vdare--2020-06-20--Her Name Is Mari McElyea: White Woman Murdered By Black Career Criminal Da'qon Sipple Speeding Away

Her Name Is Mari McElyea: White Woman Murdered By Black Career Criminal Da'qon Sipple Speeding Away From Shooting

Earlier : Two Black Male Suspects Arrested For Murder Of White Cop—But It 's Only A `` Normal '' Murder , Nothing To See Here Want to learn about Black Privilege ?
This is the story of Da ’ qon Sipple , the poster child for what happens when Criminal Justice Reform unleashes black criminals back into the general public , when instead they should be locked away in the deepest , darkest prison and the key conveniently lost : A man convicted of an aggravated assault at the scene of the 2016 shooting death of Kansas City , Kansas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Jackson County Jail , charged with murder in a shooting and crash from last week .
Daqon Sipple , 22 , is charged with second-degree murder in a fatal crash that happened last Wednesday on U.S. 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue .
Police said the crash happened after Sipple had fled the scene of a shooting on North Emery in which a woman said Sipple shot into her vehicle .
Independence police said Sipple ran a red light and hit a vehicle that was going south .
The driver , Mari @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Jackson County Detention Center on $ 250,000 bond .
Sipple is one of two men who were charged in a July 2016 incident that involved the fatal shooting of Melton , 46 , who had responded to assist other officers in the search for drive-by shooting suspects .
A man named Jamaal Lewis came up behind Melton , who was still in his vehicle , and fired several shots into the police car , killing the police captain .
Mari McElyea was a white woman , who was murdered in her vehicle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a shooting he had just engaged in ( firing rounds into the car his ex-girlfriend was driving ) .
Da ’ qon – it should go without saying – is a black male , who is the type of repeat black criminal the GOP is so desperate to let out of jail via the First Step Act and restore their voting rights since he is obviously a natural conservative/Republican .
A 22-year-old who is well known to police on both sides of the state line is in custody after police say he hit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ away from a shooting .
Friends said Mari McElyea was always trying to help people and loved working with children .
Her death is hitting friends and family hard , especially because of the way she died and who allegedly killed her .
“ I miss her .
I can ’ t even believe she ’ s gone , ” her best friend Marilyn Evans said .
A knock on the door by two Independence police officers is not how Evans thought her friendship with McElyea would end .
“ You know , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way to tell you this .
There was a car accident , and Mari didn ’ t make it , ” Evans said .
On Wednesday , McElyea was on her way home from work at Sugar Creek Elementary School when she was hit by a car speeding through a red light at 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue in Independence .
Police say 22-year-old Da ’ qon Sipple is the man who killed her .
“ Maybe a little bit worse because it was someone who was doing bad things , ” Evans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man accused of killing McElyea .
Sipple has a long rap sheet , including a drive-by shooting in KCK that prompted a call to police and ended in the death of Capt .
Dave Melton .
Sipple spent about two years in prison for his role in that incident , and police said Sipple is up to his old antics .
Prosecutors said Sipple shot at his ex-girlfriend at their Independence home and then took off .
He was allegedly running from that incident when he hit and killed McElyea .
“ If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then it would be just something random .
But this was worse than that , ” Hutchins said .
Evans said the two were more like sisters than friends , who went fox hunting , camping every summer , and were members of SCA , a historic recreation group .
The two expected to be friends for a lifetime .
Mari even gave Marilyn the Blue Zones Diet cookbook so they could live to be 100 .
“ And I was pouring through it .
We were figuring out how we were going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Evans said .
“ And we had a passion for Indian food .
We both love Indian food , and I don ’ t think I ’ ll eat Indian food again without getting kind of messed up about it.
” McElyea was an accomplished equestrian who taught riding lessons to children and adults , including Evans and her husband .
They said her passion for animals , including horses and cats , and her love of children will be her legacy .
“ Going through her things , I ’ m finding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thanking her and wishing her well , ” Hutchins said .
“ She appreciated them I guess.
” Sipple has been charged with second-degree murder , unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action .
FOX4 spoke to Sipple ’ s extended family who said the police have the story all wrong , but they would not speak on record to tell their story .
Had Da ’ qon been locked away for good in a prison rotting for the rest of his life , Mari McElyea would still be alive , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where she was employed .
Instead , because we are in the early stages of making it illegal to arrest black criminals , he was allowed out and on probation and promptly engaged in more criminality ( firing rounds at his ex-girlfriend ) , before trying to speed away from the police and killing an innocent white woman .

Earlier: Two Black Male Suspects Arrested For Murder Of White Cop—But It's Only A "Normal" Murder, Nothing To See Here
Want to learn about Black Privilege? This is the story of Da’qon Sipple, the poster child for what happens when Criminal Justice Reform unleashes black criminals back into the general public, when instead they should be locked away in the deepest, darkest prison and the key conveniently lost:
A man convicted of an aggravated assault at the scene of the 2016 shooting death of Kansas City, Kansas police Capt. Dave Melton is now in the Jackson County Jail, charged with murder in a shooting and crash from last week. Daqon Sipple, 22, is charged with second-degree murder in a fatal crash that happened last Wednesday on U.S. 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue. Police said the crash happened after Sipple had fled the scene of a shooting on North Emery in which a woman said Sipple shot into her vehicle. Independence police said Sipple ran a red light and hit a vehicle that was going south. The driver, Mari McElyea, died. Sipple remains in the Jackson County Detention Center on $250,000 bond. Sipple is one of two men who were charged in a July 2016 incident that involved the fatal shooting of Melton, 46, who had responded to assist other officers in the search for drive-by shooting suspects. A man named Jamaal Lewis came up behind Melton, who was still in his vehicle, and fired several shots into the police car, killing the police captain.
Mari McElyea was a white woman, who was murdered in her vehicle as Da’qon sped away from a shooting he had just engaged in (firing rounds into the car his ex-girlfriend was driving). Da’qon – it should go without saying – is a black male, who is the type of repeat black criminal the GOP is so desperate to let out of jail via the First Step Act and restore their voting rights since he is obviously a natural conservative/Republican.
Friends mourn innocent woman allegedly hit, killed by man fleeing Independence shooting, FOX4KC.com, May 29, 2020
A 22-year-old who is well known to police on both sides of the state line is in custody after police say he hit and killed an innocent woman while running away from a shooting. Friends said Mari McElyea was always trying to help people and loved working with children. Her death is hitting friends and family hard, especially because of the way she died and who allegedly killed her. “I miss her. I can’t even believe she’s gone,” her best friend Marilyn Evans said. A knock on the door by two Independence police officers is not how Evans thought her friendship with McElyea would end. “You know, they said there’s no easy way to tell you this. There was a car accident, and Mari didn’t make it,” Evans said. On Wednesday, McElyea was on her way home from work at Sugar Creek Elementary School when she was hit by a car speeding through a red light at 24 Highway and Sterling Avenue in Independence. Police say 22-year-old Da’qon Sipple is the man who killed her. “Maybe a little bit worse because it was someone who was doing bad things,” Evans’ husband Jonathan Hutchins said of the man accused of killing McElyea. Sipple has a long rap sheet, including a drive-by shooting in KCK that prompted a call to police and ended in the death of Capt. Dave Melton. Sipple spent about two years in prison for his role in that incident, and police said Sipple is up to his old antics. Prosecutors said Sipple shot at his ex-girlfriend at their Independence home and then took off. He was allegedly running from that incident when he hit and killed McElyea. “If it had just been an accident, then it would be just something random. But this was worse than that,” Hutchins said. Evans said the two were more like sisters than friends, who went fox hunting, camping every summer, and were members of SCA, a historic recreation group. The two expected to be friends for a lifetime. Mari even gave Marilyn the Blue Zones Diet cookbook so they could live to be 100. “And I was pouring through it. We were figuring out how we were going to cook all these things,” Evans said. “And we had a passion for Indian food. We both love Indian food, and I don’t think I’ll eat Indian food again without getting kind of messed up about it.” McElyea was an accomplished equestrian who taught riding lessons to children and adults, including Evans and her husband. They said her passion for animals, including horses and cats, and her love of children will be her legacy. “Going through her things, I’m finding so many notes and cards from people thanking her and wishing her well,” Hutchins said. “She appreciated them I guess.” Sipple has been charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. FOX4 spoke to Sipple’s extended family who said the police have the story all wrong, but they would not speak on record to tell their story.
Had Da’qon been locked away for good in a prison rotting for the rest of his life, Mari McElyea would still be alive, working with children at the elementary school where she was employed. Instead, because we are in the early stages of making it illegal to arrest black criminals, he was allowed out and on probation and promptly engaged in more criminality (firing rounds at his ex-girlfriend), before trying to speed away from the police and killing an innocent white woman.
Their Lives Matter Too.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-20--Where Did All the COVID Celebrity Deaths Go?

