! I’z jes’ wantin’ to study my calculus book in peace while listenin’ to muh Mozart record up in heah’. Why comes you makes me rob de convenience sto’ and shoots de’ clerk? Den’, y’all makin’ me knock Fu’snickia up and has her have a bastard chil’ ? Oh, Jeebus, carry me home! I’z don’ wanna live dis’ way!”

    • Replies: @Mark G.
    @AceDeuce


    So, White liberals implemented government mandates that required negroes to commit crimes and have out of wedlock babies?
     
    No, white liberals made it more difficult for the police to do their jobs, reduced penalties for crimes and reduced the numbers of people in prison. For genetic reasons blacks have a greater tendency to commit crimes, but proper crime control policies can reduce their desire and ability to act out on those tendencies.

    In the case of out of wedlock births, liberals increased welfare benefits for single mothers. If the government subsidizes something you get more of it. This policy was dysgenic and encouraged the growth of the black underclass.

    Replies: @AceDeuce

    , @AndrewR
    @AceDeuce

    Your sycophantic support for white liberals is bizarre at best, and frankly I am finding it hard to be charitable about your motives for this.

    White liberals - when not actively pouring gasoline on the fire - prevent effective solutions to virtually every problem blacks cause (and face) in the US. At the risk of oversimplifying, I view blacks as my neighbor's dangerous pitbull. I view white liberals as the dog's owner who let's the dog roam wherever it wants, always sides with the dog instead of its victims, and leaves antifreeze out then takes it out on the neighbors when the dog consumes it.

    Replies: @AceDeuce

  96. @AndrewR
    @Father Coughlin

    Importing 400,000 black slaves was wrong at the time, and its consequences have been a disaster. Even if all the slave ships were owned by small hats, most slave owners were white. A few rich white men screwed over this country for centuries and counting.

    The way forward isn't to do a mirror image of the "there's nothing wrong with black people" Orwellianism of Ibram X Kendi. It's to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    Replies: @Father Coughlin, @bomag, @Corvinus

    “It’s to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries”

    This is the truth— A bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately European, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    To the topic at hand, it was selection by omission by Mr. Sailer. He knows there are other more notable and worthy black intellectuals today. But it makes no difference if you or I or he feel that Coates or Hooks are hacks. I thought he and you were a champion of freedom of speech. Why is DeSantis ordering the whitewashing of history?

    • Disagree: Colin Wright
    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus

    'This is the truth— A bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately European, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.'

    Yep. Spared electricity, modern hybrid crops, vaccines, the internet, fast, reliable transportation, who knows where we'd be?

    Replies: @cool daddy jimbo

  97. @AnotherDad
    At least my man DeSantis is fighting.

    He--and other "conservatives"--need to move beyond "single issuing" this and that piece of nonsense and make the full, clear broad case against minoritarianism, and for the fundamental right of productive normies to live according to our norms and culture--separating if necessary.

    This struggle against genocidal minoritarianism needs to be understood and fought as an existential one.

    Replies: @AndrewR, @J.Ross, @Achmed E. Newman, @Colin Wright

    ‘…This struggle against genocidal minoritarianism needs to be understood and fought as an existential one.’

    You also need to quit looking at the puppets and think about the puppeteer.

    It’s not that Ta-Nahesi Coates et al exist. It’s that the New York Times et al sponsor them.

  98. @Corvinus
    @AndrewR

    “It’s to acknowledge the truth: a bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately Jewish, have been screwing over everyone for centuries”

    This is the truth— A bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately European, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.

    To the topic at hand, it was selection by omission by Mr. Sailer. He knows there are other more notable and worthy black intellectuals today. But it makes no difference if you or I or he feel that Coates or Hooks are hacks. I thought he and you were a champion of freedom of speech. Why is DeSantis ordering the whitewashing of history?

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘This is the truth— A bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately European, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.’

    Yep. Spared electricity, modern hybrid crops, vaccines, the internet, fast, reliable transportation, who knows where we’d be?

    • LOL: Kylie
    • Replies: @cool daddy jimbo
    @Colin Wright


    Yep. Spared electricity, modern hybrid crops, vaccines, the internet, fast, reliable transportation, who knows where we’d be?
     
    Written language, math, two-story buildings, jet planes ...
  99. @Pixo
    @Anonymous

    He will make a fine President.

    https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2021/10/04/casey-desantis-and-family-1200x800.jpg

    Replies: @Post-Postmodernist

    I’m glad that Governor DeSantis appears to be a wholesome family man. I’m even more glad that he appears to have a solid record of effectiveness and reliability in what would indeed appear to be some of the most critical areas at present. Surely, few priorities can trump the onslaught of Woke excess.

