vdare--2020-09-14--Black Prosecutors in DC Call for Criminal Justice System to be "More Fair" Because Too Many Black Pe

Black Prosecutors in DC Call for Criminal Justice System to be "More Fair" Because Too Many Black People Are Prosecuted for Gun Crimes in Our Nation's Capital

Because gun-crime prosecutions disproportionately impact the black community ( because that ’ s the primary community committing gun violence in not only Washington D.C. , but all of America ) black prosecutors in America ’ s capital city are calling for the criminal justice system to be more “ fair.
” 32 Black federal prosecutors in Washington have a plan to make the criminal justice system more fair , WaPo.com , September 5 , 2020 As protests against police brutality and systemic racism filled streets across the country this summer , a group of Black prosecutors in the nation ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , too , could take a stand .
They shared the outrage over the deaths of George Floyd , Breonna Taylor and other Black people at the hands of police .
But the demands for change also sparked soul-searching about their own roles in a massive criminal justice system that some had been a part of for decades .
What began with a few emotional phone calls and emails quickly became a more organized effort of heart-wrenching , reflective Web meetings and detailed policy discussions .
In the end , 32 Black federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to acting U.S. attorney Michael Sherwin outlining changes they say will help ensure that prosecutors make the fairest decisions , void of nonlegal influences and biases .
They called for implicit bias training for prosecutors and the end of a strategy for gun-crime prosecutions they said disproportionately targets Black communities .
They also called for a new focus on alternatives to incarceration .
They said the job of a prosecutor should not be confined to an office or courtroom .
Prosecutors , they said , should develop relationships in the communities they serve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prosecutors should be required to visit the city ’ s jail to better understand the impact on those who are locked up .
The proposals , the prosecutors wrote , would lead to better decisions in prosecuting cases and help secure trust and bring more just outcomes in a city where they said the majority of victims , suspects and witnesses are Black .
“ If we purport to be an institution that regards these stakeholders as people , rather than merely numbers or statistics , our response to the instant crisis matters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June 16 memo obtained by The Washington Post .
“ And make no mistake about it , unequal treatment under the law is a national crisis .
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Because gun-crime prosecutions disproportionately impact the black community (because that’s the primary community committing gun violence in not only Washington D.C., but all of America) black prosecutors in America’s capital city are calling for the criminal justice system to be more “fair.”
32 Black federal prosecutors in Washington have a plan to make the criminal justice system more fair, WaPo.com, September 5, 2020 As protests against police brutality and systemic racism filled streets across the country this summer, a group of Black prosecutors in the nation’s capital began thinking about how they, too, could take a stand. They shared the outrage over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black people at the hands of police. But the demands for change also sparked soul-searching about their own roles in a massive criminal justice system that some had been a part of for decades.
What began with a few emotional phone calls and emails quickly became a more organized effort of heart-wrenching, reflective Web meetings and detailed policy discussions. In the end, 32 Black federal prosecutors in Washington signed a 10-page memo to acting U.S. attorney Michael Sherwin outlining changes they say will help ensure that prosecutors make the fairest decisions, void of nonlegal influences and biases. They called for implicit bias training for prosecutors and the end of a strategy for gun-crime prosecutions they said disproportionately targets Black communities. They also called for a new focus on alternatives to incarceration. They said the job of a prosecutor should not be confined to an office or courtroom. Prosecutors, they said, should develop relationships in the communities they serve, attending meetings and events. And prosecutors should be required to visit the city’s jail to better understand the impact on those who are locked up.
The proposals, the prosecutors wrote, would lead to better decisions in prosecuting cases and help secure trust and bring more just outcomes in a city where they said the majority of victims, suspects and witnesses are Black.
“If we purport to be an institution that regards these stakeholders as people, rather than merely numbers or statistics, our response to the instant crisis matters,” the prosecutors wrote in the June 16 memo obtained by The Washington Post. “And make no mistake about it, unequal treatment under the law is a national crisis.”


vdare--2020-09-14--Attempted Assassination of Two Sheriff's Deputies in Compton

Not much additional information has surfaced about Saturday ’ s attempted assassination of two Los Angeles County sheriff ’ s deputies in Compton .
A man walked up to the police SUV and shot a male and female deputy in the head , then ran off .
Both victims are alive but in bad shape .
The latest word is the shooter was a black man in his late 20s or so .
No information is available on the ethnicity of the two victims .
Here ’ s one local ’ s reaction to the law enforcement officers getting shot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s of course reminiscent of the assassination by a BLM terrorist of two NYPD officers in December 2014 .
This led to a semi-mutiny by the NYPD against Mayor de Blasio and Hizzoner eventually backing down , allowing 5 additional years of law and order in NYC before this year ’ s return of BLM .
Sheriff ’ s deputies in Socal recently shot a black lowlife , so tensions have been high .
From the Los Angeles Times : Another angle is that Compton dismantled its police force about two decades ago @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s office to police the one-time home of gangsta rap .
While Compton is filling up with Latinos , the politicians are mostly still black .
The current black lady mayor of Compton Aja Brown hates the Sheriff ’ s station in Compton , perhaps for good reason .
The LA County sheriff ’ s deputies have a notorious tendency to form their own gangs complete with their own gang tattoos .
Members say having their own gangs , or “ cliques , ” builds esprit de corps .
The deputies ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Executioners and about 1/4 of the Compton deputies are members and another 1/4th trying to get in to the gang .
It ’ s hard to get a straight story on the deputies ’ gang problem .
My guess would be that it ’ s related to the Sheriff ’ s Deputies now being 46 % Hispanic ( 30 % white , 12 % black , and 12 % Asian ) .
Having your own gang with matching tattoos probably just sounds cool to Southland Latinos .
So , this latest shooting could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black war in the L.A. Basin .
But as of yet we don ’ t know any details to allow us to leap to any conclusions .

Not much additional information has surfaced about Saturday’s attempted assassination of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in Compton. A man walked up to the police SUV and shot a male and female deputy in the head, then ran off. Both victims are alive but in bad shape.
The latest word is the shooter was a black man in his late 20s or so. No information is available on the ethnicity of the two victims.
Here’s one local’s reaction to the law enforcement officers getting shot (language NSFW):
Here’s the reaction of an eyewitness to the ambush of two Deputies shot in the head in #Compton. The victims are in the background. No one is going to help them. Vote like your life depends on it. #BlueLivesMatter https://t.co/tE8NH5YZvm — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 13, 2020
It’s of course reminiscent of the assassination by a BLM terrorist of two NYPD officers in December 2014. This led to a semi-mutiny by the NYPD against Mayor de Blasio and Hizzoner eventually backing down, allowing 5 additional years of law and order in NYC before this year’s return of BLM.
Sheriff’s deputies in Socal recently shot a black lowlife, so tensions have been high. From the Los Angeles Times:
Dijon Kizzee was ‘trying to find his way’ before being killed by L.A. deputies, relatives say By LEILA MILLER STAFF WRITER
SEP. 4, 2020
Another angle is that Compton dismantled its police force about two decades ago and signed a contract with the Sheriff’s office to police the one-time home of gangsta rap. While Compton is filling up with Latinos, the politicians are mostly still black. The current black lady mayor of Compton Aja Brown hates the Sheriff’s station in Compton, perhaps for good reason.
The LA County sheriff’s deputies have a notorious tendency to form their own gangs complete with their own gang tattoos.
Members say having their own gangs, or “cliques,” builds esprit de corps.
The deputies’ gang in Compton is supposedly called The Executioners and about 1/4 of the Compton deputies are members and another 1/4th trying to get in to the gang.
It’s hard to get a straight story on the deputies’ gang problem. My guess would be that it’s related to the Sheriff’s Deputies now being 46% Hispanic (30% white, 12% black, and 12% Asian). Having your own gang with matching tattoos probably just sounds cool to Southland Latinos.
So, this latest shooting could be related to the long-simmering Hispanic vs. black war in the L.A. Basin.
But as of yet we don’t know any details to allow us to leap to any conclusions.
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vdare--2020-09-14--Daytime Twitter vs. Nighttime Twitter During the Summer of George

As a night person who has the same sleep patterns as an Antifa rioter , following Twitter at 2 AM @ @ @ @ @ Summer of George makes me feel like Bruce Wayne brooding over Gotham City being burned @ @ @ @ @ flames erupting from the darkness .
But for normal day people , watching CNN cover @ @ @ @ @ Daylight Time before retiring for the evening , they must feel like Clark Kent : @ @ @ @ @ isn ’ t that nice : the Peaceful Protesters of Metropolis are out in the @ @ @ @ @ !
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I like how night time twitter has night time videos of riots and day time twitter has day time videos of protests. There is an ecosystem here. — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 13, 2020
As a night person who has the same sleep patterns as an Antifa rioter, following Twitter at 2 AM Pacific Daily Time during this Summer of George makes me feel like Bruce Wayne brooding over Gotham City being burned and looted all night, flames erupting from the darkness.
But for normal day people, watching CNN cover Portland at 6 PM Eastern Daylight Time before retiring for the evening, they must feel like Clark Kent:
“Oh, look, isn’t that nice: the Peaceful Protesters of Metropolis are out in the sunshine protesting peacefully against injustice!”
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vdare--2020-09-11--Trump Vs. Generals, Defund The Military, And Underincarceration, Etc.