Earlier ( March 12 ) : Mean Age of NYT Coronavirus Obituaries Is 66 Okay , I ’ m sure Mike Gotovac was really , really famous , so far as bartenders go , but he has to be about the 100,000th most famous person in the L.A. Times ’ circulation zone ( which includes about 17 million people in the five counties of Greater Los Angeles ) .
I checked in again on Wikipedia ’ s list of “ notable ” people who have died of COVID-19 .
Maybe nobody is keeping this page up anymore , but most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ died of/from/with coronavirus in the United States are not terribly famous .
The mean age is 78.4 .
Also , the notable personage death rate has plummeted this spring : It could be that whoever was keeping up this page got bored and nobody picked up the slack .
But total deaths in the U.S. have fallen for the last six weeks : Is the Infection Fatality Rate going down because : • Infections are going down and case rates are only going up due to more testing ?
• The more vulnerable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vulnerable make up an increasing percentage of recent cases ?
You ’ d think we would know… Also , there ’ s probably a class aspect : early on , notables got the virus a lot because they were being invited more places .
But now they can avoid infection more easily .
The big question that nobody seems to have bothered to look into is : how many Quality-Adjusted Life Years ( a.k.a.
, Disability-Adjusted Life Years ) have been lost per coronavirus death ?
The health profession has tables worked out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how many years are lost when adjusted for quality of life or disability , but nobody cares to ask this about COVID-19 .
The only person I ’ ve seen mention the term lately is contrarian philosopher Peter Singer : When the coronavirus overwhelmed Italy ’ s health-care system , a working group of the Italian Society of Anesthesia , Analgesia , Resuscitation , and Intensive Care reluctantly supported rationing by age .
They were right to do so .
MELBOURNE – Should we value all human lives equally ?
… While some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , others , like COVID-19 , pose the greatest risk to older people , and still others are equally likely to kill people at any age .
The WHO uses a tool called the “ disability-adjusted life year ” ( DALY ) to measure the years of life lost by premature death and the years of life lived in less than full health .
The more DALYs a disease causes to be lost , the greater its global burden .
The DALY is an imprecise tool .
How one arrives at the right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the years lived in any of the various possible states of “ less than full health ” is a controversial question .
To object to taking into account the number of life-years lost , however , seems perverse .
We should not be misled by talk of “ saving lives.
” What medical treatment does , if successful , is prolong lives .
Successfully treating a disease that kills children and young adults is , other things being equal , likely to lead to a greater prolongation , and thus do more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that kills people in their 70s , 80s , and 90s .
If this is “ ageism , ” is it wrong ?
The WHO metrics count every DALY equally , whether it is a DALY in the life of a healthy teenager or a DALY in the life of a healthy 90-year-old .
Saving the life of the teenager counts for more not because the teenager is younger , but because saving a younger person is likely to mean enabling the person saved to live more years of life .
… As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basis of age is very different from discriminating on the basis of , say , race .
Everyone who is old was once young .
No one who is black was ever white .
And there is no impartial , race-neutral perspective from which we can all see that it is in everyone ’ s interests to save the lives of white people rather than black people .
It seems like our current anti-discrimination mania is so pervasive that nobody wants to calculate how many years are being lost because that would be @ @ @ @ @

Earlier (March 12): Mean Age of NYT Coronavirus Obituaries Is 66
From the Los Angeles Times news section:
Mike Gotovac, legendary Dan Tana’s bartender, dies from COVID-19 at 76 By HAYLEY SMITH
JUNE 19, 2020 11:40 AM
Okay, I’m sure Mike Gotovac was really, really famous, so far as bartenders go, but he has to be about the 100,000th most famous person in the L.A. Times’ circulation zone (which includes about 17 million people in the five counties of Greater Los Angeles).
I checked in again on Wikipedia’s list of “notable” people who have died of COVID-19. Maybe nobody is keeping this page up anymore, but most of the 126 people listed as having died of/from/with coronavirus in the United States are not terribly famous.
The mean age is 78.4.
Also, the notable personage death rate has plummeted this spring:
March: 29 deaths
April: 80
May: 16
June: 1
It could be that whoever was keeping up this page got bored and nobody picked up the slack.
But total deaths in the U.S. have fallen for the last six weeks:
Is the Infection Fatality Rate going down because:
Infections are going down and case rates are only going up due to more testing?
Medical care is improving?
The more vulnerable are avoiding getting infected while the less vulnerable make up an increasing percentage of recent cases?
You’d think we would know…
Also, there’s probably a class aspect: early on, notables got the virus a lot because they were being invited more places. But now they can avoid infection more easily.
The big question that nobody seems to have bothered to look into is: How many Quality-Adjusted Life Years (a.k.a., Disability-Adjusted Life Years) have been lost per coronavirus death? The health profession has tables worked out for just about every other disease of how many years are lost when adjusted for quality of life or disability, but nobody cares to ask this about COVID-19.
The only person I’ve seen mention the term lately is contrarian philosopher Peter Singer:
Is Age Discrimination Acceptable?
Jun 10, 2020
PETER SINGER When the coronavirus overwhelmed Italy’s health-care system, a working group of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care reluctantly supported rationing by age. They were right to do so. MELBOURNE – Should we value all human lives equally? … While some diseases are more likely to kill children, others, like COVID-19, pose the greatest risk to older people, and still others are equally likely to kill people at any age. The WHO uses a tool called the “disability-adjusted life year” (DALY) to measure the years of life lost by premature death and the years of life lived in less than full health. The more DALYs a disease causes to be lost, the greater its global burden. The DALY is an imprecise tool. How one arrives at the right trade-off between the number of life-years lost and the years lived in any of the various possible states of “less than full health” is a controversial question. To object to taking into account the number of life-years lost, however, seems perverse. We should not be misled by talk of “saving lives.” What medical treatment does, if successful, is prolong lives. Successfully treating a disease that kills children and young adults is, other things being equal, likely to lead to a greater prolongation, and thus do more good, than successfully treating a disease that kills people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. If this is “ageism,” is it wrong? The WHO metrics count every DALY equally, whether it is a DALY in the life of a healthy teenager or a DALY in the life of a healthy 90-year-old. Saving the life of the teenager counts for more not because the teenager is younger, but because saving a younger person is likely to mean enabling the person saved to live more years of life. … As this example shows, discriminating on the basis of age is very different from discriminating on the basis of, say, race. Everyone who is old was once young. No one who is black was ever white. And there is no impartial, race-neutral perspective from which we can all see that it is in everyone’s interests to save the lives of white people rather than black people.
It seems like our current anti-discrimination mania is so pervasive that nobody wants to calculate how many years are being lost because that would be, like, racist.


vdare--2020-06-20--And Then the Mob Came for ... Ulysses S. Grant

It ’ s almost as if The Mob doesn ’ t hate Confederates , so much as they hate whites ( as the “ Kill Whitey !
!
” graffiti in green paint on the Francis Scott Key plinth suggests ) .
Even I didn ’ t see the cancelation of Ulysses S. Grant coming .
As I wrote in 2017 in Taki ’ s Magazine : Why the ever-increasing hatred for America ’ s past ?
You might think that , on the whole , American history is , relative to world history , fairly impressive and heartening .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s virtues , more than anything else , that enrage so many people these days against the great men of the American past .
While the Founding Fathers might be nominally condemned for their misdeeds , they are largely resented for their accomplishments .
Human history suggests that people are naturally prejudiced in favor of their own ancestors , because the accomplishments of their forefathers reflect well upon them .
America is increasingly dominated by people with shallow roots in this country .
So it ’ s hardly surprising that they find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not related to them once accomplished .
Instead , it ’ s heartening to denounce the Founding Fathers as bad men whose descendants deserve their displacement .
Punching down is safer and more fun than punching up .
Hence the less dominant become the founding stock , the more their lineage is abused .
At the moment , we are told , the ongoing damnation of memory only involves secessionists like Robert E. Lee .
Yet , it has already gone beyond that .
For example , Andrew Jackson , the Democrat who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ property requirements in voting , is being replaced on the twenty-dollar bill by Harriet Tubman .
Originally , Obama treasury secretary Jack Lew had naively announced that Tubman would replace Alexander Hamilton , that proto-Republican plutocratic autocrat , on the ten-spot .
Anyway , as we all know , Jackson was a Confederate secessionist .
Granted , if you recall your high school history , you ’ ll remember that Jackson faced down John C. Calhoun ’ s South Carolinian push toward secession in 1832 with his blunt toast at Thomas Jefferson ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ union : It must be preserved !
” But who can remember any of that trivia ?
The point is that the Jackson was a Southern redneck while Hamilton was a New Yorker , so Jackson had to go .
After Jackson , who is next to have his memorials toppled Taliban-style ?
It could be any of the four Mount Rushmore presidents : George Washington ( slave owner ) , Teddy Roosevelt ( immigration assimilationist ) , or Abraham Lincoln ( not sufficiently anti-Southern at the end of his life : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today when malice is demanded ) .
Their real offense is their fame : Their visages are carved upon the landscape at Mount Rushmore .
That can be irritating to proud people whose ancestors didn ’ t contribute as much to America .
But my guess is that the most likely next victim will be Thomas Jefferson .
Sure , he wasn ’ t a redneck and he founded the modern Democratic Party , but he was a Southerner so that makes him practically Trump .
He was a slave owner and there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But worst of all , Jefferson makes people in power today feel inadequate .

It’s almost as if The Mob doesn’t hate Confederates, so much as they hate whites (as the “Kill Whitey!!” graffiti in green paint on the Francis Scott Key plinth suggests).
Even I didn’t see the cancelation of Ulysses S. Grant coming. As I wrote in 2017 in Taki’s Magazine:
Carved Upon the Landscape
Steve Sailer
August 16, 2017
Why the ever-increasing hatred for America’s past?
You might think that, on the whole, American history is, relative to world history, fairly impressive and heartening.
But it’s precisely American history’s virtues, more than anything else, that enrage so many people these days against the great men of the American past. While the Founding Fathers might be nominally condemned for their misdeeds, they are largely resented for their accomplishments.
Human history suggests that people are naturally prejudiced in favor of their own ancestors, because the accomplishments of their forefathers reflect well upon them.
America is increasingly dominated by people with shallow roots in this country. So it’s hardly surprising that they find it insulting to reflect upon what Americans not related to them once accomplished. Instead, it’s heartening to denounce the Founding Fathers as bad men whose descendants deserve their displacement.
Punching down is safer and more fun than punching up. Hence the less dominant become the founding stock, the more their lineage is abused.
At the moment, we are told, the ongoing damnation of memory only involves secessionists like Robert E. Lee. Yet, it has already gone beyond that.
For example, Andrew Jackson, the Democrat who represents in American history the abolition of property requirements in voting, is being replaced on the twenty-dollar bill by Harriet Tubman.
Originally, Obama treasury secretary Jack Lew had naively announced that Tubman would replace Alexander Hamilton, that proto-Republican plutocratic autocrat, on the ten-spot.
Anyway, as we all know, Jackson was a Confederate secessionist.
Granted, if you recall your high school history, you’ll remember that Jackson faced down John C. Calhoun’s South Carolinian push toward secession in 1832 with his blunt toast at Thomas Jefferson’s birthday dinner: “The federal union: It must be preserved!”
But who can remember any of that trivia? The point is that the Jackson was a Southern redneck while Hamilton was a New Yorker, so Jackson had to go.
After Jackson, who is next to have his memorials toppled Taliban-style?
It could be any of the four Mount Rushmore presidents: George Washington (slave owner), Teddy Roosevelt (immigration assimilationist), or Abraham Lincoln (not sufficiently anti-Southern at the end of his life: “with malice toward none” sounds racist today when malice is demanded).
Their real offense is their fame: Their visages are carved upon the landscape at Mount Rushmore. That can be irritating to proud people whose ancestors didn’t contribute as much to America.
But my guess is that the most likely next victim will be Thomas Jefferson. Sure, he wasn’t a redneck and he founded the modern Democratic Party, but he was a Southerner so that makes him practically Trump. He was a slave owner and there’s the whole rapist-of-a-black-body thing.
But worst of all, Jefferson makes people in power today feel inadequate.


