vdare--2020-05-07--Patrick J. Buchanan: Behind Trump's Strategic Pivot On Coronavirus—"We Have To Get The Country Open"

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan: How Long Can Biden Stay in His Basement?
After Pearl Harbor, FDR declared that his role of "Dr. New Deal" had been superseded, replaced by his new role, "Dr. Win the War."
Tuesday, President Donald Trump signaled that, in the war on the coronavirus pandemic, he, too, is executing a strategic pivot.
Where the medical crisis had been the central front, pulling the U.S. economy out of its coma is now his principal objective.
Trump is not unaware of the consequences of this decision.
"Will some people be affected badly? Yes," said the president, "but we have to get our country open and we have to get it open soon."
"Tremendous progress" has been made in dealing with the medical crisis, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters Tuesday, adding that the White House task force he chairs could be phased out in June.
Wednesday, Trump reversed that. From the public reaction, by popular demand, said Trump, the task force, whose primary medical voices are Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, will continue.
As the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is now 74,000 and still rising at a rate of 2,000 a day, what is behind Trump's strategic pivot?
First, there is not a great deal more the White House can do to slow the inexorable momentum of the disease itself.
"Social distancing" and "sheltering" have been in place for weeks. So, too, are the programs for producing masks, gowns, gloves, tests and ventilators. Trump cannot create any more from a White House podium.
Invariably, while there, he is baited and thrown on the defensive by a hostile press demanding he explain why he did not act sooner.
The White House briefings on the medical crisis have reached a point of diminishing returns. These invariably return to statically grim news—the new hospitalizations, the latest death toll, the "hot spots" where the coronavirus has flared up and is now raging.
The medical crisis is essentially out of the president's control; its future will be largely dictated by the coronavirus pandemic itself.
Moreover, the economy is familiar and friendly terrain for Trump. There, he has a three-year record of undeniable success. In this crisis, the president can decide, lead, act and produce visible results.
And in moving from the medical crisis to the economic crisis, Trump has weapons to wield like the veto power to shape policy and directives to issue from the Executive Branch.
With this pivot, Trump is wagering his presidency on a belief that, by mid-June, the first large wave of deaths from the pandemic will have passed, the numbers will be diminishing, and almost all of America will be ready to get back to work.
Trump is betting that it does not matter if the country does not agree with him to open up today. By July, the country will agree.
By summer's end, he sees himself as having led us through the medical crisis that is then receding, and up and out of a Second Depression. That will be his best argument for reelection.
If this scenario unfolds, Trump can make the case that while China was the origin of the Wuhan virus that killed scores of thousands of Americans, it was Donald J. Trump who led us through the tragedy, and he is leading us forward, once again, to a new prosperity.
What will be Joe Biden's argument to lead America, after having sat out the worst crisis since World War II in his basement?
A majority of Americans are today wary of unlocking the economy and opening up the nation. Yet, each week, more and more people are demanding that it be done. And each week, more and more governors, reflecting the views of their constituents, are moving up the dates for partial reopenings.
By midsummer, the country will have caught up with Trump. That is the idea that animates the pivot.
And it is not a bad wager. Does anyone believe it will be possible to keep hundreds of millions of Americans in their homes in June, July and August?
Wholesale civil disobedience may face governors still conducting a strict lockdown in July.
Europe is already ahead of us. Italy, which has now been passed by Britain as the nation in Europe with the most deaths, is already starting to open. So, too, is Germany, the largest European nation with the fewest deaths. And Austria is ahead of both.
Trump's strategic pivot puts Biden in a box.
The mainstream media and left-wing of his Democratic Party want the governors to keep the states locked down as the only way to avert a second wave of infections. And they may be right.
But however many victims succumb to this pandemic, it is going to end, and America is going to be reopened. The closer we are to both goals by Nov. 3, the better Donald J. Trump's chances of retaking the oath on Jan. 20, 2021.
That's the way Trump is betting.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


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More Republicans are waking up to the need for America to temporarily halt all immigration.
Four Republican senators and eight Republican congressmen sent two separate letters urging President Trump to expand his immigration moratorium.
The Senate letter was signed by Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, and Josh Hawley.
The House letter was signed by Lance Gooden, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Mo Brooks, Michael Burgess, Steve King, and Brian Babin.
Gooden and Gosar had previously called upon the White House to expand the ban.
Today, I sent a letter to President Trump urging him to extend his Apr-22 EO by suspending ALL guest worker programs with support from multiple House Republicans, including: @RepMattGaetz @RepGosar @RepBrianBabin @michaelcburgess @LouieGohmertTX1 @RepMoBrooks & @SteveKingIA pic.twitter.com/IRmKjjCXWt — Lance Gooden (@Lancegooden) May 7, 2020
Both letters urged Trump to stop issuing guest worker visas until unemployment returned to normal levels. “[W]e urge you to suspend all nonimmigrant guest worker visas for the next sixty days. Exceptions to this suspension should be rare, limited to time-sensitive industries such as agriculture, and issued only on a case-by-case basis when the employer can demonstrate that they have been unable to find Americans to take the jobs,” read the Senate letter.
The Senate letter says this ban should be effective for at least 60 days.
After sixty days, we urge you to continue to suspend new nonimmigrant guest workers for one year or until our national unemployment figures return to normal levels, whichever comes first. That suspension should, at a minimum, include H-2B visas (nonagricultural seasonal workers), H-1B visas (specialty occupation workers), and the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program (extension of foreign student visas after graduation). We also urge you to suspend the EB-5 immigrant visa program, effective immediately.
The Senate letter added that the EB-5, which primarily goes to Chinese millionaires, acts in many cases “as a pay-for-citizenship scheme.”
The House letter stated that the EB-5 visa should be revoked permanently.
These letters are a step in the right direction. It’s only a shame more Republicans didn’t sign them. Yet, their issuance shows the growing popularity of the moratorium among Republicans.
Trump deserves credit for making this idea mainstream. Now he just needs to correct his ban to sufficiently put American workers first.


vdare--2020-05-07--Culpeper, Virginia: Twice-Deported Illegal Infects Police with COVID-19 and Gets Released

You read stuff like this and you just ask—what is going on in our country?
Remember this when you hear about American citizens getting in trouble for violating coronavirus policies.
This story comes from Culpeper, Virginia, in Culpeper County, which is where my family lived back in Colonial times.
The town of Culpeper (formerly known as Culpeper Courthouse and before that as Fairfax) was originally surveyed by a young surveyor by the name of George Washington, and was occupied by both sides in the Civil War. So there's a lot of history there.
Now it’s a town where a foreigner can flout American law and infect American police officers, then be released.
From Fox 5 Washington, D.C.:
Two Virginia police officers have coronavirus after they physically detained a man accused of assaulting his girlfriend. Police in Culpeper said the suspect, who is in the country illegally, also tested positive for the virus. Police said even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement was contacted, the suspect was released the same day he was arrested. [2 Culpeper police officers have coronavirus after detaining a domestic violence suspect who tested positive, by Lindsay Watts, FOX 5 Washington D.C., May 5, 2020]
The video accompanying the article says the perp was previously deported twice. And that’s backed up by this WJLA article: Virginia cops contract COVID-19 after 'hands-on' arrest of twice-deported assault suspect, by Elliott Henney, WJLA, May 5, 2020.
Yet here he is again, flouting our system.
Look at the privileges the perp enjoys:
1. In the country illegally
2. Deported, returns
3. Deported again, returns again
4. Commits an assault
5. Has COVID-19 and infects police with COVID-19
6. Gets released the same day
7. Has a protected identity, his name isn't publicly mentioned
Americans have gotten in trouble for much less in the Age of coronavirus. Is this an example of anarcho-tyranny?
Back to the Fox 5 article:
Maj. Chris Settle, with the Town of Culpeper Police Dept., said three officers responded to a domestic violence call around 2 a.m. on April 28. He said the suspect was assaulting his girlfriend even as police responded. “Long story short, we had to utilize use of force to get the male in custody,” said Settle.
And after that…
[Major Settle] said a few days later, two of the officers tested positive for the virus. “As of today [May 5], they have mild symptoms at home in the early parts of this, and we’re hoping for the best,” he said. The third officer is in quarantine.
To its credit, the Culpeper Police Department did contact ICE. Not that it helped.
Settle said police contacted ICE to notify them of the arrest. He said typically immigration officers would pick up the suspect from jail, but that didn't happen this time. “ICE did not come get him, and I think for obvious reasons,” said Settle. “I think because he had covid-19.”
After that, the guy is released.
Settle said police were not notified of the suspect’s bond hearing and at the hearing, he was released on bond back into the community. Police have not released his name or mugshot to retain his medical privacy.
“Medical privacy”?
Settle said there has been some pushback from the community on that decision. “We totally understand that, we totally get it,” he said. “But again it is a medical privacy issue and does create a liability.”
So the guy’s “medical privacy” trumps all.
It’s unclear where the suspect could be now. Police said his girlfriend has a restraining order against him, so he can’t go home.
But he’s free to go anywhere else he wants. Who knows, he might go home anyway.
ICE tells FOX 5 it will be difficult to provide details without the suspect’s name.
Well, yeah.
The agency says cases are evaluated on a case by case basis and if detention was appropriate, ICE would coordinate with ICE Health Service Corps about an appropriate detention location that could manage any medical condition a detainee had.
Would an American citizen be allowed to get away with this?


vdare--2020-05-06--People Who Mock Tom Cotton Don't Realize How Much Shakespeare Is Part Of America