09m14s Trump and his generals .
( The what complex ? )
23m33s The bad , the mad , the @ @ @ @ @ institutionalize . )
30m45s Dame Cressida goes to Parliament .
( Britain 's racial crime @ @ @ @ @ ) 37m21s Race , movies , and the ChiComs .
( Can Hollywood square the @ @ @ @ @ border wall 's going up .
( And wo n't come down . )
41m03s @ @ @ @ @ how it might be reported today . )

00m54s Soldiers and civilians. (Some background social psychology.)
09m14s Trump and his generals. (The what complex?)
14m58s Defund the military! (Apply zero-based budgeting.)
23m33s The bad, the mad, the sad. (Let's institutionalize.)
30m45s Dame Cressida goes to Parliament. (Britain's racial crime gaps strangely like ours.)
37m21s Race, movies, and the ChiComs. (Can Hollywood square the circle?)
39m45s That border wall's going up. (And won't come down.)
41m03s Remembering 9/11. (And how it might be reported today.)
42m00s A linguistic conundrum. (Knowing a language you can't speak.)
45m20s Signoff. (From Africa.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your combatively genial host John Derbyshire, here to bring you commentary on the week's news from a National Conservative point of view.
Things military — things and people military, I should say — have been in the news this week. Let's begin with a close look at all that.
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02 — Soldiers and civilians. A great deal of noise was made, but not much light was shed, by a story first reported in The Atlantic magazine that President Trump had made disparaging remarks about U.S. dead interred in French war cemeteries being "suckers" and "losers." That story generated a flurry of secondary accusations about Trump having made similar remarks concerning our troops in other wars.
My own first thought, reading these stories, was: "I wouldn't be surprised." Trump has a crass, boorish side to him, and sometimes a loose tongue. Is this news?
Trump is also a man proud of his success in life — justifiably proud, when you consider the difficulty of rising in this world.
Doctor Johnson told Boswell that, quote: "The insolence of wealth will creep out." End quote. Johnson was speaking of Mrs Thrale, a friend and benefactor of his, a person he liked and admired. Mrs Thrale was rich, though, and Johnson was poor; and she occasionally, thoughtlessly, dropped a disparaging remark about his poverty.
It's the same with any kind of success in life. Every winner, except perhaps a tiny number of the most saintly, every winner has moments — brief, occasional moments he later regrets — when he looks on the rest of us as worthless losers.
So, I thought these particular accusations might be true; although I never thought they were consequential. If true, they didn't add anything to our knowledge of the President.
As the days went on, though, and the sources for these remarks remained resolutely anonymous, and more and more testimonies came in of Trump behaving with utmost respect towards servicepeople and veterans, it looked increasingly probable that these stories were made up as pre-election red meat for Trump-haters.
I suppose some factual support for them might yet emerge; but at the time of going to tape here, the parsimonious explanation has to be that they are propaganda lies.
Stepping back from these particular stories, the larger zone we are in here is the way civilians and military people feel about each other.
That's a big territory that's been drawing commentary from both sides for many centuries. I am sure that many, many Ph.D. theses on it have been submitted by social psychologists. I bet every one of them includes, for example, the old saying from Imperial China that 好鐵不當釘、好兒不當兵: "You don't use good iron to make nails; a good son does not become a soldier."
Early 20th-century Brits were of the same mind as the Mandarins, according to George Orwell. In his childhood before WW1, Orwell tells us through a character in one of his novels, if a young man in a working-class neighborhood joined the services — "gone for a soldier," as the saying was — local people spoke of it in just the same tones they'd speak of a girl who'd become a prostitute.
The great World Wars and mass conscription changed that. The 1950s, in which John Derbyshire, Peter Brimelow, and Donald Trump all spent their childhoods, were militarized societies in both Britain and America. Conscription was in full force. Most adult men, including my Dad, were veterans. My brother was a career soldier. The older brother of my best friend, drafted into the army, was in a truck that ran over a mine in Malaya. He survived, but with injuries.
The military were everywhere. Radio and TV sitcoms about the military were widely popular. In my secondary school I did six years of part-time military training. Donald Trump's secondary school was an actual military academy.
I'd like to tell listeners of later generations that all that mother's-milk immersion in things military turned round the older attitudes and generated unqualified reverence for the services. It's a bit more complicated than that, though.
We grew up seeing soldiering as an ordinary, everyday thing, not something far apart from the routine business of life. Like the rest of life, although in different measure, it had episodes of heroism and glory; but it also, like the rest of life, had proportions of sleaze, folly, cruelty, stupidity, and lies.
Sure, we gave proper honor and respect to courage in battle, and on Remembrance Day we sang the hymn O Valiant Hearts with full feeling. We did not, though, we did not automatically assume that anyone in uniform was a hero, actual or potential. We knew, from close personal acquaintance, how many Ernie Bilkos and Milo Minderbinders fit into those uniforms.
Familiarity doesn't necessarily breed contempt, but it does encourage a measure of rational skepticism. No man is a hero to his valet.
That's some of the psychological background to Trump's dealings with the military. Let me just dig a bit deeper into the political aspect.
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03 — Trump and his generals. To accompany those editorial slanders on the President, The Atlantic magazine ran anti-Trump articles by former Defense Secretary James Mattis and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen.
Headlines, respectively: Mattis, James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes him as a Threat to the Constitution. Mullen, I Cannot Remain Silent. The main thing he can't remain silent about, says Mullen, is his fear that Trump will co-opt the military for control of Antifa and BLM protestors.
Mattis is a retired Marines general; Mullen is a retired admiral; so there's plenty of gold braid here. What on earth is the matter with these guys? Are they really so woke? Why do they hate Trump so much?
I'd guess that one factor here is the psychological aspect I explored in the previous segment. Trump, a fifties kid like myself, comes at the senior military with some skepticism about their motives and abilities. They don't get the full measure of deference they expect from him. The situation is likely complicated, in ways I can't figure, by their awareness — and his — that Trump dodged the draft.
And yes, they are woke. Once you get up to the general and admiral level, you're in the political realm, looking for approval from congressreptiles and federal bureaucrats. The atmosphere up there is thick with political correctness, and you better conform. The nation got a good look at this eleven years ago when General George Casey, following the Fort Hood killings, told us that, quote:
As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse.
End quote.
That was slightly prior to the Great Awokening of 2013-14, to be sure; but it was in the Obama administration's first year, and Casey knew what was expected of him. Eleven years further on — including seven years when Obama had the opportunity to purge generals with views to the right of Casey — they all know, and they have all internalized the proper slogans.
You have to consider, too, how all-encompassing our state ideology now is. Both the Academy and Big Business are firmly in its grip, we all know that by now. Neither sphere will accept you unless you are thoroughly woke.
How does that play here? Well, on retirement from the senior military you're probably not that old. You'll be looking for some well-remunerated position with not-too-demanding duties attached where you can run out the clock to your late seventies.
Where will you look? Why: the Academy and Big Business. Mike Mullen, aged 73, is a visiting professor at Princeton; Jim Mattis, aged 70, is on the board of big aerospace contractor General Dynamics.
President Eisenhower, in his farewell speech, famously warned that, quote:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
End quote.
That was before the Social Justice crowd infiltrated and corrupted our universities. If he were making that speech today, Ike would likely have said "military-industrial-academic complex."
So: Put the pressure for ideological conformity together with that element of cold self-interest, and I think you have an explanation for most of what's been going on here between Trump and his generals.
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04 — Defund the military! We're all wearily familiar now with the woke slogan: Defund the Police! I'd like to propose a corresponding slogan for the based side of the national argument: Defund the military!
I'm not being facetious here. Whether the police need defunding to any degree at all, I doubt; but I'll leave that to another time. In the case of the military, however, I think we should considerably defund it. Our military is way over-funded. Some major defunding is definitely called for. What's more, I have a way to do it.
Back in the 1970s as a mainframe-programming grunt, I coded up a General Ledger and Budgeting system for a national corporation. At that time there was a fad in business-management circles for Zero-Based Budgeting. I liked the idea so much, I still like it 45 years and several changes of business-management fashion later.
The usual way to do budgeting was, to tweak this year's budget. You look at the budget the company is currently working from, add a percent or two here, subtract a percent or two there, and bingo! you have next year's budget.
With Zero-Based Budgeting you throw this year's budget in the trash and start clean. What resources does this department need for this function, and this one, and this one? How much will each cost, based on our best guess about next year's business environment?
Once you got into that zero-based frame of mind, it was amazing how many functions — sometimes entire departments — turned out to be superfluous, requiring no budget at all.
I'd like to see Zero-Based Budgeting applied to the U.S. military. How much of what it's doing really needs doing?
Some of it does, for sure. There are crazy dictatorships with nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems. The only known way to prevent them annihilating our nation is to have lots of nukes and missiles ourselves. Given the depths of human folly, I doubt deterrence will be forever infallible, but's it's all we have, and it's worked all through my lifetime. So: lots of nukes, and delivery systems, and service personnel who can work those systems.
As a commercial republic, we need to be able to defend our trade routes, our sea lanes and airways, so some modest naval and air defenses are in order. No quarrel with that.
Our territory needs defending from invasion, too. This is much less of an issue for us than it is for most nations. To our east and west we have broad oceans; to our north, a friendly cultural cousin; to our south, a bunch of militarily insignificant narco-states. Still, it's not inconceivable that some rogue Asian power might try to seize Hawaii, or that Russia might try to recover Alaska. It needs to be clear that we'll defend our territory; and we need trained troops to do the defending.
Is there some conceivable Man in the High Castle scenario of invasion and occupation of the U.S.A. by foreign powers? I can't see it. The biggest, craziest foreign powers — Russia and China — are both swirling down the demographic toilet. They don't have the population to colonize on that scale — certainly not to colonize a nation with millions of armed citizens.
Invasion and occupation by disorganized hordes from poop-hole countries is of course a possibility — in fact it's an ongoing actuality — but that's an issue of law enforcement and immigration control, not really military. Wait, let me rephrase that: It's legitimate to use our military for the purpose, but unnecessary if we have sensible immigration laws robustly enforced.
So: good strong nuclear forces, sea and air defenses for our trade routes, territorial defense for some outlying regions, and … that's about it, far as I can see.
It's meager compared with our current colossal military establishment. Fifty-five thousand troops in Japan? Twelve thousand in Italy?
And those are non-combat areas. Afghanistan? I don't know precise numbers, but current policy is to reduce them below 5,000 by the end of November. Iraq? Currently 5,200, with a promise from the administration just this week to reduce them to 3,000. I don't know the date for that.
And as U.S. troop deployment numbers go, those figures for Afghanistan and Iraq are just the tip of the Middle East iceberg. Quote from the New York Times, September 9th:
At any given time, 45,000 to 65,000 American troops are in the region, spread out between Jordan and Oman, assigned to operate airfields, run key headquarters, sail warships and fly warplanes, and stage for deployments to places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The numbers change substantially depending on the presence of an aircraft carrier strike group or two in the region, and whether a large group of Marines is afloat in those waters.
End quote.
Oh yeah, aircraft carriers: we have twenty of those, five times as many as the next nation.
For heaven's sake, what business is it of ours if Jordan wants to drop a bomb on Oman? How many Americans could even locate Oman on a map? Oh, man … I mean: C'mon, man. Defund the military!