    Now how about addressing some of the substantive and all-too-plausible claims about Mr. DeSantis that were made in the comment you have replied-to?

    [MORE]

    DeSantis while in Congress also supported the regime change in Ukraine and arming the neo-nazi militants.
    DeSantis also supported regime change in Syria and arming the moderate Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists there. DeSantis also supports war with Iran and China.

    DeSantis on Iran: “They will stop at nothing to end our way of life.”

    Are none of these cause for concern? Let us assume that on the Invite the World side of the coin, DeSantis is as good as can realistically expected of any viable candidate on offer. How much more Invading are you prepared to accept?

    On the other hand, as bad as DeSantis may be on the afore-referenced matters, is there another viable candidate who —on balance— can clearly be considered appreciably better?

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @Post-Postmodernist

    I don’t see any support for Iraq type adventures here. Which part of the world does he propose “invading?”

    Reagan and Trump both showed an aggressive foreign policy against oriental despotism does not require large expensive wars.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

  100. @Daniel Williams

    They downgraded the study of Black Lives Matter, of reparations, of queer life and of incarceration.
     
    I’d like to read how these subjects were originally presented to high schoolers in the un-DeSanitized version of the course.

    Is it just, “Reparations: White people won’t pay them because they stingy. Incarceration: White people lock up innocent Blacks out of envy and racist hatred. Etc. Etc.”?

    Or do they try to dazzle the adolescents with academic mumbojumbo and doubletalk?

    Replies: @HammerJack, @Hibernian

    Both of the above.

  101. @AndrewR
    @Reg Cæsar

    In many (if not most) cases, it's more harmful for a child to live in a house with two parents who hate each other than it is for the parents to split up. Ultimately the problem is twofold:

    1. Far too many people don't do their "due diligence" when it comes to choosing a mate. My parents married in 1964 when cohabitation wasn't really a thing. My mom told me shortly before she died that she wouldn't have married my dad had they lived together before marriage. Not the most pleasant thing to hear from one's mother, but I respected her honesty. And frankly it would have prevented a lot of problems, both in her life and in the lives of the kids she wouldn't have created. It probably would have made my dad's life better but probably not too much because he's pretty oblivious to almost everything.


    2. Once people do marry, they often don't want to work hard enough to maintain marital harmony. In many cases, neither spouse does. In others, one spouse does and the other doesn't. But it can be done if both spouses are willing to compromise enough.

    My parents had a very rough spell during their third decade of marriage. My mother wrote him a letter (which I didn't find until after she had died) telling him she didn't love him anymore and she wanted a separation. I don't know what he did in response but, soon after she gave him that letter, their marriage did get better. They started sleeping in the same bed again for the first time in years. This lasted until she passed away 20 years later. But unfortunately she still wished that she hadn't married him.

    I've never been married and I am childfree. Part of me wants a wife and kids but I don't feel like I need it. Religious people and the "we need more white babies" crowd often judge me for this but I don't care. The world is overpopulated, and I don't need to risk all the terrible things that can result from marriage and parenthood.

    Replies: @Jamsportle, @Reg Cæsar

    The world is not overpopulated with capable honest people. The more of them, the better.

    You are a coward. Good that you’ve not reproduced.

    -Discard

    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @Jamsportle

    The irony....

  102. @AceDeuce
    @Mark G.


    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties?
     
    Hurr-ka! Durr-ka! iT's AlL wYpIpO's FaUlT!

    So, White liberals implemented government mandates that required negroes to commit crimes and have out of wedlock babies? Was that like some house to house campaign, where they compelled the previously saintly negroes to do these heinous things at the point of a bayonet, or was it just a signed, sealed law of the land type directive?


    "Oh, Lawdy, Massa Lyndon! I'z jes' wantin' to study my calculus book in peace while listenin' to muh Mozart record up in heah'. Why comes you makes me rob de convenience sto' and shoots de' clerk? Den', y'all makin' me knock Fu'snickia up and has her have a bastard chil' ? Oh, Jeebus, carry me home! I'z don' wanna live dis' way!"

    Replies: @Mark G., @AndrewR

    So, White liberals implemented government mandates that required negroes to commit crimes and have out of wedlock babies?

    No, white liberals made it more difficult for the police to do their jobs, reduced penalties for crimes and reduced the numbers of people in prison. For genetic reasons blacks have a greater tendency to commit crimes, but proper crime control policies can reduce their desire and ability to act out on those tendencies.