Senator Tom Cotton, (R-Arkansas, A from Numbers USA) recently said that we shouldn’t allow Chinese students to study advanced science in the United States, but that it would be acceptable for them to come here and study “Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers.”
It was in an interview with Maria Bartiromo. Here is the relevant Cotton quote:
"You know, if Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers, that’s what they need to learn from America. They don’t need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America.”
As a result, Senator Cotton was ridiculed by various on the Internet. (Just Google and you can see what I mean).
"Does Tom Cotton think Shakespeare was an American?" Etc.
Hardy-har-har.
I'd be willing to bet that Senator Cotton knows that William Shakespeare resided in England and not in the United States. But such mockers are missing the point.
Although Shakespeare never set foot on what is now American soil, there is a very real sense in which the Bard is the Literary Founding Father of the United States.
Even the time period matches up. When Jamestown, Virginia, the beginning of what would become the U.S.A., was founded in 1607, Shakespeare was active back in England.
Throughout American history, Shakespeare was read, portrayed to the public and quoted profusely. The Shakespearean corpus provided a common reference point for American culture.
Shakespeare was very popular in the Old West, for example.
Permit me to quote an Amazon book description of a book I confess I’ve never read but that looks interesting. It’s by James Shapiro and is entitled Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now:
“The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres—poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routines—and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, and Cynthia Ozick….the book includes a foreword by Bill Clinton, among the latest in a long line of American presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, who, as the collection demonstrates, have turned to Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration.
As far as foreigners studying Shakespeare in America, it's a great place for that.
My American Shakespeare professor in the university was exceptional, and became a personal friend. That professor was also popular with Asian English Literature students.
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. “has the world's largest collection of materials relating to Shakespeare and his works, from the 16th century to the present day.” I had the privilege of visiting once.
As far as performances, there are Shakespeare in the Park companies throughout the country, including one in my home state of Oklahoma.
Senator Cotton's mockers on this issue are totally off-base. Shakespeare is an indispensable part of the historic American nation.
Bravo to Senator Cotton for distinguishing between culture and technology, and recognizing the value of Shakespeare's work, a formative part of America since our founding.


vdare--2020-05-07--His Name Is Antonio Angel Santiago: As Nation Deifies  Ahmaud Arbery, We Remember the 13-Month Old W

His Name Is Antonio Angel Santiago: As Nation Deifies  Ahmaud Arbery, We Remember the 13-Month Old White Baby Murdered in His Stroller by Two Black Males in Brunswick, Georgia in 2013

See also: Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/ Murdered White Joggers?
The entire nation is fixated on the unicorn of white-on-black crime in Brunswick, Georgia (Ahmaud Arbery, some black dude with a long rap sheet, the only person to work out/jog in jean shorts since John Cena stopped wrestling full-time).
But no one will dare point out what happened in 2013 in the same city, when two black males murdered a 13-month-old white baby in his stroller.
His Name is Antonio Angel Santiago, a 13-month old white baby with the “bluest eyes” you’d ever see.
No national outrage. Barely a local story even in Georgia. Not one white athlete Tweeted out their outrage over this story.
His Name is Antonio Angel Santiago.
Witnesses give grisly details of toddler’s slaying in first day of De’Marquise Elkins trial, Jacksonville.com, August 20, 2020 MARIETTA, GA. – Lawyers made opening statements Tuesday afternoon in the trial of a man accused of shooting a baby to death in his stroller with attorneys predicting the case would last all week and possibly part of next week. An indictment accuses De’Marquiese Elkins, 18, of shooting 13-month-old Antonio Angel Santiago to death and wounding his mother, Sherry West, on Brunswick street in a failed armed robbery attempt. Several of the women jurors were visibly shaken when prosecutors began showing crime scene and autopsy photos of Antonio bundled in a jacket, mittens and knit hat lying lifeless on a stretcher with a bullet wound between his eyebrows. Elkins’ attorney Kevin Gough was unsuccessful in getting Glynn County Superior Court Judge Stephen Kelley to disallow the photos. Jurors stopped taking notes when the photos appeared on a giant computer screen across the courtroom. One dabbed her eyes. Prosecutors say Elkins murdered Antonio when he and co-defendant Dominique Lang, 15, came upon the child’s mother Sherry West pushing the stroller. They assert Elkins carried out a threat to shoot Antonio and then shot West in the leg when she refused to give up her purse. The defense argues that West and the child’s father, Louis Santiago, conspired to murder the child for a life insurance payout. However, the first Brunswick police officer on the scene, detective Angela Smith, said West was crying hysterically, “Save my baby. Don’t let him die.” West was shot in the leg and complained her left ear had also been shot. Smith said West was upset when the detective told her the child was pronounced dead at the scene. Smith also testified that both parents tested positive in a gunshot-residue test, adding that the two were holding hands in the hospital emergency room before the test. An emergency medical technician testified that Antonio could not be revived at the scene. Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner James Downs testified that the single gunshot was made from 2-6 inches away because of the gunpowder burns around the wound. “Given the course that the bullet took through this child’s body, this death would have been instantaneous,” he said. ”…There was no surviving this injury.” Gough tried four times to ask Downs if there was a less painful or more merciful way to kill someone. Kelley prohibited it, but the doctor did say lethal injection and electrocution could be as quick and painless. Earlier, jury selection was marked by a dispute over the racial makeup of the panel, with the judge rejecting defense objections that African-Americans were improperly excluded. But a statistician testified Tuesday there is a 200 to one chance of random selection yielding a jury with no African-Americans in the murder trial of a Brunswick man accused of shooting a baby to death in his stroller. Atlanta statistician Jeffery Martin, who frequently testifies for defendants, testified Tuesday morning before lawyers made their opening statements and prosecution witnesses laid out the grizzly details of the case. “What the statistics are telling us is that there’s something other than random going on,” Martin said. “You simply can’t expect a young black man accused of murdering a young, white child anywhere in America not to object,” said Gough. Gough told Kelley that he didn’t know why procedures used in Cobb County to select jurors resulted in a jury that has no blacks. But, he argued that it is a violation of Elkins’ constitutional right. The case was moved to Cobb County because of massive pre-trial news coverage in Glynn County. A Cobb jury administrator, Debra Mathews, testified that the three potential jurors who showed up late for duty Monday – one white man, a white woman and a black woman – were too late to be in the 48 available for Elkins’ trial. She also testified that people who had been allowed to miss jury duty for previous Cobb County trials were put at the head of the line for consideration in Elkins’ case. Mathews said she couldn’t say if those people were more likely to be white. Kelley has allowed Gough to make his case about the jury makeup, but he hasn’t been swayed. Kelley noted that a computer randomly picked those called for jury duty and then shuffled those who answered their jury notices. “It’s not even random once, but it’s random twice,” Kelley said. In the end, Kelley seated the Cobb jury of 12 and three alternates. Two of the alternates were black women. Among the 15 jurors and alternates are nine men and seven women. Two of the men are fluent in Spanish, and several of the planned witnesses are Spanish speakers. One of the Cobb County jurors lived in Brunswick for a year. Because Elkins was 17 when 13-month-old Antonio was killed in March, the state cannot seek the death penalty. Lang is being tried separately because he is supposed to testify against Elkins. Being tried with Elkins is his mother, Karimah Aisha Elkins, 36, who is accused of tampering with evidence and making false statements to police. An indictment says she and her daughter, Sabrina Elkins, who will also be tried separately, threw the .22 caliber gun used in the shooting into a saltwater pond and gave lied to police about her son’s whereabouts at the time of the shooting. The trial resumes Wednesday and is expected to last into next week.
His Name is Antonio Angel Santiago, a 13-month old white baby with the “bluest eyes” you’d ever see.
Have you ever heard of this story? Have you ever heard the name Antonio Angel Santiago?
And yet you are told, on a daily basis, America is a nation dominated by white supremacy, white racism, implicit bias, structural racism, and one where black people are hunted down the moment they leave their house (h/t LeBron James for the last point—did you ever find out who wrote racist graffiti on your home, King James, or was that a lie, too?).
Were America a nation where "white privilege" existed, the name Antonio Angel Santiago would be taught to every school child, instead of Emmett Till.
Their Lives Matter Too.
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vdare--2020-05-07--Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/ Murd

Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/ Murdered White Joggers?