vdare--2020-06-20--The Mob Desecrates Ex-Slave's Statue

The Mob Desecrates Ex-Slave's Statue

In Golden Gate Park in San Francisco , the monument to Miguel de Cervantes , author of Don Quixote , is defaced in the name of social justice : In early September 1575 , Cervantes and Rodrigo left Naples on the galley Sol ; as they approached Barcelona on 26 September , their ship was captured by Ottoman pirates , and the brothers taken to Algiers .
Rodrigo was ransomed in 1577 , but his family could not afford the fee for Cervantes , who was forced to remain .
Turkish historian Rasih Nuri İleri found evidence suggesting Cervantes worked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pasha Complex , which means he spent at least part of his captivity in Istanbul .
By 1580 , Spain was occupied integrating Portugal , and suppressing the Dutch Revolt , while the Ottomans were at war with Persia ; the two sides agreed a truce , leading to an improvement of relations .
After almost five years , and four escape attempts , in 1580 Cervantes was set free by the Trinitarians , a religious charity that specialised in ransoming Christian captives , and returned to Madrid .
What good has it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if the inventor was a white man ?
Cervantes was a white Christian who commanded a skiff at the Battle of Lepanto , so his accomplishments are a humiliation to everyone else .

In Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, the monument to Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is defaced in the name of social justice:
Las estatuas de FRAY JUNÍPERO SERRA y de CERVANTES, tiradas de sus pedestales, vandalizadas, en San Francisco, California.
¿La embajada de España @SpainInTheUSA va a hacer algo?
¿El Ministerio de Exteriores @MAECgob poner una queja formal?
You lost your f^** minds, you fools! pic.twitter.com/vTqLhV54lH — Javier Santamarta del Pozo (@JaviSantamarta) June 20, 2020
In early September 1575, Cervantes and Rodrigo left Naples on the galley Sol; as they approached Barcelona on 26 September, their ship was captured by Ottoman pirates, and the brothers taken to Algiers. Rodrigo was ransomed in 1577, but his family could not afford the fee for Cervantes, who was forced to remain. Turkish historian Rasih Nuri İleri found evidence suggesting Cervantes worked on the construction of the Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex, which means he spent at least part of his captivity in Istanbul. By 1580, Spain was occupied integrating Portugal, and suppressing the Dutch Revolt, while the Ottomans were at war with Persia; the two sides agreed a truce, leading to an improvement of relations. After almost five years, and four escape attempts, in 1580 Cervantes was set free by the Trinitarians, a religious charity that specialised in ransoming Christian captives, and returned to Madrid.
What good has it done the world to invent the novel if the inventor was a white man?
Cervantes was a white Christian who commanded a skiff at the Battle of Lepanto, so his accomplishments are a humiliation to everyone else.


vdare--2020-06-20--Revolution From Above, Practicing Disappointment, GWTW, And Punishing Cops’ Relatives, Etc.

03m01s Why not `` Daz '' ?
( And why `` Chop '' ? )
09m24s Not a dinner party @ @ @ @ @ Man . )
23m42s It 's that movie again .
( Fiddle-de-dee . )
30m48s @ @ @ @ @ ( The future comes apace . )