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05 — The bad, the mad, the sad. This headline from The Spectator, August 29th, naturally caught my eye. Headline: If anything, America has an under-incarceration problem. The byline is Pedro L. Gonzalez, a name not otherwise known to me; but if Pedro is ever out Long Island way, I'll be glad to buy him a drink.
He takes us through some recent cases you've probably read about. There was the 59-year-old white man beaten to death at Maryland State Fair last year by two young black brothers — I mean, they are actual brothers — aged 16 and 15. Motions to try them as adults were denied. The older brother got probation; the younger is in a juvenile detention facility until he's completed a behavioral modification program.
Then Pedro tells the horrible story of five-year-old white child Cannon Hinnant, shot dead while riding his bike in his front yard by 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, who is black. That was just last month so there's no result from the courts yet; but we have learned that Sessoms is a felon with a long rap sheet.
And then, Joel Francisco, who got early release from jail last year under Jared Kushner's First Step Act. Shortly after his release, he stabbed a man to death.
And so on. This kind of thing is all too common. If you pay attention to your local news, you don't have to pay attention for long before you read about someone on early release, or probation, or with outstanding warrants — someone who should really be locked up — who's committed some new felony.
Pedro Gonzalez crunches the numbers and makes a good case. Just one short quote from him, quote:
Most of what Americans have been told about mass incarceration is untrue, or takes half-truths and tortures them into whole lies.
End quote.
A lot of that lying is in support of race denialism, our great National Lie. The stupendous differences in criminality between blacks and nonblacks must at all costs be kept hidden from the peasants, or else we'd be marching on the palace with pitchforks.
I once, in a scholarly discussion group with some quantitative social scientists, posed the question: Suppose we locked up black people at higher and higher rates until the level of black crime in society outside prisons and jails was equal to the nonblack rate? What proportion of incarcerated people would be black? I couldn't get an answer out of them, and wasn't invited back to the group.
There is also, though, a larger systemic failure. Society does not uniformly improve as time goes on. In some ways, it gets worse — less capable. That has happened across the past few decades in America with institutionalization. We used to institutionalize a lot, and were reasonably good at it. Now we don't want to do it that much; and when we do it, we do it badly.
This isn't true only for the institutionalization of criminals, but also for lunatics. A high proportion of homeless people — forty percent, according to my mnemonic — are crazy. They shouldn't be on the streets; they should be in institutions, but we don't do that any more, not on anything like the scale we should.
Some of this collapse of institutionalization was driven by popular culture. The 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a lethal blow to the institutionalization of crazy people, although I've been told it only accelerated a trend already under way; The Shawshank Redemption twenty years later did something similar to criminal incarceration.
I don't know the current state of affairs in our jails; but I suspect the fate of Jeffrey Epstein offers a clue.
A lot of people need institutionalizing, for the protection of the rest of us. The old catch-phrase for the inmates of a jail is apt here, although I think it can be interpreted to include mental patients, too: The sad, the bad, and the mad.
A modern society ought to be able to figure out who they are; and it ought to be able to provide humane, secure institutionalization without seriously infringing on general liberties. Is this really beyond our collective wits, with all our spiffy computers and Artificial Intelligence systems and university departments of psychology and neurology? It looks as though it is.
Did we used to do much better in this zone? My impression, based on reading prison memoirs and some brief observations of my town asylum in England sixty and then forty years ago, is that we did. Surely we could at least try harder.
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06 — Dame Cressida goes to Parliament. I have mentioned one Dick in this podcast, indirectly. That was Philip K. Dick, author of the original 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle. Well, here's another Dick: Dame Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police over there in London.
The title "Dame" there, I should explain, comes from the lady having been elevated to a senior rank in the Order of the British Empire. That's equivalent to being knighted; so if you are male you become Sir So-and-so, if female, Dame So-and-so. I don't know how it works with transsexuals; The College of Arms is still working on that. Dame Cressida is in any case not transsexual; although she is, according to her Wikipedia article, quote, "the highest-ranked lesbian officer in British police history," end quote.
So what's up with Dame Cressida Dick? Well, this July she gave testimony before the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee. That's equivalent to an American big-city police chief testifying to a congressional justice committee.
Eye-stopping quote, from James Thompson's excellent coverage of this story over at Unz.com, quote:
Dame Cressida Dick fielded questions about how the police were dealing with the lockdown, and with knife crime and crime generally, with a focus on racial differences, particularly on the numbers of people stopped and searched.
End quote.
Yes: Incredibly, Dame Cressida was open and forthcoming about race differences in crime. She wasn't as open and forthcoming as we are here at VDARE.com, needless to say; but for a person in her position, in a nation as thoroughly race-cucked as Britain, she was remarkably frank. Sample quote from her testimony:
You are four times more likely to be a victim of homicide if you are black and eight times more likely to be a perpetrator.
End quote.
If, in defiance of all the efforts of mainstream media to keep the facts hidden from you, if you know American crime statistics, that eight times figure for homicide will be familiar. It's more or less the same as the corresponding figure for us.
James Thompson says it better than I can. Another quote from him:
The figure is roughly the same as that for homicide for African Americans, despite their different histories. US Police and UK Police differ considerably, in that the latter are not usually armed. That does not appear to make a difference in the ratio of black to white offenders. Black British were originally from the West Indies, and after 70 years in the UK, whatever their experiences, they were not subjected to possibly 500 years of life in the US. It is either a coincidence that both homicide rates are equally raised, or it suggests that the US experiences are not a unique cause of Black homicide rates.
End quote.
In at least one crime statistic the British black-white disparity is actually greater than ours. Quote from the far-left British newspaper The Guardian, September 7th 2017. Here they are reporting on a speech by a black socialist Member of Parliament, David Lammy, complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system. Quote:
The MP highlighted the fact that there was "greater disproportionality" in the number of black people in prisons in England and Wales than in the US. Black people make up 3 percent of population in England and Wales and 12 percent of the prison population, compared with 13 percent and 35 percent respectively, in the US.
End quote.
So on those numbers from three years ago, British blacks are imprisoned at four times the nonblack rate, while in America it's only 2.7 times.
Ah, these racial gaps: When shall we ever see the end of them? Fix the schools! Defund the police! No justice, no peace! …
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07 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: There have been three stories in the news recently that, if you put them together, mutually annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays, like matter meeting antimatter.
First story: The movie Academy, the one that awards the Oscars, has imposed race quotas on films to be eligible for the Best Picture award. Strictly speaking they are diversity quotas embracing LGBTs, women, the disabled, etc.; but race is of course the main driver here. As Steve Sailer wrote, commenting on this, quote: "Diversity means: black is best and white is worst." End quote.
Second story: The Disney company is in trouble for kowtowing to the ChiComs. The end credits of Disney's live-action Mulan remake thank the police department of a city that runs a concentration camp for Uyghur Muslims. This is routine. China's a big market for Hollywood movies, so the movie-makers strive to follow the party line, to keep the ChiComs happy.
Third story: Chinese audiences strongly prefer to see light-skinned actors in their movies. So, quote from the New York Post, September 8th, quote:
Hollywood is casting more light-skinned actors for major roles in movies to appeal to Chinese audiences following the Communist Party allowing more foreign films in the country.
End quote.
Ftssss! Watch out for those gamma rays!
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Item: A dear friend of mine who is much more of a Trump supporter than I am has taken it upon himself, in a spirit of missionary endeavor, to lift me up from the darkness of my Trump Disappointment Syndrome.
The other day, for example, he emailed me to tell me that the official border wall tally has passed 300 miles, with double wall in some places. He includes a link to supporting information from CBP, Customs and Border Patrol.
My friend does this quite often, and I wouldn't mention it but that this particular email included a signoff that made me laugh. Thus, quote from him:
And don't worry, the wall will never be torn down. When the next Democrat is elected president, the wall will be fortified to keep people from escaping.
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Item: While I'm going through my emails, here's one on a slightly more macabre note. I'm going to tape here on Friday, September 11th, which is of course the 19th anniversary of the assault on our nation by crazy Muslims.
Here is a different friend, quote:
I don't know if you're doing anything 9/11-ish today, but, if you're comparing that spirit to the current one, Google confirms that the phrase "mostly peaceful aviation" is unclaimed.
End quote.
Ah, my friends. God bless them all!
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Item: Here's an interesting question for some scholar of linguistics — John McWhorter, perhaps — to take up: How much can you know of a language without being able to speak it?
My touchstone here is the great and wonderfully prolific British sinologist Arthur Waley, who made famous, and often beautiful translations of Chinese poetry and classic Chinese and Japanese novels. David Honey, in his 2001 survey of famous sinologists, gives twenty fulsome pages to Waley and his translations; yet he notes, on the second of those pages, that, quote:
Waley never visited Asia or learned to speak modern Mandarin or Japanese.
End quote.
Well, here's another data point for this strange little graph: New Zealander Nigel Richards, age 53. Nigel is a Scrabble player, in fact a Scrabble great-grandmaster. He was the Scrabble World Champion in 2007, and again in 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2019.
That's sufficiently impressive; but what really got my attention was the fact that he won the 2015 French-language Scrabble World Championships in spite of not being able to speak French. He basically just memorized a very large French dictionary.
French Scrabble, the NPR report tells us, French Scrabble has 386,000 words — almost twice as many as North American Scrabble. That's interesting in itself: I didn't know the French were that wordy. Zut alors!
I'd like to work my way back to sinology somehow, but I can't. There is a Chinese version of Scrabble, and I commend it to Nigel Richard's attention. It uses the pinyin transcription of Mandarin, though, which is kind of cheating. Real Chinese, written with Chinese characters, is not Scrabbleable.
Is that a word, "Scrabbleable"? "Scrabble-acious," perhaps? "Scrabblesome"? I bet Nigel Richards knows. Heck, he probably knows it in French.
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08 — Signoff. That's all I have for you, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening; and thank you for your many informative and clever emails, like the two I've just quoted. Forgive me please if I didn't answer your email; I get way more than I can acknowledge. The rule remains, as always: Everything non-abusive gets read, pondered, and, where suitable, plagiarized.
OK; some music to see us out. This one needs a bit of explaining.
Keen readers of VDARE.com will know that on Sunday last I blogged about our family rifle, a Lee-Enfield .303 bolt-action antique that is the same age as myself. In that blog was a link to some reminiscing about my schooldays when, in the Combined Cadet Force, I trained on the Lee-Enfield.
In among that reminiscing is a mention of the 1968 movie If …, which includes some scenes of British schoolboys on a CCF field exercise, the kind of thing we used to do with our Lee-Enfields. I wouldn't actually recommend the movie. It's a period piece now, and aside from that is one of the very few cultural productions that I think can be unambiguously described as Nihilist. It does, though, include in its background music some of the Missa Luba.
What's that? It's a setting of the Roman Catholic Latin mass to traditional music from Africa, actually from the Congo. This was the brainchild of a Belgian cleric, who got it recorded in the 1950s by an ensemble called King Baudoin's Troubadours. Here is the Sanctus, which is the piece they played in that movie.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-09-11--John Derbyshire: The U.S. Needs MORE Incarceration. The U.K., Surprisingly, May Already Have It

[ Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively through VDARE.com ] This headline from The Spectator , August 29th , naturally caught my eye : If anything , America has an under-incarceration problem .
The byline is Pedro L. Gonzalez , a name not otherwise known to me ; [ VDARE.com Note : Read Pedro L. Gonzalez at American Greatness and follow him on Twitter at @ emeriticus ] but if Pedro is ever out Long Island way , I 'll be glad to buy him a drink .
He takes us through some recent cases : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man beaten to death at Maryland State Fair last year by two young black brothers—I mean , they are actual brothers—aged 16 and 15 .
Motions to try them as adults were denied .
The older brother got probation ; the younger is in a juvenile detention facility until he 's completed a behavioral modification program [ Teen charged in deadly Great Frederick Fair assault to serve probation , by Jeremy Arias , Frederick News-Post , August 12 , 2020 ] .
Then Pedro tells the horrible story of five-year-old white child Cannon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bike in his front yard by 25-year-old Darius Sessoms , who is black .
That was just last month so there 's no result from the courts yet ; but we have learned that Sessoms is a felon with a long rap sheet .
And then , Joel Francisco , below , who got early release from jail last year under Jared Kushner 's First Step Act .
Shortly after his release , he stabbed a man to death [ He was released early from prison in February .
Now he ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Providence Journal , Oct 4 , 2019 ] .
And so on .
This kind of thing is all too common .
If you pay attention to your local news , you do n't have to pay attention for long before you read about someone on early release , or probation , or with outstanding warrants—someone who should really be locked up—who 's committed some new felony .
Pedro Gonzalez crunches the numbers and makes a good case .
Just one short quote : A lot of that lying is in support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lie .
The stupendous differences in criminality between blacks and non-blacks must at all costs be kept hidden from the peasants , or else we 'd be marching on the palace with pitchforks .
I once , in a scholarly discussion group with some quantitative social scientists , posed the question : Suppose we locked up black people at higher and higher rates until the level of black crime in society outside prisons and jails was equal to the nonblack rate ?
What proportion of incarcerated people would be black ?
I could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and was n't invited back to the group .
Now for the situation in the U.K .
It has some similarities—and some differences .
Dame Cressida Dick , Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London , gave testimony this July before the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee .
That 's equivalent to an American big-city police chief testifying to a congressional justice committee .
Eye-stopping quote , from psychologist James Thompson 's excellent coverage of this story : Yes !
Incredibly , Dame Cressida was open and forthcoming about race differences in crime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forthcoming as we are here at VDARE.com , needless to say ; but for a person in her position , in a country as thoroughly race-cucked as Britain , she was remarkably frank : If , in defiance of all the efforts of the U.S. Main Stream Media to keep the facts hidden from you , if you know American crime statistics , that eight times figure for homicide will be familiar .
It 's more or less the same as the corresponding figure for us .
James Thompson says it better than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least one crime statistic the British black-white disparity is actually greater than ours .
Here ’ s the far-left British newspaper The Guardian reporting on a speech by a black socialist Member of parliament , David Lammy , complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system .
So on those numbers from three years ago , British blacks are imprisoned at four times the nonblack rate , while in America it 's only 2.7 times .
And that was before Javanka got to work .
Ah , these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see the end of them ?
Fix the schools !
Defund the police !
No justice , no peace !
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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com]
Earlier, by Ann Coulter: Mass Incarceration Saved Black America
This headline from The Spectator, August 29th, naturally caught my eye: If anything, America has an under-incarceration problem. The byline is Pedro L. Gonzalez, a name not otherwise known to me; [VDARE.com Note: Read Pedro L. Gonzalez at American Greatness and follow him on Twitter at @emeriticus] but if Pedro is ever out Long Island way, I'll be glad to buy him a drink.
He takes us through some recent cases: John Marvin Weed, the 59-year-old white man beaten to death at Maryland State Fair last year by two young black brothers—I mean, they are actual brothers—aged 16 and 15.
The attack was caught on video. pic.twitter.com/WibDYumQln — David Pinsen (@dpinsen) August 16, 2020
Motions to try them as adults were denied. The older brother got probation; the younger is in a juvenile detention facility until he's completed a behavioral modification program [Teen charged in deadly Great Frederick Fair assault to serve probation, by Jeremy Arias, Frederick News-Post, August 12, 2020].
Then Pedro tells the horrible story of five-year-old white child Cannon Hinnant, shot dead while riding his bike in his front yard by 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, who is black.
That was just last month so there's no result from the courts yet; but we have learned that Sessoms is a felon with a long rap sheet.
And then, Joel Francisco, below, who got early release from jail last year under Jared Kushner's First Step Act.
Shortly after his release, he stabbed a man to death [He was released early from prison in February. Now he’s wanted for a murder on Federal Hill. Providence Journal, Oct 4, 2019].
And so on. This kind of thing is all too common. If you pay attention to your local news, you don't have to pay attention for long before you read about someone on early release, or probation, or with outstanding warrants—someone who should really be locked up—who's committed some new felony.
Pedro Gonzalez crunches the numbers and makes a good case. Just one short quote:
Most of what Americans have been told about mass incarceration is untrue, or takes half-truths and tortures them into whole lies.
A lot of that lying is in support of race denialism, our great National Lie. The stupendous differences in criminality between blacks and non-blacks must at all costs be kept hidden from the peasants, or else we'd be marching on the palace with pitchforks.
I once, in a scholarly discussion group with some quantitative social scientists, posed the question: Suppose we locked up black people at higher and higher rates until the level of black crime in society outside prisons and jails was equal to the nonblack rate? What proportion of incarcerated people would be black?
I couldn't get an answer out of them, and wasn't invited back to the group.
Now for the situation in the U.K. It has some similarities—and some differences.
Dame Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London, gave testimony this July before the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee. That's equivalent to an American big-city police chief testifying to a congressional justice committee. Eye-stopping quote, from psychologist James Thompson's excellent coverage of this story:
Dame Cressida Dick fielded questions about how the police were dealing with the lockdown, and with knife crime and crime generally, with a focus on racial differences, particularly on the numbers of people stopped and searched. British Justice, British Version, Unz.com, September 9, 2020
What—what?
Yes! Incredibly, Dame Cressida was open and forthcoming about race differences in crime!
She wasn't as open and forthcoming as we are here at VDARE.com, needless to say; but for a person in her position, in a country as thoroughly race-cucked as Britain, she was remarkably frank:
You are four times more likely to be a victim of homicide if you are black and eight times more likely to be a perpetrator.[PDF]
If, in defiance of all the efforts of the U.S. Main Stream Media to keep the facts hidden from you, if you know American crime statistics, that eight times figure for homicide will be familiar. It's more or less the same as the corresponding figure for us.
How odd.
James Thompson says it better than I can:
The figure is roughly the same as that for homicide for African Americans, despite their different histories. US Police and UK Police differ considerably, in that the latter are not usually armed. That does not appear to make a difference in the ratio of black to white offenders. Black British were originally from the West Indies, and after 70 years in the UK, whatever their experiences, they were not subjected to possibly 500 years of life in the US. It is either a coincidence that both homicide rates are equally raised, or it suggests that the US experiences are not a unique cause of Black homicide rates.
Surprisingly, in at least one crime statistic the British black-white disparity is actually greater than ours. Here’s the far-left British newspaper The Guardian reporting on a speech by a black socialist Member of parliament, David Lammy, complaining about what he says is anti-black bias in the criminal justice system.
The MP highlighted the fact that there was "greater disproportionality" in the number of black people in prisons in England and Wales than in the US. Black people make up 3 percent of population in England and Wales and 12 percent of the prison population, compared with 13 percent and 35 percent respectively, in the US. Exposed: ‘racial bias’ in England and Wales criminal justice system , September 7th, 2017.
So on those numbers from three years ago, British blacks are imprisoned at four times the nonblack rate, while in America it's only 2.7 times.
And that was before Javanka got to work.
Ah, these racial gaps: When shall we ever see the end of them? Fix the schools! Defund the police! No justice, no peace! …
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
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vdare--2020-09-08--MSM Still Silent About Proud Boy Shane Moon Being Run Down By Antifa, Not Like The Hysterical Reacti

