Saturday, June 13, 2020
Scott Adams has had a brilliant insight about the demand for reparations - American Thinker
Scott Adams has had a brilliant insight about the demand for reparations - American Thinker
"Scott Adams’ brilliant insight cuts through all this:
The comparison isn’t between black wealth and white wealth in America.
Instead, the comparison must be the difference between black’s average net worth in America versus black’s average net worth in Africa.
...Adams imagines a neutral space alien calculating reparations.
He informs earthlings that black versus white net worth in America isn’t the correct calculation:
"Scott Adams’ brilliant insight cuts through all this:
The comparison isn’t between black wealth and white wealth in America.
Instead, the comparison must be the difference between black’s average net worth in America versus black’s average net worth in Africa.
...Adams imagines a neutral space alien calculating reparations.
He informs earthlings that black versus white net worth in America isn’t the correct calculation:
“If I’m going to calculate the, let’s say, the theft from the black community, if you were to measure the theft -- let’s say just theft – that this slavery was. In other words, you stole the productive part of their lives, etc., and you used it for yourself. So here’s the number I need: I need how does the average economic situation for the average black person in this country and then, to compare it, I want to compare it to the average life of a black African.:And you say, “What?”And the space alien says, “Yeah that’s the comparison. So, you want to compare what would happen to the average black person if they had stayed unmolested in Africa and there had never been a slave trade. Because that’s what you’re comparing to. Because if the people who were brought to America as slaves, and then their descendants, are doing much worse than if they’ve never been brought with slavery, then that’s the amount of reparations. That’s how much they lost is all the money they would have made if they just stay in Africa.You know what the problem is, right? They would owe money to white people.
Adams is correct. Keith Richburg’s Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
, about his job as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in the 1990s, proves it.
Richburg's painful realization as he witnessed the daily horrors of life in Africa, whether from Nature’s or man’s cruelty, was how lucky he was that his ancestors were enslaved..., about his job as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in the 1990s, proves it.
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History for June 13
History for June 13 - On-This-Day.com
Winfield Scott 1786 - United States Army General, James C. Maxwell 1831 - Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician, William Butler Yeats 1865 - Poet, dramatist
Richard Thomas 1951 - Actor ("The Waltons"), Tim Allen 1953 - Comedian, actor ("Home "), Ally Sheedy 1962 - Actress
1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1992 - Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites.
Friday, June 12, 2020
Tucker Carlson: We were lied to about coronavirus and the mass lockdowns. Here's the proof | Fox News
Are you getting the picture? Is it adding up to a message? Yes, the message is we were played. We were all played. Corrupt politicians scared us into giving up control over the most basic questions in our lives. At the same time, they gave more power to their obedient followers, like Antifa, while keeping the rest of us trapped at home and censored online.
In other words, they used a public health emergency to subvert democracy and install themselves as monarchs. How were they able to do this? The sad truth is, they did it because we let them do it. We believed them, therefore, we obeyed them.
If there's anything good to come out of this disaster, it's that none of us will ever make that mistake again.
NYPD reportedly facing internal revolt as city leaders fail to defend rank-and-file officers - TheBlaze
NYPD reportedly facing internal revolt as city leaders fail to defend rank-and-file officers - TheBlaze:
As police departments nationwide face increased scrutiny, the New York Police Department, the largest police force in America, is facing a possible internal revolt.
NYPD rank-and-file officers are apparently angry that city leaders have failed to defend them in the wake of the civil unrest that exploded across America in the wake of George Floyd's death. That unrest eventually resulted in numerous NYPD officers being targeted; officers have been shot, stabbed, and even targeted with Molotov cocktails.
NYPD rank-and-file officers are apparently angry that city leaders have failed to defend them in the wake of the civil unrest that exploded across America in the wake of George Floyd's death. That unrest eventually resulted in numerous NYPD officers being targeted; officers have been shot, stabbed, and even targeted with Molotov cocktails.
Kurt Schlichter---The Media Suppresses Anyone Who Thinks Like You
The Media Suppresses Anyone Who Thinks Like You
"We keep hearing about how various institutions should “be like America,” which apparently does not include you.
This is especially true of the garbage media.
...Tom Cotton was invited to write a New York Times op-ed that expressed the sensible position that if local governments could not (or, as seems plausible) would not prevent mass leftist violence, the president should consider the use of active-duty military forces under the Insurrection Act.
Polls said that 58 percent of folks agreed with this position, and it is hardly unprecedented in American history.
I was personally part of the federal Army force that suppressed the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
But the Red Guard Kids who apparently now run the NYT collectively wet themselves in horror and declared a position held by six in 10 Americans completely out of the bounds of acceptable discourse.