03m01s Why not "Daz"? (And why "Chop"?)
09m24s Not a dinner party. (You are The Man.)
15m43s Practicing disappointment. (GOP, Trump, justices; all our bubbles burst.)
23m42s It's that movie again. (Fiddle-de-dee.)
26m07s Punishing dissidents' relatives. (America's very own Article 58.)
30m48s Renaming our capital city? (The future comes apace.)
32m00s Signoff. (With Dame Vera.)
01—Intro. And Radio Free Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your independently genial host John Derbyshire, reporting to you from the free republic of Derbistan, here on Long Island's north shore.
I know you're all keen to know how our little experiment in secession is going. Not bad, is the answer, although there hasn't been much worthy of report this week.
My lady is still toiling away at a constitution for our republic, apparently heedless of Napoleon Buonaparte's wise advice that, quote from Boney: "A constitution should be short and vague." Missy had a nice design for a flag worked out, and we all liked it; but it contained a triangle, and we have learned just this week that triangles are hateful—not who we are! Missy has started over with quadrilaterals; we'll see how that goes.
Junior has been doing sterling work guarding the borders of the republic. He has gotten used to the Lee Enfield at last, and not a moment too soon; Mrs Bernstein's cat was down to the last one of his nine lives. Actual death toll on border jumpers so far: four squirrels, two rabbits, and a big mean old raccoon.
I did get some puzzled queries from listeners about our naming of the republic. The brave spirits of Seattle, these listeners noted, had named their new country Chaz, for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Since that was the inspiration for our secession, why didn't we just follow suit and call ourselves Daz, for Derb Autonomous Zone? It's a lot snappier than Derbistan.
We did actually consider Daz, but decided against it at last. I shall enlarge upon the reasons in my next two segments.
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02—Why not "Daz"? As I mentioned in my introductory segment, we decided against renaming our new republic. There were three reasons for this decision and here they are.
Daz, an expat British friend reminded me, D-A-Z "Daz," is a popular brand of laundry detergent over there in the United Cuckdom. "Bright whites & colours," promise the ads. That has a nice multicultural lilt to it, and don't think I wasn't tempted, but … a laundry detergent? Leaving aside the possibility of an international lawsuit by Procter & Gamble, "Daz" just doesn't have the soaring atriotic appeal a nation's name ought to have.
Concurrently with those deliberations, we have been working on the need for alliances with other countries, for trade and mutual defense. It is one of the oldest, deepest truths of statecraft that a small, underpopulated nation needs a bigger, stronger, more populous ally.
Our thoughts naturally turned to Radio Derb's longtime friend and supporter, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of Turkmenistan. We figured our appeal would have more force if we retained the "-stan" at the end of our name.
So far this seems to have been a good move. We are in active negotiation with Turkmenistan. Our hopes are that, (a) Turkmenistan will be the first nation formally to recognize Derbistan, with exchange of ambassadors; and (b) that we shall sign a treaty of mutual assistance, so that if some hostile power were to attack either of our nations, armed forces from the other would mobilize against the aggressor.
A state visit by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov for the treaty signing would be a lovely cherry on the top of this cupcake. However, we are not hoping for too much at present. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is a very busy man, attending tirelessly to the welfare of his people, and we don't want to impose unnecessarily.
Just as all that was in play we learned that Chaz has renamed itself to Chop, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Why? I asked around.
Apparently the authorities in Chaz were immensely flattered to see themselves being compared to French revolutionaries. Now, a thing everyone knows about the French Revolution—even, I guess, the drug-addled, low-IQ, miseducated rabble running Chaz—a thing everyone knows is that the revolutionaries chopped off the heads of the former ruling class, including the king and queen, with the guillotine. "That's what we'll do!" the Seattle mob is telling us by renaming themselves Chop.
Since the teaching of history collapsed into anti-white sermonizing forty years ago, nobody much younger than sixty knows that a couple of years after that wonderful, laudable chopping-off of aristocratic and counter-revolutionary heads in France, the original radical revolutionaries themselves faced the blade. Danton got chopped [Clip: Guillotine sound]; so did Robespierre [Clip: Guillotine sound]; so did Desmoulins [Clip: Guillotine sound]; so did Saint-Just [Clip: Guillotine sound]; and so on.
And every other radical revolution has followed the same path. Russia? There is a mighty host of Old Bolsheviks lined up in the Afterlife to tell you all about it: Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Trotsky, …
China? Look up Wang Shiwei, Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, and several million others. Mao didn't do things by halves.
And if comparing the Seattle mob to French revolutionaries is in the air, I can't resist laying on you once again the line—I know I've used it before—the line Ramzpaul delivered to the protestors outside the 2014 American Renaissance conference, quote:
Do you really imagine you're sticking it to the Man? You are the Man! Just so. Permit me to enlarge upon that.
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03—Not a dinner party. Ramzpaul was making the point that today's revolutionaries fancy, in their fevered, historically-ignorant imaginations, they fancy that they will cast down the mighty from their seats of power and exalt the meek and lowly. Whereas in point of actual fact, the mighty are comfortably and securely ensconced in their seats of power, looking on with approval and, I am sure, mirth at the anarchists.
For the mighty—the big corporations, the prestigious colleges, the media, the Uniparty that has a stranglehold on our politics, our woke judiciary that has an even tighter death-grip on our jurisprudence—for them, for the mighty in their seats of power, these riots and lootings and vandalism and silencings are all gravy.
And like trained puppies, the mighty know what to do without being told. When the anti-white shakedowns started in earnest forty years ago, when white Americans still had a few vertebrae and a smidgen of testosterone, the shakers—Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Michelle Obama—had to put in a bit of effort to squeeze some blood from the Establishment stone.
They had to actually show up at the corporate headquarters, with a dozen or so mean-looking retainers alongside, and make veiled threats to bring the company's operations to a standstill if they didn't pony up a million or two to Rev'm Al's National Action Network, Rev'm Jesse's Rainbow Push, or Michelle's Public Allies. Nice little hospital you have here. Be a shame if your workers marched off the job to protest discrimination …
No more of that! Now that the mighty know which side of the who-whom game it's the most profitable and the most trouble-free to be on, and which side wins the most media applause—think free advertising—and which side best preserves their power, status, and wealth; now that's all clear, the shakedown artists don't have to do anything. The money flows in automatically, overnight, while Al, Jesse, Michelle, and whoever runs Black Lives Matter are all sleeping—or whatever it is these bloodsuckers do at night.
"You are the Man!" At any rate, the Man has no problem with you, nor any major point of ideological disagreement. The eople they do have a problem with are the harassed, underpaid, overtaxed, disillusioned and dispirited, mocked and humiliated, scorned and silenced white middle class.
Will the worm turn at some point? Will middle-class whites discover those missing vertebrae?
I wouldn't bet on it. I'm going to come straight out and confess my darkest, most uncharitable thoughts, though. Here they are. Listeners of tender sensibilities might want to skip the next 1m53s.
If a miracle happens, and middle-class white Americans stand up and start yelling back at the mob, and take charge of things once again, I would look forward to seeing Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai—that's the CEO of Google—Jeff Zucker, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Don Lemon, Bill de Blasio, Dean Baquet, Jay Inslee, Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, … How many is that? Am I up to a tumbril-full? This is just the first batch, mind.
If such a miracle were to happen, I'd be thrilled to watch these Establishment parasites headed down Pennsylvania Aveue on a big old tumbril for an appointment with Madame la Guillotine on the White House lawn. Thrilled? I'd stand on line all night to get a front row seat, with the tricoteuses. Sure, I might get blood splashed on my shirt; but a cupfull of Daz easily takes care of that.
That would be revolution—real revolution, not the self-indulgent play-acting of pampered pets.
Jack, Mark, Jeff, Chuck, Nancy: come on, get aboard that tumbril! It only hurts for an instant if it's done right. [Clip: Guillotine sound]
Hey, I told you it was mean-spirited. You didn't have to listen
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04—Practicing disappointment. One of my favorite stories from antiquity concerns the philosopher Diogenes, floruit fourth century b.c.
One of Diogenes' friends was crossing the public square one day when he saw the philosopher apparently trying to have a conversation with a stone statue. The friend went over. As he got closer and could hear Diogenes' words, he realised that Diogenes, who was chronically poor, was actually begging from the statue.
The friend tapped Diogenes on the shoulder. "What on earth are you doing?" he asked. "It's a stone statue. You won't get any alms from that."
Replied Diogenes: "I am practicing disappointment."
That's pretty much what we National Conservatives have been doing these past few decades: practicing disappointment.
Long long ago there was a thing called The Republican Party, widely thought to be on the National Conservative side—our side—of the ideological spectrum. "Yes!" Republican candidates promised, "We shall roll back the almighty federal state! We'll reverse the leftward drift of the judiciary! We'll restore proper respect for our beloved nation's sovereignty and borders! Once again, as before, there will be plenty of room in the middle class for any citizen willing to take in as much education as he can, work hard, get married and stay married, raise children with love for their parents and their nation, obey the people's laws enacted in our democratic assemblies, and strive for self-support, for independence."
We, we National Conservatives, liked all that. We voted for these Republican candidates. What did we get in return? Nothing.
After many years of this there came along a maverick Republican. This man swore he would do all the things previous Republicans, in Congress and the White House, had left undone. Patriotic immigration reform! No more world policeman! A firm hand with crime and disorder! Conservative justices in federal courts!
We were thrilled. We watched him on the debating stage with the limp-wristed, spineless girly-men from the traditional Republican Party. We chuckled with glee at the angry fumings of David Brooks, Bret Stephens, the National Review crowd, and all the rest of the squealing, "by all means beat me with this steel rod, but for pity's sake don't call me 'racist'!" fake conservatives.
So thrilled were we, we voted this maverick Republican through the 2016 Republican primaries, the winner in a large field. Then we voted for him in the general. He won, and went to the White House. We voted for his party too; they kept control of both houses of Congress for two years.
What did we get in return? Nothing. All right, a tax cut, and some inconsequential fiddling around the edges of the immigration issue, easily swatted down by federal courts.
The tax cut barely left a scratch on my personal finances, but Republican Party donors seemed to like it. They liked a whole lot more that the President did nothing to cut off their supply of cheap indentured foreign labor.
Okay; at this point the disappointment is really starting to bite. We had one more shred of hope, though: those conservative justices the resident promised us. Another Scalia on the Supreme Court! Another Thomas!
Now that bubble is well and truly burst. We didn't get a new Scalia or a new Thomas from President Trump; we got a new David Souter, to go with the new Anthony Kennedy we got from George W. Bush.
Last week these learned gentlemen decided that the drafters of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, when banning employment discrimination on grounds of sex, intended the word "sex" to encompass every kind of sexual eccentricity. Ladies and gents, I was around and sentient in 1964. I can assure you with absolute certainty, they intended no such thing.
Then this week we got a ruling on the President's attempt to end the so-called DACA program, under which illegal aliens brought here as infants—more precisely, illegal aliens who claim to have been brought here as infants, with supporting fake documents you can have made up for forty bucks in downtown Los Angeles—these illegals have the right to work, attend public schools, and access social services.
The swing vote here was John Roberts, the George W. Bush appointee. His argument was that it made him cry to think of these poor illegals being sent back where they belong. Something like that.
The DACA decision didn't actually say it was wrong of President Trump to end the program; he just didn't do it right, said the Court majority. So now he has to start over, traipsing through another three or four years of litigation, assuming he survives November's election.
Functionally, the Court might as well have ruled that the President has no power to do what he did. The DACA moochers will be middle-aged by the time anything is definitively decided here.
As Michelle Malkin says: It ain't over until the illegal alien wins.
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05—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Here is a follow-up to my remarks in last week's podcast about the movie Gone With The Wind.
Back in the late 1980s there was a comedy show on British TV called French and Saunders. The principals were two female comedians, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The quality of the sketches was variable, but they hit a few out of the park.
One sketch I thought was absolutely hilarious was a spoof of that scene in Gone With The Wind where Mammy is strapping Scarlett O'Hara into her corset. I liked that sketch so much, across the years I have several times emailed a link to the YouTube clip of it to friends when Gone With The Wind has come up in our exchanges.
The sketch is not racially indelicate or insulting in any way I can detect. Most of the humor in it is based on the efforts of these two very British comediennes to speak with Southern accents.
Well, the movie came up the other day in an email exchange, and I went to YouTube for the link so I could email it to my counterparty. I couldn't find it. I tried every search string I could think of—no luck. YouTube has scrubbed it.
Not a major loss in the grand scheme of things; but so petty. The big tech companies now all employ legions of vinegary, rune-faced schoolmarms who come to work every day, nine to five, and sit there searching for and flagging for removal anything that might offend narrow-minded, humorless, crabbed, puritanical zealots like themselves.
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Item: Anyone who is well-read in the great totalitarian despotisms of the recent past knows about Article 58 of Stalin's criminal code. That article spelled out the punishment to be inflicted on wives and children of Enemies of the People.
If you were found to be an Enemy of the People, you would of course be shot, or shipped off to a forced-labor camp in the remote Arctic to die more slowly of hunger, malnutrition, and overwork. Article 58 decreed that your family members should also be punished: your wife sent to a special category of labor camp, your children to special orphanages.
This wasn't a totally new idea. In the old Germanic societies, including the Anglo-Saxons, the principle of weregild said that if I am murdered or seriously injured by you, the murderer owes blood money to my family; and if he can't pay it, his whole family is liable for the debt. In medieval Germany this lingered on as the system of Sippenhaft, collective punishment.
In imperial China a dissident's whole family would be put to death: "nine generations slain," was the expression, meaning everyone in the generation of the dissident himself—brothers and sisters—along with the four generations older—parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents—and the corresponding four generations younger. It sounds complicated; but what happened in practice was that soldiers would go to the dissident's home district and just kill everybody.
Our current cultural revolution seems to have adopted some similar principle.
This week's Emmett Till re-enactment, as I'm sure you know, concerned the shooting of a black psychopath in Atlanta by a white cop. Rayshard Brooks, who of course has a rap sheet longer than the Book of Jeremiah was passed out in his car stone drunk when police tried to arrest him. He came to life, wrestled himself out of the cops' control, grabbed one of their tasers, and ran, shooting at them over his shoulder with the taser. Officer Garrett Rolfe reacted by shooting the gentle giant dead.
Officer Rolfe faces a charge of felony murder. More to my point here, his stepmother, a lady named Melissa Rolfe, was fired from her job as the human resources director of a mortgage firm.
What did Ms Rolfe do to get herself fired? Her employer claims that she made posts on social media that caused fellow employees to feel "uncomfortable."
Strangely, no-one has been able to produce any of the offending social media posts. Unless and until someone can, the strong suspicion must be that this is a case of Article 58, American version. Ms Rolfe is related to an Enemy of the People. In America today, that'll get you fired. Five or ten years from now, it'll get you a spell in a labor camp on the Aleutian Islands.
I am just glad to know that if the Thought Police come for me, Mrs Derbyshire has the wits and resources to escape to the comparative openness and security of Communist China.
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Item: It seems like just yesterday that we could mock the current fad for rewriting history by jeering: "Hey, what are you going to do? Rename our nation's capital? Washington was a slave owner, you know. Ha ha ha ha!"
Mock no more, listeners. We're getting there by leaps and bounds. New York Post, June 16th, headline: 2 CA Schools named for Washington, Jefferson getting renamed after BLM push.
Yes: Wednesday this week the school board of Berkeley Unified School District unanimously endorsed a measure to rename two elementary schools named for those founding fathers.
We don't yet know what new names are under consideration, but you have to bet that George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks are high on the list.
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06—Signoff. That's all I have for you this week, ladies and gents. Short measure, I'm afraid. I've been a tad under the weather: nothing serious, but it seems to take me twice as long to do everything. Thank you for listening, and a happy Father's Day to Dads everywhere.
It was a sad week for Brits, and for expats like your genial host. On Thursday we lost Dame Vera Lynn at the splendid age of 103. Dame Vera's voice was part of the background music of my English childhood. Sixty years later, in 2009, an album of her greatest hits reached Number One on Britain's Top 20 album chart, making her the oldest living artist to attain that distinction.
Dame Vera was a lady, a loving wife and mother, and a fearless patriot. So far as I know, no breath of shame or scandal ever touched her.
Against all the advice of her handlers, in 1944 she went out to Burma, one of the nastiest and most dangerous theaters of the war, and spent three months there entertaining Bill Slim's 14th Army, who were fighting Japan's imperial forces in the jungle. This was the campaign memorialized by George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman books, in his lively and sometimes funny, but mostly grim autobiographical work Quartered Safe Out Here.
I memorialized Dame Vera three years ago, on the occasion of her hundredth birthday. For my signout music back then I played what I think is her loveliest, most evocative song. I shall not apologize for playing it again here today.
Goodnight, sweet lady, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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[Music clip: Vera Lynn, "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square."]
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vdare--2020-06-19--VDARE.com Presents: The Ebony On Ivory Report—Black-On-White Crime & Race Riot Coverage [63 Items]

