vdare--2020-03-06--Madison, WI 10 Year "Racial Disparities In Arrests" Task Force Fails, Whites Blamed

Brandi Grayson co-founded Young , Gifted and Black and now runs Urban Triage , an organization that provides educational support , teaches parenting skills and promotes wellness to help black families become self-sufficient .
The problem , some say , is that disparities impact a population that has little political or economic clout .
And white people , who control the levers of commerce and government , address only pieces of an interconnected web of issues that include child development , education , economics and criminal justice .
“ None of this has changed , ” said Kaleem Caire , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ One City Schools , a charter school to address the challenges that keep minority and low-income kids from succeeding in school .
“ The achievement rate has gotten worse .
The failure rate of kids has gotten worse .
We would keep thinking that we were solving the problem , the United Way and all of these organizations jump on it , but it doesn ’ t change a thing.
” She said elimination of racial disparities would require a seismic shift in attitude throughout society , which would take years , maybe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said , government has to enact policies that enforce equitable treatment of people in housing , health care , education , employment and criminal justice .
But what about Baltimore , a 70 percent black city where black people control the levers of government ?
If Baltimore is a food desert , where capital flees and outside corporate investments are a rarity , isn ’ t this but a reflection of the type of community individual blacks collectively create ?
Why must we continue to see this egalitarian experiment mandated as a great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after decade—regardless of the amount of money invested in this revolt against nature – are all the same ?
It ’ s an old saying , first written here almost a decade ago , but it holds true : we could have been on Mars , but we decided invest untold trillions in our underclass , believing at some point in the not-to-distant future all racial disparities between blacks and whites would go away .
Well , it ’ s the not-to-distant future , and they ’ ve only gotten worse .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Brandi Grayson co-founded Young, Gifted and Black and now runs Urban Triage, an organization that provides educational support, teaches parenting skills and promotes wellness to help black families become self-sufficient.
The problem, some say, is that disparities impact a population that has little political or economic clout. And white people, who control the levers of commerce and government, address only pieces of an interconnected web of issues that include child development, education, economics and criminal justice.
“None of this has changed,” said Kaleem Caire, a local educator who’s running One City Schools, a charter school to address the challenges that keep minority and low-income kids from succeeding in school. “The achievement rate has gotten worse. The failure rate of kids has gotten worse. We would keep thinking that we were solving the problem, the United Way and all of these organizations jump on it, but it doesn’t change a thing.”
She said elimination of racial disparities would require a seismic shift in attitude throughout society, which would take years, maybe generations. In the meantime, she said, government has to enact policies that enforce equitable treatment of people in housing, health care, education, employment and criminal justice.
But what about Baltimore, a 70 percent black city where black people control the levers of government? If Baltimore is a food desert, where capital flees and outside corporate investments are a rarity, isn’t this but a reflection of the type of community individual blacks collectively create?
Why must we continue to see this egalitarian experiment mandated as a great moral cause, when the results decade after decade—regardless of the amount of money invested in this revolt against nature – are all the same?
It’s an old saying, first written here almost a decade ago, but it holds true: we could have been on Mars, but we decided invest untold trillions in our underclass, believing at some point in the not-to-distant future all racial disparities between blacks and whites would go away.
Well, it’s the not-to-distant future, and they’ve only gotten worse. And Mars is still 140 million miles away.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-07--Mad Women In The NEW YORK TIMES

Mad Women In The NEW YORK TIMES

I Am Burning With Fury and Grief Over Elizabeth Warren .
And I Am Not Alone .
She might not @ @ @ @ @ , but she has lodged herself in another powerful place : the female psyche .
@ @ @ @ @ is the author of the memoir “ Heartland ” and the host of the podcast @ @ @ @ @ every moment , since the dawn of woman , when a female aspired but to @ @ @ @ @ to attend school but was denied .
She raised her hand but wasn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ but wasn ’ t hired .
She enlisted but wasn ’ t deployed .
She @ @ @ @ @ credited .
She ran but wasn ’ t elected .
Imagine the sadness and frustration @ @ @ @ @ a spark , their combined energy the size of many suns .
That is the @ @ @ @ @ I felt rise inside me as I watched Elizabeth Warren ’ s bid for the @ @ @ @

From the NYT opinion page:
I Am Burning With Fury and Grief Over Elizabeth Warren. And I Am Not Alone.
She might not be bound for the presidency, but she has lodged herself in another powerful place: the female psyche. By Sarah Smarsh
Ms. Smarsh is the author of the memoir “Heartland” and the host of the podcast “The Homecomers.” March 6, 2020, 8:53 p.m. ET Consider every moment, since the dawn of woman, when a female aspired but to no avail. She asked to attend school but was denied. She raised her hand but wasn’t called on. She applied but wasn’t hired. She enlisted but wasn’t deployed. She created but wasn’t credited. She ran but wasn’t elected. Imagine the sadness and frustration of every such instance as a spark, their combined energy the size of many suns. That is the measure of grief and fury I felt rise inside me as I watched Elizabeth Warren’s bid for the Democratic nomination wane.
From the NYT “smarter living” page:
How to Respond to Microaggressions
Should you let that comment slide, or address it head on? Is it more harm than it’s worth? We can help. By Hahna Yoon
March 3, 2020 For many of us, microaggressions are so commonplace that it seems impossible to tackle them one at a time. Psychologists often compare them to death by a thousand cuts. … I felt my thousandth cut a few Novembers ago standing outside a bar as my friend’s boyfriend explained to me the concept of American Thanksgiving. From the time in fourth grade when my teacher made me read the part of “slanted-eyed child” in a play to every time a stranger in the online dating world told me he “loves Asian women,” I have been pressed with the dilemma of how I should react to these seemingly small lacerations. Should I respond? Is it worth it? When I tell people that I am writing about microaggressions, most — even some of my closest friends who are women of color — ask me why. It’s tempting to ignore microaggressions, considering blatant, obvious discrimination is still a real problem, but the buildup of these “everyday slights” has consequences on a victim’s mental and physical health that cannot be overlooked. … Diane Goodman, a social justice and diversity consultant, says the process is unfair, but having to decide whether or not to take action is inevitable in today’s society. “The emotional labor should not have to fall on people from marginalized groups.”
Why aren’t angry women being paid for their emotional labor?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-07--Super Joesday, Media Innumeracy, Our Lawless Society And A New Camp Of The Saints, Etc.

29m33s The best place to be a defendant .
( Once it was Limerick . )
34m14s A new Camp @ @ @ @ @ Will Europe grow a spine ? )
40m37s Physics news .
( Say it with @ @ @