    In the case of out of wedlock births, liberals increased welfare benefits for single mothers. If the government subsidizes something you get more of it. This policy was dysgenic and encouraged the growth of the black underclass.

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @Mark G.


    For genetic reasons blacks have a greater tendency to commit crimes, but proper crime control policies can reduce their desire and ability to act out on those tendencies.
     
    Yes, negroes are inherently predators and in some cases, super predators who need to be "brought to heel" and on a short leash.

    I don't agree with Biden and Hillary hardly ever but they were right on time with that stuff. Sounds like you agree, too. So while I agree with you that liberal polices to lessen that short leash are not good, my point was that those liberal polices themselves did not cause negroes to go bad. Rather, the conservative polices were put in place because negroes already are bad.


    In the case of out of wedlock births, liberals increased welfare benefits for single mothers. If the government subsidizes something you get more of it. This policy was dysgenic and encouraged the growth of the black underclass.
     
    Yes, having multiple bastard children on welfare is the road to riches. LOL. Just because the government offers some money to follow that path, what sane, moral person would do so. Why didn't blacks, being natural conservatives and oh so religious, spurn that path in favor of getting married and having a stable family, which does build wealth?

    The government offered that destructive path because morally bankrupt negroes wanted to live that way, and many already were. Blacks could have refused to go along but didn't. Dems offered what negroes wanted to capture their vote.

    More proof that they are hopeless.

  103. @Jamsportle
    @AndrewR

    The world is not overpopulated with capable honest people. The more of them, the better.

    You are a coward. Good that you've not reproduced.

    -Discard

    Replies: @AndrewR

    The irony….

  104. @the one they call Desanex
    @Reg Cæsar

    Sad! AF! And you stole my rhymes Kendi, trendy, and spendy.
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/dont-count-out-tnc-in-the-race-grift-race/#comment-4293868

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    “Wendy” didn’t fit anywhere. There weren’t many alternatives.

  105. @AceDeuce
    @Mark G.


    If government policies implemented by white liberals are not a major factor in black social dysfunction, then what caused the sudden large increases in black crime and out of wedlock births in the black community starting in the sixties?
     
    Hurr-ka! Durr-ka! iT's AlL wYpIpO's FaUlT!

    So, White liberals implemented government mandates that required negroes to commit crimes and have out of wedlock babies? Was that like some house to house campaign, where they compelled the previously saintly negroes to do these heinous things at the point of a bayonet, or was it just a signed, sealed law of the land type directive?


    "Oh, Lawdy, Massa Lyndon! I'z jes' wantin' to study my calculus book in peace while listenin' to muh Mozart record up in heah'. Why comes you makes me rob de convenience sto' and shoots de' clerk? Den', y'all makin' me knock Fu'snickia up and has her have a bastard chil' ? Oh, Jeebus, carry me home! I'z don' wanna live dis' way!"

    Replies: @Mark G., @AndrewR

    Your sycophantic support for white liberals is bizarre at best, and frankly I am finding it hard to be charitable about your motives for this.

    White liberals – when not actively pouring gasoline on the fire – prevent effective solutions to virtually every problem blacks cause (and face) in the US. At the risk of oversimplifying, I view blacks as my neighbor’s dangerous pitbull. I view white liberals as the dog’s owner who let’s the dog roam wherever it wants, always sides with the dog instead of its victims, and leaves antifreeze out then takes it out on the neighbors when the dog consumes it.

    • Agree: Mark G.
    • Replies: @AceDeuce
    @AndrewR

    LOL. Is you hurted? Awwwww.

    Put some ice on it, as the Arkansas Raper once said.

    I'm tired too--as tired as a negro female whose hair has been touched all day.

    Weary of these goofy White cuckservative attempts to dilute, deny, and deflect from negro dysfunction. The problem with blacks is inherent and is amplified by their own internal network of hatred. Nothing else. They are responsible for them, whether they-or you-accept that.

    All White liberal policies do is allow them to act more like themselves. All anti-White media propaganda does is echo what's already in their heads. In fact, it's les virulent than what's in their heads.

    Are liberal policies bad? Of course. Is media anti-White propaganda wrong. Of course. But it is idiotic to think that they "destroyed the black family" or turned them against Whites, or made good people bad. And continually saying so is as pointless, time wasting, and harmful as purposefully misdiagnosing an illness to avoid facing difficult facts.