Ahmaud Arbery attracted suspicion by running through a burglary-plagued white Georgia neighborhood back in February, and when challenged by armed white residents apparently tried to grab a gun from one of them, which resulted in him being shot [New video emerges of fatal shooting of black jogger in Georgia, May 6, 2020]. As American Renaissance Editor Jared Taylor points out in a devastating analysis [Ahmaud Arbery: The Next Trayvon Martin?, May 7, 2020], that’s consistent with what the recently released video shows.
But the incident is being described, not only by the MSM but by Democrat presidential nominee-presumptive Joe Biden, as the "murder" of a "jogger” [Parents of south Georgia jogger cry out for justice, calls for arrests of 3 men, by Aungelique Proctor, Georgia FOX 5, Atlanta, May 6, 2020].
The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now. It is time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder. https://t.co/alvY5WjdHx — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 6, 2020
As I write, charges have been laid, with a headline you would not see if the races were reversed: White father and son arrested in killing of Ahmaud Arbery, black man gunned down while jogging in Georgia, by Nicquel Terry Ellis, USA TODAY, May 7, 2020.
Rod Dreher, a professionally weepy cuckservative with occasional flashes of realism, has weighed in: Ahmaud Arbery, Just A Runner, American Conservative, May 5, 2020.
This is gonna age very badly pic.twitter.com/zKZRc8KwBV — Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) May 6, 2020
Scott Greer added in a further tweet: "Who goes on a jog 12 miles from home in cargo shorts?"
I don't know, but I do know the MSM lied about Michael Brown, who died trying to grab the gun of police officer Darren Wilson, and about Trayvon Martin, who died trying to grab George Zimmerman's gun. And this has consequences. In 1991 the MSM’s lies about "motorist" Rodney King inspired the Los Angeles Riots. In 2014, MSM lies inspired rioting in Ferguson and St. Louis by lying about Michael Brown. They inspired riots in Baltimore in 2015 by lying about Freddie Gray.
So I'll wait for more evidence.
Meanwhile, let's remember some other joggers Joe Biden doesn’t want to talk about:
Wendy Martinez
Martinez
...was stabbed seven times, twice in the head and once in the face around the right side of the neck near the carotid artery. Martinez’s stab wounds were very serious, and she made her way into a nearby Chinese restaurant after the attack. Surveillance video from the restaurant...shows the woman coming inside the restaurant covered in blood. She appears to be talking to the customers inside before she collapses. Then she died.
The man arrested, Anthony Crawford, is known to police not to like white people
Her Name Is Wendy Martinez: Out Jogging in Washington DC, White Woman Stabbed to Death by Black Man Who "Does Not Like White People", by Paul Kersey, SPBDL, September 22, 2018.
Nathan Trapuzzano
Trapuzzano went for an early morning jog in Indianapolis and was shot dead by Simeon Adams, below:
Adams is now doing 67 years, but that doesn't make it safe to jog while white in Indianapolis. See also If Obama Had A Son, Would He Laugh Like This?
A father-to-be, Trapuzzano was survived by his wife and a baby girl born posthumously.
Karina Vetrano
Vetrano, of Queens NY, was out jogging when Chanel Lewis sexually assaulted and killed her. He was caught with the aid of DNA evidence.
Mystery of Karina Vetrano’s Death Ends With Murder Conviction, by Jan Ransom, the New York Times, April 1, 2019.
Chandra Levy
Levy was jogging in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park, when she was killed. Ingmar Guandique, an illegal from El Salvador, was convicted of her murder. (He claimed not to have raped her.) Then the conviction was reversed, by the usual Social Justice Warrior methods, after which he was deported. The Washington Post reported that he had admitted to attacking two other white female joggers in the park, both of whom fought him off. See Who Killed Chandra Levy? CHAPTER SIX: The Predator in the Park, July 18, 2008.
(See The Chandra Levy Fiasco: Incompetent Affirmative Action Police Work—And Social Justice Warrior Lawyers, by Nicholas Stix, August 1, 2016)
Mollie Tibbetts
was jogging in Brooklyn, Iowa, a town that was filling up with illegal aliens. One of them, illegal alien Cristhian Bahena-Rivera, followed her and sexually harassed her. When she threatened to call the police, he snapped, killed her, and stuffed her dead body in the trunk of his car.
Dave Stevens
Stevens was jogging when in Dallas, when former football player Thomas Linze Johnson (below left) "randomly" killed him with a machete. A year later, Stevens's widow took her own life.
Wife of White Man Brutally Murdered by Former Black Texas A&M Athlete Commits Suicide, by Paul Kersey, SPBDL, October 28, 2015
Trisha Meili
Meili is a special case. She was known as "Central Park Jogger" because of the traditional protection that rape victims get from public embarrassment, but came out with a book called I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility, in 2003.
Steve Sailer quoted this statement from the Washington Post:
Michael Vigna, a competitive cyclist out on a training ride, was the first victim. At trial, the 31-year-old described the “rambunctious” group “spread across the roadway” as he approached. “One of the youths stuck his arm out in the direction of my face, and just barely missed my head,” he said. “I could, in fact, hear the sound of his fist, the force of his blow just nearly nicking my side of my head.” Vigna testified he sped down the asphalt path, away from the boys, who quickly found their next victim: 50-year-old Antonio Diaz, whom some of the boys referred to as “the bum” or “the homeless man” in statements to police. Diaz was crossing through the park with a beer, chicken, rice and beans in hand. “They picked me up by my neck and then by my feet,” he told jurors during the trial for Salaam, Santana and McCray. He said the attackers threw him to the ground and “kept kicking at me and hitting me with their fists.” In their statements, Wise, Richardson, Salaam, McCray and Lopez admitted to attacking Diaz and dragging his body off to the side. Jerry Malone and Patricia Dean were riding a tandem bicycle through the park when they encountered the group. Like Vigna described, the teens spread across the roadway, blocking their path. Dean recalled they pulled up dark hoods, crouched down and made “sort of grunting” noises. “At that point I was terrified,” she testified. As the couple pedaled into and through the group, Dean said three men on her right side began to push and pull her legs. On her left, she said, another was grabbing at her thigh and trying to lift it up. “They almost ripped me off the bike.” When speaking to police, McCray, Salaam, Richardson, Wise and Lopez mentioned there were tandem bikers they were unable to catch. [Emphases added.]
Kamala: Who Will Think of the Innocent Black Baby Bodies of the Central Park Five?, July 7, 2019
It looks like tandem biking is safer than jogging.
The convictions of the Central Park Five were reversed—and they received large cash settlements—as the result of a campaign of propaganda which included two separate documentaries, one by Ken Burns. Both Ann Coulter and Nicholas Stix have written repeatedly that their release was a miscarriage of justice. Trisha Meili isn’t happy about it either: 'I so wish the case hadn't been settled': 1989 Central Park jogger believes more than 1 person attacked her, by Susan Welsh, Keren Schiffman and Enjoli Francis. May 23, 2019.
This is a salutary reminder of how much the Ruling Class absolutely refuses to acknowledge the reality of black crime, and is fanatically determined to insist that white racism is at fault.
Christopher Lane
Lane, a white Australian baseball player on scholarship to East Central University in Oklahoma, pictured here with his girlfriend:
He was killed by these three guys, all under 18.
Their reason: They were bored [The Christopher Lane Murder: Dead Souls of a Cultural Revolution, by Patrick J. Buchanan, August 22, 2013]
Carissa Horton and Ethan Nichols
It's not certain that Carissa Horton, 18, and Ethan Nichols, 21, were jogging—they may have been, they were found murdered on jogging trail.
What is certain is that they were killed by these guys.
Confessed murderers, Darren Price (L), and Jerard Davis (R).
Harry Stone
It is certain that Harry Stone, below, was jogging in Raytown, Missouri. It's not certain that the two men who randomly shot him from a passing car were black—because they were never caught.
Stone Murder: Metro Squad Will Disband, by Michelle Pekarsky, Fox4, May 15, 2012. A columnist for Kansas City Star certainly thought they did: When Thugs Declare Open Season—On Human Beings, by Yael T. Abouhalkah, May 16, 2012.
See Justice for Harry Stone, by Paul Kersey, SBPDL, May 17, 2012.
These cases of dead or raped white joggers are all drawn from either our archives at VDARE.com, or Paul Kersey's archive. But there are a lot more out there.
In a 2012 item about the fact that no less than three separate white Supreme Court justices had been attacked by men of "no particular color" (i.e. unreported by the MSM), I pointed out that Justice David Souter, 64 at the time, had been beaten and injured by "youths" while he was running near a housing project in 2004 [Attack on Souter shows justices' minimal security, by Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY, May 2, 2004].
For whites in America, jogging near black youths is simply not safe. (For one thing, you have little hope of outrunning a black youth.) Like John Derbyshire in 2012, I want to point out that #joggingwhilewhite is a lot more dangerous than #joggingwhileblack.
Regarding the case of Thomas Linze Johnson, above, we got a letter from reader who suggested that the fact that black guys were randomly hacking up joggers with machetes wasn't going to discourage the Concealed Carry movement.
I replied:
What we have here is an anti-white hate crime, in which a black man hacked a white man to death with a machete, due to "rage." That's not how it was reported. The West Texas Reader is right to say that this sort of incident is why people have carry permits. If Thomas Johnson had been shot to death by his victim (now identified as 53 year-old engineer David Stevens, pictured right) we would be hearing that a disturbed young man, armed with some kind of garden implement, had been ruthlessly shot because of "profiling." Because #BlackLivesMatter, but white lives apparently don't.
Steve Sailer regularly argued that the lies about Trayvon Martin in 2012 and about Ferguson in 2014 were about angrying up the black base in the hope of higher turnout and a Democrat victory. See The Obama Coalition Isn't Bulletproof—Brooklyn Shooting A Result Of Democrats’ 2014 Campaign Strategy.
But two New York cops were killed by a crazed Black Lives Matter supporter inflamed by MSM/Democrat lies.
My listing these black-on-white-jogger crimes is not “Whataboutism.” The central reality of American life today, as Jared Taylor pointed in his article cited in my opening paragraph, is that a black person is nearly 30 times more likely to attack a white person than vice versa. By suppressing this fact, and implying the opposite, Joe Biden and his MSM gang of thugs are committing a blood libel against White America.
I don't know how far Democrat/MSM lies will go this time. But I'm not going jogging soon.
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vdare--2020-05-08--John Derbyshire: Establishment Reprising Emmett Till Narrative, Again. But White Lives Don't Matter.