00m56s Super Tuesday, befores and afters. (Perez makes some calls.)
09m49s Media innumeracy. (Journos can't count.)
13m29s Trump is toast. (Correlation of forces.)
22m01s Our lawless society. (Who-whom law enforcement.)
29m33s The best place to be a defendant. (Once it was Limerick.)
32m26s Virus news. (New Yorkers don't care.)
34m14s A new Camp of the Saints. (Will Europe grow a spine?)
36m47s Jeering at Jeff. (Trump's mean side.)
38m54s Freeman Dyson RIP. (Generous with his pictures.)
40m37s Physics news. (Say it with care.)
41m22s Signoff. (For Basil.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your supersymmetrically genial host John Derbyshire.
An exciting week in politics. Super Tuesday gave Joe Biden a night to remember — assuming, as several unkind observers observed, assuming Joe can remember it. Let's start with that.
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02 — Super Tuesday, befores and afters. Yes, that sure was a fun week in politics.
Super Tuesday came and went, preceded by South Bend Sunday and Minnesota Monday. Those were the days when Peter Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, respectively, ended their Presidential bids and endorsed Joe Biden to give Joltin' Joe a clear run at Bernie Sanders.
That's what a couple of phone calls can do. Phone calls, I mean, from the Party Center to Peter and Amy, Tom Perez snarling down the line, quote: "Step aside right now or kiss goodbye to your chance of a cabinet post, never mind the Veep slot. Right now!"
Radio Derb was sorry to see them go. I was sorry in Ms Klobuchar's case because I have been promoting her prospects since March last year. So much for my powers of prognostication, not that any other pundits have been doing much better.
So, a swing and a miss by Radio Derb on Amy … or was it? Here I was speaking on January 17th:
[Pips.]
[Clip: I think a Biden-Klobuchar ticket would be the sweet spot for the Democrats in November. It's dull as all get-out — the anti-weird ticket. And Senator Klobuchar is a gyno-American — diversity!]
[Pips.]
So don't count the lady out yet.
Peter Buttigieg's departure was less wounding to my pride, as I never thought he had much of a chance. Still I'm sorry to see him go. I'd been hoping he'd stay in the field long enough until at some point he ranked absolutely last in some poll or primary, just to give me the opportunity to say: "Peter Buttigieg is bringing up the rear." Now I'll have to wait until 2024.
Those were political events preceding Super Tuesday. The political events that followed it were Megabucks Wednesday and Tomahawk Thursday. Wednesday was when Michael Bloomberg dropped out; Thursday Elizabeth Warren did likewise.
There were differences of style. Bloomie, like Buttigieg and Klobuchar, endorsed Joe Biden, putting Bloomberg nicely squared away for the Treasury Secretary slot in Biden's cabinet.
Bloomie's Super Tuesday performance was so bad it was comical. The only place he won was American Samoa, population 55,000. Bloomie could have bought every one of them a house, and perhaps he did. At any rate, he got the enthusiastic endorsement of the territory's leader, Chief Fa'alagiga Nina Tua-au Glaude.
Chief Glaude — or Chief Fa'alagiga, however the names work down there — is one of those mysterious persons, like Judge James Burke, to whose name Google Images returns no results at all. Possibly she fears that if someone takes a picture of her, the camera will steal her soul. Or perhaps she doesn't exist. Perhaps she is a fictional creation of the Bloomberg media empire, so he can boast of having gathered at least one enthusiastic endorsement.
Fans of our political system have been claiming that Bloomie's campaign proves that money isn't all that important in politics after all. They were making the same claim in 2016, when Mrs Clinton spent way more than Donald Trump, but still lost.
Eh, maybe. I think it's more likely that having scads of money to spend on your campaign is necessary, but not sufficient. You need other things, too: a good feeling for political strategy, a message lots of voters want to hear that they haven't heard from other candidates, some minimal debating skills, and so on.
You want to talk money in politics? Let me tell you: For 25 years I've been hanging out with people who know retail politics really well — seasoned reporters, consultants, actual politicians, and such. I can report from hearing many, many of their conversations about campaigns at every level, from Mayor of Podunk up through state government and congressional races — I can report that it is not at all unusual, not at all unusual, to hear a candidate's name tagged with that of some billionaire supporter, like the epithet attached to the name of a Homeric hero.
"Oh, So-and-So? Well, yeah, he's got the Singer money …"
"Of course, you know, Whats-his-Name's got the Adelson money behind him …"
That kind of thing is the everyday currency of talk among political professionals. So okay, Mrs Clinton's out-spending Trump didn't get her the Presidency, and Michael Bloomberg's out-spending the known universe didn't get him the Democratic nomination; but … money in politics? Oh yeah.
And finally, Elizabeth Warren. Ms Warren ended her campaign with, if you can believe it, ill grace, declining to endorse Joe Biden or anyone else. She was shut out in all 14 state primaries on Super Tuesday, including her own Massachusetts, where she placed third.
The lady nurses heap plenty resentment about this. Why does she think she did so badly? It-was-sexism, it-was-sexism, it-was-sexism … Quote, from Boston station WBUR:
"If you say, 'Yeah, there was sexism in this race,' everyone says, 'Whiner!'" Warren told reporters outside her Cambridge home this afternoon. "And if you say, 'No, there was no sexism,' about a bazillion women think, 'What planet do you live on?' I promise you this: I will have a lot more to say on that subject later on," Warren said.
End quote.
We can't wait.
Forthcoming events: This Tuesday, six states for 352 delegates; March 17th, four states with 577 delegates.
So: How are things shaping up for November after all this turmoil? Next segment but one.
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03 — Media innumeracy. Just a footnote to my comments there about money in politics.
Thursday evening MSNBC host Brian Williams was discussing this precise topic with Mara Gay, who sits on the New York Times editorial board. Over to them.
[Clip: Williams: Do you see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it?
Gay: Absolutely. Um, somebody tweeted recently that, erm, actually, with the money he spent you could have given every American a million dollars …
Williams: I've got it. Let's put it up on the screen.
Gay: Yah.]
Up on the TV screen goes the image of a tweet from someone named Mekita Rivas. The tweet reads, quote:
Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST.
End tweet.
Williams and his interviewee continue:
[Clip: Williams: When I read it, er, tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads, U.S. population 327 million — don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math — he could've given each American one million dollars and have had lunch money left over. It's an incredible way of putting it.
Gay: It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true, it's disturbing, it does, it does suggest, y'know, what we're talking about here, which is: There's too much money in politics.}
Now, I have made arithmetical slips in public, and my usual reaction to seeing other people do so is: "There but for the grace of God go I." This one, though, is far beyond a mere slip: It is shriekingly innumerate. If you don't know that giving a million dollars to each of some millions of people is going to cost you trillions, you are not safe to be left alone around numbers.
When two of you, both earning far more than I do, agree on the blunder; and prepare a TV segment with the image of a tweet making the blunder, all without noticing anything amiss … I'm sorry, but that's disgraceful.
Enoch Powell famously remarked, speaking of mass immigration, that "numbers are of the essence." Yes, they are. They are the essence of a great many social issues.
If you don't have a basic instinctive feel for numbers — and if you confuse millions with trillions, you don't — you should not be doing public commentary, or sitting on the editorial board of a prestigious newspaper, or preparing prime-time political commentary shows for the screen.
Somebody here needs firing.
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04 — Trump is toast. Having confessed my own failures of prognostication back there, I offer no promises, only informed, considered guesses.
I'm going to assume, as everyone else is assuming since Super Tuesday, that the November contest will be Trump-Biden. How will it go?
Let me just say again that I'm a Trump voter. I'll be voting for him in November, unless the Democrats nominate Kris Kobach. [Laughter]
Trump's made some positive movement on the National Question, documented by my colleagues here at VDARE.com. He's even built some wall on our southern border; and not much of it has so far been blown over by the wind. He's cut regulations, and helped business. The economy looks good.
So I'm for Trump. Still, I do my best to weigh the correlation of forces as objectively as I can. If the answer I come up with makes me unhappy, I report it anyway.
That said, here's my prediction for a Trump-Biden contest in November: Trump is toast.
Most of my reasons are the same as ever.
Demographics: Three million people die every year in the U.S.A. That's twelve million per Presidential-election cycle. Trump voters are well-represented — over-represented — in that twelve million. At the other end of the demographic pipeline, some slightly greater number of young people arrive on the voter rolls fresh from fifteen years' relentless indoctrination in Cultural Marxism, from pre-K to college. To these latter you can add newly-naturalized citizen voters, graduates of our insane immigration policies this past thirty years, well-nigh all of them Democratic voters.
The media (including social media): The overlords who guide our thoughts and censor what we see and hear will not be caught napping again, as they were in 2016. It'll be a full-court press against Trump.
The imaginary swing voter: For a Trump victory, a lot of people who voted for Mrs Clinton in 2016 will have to switch their votes to Trump. I don't say that there are absolutely no such people. There may be one or two, lurking in the forests of the Northwest with Sasquatch. I just have trouble believing there are anything like enough of them.
Trump Disappointment Syndrome on the National Question: Those modest advances on the National Question are certainly welcome, but they fall far short of what many Trump voters — including this one — hoped for. We still have chain migration, birthright citizenship, and lavish guest-worker programs. We still don't have compulsory E-Verify, secure borders, visa tracking, or salutary deportations. The administration still allows lefty judges to litigate every immigration issue until it comes out the way the judges want it to. President Trump still sounds, some of the time, like a shill for the cheap-labor lobbies.
Trump Disappointment Syndrome on the wars: The other thing 2016 Trump voters really liked was Trump's skepticism about our missionary wars. He said NATO was obsolete, which it is. He said he'd get us out of Afghanistan. He told the South Koreans to nuke up. Four years later we're still in NATO, still losing guys in Afghanistan, still garrisoning South Korea.
After Super Tuesday, with the high probability now that Trump will be up against Biden, are all the negative factors stronger, or weaker?
It looks to me like a wash. Sure, you can note some negatives about Biden. He gets confused a lot, and has trouble putting verbs in his sentences. He's a poor debater. He's old: three and a half years older than Trump. He's got unsavory business connections in his past. And his past is a long one, with a paper trail of saying things that, if you said them in public today, would get you hauled off by the Thought Police for re-education.
I doubt any of that matters much. Biden's verbal blunders are no news to anyone at this point. Everyone's gotten used to them. Probably a lot of people find them endearing.
Yes, he's a poor debater, but so is Trump: check out my February 21st commentary on his debate with Mrs Clinton in the 2016 campaign. Unsavory business connections? The name "Trump University" mean anything?
As for that paper trail: A dash of political incorrectness in Joe's past might actually make him more attractive to disgruntled Trump voters. I'm a Trump voter; do I mind political incorrectness? Not at all.
The latest summary of polls at RealClearPolitics goes up to last Saturday. For a Trump-Biden contest it lists eight polls; only one has Trump ahead. The average spread of the eight polls has Biden 5.5 points ahead. That's way better than Mrs Clinton was polling in 2016, and Trump only beat her by a whisker. And Biden's 5.5-point advantage is from before his Super Tuesday boost.