See earlier : VDARE.com Presents : The Ebony On Ivory Report—Black-On-White Crime & Race Riot Coverage [ 115 Items ] Taking you on a jog through black-on-white crime and politicized riots from Ahmaud Arbery to nationwide riots , VDARE.com presents ...
The Ebony on Ivory Report [ 63 items ] : 13/54 is the new 13/50 .
Steve Sailer breaks down updated HateStats .
Allan Wall reports in Portland : Anti-American Mob Topples George Washington Statue Draped With Burning Flag .
Do Americans Care Anymore ?
Maybe Not .
Remember Wendy ’ s ?
Atlanta Cop Who Shot Criminal Aiming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Face Death Penalty Charge , but Fulford dutifully points out : Yes , It 's Legal To Shoot An Armed Fleeing Felon , Whichever Side The Bullet Goes In .
According Lawrence Auster 's First Law of Majority-Minority Relations , “ the more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group behaves , the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions about that group ’ s bad behavior.
” Therefore , the MSM must diligently hides these black murders of white cops which are so numerous they have their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ though , because we at VDARE.com will Never .
Kneel .
• MSM Will Hammer Beachgoers Over Covid Risks , But Black Rioters Are Immune ... To Criticism , At Least , by Audacious Epigone on 06/19/2020 • Portland : Anti-American Mob Topples George Washington Statue Draped With Burning Flag .
Do Americans Care Anymore ?
Maybe Not , by Allan Wall on 06/19/2020 • Alabama 's AL.com Stops Publishing Mugshots Because Of Too Many Black Faces , by Paul Kersey on 06/19/2020 • Do Progressives Actually Know HateStats About Black Crime ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ A Patriot Lawyer Says It Might Take A National Police Strike To Bring Reality Back To The BLM Narrative , by VDARE.com Reader on 06/18/2020 • FBI Data : Blacks , Who Are Only 13.4 % of the Population , Were 54.9 % of Known Murder Offenders in 2018 , by Steve Sailer on 06/18/2020 • NYT : What Kind Of Society Values Property Over Black Lives ?
, by Steve Sailer on 06/18/2020 • ORLANDO SENTINEL Stops Publishing Mugshots Because Too Many Of Them Are Black , by Paul Kersey on 06/18/2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rope Investigated As Hate Crime In Oakland , by Steve Sailer on 06/18/2020 • Atlanta Cop Who Shot Criminal Aiming Cop 's Stolen Taser At Him To Face Death Penalty Charge , by Steve Sailer on 06/17/2020 • `` Social Distancing with John Derbyshire '' An Interview with Colin Flaherty , by VDARE TV on 06/17/2020 • Radio Derb Transcript Up For June 12 : Revolutionary Spasms , Derb Has A Dream , And The Smack Of Firm Government ( Not Likely ! )
Etc.
, by John Derbyshire on 06/17/20209 • The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ Black ’ ( and not ‘ white ’ ) , ” by Steve Sailer on 06/17/2020 • What Lunatic Is Running This Floyd Hoax Madhouse ?
My Bet : The DNC , by Nicholas Stix on 06/16/2020 • Michelle Malkin : The White Supremacist Lynching Hoax , by Michelle Malkin on 06/16/2020 • War On White America 's Past , Present , And Future Intensifies : Statue Of John Sutter—19th Century European Colonizer Of California—Removed In Sacramento , by Paul Kersey on 06/16/2020 • Chechens Vs. Algerians in Dijon : the Revolution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on 06/16/2020 • War On White America 's Past , Present , And Future Intensifies : Statue Of John Sutter—19th Century European Colonizer Of California—Removed In Sacramento , by Paul Kersey on 06/16/2020 • It 's An Attack On White America 's Past , Present , And Future : `` Racist '' Pioneer Statues Torn Down On University Of Oregon Campus , by Paul Kersey on 06/15/2020 • Yes , It 's Legal To Shoot An Armed Fleeing Felon , Whichever Side The Bullet Goes In , by James Fulford on 06/15/2020 • @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Cultural Revolution Enabled By Conservativism Inc ’ s Stupidity , Cowardice After Charlottesville , by Charlottesville Survivor on 06/14/2020 • Gone with the Wendy 's : A New Burning Of Atlanta , by Steve Sailer on 06/14/2020 • Boarding Up The Chief Scout , by John Derbyshire on 06/13/2020 • There 's a War on Britain 's Past Too , by Allan Wall on 06/13/2020 • His Name Is James Blair : White Sheriff 's Deputy Murdered by Black Male in Mississippi , by Paul Kersey on 06/13/2020 • Lawrence Auster 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Steve Sailer on 06/13/2020 • Jean Raspail Dies At 94 : Lived Long Enough To Say `` I Told You So , '' by James Fulford on 06/13/2020 • Not From the Babylon Bee : “ Alexa , Siri and Google Assistant Voice Support for Black Lives Matter , ” by Steve Sailer on 06/13/2020 • NYT : Yes , We Mean Literally Abolish the Police , by Steve Sailer on 06/12/2020 • The Rise and Fall of Murder in New York City , by Steve Sailer on 06/12/2020 • Police Commander Travis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Abolish Us—We Wo n't Be Around For It ' : Why Many Police Officers Like Me Are Quitting the Force , '' by Allan Wall on 06/12/2020 • Blacks : All Lives Matter , by Audacious Epigone on 06/12/2020 • And if There Is Hope , It Lies in the Police Unions : Chicago Police Union Boss Says Those Who Kneel Will be Booted from Fraternal Order of Police , by Paul Kersey on 06/12/2020 • Looters : Are They Peaceful Protesters ?
Antifa ?
White Supremacists ?
George Floyd 's Grieving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 06/12/2020 • A Reader Comments On Thomas Jefferson 's Prophecy That `` The Two Races , Equally Free , Can not Live In The Same Government , '' by VDARE.com Reader on 06/11/2020 • TV ’ s COPS Cancelled As Celebration Of Black Criminal George Floyd Continues Remaking America In Image Of Lawlessness , by Paul Kersey on 06/11/2020 • Ann Coulter : Mass Immigration—Why You No Longer Recognize Your Country , by Ann Coulter on 06/10/2020 • Sailer in Taki 's : Because White People Are Bad , by Steve Sailer on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ For NOT Posting Anti-Racist Statement In Wake Of George Floyd Insurrection , by Paul Kersey on 06/10/2020 • Lawrence Auster Died In 2013 .
He Anticipated The George Floyd Hoax , by James Kirkpatrick on 06/09/2020 • The Monumental Campaign to # CancelAmerica , by Michelle Malkin on 06/09/2020 • Never .
Kneel.
, by Lydia Brimelow on 06/09/2020 • Roland Fryer : Viral-Driven Investigations of Police Departments Get More Civilians Murdered , by Steve Sailer on 06/09/2020 • Burned Out Manufacturer Says Bye-Bye , Minneapolis , by Steve Sailer on 06/08/2020 • @ @ @ @ @ @ @ —Ashley Rae Goldenberg 's List Of Corporations That Support The Riots And Want You Dead , by Jack Dalton on 06/08/2020 • A Reader Reports Being Called A Racist By REPUBLICAN Congressional Staff—Who Said He Should Be Rioting In Support Of George Floyd , by VDARE.com Reader on 06/08/2020 • The Left 's Coming War on Cops , by Patrick J. Buchanan on 06/08/2020 • Getting Ready For The Next Round Of Riots : `` Preparing For The Fire Next Time , '' by Hubert Collins on 06/08/2020 • A Talk Radio Listener @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Going To A Charity Supporting The Riots , Change Your Will !
, by VDARE.com Reader on 06/08/2020 • From 87 % White In 1980 To 60 % White In 2020 : Minneapolis City Council Votes To Disband Police Department Because Of `` Racism '' Concerns , by Paul Kersey on 06/08/2020 • A Reader Says The Anti-White Mobs Are Eating Their Own—Even Female Journalism School Academics , by a VDARE.com Reader on 06/08/2020 • PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 's Wischnowski Only One Victim Of The Purges of 2020 , by Steve Sailer on 06/07/2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Resigns Over `` Buildings Matter , Too '' Headline , by Paul Kersey on 06/07/2020 • Protests Continue in Washington , D.C. | VDARE Investigates , by VDARE TV on 06/06/2020 • VDARE.TV 's Roving Reporters Go To Washington , Meet People Who Think Looting Is Cool , by James Fulford on 06/06/2020 • How Much More Homicidal Are Blacks Than Whites ?
7.4x More Like the Obama Administration Said , or 11.7x More ?
, by Steve Sailer on 06/06/2020 • CBS News : Do n't You Dare Think About Anything Other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sailer on 06/05/2020 • Entire GOP Takes Knee Before Floyd Hoax—Except Sen. Cotton .
And , Maybe , Donald Trump , by Washington Watcher II on 06/05/2020 • His Name Is Sgt .
Stephen Williams : Two Blacks ( Tapero Corlene Johnson And Marquisha Annissa Tyson ) Murder White Alabama Police Officer , by Paul Kersey on 06/05/2020 • Fifty Years Onward ... '' That Riot Finally Just Burnt Itself Out After Five Days , That Was All , '' by Steve Sailer on 06/05/2020 • Use Video to Track Down Rioters and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sailer on 06/05/2020 • Looter-Created Food Deserts in Minneapolis , by Steve Sailer on 06/05/2020

See earlier: VDARE.com Presents: The Ebony On Ivory Report—Black-On-White Crime & Race Riot Coverage [115 Items]
Taking you on a jog through black-on-white crime and politicized riots from Ahmaud Arbery to nationwide riots, VDARE.com presents... The Ebony on Ivory Report [63 items]:
13/54 is the new 13/50. Steve Sailer breaks down updated HateStats.
Allan Wall reports in Portland: Anti-American Mob Topples George Washington Statue Draped With Burning Flag. Do Americans Care Anymore? Maybe Not.
Remember Wendy’s? Atlanta Cop Who Shot Criminal Aiming Cop's Stolen Taser At Him To Face Death Penalty Charge, but Fulford dutifully points out: Yes, It's Legal To Shoot An Armed Fleeing Felon, Whichever Side The Bullet Goes In.
According Lawrence Auster's First Law of Majority-Minority Relations, “the more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group behaves, the more evil whites are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions about that group’s bad behavior.” Therefore, the MSM must diligently hide these black murders of white cops, which are so numerous they have their own tag on VDARE.com.
Take heart though, because we at VDARE.com will Never. Kneel.