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See also: Joe Biden Wants To Talk About Black “Jogger” Ahmaud Arbery—Why Won’t He Talk About These Raped/ Murdered White Joggers?
News-wise, I'd been beginning to get desperate. It's been coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus, for weeks now. But this week we got relief, of a sort. We got an Emmett Till.
You know the script. Evil, gap-toothed, leering Badwhites, secure in their white privilege, most likely resident in some state of the old Confederacy, hunt down and murder an innocent young black guy. It's the core fantasy of Goodwhite Americans, and has to be acted out every so often for their moral satisfaction, like a medieval mumming play: a clear narrative restatement of the eternal conflict between good and evil.
Black Americans can participate in the festivities, too, by burning stores and shooting each other. That's epiphenomenal, though; nobody cares what blacks do.
We haven't had a good Emmett Till re-enactment since the Freddie Gray business in Baltimore five years ago, so it's time. And yes, here it comes. Headlines from the increasingly Woke Drudge Report:
But I've lived through so many of these Emmett Till re-enactments now, they're getting to be as boring as Xi Jinping's virus.
This particular one concerns a father-and-son team in Brunswick, Georgia. There'd been burglaries in the neighborhood, which is pretty white; at any rate, the local elementary school is 76 percent white. Dad, who is a former police officer, saw a black guy running down the street, who he thought matched a description of the burglar; father and son, not knowing whether the black guy was armed, grabbed their guns and got in their truck to make a citizens' arrest—all perfectly legal in Georgia, according to the local authorities who decided not to charge him.
A friend in another vehicle followed them [Two Weapons, a Chase, a Killing and No Charges, by Richard Fausset,NYT, April 26, 2020].
When they caught up with the black guy, they got out to make the arrest, the son holding a shotgun. The black guy tried to wrestle the shotgun from him. Three shots were fired, the son presumably fearing for his life if his opponent got the gun. The black guy died.
All this happened on February 23rd. The District Attorney who investigated the case saw no grounds for an arrest. [PDF]
Last week some cellphone video of the event went public. It was taken by the friend who'd followed father and son. I presume he released it to show they acted within the law—which, the DA had concluded, they did.
All the Goodwhites saw on that video, though, was two white guys with guns and a black guy getting shot. Just like Emmett Till!
So now we are getting the full Emmett Till narrative, dressed up with all the usual cant threadbare formulas: "jogging while black," "modern lynching," and the rest. There are rallies; there are protests; there are Twitter handles, … you know how it goes.
Under pressure from the Goodwhite Establishment, which of course includes practically all of the media and social media, father and son have now been arrested and charged with murder. [Ahmaud Arbery Shooting in Georgia: Live Updates and Coverage, NYT, May 8, 2020]
How's it all going to play out from here?
Whatever happens at trial in this case, the father and son, the McMichaels, will never again have normal lives. Their home address has already been made public; so even if acquitted, they'd be in danger if they ever went back to live there.
And they will be full-time professional defendants. Even if they're acquitted in state court, there'll be appeals and calls for federal Civil Rights and "hate crime" prosecutions.
If a Democrat wins the Presidency in November, those calls will be answered with a vengeance by some anti-white Eric Holder clone at the Justice Department.
So get used to being homeless and unemployable, guys, and to spending all of your free time in lawyers' offices, and all of your net worth in lawyers' fees. This is what happens to Americans who bring the wrath of the Goodwhite Establishment down upon themselves as a result of trying to do their citizenly duty. You could ask George Zimmerman about it [George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin's family for $100m, by Richard Luscombe, Guardian, December 4, 2019].
As with the Trayvon Martin case, I'm expecting some degree of Narrative Collapse. The deceased in this case, name of Ahmaud Abery, has so far been presented to us just as a high-school football star. That's nice; but the guy was 25 years old when he died. What's he been doing since high school? None of the news reports I've seen want to tell me.
Could it be that he was the burglar who'd been plaguing the McMichaels' neighborhood? I guess it could, but no one seems interested in finding out.
We have learned that Abery has a rap sheet. He was indicted for bringing an unlicensed handgun (an imported Russian Makarov .380, like the one at left) to a high school basketball game six years ago, and he has a shoplifting conviction [FastNews, The Brunswick News, February 10, 2015]. Not major criminal activity; but Arbery, like Trayvon Martin, seems to have fallen somewhat short of the model-citizen standard. I'm expecting more Narrative Collapse in this area.
George Zimmerman was at least acquitted at state trial. Can McMichael father and son expect the same grace?
I doubt it. That was nearly seven years ago. The political temperature is way higher now than it was back then, and our courts are heavily politicized. Robert Bork wrote about being the only conservative on the faculty of Yale Law School sixty years ago [Legends in the Law: Robert H. Bork, DC Bar Report, December/January 1998]. Does anyone think the law schools have become less leftist since then?
The Zimmerman verdict was, I think, a fluke. The Establishment will do all they can to prevent that happening again.
For the future of American jurisprudence, compare and contrast the cases of James Fields and Jose Garcia-Zarate.
Intent-wise, I can't see much difference between those two cases. Outcome-wise, however, Fields got a colossal prison sentence after a year and a half in custody followed by a very brisk trial, while Garcia-Zarate's state conviction was thrown out on appeal over a technicality, and federal proceedings against him, now five years under way, look like being dragged out to the crack of doom, with a couple of years in the funny farm as the most probable outcome.
That's our courts: instruments of the Goodwhite CultMarx Establishment. White guy kills white gal, intent unclear: four hundred years in jail. Illegal alien kills white gal, intent unclear: We're still working on it, don't rush us, may let a gun-possession charge go forward.
Equal justice under the law? [Laugh.]
As a footnote to all that: I can't leave the case of the Georgia shooting without registering my anger and disgust at the usual Establishment hypocrisy on display here.
Black people kill white people at a pretty fair clip, often with plain malice and horrific cruelty. Our own Paul Kersey and James Fulford post regular reports on this, as does the indispensable Colin Flaherty. Examples: here, here, here, and here. None of these killings ever makes the news.
There are no demonstrations on behalf of those named in Paul Kersey's or James Fulford's posts, or Colin Flaherty's books; no Twitter handles, no indignant denunciations by politicians and TV talking heads … nothing.
If you are murdered by a black or other sacralized minority—an illegal immigrant, say—your death will at most be a few column inches on page fifteen of your local newspaper, if your town still has one.
So far as our Establishment elites and Main Stream Media bubbleheads are concerned, White Lives Don't matter.
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vdare--2020-05-08--Elderly (Mostly White) Americans STILL "Hardest Hit" By Covid-19 According To CDC Death Certificates

Elderly Americans are still hardest hit by Covid-19 deaths. The numbers paint the picture.
The National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control, receives daily death certificate data from states. The numbers are updated weekly but data from some states lag.
As of May 6th, 44,016 Covid-19 deaths were reported to the CDC. Of those, 35,161 or 80 percent of all deaths were people 65 years or older. The deaths are recorded in ten-year age groups. The greatest number of deaths occurred among those over 85 years, 13,776. That's almost a third of all Covid-19 deaths.
And who were these elderly people? Non-Hispanic whites comprise 51.9 percent of Covid deaths and are 39 percent of the weighted distribution of the population. Non-Hispanic blacks represent 17.9 percent of the Covid deaths and 18.6 percent of the weighted distribution of the population. Asian and Hispanic deaths are much lower than their weighted popuation distribution.
The numbers by states, age, race and ethnicity are available on the CDC website so that numbers junkies can peruse at length.
Below, as screenshot of the CDC's data:
Table 2a. Percent distribution of deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with distribution of the weighted percent population by race and Hispanic origin group, for the United States and jurisdictions with more than 100 deaths available for analysis.
As reported earlier, American whites and blacks are the hardest hit by Covid-19, not Hispanics and Asians.


