vdare--2020-05-24--Memorial Day: Remember America's Dead—Including BOTH Sides In Civil War

I 'd seen this vile thing , but unlike Instapundit , and actor James Woods below , I had failed to connect it to Memorial Day : What the New York Times Editorial Board is condemning is the existence of places like Fort Bragg , home of the Airborne , which commemorates Confederate General ( and graduate of West Point ) Braxton Bragg .
After crowing about its success in linking the Confederate Battle Flag to `` white supremacy '' and bannning it , in Orwellian fashion , everywhere from stores to statehouses , after Dylann Roof 's Charleston mass @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on : This same toxic legacy clings to the 10 United States military installations across the South that were named for Confederate Army officers during the first half of the 20th century .
Apologists often describe the names as a necessary gesture of reconciliation in the wake of the Civil War .
In truth , the namings reflect a federal embrace of white supremacy that found its most poisonous expression in military installations where black servicemen were deliberately placed under the command of white Southerners — who were said to better “ understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ housing , segregated transportation systems and even “ colored only ” seating in movie houses .
( Link in original ) The post-war reconciliation between North and South— The post-war reconciliation between North and South— based on mutual respect between the mostly white combatants on both sides—may have been the the most important factor in America 's rise to world greatness .
Many of America 's most famous warriors were Confederate-Americans : Patton and Chesty Puller are obvious examples .
The only people who object to this reconciliation are people who feel that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Here 's an important point : not even the Civil War was really about black people , though slavery was on everyone 's mind during and before the War .

Via Instapundit:
THE NEW YORK TIMES HONORS MEMORIAL DAY AS ONLY THEY CAN: Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?
I'd seen this vile thing, but unlike Instapundit, and actor James Woods below, I had failed to connect it to Memorial Day:
The New York Times celebrates Memorial Day by equating the United States military to the Ku Klux Klan. Is anyone surprised anymore? https://t.co/xrLB4Ja29e — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 24, 2020
What the New York Times Editorial Board is condemning is the existence of places like Fort Bragg, home of the Airborne, which commemorates Confederate General (and graduate of West Point) Braxton Bragg.
After crowing about its success in linking the Confederate Battle Flag to "white supremacy" and banning it, in Orwellian fashion, everywhere from stores to statehouses, after Dylann Roof's Charleston mass shooting, the New York Times goes on:


vdare--2020-05-25--Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow Joined By Jared Taylor, Wednesday,  3 p.m. EST

Tomorrow at 3 p.m. EST , our latest episode of “ Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow ” will livestream .
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Wednesday, May 27, at 3 p.m. EST, our latest episode of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow” will livestream. His guest will be the incomparable Jared Taylor!
Be sure to tune for this important conversation!
They will be talking about tech censorship, and what they would have said this weekend at the American Renaissance conference, cancelled because of WuFlu.
You can join the conversation here.
Jared Taylor [Email him] is the editor of American Renaissance.
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Watch our past episodes of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow”:


vdare--2020-05-25--Why Did Robert E. Lee Become Roberto Eduardo Leon In 1979? Hispanic Privilege, That's Why!

David Bernstein has a post up at Volokh called Robert E. Lee Becomes Roberto Eduardo Leon : An Affirmative Action Controversy from 1979 .
Bernstein quotes some of the relevant material from People Magazine 's A Bored and Unpromoted Robert E. Lee Takes Affirmative Action : Meet Roberto E. Leon , April 16 , 1979 .
Anyone saddled with a name as fraught with history as Robert E. Lee might be forgiven the impulse to change it .
But when retired Navy Captain Robert Earl Lee , 56 , recently cast off that load in favor of Roberto Eduardo Leon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sympathy .
Leon , who earns $ 27,857 a year monitoring noise control for the Montgomery County ( Md . )
Environmental Protection Department , used the name change to apply for the county 's affirmative action program—and the pledge of promotions ahead of equally qualified white males… .
Montgomery County officials are decidedly un-amused , however , and Hispanic leaders are downright furious .
`` This is an insult to Hispanics , '' fumes Carlos Anzoategui , head of the governor 's commission on Hispanic affairs .
`` You do n't become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' Leon bridles at the charge that he is an `` instant Hispanic . ''
He points to a Spanish grandfather and a childhood in San Diego , where , surrounded by Latino playmates , he began speaking Spanish in high school…..
Meanwhile the county 's newest , most controversial Hispanic is getting accustomed to his new heritage , if not terribly serious about it .
`` One of my compatriots called me a Spic , '' he says , `` and we had a big laugh over it . ''
In People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same Annapolis class as then-President Jimmy Carter , with a higher class standing .
This is probably true : online records confirm the presence of a Robert Earl Lee at the USNA that year .
Of course , this is n't really Affirmative Action fraud in the sense the Rachel Dolezal was a fake black and Elizabeth Warren a fake Indian .
That 's because while Indian status is determined by `` blood quantum '' and African-American status , where relevant , by descent from black Africans , `` Hispanic '' status was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The problem is that there exist in the both the Southwest and Northeast populations of `` Spanish-Surnamed '' racial minorities who are either victims of historic discrimination , and thus deserving of Affirmative Action , or not very good at passing tests , and thus in need of Affirmative Action .
That 's why Carlos Anzoategui was so annoyed at Robert Lee horning in on his Hispanic privilege .
Examples of people who have Spanish surnames but are actually pretty white include Ted Cruz , Marco Rubio , Supreme Court Justice Benjamin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Perez , a white supremacist ( really ! )
from Louisiana whose pure Spanish ancestors came ( in 18th century ) from Spain 's Canary Islands , not Mexico or Puerto Rico .
Roberto Eduardo Leon , with his fluent Spanish , Spanish grandfather , and plans , mentioned by People , to retire to Chile ( which is full of white people ) would be as legitimate a Spanish-surnamed case as any of the above .
( Cruz only has a Spanish surname because he 's an American—if he lived in Mexico @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cruz Wilson . )
This is what Steve Sailer calls the Flight from White , caused by minority privilege and anti-white hate .
1979 is more than 40 years ago , but even then , it did n't pay a government employee to be white .
That 's why Lee changed his name .