  106. @AndrewR
    @Reg Cæsar

    In many (if not most) cases, it's more harmful for a child to live in a house with two parents who hate each other than it is for the parents to split up. Ultimately the problem is twofold:

    1. Far too many people don't do their "due diligence" when it comes to choosing a mate. My parents married in 1964 when cohabitation wasn't really a thing. My mom told me shortly before she died that she wouldn't have married my dad had they lived together before marriage. Not the most pleasant thing to hear from one's mother, but I respected her honesty. And frankly it would have prevented a lot of problems, both in her life and in the lives of the kids she wouldn't have created. It probably would have made my dad's life better but probably not too much because he's pretty oblivious to almost everything.


    2. Once people do marry, they often don't want to work hard enough to maintain marital harmony. In many cases, neither spouse does. In others, one spouse does and the other doesn't. But it can be done if both spouses are willing to compromise enough.

    My parents had a very rough spell during their third decade of marriage. My mother wrote him a letter (which I didn't find until after she had died) telling him she didn't love him anymore and she wanted a separation. I don't know what he did in response but, soon after she gave him that letter, their marriage did get better. They started sleeping in the same bed again for the first time in years. This lasted until she passed away 20 years later. But unfortunately she still wished that she hadn't married him.

    I've never been married and I am childfree. Part of me wants a wife and kids but I don't feel like I need it. Religious people and the "we need more white babies" crowd often judge me for this but I don't care. The world is overpopulated, and I don't need to risk all the terrible things that can result from marriage and parenthood.

    Replies: @Jamsportle, @Reg Cæsar

    In many (if not most) cases, it’s more harmful for a child to live in a house with two parents who hate each other than it is for the parents to split up.

    Not most. Research has shown that this is not true of low-conflict marriages. Dr Morse at the Ruth Institute calls this assumption part of “Divorce Fantasy World”. Judith Wallerstein did a longitudinal study which backs this up.

    Nicki King at the Howard Center (right next door to the Rockford Institute) has made a career of collating such research. They want you to subscribe to read it, but fortunately much of it is cross-posted on the Sydney-based Mercatornet.com.

    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/page/3/
    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/
    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/page/6/

    “Staying together for the sake of the children” was ancient wisdom. Marriage is– or was– about duty. Love is what followed. Perhaps that is why arranged marriages fare better.

    Sucking it up was part of being an adult.

    • Agree: Nicholas Stix, AceDeuce
    • Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Reg Cæsar

    "Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

    OK I'm fine with that... just so long as, as with so-called hate speech, I get to be the one who defines what "your duty" is.

    You might be in for a few surprises.

  107. @Post-Postmodernist
    @Pixo

    I'm glad that Governor DeSantis appears to be a wholesome family man. I'm even more glad that he appears to have a solid record of effectiveness and reliability in what would indeed appear to be some of the most critical areas at present. Surely, few priorities can trump the onslaught of Woke excess.

    Now how about addressing some of the substantive and all-too-plausible claims about Mr. DeSantis that were made in the comment you have replied-to?


    DeSantis while in Congress also supported the regime change in Ukraine and arming the neo-nazi militants.
    DeSantis also supported regime change in Syria and arming the moderate Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists there. DeSantis also supports war with Iran and China.

    DeSantis on Iran: “They will stop at nothing to end our way of life.”
     

    Are none of these cause for concern? Let us assume that on the Invite the World side of the coin, DeSantis is as good as can realistically expected of any viable candidate on offer. How much more Invading are you prepared to accept?

    On the other hand, as bad as DeSantis may be on the afore-referenced matters, is there another viable candidate who --on balance-- can clearly be considered appreciably better?

    Replies: @Pixo

    I don’t see any support for Iraq type adventures here. Which part of the world does he propose “invading?”

    Reagan and Trump both showed an aggressive foreign policy against oriental despotism does not require large expensive wars.

    • Thanks: Post-Postmodernist
    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @Pixo

    And people keep forgetting or ignoring that DeSantis is delivering more real world pain to our enemies than the rest of the GOP combined as far as I follow the latter (not that much at the level of every state, but we wouldn't miss the screaming). OK, Abbot is doing a great job of busing migrants to Blue hellholes, but making things painful for (negro) mayors etc. in D.C. and NYC is more performance art than palpable pain to for example the College Board, Disney, public colleges, and venues that host drag queen shows for children. For that matter DeSantis delivered more and better drama with that one small invasion of Martha's Vineyard.

    Without his overt Zionist agenda, especially given how large a fraction of Jews are in his state, I doubt he'd be this successful or even reelected. Compared to Trump he's not delivering much pain (yet) to the status of our enemies ... but besides as noted not starting a new war which required active work, Trump didn't do that much for us, and his ... whatever on voting fraud very possibly cost us the Republic.