...The left is seeking to define the scope of acceptable thought, and they do it by marginalizing the mainstream and mainstreaming the marginal.
They do it by lying both directly and by omission of normal views the leftists disapprove of.
..Look at the “defund the police” idiocy...
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"We keep hearing about how various institutions should “be like America,” which apparently does not include you.
This is especially true of the garbage media.
...Tom Cotton was invited to write a New York Times op-ed that expressed the sensible position that if local governments could not (or, as seems plausible) would not prevent mass leftist violence, the president should consider the use of active-duty military forces under the Insurrection Act.Polls said that 58 percent of folks agreed with this position, and it is hardly unprecedented in American history.
I was personally part of the federal Army force that suppressed the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
But the Red Guard Kids who apparently now run the NYT collectively wet themselves in horror and declared a position held by six in 10 Americans completely out of the bounds of acceptable discourse.
...The left is seeking to define the scope of acceptable thought, and they do it by marginalizing the mainstream and mainstreaming the marginal.
They do it by lying both directly and by omission of normal views the leftists disapprove of.
..Look at the “defund the police” idiocy...
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You just can't debate or discuss issues with today's left.--- Fans of Best of the Web Today
Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"You just can't debate or discuss issues with today's left.
You can't present facts because they won't accept them.
We have transitioned to a time when all that matters is that you admit your guilt.
We have transitioned to a time when all that matters is that you admit your guilt.
...There's nothing left but coercion in their playbook - whether that means embarrassing you on social media or getting you de-platformed or fired.
Like all communist authoritarians, they have even started eating their own, cancelling any of their cadre who is insufficiently loud in cheering for the glorious people's revolution.
Like all communist authoritarians, they have even started eating their own, cancelling any of their cadre who is insufficiently loud in cheering for the glorious people's revolution.
...I talked to a 85 year-old friend of the family down in Mississippi today (a retired South Carolina judge) and asked him if he had ever seen anything like these times - he said the 60's were somewhat like them if you look at the activity of the radical elements but he said there was never the kind of corporate, media and political support for those actions.
...He cast how these leftists are being treated as opposed to how the Bundy's occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the Weavers at Ruby Ridge and how they burned out the folks at Waco and made the point that if the offenders are religious or right wing, it seems the government is very quick to use the term insurrection..
I agreed with him. I can remember the mid to late 60's and the unrest but then was nothing like now. This isn't just weird, it is pure chaos."
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Protesters Destroy Christopher Columbus Statues in VA, MASS
Protesters Destroy Christopher Columbus Statues in VA, MASS:Protesters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia’s state capital on Tuesday using ropes to topple the monument before burning an American flag atop it and dragging it into a nearby lake. In Boston, a statue of the 15th Century explorer was beheaded overnight.
The vandalism comes one day after a judge temporarily blocked Gov. Ralph Northan’s order to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee that stands on Monument Avenue in Richmond.
The media called the Michigan "back-to-work" rally folks "urban terrorists". These murderous terrorists are "protesters"?!!----- GA Police: Three Protesters Tracked Cops to Their Homes, Threw Molotov Cocktails at Their Cars
GA Police: Three Protesters Tracked Cops to Their Homes, Threw Molotov Cocktails at Their Cars
"According to the Gwinnett County, Georgia police, three protesters are under arrest for tracking cops to their homes and tossing Molotov cocktails at their cars.
Police say the vandals tracked those officers down at their homes and tried to torch their cars. Both fires were put out quickly, leaving minor damage to the vehicles.
Ebuka Chike-Morah, 21, Alvin Joseph, 21, and Lakaila Mack, 20, all face multiple charges...
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"According to the Gwinnett County, Georgia police, three protesters are under arrest for tracking cops to their homes and tossing Molotov cocktails at their cars.
Police say the vandals tracked those officers down at their homes and tried to torch their cars. Both fires were put out quickly, leaving minor damage to the vehicles.
Ebuka Chike-Morah, 21, Alvin Joseph, 21, and Lakaila Mack, 20, all face multiple charges...
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NPR, supported by guilty white people-----'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Racist : NPR
'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Racist : NPR"For white people who have just recently recognized their own complicity in America's racist systems and are looking to "fix" that — it's not going to happen overnight." says author Robin DiAngelo...the author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.
The status quo in the United States is racism, DiAngelo says, and "it is comfortable for me, as a white person, to live in a racist society."
To sustain the momentum of these protests, DiAngelo says, it must become uncomfortable for white people to continue to benefit from racist systems.
..."Nice, white people who really aren't doing anything other than being nice people are racist. We are complicit with that system. There is no neutral place."...