David Bernstein has a post up at Volokh called Robert E. Lee Becomes Roberto Eduardo Leon: An Affirmative Action Controversy from 1979.
Bernstein quotes some of the relevant material from People Magazine's A Bored and Unpromoted Robert E. Lee Takes Affirmative Action: Meet Roberto E. Leon, April 16, 1979.
Anyone saddled with a name as fraught with history as Robert E. Lee might be forgiven the impulse to change it. But when retired Navy Captain Robert Earl Lee, 56, recently cast off that load in favor of Roberto Eduardo Leon, the response was something short of sympathy. Leon, who earns $27,857 a year monitoring noise control for the Montgomery County (Md.) Environmental Protection Department, used the name change to apply for the county's affirmative action program—and the pledge of promotions ahead of equally qualified white males…. Montgomery County officials are decidedly un-amused, however, and Hispanic leaders are downright furious. "This is an insult to Hispanics," fumes Carlos Anzoategui, head of the governor's commission on Hispanic affairs. "You don't become Hispanic by liking enchiladas and tortillas." Leon bridles at the charge that he is an "instant Hispanic." He points to a Spanish grandfather and a childhood in San Diego, where, surrounded by Latino playmates, he began speaking Spanish in high school….. Meanwhile the county's newest, most controversial Hispanic is getting accustomed to his new heritage, if not terribly serious about it. "One of my compatriots called me a Spic," he says, "and we had a big laugh over it."
In People, Lee said he was in the same Annapolis class as then-President Jimmy Carter, with a higher class standing. This is probably true: Online records confirm the presence of a Robert Earl Lee at the USNA that year.
Of course, this isn't really Affirmative Action fraud in the sense the Rachel Dolezal was a fake black and Elizabeth Warren a fake Indian. That's because while Indian status is determined by "blood quantum" and African-American status, where relevant, by descent from black Africans, "Hispanic" status was frequently defined as "Spanish-Surnamed Minority."
The problem is that there exist in the both the Southwest and Northeast populations of "Spanish-Surnamed" racial minorities who are either victims of historic discrimination, and thus deserving of Affirmative Action, or not very good at passing tests, and thus in need of Affirmative Action.
That's why Carlos Anzoategui was so annoyed at Robert Lee horning in on his Hispanic privilege.
Examples of people who have Spanish surnames but are actually pretty white include Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, and the late Leander Perez, a white supremacist (really!) from Louisiana whose pure Spanish ancestors came (in 18th century) from Spain's Canary Islands, not Mexico or Puerto Rico.
Roberto Eduardo Leon, with his fluent Spanish, Spanish grandfather, and plans, mentioned by People, to retire to Chile (which is full of white people) would be as legitimate a Spanish-surnamed case as any of the above. (Cruz only has a Spanish surname because he's an American—if he lived in Mexico, he'd call himself Rafael Edward Cruz Wilson.)
This is what Steve Sailer calls the Flight from White, caused by minority privilege and anti-white hate.
1979 is more than 40 years ago, but even then, it didn't pay a government employee to be white. That's why Lee changed his name.


vdare--2020-05-25--What First Amendment? CA Cops Arrest White Woman for Expressing Wrong Opinions

Here at VDARE.com we have been in business for over 20 years , and for the entire period , we have reported on white Americans who have been arrested , in spite of not having committed any crimes ( 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012a , 2012b , 2014 , 2015 ; search also under “ Janice Barton , ” “ Brian Swetnam , ” and “ Jeremiah Munsen ” ) .
One of the problems has been that the ACLU has been less and less supportive of whites ’ First Amendment rights , while 1A paragon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had not been very supportive of whites ’ civil liberties for years .
In recent years , I have repeatedly come across news of American police departments that were hunting for white non-criminals based solely on hatred for their legal beliefs .
Well , they got one now .
I have also complained for years of the increasingly PC posture of the Daily Mail , which supports the persecution of Nancy Arechiga .
Woman , 52 , is arrested for 'leaving racist letters at five homes demanding foreign residents 'go back to your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ person can move in instead' • Nancy Arechiga was arrested on Saturday by police in San Leandro , California • Police said Arechiga left notes at five homes on Friday in Oakland suburb • Notes demanded those born abroad leave 'immediately ' so whites can move in • Woman who left notes was photographed by Ring security camera at one home • Images of the woman and the letter circulated on social media and went viral A 52-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly writing a racist letter ordering residents of a San @ @ @ @ @ @ @ homes so ' a white person can move in . '
Nancy Arechiga , a resident of San Leandro , is alleged to have left the notes at five different homes in the Heron Bay section of the Oakland suburb on Friday evening .
The letter generated significant attention on social media after it was circulated by one of the residents who received it , Trinny Wynn .
The letter , which was dated May 22 , reads : 'We the People of the United States , in order to form a more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ domestic tranquility , provide for the common defense , promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America .
[ More ] Nowhere did the Daily Mail identify any laws that Ms. Arechiga had broken .
“ Leaving racist letters ” at people ’ s homes , demanding they decamp for their lands of birth is not against the law .
No law criminalizing “ inappropriate posts towards minorities ” exists .
I wish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sue the San Leandro PD and city administration for violating her First Amendment rights , for false arrest , malicious prosecution , public humiliation under color of authority , etc .
The San Leandro P.D .
opened its official statement with , That ’ s two straight unwitting confessions to the Police Department ’ s crimes against Ms. Arechiga !
Another unwitting confession follows below :