All of that is before allowing for "events, dear boy, events." If this coronavirus pandemic spins out of control, to take just one possibility, the administration will be blamed. Is that fair? No. Would a Biden administration have handled things better? Not likely. It's just natural to blame the people in charge.
So you can tell me you're sad about my predicting a Trump loss, and I'll be sad with you, but you can't tell me I'm being unrealistic.
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05 — Our lawless society. If I were advising the Trump people, I'd tell them to lean hard on the law-and-order issue. Increasingly, it seems to me, on several different fronts, we are a lawless society.
Exhibit A: The bail-reform laws passed by the New York State legislature last year. The local news outlets now regularly feature stories about criminals set free under the new rules, who promptly commit new crimes.
Tiffany Harris, who specializes in walking up to Jewish women and punching them in the head while shouting antisemitic curses. She was at it again this week, and she's out again.
Charles Barry, a subway scammer and thief with 142 — count 'em, 142 — arrests on his rap sheet, got arrested again this week, and … released.
Exhibit B: Sanctuary Cities releasing illegal aliens so they can't be deported.
In Chicago, Mexican illegal Christopher Puente, who has been deported at least once and been convicted of burglary, forgery, trespassing, and domestic battery, was arrested for theft last year, but released in defiance of an ICE request to hold him. After release, he sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl in a McDonald's bathroom.
Back in New York, Guatemalan national Miguel Ajqui-Ajtzalam was arrested last week for statutory rape on a 13-year-old girl. A judge allowed him out on supervised release, ignoring a request from ICE that he be held for deportation.
Exhibit C: California's de-criminalizing of theft up to a value of $950. This has generated a rash of flagrant store robberies, gangs of robbers calmly walking into stores, loading up plastic garbage bags with merchandise, then strolling out.
Exhibit D: Political violence. In Eureka, California, a man smashed the windows, stole property, and seems to have attempted arson against a local Republican Party headquarters. He was arrested and spent the night in jail, but then released.
This was the sixth time in two years the office had been vandalized. The attacks are plainly political: anti-Trump slogans were left in some of the attacks, and the local office of the Democratic Party has never been touched. Notwithstanding that, the local police department has dismissed the attacks as "random vandalism."
Exhibit E: Street mobs. In Brooklyn, New York the other day a gang of a dozen or more high-schoolers attacked a lone 15-year-old girl in the street, leaving her badly hurt — badly enough to need hospitalizing. The whole thing was caught on security cameras. When the girl had been kicked unconscious, one of the assailants stole the sneakers from her feet.
One thing you see from all these exhibits is, that law enforcement and the judicial system are now all thoroughly taken over by CultMarx who-whom ideology. Their responses are shaped by who is doing the law-breaking, and to whom they are doing it.
The high-schoolers in that last example were all black, of course. Tiffany Harris and Charles Barry in my bail-reform exhibit, are also black. So are the store robbers in California. The beneficiaries of Sanctuary City policies are of course illegal aliens. The guy who vandalized the GOP office in Eureka is plainly an Antifa nutcase.
Those are all protected, favored groups, who must be dealt with leniently. The laws don't apply to them; at least, nothing like as severely as they apply to the white oppressor class.
How do we respond when a member of the favored groups commits violence against the oppressors? With silence, of course.
Or, if the atrocity is too serious for silence, we twist it around to make it the victims' fault. The most recent instance of this has been the February 26th massacre at Coors brewery in Milwaukee. Anthony Ferrill, a disgruntled black employee, murdered five co-workers, all white. A long news story March 4th at the Washington Post carefully explained that Mr Ferrill was driven to his act by incessant anti-black racism at the plant, including — can you guess? — yes, nooses. Nooses! So those five victims had it coming.
We are fish, and this is the water we swim in. Equality under the law is a fading memory. Mere application of the law against members of favored groups — blacks, illegal aliens, Antifa activists — is frowned on.
This is lawlessness. Law on behalf of favored groups is no law; it's lawlessness. Millions of Americans must be just as fed up with this as I am. There has to be a political opportunity in addressing the issue.
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06 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Back in the days when Britain ruled Ireland, Irish juries tended to go easy on Irish defendants charged with offenses against British property or interests. For some reason this was particularly the case in the county of Limerick, in south-western Ireland.
Back around 1900 there was a county judge in Limerick named Richard Adams. He was considered to be a colorful character, and was much quoted. One of his most-quoted remarks was when he dismissed a defendant with the following words, quote:
You have been acquitted by a Limerick jury, and you may now leave the dock without any other stain upon your character.
That came to mind the other day when I was reading this report about court statistics in New York City. The city has five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
The Bronx, it turns out, is the best borough in which to be a defendant; Staten Island is the worst. In the last three years Bronx juries convicted only 57 percent of defendants: Staten Island juries convicted 88 percent. For bench trials, where the judge alone renders a verdict, the Bronx convicted 28 percent; Staten Island 83 percent.
What on earth could explain such discrepancies? Well, demographics, possibly. If we separate out Ice People — that's Asians and non-Hispanic whites — from Sun People — blacks and Hispanics — the Bronx is 86.4 percent Sun People, Staten Island only 29.5 percent.
Richard Adams would be right at home here.
You have been acquitted by a Bronx jury, and you may now leave the dock without any other stain upon your character.
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Item: I should of course say something about the pesky COVID-19 outbreak. Unfortunately there isn't much to say that I haven't already said. Experts are still all over the place, with Dr Drew Pinsky on Laura Ingraham's show Monday telling us, quote:
It is milder than we thought. The fatality rate is going to drop as we identify more cases.
End quote.
Meanwhile, at the black-pill end, Greg Cochran is warning about overflowing Intensive Care Units. What's a poor layman to think?
My own thoughts have settled into a calm fatalism. I'm washing my hands a lot, wearing gloves when I go out, carrying a surgical mask just in case someone starts sneezing in my direction, and taking care not to touch my mucous membranes. That aside, I am practicing Defiant Normality.
New Yorkers seem to be doing the same. Last night I went into New York City for a dinner. I rode the Long Island railroad to Queens, then switched to the subway for another half-hour ride to 53rd Street in Manhattan. Then I walked up Lexington Avenue to 75th Street. This was the tail-end of the rush hour, plenty of people about. I did not see one person wearing a face mask.
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Item: Greece and Turkey are at loggerheads, by no means for the first time in history. Both countries are members of NATO. The Turks are vexed that their NATO allies aren't helping them to exterminate the Kurds … Oh, sorry, that slipped out. I mean, we aren't helping them fight the Russians in Syria. They are double vexed because Europe hasn't been throwing its borders wide open to Turkish guest workers.
So to get back at the Europeans, the Turks have been rounding up all the non-Turks they can find and shipping them to Turkey's 100-mile border with Greece. The Greeks won't let them in, the Turks won't take them back, so there are now thousands of these non-Turks stuck at the Turkish side of the border.
Some of the non-Turks are refugees from Syria; others are Afghans, Iraqis, and Africans. Some may actually be Turks: There are rumors that Erdoğan has taken the opportunity to empty out his jails and asylums, like Fidel Castro did for the Mariel boatlift.
To judge from the news pictures, practically all of them are able-bodied young men.
This is a Camp of the Saints scenario; and as in that novel, the Europeans are mostly flapping their arms ineffectually. This is 2015 over again, only with bigger numbers.
I must say, I don't really understand why able-bodied young men are ever classified as refugees. Children, women, old people — sure; but young men should stay and fight whatever it is that's making their country a bad place to be.
Will Europe grow a spine and deal with these invasions the way they should, with lethal force? I doubt it. Europe is finished. We can only watch and weep.
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Item: One of the biggest black marks against Donald Trump has been his despicable treatment of Jeff Sessions.
You can dispute the rights and wrongs of Sessions recusing himself from the Russia probe, although you can't say anything worse than that he was over-punctilious. He surely wasn't treacherous or duplicitous.
What you can't dispute is that Trump has been conducting a low, mean, spiteful personal vendetta against one of his earliest and most loyal supporters.
This week Trump spat another gob of acid in Jeff Sessions' direction, gloating after Sessions came close second in Tuesday's primary for his old Alabama senate seat. Open-borders RINO Tommy Tuberville came first with 32 percent of the vote; Sessions got 31 percent. There'll be a runoff between the two of them March 31st.
Tweeted Trump, tweet:
This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General of the United States and then doesn't have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt.
End tweet.
Surveying our President's life, career, and character the words "wisdom" and "courage" are not the first that come to mind.
Yes, I'll vote for Trump; but nothing can make me like him. Come to think of it: If he endorses Tuberville, I'm not sure I could bring myself to vote for him.
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Item: Last Friday, February 28th, too late for Radio Derb, physicist Freeman Dyson passed away at age 96.
I had a very slight interaction with Dyson some years ago, when I was preparing my book Prime Obsession for the press. He has a walk-on part in the book where I describe him as "a renowned physicist" who, in 1972 "had not yet embarked on his second career as an author of thought-provoking bestsellers about the origins of life and the future of the human race."
I included a photograph of Dyson in the picture "well" at the middle of the book. When you do that, publishing protocols dictate that you check with the subject for permission to use his photograph. I accordingly emailed Dyson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. I got a very nice email back saying that I was welcome to use the photograph of him in any way I pleased that was not disrespectful. He did not charge me for the rights, as some people do.
Dyson wrote a fine memoir, Disturbing the Universe, which I recommend. Rest in Peace, Sir, and thanks again for the picture.
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Item: A very brief footnote to that. I just learned this week that the theory of supersymmetry in modern physics requires that ordinary particles like electrons and positrons all have supersymmetric partners. The supersymmetric partner of a positron is called … a spositron.
A spositron. Say it with care, and write your own jokes.
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07 — Signoff. That's all I have, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening.
Sympathy and prayers from Radio Derb to those bereaved, made homeless, or otherwise had their lives disrupted by the terrible tornadoes that struck Tennessee Tuesday morning. For any listeners who want to help those affected, GoFundMe has set up a centralized hub showing all the certified fundraisers. You can find it at gofundme.com/c/act/nashville-tornado. Please help our fellow-citizens if you can.
If you read my February Diary, you'll be up to date on Basil, our newest family member. In Basil's honor, I thought we'd have a canine-themed song to see us out. Here is one of the classics.
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vdare--2020-03-06--Milwaukee Top Cop: Mass Murderer More Likely Plagued by "Mental Health Issues" Than Victim Of Racism