vdare--2020-05-08--Michelle Malkin On The Brunswick Hoax

Michelle Malkin On The Brunswick Hoax

Over at Unz Review, the incomparable Michelle Malkin has a powerful piece on the many lies surrounding the Brunswick Hoax. She pulls no punches and lands many knockout blows, delivering a TKO to the Ahmaud Arbery martyrdom. She writes:
Do you know who these two race-hustlers are? If you pay attention, you know that Black Lives Matter co-founder Shaun King (a.k.a. Talcum X , Martin Luther Cream , or W.E.B. De Fraud ) and lawyer Lee Merritt are Morehouse College buddies who have been partners in anti-white, anti-cop agitation for upwards of two decades.
Gee, who could have leaked the video to King, such that it “emerged” out of nowhere and rocketed into the media stratosphere?
If you pay attention, you will recall that Shaun King and Lee Merritt teamed up to perpetrate the Sherita Dixon-Cole hate crime hoax of 2018. Dixon-Cole, who is black, falsely accused innocent white Texas state trooper Daniel Hubbard of raping her during a traffic stop. Her lawyer was Merritt. King “broke” the viral story and everything was going swimmingly until law enforcement released the 2-hour bodycam video showing…no such thing.
Oops.
The admitted liar was not prosecuted based on a technicality. Incredibly, King secured a job with the Harvard-affiliated Fair Punishment Project, which in part conducts research to prevent wrongful convictions and went on to headline the Innocence Project’s 2019 annual gathering. Merritt received no sanctions and went on to perpetrate more frauds and hoaxes.
If you pay attention, you will recall that Shaun King and Lee Merritt also teamed up to perpetrate the Jazmine Barnes hate crime hoax of 2019. Seven-year-old Jazmine, who is black, was slain in a drive-by shooting in Texas. Merritt was a legal advisor to the Barnes family. King used his mighty Twitter platform to spread conspiracy theories of a racist white truck-driving shooter and defame an innocent man named Robert Cantrell, whose family faced death threats as a result of the witch hunt. The real shooting suspects were black thugs, prompting King to swiftly attempt to cover his tracks and claim phony credit for tipping off the police.
The fiasco prompted several of his old SJW allies to resurrect charges of mishandling past fundraisers. King and Merritt continue to be dogged by criticism of their financial exploits. Last fall, Merritt represented some relatives of Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman reportedly shot by a white Forth Worth police officer while inside her home. King swooped in with a GoFundMe campaign for his college BFF’s client that Jefferson’s father called unnecessary, unauthorized, and exploitative.
Let me refresh your memory of more of Shaun King’s greatest race fraud hits, which have been duly noted not just watchdogs on the Blue Lives Matter Right, but some of King’s own former colleagues on the Black Lives Matter Left:
In 2014, King promoted the anti-cop “hands up, don’t shoot” lie debunked by none other than the Obama Justice Department, yet he still doesn’t care about the truth. “I’m not going to parse evidence or make some complex technical argument that Michael Brown did or didn’t have his hands up,” he defiantly retorted. “To me, it doesn’t matter if he did or he didn’t. It never has.”
…In 2015, King gloried in the wrongful rape convictions of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, whose flawed case and forensic errors led six internationally renowned scientists to call for a retrial. He has failed to follow up because, of course, the truth doesn’t fit his narrative.
The “journalist” also maintained the same obstinate stance after his disgraceful sliming of football star Peyton Manning in 2016, when he attempted to ride the #MeToo publicity wave by recycling — and woefully misinterpreting — a 13-year-old court filing regarding a settlement with a female trainer who had claimed she was sexually harassed, and then changed her story seven years later. Instead of admitting error, he played victim.
Which means brings me to the Number 3 reason to doubt the Ahmaud “Just a Jogger” narrative: Benjamin Crump. Merritt, a former intern of Johnnie Cochran, credits Crump as a mentor. The two were honored as “BLK Geniuses” by The Grio. Crump is also on Ahmaud Arbery’s legal team; the two have been making the media rounds together this week.
If you pay attention, you know that Crump is the camera-lovin’ avenging lawyer for the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown who rocketed to fame perpetuating the “Hands up, don’t shoot” lie. He’s also representing nine black women in federal civil lawsuit seeking to cash in on the wrongful convictions of Daniel Holtzclaw:
Those clients include a convicted felon who preposterously described Holtzclaw as a “short, black man” when he’s 6’1,” half-Japanese, and pale and a convicted felon who denied seven times she had been the victim of any inappropriate police conduct — until a sex-crimes detective informed her about the Holtzclaw investigation and she changed her story to claim that he had forced her to expose her breasts.
Crump also represents the troubled young prostitute and drug user with a violent criminal record who called Holtzclaw a “hot cop” before accusing him of rape — months after Jannie Ligons’ charges were publicized and Holtzclaw’s name and face widely disseminated. The teen’s mom had filed a missing persons report and assault and battery complaint against her daughter on the day Holtzclaw encountered her and searched her purse. The Oklahoma City police department’s crime lab identified a minute amount of what it characterized as “epithelial cell” DNA from this accuser on Holtzclaw’s uniform pants — the lone piece of indirect forensic evidence found out of 17 alleged crime scenes, which became the prosecution’s inaccurately portrayed “smoking gun” in the case.
Now, King, Merritt, and Crump–three of the most prominent, anti-white hate crime hoaxers in America–are at the heart of the Ahmaud “Just A Jogger” narrative. Thanks to their latest joint campaign, the New York Times reported yesterday, “Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were each charged with murder and aggravated assault and booked into a jail in coastal Glynn County, Ga.”
King pimped the requisite GoFundMe, which has already reached more than twice its goal and raised $200,000-plus for Arbery’s family.
He also posted the following threats to the McMichaels on Facebook (which, as you know, has banned Unz.com):
Message: Swallow the narrative…or else.
Will the real vigilantes please stand up?
Top 3 Reasons to Doubt the Ahmaud "Just a Jogger" Arbery Narrative, May 8, 202


vdare--2020-05-08--WaPo: Swedes Are Too Nationalistic

WaPo: Swedes Are Too Nationalistic

Personally, I’m glad that Sweden has chosen a different policy response than the rest of Europe, since that offers us more information about what to do next. But a lot of people, however, are not happy that Sweden is not going along with the herd. From the Washington Post opinion page:
The risk of Sweden’s coronavirus strategy? Blind patriotism.
Criticism from abroad may trigger a national identity threat for many Swedes
By Gina Gustavsson
May 3, 2020 at 2:00 a.m. PDT
“Be like Sweden!” — this slogan appeared on a sign last weekend in Minnesota, one of several U.S. states where protesters are pushing governors to roll back lockdown orders. Sweden, unlike the United States and many other countries, has largely stayed open for business. Pandemic experts have criticized this approach, combining a handful of restrictions with strong recommendations for risk groups and anyone feeling sick to self-isolate and voluntary social distancing for everyone else.
So why does Swedish public opinion continue to show not just high but increasing levels of support?
As of April 30, Sweden ranked among the 10 countries in the world with the highest covid-19 deaths per million people, with a ratio of 244. This is seven times more than neighboring Finland and Norway.
… What we are witnessing in Sweden is more likely to be the dark side of nationalism. To be sure, many Swedes who now say “let Sweden be Sweden” are staunch supporters of wider immigration and international cooperation. But such convictions are no vaccine against the psychological forces of nationalism.
Like any group identity, national identity is a powerful force. In “Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics,” contributors and I show how national identity can charge both the best and worst sides of human behavior. In a recent research article, I argue that when self-critical and based on a shared public culture, nationalism can legitimately be liberal or even progressive in nature. But when it takes the form of blind allegiance, nationalism becomes a danger to liberal democracy. …
Critics of the Swedish pandemic strategy meet with hostility and ridicule, both in academia and the media. Vulnerable minorities might be next in line. Former chief epidemiologist Johan Giesecke, for instance, pinned the failure to protect the elderly on immigrants. “Many of the people working in nursing homes are from other countries; they are refugees or asylum seekers,” he said. They “may not always be understanding the information.”


vdare--2020-05-07--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Signs Anti-Sanctuary City Bill into

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2017: Texas Governor Greg Abbott Signs Anti-Sanctuary City Bill into Law

Originally published here on this day in 2017.
Here’s some good news from Texas. After working its way through the legislature, the bill prohibiting sanctuary cities made it to the governor’s desk, and he signed it on Sunday.
Tucker Carlson interviewed the governor last week and asked him about the legislation. Gov. Abbott explained what it would do:
GREG ABBOTT: This law ensures that we are going to ban sanctuary cities in the state of Texas and imposes civil penalties that can add up to more than $25,000 a day. It can impose jail time on officials who don’t follow the law and can lead to the removal of these public officials from their jobs, such as a sheriff like in Travis County who allowed sanctuary city policies to operate in Travis County.
That law sounds perfect. Every state should have one of those.
Abbott explained further:
What we’re talking about is going after those who have an ICE detainer request on them — someone who has already committed a crime, someone who’s proven themselves to be dangerous and someone who should not be on the streets. Remember, Tucker there’s a tragedy that led to a lot of this, and that is Kate Steinle. People are forgetting about Kate Steinle and what happened, and the reason why she was killed was because in part of the sanctuary city policies of San Francisco. As governor of Texas, I cannot allow a San Francisco Kate Steinle situation to be repeated here. No governor, no law enforcement official anywhere should allow that type of tragedy to occur.
Certainly Kate Steinle is not the only innocent person killed by an illegal alien—far from it—but she has become the one American who is remembered as such.
Here’s the AP report about the signing:


vdare--2020-05-07--As Massive Crowds of Blacks Gather in Atlanta for Newest Air Jordans, Whites Blamed for 83% of Coron

As Massive Crowds of Blacks Gather in Atlanta for Newest Air Jordans, Whites Blamed for 83% of Coronavirus Hospitalizations Being Black in Georgia

How are we going blame this on white people in Georgia?
Then there’s this:
To those not social distancing, Atlanta’s mayor has this message, 11Alive.com, May 5, 2020] ATLANTA — A new Forbes magazine article on Monday says that the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the state of Georgia has increased by more than 40 percent since Gov. Brian Kemp has reopened the state for business. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms cited the article in a tweet Monday afternoon, saying that those who came out in large groups over the weekend and ignored social distancing were in danger of being exposed to COVID-19. Bottoms cited the people who gathered in crowds at Greenbriar Mall in southwest Atlanta on Saturday morning in search of the new version of Nike’s Air Jordan shoe as it went on sale.
Here’s what it looked like as Jimmy Jazz’s doors opened at Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta. Everyone I talked to was in line for a new Air Jordan 5 that sold out online. pic.twitter.com/opbqIC08mq — Charlie Gile (@CharlieGileNBC) May 2, 2020
Not much social distancing in Atlanta by these black citizens hoping to score the latest Air Jordans…
She also pointed to crowds gathered at the Mall West End to shoot off fireworks over the weekend as well as shoppers at Lenox Square in Buckhead, which reopened on Monday morning. She tweeted, “For those who crowded at Greenbriar awaiting the new Jordans, gathered at Piedmont Pk, shot fireworks at the Mall West End & even those now shopping at Lennox Square Mall, know that the only thing that’s changed about Covid-19 is your chance of catching.” The modeling data cited in the Forbes article was compiled by Stanford University’s Big Local News in collaboration with Pitch Interactive and the Google News Initiative. The data indicated that on April 21, three days before Gov. Kemp began to allow some businesses to reopen in Georgia, the state ranked as the 16th worst in the United States for risk of exposure to COVID-19. The incidence rate for COVID-19, according to the Big Local News COVID-19 Case Mapper is calculated as the number of coronavirus cases for every 100,000 people. According to Forbes, it is the best publicly available metric for estimating an individual’s risk of exposure to the virus. The reporting data indicated the incidence rate at that time for Georgia was 180.7. Five days later, on April 26, Georgia’s incidence rate had risen to 211.5 — a 30.8 percent increase. The incidence rate in Georgia has continued to increase each day since, through May 2 (the most recent date that we have data available), when the rate was 256.8 — an increase of 42 percent.
Again, when you understand white flight was the original social distancing, you are immediately capable of comprehending all of post-Shelley vs. Kraemer history in America.
In Georgia, the coronavirus is overwhelmingly a disease impacting blacks. The metro Atlanta area has extreme levels of segregation, because white flight was the original social distancing.
Might the reason the coronavirus is impacting blacks disproportionately be found in this story of blacks crowding together in pursuit of the newest Air Jordan’s from Nike, and failing to properly practice proper social distancing (obviously, the lining up to procure the new Nike shoe is a metaphor for how they’ve lived during this pandemic)?
It’s far easier to blame white people in Georgia than to expect blacks in the state to take any responsibility for the high rates of coronavirus impacting their community.
Same goes for the entire nation.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-07--GUARDIAN Inverts Neil Ferguson Adultery Scandal to Make It Boring