Here at VDARE.com we have been in business for over 20 years, and for the entire period, we have reported on white Americans who have been arrested, in spite of not having committed any crimes (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012a, 2012b, 2014, 2015; search also under “Janice Barton,” “Brian Swetnam,” and “Jeremiah Munsen”).
One of the problems has been that the ACLU has been less and less supportive of whites’ First Amendment rights, while 1A paragon Nat Hentoff died in 2017, but had not been very supportive of whites’ civil liberties for years.
In recent years, I have repeatedly come across news of American police departments that were hunting for white non-criminals based solely on hatred for their legal beliefs. Well, they got one now.
I have also complained for years of the increasingly PC posture of the Daily Mail, which supports the persecution of Nancy Arechiga.
Woman, 52, is arrested for 'leaving racist letters at five homes demanding foreign residents 'go back to your land immediately' so that a white person can move in instead' Nancy Arechiga was arrested on Saturday by police in San Leandro, California
Police said Arechiga left notes at five homes on Friday in Oakland suburb
Notes demanded those born abroad leave 'immediately' so whites can move in
Woman who left notes was photographed by Ring security camera at one home
Images of the woman and the letter circulated on social media and went viral By Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com Published: 22:10 EDT, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 04:22 EDT, 24 May 2020 A 52-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly writing a racist letter ordering residents of a San Francisco Bay Area town to vacate their homes so 'a white person can move in.' Nancy Arechiga, a resident of San Leandro, is alleged to have left the notes at five different homes in the Heron Bay section of the Oakland suburb on Friday evening. The letter generated significant attention on social media after it was circulated by one of the residents who received it, Trinny Wynn. The letter, which was dated May 22, reads: 'We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, inspire domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.[ More ]
Nowhere did the Daily Mail identify any laws that Ms. Arechiga had broken. “Leaving racist letters” at people’s homes, demanding they decamp for their lands of birth is not against the law.
The San Leandro PD announced “San Leandro woman arrested for inappropriate posts towards minorities.”
No law criminalizing “inappropriate posts towards minorities” exists. I wish Ms. Arechiga well, if she should sue the San Leandro PD and city administration for violating her First Amendment rights, for false arrest, malicious prosecution, public humiliation under color of authority, etc.
The San Leandro P.D. opened its official statement with,
“A San Leandro woman was identified and arrested last night after posting insensitive messages towards minorities in a San Leandro community.”
That’s two straight unwitting confessions to the Police Department’s crimes against Ms. Arechiga!
Another unwitting confession follows below:


vdare--2020-05-25--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: #BlackLivesMatter (Sometimes)—26 Shootings, 9 Killed In Baltimo

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: #BlackLivesMatter (Sometimes)—26 Shootings, 9 Killed In Baltimore Over Memorial Day Weekend

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2015 .
See Also : Crime Wave in Baltimore—Media Mission Accomplished The predictable results of Baltimore residents refusing to let police do their job have come home to roost , as the city is now witnessing record amounts of violence and mayhem .
Of course , there will be no protests or federal investigations .
Councilmember Mary Pat Clarke links the violence to a city still reeling from weeks of unrest .
“ It was an earthquake kind of time and i think we ’ re still dealing with the aftershock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partner The Baltimore Sun reports 35 people have been killed so far in May making it the deadliest month in Baltimore since December of 1999 .
Some say the 3-day surge of violence may be a sign of a police department stretched too thin .
“ They ’ ve gone right from the troubles to this spike , ” one resident said .
Since the beginning of the year , 108 people have died due to violence in the city .
So far none of the victims have been identified and no arrests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 9 fatal , over Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore , by Amy Yensi , CBS Baltimore , May 25 , 2015 ]

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2015.
See Also: Crime Wave in Baltimore—Media Mission Accomplished
The predictable results of Baltimore residents refusing to let police do their job have come home to roost, as the city is now witnessing record amounts of violence and mayhem. Of course, there will be no protests or federal investigations.
Councilmember Mary Pat Clarke links the violence to a city still reeling from weeks of unrest.
“It was an earthquake kind of time and i think we’re still dealing with the aftershock,” she says...
WJZ media partner The Baltimore Sun reports 35 people have been killed so far in May making it the deadliest month in Baltimore since December of 1999. Some say the 3-day surge of violence may be a sign of a police department stretched too thin.
“They’ve gone right from the troubles to this spike,” one resident said.
Since the beginning of the year, 108 people have died due to violence in the city.
So far none of the victims have been identified and no arrests have been made.
[26 shootings, 9 fatal, over Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore, by Amy Yensi,CBS Baltimore, May 25, 2015]


vdare--2020-05-25--Low White Birthrate: This Isn't Going to Get Better in 2021

American women had babies at record-low rates last year and pushed U.S. births down to their smallest total in 35 years , according to federal figures released Wednesday .
About 3.75 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2019 , down 1 % from the prior year , provisional figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’ s National Center for Health Statistics showed .
According to the government document , births to white women were down over 2 % from 1,956,413 in 2018 to 1,914,141 in 2019 .
… The data are the latest sign of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during the 2007-09 recession , never fully rebounded when the economy bounced back .
Millennials have been slower to form families than previous generations , in part , economists say , because they are less financially secure than those before them .
… Teen- agers saw the sharpest drop , with a 5 % decline in their birthrate .
Since peaking in 1991 , the teen birthrate has fallen 73 % .
The federal government has a program to discourage teen births .
It worked .
The total fertility rate—a snapshot of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have over her lifetime—ticked down to 1.7 in 2019 , a slight decline from the previous year and another record low .
… Brady Hamilton , a statistician who co-wrote the new report , said an uptick in births among women in their 40s is a sign that some births are just being delayed .
“ Women are still having children , ” he said .
“ They ’ re just holding off until a later point in time until they establish their education and establish their career.
” A leveling-off of births @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly a quarter of U.S. births , is also driving the overall decline .
They had about 885,900 babies last year , down slightly from 2018 .
But that was down only imperceptibly from 886,210 in 2018 .
The bigger driver of the national decline was the decline in the number of births to white women .
And this was during the late , lamented economic good times .

