vdare--2020-02-12--This Day In VDARE.com History: Why Do Only Whites Lose Jobs Over Racial Remarks?

Originally posted on February 12 , 2008 , and still true .
In his 1993 book Beautiful Losers : Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism , the late Sam Francis wrote , `` the practice of ruining a white person once a year in honor of Dr. [ Martin Luther ] King is becoming a national tradition . ''
Sam , who would soon become one of those ruined white persons , mentioned the well-known cases of Jimmy `` the Greek '' Snyder and Al Campanis , who lost jobs for their theories about blacks and sports .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maryland school teacher who was suspended ( though not fired in those lax days ) for telling someone in a private conversation ( correctly ) that King was a communist sympathizer .
The pace of ruining white people for allegedly racist remarks has picked up in the last 15 years—and even in the three years since Sam passed on .
As Don Imus , James Watson , Michael Richards , Dave Seanor ( former Golfweek editor ) and Kelly Tilghman ( Golf Channel anchor ) can attest , the practice is now much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whites on the hard-right and ( especially ) the race-realist right have long lost jobs or appointments over their racial views or remarks .
A brief list would include Mel Bradford , Sam Francis , Chris Brand , Andrew Fraser , Kevin Lamb and Frank Ellis .
Academics such as Michael Levin , Philippe Rushton , and the late Glayde Whitney were harassed for their scholarly work on race but managed to keep their jobs because of tenure .
Of course , many would argue that racialists ( if they are white ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ repellent and deserve to lose their jobs .
But events of the last several years prove that whites can become a victim if they express forbidden views or make a racial joke .
Actors ( Michael Richards ) , `` shock jocks '' ( Imus , J.C. Corcoran , the Greaseman ) , athletes ( John Rocker , Paul Hornung , Fuzzy Zoeller ) and politicians ( Trent Lott ) have all been fired , demoted or suspended for allegedly racial remarks .
Whites on the right are used to being harassed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ others , armed with all the proper opinions on race , never dream of a day when they will come face to face with Big Brother .
Robert Weissberg , professor emeritus at the University of Illinois-Urbana , tells a tragic tale of his former colleague Stuart Nagel , an impeccably leftist professor and civil rights veteran , who lost his job over an innocuous remark about why Asian businesses outperform black enterprises in Kenya ( he claimed it was due to credit issues ) .
After a black student filed a complaint @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racist '' and subjected to university investigations and two federal trials .
Nagel lost his job and was coerced into retirement .
Abandoned by his colleagues and left with over $ 100,000 in debt from legal fees , he committed suicide .
A question I 've never seen discussed is why only whites seem to suffer the consequences of inappropriate racial remarks .
If whites had a monopoly on racist speech , perhaps it would be understandable .
But well-known blacks routinely make racist remarks about whites and others .
None , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faced anything more than mild criticism .
Consider the following : Ice Cube was a black `` gangsta rapper '' in the late 1990s who routinely advocated racist violence against non-blacks .
One of his albums , titled `` Death Certificate , '' contained this rap about Asian store owners : '' So do n't follow me up and down your market Or your little chop suey ass will be a target So pay your respects to the black fist Or we 'll burn your store right down to a crisp . ''
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ who makes millions playing the fun-loving father with a heart of gold in family movies like Are We There Yet and the sequel , Are We Done Yet .
Needless to say , Michael Richards will not be cast as the goofy dad in a family comedy anytime soon .
Bryant Gumbel is the host of HBO 's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel .
In 2006 , prior to the Winter Olympics , Gumbel made claims that would seem to echo those of Jimmy the Greek .
Dismissing the athleticism on display at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Count me among those who do n't care about them and wo n't watch them ...
So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world 's greatest athletes , despite a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention . ''
Leaving aside the fact that white athletes always win the most medals in both the summer and winter Olympics , Gumbel is simply declaring black supremacy in sports .
Far from hurting his career , Gumbel was awarded with a play-by-play job with NFL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ middleweight boxing champion .
While promoting his upcoming fight against super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe , who is white , Hopkins claimed , `` I would never let a white boy beat me .
You can print that .
I would never lose to a white person .
`` [ 2007 'S OVERHEARD : The best quotes of the year , Detroit Free Press , January 1 , 2008 ] There was , of course , no John Rocker treatment for Hopkins .
Only days after the 2006 Duke lacrosse rape hoax , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] a Duke professor of English and African-American studies assailed `` white…male athletes , veritably given license to rape , maraud , deploy hate speech '' and `` sport their disgraced jerseys on campus , safe under the cover of silent whiteness . ''
Even before any charges were made , Baker proclaimed the whites guilty of `` abhorrent sexual assault , verbal racial violence , and drunken white male privilege loosed amongst us .
`` against a `` black woman who their violence and raucous witness injured for life . ''
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ players politely emailed him to request he reconsider the case , Baker emailed back : '' LIES !
You are just a provocateur on a happy New Years Eve trying to get credit for a scummy bunch of white males !
You know you are in search of sympaathy [ sic ] for young white guys who beat up a gay man [ sic ] in Georgetown , get drunk in Durham , and lived like a bunch of farm animals near campus .
I really hope whoever sent this stupid farce of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ sic ] new year to you ... and forgive me if your really are , quite sadly , mother of a `` farm animal . ''
This blatantly racist and embarrassingly written email did not stop Baker from being named Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University in the English ( !
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department .
His appointment came only months after he had led efforts to scapegoat innocent white students at his own university .
The list of racist remarks from famous blacks can go on forever .
It includes politicians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , athletes and others .
Figures such as Oprah Winfrey , Willie Brown , Dick Gregory , Spike Lee , Maxine Waters and Jeremiah Wright , the `` spiritual father , '' of Barack Obama would be included on this list .
But all are lauded , influential people in American life .
And none has lost a job .
One important difference when noting the double standard in treatment of blacks and whites over racial remarks is the context of the offending statements .
Most of the `` racist '' remarks by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a light-hearted manner .
The statements of Trent Lott , Don Imus , Kelly Tilghman , Fuzzy Zoeller and other whites all fall into this category .
Not so with most of the blacks .
When they make racial remarks it is often racial slurs ( Bernard Hopkins , Dick Gregory , Willie Brown ) or expressions of intense hatred towards whites ( Ice Cube , bell hooks , Jonathan Farley ) .
Michael Richards did launch an angry tirade against blacks who were harassing him at a comedy club , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racial heckling .
Some might bring up the cases of race activist Andrew Young and actor Isaiah Washington as examples of blacks who have lost jobs over offensive remarks .
Young , in his capacity for an organization that promotes Wal-Mart , attacked Jews , Koreans and Arabs as merchants who exploit black customers .
He received some criticism for the remarks but he was not fired from his position .
In fact , he seemed to get more flak for shilling for Wal-Mart and ended up resigning .
Washington referred to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faggot '' on the set of Grey 's Anatomy .
He also got into a fight with co-star Patrick Dempsey who came to his defense .
The pressure on Washington came from gay groups , which prompted his departure from the hit show a season later .
If Washington had merely called his cast mate a `` white boy '' or a `` white motherf***** , '' he would still have a job .
The ruining of a white person that Sam Francis wrote about 15 years ago is now a year-round event @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racial remarks have no defenders in the media , politics , academia or any other institution .
There are no mainstream groups that defend the interests of whites , so the accused find themselves all alone in the crosshairs .
No wonder they immediately beg and grovel and throw themselves on the mercy of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson .
But they are begging for mercy that is never granted .
Perhaps there will come a day when whites tire of this double standard and start pushing back .
But that day is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unless whites are prepared to run the gauntlet , they should follow the advice of an anonymous poster on the American Renaissance website : '' When on the job , DO NOT DISCUSS RACE !
In any form .
Do not comment , do not even mention it , or acknowledge it , or use any sort of race-related terminology .
Just say nothing !
Have no opinion ! ''