Earlier : WASHINGTON POST Goes Full Omar Thornton On How Black Milwaukee Murderer 's White Victims Had It Coming In a reminder that local cops tend to be much more sensible than the national media about what motivates criminals , from the AP : Chief : ‘ Mental health ’ likely motive for brewery shooting By : Associated Press March 5 , 2020 9:22 am MILWAUKEE ( AP ) — A man who killed five of his fellow employees at the Molson Coors brewery in Milwaukee before shooting himself was likely driven by “ mental health issues ” more so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chief said .
Chief Alfonso Morales told WTMJ radio on Wednesday that he doesn ’ t believe racial issues led Anthony Ferrill , who was black , to carry out the Feb. 26 attack at the sprawling brewery complex on Milwaukee ’ s west side .
Four of the slain workers were white and the fifth was Latino .
Morales ’ interview expanded on a police statement that warned the public not to assume that Ferrill had been racially harassed , even though the company confirmed Wednesday that a noose had been placed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ago .
“ I ’ m going to go out on a limb on this one and say that I believe this was more mental health issues , ” Morales told WTMJ .
“ And as we develop that based on the information we ’ re getting that ’ s what ’ s leading us .
”

Earlier: WASHINGTON POST Goes Full Omar Thornton On How Black Milwaukee Murderer's White Victims Had It Coming
In a reminder that local cops tend to be much more sensible than the national media about what motivates criminals, from the AP:
Chief: ‘Mental health’ likely motive for brewery shooting
By: Associated Press March 5, 2020 9:22 am
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A man who killed five of his fellow employees at the Molson Coors brewery in Milwaukee before shooting himself was likely driven by “mental health issues” more so than racism, Milwaukee’s police chief said.
Chief Alfonso Morales told WTMJ radio on Wednesday that he doesn’t believe racial issues led Anthony Ferrill, who was black, to carry out the Feb. 26 attack at the sprawling brewery complex on Milwaukee’s west side. Four of the slain workers were white and the fifth was Latino. Morales’ interview expanded on a police statement that warned the public not to assume that Ferrill had been racially harassed, even though the company confirmed Wednesday that a noose had been placed on Ferrill’s locker five years ago.
“I’m going to go out on a limb on this one and say that I believe this was more mental health issues,” Morales told WTMJ. “And as we develop that based on the information we’re getting that’s what’s leading us.”


vdare--2020-03-06--COVID-19 Found at AIPAC Conference Attended by 2/3rds of Congress

Other than a State of the Union address , there ’ s not much that physically gathers more of the USA ’ s ruling class together than an AIPAC conference .
AIPAC says two people at DC conference attended by Pence and others have tested positive for coronavirus Jeanine Santucci WASHINGTON — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee told conference attendees , some of whom include lawmakers , that at least two conference-goers have tested positive for coronavirus .
The pro-Israel lobbying group said in an updated statement to attendees , speakers , administration and Capitol Hill offices on Friday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York to Washington , D.C. to attend the March 1-3 conference .
… Attendees and speakers at the conference included Vice President Mike Pence , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-Ky. , Sen. Ted Cruz , R-Texas , Rep. Liz Cheney , R-Wyo.
, former 2020 Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg , former candidate Sen. Cory Booker , D-N.J. , and several other lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle .
The group ’ s website says that more than about 18,000 people attend its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that two-thirds of Congress participate .
The reality is that despite all the Information Superhighway blather in 1993 about how you could work from anywhere , the people at the top rely on face to face personal contact to get to and stay on the top .
By the way , here ’ s a good conceptual graph : One question might be : would the healthcare system capacity line tend to slope up ( as more capacity is brought on line ) or down ( as more health care workers become incapacitated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether you ’ ve had this particular virus and are now immune to it ?
What are sources of people with some degree of medical training who could quickly step in if we start running out of doctors and nurses ?
Ex-military medics ?
Firemen ?
Dentists ?
Orthodontists ?
Dermatologists ?

Other than a State of the Union address, there’s not much that physically gathers more of the USA’s ruling class together than an AIPAC conference.
From USA Today:
AIPAC says two people at DC conference attended by Pence and others have tested positive for coronavirus
Jeanine Santucci WASHINGTON — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee told conference attendees, some of whom include lawmakers, that at least two conference-goers have tested positive for coronavirus. The pro-Israel lobbying group said in an updated statement to attendees, speakers, administration and Capitol Hill offices on Friday that the two individuals affected traveled from New York to Washington, D.C. to attend the March 1-3 conference. … Attendees and speakers at the conference included Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., former 2020 Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg, former candidate Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and several other lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle. The group’s website says that more than about 18,000 people attend its conference from across the country, and that two-thirds of Congress participate.
The reality is that despite all the Information Superhighway blather in 1993 about how you could work from anywhere, the people at the top rely on face to face personal contact to get to and stay on the top.
By the way, here’s a good conceptual graph:
One question might be: Would the healthcare system capacity line tend to slope up (as more capacity is brought on line) or down (as more health care workers become incapacitated)?
Is there a test for whether you’ve had this particular virus and are now immune to it?
What are sources of people with some degree of medical training who could quickly step in if we start running out of doctors and nurses? Ex-military medics? Firemen? Dentists? Orthodontists? Dermatologists?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-06--NYT: Don't Wait Until It's Too Late to Close Schools

From the New York Times opinion page : Coronavirus School Closings : Don ’ t Wait Until It ’ s Too Late History teaches us that keeping children at home early in an outbreak can save lives .
By Howard Markel Dr. Markel studies the history of pandemics .
Dr. Markel is the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and a professor of pediatrics .
My research on the long history of epidemics has taught me that when it comes to outbreaks of contagious respiratory infections , closing schools can help prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Schools are community gathering places where large numbers of people are in proximity to one another and respiratory infections can easily spread among young people and adults alike .
Shutting them down can be a key part of slowing the spread of easily transmissible viruses so that hospitals are not overrun with sick people , and it can help to buy time to allow for the development of antiviral medications , medical treatments or a vaccine .
But policymakers working to stop the spread of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 should remember a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : We can ’ t wait until it ’ s too late .
Communities in the United States must shut down schools before , not after , the outbreak becomes widespread here .
“ Widespread ” is admittedly an imprecise term , but I use it to describe a situation in which there are multiple cases throughout a town or state and more cases with each passing day .
In 2007 , my colleagues and I at the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and the U.S. Centers for Disease @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic , which killed up to 750,000 Americans .
We looked at 43 large cities that carried out some combination of non-pharmaceutical interventions ( NPIs ) : isolating the ill or those suspected of being ill in hospitals or at home ; banning public gatherings ; in some cases , shutting down roads and railways ; and closing schools .
School closing turned out to be one of the most effective firewalls against the spread of the pandemic ; cities that acted fast , for lengthy periods , and included school closing and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responses saw the lowest death rates .
Of course , all NPIs are socially disruptive and should be used only as a last resort , to control infections that are highly transmissible and dangerous , and have high fatality rates .
The primary problem with the new coronavirus is that we have never before experienced an outbreak with it , so we do not yet have good , stable numbers to tell us how serious it is .

From the New York Times opinion page:
Coronavirus School Closings: Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late
History teaches us that keeping children at home early in an outbreak can save lives.
By Howard Markel
Dr. Markel studies the history of pandemics. Dr. Markel is the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and a professor of pediatrics.
March 6, 2020, 6:43 p.m. ET
My research on the long history of epidemics has taught me that when it comes to outbreaks of contagious respiratory infections, closing schools can help prevent many thousands of illnesses and deaths.
Schools are community gathering places where large numbers of people are in proximity to one another and respiratory infections can easily spread among young people and adults alike. Shutting them down can be a key part of slowing the spread of easily transmissible viruses so that hospitals are not overrun with sick people, and it can help to buy time to allow for the development of antiviral medications, medical treatments or a vaccine.
But policymakers working to stop the spread of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 should remember a key part of this historically informed equation: We can’t wait until it’s too late.
Communities in the United States must shut down schools before, not after, the outbreak becomes widespread here. “Widespread” is admittedly an imprecise term, but I use it to describe a situation in which there are multiple cases throughout a town or state and more cases with each passing day.
In 2007, my colleagues and I at the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, which killed up to 750,000 Americans.
We looked at 43 large cities that carried out some combination of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs): isolating the ill or those suspected of being ill in hospitals or at home; banning public gatherings; in some cases, shutting down roads and railways; and closing schools.
School closing turned out to be one of the most effective firewalls against the spread of the pandemic; cities that acted fast, for lengthy periods, and included school closing and at least one other NPI in their responses saw the lowest death rates.
Of course, all NPIs are socially disruptive and should be used only as a last resort, to control infections that are highly transmissible and dangerous, and have high fatality rates. The primary problem with the new coronavirus is that we have never before experienced an outbreak with it, so we do not yet have good, stable numbers to tell us how serious it is.


vdare--2020-03-06--Woody Allen's New Book Censored By Interns

From the New York Times : The publisher planned to release the filmmaker ’ s autobiography in April but reversed course after a protest by its own workers .
Hachette Book Group on Friday dropped its plans to publish Woody Allen ’ s autobiography and said it would return all rights to the author , a day after its employees protested its deal with the filmmaker ...
But she added that Hachette executives had discussed the matter with its employees and , “ after listening , we came to the conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Farrow , whose book “ Catch and Kill ” was published by another Hachette imprint , criticized Hachette in an email exchange earlier this week , calling its decision to publish Mr. Allen ’ s book a betrayal .
“ Your policy of editorial independence among your imprints does not relieve you of your moral and professional obligations as the publisher of ‘ Catch and Kill , ’ and as the leader of a company being asked to assist in efforts by abusive men to whitewash their crimes , ” Mr. Farrow wrote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Hachette .
Mr. Farrow , whose reporting on accusations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men helped touch off the # MeToo movement , is Mr. Allen ’ s son with the actress Mia Farrow .
Mr. Farrow and his adopted sister , Dylan Farrow , have long accused Mr. Allen of molesting her when she was a child , allegations he has denied .
Mr. Allen was not charged after two investigations .
Also , Ronan Farrow has had plastic surgery to look less like Woody Allen and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wants to believe was actually his father , his mother ’ s ex-husband Frank Sinatra .
In other words , we ’ re talking about several extremely talented and motivated individuals—Woody Allen , Mia Farrow , and Ronan Farrow ( Ronan is the son of somebody gigantically famous , but which one is a question ) —who have long been having an extremely personal dispute over allegations that outside law enforcement investigators have twice failed to substantiate .
As I ’ ve been pointing out for a few years , the Culture Industry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ increasingly held hostage by its practice of employing a lot of poorly paid young women in behind-the-scenes jobs .
You don ’ t have to pay young women much to work in glamour industries , but you have to listen when they take something personally .
They ’ ve got a lot of emotional energy and we live in a culture where it ’ s increasingly forbidden to mention that women don ’ t always think accurately when their emotions are engaged .