As I like to point out, progressive broadsheets like the New York Times and the Guardian go out of their way to make the news less interesting. Here’s the Guardian on a hilarious scandal:
Neil Ferguson is an epidemiologist at Imperial College London who was a top adviser to the UK government. He is, by the way, not the same person as financial historian Niall Ferguson.
Ian Sample, Kate Proctor and Rowena Mason
Wed 6 May 2020
Ferguson had become one of the most trusted voices on the outbreak.
Scientists who advise the government on its coronavirus strategy have warned they are being drawn into politics after the leading infectious disease modeller Prof Neil Ferguson stepped down as one of the cabinet’s most prominent advisers.
Ferguson, the head of the Imperial College team whose modelling persuaded ministers that Britain needed to order a lockdown to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths, resigned from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on Tuesday night.
Ferguson left the position after it emerged that his lover had visited his home on two occasions in March and April in a breach of the government’s official guidance on social distancing.
One scientific adviser to the government said Ferguson’s resignation had created “an awful lot of concern” and that the mood in the community was “very depressed”. The events revealed how university academics who lent their advice to government were having to cope with an increasingly difficult situation, the adviser added.
“He’s an academic researcher. He doesn’t make decisions. He’s not paid for any of this. We are being drawn into a political situation which is very unpleasant,” they said.
The prurient headlines about Neil Ferguson are a huge distraction
Ferguson had become one of the most trusted voices on the outbreak and took a prime role in discussing the reasons for the lockdown and social distancing measures. But that prominence led to him being portrayed as a decision-maker rather than an independent scientist whose team generated predictions that informed ministers about what strategies they might take.
“The media are presenting the scientists as decision-makers when they’re not. We are in the frontline when we shouldn’t be. We are not the story,” the adviser said. Unlike the government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, and the chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, the independent university academics who sit on Sage do not have teams to manage their media appearances and support them.


vdare--2020-05-07--Demographics Of New York Hospitalized: Is New York Even Trying To Trace Contacts?

From the New York Times news section:
Who’s getting sick now? Older people and those without jobs. New York State has been shut down for six weeks. Social distancing has become the norm. Face masks are everywhere. And yet more than 20,000 people a week in the state are still testing positive for the coronavirus. In the past week, more than 5,000 virus patients entered hospitals.
By the way, hospitalizations for coronavirus would seem like the single best statistic to track. Cases depends too much on how much testing is going on, while deaths are too much of a lagging indicator, plus they tend to be focused on the very old. Plus, they hopefully decline as (if?) treatment improves. Plus they are thankfully limited in sample size outside of the New York area, so death trends can be jumpy due to small numbers.
Who are they? Officials have surveyed hospitals to find out, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that he was surprised by the results he was reporting on Wednesday.
The governor of New York should have been furnished with this kind of data back on March 6, not on May 6.
More than four in five patients were retired or unemployed. Only 17 percent were working.
Is this unemployed on the day they went to the hospital or unemployed as of, say, March 1?
“We were thinking that maybe we were going to find a higher percentage of essential employees who were getting sick because they were going to work, that these may be nurses, doctors, transit workers,” Mr. Cuomo said. “That’s not the case.”
Here’s a question: Are many healthcare workers and others in high exposure jobs in New York City now taking hydroxychloroquine (or something else) as a prophylactic? It would be kind of nice to know. My impression is that NYC health care workers have not died at the same rate as their peers in Wuhan and northern Italy were dying. If so, why is that?
Virus patients entering hospitals were primarily older: Nearly three in five were over 60, and around one in five entered the hospital from a nursing home or an assisted living facility, the survey found. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said that a majority of coronavirus patients who were recently hospitalized were retired or unemployed. We asked hospitals, look at just those new cases who are coming in, right. Yesterday, 600 new cases. Where are those people coming from, and what can we learn from those people to further target and refine our strategy? When you look at the racial breakdown of who’s getting hospitalized, you see it’s disproportionately minorities, disproportionately African-American and Latino, again in downstate New York, higher percentage male 52-48. We don’t know exactly why, but the virus doesn’t discriminate generally, and a very high percentage comorbidities, which is what we’ve been talking about. And which we understand, which is not a surprise. This is a surprise: Overwhelmingly, the people were at home. Transportation method: We thought maybe they were taking public transportation. And we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation, but actually no, because these people were literally at home. Were they working? No, they were retired or they were unemployed — only 17 percent working. So that says they’re not working, they’re not traveling, they’re predominately downstate, predominately minority, predominantly older, predominately nonessential employees. Other results of the three-day survey, which included 113 New York hospitals that had admitted a total of nearly 1,300 patients: 57 percent of hospitalized people were from New York City. In the city, 45 percent of hospitalized patients were African-American or Latino. Only 3 percent in New York City had been using public transportation. 96 percent had other underlying health conditions.
But what % of similar individuals have no underlying health conditions? Alternatively, how many underlying conditions do the hospitalized have relative to the population with the same demographic conditions?
37 percent were retired, and 46 percent were unemployed.
Were they long term unemployed or were they unemployed because of the coronavirus crash?
“That says they’re not working, they’re not traveling, they’re predominantly downstate, predominantly minority, predominantly older,” Mr. Cuomo said.
So how are they getting infected?
Here is a question: Clearly, the number of cases in New York City each day is more than the government agency in charge of tracing contacts can handle. But, does that mean they just shut down tracking contacts completely? If they’d continued to interview a random selection of sick people about their contacts, they could at least keep the governor from sounding baffled by his own basic questions about the implications of this data as of May 6th.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-05--Three Blacks Charged With Murdering Black Family Dollar Security Guard,  After He Asked Black Custom

Three Blacks Charged With Murdering Black Family Dollar Security Guard,  After He Asked Black Customer To Wear A Mask

Why in the world does a Family Dollar—where almost every product is $1—need a security guard? What does this say about the clientele? What does this say about the community this store serves?
Everything.
Flint, Michigan is 54 percent black and 37 percent white.
Shot.
Michigan’s Black Communities Devastated by the Coronavirus: The pandemic sheds light on the disproportionately high death rate among blacks. In Detroit, nearly 80 percent of the population is black, but the city has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths: 922 deaths, GovTech.com, April 29, 2020
(TNS) — Tamara Liberty Smith of Detroit says her social media feed reflects the deadly impact of the coronavirus in Michigan’s largest city, one that also has the most black residents.
“I’ve never experienced anything in my life where my social media timeline looks like an obituary,” said Smith, a lifelong Detroiter who ran a failed bid for Detroit City Council in 2017. “You cannot scroll … not knowing someone who has been attacked by the virus or who has experienced death from the virus.”
The pandemic has shed light on the disproportionately high number of deaths in the black community, especially in Detroit where nearly 80 percent of the population is black. Detroit has seen the highest number of cases and deaths due to coronavirus, with 922 deaths as of Sunday.
Statewide, 32 percent of all confirmed coronavirus cases in Michigan involved black patients, yet they make up about 13.6 percent of the state’s 10 million people. More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the state are African Americans.
Underlying health issues within the black community, poverty that restricts access to medical care, crowded living situations and a general lack of trust in the health system are some of the theories put forth for the high rate of COVID-19 among people who are black.
Smith lives in west Detroit on the border of the 48235 ZIP code, an area hardest hit by the virus hit, based on city health data.
She called it “baffling” that Detroit has been impacted so harshly, since “a lot of the Detroiters are not travelers; they’re stationary.”
“From my perception, this was brought into our city and the people are contracting it,” she said. “How? That part I’m still wondering (about) … A lot of Detroiters don’t even leave the city, let along the country, and the virus is running rampant.
Other than some youth who feel impervious to the virus, Smith said most people she knows are practicing social distancing and isolation in line with the governor’s orders.
State Rep. Tyrone Carter, a coronavirus survivor, points across a busy street from his front porch to a field on the outskirts of Detroit.
“There used to be a hospital there,” he says.
Carter said a lack of access to quality, affordable health care in the black community is one of many reasons the coronavirus has killed a disproportionately high number of black people in Michigan and Detroit.


vdare--2020-05-08--Virtue Signalling For Goodwhites, Politicized Courts, White Lives Don't Matter, Etc.