Originally posted on February 12, 2008, and still true.
In his 1993 book Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism, the late Sam Francis wrote, "the practice of ruining a white person once a year in honor of Dr. [Martin Luther] King is becoming a national tradition." Sam, who would soon become one of those ruined white persons, mentioned the well-known cases of Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder and Al Campanis, who lost jobs for their theories about blacks and sports. He also described the 1986 case of a Maryland school teacher who was suspended (though not fired in those lax days) for telling someone in a private conversation (correctly) that King was a communist sympathizer.
The pace of ruining white people for allegedly racist remarks has picked up in the last 15 years—and even in the three years since Sam passed on.
As Don Imus, James Watson, Michael Richards, Dave Seanor (former Golfweek editor) and Kelly Tilghman (Golf Channel anchor) can attest, the practice is now much more common than once a year.
Whites on the hard-right and (especially) the race-realist right have long lost jobs or appointments over their racial views or remarks. A brief list would include Mel Bradford, Sam Francis, Chris Brand, Andrew Fraser, Kevin Lamb and Frank Ellis. Academics such as Michael Levin, Philippe Rushton, and the late Glayde Whitney were harassed for their scholarly work on race but managed to keep their jobs because of tenure.
Of course, many would argue that racialists (if they are white) and those on the hard right are repellent and deserve to lose their jobs.
But events of the last several years prove that whites can become a victim if they express forbidden views or make a racial joke. Actors (Michael Richards), "shock jocks" (Imus, J.C. Corcoran, the Greaseman), athletes (John Rocker, Paul Hornung, Fuzzy Zoeller) and politicians (Trent Lott) have all been fired, demoted or suspended for allegedly racial remarks.
Whites on the right are used to being harassed and fired for their racial views. But others, armed with all the proper opinions on race, never dream of a day when they will come face to face with Big Brother.
Robert Weissberg, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois-Urbana, tells a tragic tale of his former colleague Stuart Nagel, an impeccably leftist professor and civil rights veteran, who lost his job over an innocuous remark about why Asian businesses outperform black enterprises in Kenya (he claimed it was due to credit issues). After a black student filed a complaint, the professor was branded a "racist" and subjected to university investigations and two federal trials. Nagel lost his job and was coerced into retirement. Abandoned by his colleagues and left with over $100,000 in debt from legal fees, he committed suicide.
A question I've never seen discussed is why only whites seem to suffer the consequences of inappropriate racial remarks. If whites had a monopoly on racist speech, perhaps it would be understandable. But well-known blacks routinely make racist remarks about whites and others. None, to my knowledge, have been fired or faced anything more than mild criticism.
Consider the following:
Ice Cube was a black "gangsta rapper" in the late 1990s who routinely advocated racist violence against non-blacks. One of his albums, titled "Death Certificate," contained this rap about Asian store owners:
"So don't follow me up and down your market
Or your little chop suey ass will be a target
So pay your respects to the black fist
Or we'll burn your store right down to a crisp."
Today, Ice Cube is an actor who makes millions playing the fun-loving father with a heart of gold in family movies like Are We There Yet and the sequel, Are We Done Yet.
Needless to say, Michael Richards will not be cast as the goofy dad in a family comedy anytime soon.
Bryant Gumbel is the host of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. In 2006, prior to the Winter Olympics, Gumbel made claims that would seem to echo those of Jimmy the Greek. Dismissing the athleticism on display at the Winter Olympics he announced, "Count me among those who don't care about them and won't watch them... So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention."
Leaving aside the fact that white athletes always win the most medals in both the summer and winter Olympics, Gumbel is simply declaring black supremacy in sports. Far from hurting his career, Gumbel was awarded with a play-by-play job with NFL Network.
Bernard Hopkins is a former middleweight boxing champion. While promoting his upcoming fight against super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, who is white, Hopkins claimed, "I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person."[2007'S OVERHEARD: The best quotes of the year, Detroit Free Press, January 1, 2008]
There was, of course, no John Rocker treatment for Hopkins.
Only days after the 2006 Duke lacrosse rape hoax, Houston Baker, [send him mail] a Duke professor of English and African-American studies assailed "white…male athletes, veritably given license to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech" and "sport their disgraced jerseys on campus, safe under the cover of silent whiteness." Even before any charges were made, Baker proclaimed the whites guilty of "abhorrent sexual assault, verbal racial violence, and drunken white male privilege loosed amongst us. "against a "black woman who their violence and raucous witness injured for life."
When a mother of one of the white players politely emailed him to request he reconsider the case, Baker emailed back:
"LIES! You are just a provocateur on a happy New Years Eve trying to get credit for a scummy bunch of white males! You know you are in search of sympaathy [sic] for young white guys who beat up a gay man [sic] in Georgetown, get drunk in Durham, and lived like a bunch of farm animals near campus. I really hope whoever sent this stupid farce of an email rots in .... umhappy [sic] new year to you ... and forgive me if your really are, quite sadly, mother of a "farm animal."
This blatantly racist and embarrassingly written email did not stop Baker from being named Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University in the English (!!!) department. His appointment came only months after he had led efforts to scapegoat innocent white students at his own university.
The list of racist remarks from famous blacks can go on forever. It includes politicians, religious leaders, actors, singers, athletes and others. Figures such as Oprah Winfrey, Willie Brown, Dick Gregory, Spike Lee, Maxine Waters and Jeremiah Wright, the "spiritual father," of Barack Obama would be included on this list.
But all are lauded, influential people in American life. And none has lost a job.
One important difference when noting the double standard in treatment of blacks and whites over racial remarks is the context of the offending statements. Most of the "racist" remarks by whites are jokes, or statements said in a light-hearted manner. The statements of Trent Lott, Don Imus, Kelly Tilghman, Fuzzy Zoeller and other whites all fall into this category. Not so with most of the blacks. When they make racial remarks it is often racial slurs (Bernard Hopkins, Dick Gregory, Willie Brown) or expressions of intense hatred towards whites (Ice Cube, bell hooks, Jonathan Farley).
Michael Richards did launch an angry tirade against blacks who were harassing him at a comedy club, but it was apparently in retaliation for their racial heckling.
Some might bring up the cases of race activist Andrew Young and actor Isaiah Washington as examples of blacks who have lost jobs over offensive remarks. Young, in his capacity for an organization that promotes Wal-Mart, attacked Jews, Koreans and Arabs as merchants who exploit black customers. He received some criticism for the remarks but he was not fired from his position. In fact, he seemed to get more flak for shilling for Wal-Mart and ended up resigning.
Washington referred to a white, gay actor as a "faggot" on the set of Grey's Anatomy. He also got into a fight with co-star Patrick Dempsey who came to his defense. The pressure on Washington came from gay groups, which prompted his departure from the hit show a season later.
If Washington had merely called his cast mate a "white boy" or a "white motherf*****," he would still have a job.
The ruining of a white person that Sam Francis wrote about 15 years ago is now a year-round event. Whites who are charged with inappropriate racial remarks have no defenders in the media, politics, academia or any other institution. There are no mainstream groups that defend the interests of whites, so the accused find themselves all alone in the crosshairs. No wonder they immediately beg and grovel and throw themselves on the mercy of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. But they are begging for mercy that is never granted.
Perhaps there will come a day when whites tire of this double standard and start pushing back. But that day is nowhere in sight right now. So unless whites are prepared to run the gauntlet, they should follow the advice of an anonymous poster on the American Renaissance website:
"When on the job, DO NOT DISCUSS RACE! In any form. Do not comment, do not even mention it, or acknowledge it, or use any sort of race-related terminology. Just say nothing! Have no opinion!"
Peter Bradley [email him] works in Washington, D.C.


vdare--2020-02-12--Sailer Review Of Ezra Klein's "Why We're Polarized" In TakiMag

From my new book review in Taki ’ s Magazine : The energetic media tycoon Ezra Klein has a book @ @ @ @ @ re Polarized .
Spoiler alert : One reason is because too many people watch Fox @ @ @ @ @ ’ s properties like Vox .
Another cause is because somebody imprudently spilled the beans @ @ @ @ @ that they are being demographically doomed to defeat while they still have a chance to @ @ @ @ @

From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine:
The energetic media tycoon Ezra Klein has a book out titled Why We’re Polarized. Spoiler alert: One reason is because too many people watch Fox News instead of reading Klein’s properties like Vox. Another cause is because somebody imprudently spilled the beans to “white Christians” that they are being demographically doomed to defeat while they still have a chance to do something about it.


vdare--2020-02-12--Andrew Yang Ends His Presidential Campaign

As the media and other candidates awaited the results of the New Hampshire primary , candidate Andrew Yang announced he was calling it quits .
Tucker Carlson interviewed Yang last March about automation , and remarked on Tuesday that he was a “ good guy personally and a serious person talking about things that actually matter and will matter 20 years from now.
” Yang is a tech guy who tried to bring attention to the coming problem of extensive automation which he mentioned during his remarks about ending the campaign : ANDREW YANG : We highlighted the real problems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being transformed before our very eyes by technology and automation .
Americans know now that when you go to a factory in Michigan , you do not find wall-to-wall immigrants doing work .
You find wall-to-wall robot arms and machines doing the work that people used to do .
We stood on the debate stage and shifted our national conversation to include the fourth industrial revolution , a topic no one wanted to touch until we made it happen here with this campaign .
Unfortunately , for whatever reason , Yang emphasized his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rather than alerting the public to the coming employment downturn .
He calls it the “ Freedom Dividend ” aka Universal Basic Income on his website Yang2020 .
One of Yang ’ s worst enemies in his political campaign was America ’ s excellent economy , so any warnings about robots taking jobs from humans must have seemed a distant threat to many voters .
But at least he brought the issue to a wider public .
President Trump should hire him as the Under Secretary of Commerce in charge of American preparations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also severely decrease foreign entrants to this country , because

As the media and other candidates awaited the results of the New Hampshire primary, candidate Andrew Yang announced he was calling it quits.
Tucker Carlson interviewed Yang last March about automation, and remarked on Tuesday that he was a “good guy personally and a serious person talking about things that actually matter and will matter 20 years from now.”
Yang is a tech guy who tried to bring attention to the coming problem of extensive automation which he mentioned during his remarks about ending the campaign:
ANDREW YANG: We highlighted the real problems in our communities as our economy is being transformed before our very eyes by technology and automation. Americans know now that when you go to a factory in Michigan, you do not find wall-to-wall immigrants doing work. You find wall-to-wall robot arms and machines doing the work that people used to do. We stood on the debate stage and shifted our national conversation to include the fourth industrial revolution, a topic no one wanted to touch until we made it happen here with this campaign.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Yang emphasized his free money cure for automation-caused job loss rather than alerting the public to the coming employment downturn. He calls it the “Freedom Dividend” aka Universal Basic Income on his website Yang2020.
One of Yang’s worst enemies in his political campaign was America’s excellent economy, so any warnings about robots taking jobs from humans must have seemed a distant threat to many voters.
But at least he brought the issue to a wider public. President Trump should hire him as the Under Secretary of Commerce in charge of American preparations for the automated future.
Trump can also severely decrease foreign entrants to this country, because


vdare--2020-02-12--CNBC—"Nearly One in Three American Workers Run Out of Money Before Payday."   And We're Bringing in

CNBC—"Nearly One in Three American Workers Run Out of Money Before Payday."   And We're Bringing in More Workers?