From the New York Times:
Hachette Says It Won’t Publish Woody Allen’s Book The publisher planned to release the filmmaker’s autobiography in April but reversed course after a protest by its own workers. By John Williams
March 6, 2020, 6:05 p.m. ET Hachette Book Group on Friday dropped its plans to publish Woody Allen’s autobiography and said it would return all rights to the author, a day after its employees protested its deal with the filmmaker... But she added that Hachette executives had discussed the matter with its employees and, “after listening, we came to the conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible for HBG.” … The journalist Ronan Farrow, whose book “Catch and Kill” was published by another Hachette imprint, criticized Hachette in an email exchange earlier this week, calling its decision to publish Mr. Allen’s book a betrayal. “Your policy of editorial independence among your imprints does not relieve you of your moral and professional obligations as the publisher of ‘Catch and Kill,’ and as the leader of a company being asked to assist in efforts by abusive men to whitewash their crimes,” Mr. Farrow wrote to Michael Pietsch, the chief executive of Hachette. Mr. Farrow, whose reporting on accusations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men helped touch off the #MeToo movement, is Mr. Allen’s son with the actress Mia Farrow. Mr. Farrow and his adopted sister, Dylan Farrow, have long accused Mr. Allen of molesting her when she was a child, allegations he has denied. Mr. Allen was not charged after two investigations.
Also, Ronan Farrow has had plastic surgery to look less like Woody Allen and more like the man he believes or wants to believe was actually his father, his mother’s ex-husband Frank Sinatra.
In other words, we’re talking about several extremely talented and motivated individuals—Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and Ronan Farrow (Ronan is the son of somebody gigantically famous, but which one is a question)—who have long been having an extremely personal dispute over allegations that outside law enforcement investigators have twice failed to substantiate.
… On Thursday, Hachette employees staged a walkout to protest their company’s plans. Hachette subsequently said it would have “a fuller discussion” with its staff members.
As I’ve been pointing out for a few years, the Culture Industry (e.g., book publishers) is increasingly held hostage by its practice of employing a lot of poorly paid young women in behind-the-scenes jobs. You don’t have to pay young women much to work in glamour industries, but you have to listen when they take something personally. They’ve got a lot of emotional energy and we live in a culture where it’s increasingly forbidden to mention that women don’t always think accurately when their emotions are engaged.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-06--Are Crime-Fighting Fog Cannons an Ambulance at the Bottom of a Cliff Approach? New Zealanders Debate

Are Crime-Fighting Fog Cannons an Ambulance at the Bottom of a Cliff Approach? New Zealanders Debate!

I learned three things about New Zealand today : 1 ) Its retail outlets known as “ dairies , ” @ @ @ @ @ run by South Asians , are suffering a rash of robberies by unidentified perps .
@ @ @ @ @ proposes to fight back by installing “ fog cannons ” in the stores ( you @ @ @ @ @ in the video below ) .
3 ) Many New Zealanders have responded by calling @ @ @ @ @ the bottom of a cliff approach , ” which , apparently , is a popular @ @ @ @ @ Zealand , but which confuses me and reminds me of “ an ambulance at the @ @ @ @ @ ” from a breakthrough early Simpsons episode : Here 's an ambulance at the top @ @ @ @ @ https : //t.co/bXrZiltmj7 — Steve Sailer ( @ Steve_Sailer ) March 6 , 2020

I learned three things about New Zealand today:
1) Its retail outlets known as “dairies,” which appear to be mostly run by South Asians, are suffering a rash of robberies by unidentified perps.
2) The Labour government proposes to fight back by installing “fog cannons” in the stores (you can watch one in action in the video below).
3) Many New Zealanders have responded by calling this “an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff approach,” which, apparently, is a popular and well-understood phrase in New Zealand, but which confuses me and reminds me of “an ambulance at the top of a cliff approach” from a breakthrough early Simpsons episode:
We're taking action to prevent crime and protect our communities by almost doubling the number of fog cannons available to small businesses across the country. This will help to keep our communities safe by reducing robberies and minimising the risk of violence to retail workers. pic.twitter.com/rIXVoykRyn — New Zealand Labour (@nzlabour) March 5, 2020
Here's an ambulance at the top of the cliff approach:https://t.co/bXrZiltmj7 — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) March 6, 2020
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-06--SAID IN SPANISH (Sort Of): Hispanics Feel The Bern—With The Help Of A “Mexican Redneck,” Two Illegal

SAID IN SPANISH (Sort Of): Hispanics Feel The Bern—With The Help Of A “Mexican Redneck,” Two Illegal Aliens, And Socialism

Regardless of the overall result on Super Tuesday , exit polls suggests that Hispanics were indeed all in for Sanders and his plans to nationalize much of the economy and give away lots of free stuff .
It ’ s further evidence that America ’ s post-1965 immigration disaster is importing a minority that , far from being the “ natural conservatives ” of GOP strategists ’ delusions , seems set to move American politics decisively to the Left .
Sanders shellacked Biden among Latinos in California and won handily in Texas : Sanders has made an aggressive play for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assembled a coalition that included young voters and Latinos in California , where Latino voters make up about 30 % of the electorate .
California was the biggest delegate prize .
Sanders held an early lead with Latino voters by 30 points .
In Texas , where Latino voters make up 31 % of the electorate , Sanders also held a wide lead , with support from 45 % of Latinos .
In Texas , Sanders leads younger Latinos , but Biden leads among older Latinos .
[ Who Black , Latino And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by Juana Summers , NPR , March 4 , 2020 ] Latino support saved Sanders from bigger delegate losses to Biden , Matt Barreto , a professor at UCLA and co-founder of the research firm Latino Decisions , said .
“ Without Latino voters , Sanders would have really had a terrible night , ” Barreto said .
“ Biden had a good night already , but Sanders was able to hold his own with a really big win in California and breaking even in Texas .
All of that strength for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came out.
” In 2016 , Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in 10 of 11 states where Latinos made up a large share of eligible voters .
This time , he ’ s made a stronger push .
Sanders has been trying to appeal to Latino voters with a progressive policy platform on immigration , but that isn ’ t the only issue that motivates them .
He has also been speaking to their core interests , including health care and jobs .
Starting last summer , he has poured resources in spreading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ English , to Latino communities .
And he ’ s hired Latino staff from the grassroots advocacy community and integrated them into every facet of his campaign .
It wasn ’ t enough to carry him to a sweeping victory on Tuesday .
But depending on how the delegate counts shake out in California and Texas , it could have kept his campaign alive .
[ Latino voters might have saved Bernie Sanders ’ s campaign , by Nicole Narea , VOX , March 3 , 2020 ] In California , Sanders took @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden ’ s 148 ; in Texas , Sanders pulled 102 of 228 to Biden ’ s 111 .
The Biden-Sanders tally so far : 627-573 .
Earlier , shrugging off his loss in South Carolina , Sanders prevailed in Nevada “ thanks in large measure to a 37-percentage-point victory among Latino caucus-goers ” [ Latinos , Sanders 's secret weapon in Nevada , could make him unstoppable on Super Tuesday , by Hunter Walker and Andrew Romano , Yahoo News , February 22 , 2020 ] .
How is Sanders pulling it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clinton in 2016 in those Hispanic-heavy states ?
If Yahoo ’ s Walker and Romano are right , part of the credit—or blame , as the case may be—goes to a Mexican-American aide called Chuck Rocha : Later in 2015 , the Sanders campaign hired Solidarity Strategies and it wasn ’ t long before Rocha “ was consulting on minority hiring , outreach and advertising for Sanders .
By the end of the race he was in charge of all of the campaign ’ s print communications , ” Walter and Roman reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pictured below , via Twitter ) calls himself a “ Mexican redneck.
” The child of two teenagers , a “ Mexican immigrant father and a white mother.
” Rocha ’ s father actually left him ( like Obama , Rocha seems to identify more with the side of the family of the parent who left him ) .
Later , Rocha 's dad reappeared and “ got him a job at the local tire factory .
The gig ended up being Rocha ’ s entrée into union organizing — and ultimately , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , hooked up with Sanders and landed a gig as a senior adviser , Walter and Roman reported , whose portfolio Rocha reportedly believes that Sanders ’ success among Hispanics this election season shows that “ campaigns have long botched their Latino outreach efforts by relying on largely white teams , insufficient investment and messages that aren ’ t ‘ culturally competent.
’ He has sought to mount a push for Sanders that is historically diverse , large and involves a tailored advertising blitz.
” So , no more of those antiquated “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s the thing .
Rocha has wisely tailored Sanders ’ Spanish-language ads to his Hispanic audience because he knows it favors welfare and activist government .
Money quote from the Walker-Roman puff piece : That ’ s the problem with Spanish-language ads and bilingual politicking .
Politicians lie enough in one language .
With two , the deceptions double !
I ’ ve written about this for years .
Way back in 2002 , I wrote about this phenomenon regards to a gubernatorial election in Texas .
See '' Nuestra Gente '' And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , through the years : • The GOP 's Sell-Out Seven Have Their Own Univision Panderfest , December 10 , 2007 • Who Can Sell Out The U.S .
Faster ?
McCain And Obama Slug It Out—In Spanish , October 20 , 2008 • Obama And Romney Both Hispander In Spanish-Language TV Ads—One Competently , May 27 , 2012 • Texas Gubernatorial Candidates Tell Americans One Thing—Spanish-Speakers Another , October 30 , 2014 • Candidate Marco Rubio Tells Jorge Ramos , in Spanish , That Obama 's Unilateral Amnesty Is A Good Thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Solution , April 18 , 2015 • GOP ’ s Jeb Bush , Mike Coffman—Not Just Hispanderers But Turncoats ( And Traitors To America ’ s Working Class ) , April 16 , 2015 • Univision Audio Teaser Distorts Marco Rubio 's Position , Making Him Seem Less Pro-Amnesty Than He Is , April 19 , 2015 • Cruz-Rubio Spanish-Off—Cruz Nails Rubio For Hispandering Double Talk , But Fails To Defend English Language , February 18 , 2016 • Nelson And Scott Have Special Messages For Florida ’ s Spanish-Speakers .
Shouldn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2018 Rocha ’ s monkeyshines with the translations push these radical ideas : Of course , Rocha emphasizes Sanders ’ background as the child and grandchild of immigrants , producing an ad titled “ Our Future ” that runs thusly : The Sanders outreach also targets different Hispanic groups : Mexican-Americans , Puerto Ricans , Older Latinos , even Latinos who speak English .
Here ’ s the kicker .
Rocha himself can ’ t palaver in his old man ’ s native tongue !
So he has an aide to do it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that President Trump “ from day one has been fighting against me.
’ ” Incredibly , he isn ’ t the only illegal helping the Sanders campaign retail socialism and Open Borders to Hispanics .
Meet Belen Sisa .
She wants illegals to know Sanders has courage like no other Democrat : Get that ?
In 2020 , you can hype your illegal-alien employees in an MSM hagiography with no fear of Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
And even worse , those illegals instruct us that they deserve “ benefits ” that , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in themselves , should go only to Americans .
Bottom line : The increasing power of the Hispanic voting bloc—and Sanders ’ focused appeal to and success in wooing it—is putting the Historic American Nation and its political culture in peril .
American citizen Allan Wall ( email him ) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico .
Allan 's wife is Mexican , and their two sons are bilingual .
In 2005 , Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ here ; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here ; his News With Views columns are archived here ; and his website is here .

