Friday, April 09, 2021

When a Racism Story Isn’t About Racism

When a Racism Story Isn’t About Racism
  • No crime victim ever felt happy because his mugger wasn’t a bigot.
"Last summer, Frederick Douglass Smith, a black Obama supporter, was accused of sexually harassing and then yelling racial slurs at an Asian woman at a Mexican restaurant.
Now the New York Times decided to blame this spectacular triumph of diversity on Trump.
After an introductory tweet blaming President Trump for all the attacks on Asians after the "president began calling the coronavirus the "Chinese virus", the Democrat paper featured the case of Smith whom it describes as using "derogatory racial slurs and misogynistic terms".
The Times understandably leaves out the slurs, not because it’s trying to spare the ears of its sensitive readers, but because what Smith allegedly said was, “I’m a contributor to the Obama administration you f***ing Asian c**t.”
Journalism is deader than chivalry so the mere fact that the paper’s second example of Trumpian hate consisted of a man named after a dead civil rights leader announcing his support for Obama before shouting an anti-Asian slur wouldn’t keep any Times editors up late at night...Read all.

This took a LAWSUIT to force dead people out?!!!----Pennsylvania Agrees to Remove Names of Dead Citizens From Voter Rolls: Settlement

Pennsylvania Agrees to Remove Names of Dead Citizens From Voter Rolls: Settlement:
"...The state of Pennsylvania agreed to remove the names of deceased people from voter rolls, an election-integrity watchdog group announced after reaching a settlement with state officials.
The
lawsuit,
which was filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation in November 2020, alleged that some 21,000 registrants who had died were still on the state’s voter rolls at the time of the 2020 presidential election. 
Pennsylvania agreed to compare its voter-registration database with the Social Security Death Index, and then direct all county election commissions to remove the names of dead registrants...Read all.

Lunch video-----Make America California

Biden admin halts Houston highway expansion, citing racial injustice - TheBlaze

Biden admin halts Houston highway expansion, citing racial injustice - TheBlaze

The state was close to breaking ground on the project — a proposed widening of certain sections of Interstate 45 that has been years in the making — when the Department of Transportation invoked the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to temporarily shut it down pending further review, Politico reported.

The department's intervention is being described as a "test case" for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who previously decried racial injustice in highway construction and vowed to make "righting these wrongs an imperative" under his leadership.


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Look at the "Rifle" murder numbers!-----Crime in the U.S. 2018 • Tables • Expanded Homicide Data Table 8

Crime in the U.S. 2018 • Tables • Expanded Homicide Data Table 8


"...jumped the gun..."


 

Moral hypocrisy!

From the web:
"Gee, let’s keep churches closed, hey let’s keep murdering babies, no-bail and no requirement to look for a job or work for “assistance “! 
Wonder why we’re in a helluva mess.........just sayin!"




#1 This day 1974-----Elton John - Bennie And The Jets (original 1973) by Eletrovecino

Morally Corrupt Activism is at the Heart of Black Lives Matter - America Out Loud

Morally Corrupt Activism is at the Heart of Black Lives Matter - America Out Loud
"...The third reason I am against Black Lives Matter is that the entire organization is based on a false narrative, as I will show below.
How many of the people who are a part of the Black Lives Matter movement have taken the time to find out if the assumptions the movement is based on are true? 
Is there an epidemic of unarmed black men being killed by the police in our country?
There is a database we can use to check that assumption. 
The truth is that the police killed 1,003 people in 2019. 
250 were black (about a quarter of the total), and 405 were white (about 40% of the total). 
55 were unarmed, and of those, 14 were black (about a quarter of the total), and 25 were white (about 45% of the total).
As a percent of the population, African Americans are over-represented in police shootings, both unarmed and otherwise, but then African Americans are also over-represented in the crime statistics. 
According to FBI statistics, African Americans commit 52% of all violent crimes...Read all.

What it's REALLY about!




Justice Clarence Thomas fires a warning shot at social media companies over free speech - TheBlaze

Justice Clarence Thomas fires a warning shot at social media companies over free speech - TheBlaze

Thomas carefully considers whether social media companies should be afforded legal protection by the government outlined in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and laments that the current case doesn't allow for the court to address the issue fully.