From the Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record-Low Level American women had babies at record-low rates last year and pushed U.S. births down to their smallest total in 35 years, according to federal figures released Wednesday. About 3.75 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2019, down 1% from the prior year, provisional figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics showed.
According to the government document, births to white women were down over 2% from 1,956,413 in 2018 to 1,914,141 in 2019.
… The data are the latest sign of how American childbearing, which began declining during the 2007-09 recession, never fully rebounded when the economy bounced back. Millennials have been slower to form families than previous generations, in part, economists say, because they are less financially secure than those before them. … Teen- agers saw the sharpest drop, with a 5% decline in their birthrate. Since peaking in 1991, the teen birthrate has fallen 73%.
The federal government has a program to discourage teen births. It worked.
The total fertility rate—a snapshot of the average number of babies a woman would have over her lifetime—ticked down to 1.7 in 2019, a slight decline from the previous year and another record low. … Brady Hamilton, a statistician who co-wrote the new report, said an uptick in births among women in their 40s is a sign that some births are just being delayed. “Women are still having children,” he said. “They’re just holding off until a later point in time until they establish their education and establish their career.” A leveling-off of births among Hispanic women, who account for nearly a quarter of U.S. births, is also driving the overall decline. They had about 885,900 babies last year, down slightly from 2018.
But that was down only imperceptibly from 886,210 in 2018. The bigger driver of the national decline was the decline in the number of births to white women.
And this was during the late, lamented economic good times.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-25--Taking Down Basketball Rims Hasn't Stopped Coronavirus and Black Fatal/Nonfatal Shootings from Ravag

Taking Down Basketball Rims Hasn't Stopped Coronavirus and Black Fatal/Nonfatal Shootings from Ravaging the Black Community in Louisville

See , earlier : 74 % Black Albany , GA Hit Hard By Both Coronavirus AND Increasing Levels Of Black On Black Violence Even during the Coronavirus lockdown , black violence is unrelenting .
Worse , taking down basketball rims hasn ’ t increased social distancing ( blacks are disproportionately impacted by the virus int he city ) nor stopped fatal/nonfatal shootings in Louisville among the black population .
LMPD : Louisville seeing uptick in violent crime , black youth homicides , WLKY.com , May 6 , 2020 LOUISVILLE , Ky. —Five months into the year , and there have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ According to LMPD Chief Steve Conrad , 8 of those victims were black boys under the age of 18 .
“ Schools , parks , community centers , obviously they are closed .
Basketball rims have been taken down to stop that interaction between people , ” Conrad said .
These were all measures aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 .
But Conrad says they can ’ t pinpoint an exact cause or solution .
The idea of a citywide curfew has been tossed around , but Conrad doesn ’ t think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We ’ ve had some challenges between these groups or gangs whatever you want to call them and we ’ re working to address them .
I don ’ t know if I would call it a turf war , but there are definitely challenges between these two groups , ” Conrad said .
DeMarrion Fleming is the founder of nonprofit organization Sowing Seeds with Faith .
He works with black youths in west Louisville , and says he knew several of the young men who have been killed in recent weeks .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ through my program and two of those kids were innocent bystanders , ” Fleming said .
Fleming said he ’ s advocating for gathering places to reopen so children have safe places to go and stay occupied .
Many have been shut down due to COVID-19 .
“ I ’ ve lost six kids in three months .
So , closing centers has cost me six lives , opening centers has not cost me anything .
So , I ’ m going to take the other side of the risk now , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 27 was supposed to be Youth Violence Prevention Week .
Imani Smith is part of the youth implementation team with the Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods .
Smith said they anticipated an uptick in violence during the pandemic , but says it is not fair to pinpoint one cause .
“ You have to take into consideration that the slew of things coming about because of the pandemic , people are going to respond to it the way that they ’ re mental health allows them to , ” said Smith .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Louisville this year .

See, earlier: 74% Black Albany, GA Hit Hard By Both Coronavirus AND Increasing Levels Of Black On Black Violence
Even during the coronavirus lockdown, black violence is unrelenting. Worse, taking down basketball rims hasn’t increased social distancing (blacks are disproportionately impacted by the virus in the city) nor stopped fatal/nonfatal shootings in Louisville among the black population.
LMPD: Louisville seeing uptick in violent crime, black youth homicides, WLKY.com, May 6, 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Five months into the year, and there have been 40 homicides across the Metro. According to LMPD Chief Steve Conrad, 8 of those victims were black boys under the age of 18.
“Schools, parks, community centers, obviously they are closed. Basketball rims have been taken down to stop that interaction between people,” Conrad said. These were all measures aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19.
But Conrad says they can’t pinpoint an exact cause or solution. The idea of a citywide curfew has been tossed around, but Conrad doesn’t think that’s the answer.
“We’ve had some challenges between these groups or gangs whatever you want to call them and we’re working to address them. I don’t know if I would call it a turf war, but there are definitely challenges between these two groups,” Conrad said.
DeMarrion Fleming is the founder of nonprofit organization Sowing Seeds with Faith. He works with black youths in west Louisville, and says he knew several of the young men who have been killed in recent weeks.
“Four of those kids have come through my program and two of those kids were innocent bystanders,” Fleming said.
Fleming said he’s advocating for gathering places to reopen so children have safe places to go and stay occupied. Many have been shut down due to COVID-19.
“I’ve lost six kids in three months. So, closing centers has cost me six lives, opening centers has not cost me anything. So, I’m going to take the other side of the risk now,” Fleming said.
March 23 through March 27 was supposed to be Youth Violence Prevention Week. Imani Smith is part of the youth implementation team with the Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods.
Smith said they anticipated an uptick in violence during the pandemic, but says it is not fair to pinpoint one cause.
“You have to take into consideration that the slew of things coming about because of the pandemic, people are going to respond to it the way that they’re mental health allows them to,” said Smith.
There have been 118 non-fatal shootings in Louisville this year.


vdare--2020-05-22--China’s Totalitarian Theater, Economic Pincers, And Sputnik Moment, Etc.