Regardless of the overall result on Super Tuesday, exit polls suggests that Hispanics were indeed all in for Sanders and his plans to nationalize much of the economy and give away lots of free stuff. It’s further evidence that America’s post-1965 immigration disaster is importing a minority that, far from being the “natural conservatives” of GOP strategists’ delusions, seems set to move American politics decisively to the Left .
Sanders shellacked Biden among Latinos in California and won handily in Texas:
Sanders has made an aggressive play for Latino voters across the country. He assembled a coalition that included young voters and Latinos in California, where Latino voters make up about 30% of the electorate. California was the biggest delegate prize. Sanders held an early lead with Latino voters by 30 points. In Texas, where Latino voters make up 31% of the electorate, Sanders also held a wide lead, with support from 45% of Latinos. In Texas, Sanders leads younger Latinos, but Biden leads among older Latinos. [Who Black, Latino And Asian American Voters Supported On Super Tuesday, by Juana Summers, NPR, March 4, 2020]
Indeed, Hispanics saved Sanders from total annihilation:
Latino support saved Sanders from bigger delegate losses to Biden, Matt Barreto, a professor at UCLA and co-founder of the research firm Latino Decisions, said. “Without Latino voters, Sanders would have really had a terrible night,” Barreto said. “Biden had a good night already, but Sanders was able to hold his own with a really big win in California and breaking even in Texas. All of that strength for him was Latinos and young voters who came out.” In 2016, Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in 10 of 11 states where Latinos made up a large share of eligible voters. This time, he’s made a stronger push. Sanders has been trying to appeal to Latino voters with a progressive policy platform on immigration, but that isn’t the only issue that motivates them. He has also been speaking to their core interests, including health care and jobs. Starting last summer, he has poured resources in spreading his message, in both Spanish and English, to Latino communities. And he’s hired Latino staff from the grassroots advocacy community and integrated them into every facet of his campaign. It wasn’t enough to carry him to a sweeping victory on Tuesday. But depending on how the delegate counts shake out in California and Texas, it could have kept his campaign alive. [Latino voters might have saved Bernie Sanders’s campaign, by Nicole Narea, VOX, March 3, 2020]
In California, Sanders took 186 of the state 415 delegates to Biden’s 148; in Texas, Sanders pulled 102 of 228 to Biden’s 111.
The Biden-Sanders tally so far: 627-573.
Earlier, shrugging off his loss in South Carolina, Sanders prevailed in Nevada “thanks in large measure to a 37-percentage-point victory among Latino caucus-goers” [Latinos, Sanders's secret weapon in Nevada, could make him unstoppable on Super Tuesday, by Hunter Walker and Andrew Romano, Yahoo News, February 22, 2020].
How is Sanders pulling it off this time given what happened against Clinton in 2016 in those Hispanic-heavy states? If Yahoo’s Walker and Romano are right, part of the credit—or blame, as the case may be—goes to a Mexican-American aide called Chuck Rocha:
[T]he seeds of that victory were sown five years ago when a staffer on Sanders’s first presidential bid had trouble reading a Spanish website. It was Memorial Day weekend 2015, about a month after the Vermont senator launched his long-shot challenge to Hillary Clinton. Sanders was short on resources; his staff was a skeleton crew, with no one who could translate Spanish. So the campaign summoned Chuck Rocha, the founder and president of Solidarity Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in reaching Latinos and blacks that was launched by Rocha in 2010.
Later in 2015, the Sanders campaign hired Solidarity Strategies and it wasn’t long before Rocha “was consulting on minority hiring, outreach and advertising for Sanders. By the end of the race he was in charge of all of the campaign’s print communications,” Walter and Roman reported.
Fifty-one years old, Rocha (pictured below, via Twitter) calls himself a “Mexican redneck.” The child of two teenagers, a “Mexican immigrant father and a white mother.” Rocha’s father actually left him (like Obama, Rocha seems to identify more with the side of the family of the parent who left him). Later, Rocha's dad reappeared and “got him a job at the local tire factory. The gig ended up being Rocha’s entrée into union organizing — and ultimately, politics.”
Eventually Rocha founded Solidarity Strategies, hooked up with Sanders and landed a gig as a senior adviser, Walter and Roman reported, whose portfolio
…includes general strategy, hiring staff and overseeing print ads and merchandise. Rocha also crafts the campaign’s Spanish-language ads on television, radio and the internet. If anyone is responsible for the huge Latino outreach effort that has helped propel Sanders to the front of the Democratic pack, it’s Rocha.
Rocha reportedly believes that Sanders’ success among Hispanics this election season shows that “campaigns have long botched their Latino outreach efforts by relying on largely white teams, insufficient investment and messages that aren’t ‘culturally competent.’ He has sought to mount a push for Sanders that is historically diverse, large and involves a tailored advertising blitz.”
So, no more of those antiquated “largely white teams.”
But here’s the thing. Rocha has wisely tailored Sanders’ Spanish-language ads to his Hispanic audience because he knows it favors welfare and activist government. Money quote from the Walker-Roman puff piece:
Rocha’s ads for Sanders aren’t straightforward translations of his English messages; they are written specifically for Latinos and focus on the aspects of Sanders’s platform that most resonate with that audience.
That’s the problem with Spanish-language ads and bilingual politicking. Politicians lie enough in one language. With two, the deceptions double! I’ve written about this for years.
Way back in 2002, I wrote about this phenomenon regards to a gubernatorial election in Texas. See"Nuestra Gente" And The National Question In Texas .
And, through the years:
Rocha’s monkeyshines with the translations push these radical ideas:
[R]aising the minimum wage, eliminating student debt, reinstating the DACA program, breaking up ICE and the Border Patrol and placing a moratorium on deportations to allow for an audit of past immigration policies.
Of course, Rocha emphasizes Sanders’ background as the child and grandchild of immigrants, producing an ad titled “Our Future” that runs thusly:
The history of Bernie Sanders is our history. His father came to this country seeking a better life. He didn’t know how to speak English and didn’t have much money. Bernie never forgot the immigrant roots of his family and that’s why he has always fought for us. That’s why we need Bernie as president. Our Future. Our Struggle.
The Sanders outreach also targets different Hispanic groups: Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Older Latinos, even Latinos who speak English.
Here’s the kicker, by his own admission, Rocha's Spanish-language level is "horrible". So he has an aide to do it:
He mainly relies on a 30-year-old undocumented immigrant named Luis Alcauter to design and write [the ads].
Emphasis added.
Needless to say, Alcauter believes that President Trump “from day one has been fighting against me.’”
Incredibly, he isn’t the only illegal helping the Sanders campaign retail socialism and Open Borders to Hispanics. Meet Belen Sisa.
She wants illegals to know Sanders has courage like no other Democrat:
“I think no one [else] has been bold enough to say, ‘You may be undocumented, but you deserve health care,’” Sisa said. “‘You may be undocumented, but you deserve tuition-free college’ — because we all deserve those things.”
Get that? In 2020, you can hype your illegal-alien employees in an MSM hagiography with no fear of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
And even worse, those illegals instruct us that they deserve “benefits” that, as bad an idea as they are in themselves, should go only to Americans.
Bottom line: The increasing power of the Hispanic voting bloc—and Sanders’ focused appeal to and success in wooing it—is putting the Historic American Nation and its political culture in peril.
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-03-07--Lessons From Steven Soderbergh's 2011 Movie CONTAGION

I reviewed Steven Soderbergh ’ s feature film Contagion back in 2011 .
The first half is pretty exciting .
I don ’ t remember the exact plot other than , spoiler alert , it was , plausibly enough , All Gwyneth Paltrow ’ s Fault .
The first half , in which several of Contagion ’ s eight Oscar nominees ( Paltrow , Matt Damon , Kate Winslet , Marion Cotillard , Jude Law , Laurence Fishburne , John Hawkes , and Elliott Gould ) drop dead from a new southeast Chinese germ transmitted merely by contact , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ll want to watch Contagion through a couple of eyeholes in a large upside-down plastic garbage bag .
Granted , that doesn ’ t sound comfortable , but the alternative is touching things that thousands of other moviegoers have touched .
… But the second half is realistically dull as Matt Damon sensibly holes up in his nice house in a nice suburb of Minneapolis and waits the pandemic out for several months : How would daily life change due to a colossal epidemic spread by touch ?
Soderbergh appears paralyzed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social distancing ” would make survivors act in ways bad for engaging moviemaking .
The healthy would don surgical masks , sit far apart , and spend even more hours on the Internet .
But what ’ s the point of hiring eight Oscar nominees to cover their famous faces while exchanging text messages ?