    TL;DR: "He fights."

  108. @AndrewR
    @AnotherDad

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous, @James Forrestal, @Cato, @Art Deco

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    So, who would you prefer as your next President?

    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @Cato

    Someone who didn't worship Israel, for starters

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

  109. @Reg Cæsar
    @AndrewR


    In many (if not most) cases, it’s more harmful for a child to live in a house with two parents who hate each other than it is for the parents to split up.
     
    Not most. Research has shown that this is not true of low-conflict marriages. Dr Morse at the Ruth Institute calls this assumption part of "Divorce Fantasy World". Judith Wallerstein did a longitudinal study which backs this up.

    Nicki King at the Howard Center (right next door to the Rockford Institute) has made a career of collating such research. They want you to subscribe to read it, but fortunately much of it is cross-posted on the Sydney-based Mercatornet.com.

    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/page/3/
    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/
    https://mercatornet.com/author/nicole-m-king/page/6/

    "Staying together for the sake of the children" was ancient wisdom. Marriage is-- or was-- about duty. Love is what followed. Perhaps that is why arranged marriages fare better.

    Sucking it up was part of being an adult.


    https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/p/peterdrucker/120334/peterdrucker1-2x.jpg

    Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease

    “Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”

    OK I’m fine with that… just so long as, as with so-called hate speech, I get to be the one who defines what “your duty” is.

    You might be in for a few surprises.

  110. @AndrewR
    @AnotherDad

    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.

    Replies: @Pixo, @Anonymous, @James Forrestal, @Cato, @Art Deco

    There is no ‘genocidal apartheid state’ in Israel, except in your rancid imagination.

  111. @Viva Ramon Mercader
    Aren't reparations egalitarian?
    Meaning that every race will have to chip in because we're all in this together?
    Everybody is supposed to help in the community, it takes a village, and other clichés.

    Replies: @Adghjjhfddg

    No. As Steve has pointed out, there are schemes to pay for reparations primarily with estate taxes, mansion taxes, wealth taxes, other luxury taxes that will disproportionately burden whites, mostly sparing blacks. As Steve has further noted, one reason for the emphasis on “equity” in DIE is that they want the EQUIY in our homes, savings, and investments

  112. Hot damn! Tennessee Coates and The Foggy Noggin Boys do some mighty fine a-pickin’ an a-signin’!

  113. @AndrewR
    @mc23

    It's more accurate to call this kosher black supremacism than simple anti-whiteness.

    The part where she silenced the boy talking about the illuminati and the NWO made me almost think this was a satire of wokeness, but in 2023 we know there's no way Disney would allow that.

    Replies: @Adghjjhfddg

    That scene hinted at, played with, and quickly dismissed black conspiracy lunacy and antisemitism, and anti-whiteness, while affirming the Left’s mandate to censor dissent

  114. @Nicholas Stix
    @Barnard

    (Are you now again permitting me to comment, Ron, or is it back to the game you played last night, of limiting me to one “agree” once on one article, before telling me (on a new article, on which I hadn’t commented) that I was “posting comments too quickly”?)

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is a very lazy man. He never does any research, has no intellectual curiosity, and steals the work of racial socialist Whites. For instance, he ripped off his redlining shtick from White, racial socialist professor Thomas Sugrue.

    He also has zero tolerance for disagreement. His comment threads at his atlantic blog were comprised of White “allies” who relentlessly sucked up to him. One time, a White reader mildly disagreed with him, but opened his comment with so much sucking up to him that Coates didn’t even seem to notice the mild disagreement that followed.

    I once disagreed with him. He blocked my comment, permablocked me at his blog, and had me permablocked on the entire atlantic site.

    I guess that explains the tone of subservience at his blog—he blocked and permablocked anyone who failed to bow down to him.

    Eventually, however, even White subservience proved to be insufficient for him, and he abolished all commenting.

    That’s the mentality of black supremacism—first, reduce all Whites to yea-saying slaves, then silence them all, then kill them all.

    Replies: @International Jew, @Achmed E. Newman

    He showed the way; it was not long after he closed down comments on his articles, that The Atlantic abolished comments altogether.

    The gradual abolition of comment sections was, for me, the first clear sign that the old proudly intellectual left was turning into a bunch of fragile weenies.

    But there was an earlier sign I missed. It’s that in the last few years of comments there, I was running into raving raging lunatics who wished me death and worse. I thought at the time that those were just some randos on the Internet, but in the years since I’ve come to realize the universities are teeming with people like that.