Teaching, preaching hate!-----Campus Reform | Theology prof: 'Dear God, please help me to hate White people'

Campus Reform | Theology prof: 'Dear God, please help me to hate White people'
"A seminary professor — who teaches at a university with a “Baptist identity” — wrote a prayer in which she asks God to help her “hate White people.”
“Lord, if you can’t make me hate them, at least spare me from their perennial gaslighting, whitemansplaining, and White woman tears,” she prays.
Chanequa Walker-Barnes is an associate professor of practical theology at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, which claims a Baptist identity. 
Her oration was published in A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal.
“Dear God, Please help me to hate White people,” opens the prayer. “Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively.”
“I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist,” she continues.
“I am not talking about the White antiracist allies who have taken up this struggle against racism with their whole lives,” Walker-Barnes clarifies for the Creator of the universe. 
“No, those aren’t the people I want to hate....Read all.

AM Fruitcake


 

History for April 9

History for April 9 - On-This-Day.com
Hugh Hefner 1926 - Publisher
  • 1682 - Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France.
  • 1770 - Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent.
  • 1865 - At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McClean's home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had killed 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops.
  • 1867 - The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty with Russia that purchased the territory of Alaska by one vote.
  • 1942 - In the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino forces were overwhelmed by the Japanese Army.
  • 1945 - National Football League officials decreed that it was mandatory for football players to wear socks in all league games.
  • 1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts.

Thursday, April 08, 2021

Report: China detaining Christians in windowless 'transformation' facilities, using 'brainwashing' to get them to renounce their faith - TheBlaze

Report: China detaining Christians in windowless 'transformation' facilities, using 'brainwashing' to get them to renounce their faith - TheBlaze

Chinese officials are detaining Christians in windowless "transformation" facilities and using "brainwashing" to get them to renounce their faith, Radio Free Asia reported.

RFA said it spoke to a member of a Christian house church who asked to be identified by a pseudonym — and "Li Yuese" told the outlet he was held for nearly 10 months in a facility run by the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department after a 2018 raid on his church.

The way we were-----At This Theater Next Week! Remembering Movie Serials

Boob-tube-----Chip and Dale & Donald Duck 2019 Compilation Full Cartoons

Guns used in mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2021

Guns used in mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2021
"...Guns used in mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2021--Published by Statista Research Department, Mar 23, 2021
 Handguns are the most common weapon type used in mass shootings in the United States, with a total of 143 different handguns being used in 95 incidents between 1982 and March 2021. 
These figures are calculated from a total of 121 reported cases over this period, meaning handguns are involved in about 78 percent of mass shootings...Read all.


Univ. of Pennsylvania professors discuss media’s alleged anti-black bias

Univ. of Pennsylvania professors discuss media’s alleged anti-black bias
  • At a virtual event this past Monday, several University of Pennsylvania academics chatted about the prevalence of racial bias in the media.
"...Annenberg School for Communication Dean John Jackson Jr. ...“We often only are able to translate racial dynamics into representations that are hard and fast — good guys over here with white hats, and the bad guys over there with black hats on full time,” the dean said. The media has been part of creating “racialized violence, racial segregation, [and] racial stereotypes.”
Both Miller and Jackson Jr. noted that since networks are “largely controlled by white men,” they have substantial influence over what Americans see and hear. Jackson said we “must dismantle” the bias which been “built in, [and] serves powerful constituencies and serves institutional inequalities.”...Read all.

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Yes, it's The Bee...or is it?-----Slim Jim Takes A Stand For Body Positivity With New Full-Figured Jim | The Babylon Bee

Slim Jim Takes A Stand For Body Positivity With New Full-Figured Jim | The Babylon Bee:
"CHICAGO, IL—In a press release Wednesday, Conagra Brands announced a new line of Full-Figured Jims, a spinoff of Slim Jims that's designed to promote body positivity...Read all!

Opinion: Stop harming our children, follow the medical facts

Opinion: Stop harming our children, follow the medical facts
  • The forced isolation of adolescents through COVID guidelines should be withdrawn immediately as a national policy to protect our youth from the severe epidemic of suicide that is far more dangerous to youth than is COVID.
"On March 20, 2021, some 10,000 people engaged in a London rally protesting the severe COVID lockdowns of schools, businesses, restaurants, bars, and even playgrounds. I was particularly struck by a sign carried by a woman that read “Stop Harming Our Children”.
As a busy psychiatrist who has been hearing of growing numbers of adolescent suicides from acquaintances of patients and friends, the extent of this reality was brought home by a March 25, 2021 report from Boston Children’s Hospital. 
It states that between July and October of last year there was a 47% increase, over the same time period the year before, in adolescents needing to be hospitalized for suicidal ideation and attempts...Read all.

Lunch video-----Follow the Science