I reviewed Steven Soderbergh’s feature film Contagion back in 2011. The first half is pretty exciting. I don’t remember the exact plot other than, spoiler alert, it was, plausibly enough, All Gwyneth Paltrow’s Fault.
The first half, in which several of Contagion’s eight Oscar nominees (Paltrow, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, John Hawkes, and Elliott Gould) drop dead from a new southeast Chinese germ transmitted merely by contact, is almost as creepy as promised. You’ll want to watch Contagion through a couple of eyeholes in a large upside-down plastic garbage bag. Granted, that doesn’t sound comfortable, but the alternative is touching things that thousands of other moviegoers have touched. …
But the second half is realistically dull as Matt Damon sensibly holes up in his nice house in a nice suburb of Minneapolis and waits the pandemic out for several months:
How would daily life change due to a colossal epidemic spread by touch? Soderbergh appears paralyzed by a belated realization that the necessary “social distancing” would make survivors act in ways bad for engaging moviemaking. The healthy would don surgical masks, sit far apart, and spend even more hours on the Internet. But what’s the point of hiring eight Oscar nominees to cover their famous faces while exchanging text messages?
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-03-07--Severe Social Distancing Cut 1918 Spanish Flu Death Rate by 30%-50%

… We show that city-specific per-capita excess mortality in 1918 was significantly correlated with 1917 per-capita mortality , indicating some intrinsic variation in overall mortality , perhaps related to sociodemographic factors .
In the subset of 23 cities for which we had partial data on the timing of interventions , an even stronger correlation was found between excess mortality and how early in the epidemic interventions were introduced .
We then fitted an epidemic model to weekly mortality in 16 cities with nearly complete intervention-timing data and estimated the impact of interventions .
The model reproduced the observed epidemic patterns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we found the time-limited interventions used reduced total mortality only moderately ( perhaps 10–30 % ) , and that the impact was often very limited because of interventions being introduced too late and lifted too early .
San Francisco , St. Louis , Milwaukee , and Kansas City had the most effective interventions , reducing transmission rates by up to 30–50 % .
Philadelphia had about twice the death rate of St. Louis .
This is often blamed on a very popular war bond parade held in Philadelphia on September 28 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Within days , the hospitals were overflowing .
My assumption would be that overflowing the hospitals would be worse in 2020 than in 1918 due to hospitals being able to do a lot more today .
Pandemic influenza : Studying the lessons of history Stephen S. Morse PNAS May 1 , 2007 … We would be left with other measures , now termed “ nonpharmaceutical interventions , ” to stave off the worst effects of a pandemic until a vaccine could be produced and widely administered ( 4 , 5 ) .
Because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closing schools or shutting down mass transit , could be very disruptive to society , it is important to use effective measures in a rational way .
But which measures are most effective , and how should they be applied ?
Do any nonpharmaceutical interventions actually help ?
Until now , there has been very little systematic examination of these questions .
However , different U.S. cities showed marked differences in influenza attack rates and mortality in 1918 .
Some cities , St. Louis for example , appeared to have weathered the pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 6 , 7 ) .
What distinguished the severely afflicted cities from those that were less heavily stricken ?
As it happens , different cities took different approaches to implementing interventions .
These differences constituted natural experiments and offer an opportunity to address important questions concerning nonpharmaceutical interventions by using the historical data .
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions in 1918 A variety of interventions were available in 1918 , from wearing surgical masks to “ social distancing ” measures ( as we call them today ) that ranged from closing schools and prohibiting public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or encouraging them to stay home .
Most of the interventions then available are identical to the measures that would be considered today ( 8 ) .
Both articles reach similar conclusions , using complementary methods .
In the 1918 pandemic , no single intervention was sufficient , although some interventions were more useful than others .
As might be expected for a respiratory infection , closing schools , churches , and theaters , for example , appeared to be among the most effective measures .
Four or more such interventions implemented at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only one or two and were more effective than multiple interventions started at different times ( 6 ) .
Of course , this activity might also be a proxy for how seriously a city viewed the pandemic .
Nevertheless , there were significant differences .
Timing was especially critical .
Both articles demonstrate that these measures were far more effective if applied early and maintained as long as possible .
Cities that put several measures in place early ( before the cumulative excess death rate reached ≈20–30/100,000 population ) experienced peak death rates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in cities that started their interventions later .
The authors note that few cities maintained the interventions for > 6 weeks , approximately the time it took for one wave of the pandemic to pass through the area .
Influenza returned when the interventions were relaxed .
Pandemics have tended to come in waves , so a city could implement effective measures and avoid the first wave , only to relax them and be hit by the next .
Bootsma and Ferguson ( 7 ) , in fact , make the interesting argument @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the most advantageous strategy because it only leaves everyone susceptible to infection later .
How does one keep up the necessary caution for what may be months or longer ?
Experiences from 1918 suggest that it was possible to get reasonable compliance with precautionary measures for a while , but not indefinitely , even in the more obedient social climate that prevailed in 1918 .
San Francisco had demonstrations in which citizens defiantly tore off their own masks ( 9 ) .
Obtaining long-term compliance is likely to be even more difficult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high level of public compliance with recommended infection control measures during the severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ) epidemic in Toronto .
These experiences suggest that , although it is difficult to maintain compliance , it is not impossible .

… We show that city-specific per-capita excess mortality in 1918 was significantly correlated with 1917 per-capita mortality, indicating some intrinsic variation in overall mortality, perhaps related to sociodemographic factors. In the subset of 23 cities for which we had partial data on the timing of interventions, an even stronger correlation was found between excess mortality and how early in the epidemic interventions were introduced. We then fitted an epidemic model to weekly mortality in 16 cities with nearly complete intervention-timing data and estimated the impact of interventions. The model reproduced the observed epidemic patterns well. In line with theoretical arguments, we found the time-limited interventions used reduced total mortality only moderately (perhaps 10–30%), and that the impact was often very limited because of interventions being introduced too late and lifted too early. San Francisco, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Kansas City had the most effective interventions, reducing transmission rates by up to 30–50%.
Philadelphia had about twice the death rate of St. Louis. This is often blamed on a very popular war bond parade held in Philadelphia on September 28, 1918 for which 200,000 turned out. Within days, the hospitals were overflowing.
My assumption would be that overflowing the hospitals would be worse in 2020 than in 1918 due to hospitals being able to do a lot more today.
Also from PNAS:
Pandemic influenza: Studying the lessons of history
Stephen S. Morse
PNAS May 1, 2007
… We would be left with other measures, now termed “nonpharmaceutical interventions,” to stave off the worst effects of a pandemic until a vaccine could be produced and widely administered (4, 5). Because many of these interventions, such as closing schools or shutting down mass transit, could be very disruptive to society, it is important to use effective measures in a rational way. But which measures are most effective, and how should they be applied? Do any nonpharmaceutical interventions actually help? Until now, there has been very little systematic examination of these questions. However, different U.S. cities showed marked differences in influenza attack rates and mortality in 1918. Some cities, St. Louis for example, appeared to have weathered the pandemic with far fewer excess deaths than others (6, 7). What distinguished the severely afflicted cities from those that were less heavily stricken? As it happens, different cities took different approaches to implementing interventions. These differences constituted natural experiments and offer an opportunity to address important questions concerning nonpharmaceutical interventions by using the historical data.
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions in 1918
A variety of interventions were available in 1918, from wearing surgical masks to “social distancing” measures (as we call them today) that ranged from closing schools and prohibiting public gatherings to isolating sick people in hospitals or encouraging them to stay home. Most of the interventions then available are identical to the measures that would be considered today (8). Both articles reach similar conclusions, using complementary methods. In the 1918 pandemic, no single intervention was sufficient, although some interventions were more useful than others. As might be expected for a respiratory infection, closing schools, churches, and theaters, for example, appeared to be among the most effective measures. Four or more such interventions implemented at the same time were more effective than only one or two and were more effective than multiple interventions started at different times (6).
Of course, this activity might also be a proxy for how seriously a city viewed the pandemic. Nevertheless, there were significant differences. Timing was especially critical. Both articles demonstrate that these measures were far more effective if applied early and maintained as long as possible. Cities that put several measures in place early (before the cumulative excess death rate reached ≈20–30/100,000 population) experienced peak death rates that were approximately half of those seen in cities that started their interventions later. The authors note that few cities maintained the interventions for >6 weeks, approximately the time it took for one wave of the pandemic to pass through the area. Influenza returned when the interventions were relaxed. Pandemics have tended to come in waves, so a city could implement effective measures and avoid the first wave, only to relax them and be hit by the next.
Bootsma and Ferguson (7), in fact, make the interesting argument that escaping the pandemic entirely may not be the most advantageous strategy because it only leaves everyone susceptible to infection later. How does one keep up the necessary caution for what may be months or longer? Experiences from 1918 suggest that it was possible to get reasonable compliance with precautionary measures for a while, but not indefinitely, even in the more obedient social climate that prevailed in 1918. San Francisco had demonstrations in which citizens defiantly tore off their own masks (9).
Obtaining long-term compliance is likely to be even more difficult today, although there was a relatively high level of public compliance with recommended infection control measures during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Toronto. These experiences suggest that, although it is difficult to maintain compliance, it is not impossible.