10m34s Land of the Lie .
( It 's what commies do . )
33m15s Who you calling `` morbidly @ @ @ @ @ got it wrong . )
36m53s Neil Munro hits one out of the park .
@ @ @ @ @ ) 37m44s The false azure in the windowpane .
( Avicide in Manhattan . )

01m28s Totalitarian theater. (China's "legislature" assembles.)
06m16s China's economic pincer. (An end to blithe rope-selling.)
10m34s Land of the Lie. (It's what commies do.)
14m11s A Sputnik Moment? (A nation sufficiently united.)
22m29s Blackety-black news. (The depths of Goodwhite denial.)
33m15s Who you calling "morbidly obese"? (I got it wrong.)
35m21s Joe Biden's Veep pick. (Take my advice, Joe.)
36m53s Neil Munro hits one out of the park. (The H-1B scam.)
37m44s The false azure in the windowpane. (Avicide in Manhattan.)
40m29s Signoff. (With some Bluegrass.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your quotably genial host John Derbyshire.
Rather a lot of this week's podcast—around 45 percent, I think—concerns China. I didn't set out intending that; but once I got under way, I just had more and more to say, and I was up at the 20-minute mark in no time. And in justification, much of what happens in China is directly relevant to us Americans and our concerns … as we have learned this past few weeks.
There is other stuff in the podcast, too, though: a round-up of blackety-black news, some insults, some politics, some Eng. Lit. references, and some ornithology, all topped off with a little Bluegrass.
Let's get started.
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02—Totalitarian theater. One thing that, it seems to me, is much more apparent than it was three months ago is that we are living in a bipolar world, or soon shall be.
I know a bipolar world when I see one. I spent my first 45 years in one: the world of the Cold War, dominated by the USA and the USSR.
That bipolar world ended twenty-nine years ago. For a while thereafter the USA stood supreme, economically and militarily. We still do, actually, on indices like per capita GDP and forces deployed overseas. Communist China's been coming up fast, though. It's plain they are aiming for parity with us, regional—I mean, in Asia—if not global. Perhaps they are aiming for global dominance.
Whether they are or not, we are heading into a bipolar world once again. People are waking up fast to this. The coronavirus pandemic has us thinking and talking about China in a way that we weren't before, not in the public realm at any rate. Some sour-faced skeptics and grouches on the commentarial fringes, like your acerbically genial host here, were talking that way; now it's wellnigh universal.
As I come to the mike today, China's national legislature, the National People's Congress, has just completed the first day of its 2020 annual session. Here are a couple of headliners from this first day:
For the first time in thirty years, there will be no announced target for GDP growth this year—that's Gross Domestic Product, a key economic indicator.
There will be revisions to the Basic Law that defines the status of Hong Kong. The point of the revisions will be to, quote: "safeguard national security in Hong Kong," end quote.
What does any of this mean, and why should Americans care?
To take the first part of that question first: What it means is that these are some of the decisions worked out by the ChiCom Party bosses in secret meetings these past weeks. The words "some of" in that sentence indicate that these are decisions the Party bosses want to make public. For sure there are many more they don't want made public.
The NPC is not really a legislature in any dictionary sense. It's totalitarian theater. There is very occasionally—two or three times per decade—some muffled resistance to edicts from the Politburo; but even those have had a staged quality about them, and were probably just a theatrical way of settling some minor power struggle at the top.
Still, the NPC is not without value for outside observers. The things that are announced, like the two items I have noted being announced in Friday's opening session, give clues as to what the Party bosses are thinking. Carefully scrutinized and sensibly interpreted, they can give us the lie of the land.
Those two Friday announcements illustrate the point. I'll give over a segment to each.
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03—China's economic pincer. From the first of my bullet points there, about there being no GDP growth target this year, we can deduce that the ChiComs are seriously worried about China's economy.
Like our economy and everyone else's, China's economy has taken a big hit from the pandemic and the measures taken to slow or contain it. There have been huge employment losses in both manufacturing and services, in a nation with much less of a social safety net than ours. The thought of a couple hundred million hungry, angry, unemployed workers gives ChiCom bosses the heebie-jeebies.
And this couldn't be happening at a worse time for China's economy, which is looking at a pincer trap. I'll describe the two arms of the pincer in turn as the Past Arm and the Future Arm.
The past thirty years have been a sensational boom time for China, with living standards rising faster, I think, than anywhere else, ever, in modern history. By the end of the 2010s, though, the low-hanging fruit had all been picked, and the rate of improvement was slowing. That is one arm of the economic pincer—call it the Past Arm.
And now there is widespread anger and suspicion towards China among its former trading partners—the nations that, by opening their markets and exporting their factories, made the Chinese economic miracle possible. The developed nations of North America, Western Europe, and Australasia are waking to the fact that we have sold the Chinese Communist Party a whole lot of rope with a gift card attached saying "Please Hang Us." They are backing off from China.
There is even talk of boycotts. In a poll done mid-May, forty percent of Americans said they won't buy products made in China.
It's the same all over. Some headline-writer at the London Daily Mail has taken up Radio Derb's Godfather theme: headline, May 22nd: PM "moves to end UK's reliance on China for essential supplies and manufacturing" amid fury at its coronavirus "cover-up" as Beijing hawk MP accuses regime of acting like the "Mafia". End headline.
So looking forward, the era of Western nations blithely helping the ChiComs to consolidate their power, domestic popularity, and international influence by jacking up their economy, are over. That's the other arm of the pincer—call it the Future Arm.
The Past Arm: no more low-hanging fruit. The Future Arm: no more illusions about the regime we've been enabling this past thirty years.
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04—Land of the Lie. On to my second NPC bullet point from today's NPC session, about the status of Hong Kong. What the ChiComs are proposing here reinforces the Future Arm of the economic pincer.
Under the agreement with Britain that handed the city back to China 23 years ago, the ChiComs promised that Hong Kongers would enjoy British levels of social and political freedom, or at least something closer to them than the mainland dictatorship, until 2047.
Well, that promise will no longer be operative. It was just a convenient lie assented to by the ChiComs while they pumped up their economy.
I spoke of the NPC giving us clues about the lie of the land behind the closed doors of ChiCom deliberating. Lie of the land? Politically, China is the Land of the Lie. Strategic lying is not just an occasional aberration in their diplomacy, it is all of it.
Given the feisty spirit shown by the Hong Kong demonstrators this past year, it's not likely that bringing the city back into the warm embrace of the Motherland can be accomplished without highly visible repression, possibly on the scale of Tiananmen Square in 1989, but much more amply recorded in this age of the cellphone camera.
That will just further reinforce the ChiComs' image as a thuggish gangster clique, fortifying the Future Arm of the pincer, shredding any illusions Western populations still have about the nature of the ChiCom regime.
Did I mention Tiananmen Square? Eh: just a few antisocial trouble-makers in need of stern law enforcement. Tibet, Taiwan, and Eastern Turkestan? Integral parts of China since ancient times. Fifty years of autonomy for Hong Kong? Absolutely!—where do we sign? If we are admitted to the World Trade Organization, shall we observe the rules? Of course we shall! COVID-19 originated in China? Certainly not; it was brought in by visiting U.S. soldiers.