CNBC reports that one in three American workers run out of money before payday .
I know I do .
So why is this ?
For many , it ’ s the rising cost of living — including food , housing , education and medical expenses — that creates the squeeze .
Over the past year , basic costs increased by 2.3 % , according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ’ s Consumer Price Index .
The cost of medical care rose 4.6 % in 2019 , the largest year-over-year increase since 2007 , the BLS reports .
Housing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while education expenses rose 2.1 % and food prices increased about 1.8 % .
For others , it ’ s stagnant wages .
Real wages effectively remained stalled last year , showing only a 0.2 % year-over-year increase , according to the PayScale Index .
But looking longer term , Payscale found median wages , when adjusted for inflation , actually declined 9 % since 2006 .
So why do we continue to import more workers ?
How about allowing the system to work for American workers ?
We really do n't need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your future from financial threats , Tom Butch , managing director of retail distribution at TD Ameritrade , recently recommended Americans develop a comprehensive financial plan and build an emergency savings fund of three to six months of living expenses .
Setting up regular , automatic transfers from your checking account to a savings account will help grow your emergency fund over time .
If you ’ re tight on money at the moment , start small with just $ 5 a day or $ 5 a week .
And consider a high-yield @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interest that compounds over time .
Yes of course we should save more .
But it 's hard with all the expenses , and debt is really a problem .
So once again I ask , why are we importing more workers ?

CNBC reports that one in three American workers run out of money before payday. I know I do.
...For about a third of Americans, this is a regular financial stress, with 32% running out of money before their next paycheck hits, according to a new survey fielded by Salary Finance of over 2,700 U.S. adults working at companies with over 500 employees...Contrary to popular belief, “this is not just an issue for people at the lower end of the income spectrum,” Dan Macklin, Salary Finance’s U.S. CEO and co-founder of SoFi, tells CNBC Make It. About 31% of respondents earning over $100,000 also regularly experience a budget shortfall before payday.
[Nearly 1 in 3 American workers run out of money before payday - even those earning over 100,000 ,by Megan Leonhardt, CNBC, February 12, 2020]
So why is this?
For many, it’s the rising cost of living — including food, housing, education and medical expenses — that creates the squeeze. Over the past year, basic costs increased by 2.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Consumer Price Index. The cost of medical care rose 4.6% in 2019, the largest year-over-year increase since 2007, the BLS reports. Housing also jumped 3.2% last year, while education expenses rose 2.1% and food prices increased about 1.8%. For others, it’s stagnant wages. Real wages effectively remained stalled last year, showing only a 0.2% year-over-year increase, according to the PayScale Index. But looking longer term, Payscale found median wages, when adjusted for inflation, actually declined 9% since 2006.
So why do we continue to import more workers? How about allowing the system to work for American workers? We really don't need more workers.
In order to shield your future from financial threats, Tom Butch, managing director of retail distribution at TD Ameritrade, recently recommended Americans develop a comprehensive financial plan and build an emergency savings fund of three to six months of living expenses. Setting up regular, automatic transfers from your checking account to a savings account will help grow your emergency fund over time. If you’re tight on money at the moment, start small with just $5 a day or $5 a week. And consider a high-yield savings account, which typically pays higher interest that compounds over time.
Yes of course we should save more. But it's hard with all the expenses, and debt is really a problem.
So once again I ask, why are we importing more workers?


vdare--2020-02-12--This Day In VDARE.com History: A (Former) DC Resident Says That Diversity Has Not Just Come To Montg

This Day In VDARE.com History: A (Former) DC Resident Says That Diversity Has Not Just Come To Montgomery County, It's Been Sent For

Re : Minorities are majority population in Montgomery County , By Carol Morello and Dan Keating , Washington Post , February 10 , 2011 I grew up in the Washington DC area and Montgomery County in Maryland was always known as the `` rich county '' with big homes , rolling hills , good schools , etc .
It has the eighth highest median income among counties nationwide !
But ... more than 100,000 whites moved out over the past decade , and guess who moved in ?
That 's right .
More than 100,000 Hispanics .
Result ?
Whites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2000 to 49 % in 2010 ( they were 72 % just twenty years ago in 1990 !
! )
I had always presumed that a rich county like Montgomery would never suffer the `` white flight '' fate of so many other areas simply because expensive home prices would keep the riff-raff out .
But I underestimated the left 's clever tactics ... look at what Wikipedia revealed Yup , the left , under the social justice banner of `` affordable housing , '' continues to sneak `` diversity '' into white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throw incentives to big business to get them to play along .
The left colluding with big business to screw Middle America ... .sounds so familiar !
Apparently it plays out at both the national and local levels !
I remember reading just a couple years ago—and being shocked—that something like half of the kids in Montgomery County now use subsidized lunch tickets .
I thought the article had to be mistaken .
Rich Montgomery County ?
All I have to say is , if you ca n't win nationally , there 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begins with zoning laws .
Beware your community 's zoning laws !
We all have an evolutionary instinct to fight or flight , but whites seem to have forgotten the `` fight '' option .
I say stand up and fight for your communities and call out the `` affordable housing '' racket for what it is—a sick social engineering experiment concoted by leftists who have managed to co-opt money-grubbing developers to their cause .
If a rich county like Montgomery can fall to diversity , no county is safe ...

Originally published on February 12, 2011.
From: A Reader [Email him]
Re: Minorities are majority population in Montgomery County, By Carol Morello and Dan Keating, Washington Post, February 10, 2011
I grew up in the Washington DC area and Montgomery County in Maryland was always known as the "rich county" with big homes, rolling hills, good schools, etc. It has the eighth highest median income among counties nationwide!
But...more than 100,000 whites moved out over the past decade, and guess who moved in? That's right. More than 100,000 Hispanics. Result? Whites dropped from 62% of pop in 2000 to 49% in 2010 (they were 72% just twenty years ago in 1990!!)
I had always presumed that a rich county like Montgomery would never suffer the "white flight" fate of so many other areas simply because expensive home prices would keep the riff-raff out.
But I underestimated the left's clever tactics... look at what Wikipedia revealed
"Since the 1970s, the county has had in place a Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit (MPDU) zoning plan that requires developers to include affordable housing in any new residential developments that they construct in the county. The goal is to create socioeconomically mixed neighborhoods and schools so the rich and poor are not isolated in separate parts of the county. Developers who provide for more than the minimum amount of MPDUs are rewarded with permission to increase the density of their developments, which allows them to build more housing and generate more revenue."[Montgomery County, Maryland, as of February 12, 2011]
Yup, the left, under the social justice banner of "affordable housing," continues to sneak "diversity" into white communities through zoning laws. And they throw incentives to big business to get them to play along. The left colluding with big business to screw Middle America....sounds so familiar! Apparently it plays out at both the national and local levels!
I remember reading just a couple years ago—and being shocked—that something like half of the kids in Montgomery County now use subsidized lunch tickets. I thought the article had to be mistaken. Rich Montgomery County?
All I have to say is, if you can't win nationally, there's plenty to fight locally. And it begins with zoning laws. Beware your community's zoning laws!
We all have an evolutionary instinct to fight or flight, but whites seem to have forgotten the "fight" option. I say stand up and fight for your communities and call out the "affordable housing" racket for what it is—a sick social engineering experiment concoted by leftists who have managed to co-opt money-grubbing developers to their cause.
If a rich county like Montgomery can fall to diversity, no county is safe...


vdare--2020-02-12--Based Bloomberg in 2008 on the Minority Mortgage Meltdown

On the tenth anniversary in September 2018 , I recounted the state of the art explanation of the Mortgage Meltdown @ @ @ @ @ research by academics into who defaulted and how much .
Of course , there were @ @ @ @ @ the American economy , such the deindustrialization of the United States leading industrial countries like @ @ @ @ @ up with huge piles of cash needing to be invested somewhere .
But why the @ @ @ @ @ mortgages in the United States ’ Sand States had a lot to do with the @ @ @ @ @ global financial institutions that there was a great opportunity lending mortgage money to minorities due @ @ @ @ @ lenders overlooking thousand dollar bills lying on the exurban sidewalks out of ethnic prejudice .

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On the tenth anniversary in September 2018, I recounted the state of the art explanation of the Mortgage Meltdown based on a decade of research by academics into who defaulted and how much.
Of course, there were broader causes for dislocations in the American economy, such the deindustrialization of the United States leading industrial countries like China and Germany to wind up with huge piles of cash needing to be invested somewhere. But why the money flowed in particular to mortgages in the United States’ Sand States had a lot to do with the Bush Administration telling American and global financial institutions that there was a great opportunity lending mortgage money to minorities due to the bigotry of previous lenders overlooking thousand dollar bills lying on the exurban sidewalks out of ethnic prejudice.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-02-12--Ezra Klein: Shhhhhh, Ixnay on How Demographic Change Is "a Force of Nonwhite People Who Are Coming a

Ezra Klein: Shhhhhh, Ixnay on How Demographic Change Is "a Force of Nonwhite People Who Are Coming and They Are Working as a Coalition to Overturn White People and Whiteness"

From my review in Taki ’ s Magazine of Ezra Klein ’ s new Why We ’ re Polarized : The good news , according to Klein , is that “ white Christians ” are being demographically inundated in what Ezra calls the Browning of America .
The bad news , according to Ezra , is that some whites have started to notice the fate that is being prepared for them , and thus they voted for Trump .
Klein says that the media should try harder to mislead white Christians about demographic change so that they don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too late for them to do anything about it : As we navigate these sensitivities , we can do so with more or less care .
[ Jennifer ] Richeson believes it would be wise for demographers to stop using terms like “ majority-minority America ” —after all , whites will still be a plurality and what good can come of framing America ’ s trajectory in a way that leaves the single largest group feeling maximally threatened ?
It sounds like “ a force of nonwhite people who are coming and they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white people and whiteness , ” Richeson says .
“ That ’ s a problem.
” Yet of course , as Ezra makes clear throughout his book , that ’ s not just a problem , that ’ s also the plan .
Ezra points out that if you simply lie to whites about what you are plotting , many of them will foolishly believe you : Richeson ’ s research shows that if you can add reassurances to discussions of demographic change—telling people , for instance , that the shifts are unlikely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sense of threat , and the tilt toward racial and political conservatism , vanishes .
But , Klein and Professor Richeson [ Email her ] conclude , with regret , you can ’ t fool all the white Christians all the time : The problem , she admits , is “ we can ’ t say , ‘ Don ’ t worry , white people , you ’ ll be okay and you ’ ll get to run everything forever !
’ ”