vdare--2020-06-20--It’s Official: Left Doesn’t Really Believe Races Equal

Everyone knows that Leftists are hypocrites .
White “ Black Lives Matter ” protestors who have incited and even participated in horrifying disorder , demanded the abolition of the police , and “ taken a knee ” to virtue-signal , returning home to overwhelmingly white , safe suburbs .
Social Justice Warriors who proclaim that all races are “ equal ” in every way , and vociferously condemn and campaign for the firing of scientists whose work contributes to the overwhelming empirical evidence that blacks have a lower average IQ than whites , don ’ t believe it deep down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Soon-to-be-published research , by psychologists at Yale and Princeton , one black and one white , has now proven that , beneath all the “ humility , ” American “ Liberals ” who claim blacks are “ equal ” also tend to speak to them as though they were intellectually inferior .
“ Conservatives , ” by contrast , tend to speak to people of all races in the same way .
The eye-opening study is entitled “ Self-Presentation and Interracial Settings : The Competence Downshift of White Liberals ” and is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Personality and Social Psychology .
Written by Cydney Dupree [ Email her ] of Yale University , and Susan Fiske [ Email her ] of Princeton ( pictured right , with Cydney above ) it begins with a striking statement : The researchers note that blacks in the US have often been stereotyped as “ lazy , ” “ ignorant , ” “ stupid ” and “ low in intelligence.
” According to the Theory of Impression Management , they argue , you would expect people to want to create “ reciprocity ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , to alter their self-presentation to make themselves more similar to those with whom they are interacting .
Additionally , liberal whites will often be so concerned about appearing “ racist ” when interacting with minorities that they report becoming anxious—with the result that such whites report “ feeling less enjoyment in interracial contexts ” than whites who don ’ t care about how blacks perceive them .
The researchers demonstrated white liberal hypocrisy—though they do not specifically highlight this hypocrisy—in five studies .
Firstly , they analysed 74 speeches by white Democrat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether they were speaking to a mainly white or to a mainly black audience .
They also analysed the kinds of words used .
They found that Democrat candidates were less likely to use words associated with competence when addressing a black audience and were more likely to use words associated with “ warmth.
” The Republican candidates , by contrast , used pretty much the same kind of language with all their audiences , whether black or white .
Secondly , to investigate the issue further , Dupree and Fiske conducted a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves on how “ conservative ” they were—were asked to imagine that they were members of a book club and had to send an email with their thoughts on the current book to club secretary “ Emily ” or “ Lakisha.
” Again , liberals altered their presentation to use words rated as lower in “ competence ” and higher in “ warmth ” when they had to email “ Lakisha.
” Conservatives sent essentially the same email to “ Lakisha ” and “ Emily.
” Thirdly , researchers repeated the experiment with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than self-rating their liberalism , participants had it assessed via a measure of their values ( “ Right Wing Authoritarian Scale ” ) and a measure of their belief in hierarchy ( “ Social Dominance Orientation ” ) .
The predicted relationship was found based on their values , but not based on their attitudes to hierarchy .
Fourthly , Dupree and Fiske then presented two studies in which whites had to choose “ self-descriptive personality traits to include in an introduction to a black or white interaction partner.
” The participants had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ person who is “ competent or warm.
” Liberals—assessed using their reported “ values ” —selected less competent words when the partner was black , though not when white .
( However , the difference did not reach statistical significance ) .
In the final study , ostensibly about online communication , 743 whites were asked to create online profile—avatar and self-description—to be seen by another member of an online community .
Some participants ’ online partner had a white avatar called “ Jake ” or “ Emily.
” Others had a black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Darnell ” —participants ’ partners were always the same gender as they were .
This time the differences were significant , using their measured ( lack of ) “ Social Dominance ” as a proxy for Liberalism .
White liberals wanted to seem more “ warm ” and less “ competent ” with blacks but not with whites .
White conservatives presented themselves in the same way whether their supposed partner was black or white .
The researchers concluded , overall , that “ the competence downshift is a subtle , but persistent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” The authors also found that white liberals did not alter their “ warmth ” when dealing with blacks , when compared to whites .
They simply reduced their “ competence.
” In other words , the actions of white liberals , when they interact with blacks , prove that they believe , no matter what they might say , that “ racist ” stereotypes are true .
It is likely that “ cognitive dissonance ” —the attempt to pretend they believe something that they don ’ t really believe at all in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ significant part in Leftists becoming “ triggered ” by research into racial differences .
They know such research is accurate , but they desperately want it not to be accurate because they have invested so much , in terms of their identity as a good person , in claiming that this research is wrong .
If it is right , they are deluded and worse .
They deal with this by shutting scientists who do that research down , and proclaiming their own belief in racial intellectual equality all the more fervently , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves .
But what they really believe can be seen their actions , which speak so much louder than words .
White liberals are hypocrites with regard to race .
And science has proven it .
Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

Everyone knows that Leftists are hypocrites. White “Black Lives Matter” protestors who have incited and even participated in horrifying disorder, demanded the abolition of the police, and “taken a knee” to virtue-signal, returning home to overwhelmingly white, safe suburbs. Social Justice Warriors who proclaim that all races are “equal” in every way, and vociferously condemn and campaign for the firing of scientists whose work contributes to the overwhelming empirical evidence that blacks have a lower average IQ than whites, don’t believe it deep down. And now we have scientific proof.
Soon-to-be-published research, by psychologists at Yale and Princeton, one black and one white, has now proven that, beneath all the “humility,” American “Liberals” who claim blacks are “equal” also tend to speak to them as though they were intellectually inferior. “Conservatives,” by contrast, tend to speak to people of all races in the same way.
The eye-opening study is entitled “Self-Presentation and Interracial Settings: The Competence Downshift of White Liberals” and is to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Written by Cydney Dupree [Email her ] of Yale University, and Susan Fiske [Email her] of Princeton (pictured right, with Cydney above) it begins with a striking statement:
Most Whites, particularly socio-political liberals, now endorse racial equality. Archival and experimental research reveals a subtle but reliable ironic consequence. White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites—that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent.
The researchers note that blacks in the US have often been stereotyped as “lazy,” “ignorant,” “stupid” and “low in intelligence.” According to the Theory of Impression Management, they argue, you would expect people to want to create “reciprocity” with those around them and, thus, to alter their self-presentation to make themselves more similar to those with whom they are interacting.
Additionally, liberal whites will often be so concerned about appearing “racist” when interacting with minorities that they report becoming anxious—with the result that such whites report “feeling less enjoyment in interracial contexts” than whites who don’t care about how blacks perceive them.
The researchers demonstrated white liberal hypocrisy—though they do not specifically highlight this hypocrisy—in five studies.
Firstly, they analyzed 74 speeches by white Democrat and white Republican presidential candidates based on whether they were speaking to a mainly white or to a mainly black audience. They also analysed the kinds of words used. They found that Democrat candidates were less likely to use words associated with competence when addressing a black audience and were more likely to use words associated with “warmth.” The Republican candidates, by contrast, used pretty much the same kind of language with all their audiences, whether black or white.
Secondly, to investigate the issue further, Dupree and Fiske conducted a study in which white people—who had rated themselves on how “conservative” they were—were asked to imagine that they were members of a book club and had to send an email with their thoughts on the current book to club secretary “Emily” or “Lakisha.” Again, liberals altered their presentation to use words rated as lower in “competence” and higher in “warmth” when they had to email “Lakisha.” Conservatives sent essentially the same email to “Lakisha” and “Emily.”
Thirdly, researchers repeated the experiment with different sample. This time, rather than self-rating their liberalism, participants had it assessed via a measure of their values (“Right Wing Authoritarian Scale”) and a measure of their belief in hierarchy (“Social Dominance Orientation”). The predicted relationship was found based on their values, but not based on their attitudes to hierarchy.
Fourthly, Dupree and Fiske then presented two studies in which whites had to choose “self-descriptive personality traits to include in an introduction to a black or white interaction partner.” The participants had the opportunity to present themselves as a person who is “competent or warm.” Liberals—assessed using their reported “values”—selected less competent words when the partner was black, though not when white. (However, the difference did not reach statistical significance).
In the final study, ostensibly about online communication, 743 whites were asked to create an online profile—avatar and self-description—to be seen by another member of an online community. Some participants’ online partner had a white avatar called “Jake” or “Emily.” Others had a black one called “Tamara” or “Darnell”—participants’ partners were always the same gender as they were. This time the differences were significant, using their measured (lack of) “Social Dominance” as a proxy for Liberalism. White liberals wanted to seem more “warm” and less “competent” with blacks but not with whites. White conservatives presented themselves in the same way whether their supposed partner was black or white.
The researchers concluded, overall, that “the competence downshift is a subtle, but persistent effect that is unique to white liberals.” The authors also found that white liberals did not alter their “warmth” when dealing with blacks, when compared to whites. They simply reduced their “competence.”
Dupree and Fiske conclude:
Collectively these studies suggest that, for those whites who are more affiliative toward minorities that is, liberals, stereotypes may play a role in the impression management strategies utilized affiliation attempts, relating to a well-intentioned, but ultimately patronizing competence downshift.
In other words, the actions of white liberals, when they interact with blacks, prove that they believe, no matter what they might say, that “racist” stereotypes are true.
It is likely that “cognitive dissonance”—the attempt to pretend they believe something that they don’t really believe at all in order to maintain a favorable self-image—plays a significant part in Leftists becoming “triggered” by research into racial differences. They know such research is accurate, but they desperately want it not to be accurate because they have invested so much, in terms of their identity as a good person, in claiming that this research is wrong. If it is right, they are deluded and worse.
They deal with this by shutting scientists who do that research down, and proclaiming their own belief in racial intellectual equality all the more fervently, in an attempt to convince others and themselves.
But what they really believe can be seen their actions, which speak so much louder than words.
White liberals are hypocrites with regard to race. And science has proven it.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-06-21--Peter Brimelow Asks: Why Isn't Mexican-Born Archbishop Of LA Defending Statue Of SAINT Junipero Serr

Peter Brimelow Asks: Why Isn't Mexican-Born Archbishop Of LA Defending Statue Of SAINT Junipero Serra?