Land of the Lie. The world is awakening from its dream of China as a trustworthy commercial nation whose public declarations mean what they say. Communist China is the Land of the Lie.
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05—A Sputnik Moment? So … this coming new bipolar world is nothing to worry about, right? The ChiComs are going to get crushed in that economic pincer I've been describing, right? And Uncle Sam will sail on forward into the middle 21st century as the dominant world power, right?
Well, there are many possible futures, and that is one of them. It's by no means the most probable one, though. China has advantages, and we have dis-advantages, that could shape the future in a Chinese direction.
I'd list China's main advantages as three:
Despotism, which makes it easier to get some things done.
A big Smart Fraction. Smart Fraction Theory argues that "national wealth is determined by the fraction of workers with IQ equal to or greater than some minimum value."
Demographic homogeneity; low levels of ethnic diversity and ethnomasochism.
To the first point there, the one about despotism: Look, I really don't want to live under the ChiComs; and I speak as a person who did live under them for a year. There is no denying, though, that despotism has its advantages, especially in technological development. Exhibit A: China's high-speed rail system. Where is ours?
The second point, about a big Smart Fraction, has a link with the first. The name of the link is "eugenics," both positive and negative.
Positive eugenics means encouraging people with positive heritable traits to breed; negative eugenics means dis-couraging—or actually forbidding—people with negative traits to do so. The despotic power of course gets to decide the definitions of "positive" and "negative" and the degree of coercion.
Are the ChiComs interested in eugenics? Oh yeah. I had things to say about this in my November Diary last year, to which I refer you if you're interested.
It's the third point that most powerfully addresses American weakness. China has some ethnic diversity, but it's mostly out at the territorial fringes, in occupied Tibet, Mongolia, and Eastern Turkestan. The great majority of China's population—and an overwhelming supermajority in metropolitan China, away from those fringes—is of a single ethny. If the Chinese withdrew from those occupied fringes, China would be the world's most homogenous big nation.
This spares China from all the rancors and disorders that sap so much of our social and political energy.
Not only are China's minority ethnies proportionally much smaller than ours, the Han Chinese supermajority is not split down the middle as our own white just-barely-majority is.
It is not the case that one half of the Han Chinese loathes and despises the other half. No Chinese politician ever sought advantage by describing half of his fellow Chinese as "deplorables." No public intellectual in China ever wrote that "The yellow race is the cancer of human history" as Susan Sontag wrote of the white race to which she herself belonged. Ethnomasochism is a white pathology.
And as social dogma, quite a recent one. Susan Sontag wrote her words in 1967. You can take them as the beginning of the rise of white ethomasochism to its present position as a major social dogma.
There is a line of American commentary on China, argued most clearly and persistently by David Goldman at Asia Times (now apparently with Gordon Chang also on board) telling us that we Americans should consider ourselves to be in a Sputnik Moment: a moment in history where, if we don't stop the fruitless squabbling and begin engaging in some serious, co-ordinated national effort, the ChiComs will eat our lunch, breezing past us in key technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, microchip fabrication, and quantum computing.
The problem with that prescription is that the original Sputnik Moment, to which America reacted with such spectacular success, occurred in 1957, a whole decade B.S.—"Before Sontag." White ethnomasochism was not entirely unknown in 1957, but it was restricted to tiny cliques of urban intellectuals.
We could make a united national response to Sputnik sixty years ago because we were a sufficiently united nation. You need that qualifying word "sufficiently" there because there was what people of the time called "the Negro Problem."
White Americans didn't think about black Americans any more than they absolutely had to, though, and the race issue didn't split whites down the middle as clearly and angrily as in what I call today's Cold Civil War. Sputnik-wise, we were a sufficiently united nation—sufficiently to co-operate in a colossal national effort with a minimum of bickering.
If we had been at today's level of social rancor back in 1957, would we have been able to get to a Moon landing in just twelve years? Of course not. It would have taken us twelve years just to figure out and litigate, appeal, re-litigate, and re-appeal the affirmative-action protocols for staffing Mission Control.
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06—Blackety-black news. Ah, the Negro Problem. Every once in a while—quite a long while; I need to be in a certain mood—I go to the Southern Poverty Law Center website and read their entry on me.
This is not from vanity, although I'll admit to being a little flattered at having been noticed by the anti-white witch-hunters of Montgomery. No; it's more to remind myself of the depth of denial and delusion that prevails among Goodwhites.
The task they set for whichever SPLC lower-echelon flunky got assigned to composing my page was to find the most damning possible quote from my writing: something so snarlingly, frothingly hate-filled, so preposterously, inconceivably unreasonable as to put me for ever beyond the bounds of civilized discourse. So what did they come up with?
I'll quote you the relevant paragraph from the SPLC web page. Most of the quote is me speaking—actually writing, of course—so I'll tag that main part with "inner quotes." Quote:
[Inner quote.] "A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us," [end inner quote] Derbyshire wrote. [Continuing inner quote.] "They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming." [End inner quote.]
End quote.
The first thing to note is that they have edited my words so that the second of those two sentences makes no sense. In what I actually wrote, there is a sentence in between those two that the SPLC-bot omitted, whether from lazy incompetence or from malice, I don't know. There is plenty of both at the SPLC website.
Here is what I actually wrote, with the omitted sentence included. Quote:
A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
End quote.
So that pronoun "they" starting off the third sentence refers not to the five percent, as the SPLC mis-quote implies, but to the fifty percent identified in my second sentence—the sentence they left out.
That's by the by. My main point here, and the reason I get satisfaction from re-reading my words, even in the mangled form presented on the SPLC page, is the perfectly obvious truth of what I expressed in that first sentence. Re-quote:
A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us.
End quote.
Is there really anyone who does not know this? Really? Are there really such dark depths of Goodwhite denial?
You might, of course, argue with my estimate of five percent. When that column was first published I got a great many emails from people who did so argue. "Five percent?" they scoffed. "You kidding, Derb?" Then the emailer would proceed to offer his estimate, which was always higher, often much higher, than five percent.
(And to be perfectly truthful I dialed down my estimate to five percent from somewhat higher in hopes of making allowance for my implicit bias. I was trying hard to be nice. See where it gets you!)
All that came to mind yesterday when I saw that video clip of a black orderly beating up a frail old man in a Michigan care facility. I'd read out a link for you so you could see the clip for yourself; but Twitter and the other social media censors—BitChute so far an honorable exception—are deleting it as fast as they can.