From my review in Taki’s Magazine of Ezra Klein’s new Why We’re Polarized:
The good news, according to Klein, is that “white Christians” are being demographically inundated in what Ezra calls the Browning of America.
The bad news, according to Ezra, is that some whites have started to notice the fate that is being prepared for them, and thus they voted for Trump. Klein says that the media should try harder to mislead white Christians about demographic change so that they don’t see it coming until it’s too late for them to do anything about it:
As we navigate these sensitivities, we can do so with more or less care. [Jennifer] Richeson believes it would be wise for demographers to stop using terms like “majority-minority America”—after all, whites will still be a plurality and what good can come of framing America’s trajectory in a way that leaves the single largest group feeling maximally threatened? It sounds like “a force of nonwhite people who are coming and they are working as a coalition to overturn white people and whiteness,” Richeson says. “That’s a problem.”
Yet of course, as Ezra makes clear throughout his book, that’s not just a problem, that’s also the plan.
Ezra points out that if you simply lie to whites about what you are plotting, many of them will foolishly believe you:
Richeson’s research shows that if you can add reassurances to discussions of demographic change—telling people, for instance, that the shifts are unlikely to upend existing power or economic arrangements—the sense of threat, and the tilt toward racial and political conservatism, vanishes.
But, Klein and Professor Richeson [Email her] conclude, with regret, you can’t fool all the white Christians all the time:
The problem, she admits, is “we can’t say, ‘Don’t worry, white people, you’ll be okay and you’ll get to run everything forever!’”


vdare--2020-02-12--Judge Bazelon, The Mob, And Woody Allen As Investigative Movie-Maker

Earlier by Steve Sailer : A Theory About Why Judge Bazelon Could Empathize with Criminals Last night , I read Ron Unz ’ 13,000-word review of investigative reporter Gus Russo ’ s 640-page exposé , Supermob : How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America ’ s Hidden Power Brokers ( 2006 ) .
Ron ’ s essay revolved around not Sidney Korshak , whom Russo called America ’ s most powerful lawyer , but a lesser yet very well-connected mobster named David Bazelon .
Some of you , having like me read about Judge David Bazelon , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Steve Sailer ’ s blog , where Steve called Bazelon , the longtime chief judge of the D.C .
Circuit Court , the most powerful American judge not sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court , are surely asking yourselves , “ I wonder if mobster David Bazelon and Judge David Bazelon were related ?
” Let ’ s see .
Whereas David Bazelon , the moral giant who served for a generation as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , was born in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1909 , and died in our nation ’ s capital on February 19 , 1993 , David Bazelon the gangster , was born in Superior , Wisconsin , on September 3 , 1909 , and died in our nation ’ s capital… on February 19 , 1993 ?
!
The gangster/judge Bazelon—talk about movie material !
—one of those sanctimonious jurists you love to hate , was a “ libertarian , ” i.e.
, the black cut-throat ’ s best friend .
His granddaughter , Emily Bazelon , carries on the family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the New York Times .
Sergio Leone was an erratic director , but I see now that in his epic , ultraviolent bomb about Lower East Side-born Jewish gangsters , Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ) , based on the supposedly autobiographical novel by Jewish gangster Herschel Goldberg , aka Harry Grey , Leone understood that aspect of American history much better than I gave him credit for .
Ron Unz ’ long , juicy title does not disappoint : “ The Power of Organized Crime : How a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fortune Looting the Property of the Japanese-Americans , then Lived Happily Ever After as America 's Most Respected Civil Libertarian Federal Appellate Court Judge.
” The last good movie I saw by Woody Allen , was all about this mope ’ s world .
Crimes and Misdemeanors ( 1989 ) , starred Martin Landau as a pillar of the Jewish Manhattan bourgeoisie .
Landau is an ophthalmologist , if memory serves , who gives lots of money to all the right Jewish charities , and is known for his elevated morality .
Well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mistress , but nobody ’ s perfect .
And there ’ s the matter of his murdering said mistress , when she threatens to blow the whistle on him to his wife , but as I said… A solution beckons : The Landau character ’ s despised brother ( Jerry Ohrbach ) is a low-level criminal , who “ disappears ” the mistress ’ corpse .
Allen ’ s character is an impoverished , unsuccessful , impolitic documentarian and social critic , a world about which I wouldn ’ t know anything .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ only moxie , but a great deal of knowledge , on Allen ’ s part .
He was tearing the cover off of an entire , evil subculture .
At the time , while I read numerous high-toned reviews praising C & M in the New York City press , however , I saw no references to what this picture now appears to have been about .
Instead , the critics come and see , speaking of Dostoevsky .
As I wrote in 2006 on my own blog : “ Maybe we ought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s something about the combination of wearing a black robe , sitting high above the rest of us , and being addressed as an institution ( “ the court ” ) , that tends to go to judge ’ s heads .
“ One must always keep in mind , when talking about judges , that they are a class dominated by the grimiest political hacks , most of whom owe their positions to party machines and backroom deals , even as they hold forth about “ the ( political ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most corrupt and politically partisan decisions in the language of moralistic sanctimony , as if they were speaking from Mount Olympus , rather than from the sewer .
”

Earlier by Steve Sailer: A Theory About Why Judge Bazelon Could Empathize with Criminals
Last night, I read Ron Unz’ 13,000-word review of investigative reporter Gus Russo’s 640-page exposé, Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America’s Hidden Power Brokers (2006). Ron’s essay revolved around not Sidney Korshak, whom Russo called America’s most powerful lawyer, but a lesser yet very well-connected mobster named David Bazelon.
Some of you, having like me read about Judge David Bazelon, the national treasure, in the annals of Steve Sailer’s blog, where Steve called Bazelon, the longtime chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court, the most powerful American judge not sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, are surely asking yourselves, “I wonder if mobster David Bazelon and Judge David Bazelon were related?”
Sorta/kinda.
Let’s see. Whereas David Bazelon, the moral giant who served for a generation as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was born in Superior, Wisconsin, on September 3, 1909, and died in our nation’s capital on February 19, 1993, David Bazelon the gangster, was born in Superior, Wisconsin, on September 3, 1909, and died in our nation’s capital… on February 19, 1993?!
(Supermob had a familiar ring, because I’d bought it on May 11, 2019, and was even able to find where The Boss had hidden it. It’s a real page-turner: Its stars include MCA’s Lew Wasserman, Sam Giancana, Bugsy, er, Ben Siegel, Harry Cohn, Sammy Davis Jr., Sinatra and George Raft, while a lot of players you’ve surely never heard of play cameo roles, often as named informants.)
The gangster/judge Bazelon—talk about movie material!—one of those sanctimonious jurists you love to hate, was a “libertarian,” i.e., the black cut-throat’s best friend. His granddaughter, Emily Bazelon, carries on the family tradition, as a fake crime-and-courts journalist at the New York Times.
Sergio Leone was an erratic director, but I see now that in his epic, ultraviolent bomb about Lower East Side-born Jewish gangsters, Once Upon a Time in America (1984), based on the supposedly autobiographical novel by Jewish gangster Herschel Goldberg, aka Harry Grey, Leone understood that aspect of American history much better than I gave him credit for.
Ron Unz’ long, juicy title does not disappoint: “The Power of Organized Crime: How a Young Syndicate Lawyer from Chicago Earned a Fortune Looting the Property of the Japanese-Americans, then Lived Happily Ever After as America's Most Respected Civil Libertarian Federal Appellate Court Judge.”
The last good movie I saw by Woody Allen was all about this mope’s world. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) starred Martin Landau as a pillar of the Jewish Manhattan bourgeoisie. Landau is an ophthalmologist, if memory serves, who gives lots of money to all the right Jewish charities, and is known for his elevated morality. Well, there is the matter of his mistress, but nobody’s perfect. And there’s the matter of his murdering said mistress, when she threatens to blow the whistle on him to his wife, but as I said…
A solution beckons: The Landau character’s despised brother (Jerry Ohrbach) is a low-level criminal, who “disappears” the mistress’ corpse.
Allen’s character is an impoverished, unsuccessful, impolitic documentarian and social critic, a world about which I wouldn’t know anything.
To make such a movie took not only moxie, but a great deal of knowledge, on Allen’s part. He was tearing the cover off of an entire, evil subculture. At the time, while I read numerous high-toned reviews praising C&M in the New York City press, however, I saw no references to what this picture now appears to have been about. Instead, the critics come and see, speaking of Dostoevsky. As I wrote in 2006 on my own blog:


vdare--2020-02-13--Patrick J. Buchanan:  An Establishment in Panic Over Biden Fall, Bernie Rise