MSM Still Silent About Proud Boy Shane Moon Being Run Down By Antifa, Not Like The Hysterical Reaction To The Death At Charlottesville

On September 7 , Proud Boy Shane Moon was run down—at a memorial service for a previous Antifa murder victim—by @ @ @ @ @ Robbie Smith .
This was reported by Cassandra Fairbanks at Gateway Pundit and some local @ @ @ @ @ still no national news about it .
Compare that with the worldwide hysteria after one @ @ @ @ @ which may not even have been deliberate .
Or compare the deaths of Cannon Hinnant @ @ @ @ @ were definitely black-on-white murders , with the nationwide media storm ( with black and white @ @ @ @ @ self-inflicted death of George Floyd .
Three Twitter threads , screenshotted to protect them from @ @ @ @ @ : See Police investigating hit-and-run after confrontation at Vancouver bar , Fox12 , September 7 @ @ @ @ @ See BREAKING EXCLUSIVE : Black Lives Matter Activist Who Attempted to Kill Trump Supporter After @ @ @ @ @ Antifa HAS BEEN ARRESTED By Cassandra Fairbanks , GateWayPundit , September 7 , 2020 at @

On September 7, Proud Boy Shane Moon was run down—at a memorial service for a previous Antifa murder victim—by a truck driven by Antifa Robbie Smith. This was reported by Cassandra Fairbanks at Gateway Pundit and some local papers, but there is still no national news about it.
Compare that with the worldwide hysteria after one automobile death at Charlottesville, which may not even have been deliberate. Or compare the deaths of Cannon Hinnant and the murders, which were definitely black-on-white murders, with the nationwide media storm (with black and white rioters) about the apparently self-inflicted death of George Floyd.
Three Twitter threads, screenshotted to protect them from Twitter deletion.
Thread One:
Thread Two: See Police investigating hit-and-run after confrontation at Vancouver bar, Fox12, September 7, 2020
Thread Three: See BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Black Lives Matter Activist Who Attempted to Kill Trump Supporter After Memorial for Man Murdered By Antifa HAS BEEN ARRESTED By Cassandra Fairbanks, GateWayPundit, September 7, 2020 at 9:44pm


vdare--2020-09-10--Camelot Is Dead, And So Are The White Democrats

Earlier : The Democratic Party Has Tipped—Great News For The GOP ( Which Doesn ’ t Deserve It ) “ At night before we ’ d go to sleep , Jack liked to play some records ; and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record .
The lines he loved to hear were : Don ’ t let it be forgot , that once there was a spot , for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot.
” [ For President Kennedy An Epilogue , by Theodore H. White , Life , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ magazine interview , given just weeks after President Kennedy ’ s assassination , gave birth to the myth of the Kennedys as “ American royalty , ” which has always provoked an eye roll on the political Right .
However , I consider the Camelot myth highly appropriate because the Kennedys very much resemble the British Royals—spoiled rich , entitled , oversexed , and never under any pressure to get a real job .
The Kennedys , like the Windsors , live far removed from the experiences of everyday people , and they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expense of their countrymen .
Needless to say , this includes support for mass Third World immigration .
Think about it : Don ’ t the stories of Prince Andrew carousing with teenage girls on Jeffrey Epstein ’ s island remind one of Michael Kennedy ’ s affair with his babysitter ?
[ RFK 's Son & Baby-Sitter ?
Accused Of 5-Year Affair With Teen ; He Hires A Lawyer , NY Daily News , April 26 , 1997 ] .
Or Ted Kennedy famously sandwiching a waitress with Chris Dodd at La @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Windsors , however , the Kennedys have had the advantage of the so-called “ Kennedy Curse ” , which they ( along with a compliant corporate media ) periodically invoke in order to bump their poll numbers .
Of course , it would be traumatic for any family to suffer two public assassinations within five years .
But it is preposterous to claim that every Kennedy tragedy , even it ’ s caused by drug overdose ( David Anthony Kennedy , 1984 , Saoirse Kennedy Hill , 2019 ) , is due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kennedy tragedies are just the consequences of reckless behavior : Chappaquiddick , JFK Jr ’ s plane crash , Michael L. Kennedy ’ s ski slope death [ Legacy of Untimely Death Continues , by Dan Balz Washington Post , January 2 , 1998 ] .
There is , however , a real Kennedy Curse , one that the family does not like to admit : the curse of demographic transformation that Ted publicly championed through his vocal support of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965 .
Back then the Kennedys enjoyed an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the broad public sympathy they enjoyed .
The fact that two Kennedys ( Ted and Bobby ) supported Hart-Celler in the Senate helped give the legislation a moral force that it never deserved .
In fact , Ted specifically promised that Hart-Celler would not transform the ethnic core of the country : All lies , but Ted may have actually believed them because he was less an architect of our demographic revolution than a tool of it .
Kennedy was a full-time drunken playboy during the 1960s ( and beyond ) and never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Especially after Bobby ’ s death , Ted ’ s main responsibility was to keep the family legacy “ alive ” publicly , while leading a life of debauchery privately .
That legacy is now in shreds because the Open Borders policies the Kennedys long supported have now made them unelectable , even in Massachusetts .
In fact , two years ago I wrote about how John F. Kennedy ’ s former congressional district has now become majority-minority , which enabled the election of former Kennedy staffer Ayanna Pressley .
Ayanna Pressley ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war on white America while becoming arguably the scariest-looking member of “ The Squad ” [ Dem Rep. Pressley says it 's 'not good enough ' for white people to not be racist : 'Come on , Becky , ' by Douglas Ernst , Washington Times , June 15 , 2020 ] .
At any rate , after Jack ’ s death Ted became a [ In Kennedy , the Last Roar of the New Deal Liberal , by Sam Tanenhaus , NYT , August 28 , 2009 ] .
He almost never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , there is some evidence that even Ted may have grasped the magnitude of the social havoc he helped inflict on the country .
In his 2006 memoir , the late Christopher Kennedy Lawford , nephew of JFK , tells a story about a family gathering where Ted admitted to the coming chaos .
This sounds as much an admission of guilt as an act of prophecy .
You would think , knowing this , that Ted might have advised the family to shift their politics .
But he didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every Kennedy in Congress over the last 50 years .
Still , while Rep. Joseph Kennedy III ’ s may emulate his family politically , he reportedly does not do so privately .
Young Joe is faithfully married , doesn ’ t drink alcohol , and unlike Ted , who got busted having a classmate take his Spanish test at Harvard , Joe actually speaks Spanish fluently , and often spoke it on the campaign trail .
Nevertheless , Ed Markey crushed Joseph Kennedy ( 55.4 to 44.5 % ) in the Democrat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be a giant ego bruise for the family .
A former ice cream truck driver , Markey has been in Congress since 1976 and accomplished nothing except get continually reelected by keeping his head down and voting the party line .
In fact , Markey has long used his childhood bedroom in his parents ’ house in Malden MA as his voting residence while living full-time in Chevy Chase , MD [ For Markey , A Tale of Two Homes , by Noah Bierman & Frank Phillips , Boston Globe , February @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ran for an open Senate Seat in 2013 ( against a pathetic Open Borders Republican ) , most voters had barely heard of him .
Joe Kennedy largely campaigned on the family “ legacy ” and actually tried to out Open-Border his opponent ( in English and Spanish ) with strange moves like boasting of his effort to win the previously undiscovered “ Cambodian vote ” [ Congressman Joe Kennedy III visited Cambodia Town in Lowell , by Soben Pin , KhmerPost USA , July 27 , 2020 ] .
Kennedy also repeatedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , hiring a notoriously corrupt black appointee of Deval Patrick ( Sheriff Steven Tompkins , right ) to “ advise ” him [ Joe Kennedy III Hired a Cop to Advise Him on Race and Justice , by Maia Hibbet , The Nation , July 10 , 2020 ] .
It was painful to watch .
Which is precisely why so many people didn ’ t , especially given that both candidates had virtually identical platforms ( Ed Markey , NumbersUSA F- ) .
So why did Markey win ?
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demographically .
The white-loathing POC Left that is rising to power could not tolerate the prospect of a 39-year-old straight white male Democrat with star power arriving in the U.S. Senate—which is why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Squad members preferred the elderly Markey , who will be 80 when his term expires [ Doug Schoen : Markey 's Mass .
primary victory proves AOC is most powerful Democrat in America , by Doug Shoen , FoxNews , September 2 , 2020 ] These minority Democrats are planning for a future in which they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whites need not apply .
Indeed , Boston ’ s BLM District Attorney , Rachael Rollins , has already warned Kennedy that he should not run again in 2017 if Elizabeth Warren retires because the Squad is eying her seat [ Rachael Rollins would be ‘ shocked ’ if Ayanna Pressley doesn ’ t someday run for Senate : Pressley is not ruling it out , by Nik Decosta-Klipa , Boston Globe , September 1 , 2020 ] .
Like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster , White Democrats created this minority voting bloc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that power usurped by those very minorities that inevitably turned on them .
In the waning days of the campaign , Joseph Kennedy tacitly invoked the Kennedy Curse by claiming that he had been receiving death threats [ Joe Kennedy , facing death threats , gets beefed up security on campaign trail , by Joe Battenfield , Boston Herald , August 24 , 2020 ] .
Maybe he did .
But it didn ’ t matter—not simply because the well of public sympathy has run dry for America ’ s Royal Family , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Let it be known from this moment forward that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Kennedys—and that the torch was snatched from them by the very mob of white-loathing politicians they put into power in the first place .
No Kennedy will ever be able to pick it up again ; not in Massachusetts , not anywhere .
Camelot is dead , and the only Kennedy Curse that remains is the demographic curse they inflicted on the country that once treated them like royalty .
This is what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said that the whole thing is going to fall apart .
Matthew Richer ( email him ) is a writer living in Massachusetts .
He is the former American Editor of Right NOW magazine .