Earlier : Spanish Embassy Neither Woke Nor Ashamed : Protests Descration Of Junipero Serra , Cervantes , Etc .
Here @ @ @ @ @ in which I ask where Jose Gomez , the Mexican-born Archbishop of Los Angeles ( @ @ @ @ @ reason , of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ) stands on the subject @ @ @ @ @ of SAINT Junipero Serra , Apostle of California .
For an answer , see Mexican @ @ @ @ @ Leader Of America ’ s Catholic Bishops , Has A Top Priority .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ .

Earlier: Spanish Embassy Neither Woke Nor Ashamed: Protests Desecration Of Junipero Serra, Cervantes, Etc.
Here's my Twitter thread, in which I ask where Jose Gomez, the Mexican-born Archbishop of Los Angeles (and President, for some reason, of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) stands on the subject the defiling of the statue of SAINT Junipero Serra, Apostle of California.
For an answer, see Mexican Immigrant Jose Gomez, New Leader Of America’s Catholic Bishops, Has A Top Priority. It’s Not Sacking Pervert Priests.


vdare--2020-06-21--Spanish Embassy Neither Woke Nor Ashamed:  Protests Descration Of Junipero Serra, Cervantes, Etc.

Recently , the mob has been toppling or descrating statues of Spaniards , like Cervantes and Fra Junipero Serra , who was a missionary to the Indians on the West Coast of the the Americas during the Age of Discovery .
Here 's what the Spanish said : We deeply regret the destruction of the statue of Saint Junípero Serra in San Francisco today , and would like to offer a reminder of his great efforts in support of indigenous communities .
It is also with great regret that we receive the news of the damages inflicted upon the bust @ @ @ @ @ @ @ himself held as a slave in Algiers for 5 years , and whose literature serves as a call for freedom and equality .
Defending the Spanish legacy in the U.S. is a priority of our foreign policy in this country , and we will continue to do so by intensifying our educational efforts in order for the reality of our shared history to be better known and understood .
We are also expressing our deep concern regarding these attacks to federal , state , and local authorities , asking that the memory of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always with the utmost respect for the debates currently taking place .
Junipero Serra was a missionary to the Indians , and as such he tried to convert them to Christianity , turn away from murder , rape , torture , kidnapping , slavery and all the things that characterized Indian life in California before the white man got there .
There 's a modern controversy that accuses him of using forced labor and corporal punishment on the Indians in order to discourage the murder , rape , torture , or whatever they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how white Spaniards treated other white Spaniards at the time , and was certainly an improvement over their previous existence of , I repeat , murder , rape , torture , and so on .
He was canonized a saint by the Pope in 2015 , which increased the hate : • Junipero Serra And The Indians : Pope Not Up to Date on His `` Who ?
Whom ? ''
Rankings Chesterton , in The Everlasting Man , refers to something the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said : For what South America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stephen Cox 's November 1995 Liberty Magazine review of Conquest : Montezuma , Cortes , and the Fall of Old Mexico—the review is called I Left My Heart in Tenochtitlan : On November 8 , 1519 , Hernan Cortes and his Spanish expeditionary force arrived at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan .
They were greeted by the Aztec nobility at a place on the outskirts of the city called Malcuitlapilco , which means `` the end of the file of prisoners . ''
In 1487 , when the Aztecs inaugurated the Great Temple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ waiting to be sacrificed on the city 's pyramids had reached this point .
It was two miles to the Great Temple , and there were four such lines of victims .
You can see them there , young men standing in the sunlight in the great city built on an island in the great lake of Mexico , a name that means `` in the navel of the moon . ''
The sky was blue above them , and the two lofty volcanoes , Iztaccihautl and Popocatepetl , rose in the distance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ men waited in line for the blood-caked priests of Huitzilopochtli , god of the sun and the chase , to rip their hearts out and roll their bodies down the sides of the pyramid so that they could be dismembered and eaten .
At the foot of the Great Temple , a carved stone was set in the pavement ; this stone was called `` Huitzilopochtli 's dining table . ''
The interest of the Aztecs can never fade ; the story of their conquest by the incredible strangers who came from beyond @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power .
The part which stuck in my head since 1995 , when I read this review in the deadtree Liberty was this :

Earlier: The Mob Desecrates Ex-Slave's Statue (Miguel de Cervantes)
Recently, the mob has been toppling or descrating statues of Spaniards, like Cervantes and Fra Junipero Serra, who was a missionary to the Indians on the West Coast of the Americas during the Age of Discovery.
The Spanish Embassy objects:
Fine statement by Spanish Embassy on attacks on Junipero Serra, Cervantes statues: "We are expressing our deep concern regarding these attacks to federal, state, and local authorities, asking that the memory of our rich shared history be protected." https://t.co/BDncRV8JlN — VDARE (@vdare) June 21, 2020
Here's what the Spanish said:
We deeply regret the destruction of the statue of Saint Junípero Serra in San Francisco today, and would like to offer a reminder of his great efforts in support of indigenous communities. It is also with great regret that we receive the news of the damages inflicted upon the bust of Miguel de Cervantes, who was himself held as a slave in Algiers for 5 years, and whose literature serves as a call for freedom and equality. Defending the Spanish legacy in the U.S. is a priority of our foreign policy in this country, and we will continue to do so by intensifying our educational efforts in order for the reality of our shared history to be better known and understood. We are also expressing our deep concern regarding these attacks to federal, state, and local authorities, asking that the memory of our rich shared history be protected, always with the utmost respect for the debates currently taking place.
Junipero Serra was a missionary to the Indians, and as such he tried to convert them to Christianity, turn away from murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, slavery and all the things that characterized Indian life in California before the white man got there. There's a modern controversy that accuses him of using forced labor and corporal punishment on the Indians in order to discourage the murder, rape, torture, or whatever they were doing wrong.
This is also how white Spaniards treated other white Spaniards at the time, and was certainly an improvement over their previous existence of, I repeat, murder, rape, torture, and so on.
He was canonized a saint by the Pope in 2015, which increased the hate:
Chesterton, in The Everlasting Man, refers to something the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne said:
Swinburne, in that spirited chorus of the nations in ‘Songs Before Sunrise,’ used an expression about Spain in her South American conquests which always struck me as very strange. He said something about ‘her sins and sons through sinless lands dispersed,’ and how they ‘made accursed the name of man and thrice accursed the name of God.’ It may be reasonable enough that he should say the Spaniards were sinful, but why in the world should he say that the South Americans were sinless?”
Why indeed?
For what South America was like before the Spaniards, see Stephen Cox's November 1995 Liberty Magazine review of Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico—the review is called I Left My Heart in Tenochtitlan:
On November 8, 1519, Hernan Cortes and his Spanish expeditionary force arrived at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. They were greeted by the Aztec nobility at a place on the outskirts of the city called Malcuitlapilco, which means "the end of the file of prisoners." In 1487, when the Aztecs inaugurated the Great Temple in Tenochtitlan, a line of prisoners waiting to be sacrificed on the city's pyramids had reached this point. It was two miles to the Great Temple, and there were four such lines of victims. You can see them there, young men standing in the sunlight in the great city built on an island in the great lake of Mexico, a name that means "in the navel of the moon." The sky was blue above them, and the two lofty volcanoes, Iztaccihautl and Popocatepetl, rose in the distance. Throughout the day, the young men waited in line for the blood-caked priests of Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun and the chase, to rip their hearts out and roll their bodies down the sides of the pyramid so that they could be dismembered and eaten. At the foot of the Great Temple, a carved stone was set in the pavement; this stone was called "Huitzilopochtli's dining table." The interest of the Aztecs can never fade; the story of their conquest by the incredible strangers who came from beyond the sea can never lose its romantic power.
The part which stuck in my head since 1995, when I read this review in the deadtree Liberty was this:


vdare--2020-06-21--NYT 1619 History Expert on Toppling of US Grant Statue

From N. Hannah Jones , the head author of the New York Times ’ black-centric rewriting of American history The 1619 Project : Why are people trying to talk about Ulysses S. Grant instead of Black Feelz ?
After all , we can go back and forth arguing all day about who did more to win the Civil War , Ulysses S. Grant or some undeservedly obscure black woman with great hair like me , but the important thing is that Grant was white , so a little overzealousness naturally occurs after decades of hurt by art .
Meanwhile , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who scored over 1000 on his SAT test , explains how unimportant Grant or any other white man was to winning the Civil War : In the White savior story , Lincoln , Grant or some White man won the Civil War and saved Black people .
In the actual history , Black soldiers , spies and runaways were as critical as anyone in winning the Civil War .
Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause : the Civil War 's White savior story .
https : //t.co/WUzShc6pGg — Ibram X. Kendi ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @

From N. Hannah Jones, the head author of the New York Times’ black-centric rewriting of American history The 1619 Project:
Why are people trying to talk about Ulysses S. Grant instead of Black Feelz?
After all, we can go back and forth arguing all day about who did more to win the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant or some undeservedly obscure black woman with great hair like me, but the important thing is that Grant was white, so a little overzealousness naturally occurs after decades of hurt by art.
Meanwhile, bestselling black all-around genius Ibram X. Kendi, who scored over 1000 on his SAT test, explains how unimportant Grant or any other white man was to winning the Civil War:
In the White savior story, Lincoln, Grant or some White man won the Civil War and saved Black people. In the actual history, Black soldiers, spies and runaways were as critical as anyone in winning the Civil War.
Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause: the Civil War's White savior story. https://t.co/WUzShc6pGg — Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) June 20, 2020
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-21--Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Confederate Judah P. Benjamin