01m52s Mumming for goodwhites. (The morality play of our time.)
06m51s Our politicized courts. (Instruments of the CultMarx establishment.)
13m10s White lives don't matter. (Massive hypocrisy.)
14m42s Losing our turbulence. (Pressure cooker, or sheep?)
20m46s ChiCom virus numbers, cont. (Statistics with Chinese characteristics.)
23m00s What happened to Table 42? (Why doesn't the administration restore it?)
26m55s "Anti-white messaging" banned in Alaska. (Next: the New York Times?)
28m53s Working from home. (Some love it, some hate it.)
30m39s Disney's empire in lockdown. (Cry me a river.)
31m56s Baby names: Boris Johnson. (Resurrects a fine old English name.)
33m38s Baby names: Elon Musk. (Zpf* qr$-nkl 67.Æ tss_Λ)
35m40s Signoff. (With Millie.)
01— Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your inflammatorily genial host John Derbyshire, podcasting to you this 8th of May— VE Day, seventy-five years on from the end of WW2 in Europe. If you know a veteran of that war— there are tens of thousands still among us— seek him out and shake his hand … No, as you were: Seek him out and give him an elbow-bump … while keeping six feet away … Aw, the hell with it: buy him a drink, if you can find a bar that's open.
News-wise, I've been beginning to get desperate. It's been coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus, for weeks now. I've been getting bored with it, especially as every expert brought forward to tell me what's happening, what's going to happen, what should happen, contradicts the previous expert. The hell with the damn virus and the stupid experts. Isn't there anything else happening?
Well, this week we got relief, of a sort. We got an Emmett Till.
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02— Mumming for goodwhites. You know the script. Evil, gap-toothed, leering badwhites, secure in their white privilege, most likely resident in some state of the old Confederacy, hunt down and murder an innocent young black guy.
It's the core fantasy of goodwhite Americans, and has to be acted out every so often for their moral satisfaction, like a medieval mumming play: a clear narrative restatement of the eternal conflict between good and evil. Black Americans can participate in the festivities, too, by burning stores and shooting each other. That's epiphenomenal, though; nobody cares what blacks do.
We haven't had a good Emmett Till re-enactment since the Freddie Gray business in Baltimore five years ago, so it's time. And yes, here it comes. Headlines from the increasingly woke Drudge Report:
FATHER, SON CHARGED WITH HUNTING BLACK MAN
MURDER SHOCKS NATION
GEORGIA TOOK MONTHS TO MAKE ARRESTS
So, yes; I got a break from reading about the tiresome coronavirus and the fool politicians tying themselves in pretzels trying to look as if they're managing it somehow. For this relief much thanks.
That said, I've lived through so many of these Emmett Till re-enactments now, they're getting to be as boring as Xi Jinping's virus. This particular one, if you haven't been keeping up with the news, concerns a father-and-son team in Brunswick, Georgia.
There'd been burglaries in the neighborhood, which is pretty white; at any rate, the local elementary school is 76 percent white. Dad, who is a former police officer, saw a black guy running down the street, who he thought matched a description of the burglar; Father and son, not knowing whether the black guy was armed, grabbed their guns and got in their truck to make a citizens' arrest— all perfectly legal in Georgia. A friend in another vehicle followed them.
When they caught up with the black guy, they got out to make the arrest, the son holding a shotgun. The black guy tried to wrestle the shotgun from him. Three shots were fired, the son presumably fearing for his life if his opponent got the gun. The black guy died.
All this happened on February 23rd. The District Attorney who investigated the case saw no grounds for an arrest.
Last week some cellphone video of the event went public. It was taken by the friend who'd followed father and son. I presume he released it to show they acted within the law— which, the DA had concluded, they did.
All the goodwhites saw on that video, though, was two white guys with guns and a black guy getting shot. Just like Emmett Till!
So now we are getting the full Emmett Till narrative, dressed up with all the usual cant threadbare formulas: "jogging while black," "modern lynching," and the rest. There are rallies; there are protests; there are Twitter handles, … you know how it goes.
Under pressure from the goodwhite establishment, which of course includes practically all of the media and social media, father and son have now been arrested and charged with murder.
How's it all going to play out from here? Next segment.
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03— Politicized justice. Whatever happens at trial in this case, the father and son, the McMichaels, will never again have normal lives. Their home address has already been made public; so even if acquitted, they'd be in danger if they ever went back to live there.
And they will be full-time professional defendants. Even if they're acquitted in state court, there'll be appeals and calls for federal Civil Rights and "hate crime" prosecutions. If a Democrat wins the Presidency in November, those calls will be answered with a vengeance by some anti-white Eric Holder clone at the Justice Department.
So get used to being homeless and unemployable, guys, and to spending all of your free time in lawyers' offices, and all of your net worth in lawyers' fees. This is what happens to Americans who bring the wrath of the goodwhite establishment down upon themselves as a result of trying to do their citizenly duty. You could ask George Zimmerman about it.
As with the Trayvon Martin case, I'm expecting some degree of narrative collapse. The deceased in this case, name of Ahmaud Abery, has so far been presented to us just as a high-school football star. That's nice; but the guy was 25 years old when he died. What's he been doing since high school? None of the news reports I've seen want to tell me. Could it be that he was the burglar who'd been plaguing the McMichaels' neighborhood? I guess it could, but no-one seems interested in finding out.
We have learned that Abery has a rap sheet. He was indicted for bringing an unlicensed handgun to a basketball game six years ago, and he has a shoplifting conviction. Not major criminal activity; but Abery, like Trayvon Martin, seems to have fallen somewhat short of the model-citizen standard. I'm expecting more narrative collapse in this area.
George Zimmerman was at least acquitted at state trial. Can McMichael father and son expect the same grace?
I doubt it. That was nearly seven years ago. The political temperature is way higher now than it was back then, and our courts are heavily politicized. Robert Bork wrote about being the only conservative on the faculty of Yale Law School sixty years ago; does anyone think the law schools have become less liberal since then?
The Zimmerman verdict was, I think, a fluke. The establishment will do all they can to prevent that happening again. For the future of American jurisprudence, compare and contrast the cases of James Fields and Jose Garcia-Zarate.
James Fields caused the death of Heather Heyer by driving his car into an anarchist mob at Charlottesville, Va. in 2017. His intent is unclear. He was sentenced to life plus 419 years in prison
Jose Garcia-Zarate, an illegal alien, caused the death of Kate Steinle by shooting her with a handgun in 2015. His intent, like James Fields', is unclear. He was acquitted of all charges except a picayune federal gun-possession rap, but remains in custody while the authorities ponder, re-ponder, and re-re-ponder his mental state.
Intent-wise, I can't see much difference between those two cases. Outcome-wise, however, Fields got a colossal prison sentence after a year and a half in custody followed by a very brisk trial, while Garcia-Zarate's state conviction was thrown out on appeal over a technicality, and federal proceedings against him, now five years under way, are to be dragged out until everyone's forgotten about the case, with a couple of years in the funny farm as the most probable outcome.
That's our courts: instruments of the goodwhite CultMarx establishment. White guy kills white gal, intent unclear: four hundred years in jail. Illegal alien kills white gal, intent unclear: We're still working on it, don't rush us, may let a gun-possession charge go forward.
Equal justice under the law? [Laugh.]
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04— White lives don't matter. As a footnote to all that: I can't leave the case of the Georgia shooting without registering my anger and disgust at the usual establishment hypocrisy on display here.
Black people kill white people at a pretty fair clip, often with plain malice and horrific cruelty. Our own Paul Kersey and James Fulford post regular reports on this, as does the indispensable Colin Flaherty. None of these killings ever makes the news.
There are no demonstrations on behalf of those named in Paul Kersey's or James Fulford's posts, or Colin Flaherty's books; no Twitter handles, no indignant denunciations by politicians and TV talking heads … nothing. If you are murdered by a black or other sacralized minority— an illegal alien, say— your death will at most be a few column inches on page fifteen of your local newspaper, if your town still has one.
So far as our establishment elites and media bubbleheads are concerned, white lives don't matter.
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05— Losing our turbulence. Whatever the outcome in Georgia, the fate of the McMichaels— four centuries in jail at worst, a lifetime of poverty and fear at best— has to be a big deterrent to anyone thinking of carrying out a citizen's arrest.
There is, I'm sorry to say, a connection from here to the coronavirus hysteria.
One thing we have seen this past few weeks is the willingness of most Americans to do as they're told by their superiors. It's really been quite striking.
The USA was once known as the land of individual initiative and localism. Americans, de Tocqueville noted, didn't wait around passively for the king or the local baron to get something done; they up and did it themselves. Concepts like citizen's arrest and neighborhood watch are in that tradition.
That all looks frightfully old-fashioned nowadays. The guiding principle of good citizenship in 2020 is the one of ancient imperial despotism: Tremble and obey! Don't try to take any initiative; wait for the police, the courts, the politicians to tell you what to do.
Perhaps I'm taking too dark a view here. There have been some pockets of resistance: Thursday last week, for instance, when armed protestors— lawfully armed, I should say— stormed the Michigan state capitol, to the frothing outrage of the state's strict governess Gretchen Whitmer.
Watching those protests, I recalled a column I posted at Taki's Magazine back in 2012 under the title: "Losing Our Turbulence. "
The occasion was, I'd been reading George Bowker's 2003 biography of George Orwell. A thing that caught my eye in the book was something that Orwell, according to Bowker, had said after attending gatherings of coal miners in northern England during the 1930s Great Depression. Orwell wasn't impressed by the miners, who he described as "sheeplike." He returned to London concluding that, quote from Orwell:
There is no turbulence left in England.
End quote.
I chewed over that for the rest of my column, of course taking proper note of the fact that in the matter of turbulence, there is a be-careful-what-you-wish-for element in play. Turbulence … riot … revolution … Things can go too far.
Still and all, I wrote, quote from self:
Democratic government's plodding regularities are certainly superior to despotism or prolonged anarchy, but one can't help feeling it would be character-building for our political classes if a mob were to come around and break their windows now and then. The Duke of Wellington had "about thirty" of his broken in 1831. (His servant "fired two blunderbusses in the air from the top of the house, and [the mob] went off.")
End quote.