Tucker Carlson said in last night's show that he's going to cover the incident this evening, Friday. Tucker, though, while a worthy fellow in many ways, is a pussy about race, so he may back out.
If you can find the clip and watch it all the way through, and still tell me that the thing I'm quoted as saying in the SPLC web page on me is untrue; well, then, you are a very good person indeed, a paragon of race denial.
In other race news—I may as well bundle these together—a site search on the New York Times for Paul Marino, the 86-year-old gent murdered along with his 85-year-old wife in a Delaware cemetery by a black man on May 8th … my site search yielded no references for the past week. I tried the Washington Post, too: same result.
A couple more from the same bucket, this one relating to the February shooting in Brunswick, Georgia of a black guy by Travis McMichael, a white guy. Travis and his father Greg, who accompanied him, were arrested and charged with murder May 7th, as reported on Radio Derb that week.
Well, this week William Bryan, who followed the McMichaels in his own truck and shot the famous video of the fatal encounter, William Bryan was also arrested this week and likewise charged with murder—in fact with "felony murder," according to my New York Post. Presumably there are jurisdictions in which murder is not a felony, don't ask me.
William Bryan had made the video public in hope of showing that the McMichaels behaved reasonably, as a District Attorney had concluded. So much for trying to be a good neighbor.
In further related news on the Brunswick shooting, state police and the FBI are hunting for Travis McMichael's high-school home-room teacher, who they think may have communicated incorrect ideas about race to the younger Travis. The McMichael family dentist has been arrested and interrogated for having recently filled one of Greg McMichael's teeth. A Starbucks employee who served the McMichaels with coffee just two weeks before the shooting has also been taken in for questioning …
The Brunswick shooting, by the way, now has its own Wikipedia page, and it's a big one. I logged the main narrative part of the text—not counting headings, references, and footings—as nearly five thousand words. The Fall of Constantinople, by way of comparison, has somewhat over six thousand.
The killing of Paul and Lidia Marino has no Wikipedia page that I can find. No doubt the good Wikifolk are working on it, though. I'm sure they are.
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: When you do as much browsing of news sites as I do, and have a mind as fuddled with age and liquor as mine is, fragments of news blur together in your mind.
So it was this week. I noted in passing not very attentively through media output that some politician X had referred to some other politician Y as, quote, "morbidly obese."
A day or so later I was browsing again, and for some reason there was a whole lot about Stacey Abrams. I'd forgotten who she was, so I brought up an image. Oh, right: that must have been what politician X had been referring to.
Accurate enough, but not very kind. Perhaps the poor lady has some kind of medical condition.
Only later, in conversation with a person more attentive than myself, did I realise my error. Politician X was Nancy Pelosi; politician Y, who she called "morbidly obese," was President Trump, not Stacey Abrams.
Having opened a can of appearance bias there on Stacey Abrams, albeit in error, I may as well draw attention to that gap in her front teeth. It reminds me of an old English belief that such a gap indicates lustfulness. The Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was thus endowed, Chaucer's way of explaining her five marriages.
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Item: The reason for all the coverage of Stacey Abrams is, that she is being promoted—most vigorously by herself—as a possible running mate for Joe Biden.
Don't buy it, Joe. Amy Klobuchar is the right pick. Radio Derb advised you way back in mid-January that, quote from me:
I think a Biden-Klobuchar ticket would be the sweet spot for the Democrats in November. It's dull as all get-out—the anti-weird ticket.
End quote.
Joe Biden has all the blackety-blackness he needs from eight years of tongue-polishing Barack Obama's loafers. He doesn't need crazy Kamala Harris, Mulatto Mafia Susan Rice, or the Wife of Bath to pull in the black vote.
As for white possibilities: Well, there is Michigan's strict governess, but … I don't think so. The nation is not that far gone in masochism.
If Joe Biden has half a brain he'll pick Amy Klobuchar. Wait … what did I just say?
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Item: As I sometimes do, I'm going to direct your attention to a really really good, out-of-the-park column by another opinionator.
The opinionator here is Neil Munro over at Breitbart, May 20th. Neil's topic is the H-1B visa scam, and he leaves no stone unturned.
It's a long piece, but well worth your time. There is some overlap with the 2015 book Sold Out by Michelle Malkin and John Miano; and in fact Neil interviewed John Miano for the column, and quotes him several times.
Beautifully done, Neil. Thank you!
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Item: If you are well-read in 20th-century American fiction you may recognize this couplet:
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the window-pane …
Those are the opening lines of the second section in Vladimir Nabokov's strange 1962 novel Pale Fire. That second section is all in verse: nine hundred and ninety-nine lines.
The waxwing is a kind of small bird, although the one in Pale Fire is of a fictitious species. Nabokov's waxwing has mistaken the reflection of sky in a window-pane for actual sky, flown into it at full speed, and died.
What has this got to do with anything? With a news story, of course. Would I hit you with some empty literary whimsy totally unrelated to the news? Me? Come on!
So, New York Post, May 19th, headline: Deathtrap NYC condo killed 28 birds in one day.
See, there is this big 11-storey condo building right on the edge of Central Park in Manhattan, fronted with dozens of big glass windows, built three years ago. Migrating birds see the park's reflection in the glass and think it's the actual park. Thump!—dead birds, as many as 28 in a single day.
Are any of them waxwings? I don't know, and couldn't tell from the pictures given in the Post.
"There is no question that this is a problem now," local resident and bird-watcher Terence Zahner told the Post. I'm sure he's right; but New York City has rather a lot of problems right now, and I doubt this one's going to get much attention.
I'll file this under "Life Imitates Art."
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08—Signoff. That's it, ladies and gentlemen, for this Memorial Day weekend. Thank you for listening, and may all be well with you and yours.
Take some time over the weekend to quietly remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our nation. Then, take some other time to relax with loved ones and friends, to enjoy the life that those heroes, by their sacrifice, gifted to us. It's what they would have wanted.
In the matter of signoff music, I recently received a rather impertinent email from a reader. Not a listener, a reader: some people prefer to wait until Wednesday and read the transcript. Here's what this reader said, edited quote.
Mr Derbyshire:
I enjoy reading the transcripts of your weekly podcast. At the end of the transcript I always click on the link so I can watch the YouTube clip of your signout music.
I have noticed that when you sign out with a country-music clip, the performance always features a comely young female. This was the case most recently in your podcasts on November 29th, April 3rd, and April 24th.
Are you practicing appearance bias in your selections?
End quote.
The answer is: absolutely not! Radio Derb is known worldwide as a sober, serious, and family-friendly news outlet. We would never stoop so low as to use crude sex appeal in choosing our sign-out clips. The sole criterion is musical quality. Shame on this reader for suggesting otherwise.
So much for that very unseemly insinuation. Now to this week's signout music. How about something on the banjo? Here's a little snippet in the bluegrass style, played by Willow Osborne. I don't know the name of it, but it sure got my attention.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Willow Osborne, unnamed piece.]