Earlier: The Democratic Party Has Tipped—Great News For The GOP (Which Doesn’t Deserve It)
“At night before we’d go to sleep, Jack liked to play some records; and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record. The lines he loved to hear were: Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot.” [For President Kennedy An Epilogue, by Theodore H. White, Life, December 6, 1963]
This Life magazine interview, given just weeks after President Kennedy’s assassination, gave birth to the myth of the Kennedys as “American royalty,” which has always provoked an eye roll on the political Right. However, I consider the Camelot myth highly appropriate because the Kennedys very much resemble the British Royals—spoiled rich, entitled, oversexed, and never under any pressure to get a real job. The Kennedys, like the Windsors, live far removed from the experiences of everyday people, and they habitually engage in vapid virtue-signaling at the expense of their countrymen. Needless to say, this includes support for mass Third World immigration.
Think about it: Don’t the stories of Prince Andrew carousing with teenage girls on Jeffrey Epstein’s island remind one of Michael Kennedy’s affair with his babysitter? [RFK's Son & Baby-Sitter? Accused Of 5-Year Affair With Teen; He Hires A Lawyer, NY Daily News, April 26, 1997]. Or Ted Kennedy famously sandwiching a waitress with Chris Dodd at La Brasserie in Washington, D.C.?
Unlike the Windsors, however, the Kennedys have had the advantage of the so-called “Kennedy Curse”, which they (along with a compliant corporate media) periodically invoke in order to bump their poll numbers. Of course, it would be traumatic for any family to suffer two public assassinations within five years. But it is preposterous to claim that every Kennedy tragedy, even it’s caused by drug overdose (David Anthony Kennedy, 1984, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 2019), is due to some mysterious “curse.” Most Kennedy tragedies are just the consequences of reckless behavior: Chappaquiddick, JFK Jr’s plane crash, Michael L. Kennedy’s ski slope death [Legacy of Untimely Death Continues, by Dan Balz Washington Post, January 2, 1998].
There is, however, a real Kennedy Curse, one that the family does not like to admit: the curse of demographic transformation that Ted publicly championed through his vocal support of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965.
Back then the Kennedys enjoyed an extraordinary amount of political capital due to the broad public sympathy they enjoyed. The fact that two Kennedys (Ted and Bobby) supported Hart-Celler in the Senate helped give the legislation a moral force that it never deserved. In fact, Ted specifically promised that Hart-Celler would not transform the ethnic core of the country:
"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same.” “Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.” “Thirdly, the bill will not permit the entry of subversive persons, criminals, illiterates, or those with contagious disease or serious mental illness.”
All lies, but Ted may have actually believed them because he was less an architect of our demographic revolution than a tool of it. Kennedy was a full-time drunken playboy during the 1960s (and beyond) and never thought too deeply on policy matters. Especially after Bobby’s death, Ted’s main responsibility was to keep the family legacy “alive” publicly, while leading a life of debauchery privately.
That legacy is now in shreds because the Open Borders policies the Kennedys long supported have now made them unelectable, even in Massachusetts. In fact, two years ago I wrote about how John F. Kennedy’s former congressional district has now become majority-minority, which enabled the election of former Kennedy staffer Ayanna Pressley.
Ayanna Pressley (NumbersUSA F-) has since declared open war on white America while becoming arguably the scariest-looking member of “The Squad” [Dem Rep. Pressley says it's 'not good enough' for white people to not be racist: 'Come on, Becky,' by Douglas Ernst, Washington Times, June 15, 2020].
At any rate, after Jack’s death Ted became a rubber stamp for the Great Society [In Kennedy, the Last Roar of the New Deal Liberal, by Sam Tanenhaus, NYT, August 28, 2009]. He almost never expressed an original thought on anything. However, there is some evidence that even Ted may have grasped the magnitude of the social havoc he helped inflict on the country.
In his 2006 memoir, the late Christopher Kennedy Lawford, nephew of JFK, tells a story about a family gathering where Ted admitted to the coming chaos.
[Ted] took a long, slow gulp of his vodka and tonic, thought for a moment, and changed tack. “I’m glad I’m not going to be around when you guys are my age.” I asked him why, and he said, “Because when you guys are my age, the whole thing is going to fall apart.” The statement hung there, suspended in the realm of “maybe we shouldn’t go there.” Nobody wanted to touch it. After a few moments of heavy silence, my uncle moved on. [Symptoms of Withdrawal, by Christopher Kennedy Lawford]
This sounds as much an admission of guilt as an act of prophecy.
You would think, knowing this, that Ted might have advised the family to shift their politics. But he didn’t. Consider the immigration voting record of every Kennedy in Congress over the last 50 years.
Still, while Rep. Joseph Kennedy III’s may emulate his family politically, he reportedly does not do so privately. Young Joe is faithfully married, doesn’t drink alcohol, and unlike Ted, who got busted having a classmate take his Spanish test at Harvard, Joe actually speaks Spanish fluently, and often spoke it on the campaign trail.
Nevertheless, Ed Markey crushed Joseph Kennedy (55.4 to 44.5%) in the Democrat Senate primary on September 1. This must be a giant ego bruise for the family. A former ice cream truck driver, Markey has been in Congress since 1976 and accomplished nothing except get continually reelected by keeping his head down and voting the party line. In fact, Markey has long used his childhood bedroom in his parents’ house in Malden MA as his voting residence while living full-time in Chevy Chase, MD [For Markey, A Tale of Two Homes, by Noah Bierman & Frank Phillips, Boston Globe, February 14, 2013]. Until Markey ran for an open Senate Seat in 2013 (against a pathetic Open Borders Republican), most voters had barely heard of him.
Joe Kennedy largely campaigned on the family “legacy” and actually tried to out Open-Border his opponent (in English and Spanish) with strange moves like boasting of his effort to win the previously undiscovered “Cambodian vote” [Congressman Joe Kennedy III visited Cambodia Town in Lowell, by Soben Pin, KhmerPost USA, July 27, 2020]. Kennedy also repeatedly bent the knee to Black Lives Matter, hiring a notoriously corrupt black appointee of Deval Patrick (Sheriff Steven Tompkins, right) to “advise” him [Joe Kennedy III Hired a Cop to Advise Him on Race and Justice, by Maia Hibbet, The Nation, July 10, 2020].
It was painful to watch. Which is precisely why so many people didn’t, especially given that both candidates had virtually identical platforms (Ed Markey, NumbersUSA F-).
So why did Markey win?
It’s simple. The Democratic Party has tipped demographically. The white-loathing POC Left that is rising to power could not tolerate the prospect of a 39-year-old straight white male Democrat with star power arriving in the U.S. Senate—which is why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Squad members preferred the elderly Markey, who will be 80 when his term expires [Doug Schoen: Markey's Mass. primary victory proves AOC is most powerful Democrat in America, by Doug Shoen, FoxNews, September 2, 2020]
These minority Democrats are planning for a future in which they have exclusive control over a party where whites need not apply. Indeed, Boston’s BLM District Attorney, Rachael Rollins, has already warned Kennedy that he should not run again in 2017 if Elizabeth Warren retires because the Squad is eying her seat [Rachael Rollins would be ‘shocked’ if Ayanna Pressley doesn’t someday run for Senate: Pressley is not ruling it out, by Nik Decosta-Klipa, Boston Globe, September 1, 2020].
Yup, it’s their party now.
Like Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, White Democrats created this minority voting bloc in order to acquire power—only to have that power usurped by those very minorities that inevitably turned on them.
In the waning days of the campaign, Joseph Kennedy tacitly invoked the Kennedy Curse by claiming that he had been receiving death threats [Joe Kennedy, facing death threats, gets beefed up security on campaign trail, by Joe Battenfield, Boston Herald, August 24, 2020].
Maybe he did. But it didn’t matter—not simply because the well of public sympathy has run dry for America’s Royal Family, but because Kennedy is the wrong color.
Let it be known from this moment forward that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Kennedys—and that the torch was snatched from them by the very mob of white-loathing politicians they put into power in the first place.
No Kennedy will ever be able to pick it up again; not in Massachusetts, not anywhere. Camelot is dead, and the only Kennedy Curse that remains is the demographic curse they inflicted on the country that once treated them like royalty.
This is what Ted Kennedy was obviously anticipating when he said that the whole thing is going to fall apart.
Matthew Richer (email him) is a writer living in Massachusetts. He is the former American Editor of Right NOW magazine.