From the day he entered the race , Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and Bernie Sanders .
Today , that same establishment wants Joe out of the race .
Why has Biden suddenly become an albatross ?
His feeble debate performances and fifth-place finish in New Hampshire all but ensure Joe will not be the nominee , and if he stays in , he will siphon off votes in Nevada and South Carolina that would go to candidates who might put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The panic of the establishment is traceable to the new political reality .
With popular-vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire , Sanders has largely united the left-wing of his party and displaced Biden as the front-runner and favorite for the nomination .
Meanwhile , the non-socialist wing of the party has failed to coalesce around a champion to stop Sanders and is becoming ever more splintered .
In Nevada , Sanders now has three moderate challengers .
Biden , `` Mayor Pete '' Buttigieg , who ran second in New Hampshire , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ third and took votes that might have given Buttigieg a win in the Granite State .
Biden , Buttigieg and Klobuchar are all now headed for the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 22 , where Sanders is favored .
And all three will be going on to South Carolina , a state into which billionaire Tom Steyer has poured millions of dollars .
Sanders , however , is not without his own problems .
Not only is he anathema to the establishment , he can not wholly unite his party 's left-wing until his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Though she ran a poor fourth in New Hampshire , Warren is also going to Nevada to offer herself as a unity candidate .
But as Biden 's hour is up , so is hers .
And if she is not out of the race before Super Tuesday on March 3 , she risks being beaten in her own home state of Massachusetts .
Where does this leave the Democratic field ?
Two candidacies , Warren 's and Biden 's , are in hospice care .
Two candidates , Buttigieg and Klobuchar , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sanders , are in danger of canceling each other out .
Two candidates , Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer , are billionaires who will be battling on Super Tuesday to crush the scourge of billionaires , Bernie Sanders .
Bloomberg , the three-term mayor of New York , upon whom the establishment has begun to look like the last best hope of stopping Sanders , has already dumped a third of a billion dollars into his campaign His poll numbers have risen accordingly , and he is probably the strongest challenger to Sanders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 60 billion fortune , he can sustain himself and his organization through the convention .
But would Sanders lose gracefully to a plutocrat who deployed his billions to deny him a nomination Sanders has sought for half a decade ?
Would Bernie Bros , who believe they were cheated out of the nomination in 2016 , accept defeat and support a billionaire they believe robbed them of a prize they thought they had won fairly ?
Bloomberg is now facing more serious matters as a candidate in a party of minorities .
Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mayor Mike at a 2015 conference in Aspen , Colorado , addressing the crime-fighting tactic of stop and frisk that he used for years as mayor .
`` Ninety-five percent of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit one M.O .
You can just take the description , Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops .
They are male minorities , 15 to 25 , '' said Bloomberg .
`` One of the unintended consequences is people say , 'Oh , my God , you are arresting kids for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yes , that 's true .
Why ?
Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods .
... Why do we do it ?
Because that is where all the crime is .
... And the way you get the guns out of the kids ' hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them . ''
Midweek , it was learned that Bloomberg , during the economic crisis in 2008 , said that getting rid of `` redlining '' —a policy by which bankers routinely deny mortgages to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as risky—was to blame for the collapse .
In remarks at Georgetown University in 2008 , Bloomberg said : '' It all started back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone .
... Redlining ... was the term where banks took whole neighborhoods and said , 'People in these neighborhoods are poor , they 're not going to be able to pay off their mortgages , tell your salesmen do n't go into those areas . '
'' In presidential elections , Democratic candidates win 90-95 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revelations of his candid discussions of the merits of redlining and the benefits of stop and frisk , Bloomberg may have a tough time climbing that hill .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

From the day he entered the race, Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and Bernie Sanders.
Today, that same establishment wants Joe out of the race.
Why has Biden suddenly become an albatross?
His feeble debate performances and fifth-place finish in New Hampshire all but ensure Joe will not be the nominee, and if he stays in, he will siphon off votes in Nevada and South Carolina that would go to candidates who might put together a majority and stop Sanders.
The panic of the establishment is traceable to the new political reality.
With popular-vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders has largely united the left-wing of his party and displaced Biden as the front-runner and favorite for the nomination.
Meanwhile, the non-socialist wing of the party has failed to coalesce around a champion to stop Sanders and is becoming ever more splintered.
In Nevada, Sanders now has three moderate challengers.
Biden, "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg, who ran second in New Hampshire, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who ran third and took votes that might have given Buttigieg a win in the Granite State.
Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are all now headed for the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 22, where Sanders is favored. And all three will be going on to South Carolina, a state into which billionaire Tom Steyer has poured millions of dollars.
Sanders, however, is not without his own problems.
Not only is he anathema to the establishment, he cannot wholly unite his party's left-wing until his senatorial soulmate Elizabeth Warren gets out. Though she ran a poor fourth in New Hampshire, Warren is also going to Nevada to offer herself as a unity candidate.
But as Biden's hour is up, so is hers. And if she is not out of the race before Super Tuesday on March 3, she risks being beaten in her own home state of Massachusetts.
Where does this leave the Democratic field?
Two candidacies, Warren's and Biden's, are in hospice care.
Two candidates, Buttigieg and Klobuchar, competing to be the moderate alternative to Sanders, are in danger of canceling each other out.
Two candidates, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, are billionaires who will be battling on Super Tuesday to crush the scourge of billionaires, Bernie Sanders.
Bloomberg, the three-term mayor of New York, upon whom the establishment has begun to look like the last best hope of stopping Sanders, has already dumped a third of a billion dollars into his campaign
His poll numbers have risen accordingly, and he is probably the strongest challenger to Sanders now, because, with his $60 billion fortune, he can sustain himself and his organization through the convention.
But would Sanders lose gracefully to a plutocrat who deployed his billions to deny him a nomination Sanders has sought for half a decade?
Would Bernie Bros, who believe they were cheated out of the nomination in 2016, accept defeat and support a billionaire they believe robbed them of a prize they thought they had won fairly?
Bloomberg is now facing more serious matters as a candidate in a party of minorities. Here is an excerpt from an audiotape of Mayor Mike at a 2015 conference in Aspen, Colorado, addressing the crime-fighting tactic of stop and frisk that he used for years as mayor.
"Ninety-five percent of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities, 15 to 25," said Bloomberg.
"One of the unintended consequences is people say, 'Oh, my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.' Yes, that's true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. ... Why do we do it? Because that is where all the crime is. ... And the way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them."
Midweek, it was learned that Bloomberg, during the economic crisis in 2008, said that getting rid of "redlining"—a policy by which bankers routinely deny mortgages to low-income largely minority neighborhoods circled in red as risky—was to blame for the collapse.
In remarks at Georgetown University in 2008, Bloomberg said:
"It all started back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone. ... Redlining ...was the term where banks took whole neighborhoods and said, 'People in these neighborhoods are poor, they're not going to be able to pay off their mortgages, tell your salesmen don't go into those areas.'"
In presidential elections, Democratic candidates win 90-95% of the black vote. After revelations of his candid discussions of the merits of redlining and the benefits of stop and frisk, Bloomberg may have a tough time climbing that hill.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-02-13--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: The Trump Effect: Federal Officials Are Actually ENFORCING THE

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: The Trump Effect: Federal Officials Are Actually ENFORCING THE LAW

Originally published on this date in 2017 .
Is this really happening ?
Is the federal government actually enforcing immigration law ?
Somebody pinch me and tell me it ’ s not a dream !
The Washington Post article about it is entitled Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump ’ s Jan. 25 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known criminals , but they also netted some immigrants without criminal records , an apparent departure from similar enforcement waves during the Obama administration .
Last month , Trump substantially broadened the scope of who the Department of Homeland Security can target to include those with minor offenses or no convictions at all .
They ’ re here illegally , thus subject to deportation .
End of story .
And this is going on coast to coast .
Call it what you want , as long as you do it .
Of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like this : Illegal aliens are , by definition NOT “ law-abiding people ” , regardless of whatever else they might be doing or not doing .
Let ’ s hope Cristina Jimenez is right , and this isn ’ t the only wave .
For years , illegal alien apologists have been whining about illegals living “ in the shadows ” .
They weren ’ t , but now they might be .
Of course , there is this going on : A “ local NPR affiliate ” ?
Say , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Wow , could illegal aliens actually be getting scared ?
Joaquin Castro is the identical twin brother of Julian Castro , former mayor of San Antonio and HUD secretary in Obama ’ s cabinet .
Looks like finally they may have a reason to be scared .
The New York Times reported on the same phenomenon and its article begins with this dramatic scene : That first anecdote is followed by anecdotes from Staten Island and Savannah , Georgia , and then the Times reports that Of course , the Mexican government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The new reality ” – we can hope that ’ s the case .
Really ?
Then again , it ’ s not just the apprehensions , it ’ s also what you do with the illegals after they ’ re apprehended .
The perception on the street though is that enforcement is picking up after Trump took office .
Is this a dream ?
I hope not , but to the open border crowd , it ’ s beginning to resemble a nightmare .