  115. @Pixo
    @Post-Postmodernist

    I don’t see any support for Iraq type adventures here. Which part of the world does he propose “invading?”

    Reagan and Trump both showed an aggressive foreign policy against oriental despotism does not require large expensive wars.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

    And people keep forgetting or ignoring that DeSantis is delivering more real world pain to our enemies than the rest of the GOP combined as far as I follow the latter (not that much at the level of every state, but we wouldn’t miss the screaming). OK, Abbot is doing a great job of busing migrants to Blue hellholes, but making things painful for (negro) mayors etc. in D.C. and NYC is more performance art than palpable pain to for example the College Board, Disney, public colleges, and venues that host drag queen shows for children. For that matter DeSantis delivered more and better drama with that one small invasion of Martha’s Vineyard.

    Without his overt Zionist agenda, especially given how large a fraction of Jews are in his state, I doubt he’d be this successful or even reelected. Compared to Trump he’s not delivering much pain (yet) to the status of our enemies … but besides as noted not starting a new war which required active work, Trump didn’t do that much for us, and his … whatever on voting fraud very possibly cost us the Republic.

    TL;DR: “He fights.”

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
  116. @Cato
    @AndrewR


    Your boy Ron banned government contractors from supporting BDS. 4% of the Florida population gets the government to support their genocidal apartheid state in Israel.
     
    So, who would you prefer as your next President?

    Replies: @AndrewR

    Someone who didn’t worship Israel, for starters

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @AndrewR


    Someone who didn’t worship Israel, for starters
     
    Well, yes, but "politics is the art of the possible." We're discussion 1-2 specific politicians, and you're trashing one with justice, but without an alternative who's plausibly around as good or better.

    You're also ignoring how much of the Republican base is in thrall to Israel....

    Replies: @AndrewR

  117. @Nicholas Stix
    @Barnard

    (Are you now again permitting me to comment, Ron, or is it back to the game you played last night, of limiting me to one “agree” once on one article, before telling me (on a new article, on which I hadn’t commented) that I was “posting comments too quickly”?)

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is a very lazy man. He never does any research, has no intellectual curiosity, and steals the work of racial socialist Whites. For instance, he ripped off his redlining shtick from White, racial socialist professor Thomas Sugrue.

    He also has zero tolerance for disagreement. His comment threads at his atlantic blog were comprised of White “allies” who relentlessly sucked up to him. One time, a White reader mildly disagreed with him, but opened his comment with so much sucking up to him that Coates didn’t even seem to notice the mild disagreement that followed.

    I once disagreed with him. He blocked my comment, permablocked me at his blog, and had me permablocked on the entire atlantic site.

    I guess that explains the tone of subservience at his blog—he blocked and permablocked anyone who failed to bow down to him.

    Eventually, however, even White subservience proved to be insufficient for him, and he abolished all commenting.

    That’s the mentality of black supremacism—first, reduce all Whites to yea-saying slaves, then silence them all, then kill them all.

    Replies: @International Jew, @Achmed E. Newman

    (Are you now again permitting me to comment, Ron, or is it back to the game you played last night, of limiting me to one “agree” once on one article, before telling me (on a new article, on which I hadn’t commented) that I was “posting comments too quickly”?)

    I wouldn’t take that personally, Mr. Stix. Mr. Unz has a very well-working site here, but I’ve seen occasional bugs (probably when he or someone else is messing around with the software).

    I’ve been called names by him, but he’s never played any tricks like this on me, no matter what I give back.

    You know, the more I think about it, Ron Unz could be Colonel Kurtz in this scene and I am the photojournalist Dennis Hopper. (I also don’t want to see him or his site terminated with extreme prejudice.)

    Hey, man, you don’t write to the Unz, you listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet-blogger in the classic sense. Uhh, I mean, sometimes he’ll uhhh, well, you’ll reply to a comment from him, right, and he’ll just browse right by you, and he won’t even notice you, and suddenly he’ll grab you and you’ll see a light yellow box, and he’ll write “hey, you’re just a random right-wing ranter.

    I mean… I’m a little man. I’m a little man. He’s a great man. Uhh, I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across floors of silent seas, I mean … I wish I had words. I wish I had words.

    Start at 02:45, Nick:

  118. @AndrewR
    @Cato

    Someone who didn't worship Israel, for starters

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling

    Someone who didn’t worship Israel, for starters

    Well, yes, but “politics is the art of the possible.” We’re discussion 1-2 specific politicians, and you’re trashing one with justice, but without an alternative who’s plausibly around as good or better.

    You’re also ignoring how much of the Republican base is in thrall to Israel….