That was during the Reform Riots of the time. The Reform Riots were, yes, riots, and windows were broken— probably a few arms and legs, too. Still, there was no threat to the integrity of the nation; and the outcome at last was real constitutional reform towards more representative government. Score one for turbulence.
Have we Americans lost our turbulence? Well, not all of us, not in Michigan at any rate.
Will the establishment succeed in stamping out these last pesky traces of turbulence? Or will the protestors inspire more turbulence? To borrow the subtitle of Stephen Balch's fine April 29th essay at the American Greatness website, quote:
In describing these days will future historians employ as metaphor a pressure cooker about to explode or sheep being led to slaughter?
End quote.
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06— Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Two weeks ago I passed an indirect opinion in response to people who ask me how much credence we should give to the virus-related numbers coming out of China.
A listener directed my attention to an April 7th Washington Post op-ed by China expert Isaac Stone Fish. Opening paragraph, quote:
The Chinese Communist Party manipulates its statistics. This is neither an opinion nor a revelation: it's a simple fact, critical to understanding China today. Chairman Xi Jinping demands that Chinese journalists prioritize loyalty to the Party over truth or accuracy. Li Keqiang, who now runs China's economy as the premier, once smilingly told the U.S. ambassador that most Chinese statistics are "for reference only," and that statistics on gross domestic product especially are "man-made."
End quote.
In the particular matter of GDP statistics, I noted when reviewing Gordon Chang's book The Coming Collapse of China nineteen years ago that, according to Gordon, "China's official GDP numbers for year 2000 were issued on January 1st, 2001."
The numbers we're dealing with here can best be described as "statistics with Chinese characteristics."
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Item: Also on the subject of statistics, this time America's crime statistics, the current administration has done nothing to restore the famous Table 42 in the Bureau of Justice Statistics website.
If you don't know about Table 42, it is the one headed "Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender" in the "Victims and Offenders" list at the BJS web page "Criminal Victimization In The United States— Statistical Tables." The data in it comes from the National Crime Victimizations Survey, which is conducted every year. So this is victim reports, nothing to do with arrests or convictions.
On Table 42 you can look up, for example, how many reports of rape and sexual assault there were in a year, broken out by the race of the victim and the perceived race of the offender. In 2008, for example, I see that 16.4 percent of the white victims of rape and sexual assault reported a black perp. That's around nineteen thousand victims.
How many black victims of rape and sexual assault reported a white perp? Well, Table 42 says zero. Only one household in three thousand gets sampled for this survey, though; so that zero just means the number reported is too small for the sampling math to get anything meaningful from.
With that and some other slight qualifications aside, Table 42 is a pretty nifty reference on interracial crime … Except that the "is" there should be "was": The Bureau of Justice stopped publishing Table 42 in, let me see … oh, 2008 was the last year. How strange!
The BJS still publishes tables from the NCVS data, but it seems that all sexual offenses have been thrown in under the general heading "violent victimization," with no separate tabs for the type of violence.
We can, of course, never know— nor even guess!— why that particular table, Table 42, was discontinued in that particular year. The public at large lost a useful source of information there, though. Will the present administration restore it to us? Or, if they will not, will they tell us why they will not?
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Item: An item here from the world of education— a non-crazy one, for a change.
The Matanuska-Susitna School Board in Palmer, Alaska has voted to ban five books from the list of approved texts for high school English teachers this fall. Among the five is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, one of the seven, count 'em seven, autobiographies put out by the semiliterate black female windbag Maya Angelou, who went off to join the Choir Invisible six years ago.
The book was banned by this Alaska school board, quote from this Fox News report I'm reading, "because of a graphic description she wrote about being molested as a child and for 'anti-white' messaging."
I don't care about the self-reported molestation, which the old fraud probably made up anyway, but "anti-white messaging"? Hallelujah! In a town in the USA, in the Year of Our Lord 2020, a school board has banned a book for "anti-white messaging."
Is it too much to hope that they will proceed logically from here to banning the New York Times? Baby steps, baby steps.
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Item: It is of course no news that a great many people are now working from home who were not doing so four months ago. Will this be a permanent change to our working lives, or not?
I don't know; but I do see an interesting division of opinion about it. A lot of people love love love the idea of working from home. A lot of other people hate hate hate it.
The Lion of the Blogosphere posted on this the other day. His comment thread exhibits both points of view. Comment:
I have been [working from home] here in California for last 6 weeks (absolutely loving it) …
End comment.
Comment:
As someone who mainly works from home, it is not that great. After a while you crave human interaction.
End comment.
The comment I liked best was this one. Comment:
Interacting with attractive young ladies is my favorite thing about going to work. I don't come close to sexual harassment. The interaction is mutually enjoyable.
End comment.
I'd like to hear the attractive young ladies' side of that, but I'll give the guy full marks for honesty in his first sentence there at least.
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Item: This news story I've filed away in the folder labeled "World's Smallest Violin."
It's from dnyuz.com, which is some kind of news aggregator website. Headline: For Disney, a Stricken Empire.
Disney is of course the Disney mega-corporation. The coronavirus lockdown has been devastating to them. Their fourteen theme parks are all padlocked; their eight movie studios are empty and silent. Mickey and Minnie are out there on Riverside Drive begging passers-by for scraps of cheese.
Cry me a river. This is the company that fired its computer staff and replaced them with cheap H-1B guest workers from India. Suck it down, you bastards.
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Item: A couple of items of baby-name news. First item: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his significant other Carrie Symonds have announced the name of their new baby boy, born April 29th in, of course, London. The baby's name is Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson. Wilfred and Lawrie are grandfathers of the parents: Nicholas is the Christian name of both the doctors who saw Johnson safely through his bout of COVID-19 last month.
That last is a nice touch. The name that pleased me most, though, is Wilfred: a fine old English name that people hardly use any more. I just went on Google and asked for "famous people named Wilfred." Most of them are dead.
Perhaps the parents won't think it impertinent of me to welcome their child into this strange world using some lines from a poet I love.
For their boy, I hope that, quote:
God will grow no talons at his heels,
Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.
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Item: Second item of baby-name news: African American tech billionaire Elon Musk and his significant other Claire Boucher, a pop singer who goes by the stage name Grimes, acquired their new family member on Monday.
I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce the baby's Christian name. I'll just spell it out for you, with the meanings given by the mother on her Facebook page.
X, the uppercase letter "X" followed by a space. This signifies the unknown quantity.
A-E ligature, which is to say uppercase "A" and uppercase "E" squinched together as a single symbol, as you see in old spellings of words like "Encyclopædia," and followed by another space. That's Mom's way of spelling ai, the Chinese word for "love" (?). Also something to do with artificial intelligence, one of Elon Musk's interests.
A-12, that's uppercase "A" hyphen 12. That's the name of a warplane, the Lockheed A-12; "great in battle, but non-violent," Mom tells us. That is some kind of aeronautical in-joke that I can't be bothered to research.
Hey, guys: Didn't you even consider "Wilfred"?
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07— Signoff. That's it, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening; and please take a moment this weekend to pause and think of those who endured, suffered, and died in the war that ended in Europe 75 years ago.
Tuesday this week we lost Millie Small, a pop singer from Jamaica who was a one-hit wonder back in 1964 with the song "My Boy Lollipop." The song belongs to some category of black-Caribbean pop music: reggae, ska, jah, one of those things … Don't ask me. I'm pretty sure it's not calypso, anyway.
Millie never had another big hit, but that doesn't seem to have bothered her. Nothing much seems to have bothered her, in fact.
Reading the obituaries of Millie, dimly remembering news stories about her from that time, and watching a TV interview she did in 1987, what came to my mind was Jared Taylor's classic 2015 column titled "What I Like About Blacks." Sample quote, speaking of the down-and-out blacks Jared met in the Tenderloin, San Francisco's worst ghetto, quote:
I admired the way they got every possible drop of amusement out of their lives.
End quote.
I know what Jared meant. Now it is true that, as I wrote in my infamous "The Talk" column in 2012, quote:
A small cohort of blacks— in my experience, around five percent— is ferociously hostile to whites.
End quote.
And yes, under particular circumstances that small cohort can whip up an anti-white mob among blacks at large.
Still, most blacks, most of the time, are good-natured and easy-going. I'm not at all surprised to see that blacks have low rates of suicide— around forty percent of the rate for non-Hispanic whites.
All that is double true for Caribbean blacks. In the USA there is a huge white majority to remind blacks of their collective failure. Millie Small's Jamaica, on the other hand, is less than one percent white. Trinidad likewise. Grenada likewise again. Barbados is a bit whiter, around five percent.
On the whole, in their daily lives, black Caribbeans have no-one to compare themselves with but other blacks. They don't resent whites because there are hardly any to resent.
I lived for a few months in a black-Caribbean household in London, right back then in my college days in the mid-sixties when Millie was topping the charts; and in summer vacations I did factory and construction work alongside Caribbean blacks. They were cheerful and friendly people, fun to live and work amongst.
And yes, there's an immigration angle to Millie's story. After Enoch Powell made his famous speech against mass nonwhite immigration in 1968, Millie recorded a song titled "Enoch Power." Wikipedia describes the song as "politically-inspired and defiant." Really? Reading the lyrics, I can't see anything ill-natured in them. They're actually quite cheerful and optimistic. Sample, quote:
One day there'll come a time
When all men will be brothers
They'll talk as well as dance
And live and love with each other.
That was Millie Small. She made one brief contribution to the public stock of harmless pleasure, then skipped along in good spirits for 56 years, in spite of being destitute at one point, until dying this week of a stroke at the much too young age of 72. Rest in peace, Millie.
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[Music clip: Millie, "My Boy Lollipop."]