Originally published on this date in 2017.
Is this really happening? Is the federal government actually enforcing immigration law?
Somebody pinch me and tell me it’s not a dream!
The Washington Post article about it is entitled
Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states By Lisa Rein, Abigail Hauslohner and Sandhya Somashekhar, Washington Post, Feb. 11, 2017 U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 25 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally. Officials said the raids targeted known criminals, but they also netted some immigrants without criminal records, an apparent departure from similar enforcement waves during the Obama administration. Last month, Trump substantially broadened the scope of who the Department of Homeland Security can target to include those with minor offenses or no convictions at all.
They’re here illegally, thus subject to deportation. End of story. And this is going on coast to coast.
Immigration officials confirmed that agents this week raided homes and workplaces in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, the Los Angeles area, North Carolina and South Carolina, netting hundreds of people. But Gillian Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said they were part of “routine” immigration enforcement actions. ICE dislikes the term “raids,” and prefers to say authorities are conducting “targeted enforcement actions,” she said.
Call it what you want, as long as you do it.
Immigration activists said the crackdown went beyond the six states DHS identified, and said they had also documented ICE raids of unusual intensity during the past two days in Florida, Kansas, Texas and Northern Virginia.
Keep ‘em guessing.
Of course, the article has to say something like this:
That undocumented immigrants with no criminal records were arrested and could potentially be deported sent a shock wave through immigrant communities nationwide amid concerns that the U.S. government could start going after law-abiding people.
Illegal aliens are, by definition NOT “law-abiding people”, regardless of whatever else they might be doing or not doing.
“This is clearly the first wave of attacks under the Trump administration, and we know this isn’t going to be the only one,” Cristina Jimenez, executive director of United We Dream, an immigrant youth organization, said Friday [February 10th] during a conference call with immigration advocates. ICE agents in the Los Angeles area Thursday took a number of individuals into custody over the course of an hour, seizing them from their homes and on their way to work, activists said.
Let’s hope Cristina Jimenez is right, and this isn’t the only wave. For years, illegal alien apologists have been whining about illegals living “in the shadows”. They weren’t, but now they might be.
David Marin, ICE’s field director in the Los Angeles area, said in a conference call with reporters Friday that 75 percent of the approximately 160 people detained in the operation this week had felony convictions; the rest had misdemeanors or were in the United States illegally. Officials said Friday night that 37 of those detained in Los Angeles had been deported to Mexico. “Dangerous criminals who should be deported are being released into our communities,” Marin said.
Of course, there is this going on:
Spanish language radio stations and the local NPR affiliate in Los Angeles have been running public service announcements regarding the hourly “Know Your Rights” seminars the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles scheduled for Friday and Saturday. By the time the 4 p.m. group began Friday, more than 100 others had gathered at the group’s office in the Westlake neighborhood just outside downtown.
A “local NPR affiliate”? Say, is National Public Radio still getting government money?
A video that circulated on social media Friday appeared to show ICE agents in Texas detaining people in an Austin shopping center parking lot. Immigration advocates also reported roadway checkpoints, where ICE appeared to be targeting immigrants for random ID checks, in North Carolina and in Austin. ICE officials denied that authorities used checkpoints during the operations. “I’m getting lots of reports from my constituents about seeing ICE on the streets. Teachers in my district have contacted me — certain students didn’t come to school today because they’re afraid,” said Greg Casar, an Austin City Council member. “I talked to a constituent, a single mother, who had her door knocked on this morning by ICE.”
Wow, could illegal aliens actually be getting scared?
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.) said he confirmed with ICE’s San Antonio office that the agency “has launched a targeted operation in South and Central Texas as part of Operation Cross Check.” “I am asking ICE to clarify whether these individuals are in fact dangerous, violent threats to our communities, and not people who are here peacefully raising families and contributing to our state,” Castro said in a statement Friday night.
Joaquin Castro is the identical twin brother of Julian Castro , former mayor of San Antonio and HUD secretary in Obama’s cabinet.
Hiba Ghalib, an immigration lawyer in Atlanta, said the ICE detentions were causing “mass confusion” in the immigrant community. She said she had heard reports of ICE agents going door-to-door in one largely Hispanic neighborhood, asking people to present their papers. “People are panicking,” Ghalib said. “People are really, really scared.”
Looks like finally they may have a reason to be scared.
“We cannot understate the level of panic and terror that is running through many immigrant communities,” said Walter Barrientos of Make the Road New York in New York City, who spoke on a conference call with immigration advocates.
Well, boo hoo.
Immigration officials acknowledged that as a result of Trump’s executive order, authorities had cast a wider net than they would have last year.
The New York Times reported on the same phenomenon and its article begins with this dramatic scene:
In Austin, Tex., undocumented women working in a laundromat cowered in the back of the room, petrified after seeing a video and a photograph of apprehensions outside a local grocery store and burger joint. Reports of Raids Have Immigrants Bracing for Enforcement Surge By Nicholas Kulish, Caitlin Dickerson and Liz Robbins, New York Times, Feb. 10, 2017
That first anecdote is followed by anecdotes from Staten Island and Savannah, Georgia, and then the Times reports that
As reports of immigration raids and roundups have rocketed across Twitter, Facebook and texts around the country, undocumented immigrants, their lawyers and advocacy groups are bracing for the increased enforcement that President Trump has called for.
Hope they’re right.
Susannah Volpe, a managing attorney at Ayuda [Spanish for “help”], an immigrant legal services group in Washington, said she had noticed what seemed to be roundups of people, like those without criminal records, that the government had not previously paid much attention to.“These are agents going into apartment buildings or agents going to worksites,” said Ms. Volpe, who had a client arrested, along with five others, at a construction site in Washington last week. “This is new.”
Sounds great.
School principals in Los Angeles have been sent a checklist of things to do in case immigration agents turn up.
Of course, the Mexican government is keeping up with this.
The Mexican government even warned “the entire Mexican community” in the United States “to take precautions and to keep in touch with their nearest consulate,” after the deportation of a woman who had previously been allowed to remain in the United States. Her case “illustrates the new reality” in the United States, said the message, from the foreign ministry.
“The new reality” – we can hope that’s the case.
In an executive order Jan. 25, Mr. Trump greatly expanded the categories of undocumented immigrants who would now be priorities for deportation, in keeping with his campaign pledge to be tough on illegal immigration. But despite numerous reports of mass roundups, it was still unclear Friday whether the promised surge in enforcement had actually begun. Officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said the immigration roundups that people were seeing did not represent an increased tempo. The agency has about 100 fugitive teams constantly working to bring in those wanted on a variety of immigration offenses, and these teams have been just as active as they were during the Obama administration, officials said.
Really? Then again, it’s not just the apprehensions, it’s also what you do with the illegals after they’re apprehended.
Officials noted, however, that they did expect the numbers and deportations to increase in line with the president’s order. In Los Angeles, for example, the county sheriff’s department was told by ICE that it planned to issue “detainers” for every illegal immigrant charged with a crime, no matter how serious, according to Capt. Elier Morejon. Jonathan Blazer, the advocacy and policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the group had been wary of deportation tactics for years. “One challenge here is that every single enforcement action done outside the jail looks like Trump’s deportation force,” he said. “But as we know, under Obama enforcement was very high.”
The perception on the street though is that enforcement is picking up after Trump took office.
“The distinguishing factor under Trump is justifiable fear and anxiety,” he added. “Those are categorically new.”
We can hope.
Is this a dream? I hope not, but to the open border crowd, it’s beginning to resemble a nightmare.


vdare--2020-02-13--Black Female Democrat Activist Revealed As Foreman Of Roger Stone's DC Jury

This story , from Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller , suggests that whoever did the jury selection/voir dire on the Roger Stone case failed badly .
Someone on Twitter said `` This is what happens when the judge does the voir dire . ''
Ross reports that Stone had wanted a change of venue : Anyhow , the story is that this obviously bogus prosecution resulted in not only a conviction , but the threat of a sentence of seven to nine years .
Neither Trump or Bill Barr would stand for that , and that 's led to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' , and anti-Trump prosecutors resigning .
A woman named Tomeka Hart was the foreman of the jury that convicted Stone , and came out with a Facebook post defending the prosecutors , leading to this reportage from Ross : CNN first reported Hart ’ s post but did not note that she was a Democrat .
Commercial Appeal , a news outlet affiliated with USA Today that spoke to Hart , reported details of her professional background .
Those details match up with the same person who ran for Congress in 2012 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s trial identified Hart as a former congressional candidate .
Hart , who did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation ’ s request for comment , lost to incumbent Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen in the 2012 primary .
Hart ’ s social media accounts show she kept a close eye on developments in the special counsel ’ s investigation .
Her Twitter feed shows dozens of references to Trump , many of them links to negative stories about the Republican .
In a Twitter post on Aug. 19 , 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump as the “ # KlanPresident , ” in an apparent reference to the KKK .
She also retweeted a post from CNN analyst Bakari Sellers criticizing Stone defenders who were upset over the circumstances of his arrest on Jan. 25 , 2019 .
More than a dozen FBI agents raided Stone ’ s home in South Florida .
It was at this point that I said to myself `` Wait , what color is this anti-Trump jury foreman ? ''
The Daily Caller did n't provide any pictures , although they linked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the reliable Daily Mail did .
Hart is on the left , the woman with the grey hair is anti-white former DNC Chair Donna Brazile : As I noted above , Stone did n't think he 'd get a fair trial from DC jury , but he mentioned politics as the reason .
( DC votes Democratic in the high 90s . )
I do n't know if he 'd be allowed to object to a black jury as such .
It 's possible that even if Hart had no connection to formal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this .
In 2007 , I noted something Neal Freeman had written about the later-reversed conviction of Reagan advisor Lyn Nofziger in the pre-purge National Review : When Nofziger finally went to trial in the winter of 1988 ( that 's right , 1988 ) he was thrust before a jury of his peers—as it happened , 12 black peers from the District of Columbia , who if the law of averages means anything had voted against Ronald Reagan with aberrational intensity .
The prosecution lost no opportunity to make the point that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nofziger had , after all , been one of Reagan 's closest aides since the gubernatorial days in Sacramento .
By the end of the five-week trial , jurors could have been forgiven for supposing that Nofziger had spent most of his year in the White House personally closing out welfare accounts .
The jury voted solidly for Mondale and conviction .
Even the working press , which does not shrink from the sight of a right-winger getting what 's coming to him , felt that something other than justice had been done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At no time does the Daily Caller mention the words `` black '' or African-American .