vdare--2020-09-17--Covid-19: Another Genetic Factor Emerges—Race Deniers Furious

The time is long gone when CNN Talking Head Dr. Sanjay Gupta could flatly assert that Covid-19 “ doesn ’ t discriminate based on race.
” It does , albeit for reasons that are not fully understood .
Now a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has presented evidence that a previously overlooked factor may be relevant : race differences in a gene which impacts how easily you can stop Covid-19 entering your body .
There are clear race differences in the prevalence and deadliness of Covid-19 and , as I have previously reported , these differences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ socioeconomic factors that the Left insist are responsible for the disparities .
For example , South Asian doctors in Britain ’ s NHS are much more likely to succumb than white doctors .
One factor for which a strong case has been advanced : the ability to synthesise UV Light into Vitamin D. Non-whites , in Western countries suffer from Vitamin D deficiency because their dark skin renders them less able to absorb UV Light and so synthesise it into Vitamin D. Europeans ’ white skin probably evolved in winter darkness for this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Racial/Ethnic Variation in Nasal Gene Expression of Transmembrane Serine Protease 2 ( TMPRSS2 ) ” —was published in the prestigious journal on September 10th and was carried out by three researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York [ Supinda Bunyavanich ; Chantal Grant , MD ; and Alfin Vicencio ] .
It sets out to make sense of why African-Americans suffer a death rate from Covid-19 that is around three times their proportion of the U.S. population .
The researchers tested a sample of 305 people in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being 8.2 % Asian , 15.4 % Black , 26.6 % Latino , 9.5 % mixed race/ethnicity , and 40.3 % White .
Their key finding : the expression of the Transmembrane serine protease 2 ( shortened to TMPRSS2 ) was significantly higher among black individuals than it was in Asian , Latino , mixed race/ethnicity , or white individuals .
Why is this important ?
Covid-19 enters the body via contact with its airways , such as the tissues in the nose .
If the TMPRSS2 gene is present in its strong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high levels of the enzyme .
This enzyme , present in the body ’ s tissues , means that the virus is better able to enter the tissues and so spread throughout the body , potentially killing the host .
If the host has a high expression of TMPRSS2 in its nasal tissues , then , write the authors , “ this activates the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and cleaves the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor to which the virus binds , enabling SARS-CoV-2 to enter the body ” and also more easily spread .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ TMPRSS2 at a higher rate than Asians .
Asians expressed it more than Latinos , Latinos had a higher expression than Mixed race people and these , in turn , had a higher expression than whites .
This means that with regard not just to the ability to synthesise UV Light into Vitamin D , but also with regard to this cause , whites are the best adapted of these races to successfully fight off Covid-19 .
The nasal tissues of whites are such that , compared to other races , the Corona @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white tissues and spread through white bodies .
By contrast , the WuFlu finds it relatively easy to penetrate black tissues and spread through black bodies .
As the researchers summarize : In plain English , the researchers have demonstrated once again that Covid-19 is not an “ equal opportunity ” disease and that it disproportionately impacts blacks for genetic reasons , among others .
This means that supposedly “ privileged ” whites should feel no guilt whatsoever about the way in which Covid-19 disproportionately impacts blacks ( except in as far as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
And it also means that , for all but the least healthy white people , the inconvenience , destruction of liberty and economic disaster brought about by the WuFlu shutdowns has been , essentially , in vain .
It is a Democrat campaign talking point that the U.S. may have the most deaths of any developed country .
But this is to be expected when about 40 % of the U.S. population are non-whites and these are genetically much more likely to die of Covid-19 than are whites .
To criticise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the Democrats are doing , is akin to bemoaning high crime rates in the U.S. without taking into account that blacks are a significant minority in the U.S. and commit crime at roughly the same high rates they do in black-majority countries .
One problem with the TMPRSS2 hypothesis : the incidence of Covid-19 in Africa itself is quite low .
I first pointed this out in April and it continues to be the case https : //www.dw.com/en/covid-19-in-africa-milder-than-expected-pandemic-has-experts-puzzled/a-54918467 It ’ s possible that the benefits conferred by blacks ’ greater ability to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ combined with their relative absence of life-style diseases like obesity , to which American blacks are particularly prone , simply overwhelm the TMPRSS2 effect .
Plus African blacks , under greater selection pressure , may have relatively stronger immune systems .
Sign of the ( darkening ) times : a Boston physician called Rose Olson responded the Journal of the American Medical Association by simply tweeting : Which presumably means that JAMA must publish wilful lies that back up her ideology rather than do science .
As another tweeter , a PhD researcher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Here we have findings that could possibly lead to better outcomes for a certain group of people , and here is a medical professional in the grips of ideology , who really just cares about the ideology.
” Indeed .
To adapt the mantra with which I have gotten into the habit of concluding my WuFlu articles : Lance Welton [ email him ] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York .

The time is long gone when CNN Talking Head Dr. Sanjay Gupta could flatly assert that Covid-19 “doesn’t discriminate based on race.” It does, albeit for reasons that are not fully understood. Now a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association has presented evidence that a previously overlooked factor may be relevant: race differences in a gene which impacts how easily you can stop Covid-19 entering your body.
There are clear race differences in the prevalence and deadliness of Covid-19 and, as I have previously reported, these differences persist even if you control for the socioeconomic factors that the Left insists are responsible for the disparities. For example, South Asian doctors in Britain’s NHS are much more likely to succumb than white doctors. One factor for which a strong case has been advanced: the ability to synthesize UV Light into Vitamin D. Non-whites, in Western countries, suffer from Vitamin D deficiency because their dark skin renders them less able to absorb UV Light and so synthesise it into Vitamin D. Europeans’ white skin probably evolved in winter darkness for this very reason.
The new study—“Racial/Ethnic Variation in Nasal Gene Expression of Transmembrane Serine Protease 2 (TMPRSS2)”—was published in the prestigious journal on September 10th and was carried out by three researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York [Supinda Bunyavanich; Chantal Grant, MD; and Alfin Vicencio]. It sets out to make sense of why African-Americans suffer a death rate from Covid-19 that is around three times their proportion of the U.S. population.
The researchers tested a sample of 305 people in their local hospital system, the sample being 8.2% Asian, 15.4% Black, 26.6% Latino, 9.5% mixed race/ethnicity, and 40.3% White. Their key finding: the expression of the Transmembrane serine protease 2 (shortened to TMPRSS2) was significantly higher among black individuals than it was in Asian, Latino, mixed race/ethnicity, or white individuals.
Why is this important? Covid-19 enters the body via contact with its airways, such as the tissues in the nose. If the TMPRSS2 gene is present in its strong form, then the body will produce high levels of the enzyme. This enzyme, present in the body’s tissues, means that the virus is better able to enter the tissues and so spread throughout the body, potentially killing the host.
If the host has a high expression of TMPRSS2 in its nasal tissues, then, write the authors, “this activates the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and cleaves the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor to which the virus binds, enabling SARS-CoV-2 to enter the body” and also more easily spread.
According to the research, blacks expressed TMPRSS2 at a higher rate than Asians. Asians expressed it more than Latinos, Latinos had a higher expression than Mixed race people and these, in turn, had a higher expression than whites.
This means that with regard not just to the ability to synthesise UV Light into Vitamin D, but also with regard to this cause, whites are the best adapted of these races to successfully fight off Covid-19. The nasal tissues of whites are such that, compared to other races, the Corona virus finds it more difficult to penetrate white tissues and spread through white bodies.
By contrast, the WuFlu finds it relatively easy to penetrate black tissues and spread through black bodies. As the researchers summarize:
Given the essential role of TMPRSS2 in SARS-CoV-2 entry, higher nasal expression of TMPRSS2 may contribute to the higher burden of COVID-19 among Black individuals . . . The finding of racial/ethnic variation in TMPRSS2 expression emphasizes that inclusion of diverse participants and analyses stratified by race/ethnicity should be incorporated into such trials.
In plain English, the researchers have demonstrated once again that Covid-19 is not an “equal opportunity” disease and that it disproportionately impacts blacks for genetic reasons, among others. This means that supposedly “privileged” whites should feel no guilt whatsoever about the way in which Covid-19 disproportionately impacts blacks (except in as far as they listened to race-deniers like Dr. Gupta).
And it also means that, for all but the least healthy white people, the inconvenience, destruction of liberty and economic disaster brought about by the WuFlu shutdowns has been, essentially, in vain.
It is a Democrat campaign talking point that the U.S. may have the most deaths of any developed country. But this is to be expected when about 40% of the U.S. population are non-whites and these are genetically much more likely to die of Covid-19 than are whites. To criticize the Trump Administration on this basis, as the Democrats are doing, is akin to bemoaning high crime rates in the U.S. without taking into account that blacks are a significant minority in the U.S. and commit crime at roughly the same high rates they do in black-majority countries.
One problem with the TMPRSS2 hypothesis: the incidence of Covid-19 in Africa itself is quite low. I first pointed this out in April and it continues to be the case: COVID-19 in Africa: Milder-than-expected pandemic has experts puzzled, DW, September 14, 2020.
It’s possible that the benefits conferred by blacks’ greater ability to absorb vitamin-D in the African climate, combined with their relative absence of life-style diseases like obesity, to which American blacks are particularly prone, simply overwhelm the TMPRSS2 effect. Plus African blacks, under greater selection pressure, may have relatively stronger immune systems.
Sign of the (darkening) times: a Boston physician called Rose Olson responded The Journal of the American Medical Association by simply tweeting:
Which presumably means that JAMA must publish wilful lies that back up her ideology rather than do science.
As another tweeter, a PhD researcher in Mathematics, responded:
“Scary. Here we have findings that could possibly lead to better outcomes for a certain group of people, and here is a medical professional in the grips of ideology, who really just cares about the ideology.”
Indeed. To adapt the mantra with which I have gotten into the habit of concluding my WuFlu articles:
If Covid-19 is not an Equal Opportunity disease, that means our race-denying Ruling Class [people like Rose Olsen, MD] is frightening most people too much—and not warning some people enough. This will not merely cause unnecessary chaos—it will cost lives.
Lance Welton [email him] is the pen name of a freelance journalist living in New York.