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Watch -- NY Police Union Boss: 'Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs'
Watch -- NY Police Union Boss: 'Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs':
New York police union boss Mike O’Meara said politicians and the establishment media must stop treating police officers like “animals and thugs.”
O’Meara, president of the New York State Association of Police Benevolent Associations, lashed out at elected officials and the media for invoking fear and hatred towards police officers — specifically in the black American community.
New York police union boss Mike O’Meara said politicians and the establishment media must stop treating police officers like “animals and thugs.”O’Meara, president of the New York State Association of Police Benevolent Associations, lashed out at elected officials and the media for invoking fear and hatred towards police officers — specifically in the black American community.
Reparations resolution advances in Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times
Reparations resolution advances in Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times
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- The resolution would establish a “Chicago Citizens of African Descent Reparations Commission” to investigate how one of the most segregated cities in the nation could best make amends for the impact of slavery.
The Rebellion of America's New Underclass - The American Mind
The Rebellion of America's New Underclass - The American Mind
"...But in the longer run, the underlying causes of our growing civic breakdown go beyond the brutal police killing of George Floyd.
Particularly in our core cities, our dysfunction is a result of our increasingly large, and increasingly multi-racial, class of neo-serfs.
Like its Medieval counterpart, today’s serf class consists of the permanently marginalized—like the peasants of feudal times, these people are unlikely to move to a higher station.
This does not only apply to the residents of our ghettos and barrios.
Many of our young people, white and otherwise, appear to have little or no hope of attaining the usual milestones of entry into the middle class—gaining a useful and marketable skill, starting a small business, or buying a home or other property.
...This trend has been made worse by the lockdowns surrounding the pandemic.
Almost 40% of those Americans making under $40,000 a year have lost their jobs.
...Particularly telling has been the role played by predominately white radicals—whom Mike Lind hilariously labels “riot ninjas.”
Although often emerging from largely privileged backgrounds, radicals—whether part of anti-fa or just freelance—can be seen as putting into action the political indoctrination they imbibed in college and, increasingly, even earlier.
The agenda of the new activists is nothing less than a total assault on the bourgeoisie.
Protest leaders, such as Black Lives Matter-LA’s Melina Abdulla, believe that “the rebellion” must extend into upscale urban areas...
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"...But in the longer run, the underlying causes of our growing civic breakdown go beyond the brutal police killing of George Floyd.
Particularly in our core cities, our dysfunction is a result of our increasingly large, and increasingly multi-racial, class of neo-serfs.
Like its Medieval counterpart, today’s serf class consists of the permanently marginalized—like the peasants of feudal times, these people are unlikely to move to a higher station.
This does not only apply to the residents of our ghettos and barrios.
...This trend has been made worse by the lockdowns surrounding the pandemic.
Almost 40% of those Americans making under $40,000 a year have lost their jobs.
...Particularly telling has been the role played by predominately white radicals—whom Mike Lind hilariously labels “riot ninjas.”
Although often emerging from largely privileged backgrounds, radicals—whether part of anti-fa or just freelance—can be seen as putting into action the political indoctrination they imbibed in college and, increasingly, even earlier.
The agenda of the new activists is nothing less than a total assault on the bourgeoisie.
Protest leaders, such as Black Lives Matter-LA’s Melina Abdulla, believe that “the rebellion” must extend into upscale urban areas...
Read all.
Backlash against Dem leaders begins, longtime business leaves Minneapolis after being destroyed in riots - TheBlaze
The city of Minneapolis is led by Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey. The city council is composed of 12 Democrats and one member of the Green Party.
And now, a longtime manufacturing business is immediately relocating away from Minneapolis after Democratic leaders failed to protect the city, instead allowing violence to overrun it in the wake of George Floyd's tragic death.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Boston to reassess future of Columbus statue beheaded in North End. In other…
Instapundit Blog Archive IT’S COME TO THIS: Boston to reassess future of Columbus statue beheaded in North End. In other…
IT’S COME TO THIS: Boston to reassess future of Columbus statue beheaded in North End.
In other news from the land of John Kerry, Berklee College Bans Boston Cops From Restroom: “Berklee President Roger Brown said in a letter to the school community that allowing the officers inside on Sunday, May 31, perpetuated ‘feelings of oppression, silencing, and marginalization.’
Brown, who is stepping down from his post at the Boston music school next year, added:
‘Let us assure you, this should not have happened, and going forward, it will not happen again.’”--Posted by
IT’S COME TO THIS: Boston to reassess future of Columbus statue beheaded in North End.
Brown, who is stepping down from his post at the Boston music school next year, added:
‘Let us assure you, this should not have happened, and going forward, it will not happen again.’”--Posted by
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