This story, from Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller, suggests that whoever did the jury selection/voir dire on the Roger Stone case failed badly. Someone on Twitter said "This is what happens when the judge does the voir dire."
Lead Roger Stone Juror Ran For Congress As Democrat In 2012, Posted Negative Stories About Trump Throughout Russia Probe https://t.co/Fhpjdf6Pjo — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) February 13, 2020
Ross reports that Stone had wanted a change of venue:
Stone, who was indicted Jan. 24, 2019, argued in the lead up to his trial that he would be unable to receive a fair trial in Washington, D.C., due to its left-leaning populace. He was convicted Nov. 15, 2019, on five counts of making false statements to Congress, one obstruction charge, and a witness tampering charge.
Anyhow, the story is that this obviously bogus prosecution resulted in not only a conviction, but the threat of a sentence of seven to nine years. Neither Trump or Bill Barr would stand for that, and that's led to yammering about the "rule of law", and anti-Trump prosecutors resigning.
A woman named Tomeka Hart was the foreman of the jury that convicted Stone, and came out with a Facebook post defending the prosecutors, leading to this reportage from Ross:
CNN first reported Hart’s post but did not note that she was a Democrat. Commercial Appeal, a news outlet affiliated with USA Today that spoke to Hart, reported details of her professional background. Those details match up with the same person who ran for Congress in 2012. A Politico reporter who covered Stone’s trial identified Hart as a former congressional candidate. Hart, who did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment, lost to incumbent Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen in the 2012 primary. Hart’s social media accounts show she kept a close eye on developments in the special counsel’s investigation. Her Twitter feed shows dozens of references to Trump, many of them links to negative stories about the Republican. In a Twitter post on Aug. 19, 2017, Hart quoted a tweet referring to Trump as the “#KlanPresident,” in an apparent reference to the KKK. She also retweeted a post from CNN analyst Bakari Sellers criticizing Stone defenders who were upset over the circumstances of his arrest on Jan. 25, 2019. More than a dozen FBI agents raided Stone’s home in South Florida.
It was at this point that I said to myself "Wait, what color is this anti-Trump jury foreman?"
The Daily Caller didn't provide any pictures, although they linked to her Twitter feed. However, the reliable Daily Mail did.
Hart is on the left, the woman with the grey hair is anti-white former DNC Chair Donna Brazile:
As I noted above, Stone didn't think he'd get a fair trial from DC jury, but he mentioned politics as the reason. (DC votes Democratic in the high 90s.) I don't know if he'd be allowed to object to a black jury as such. It's possible that even if Hart had no connection to formal Democratic politics she'd have felt like this.
In 2007, I noted something Neal Freeman had written about the later-reversed conviction of Reagan advisor Lyn Nofziger in the pre-purge National Review:
When Nofziger finally went to trial in the winter of 1988 (that's right, 1988) he was thrust before a jury of his peers—as it happened, 12 black peers from the District of Columbia, who if the law of averages means anything had voted against Ronald Reagan with aberrational intensity. The prosecution lost no opportunity to make the point that Nofziger and Reagan were politically indistinguishable. Nofziger had, after all, been one of Reagan's closest aides since the gubernatorial days in Sacramento. By the end of the five-week trial, jurors could have been forgiven for supposing that Nofziger had spent most of his year in the White House personally closing out welfare accounts. The jury voted solidly for Mondale and conviction. Even the working press, which does not shrink from the sight of a right-winger getting what's coming to him, felt that something other than justice had been done. [Links and emphasis added] Justice - Lyn Nofziger's conviction, National Review, [Not online] August 5, 1988
At no time does the Daily Caller mention the words "black" or African-American.


vdare--2020-02-13--"Nobody Kill Anybody" Fails: During First Ceasefire Weekend in 70% Black Baltimore, 15 Shot, Four De

"Nobody Kill Anybody" Fails: During First Ceasefire Weekend in 70% Black Baltimore, 15 Shot, Four Dead

Previously by Paul Kersey:2019 : 70 % Black Baltimore Homicide Rate—57 Per 100,000 ; 1921 : 85 % White Baltimore Homicide Rate—11 Per 100,000 ... A surplus of blackness and a paucity of whiteness .
Or , more appropriately , a city dominated by the black hegemony .
Welcome to Baltimore in 2020 , a 70 percent black city completely dominated by black elected/appointed officials in all aspects of the bureaucracy .
Confederate memorials are all removed , streets and buildings once named in honor of dead white males have been erased , racially re-named to honor the new demographic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve read The City that Bleeds : Race , History , and the Death of Baltimore ( and if you haven ’ t , get it here now ! )
, you know the truth about Baltimore our elite have spent more than half a century trying to explain away as the fault of pernicious white people and their insidious redlining , systemic racism , and racial criminal justice system .
With a homicide rate of 57 per 100,000 , 70 percent black Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is back in 1920 , Baltimore was 85 percent white and had a population of 733,826 people .
The overall percentage of the population has dropped 18 percent in 100 years , with whites now roughly 24 percent of the population .
The decline of whites in Baltimore would have you believe a war was lost , with the radical racial replacement in the city indicating a conquered people ( of course , white people are still blamed for all the problems blacks create in the city , even though elected black officials/appointed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city ) .
But here ’ s the kicker : back in 1921 , when whites politically controlled the city of Baltimore and represented 85 percent of the population , there was a far different homicide rate : 11.3 per 100,000 people .
Why mention this ?
Well , because during the city ’ s first Ceasefire week of 2020 ( after black men marched in early January to stop blacks from killing other blacks ) , individual black people couldn ’ t stop shooting other blacks .
Many are reeling from a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first Ceasefire Weekend of the new year .
From Friday to Sunday 15 people were shot , and a total of four people killed in homicides over this past weekend .
This now brings the total number of people murdered in the city so far this year to 33 .
Some Baltimore officials hope to beef up the force with Chicago-style technology .
Earlier this year , Police Commissioner Michael Harrison and Mayor Jack Young laid out the city ’ s crime plan before lawmakers in Annapolis .
The most recent homicide this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shot in south Baltimore near Coppin Court .
They asked lawmakers to help fund 9 community intelligence centers in Baltimore .
They believe the centers – which provide real-time support for detecting and responding to crimes – will help cut down on the violence .
Some running for mayor say , it is going to take more than just new technology to reduce crime in Baltimore .
Only in a city where blacks named a youth empowerment center after Freddie Gray , the convicted heroin dealer blacks rioted on behalf of in 2015 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well-meaning black people try and convince their fellow blacks to stop killing/shooting each other for just 72 hours ) see 15 shot/4 dead .
This wasn ’ t happening 100 years ago , when Baltimore was 85 percent white…

Previously by Paul Kersey:2019: 70% Black Baltimore Homicide Rate—57 Per 100,000; 1921: 85% White Baltimore Homicide Rate—11 Per 100,000...
A surplus of blackness and a paucity of whiteness. Or, more appropriately, a city dominated by the black hegemony.
Welcome to Baltimore in 2020, a 70 percent black city completely dominated by black elected/appointed officials in all aspects of the bureaucracy. Confederate memorials are all removed, streets and buildings once named in honor of dead white males have been erased, racially re-named to honor the new demographic dominating Baltimore life.
If you’ve read The City that Bleeds: Race, History, and the Death of Baltimore (and if you haven’t, get it here now!), you know the truth about Baltimore our elite have spent more than half a century trying to explain away as the fault of pernicious white people and their insidious redlining, systemic racism, and racial criminal justice system.
With a homicide rate of 57 per 100,000, 70 percent black Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in the entire world.
What’s interesting is back in 1920, Baltimore was 85 percent white and had a population of 733,826 people. The overall percentage of the population has dropped 18 percent in 100 years, with whites now roughly 24 percent of the population.
The decline of whites in Baltimore would have you believe a war was lost, with the radical racial replacement in the city indicating a conquered people (of course, white people are still blamed for all the problems blacks create in the city, even though elected black officials/appointed black officials in public office control the city).
But here’s the kicker: back in 1921, when whites politically controlled the city of Baltimore and represented 85 percent of the population, there was a far different homicide rate: 11.3 per 100,000 people.
Why mention this? Well, because during the city’s first Ceasefire week of 2020 (after black men marched in early January to stop blacks from killing other blacks), individual black people couldn’t stop shooting other blacks.
15 SHOT, 4 DEAD| Homicide rate continues to climb after deadly ceasefire weekend, Fox Baltimore, February 10, 2020 Many are reeling from a particularly violent weekend which happened during the From Friday to Sunday , and a total of four people killed in homicides over this past weekend. This now brings the total number of people murdered in the city so far this year to 33. Some Baltimore officials hope to beef up the force with Chicago-style technology. Earlier this year, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison and Mayor Jack Young laid out the city’s crime plan before lawmakers in Annapolis. The most recent homicide this weekend happened Sunday morning a man was shot in south Baltimore near Coppin Court. They asked lawmakers to help fund 9 community intelligence centers in Baltimore. They believe the centers – which provide real-time support for detecting and responding to crimes – will help cut down on the violence. Some running for mayor say, it is going to take more than just new technology to reduce crime in Baltimore.
Only in a city where blacks named a youth empowerment center after Freddie Gray, the convicted heroin dealer blacks rioted on behalf of in 2015, could a Ceasefire weekend (where well-meaning black people try and convince their fellow blacks to stop killing/shooting each other for just 72 hours) see 15 shot/4 dead.
This wasn’t happening 100 years ago, when Baltimore was 85 percent white…
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vdare--2020-02-13--NPR: Nigerians Love Trump