Earlier : Has Judah P. Benjamin Been Canceled or Memory-Holed ?
With Ulysses S. Grant being toppled , it ’ s interesting to check out a 2002 speech by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg : Remarks for Jewish Council for Public Affairs in appreciation for the Albert D. Chernin Award February 18 , 2002 ______________ The Court begins a heavy sitting period tomorrow .
At such times , I seldom stray from the briefs piled on my desk .
But I could not resist a pause in today ’ s occupations to accept this award from the Jewish Council @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agencies devoted to the social imperatives of Judaism .
On walls of my chambers , I have posted in two places the command from Deuteronomy — “ Zedek , Zedek , ” “ Justice , Justice shalt thou pursue.
” Those words are an ever present reminder of what judges must do “ that they may thrive.
” There is an age old connection between social justice and Jewish tradition .
Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg , whose tenure on the Court , 1962-1965 , was far too brief , once said : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peace , for enlightenment , .
.
.
stems from my heritage.
” Justice Breyer and I are fortunate to be linked to that heritage .
Preparing some years ago for a lecture on the Jewish Justices who preceded Justice Breyer and me , I learned that Louis D. Brandeis was not the first Jewish nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court .
I have since read more about the man who might have been first , and thought perhaps you would find his life as intriguing as I did .
The person who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
His name was Judah Benjamin .
He was intensely involved in public affairs , though you and I would agree that he chose the wrong side .
In 1853 , Benjamin declined the nomination of President Millard Fillmore to become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court .
Just elected U.S .
Senator from Louisiana , Benjamin preferred to retain his First Branch post .
His choice suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court had not yet become the co-equal Branch it is today .
Had Benjamin accepted the Court post @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shorter than the time I have already served as a Justice .
In early 1861 , in the wake of Louisiana ’ s secession from the Union , Benjamin resigned the Senate seat for which he had forsaken the justiceship .
He probably would have resigned a seat on the Court had he held one , as did his friend Associate Justice John Archibald Campbell of Alabama .
( Campbell , incidentally , opposed secession and freed all his slaves on his appointment to the Supreme Court .
But when hostilities broke out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . )
In other words , Judah P. Benjamin did not free his 140 slaves and did not oppose secession .
Benjamin is perhaps best known in the United States for his stirring orations in the Senate on behalf of Southern interests , and for his service as Attorney General , Secretary of War , and finally Secretary of State in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis .
After the Confederate surrender , Benjamin fled to England ; en route , he narrowly survived several close encounters with victorious Union troops , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Benjamin ’ s political ventures in the Senate and in the Confederacy were bracketed by two discrete but equally remarkable legal careers , the first in New Orleans , the second in Britain .
Having left Yale College without taking a degree , Benjamin came to New Orleans in 1832 and was called to the bar that same year .
Although he struggled initially , his fame and fortune quickly grew large after the publication , in 1834 , of A Digest of Reported Decisions of [ the Supreme Court of the Late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Supreme Court of Louisiana .
Benjamin ’ s book treated comprehensively for the first time Louisiana ’ s uniquely cosmopolitan and complex legal system , derived from Roman , Spanish , French , and English sources .
Benjamin ’ s flourishing practice and the public attention he garnered helped to propel his election by the Louisiana legislature to the United States Senate .
( In pre-Seventeenth Amendment days , until 1913 , Senators were chosen not directly by the People , but by the Legislatures of the several States . )
Benjamin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Confederacy .
He arrived in England with little money and most of his property lost or confiscated .
His wife and daughter settled in Paris , where they anticipated support from Benjamin in the comfortable style to which they were accustomed .
He nevertheless turned down a promising business opportunity in the French capital , preferring to devote himself again to the practice of law , this time as a British barrister .
He opted for a second career at the bar notwithstanding the requirement that he start over by enrolling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Court and completing a mandatory three-year apprenticeship before qualifying as a barrister .
This , Benjamin ’ s contemporaries reported , he did cheerfully , although he was doubtless relieved when the Inn of Court to which he belonged , Lincoln ’ s Inn , determined to waive some of its requirements and admit him early .
Benjamin became a British barrister at age 55 .
His situation at that mature stage of life closely paralleled conditions of his youth .
He was a newly-minted lawyer , with a struggling practice , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ as much interested in my profession as when I first commenced as a boy.
” Repeating his Louisiana progress , Benjamin made his reputation among his new peers by publication .
Drawing on the knowledge of civilian systems gained during his practice in Louisiana , Benjamin produced a volume in England that came to be known as Benjamin on Sales .
The book was a near-instant classic .
Its author was much praised , and Benjamin passed the remainder of his days as a top earning , highly esteemed , mainly appel-late @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in appeals to the House of Lords and the Privy Council .
Benjamin ’ s biographer tells us that , “ [ h ] owever desperate his case , Benjamin habitually addressed the court as if it were impossible for him to lose.
” This in-domitable cast of mind characterized both Benjamin ’ s courtroom advocacy and his response to fortune ’ s vicissitudes .
He rose to the top of the legal profession twice in one lifetime , on two continents , beginning his first ascent as a raw youth and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vanquished power .
The London Times , in an obituary , described Judah Benjamin as a man with “ that elastic resistance to evil fortune which preserved [ his ] ancestors through a succession of exiles and plunder-ings.
” But , somehow , I suspect Justice Ginsburg will not be immediately canceled for her rather extensive praise for Benjamin , who bought 140 slaves when he acquired a sugar plantation ( sugar being the crop cruelest on slaves ) .

Earlier: Has Judah P. Benjamin Been Canceled or Memory-Holed?
With Ulysses S. Grant being toppled, it’s interesting to check out a 2002 speech by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Remarks for Jewish Council for Public Affairs in appreciation for the Albert D. Chernin Award
February 18, 2002
______________ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice
Supreme Court of the United States The Court begins a heavy sitting period tomorrow. At such times, I seldom stray from the briefs piled on my desk. But I could not resist a pause in today’s occupations to accept this award from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an organization comprising agencies devoted to the social imperatives of Judaism. On walls of my chambers, I have posted in two places the command from Deuteronomy — “Zedek, Zedek,” “Justice, Justice shalt thou pursue.” Those words are an ever present reminder of what judges must do “that they may thrive.” There is an age old connection between social justice and Jewish tradition. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, whose tenure on the Court, 1962-1965, was far too brief, once said: “My concern for justice, for peace, for enlightenment, . . . stems from my heritage.” Justice Breyer and I are fortunate to be linked to that heritage. Preparing some years ago for a lecture on the Jewish Justices who preceded Justice Breyer and me, I learned that Louis D. Brandeis was not the first Jewish nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. I have since read more about the man who might have been first, and thought perhaps you would find his life as intriguing as I did. The person who might have preceded Brandeis hailed from Louisiana. His name was Judah Benjamin. He was intensely involved in public affairs, though you and I would agree that he chose the wrong side. In 1853, Benjamin declined the nomination of President Millard Fillmore to become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Just elected U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Benjamin preferred to retain his First Branch post. His choice suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court had not yet become the co-equal Branch it is today. Had Benjamin accepted the Court post, his service likely would have been shorter than the time I have already served as a Justice. In early 1861, in the wake of Louisiana’s secession from the Union, Benjamin resigned the Senate seat for which he had forsaken the justiceship. He probably would have resigned a seat on the Court had he held one, as did his friend Associate Justice John Archibald Campbell of Alabama. (Campbell, incidentally, opposed secession and freed all his slaves on his appointment to the Supreme Court. But when hostilities broke out, he remained loyal to the South.)
In other words, Judah P. Benjamin did not free his 140 slaves and did not oppose secession.
Benjamin is perhaps best known in the United States for his stirring orations in the Senate on behalf of Southern interests, and for his service as Attorney General, Secretary of War, and finally Secretary of State in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis. After the Confederate surrender, Benjamin fled to England; en route, he narrowly survived several close encounters with victorious Union troops, and the forces of storm and rough seas. Benjamin’s political ventures in the Senate and in the Confederacy were bracketed by two discrete but equally remarkable legal careers, the first in New Orleans, the second in Britain. Having left Yale College without taking a degree, Benjamin came to New Orleans in 1832 and was called to the bar that same year. Although he struggled initially, his fame and fortune quickly grew large after the publication, in 1834, of A Digest of Reported Decisions of [the Supreme Court of the Late Territory of Orleans, and of] the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Benjamin’s book treated comprehensively for the first time Louisiana’s uniquely cosmopolitan and complex legal system, derived from Roman, Spanish, French, and English sources. Benjamin’s flourishing practice and the public attention he garnered helped to propel his election by the Louisiana legislature to the United States Senate. (In pre-Seventeenth Amendment days, until 1913, Senators were chosen not directly by the People, but by the Legislatures of the several States.) Benjamin’s fortune plummeted with the defeat of the Confederacy. He arrived in England with little money and most of his property lost or confiscated. His wife and daughter settled in Paris, where they anticipated support from Benjamin in the comfortable style to which they were accustomed. He nevertheless turned down a promising business opportunity in the French capital, preferring to devote himself again to the practice of law, this time as a British barrister. He opted for a second career at the bar notwithstanding the requirement that he start over by enrolling as a student at an Inn of Court and completing a mandatory three-year apprenticeship before qualifying as a barrister. This, Benjamin’s contemporaries reported, he did cheerfully, although he was doubtless relieved when the Inn of Court to which he belonged, Lincoln’s Inn, determined to waive some of its requirements and admit him early. Benjamin became a British barrister at age 55. His situation at that mature stage of life closely paralleled conditions of his youth. He was a newly-minted lawyer, with a struggling practice, but, he wrote to a friend, “as much interested in my profession as when I first commenced as a boy.” Repeating his Louisiana progress, Benjamin made his reputation among his new peers by publication. Drawing on the knowledge of civilian systems gained during his practice in Louisiana, Benjamin produced a volume in England that came to be known as Benjamin on Sales. The book was a near-instant classic. Its author was much praised, and Benjamin passed the remainder of his days as a top earning, highly esteemed, mainly appellate advocate. His voice was often heard in appeals to the House of Lords and the Privy Council. Benjamin’s biographer tells us that, “[h]owever desperate his case, Benjamin habitually addressed the court as if it were impossible for him to lose.” This indomitable cast of mind characterized both Benjamin’s courtroom advocacy and his response to fortune’s vicissitudes. He rose to the top of the legal profession twice in one lifetime, on two continents, beginning his first ascent as a raw youth and his second as a fugitive minister of a vanquished power. The London Times, in an obituary, described Judah Benjamin as a man with “that elastic resistance to evil fortune which preserved [his] ancestors through a succession of exiles and plunderings.”
But, somehow, I suspect Justice Ginsburg will not be immediately canceled for her rather extensive praise for Benjamin, who bought 140 slaves when he acquired a sugar plantation (sugar being the crop cruelest on slaves).
[Comment at Unz.com]