    • Agree: Post-Postmodernist
    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @That Would Be Telling

    Yes, we get the politicians we deserve. Desantis probably is as good as it gets for Weimerika.

  119. @Father Coughlin
    This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, "Whites Did Nothing Wrong" book and Governor DeSantis requires that book to be read in schools.

    As long as there is political hay to be made off of white guilt, activists will continue to push this. And ignoring it, or quietly dropping it from the curriculum will not work. You have to address the issue head on.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @AndrewR, @Colin Wright

    ‘This issue will continue until someone, someday writes the ultimate, “Whites Did Nothing Wrong” book…’

    Don’t forget the sequel. Whites Did Everything Good.

    Maybe a ‘thank the white man’ moment at the start of every school day?

    • Thanks: Father Coughlin
  120. @AndrewR
    @AceDeuce

    Your sycophantic support for white liberals is bizarre at best, and frankly I am finding it hard to be charitable about your motives for this.

    White liberals - when not actively pouring gasoline on the fire - prevent effective solutions to virtually every problem blacks cause (and face) in the US. At the risk of oversimplifying, I view blacks as my neighbor's dangerous pitbull. I view white liberals as the dog's owner who let's the dog roam wherever it wants, always sides with the dog instead of its victims, and leaves antifreeze out then takes it out on the neighbors when the dog consumes it.

    Replies: @AceDeuce

    LOL. Is you hurted? Awwwww.

    Put some ice on it, as the Arkansas Raper once said.

    I’m tired too–as tired as a negro female whose hair has been touched all day.

    Weary of these goofy White cuckservative attempts to dilute, deny, and deflect from negro dysfunction. The problem with blacks is inherent and is amplified by their own internal network of hatred. Nothing else. They are responsible for them, whether they-or you-accept that.

    All White liberal policies do is allow them to act more like themselves. All anti-White media propaganda does is echo what’s already in their heads. In fact, it’s les virulent than what’s in their heads.

    Are liberal policies bad? Of course. Is media anti-White propaganda wrong. Of course. But it is idiotic to think that they “destroyed the black family” or turned them against Whites, or made good people bad. And continually saying so is as pointless, time wasting, and harmful as purposefully misdiagnosing an illness to avoid facing difficult facts.

  121. @ATBOTL
    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.

    Replies: @Muggles, @Anonymous, @fish

    W.E.B. Du Bois was not really black.

    Ahhh….didn’t vote for Biden then.

    • LOL: HammerJack
  122. @HammerJack
    @JimDandy

    https://i.ibb.co/YBvMwD2/Screenshot-20211031-235542-Daily-Mail-Online.jpg

    Replies: @fish

    it isn’t possible that someone who looks that ridiculous can have such an impact on society!

    • Agree: HammerJack
  123. @Mark G.
    @AceDeuce


    So, White liberals implemented government mandates that required negroes to commit crimes and have out of wedlock babies?
     
    No, white liberals made it more difficult for the police to do their jobs, reduced penalties for crimes and reduced the numbers of people in prison. For genetic reasons blacks have a greater tendency to commit crimes, but proper crime control policies can reduce their desire and ability to act out on those tendencies.

    In the case of out of wedlock births, liberals increased welfare benefits for single mothers. If the government subsidizes something you get more of it. This policy was dysgenic and encouraged the growth of the black underclass.

    Replies: @AceDeuce

    For genetic reasons blacks have a greater tendency to commit crimes, but proper crime control policies can reduce their desire and ability to act out on those tendencies.

    Yes, negroes are inherently predators and in some cases, super predators who need to be “brought to heel” and on a short leash.

    I don’t agree with Biden and Hillary hardly ever but they were right on time with that stuff. Sounds like you agree, too. So while I agree with you that liberal polices to lessen that short leash are not good, my point was that those liberal polices themselves did not cause negroes to go bad. Rather, the conservative polices were put in place because negroes already are bad.

    In the case of out of wedlock births, liberals increased welfare benefits for single mothers. If the government subsidizes something you get more of it. This policy was dysgenic and encouraged the growth of the black underclass.

    Yes, having multiple bastard children on welfare is the road to riches. LOL. Just because the government offers some money to follow that path, what sane, moral person would do so. Why didn’t blacks, being natural conservatives and oh so religious, spurn that path in favor of getting married and having a stable family, which does build wealth?

    The government offered that destructive path because morally bankrupt negroes wanted to live that way, and many already were. Blacks could have refused to go along but didn’t. Dems offered what negroes wanted to capture their vote.

    More proof that they are hopeless.