NPR: Nigerians Love Trump

Nigeria May Be Part Of Trump ’ s Travel Ban , But Nigerians Tend To Trust Trump February 11 , 20204:24 PM ET AUDIE CORNISH , HOST : Immigrants from Africa ’ s most populous country will be blocked from coming to the U.S. beginning later this month .
The Trump administration is denying immigrant visas to Nigerians as part of an expanded travel ban .
… NWAUBANI : … The original impression we had and most people had was that our country was put on the travel ban list because of issues with security .
Maybe the citizens – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But it turned out that it had nothing to do with that .
It was simply a punishment to sort of light a fire under the butt of our government because for more than a year , the United States government has been trying to get the Nigerian government to upgrade information-sharing procedures , and our government has been lethargic about it .
So the United States government came up with this plan to ban immigrants and then to put us on the travel ban list .
And it ’ s worked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to upgrade the information-sharing procedure .
So it ’ s a punishment that has yielded some result .
CORNISH : You say Nigerians are unfazed by comments or policies that American critics might consider racist from the president .
How do people hear it differently ?
NWAUBANI : Well , the point to note is that the data the Pew Research Center has pulled year after year – and it ’ s been consistent – Nigerians love Trump .
His approval ratings here are high .
It ’ s been like that throughout @ @ @ @ @ @ @ polls in January show that almost 6 out of 10 Nigerians approve of what he ’ s doing and believe he ’ ll do the right thing .
So that is it .
Nigerians like Trump .
Usually , when he makes the comments that people in the U.S. regard as racist or whatever , in this part of the world , people tend to agree with him because we think , well , we know these things he ’ s saying are things that everybody else is thinking .
We ’ re @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the world wants to welcome African immigrants with wide-open arms .
No Nigerian I know of is under that illusion .
No European country is eager to welcome African immigrants .
… Immigrants are beautiful people .
They do all sorts of wonderful things .
But I don ’ t think that there are many people sitting down and desiring that their countries are flooded with immigrants .
So President Trump is saying , we don ’ t want more immigrants from this part of the world .
Nigerians don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that , well , he ’ s saying what everybody else thinks but just doesn ’ t say .

From NPR:
Nigeria May Be Part Of Trump’s Travel Ban, But Nigerians Tend To Trust Trump
February 11, 20204:24 PM ET
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Nigerian writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani …
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Immigrants from Africa’s most populous country will be blocked from coming to the U.S. beginning later this month. The Trump administration is denying immigrant visas to Nigerians as part of an expanded travel ban. …
NWAUBANI: … The original impression we had and most people had was that our country was put on the travel ban list because of issues with security. Maybe the citizens – there was some suspicion regarding Nigerian citizens. But it turned out that it had nothing to do with that. It was simply a punishment to sort of light a fire under the butt of our government because for more than a year, the United States government has been trying to get the Nigerian government to upgrade information-sharing procedures, and our government has been lethargic about it. So the United States government came up with this plan to ban immigrants and then to put us on the travel ban list. And it’s worked because our government has gone into action to upgrade the information-sharing procedure. So it’s a punishment that has yielded some result.
CORNISH: You say Nigerians are unfazed by comments or policies that American critics might consider racist from the president. How do people hear it differently?
NWAUBANI: Well, the point to note is that the data the Pew Research Center has pulled year after year – and it’s been consistent – Nigerians love Trump. His approval ratings here are high. It’s been like that throughout his presidency. And the most recent polls in January show that almost 6 out of 10 Nigerians approve of what he’s doing and believe he’ll do the right thing. So that is it. Nigerians like Trump.
Usually, when he makes the comments that people in the U.S. regard as racist or whatever, in this part of the world, people tend to agree with him because we think, well, we know these things he’s saying are things that everybody else is thinking. We’re not under any illusion that any country in the world wants to welcome African immigrants with wide-open arms. No Nigerian I know of is under that illusion. No European country is eager to welcome African immigrants. … Immigrants are beautiful people. They do all sorts of wonderful things. But I don’t think that there are many people sitting down and desiring that their countries are flooded with immigrants. So President Trump is saying, we don’t want more immigrants from this part of the world. Nigerians don’t hold it against him because the impression is that, well, he’s saying what everybody else thinks but just doesn’t say.


vdare--2020-02-13--NYT Sends A Lit Crit To Review Charles Murray's HUMAN DIVERSITY Inanities Ensue

From the New York Times : That ’ s a South Asian name , so I guess when the New York Time assigned her Murray ’ s imposing Human Diversity : The Science of Gender , Race , and Class to review , they figured she had to be smart at STEM .
Just when the world seems poised to boil over with political rancor and outrage , along comes Charles Murray — right on time — with a new book titled “ Human Diversity.
” Yes , that Charles Murray , who in 1994 co-authored “ The Bell Curve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q .
differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly intractable .
( They allowed that environmental factors play a part in I.Q.
, but held that the “ balance of the evidence ” put a genetic factor of 60 percent “ on the low side.
” ) Uh , no , she ’ s getting two different questions confused here .
After all , who is a more trustworthy expert on statistics than Stephen Jay Gould ?
and cherry-picked data .
Peer reviews found shoddy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ service of the book ’ s thesis ) .
There have been debates about what I.Q .
really measures ( other than the ability to take I.Q .
tests ) , and whether an individual ’ s I.Q .
is as relatively unchangeable as the authors claimed .
… Outrage has been good to Charles Murray .
Far from being the victim of “ a modern witch burning , ” as the neuroscientist and podcaster Sam Harris has described him , Murray has been able to cloak himself in the mantle of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knowledge , while comfortably ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute , the influential think tank , for three decades .
… The violent actions of protesters when Murray appeared at Middlebury College in 2017 were widely deplored .
… Developments in epigenetics , for example — outside mechanisms that effectively turn genes “ on ” or “ off ” — are waved away as “ hype.
” … The main question is : Why am I asking these questions of Charles Murray ?
True , the burden of proof is on him to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” scientific revolution ( whose discoveries just happen to regurgitate some of humanity ’ s most pernicious , wearying and stubborn stereotypes ) .
But proof is not Murray ’ s concern .
Despite its blizzard of statistics , the book ’ s most astonishing ( and telling ) declaration is on the first page .
If “ you have reached this page ” — the first page , I remind you — “ convinced that gender , race and class are all social constructs , and that any claims to the contrary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get past the first few pages before you can ’ t stand it anymore .
This book isn ’ t for you.
” He continues smoothly : “ Now that we ’ re alone… ” Now that we ’ re alone .
This book is for the believers .
Rigorous readers , skeptics , the unindoctrinated — you won ’ t be persuaded by “ Human Diversity , ” but why should that matter ?
You ’ re not even invited .
How ’ s that for a safe space .
How ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t those last two sentences missing questions marks ?
Here are the first three paragraphs of Human Diversity : Uh , I think “ Now that we ’ re alone ” is a joke .
But big props to Ms. Sehgal for reading all the way to the third paragraph in the book she is reviewing .
You sure didn ’ t let Charles Murray slip anything by you by burying it in the end notes .
And congratulations to her for shattering stereotypes about South Asians being good at science .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar opening to Dave Barry ’ s 1987 career advice book Claw Your Way to the Top :

From the New York Times:
That’s a South Asian name, so I guess when the New York Time assigned her Murray’s imposing Human Diversity: The Science of Gender, Race, and Class to review, they figured she had to be smart at STEM.
Feb. 12, 2020 Just when the world seems poised to boil over with political rancor and outrage, along comes Charles Murray — right on time — with a new book titled “Human Diversity.” Yes, that Charles Murray, who in 1994 co-authored “The Bell Curve,” with Richard J. Herrnstein, arguing in two notorious chapters that I.Q. differences between the races were mostly innate and mostly intractable. (They allowed that environmental factors play a part in I.Q., but held that the “balance of the evidence” put a genetic factor of 60 percent “on the low side.”)
Uh, no, she’s getting two different questions confused here.
… In the years since its publication, the book has been roundly discredited on moral, political and scientific grounds. Reviewing “The Bell Curve” in The New Yorker, Stephen Jay Gould called attention to the authors’ questionable use of statistics
After all, who is a more trustworthy expert on statistics than Stephen Jay Gould?
and cherry-picked data. Peer reviews found shoddy reasoning and mathematical errors (all in service of the book’s thesis). There have been debates about what I.Q. really measures (other than the ability to take I.Q. tests), and whether an individual’s I.Q. is as relatively unchangeable as the authors claimed. … Outrage has been good to Charles Murray. Far from being the victim of “a modern witch burning,” as the neuroscientist and podcaster Sam Harris has described him, Murray has been able to cloak himself in the mantle of the embattled intellectual, the purveyor of forbidden knowledge, while comfortably ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute, the influential think tank, for three decades. … The violent actions of protesters when Murray appeared at Middlebury College in 2017 were widely deplored. … Developments in epigenetics, for example — outside mechanisms that effectively turn genes “on” or “off” — are waved away as “hype.” … The main question is: Why am I asking these questions of Charles Murray? True, the burden of proof is on him to make a case for this “exciting” scientific revolution (whose discoveries just happen to regurgitate some of humanity’s most pernicious, wearying and stubborn stereotypes). But proof is not Murray’s concern. Despite its blizzard of statistics, the book’s most astonishing (and telling) declaration is on the first page. If “you have reached this page” — the first page, I remind you — “convinced that gender, race and class are all social constructs, and that any claims to the contrary are pseudoscience, you won’t get past the first few pages before you can’t stand it anymore. This book isn’t for you.” He continues smoothly: “Now that we’re alone…” Now that we’re alone. This book is for the believers. Rigorous readers, skeptics, the unindoctrinated — you won’t be persuaded by “Human Diversity,” but why should that matter? You’re not even invited. How’s that for a safe space. How’s that for an orthodoxy.
Aren’t those last two sentences missing questions marks?
Here are the first three paragraphs of Human Diversity:
Uh, I think “Now that we’re alone” is a joke.
But big props to Ms. Sehgal for reading all the way to the third paragraph in the book she is reviewing. You sure didn’t let Charles Murray slip anything by you by burying it in the end notes.
And congratulations to her for shattering stereotypes about South Asians being good at science.
My suspicion is that Murray read the similar opening to Dave Barry’s 1987 career advice book Claw Your Way to the Top:
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