vdare--2020-09-17--Nostalgia Hour: Remember When the Worst Threat Posed by Coronavirus Was Whites Not Eating Often Enou

Nostalgia Hour: Remember When the Worst Threat Posed by Coronavirus Was Whites Not Eating Often Enough in Chinese Restaurants?

From March 22 : Is NYC Coronavirus Ground Zero Because Massive `` Be Strong Wuhan '' Feb 9th Chinese New @ @ @ @ @ The Chinese Virus ?
What a nice , nostalgic throwback to the good old days @ @ @ @ @ Liberal Establishment kept lecturing us that the really big threat posed by the coronavirus was @ @ @ @ @ restaurants enough …

From March 22: Is NYC Coronavirus Ground Zero Because Massive "Be Strong Wuhan" Feb 9th Chinese New Year's Parade Helped Spread The Chinese Virus?
#BREAKING: House passes resolution condemning "all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19" https://t.co/tljL6o8UYy pic.twitter.com/c6qaJh6PP7 — The Hill (@thehill) September 17, 2020
What a nice, nostalgic throwback to the good old days of last winter when the Liberal Establishment kept lecturing us that the really big threat posed by the coronavirus was white racists not patronizing Chinese restaurants enough …
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-17--Free Pass For Shoplifters: Woke Karen or Woke Q'aren?

This is an increasingly common view : that blacks are entitled to commit property crimes because calling the police on @ @ @ @ @ killing them ( because blacks , being entitled to commit property crimes , are also @ @ @ @ @ which usually requires violence on the part of the resistors , which can escalate and @ @ @ @ @ with the black criminals dead ) .

This is an increasingly common view: that blacks are entitled to commit property crimes because calling the police on black shoplifters is tantamount to killing them (because blacks, being entitled to commit property crimes, are also entitled to resist arrest, which usually requires violence on the part of the resistors, which can escalate and Go Bad and wind up with the black criminals dead).
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-17--CV Vitolo-Hadad: Another Affirmative Action Fraud Is Caught

University of Wisconsin-Madison grad student admits pretending to be a person of color By Hira Humayun and David Williams , CNN ( CNN ) A graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has resigned from a teaching position after admitting on social media that they [ sic ] falsely claimed to be a person of color .
CV Vitolo-Haddad apologized last week in two posts on Medium and announced that they [ sic ] were leaving their position as the co-president of the university ’ s Teaching Assistants ’ Association ( TAA ) .
Vitolo-Haddad uses the nonbinary pronouns they/them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ post on Medium accused Vitolo-Haddad of misleading people about their racial and ethnic identity .
In a September 6 post addressed to “ dear friends , loved ones and organizing comrades , ” Vitolo-Haddad wrote that they were “ so deeply sorry for the ways you are hurting right now because of me.
” “ I have let guesses about my ancestry become answers I wanted but couldn ’ t prove .
I have let people make assumptions when I should have corrected them , ” Vitolo-Haddad wrote .
In a second post @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vitolo-Haddad wrote that they were of southern Italian/Sicilian heritage .
“ When asked if I identify as Black , my answer should have always been ‘ No.
’ There were three separate instances I said otherwise , ” Vitolo-Haddad wrote , adding that “ I should have never entered Black organizing spaces.
” Let ’ s not ask about any affirmative action they enjoys in admissions and hiring .
Nobody is supposed to think about how it is in the career self-interest of white leftist academics like Jessica Krug , CV Vitolo-Hadad , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boxes other than white on application forms .
… Vitolo-Haddad also apologized for “ taking lies about Cuban roots at face value.
” Vitolo-Haddad was offered a conditional tenure-track position at California State University , Fresno , and was scheduled to start teaching during the 2021 fall semester , a university spokeswoman told CNN .
The offer was made before the allegations were made public and was subject to Vitolo-Haddad completing a background check .
“ We can confirm that CV Vitolo-Haddad will not be a faculty member at Fresno State , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The TAA enabled this harm by electing them to a position of power in our union : we have unknowingly rewarded the toxic opportunism of performing Blackness .
We intend to immediately begin the work of repairing this harm , ” the statement said John Lucas , the university ’ s assistant vice chancellor of university communications , told CNN that Vitolo-Haddad is not currently employed as a teaching assistant and is a doctoral student in the university ’ s journalism and communications school .
Vitolo-Haddad received a bachelor ’ s degree from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ master ’ s degree in communications from Wake Forest University , according to their LinkedIn profile .
With that kind of scintillating resume , she no doubt would have been hired for a tenure track professorship even if she ’ d admitted to being white .
A few notes : The “ Haddad ” part of her name comes from an ex-spouse .
She claimed when first semi- ‘ fessing up to be a little bit Eritrean .
Eritrea was a colony of Italy and has a large Christian population , so this @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Earlier: White Disprivilege Explains Flight from White
White woman academic CV Vitolo-Haddad, who demands everybody refer to her as "they," is now being canceled for NOT being: — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) September 17, 2020
From CNN:
University of Wisconsin-Madison grad student admits pretending to be a person of color
By Hira Humayun and David Williams, CNN Updated 4:16 PM ET, Thu September 17, 2020 (CNN) A graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has resigned from a teaching position after admitting on social media that they [sic] falsely claimed to be a person of color. CV Vitolo-Haddad apologized last week in two posts on Medium and announced that they [sic] were leaving their position as the co-president of the university’s Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA). Vitolo-Haddad uses the nonbinary pronouns they/them. The apologies came after an anonymous post on Medium accused Vitolo-Haddad of misleading people about their racial and ethnic identity. In a September 6 post addressed to “dear friends, loved ones and organizing comrades,”
I.e., they is a leftist.
Vitolo-Haddad wrote that they were “so deeply sorry for the ways you are hurting right now because of me.” “I have let guesses about my ancestry become answers I wanted but couldn’t prove. I have let people make assumptions when I should have corrected them,” Vitolo-Haddad wrote. In a second post that was edited on September 11, Vitolo-Haddad wrote that they were of southern Italian/Sicilian heritage. “When asked if I identify as Black, my answer should have always been ‘No.’ There were three separate instances I said otherwise,” Vitolo-Haddad wrote, adding that “I should have never entered Black organizing spaces.”
Let’s not ask about any affirmative action they enjoys in admissions and hiring. Nobody is supposed to think about how it is in the career self-interest of white leftist academics like Jessica Krug, CV Vitolo Hadad, and Elizabeth Warren to check off race boxes other than white on application forms.
… Vitolo-Haddad also apologized for “taking lies about Cuban roots at face value.” Vitolo-Haddad was offered a conditional tenure-track position at California State University, Fresno, and was scheduled to start teaching during the 2021 fall semester, a university spokeswoman told CNN. The offer was made before the allegations were made public and was subject to Vitolo-Haddad completing a background check. “We can confirm that CV Vitolo-Haddad will not be a faculty member at Fresno State,” said spokeswoman Patti Waid. … “The TAA enabled this harm by electing them to a position of power in our union: we have unknowingly rewarded the toxic opportunism of performing Blackness. We intend to immediately begin the work of repairing this harm,” the statement said John Lucas, the university’s assistant vice chancellor of university communications, told CNN that Vitolo-Haddad is not currently employed as a teaching assistant and is a doctoral student in the university’s journalism and communications school. Vitolo-Haddad received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida and a master’s degree in communications from Wake Forest University, according to their LinkedIn profile.
With that kind of scintillating resume, she no doubt would have been hired for a tenure track professorship even if she’d admitted to being white.
A few notes: The “Haddad” part of her name comes from an ex-spouse. She claimed when first semi-‘fessing up to be a little bit Eritrean. Eritrea was a colony of Italy and has a large Christian population, so this assertion is not prima facie implausible.
[Comment at Unz.com]