  124. @That Would Be Telling
    @AndrewR


    Someone who didn’t worship Israel, for starters
     
    Well, yes, but "politics is the art of the possible." We're discussion 1-2 specific politicians, and you're trashing one with justice, but without an alternative who's plausibly around as good or better.

    You're also ignoring how much of the Republican base is in thrall to Israel....

    Replies: @AndrewR

    Yes, we get the politicians we deserve. Desantis probably is as good as it gets for Weimerika.

  125. @Pixo
    @AndrewR

    Take your BDS BS on back to Beirut, Bin Ladin.

    https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/USA-Israel-Eagle-has-landed.jpg

    Nothing more based than high fertility nationalist whites colonizing brown lands. But you side with Islamic barbarism. Sad.

    https://w3.chabad.org/media/images/235/dTaY2356687.jpg

    Replies: @AndrewR, @Jenner Ickham Errican, @SFG, @anonymous

    Strange position for someone supposedly supporting white racial interests to take.

  126. @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus

    'This is the truth— A bunch of wealthy people, disproportionately European, have been screwing over everyone for centuries.'

    Yep. Spared electricity, modern hybrid crops, vaccines, the internet, fast, reliable transportation, who knows where we'd be?

    Replies: @cool daddy jimbo

    Yep. Spared electricity, modern hybrid crops, vaccines, the internet, fast, reliable transportation, who knows where we’d be?

    Written language, math, two-story buildings, jet planes …

  127. @Altai3
    He is currently busy writing the script to the JJ Abrams directed black Superman film but production has been stalled due to his difficulty in turning in a script, at least that's the company line. It isn't clear if during a brief pullback at media companies against the cartoonish Tumblr-style wokeness due to lack of any pushback, they aren't just trying to quietly kill it. But that writer and director combo would surely be eviscerated by online genre critics.

    The whole thing does remind me of 'Moonlight' which has 56 US MSM reviews listed on Metacritic, of which only 14 are anything but 100/100, only 10 are anything lower than 90/100 and the lowest is 75/100. Like all overhyped A24 films, nobody will ever remember it.

    https://www.metacritic.com/movie/moonlight-2016

    For instance here is an editorial by a liberal guy who is trying very hard to politely point out that the praise for 'Moonlight' is a bit contrived and based purely on it's ideological credentials because he's convinced if he'll doesn't he'll be crucified.

    https://www.filminquiry.com/moonlight-2016-review-2

    The whole point I’m dancing around is that we’ve allowed the message of the film, its ideology, to color our perception of its artifice. Perhaps that’s okay, but I have this sinking feeling that it is not—that it’s actually very, very bad. The societal import of a work of art is vital to our understanding of it as a whole but should not make a work of art beyond reproach.

    Renowned film critic Owen Gleiberman stated on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast that he felt more than a little hesitant to express his dislike of Moonlight for fear of being lambasted by fellow critics or labeled a racist by the movie-going populace. That notion is absurd and frightening.

    I’m not here to talk about political correctness or the so-far-left-they’re-almost-fascist politicking of so many these days, but it’s clear that much of that zeitgeist has bled into the world of film and, by extension, film criticism. I’m a liberal, but a person should be able to dislike a film without it being anything more than that. During the Golden Globes, my Twitter feed was drowning in a sea of outraged, spitting-mad fans sharpening their pitchforks as Moonlight lost in one category after another. That would not have been the case with a film of equal aesthetics and less ideological weight.

    I know this phenomenon is real; I feel it myself. I felt awful walking out of Moonlight bereft of any sort of rapture. I thought, “Am I crazy? Am I an awful person?” I waited weeks to write this article, fearing the scorn and backlash I might get. It’s early in my career, I can’t yet openly hold such bombastic opinions!
     
    Well, it's over 6 years later and he doesn't have another writing credit on that website, career over.

    Replies: @bomag, @Mark in BC, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Barnard, @Prester John, @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Lurker

    I just went to IMDb to bestow a 1/10 rating on Moonlight only to find I had already done so at some point since 2016.

    I hope everyone else knows what to do.

  128. @Hypnotoad666
    I'd be curious to know the demographics of who is actually taking the Black History AP test. Is it mostly blacks, or mostly woke white kids?

    Either way, if they broke down the test scores by race they would inevitably discover that the white kids are getting all the high AP scores. And then they'd have to write an article about how Black History is yet another example of white supremacy.

    Replies: @40 Lashes Less One

    As a stoner, wigger high school student, I probably would have loved AP Afro-history. I assume we’d have watched all three and a half hours of the Malcolm X biopic.

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