vdare--2020-03-07--LSU Professor: Whites, Gentrification, Responsible For Black Gun Violence In 60% Black New Orleans

Previously on SBPDL : In 2016 , 95 % of Homicides and 98 % of Nonfatal Shootings in 60 % Black New Orleans Were Committed by Blacks Up until the middle of 2017 , the city of New Orleans catalogued the suspects in both fatal and nonfatal shootings .
The problem ?
It showed almost every fatal and nonfatal shooting suspect in the 60 percent black city of New Orleans was black .
Not one newspaper or local broadcast affiliate ( ABC , NBC , CBS , FOX ) in New Orleans ever reported this racial breakdown of gun violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provided , because it ’ s much easier blaming white people for a problem they have nothing to do with creating .
Poverty , gentrification in New Orleans leads to violent crime , academics say , by Emily Lane , WDSU.com , February 13 , 2020 Ending 2019 with 120 murders , the lowest amount in nearly a half century , encouraged New Orleans leaders .
Considering the national context , however , one criminologist warns against celebrating .
Despite a reduction for the third year in a row , New Orleans ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than the national average , said Peter Scharf , [ Email him ] a criminologist with LSU School of Public Health .
To understand why New Orleans ’ stubborn culture of violence persists in some neighborhoods , experts point to root causes that go back several generations .
Sonita Singh , [ Email her ] an associate professor of behavioral and community health at LSU School of Public Health , described New Orleans as “ a landscape of inequalities , ” which stem from historical and institutional practices and policies that have segregated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The geography of those inequalities mirror maps showing the concentration of murders .
Transportation , education and access to jobs and training are less accessible in neighborhoods that see the most violent crime , Singh said .
Employed people surviving on an inadequate wage , what Singh called “ hamster wheeling , ” is also common in places like the 9th Ward , 7th Ward and parts of New Orleans East .
New Orleans ’ citywide average household income was $ 67,224 as of 2017 , according to The Data Center , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a neighborhood in New Orleans East that saw a large share of murders last year , the average household income was about $ 40,800 .
Nearby Plum Orchard ’ s average household income was $ 32,900 .
In the 7th Ward , a neighborhood that perhaps had highest concentration of murders in 2019 , the average household income was $ 33,205 .
“ In New Orleans , people can work themselves to the bone and still not be outside the poverty rate , ” Singh said .
When a living wage is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more likely to step outside the formal economy to get by , she added , and that includes criminal activity .
Scharf referred to New Orleans as “ gentrification heaven.
” The relocation of some residents to places with more affordable housing could account for some neighborhoods growing safer while others see more murders or minimal improvement in violent crime statistics , he said .
“ All the research shows we have extremely high risk , poor transportation , poor education services , poor social services , poor job prospects in some neighborhoods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boom city , ” Scharf said .
“ The question is : What ’ s the sustainability of a tale of two cities ?
Can you gentrify half the city and leave the rest of the city at risk ?
We ’ ve got to really rethink soberly about that issue.
” When asked about the increase in murders in New Orleans East , New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson spoke of it as a challenge that ’ s on his radar .
The number of officers in the district has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s a challenge the NOPD still works to navigate .
“ We have not really identified a true pattern in the 7th District , I will say that , ” Ferguson said .
The 7th District , which is the largest geographic district and has a population of about 85,000 residents , now has 91 commissioned officers assigned to it , the NOPD said .
That ’ s the most officers assigned to any other districts , Ferguson said , adding it was an intentional move made after he became superintendent in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ massive district , ” the prospect of splitting it into two districts has repeatedly come up , he said , but “ we just do not have the manpower.
” “ We just have to be smart , ” Ferguson said .
New Orleans murders in 2019 : What the data tells us New Orleans murders in 2019 : Explore a map of the killings and names of each victim ‘ Cautious hope ’ for New Orleans after historic murder drop

Previously on SBPDL: In 2016, 95% of Homicides and 98% of Nonfatal Shootings in 60% Black New Orleans Were Committed by Blacks
Up until the middle of 2017, the city of New Orleans catalogued the suspects in both fatal and nonfatal shootings. The problem? It showed almost every fatal and nonfatal shooting suspect in the 60 percent black city of New Orleans was black.
Not one newspaper or local broadcast affiliate (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX) in New Orleans ever reported this racial breakdown of gun violence in the city the local government momentarily provided, because it’s much easier blaming white people for a problem they have nothing to do with creating.
Case in point…
Poverty, gentrification in New Orleans leads to violent crime, academics say, by Emily Lane, WDSU.com, February 13, 2020
Ending 2019 with 120 murders, the lowest amount in nearly a half century, encouraged New Orleans leaders. Considering the national context, however, one criminologist warns against celebrating.
Despite a reduction for the third year in a row, New Orleans’ murder rate remains about eight times higher than the national average, said Peter Scharf [Email him], a criminologist with LSU School of Public Health.
To understand why New Orleans’ stubborn culture of violence persists in some neighborhoods, experts point to root causes that go back several generations.
Sonita Singh [Email her], an associate professor of behavioral and community health at LSU School of Public Health, described New Orleans as “a landscape of inequalities,” which stem from historical and institutional practices and policies that have segregated the city by race and economics. The geography of those inequalities mirror maps showing the concentration of murders.
Transportation, education and access to jobs and training are less accessible in neighborhoods that see the most violent crime, Singh said. Employed people surviving on an inadequate wage, what Singh called “hamster wheeling,” is also common in places like the 9th Ward, 7th Ward and parts of New Orleans East.
New Orleans’ citywide average household income was $67,224 as of 2017, according to The Data Center, a local research nonprofit. In Little Woods, a neighborhood in New Orleans East that saw a large share of murders last year, the average household income was about $40,800. Nearby Plum Orchard’s average household income was $32,900. In the 7th Ward, a neighborhood that perhaps had highest concentration of murders in 2019, the average household income was $33,205.
“In New Orleans, people can work themselves to the bone and still not be outside the poverty rate,” Singh said.
When a living wage is hard to come by, people are more likely to step outside the formal economy to get by, she added, and that includes criminal activity.
Scharf referred to New Orleans as “gentrification heaven.” The relocation of some residents to places with more affordable housing could account for some neighborhoods growing safer while others see more murders or minimal improvement in violent crime statistics, he said.
“All the research shows we have extremely high risk, poor transportation, poor education services, poor social services, poor job prospects in some neighborhoods while in other neighborhoods this is a boom city,” Scharf said.
“The question is: What’s the sustainability of a tale of two cities? Can you gentrify half the city and leave the rest of the city at risk? We’ve got to really rethink soberly about that issue.”
When asked about the increase in murders in New Orleans East, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson spoke of it as a challenge that’s on his radar. The number of officers in the district has been increased, he said, but it’s a challenge the NOPD still works to navigate.
“We have not really identified a true pattern in the 7th District, I will say that,” Ferguson said.
The 7th District, which is the largest geographic district and has a population of about 85,000 residents, now has 91 commissioned officers assigned to it, the NOPD said. That’s the most officers assigned to any other districts, Ferguson said, adding it was an intentional move made after he became superintendent in early 2019. With “such a massive district,” the prospect of splitting it into two districts has repeatedly come up, he said, but “we just do not have the manpower.”
“We just have to be smart,” Ferguson said.
Read other stories in a series exploring 2019 murder data:
New Orleans murders in 2019: What the data tells us
New Orleans murders in 2019: Explore a map of the killings and names of each victim
‘Cautious hope’ for New Orleans after historic murder drop


vdare--2020-03-06--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2008: Fake Hate Crimes Of The Past: Cornell 1969

I was reading Jonah Goldberg 's new book , Liberal Fascism , and it reminded me that the 1969 takeover @ @ @ @ @ armed black militants at Cornell was based on a fake hate crime—a cross had been @ @ @ @ @ black dormitory—by black militants themselves .
Since that time there have been a lot of @ @ @ @ @ the point where it 's the first thing I suspect in cases like the Columbia @ @ @ @ @ a noose on her door..Sowell 's article is worth reading in full .

I was reading Jonah Goldberg's new book, Liberal Fascism, and it reminded me that the 1969 takeover of Willard Straight Hall by armed black militants at Cornell was based on a fake hate crime—a cross had been burned in front of a black dormitory—by black militants themselves.
For example, supposedly the militants got guns to defend themselves after a cross was burned in front of one of the black dormitories and a brick was thrown through one of the windows of another. Now, decades later, it comes out that these were acts committed by the militants themselves to win campus sympathy—a foretaste of the Tawana Brawley hoax of later vintage. [The Day Cornell Died, by Thomas Sowell, Hoover Digest, 1999]
Since that time there have been a lot of fake hate crimes, to the point where it's the first thing I suspect in cases like the Columbia Professor who said she found a noose on her door. Sowell's article is worth reading in full.