vdare--2020-05-22--LA Times: Biden Was Right. He Just Didn’t Have The Right To Say It

On the Los Angeles Times opinion page , an LAT Editorial Board member writes : Opinion : Biden says if @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t vote for him , you ’ re not black .
He ’ @ @ @ @ @ black radio host Charlamagne tha God told Joe Biden at the end of a spirited @ @ @ @ @ needed to come back on his show because “ We got more questions , ” @ @ @ @ @ You got more questions .
If you have a problem figuring out if you ’ @ @ @ @ @ , then you ain ’ t black.
” As ridiculous as it was to say @ @ @ @ @ and TV personality who , among other things , wrote a book he calls a @ @ @ @ @ hood , ” here ’ s the thing : Biden was right .
He just @ @ @ @ @ right to say it .

On the Los Angeles Times opinion page, an LAT Editorial Board member writes:
Opinion: Biden says if you’re black and don’t vote for him, you’re not black. He’s right
By CARLA HALL [Tweet her] EDITORIAL WRITER
MAY 22, 20202:03 PM
When the popular black radio host Charlamagne tha God told Joe Biden at the end of a spirited but friendly interview that he needed to come back on his show because “We got more questions,” Biden shot back:
“You got more questions. If you have a problem figuring out if you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Good one, Joe.
As ridiculous as it was to say that to a black radio and TV personality who, among other things, wrote a book he calls a “self-help guide for the hood,” here’s the thing: Biden was right. He just didn’t have the right to say it.


vdare--2020-05-25--Biden And Blacks: No Gaffe Can Threaten This Venal Relationship

See , earlier : Forget THE APPRENTICE , Trump—Blacks Will Never Vote For You Enough To Make A Difference Joe Biden ’ s recent gaffe about blacks isn ’ t going to cost him black support .
It may even strengthen him because , far from being offended , black political consultants , activists , and journalists just see more dollar signs .
Whereas First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner reportedly wants to cut out the word `` freedom '' out of the GOP platform because “ polling showed it does n't appeal to African Americans ” [ Scoop : Inside the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by Jonathan Swan , Axios , May 24 , 2020 ] , the Biden-black relationship is solidly based not on illusory symbols but on venal material interests .
The GOP can ’ t compete , nor should it .
Biden won the Democrat Presidential nomination because he was endorsed by South Carolina ’ s Jim Clyburn and bought off black politicos like Symone Sanders , the former Bernie Sanders supporter .
Black Democrats support Biden because they knew he would provide specific benefits for their “ community , ” in contrast to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Leftists such as Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang .
Like Virginia Governor Ralph Northam , Biden ’ s silly persona lets him be the hapless white frontman for racial socialist redistribution programs .
And now , like Northam after the blackface brouhaha , Biden will have to offer blacks even more concrete benefits to ensure their turnout .
The celebrated gaffe : In an interview with radio host Lenard McKelvey , aka “ Charlamagne tha God , ” Biden said if blacks have a problem figuring out whether to support him or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t black ” [ Joe Biden : ‘ You Ain ’ t Black ’ If You Don ’ t Back Me Over Trump , by Joshua Caplan , Breitbart , May 22 , 2020 ] .
Adding to the fun : Biden ’ s bizarre comment that “ everyone in jail… can ’ t read , ” amusing since the “ tha God ” spent time in jail after various crimes when he was a teenager [ Five Things You Didn ’ t Know About Charlamagne tha God , by Aiden Mason , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign has pounced on Biden with the usual DR3 ( Dems R the Real Racists ) tactic , and is now selling extremely cringe T-shirts .
But of course this overlooks the fact that McKelvey wasn ’ t offended on behalf of black Republicans .
“ It don ’ t have nothing to do with Trump , it has to do with the fact—I want something for my community , ” he responded to Biden .
In other words , there ’ s no chance most blacks will consider voting for Trump .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ their group .
McKelvey , excuse me , “ tha God , ” pressed Biden on “ what have you done for me [ blacks ] lately ” and condemned him for the 1994 crime bill [ Charlamagne tha God slams Joe Biden ’ s record with African Americans after the Democrat ’ s ‘ ain ’ t black ’ gaffe and says his 1994 crime bill was a ‘ very intricate ’ part of ‘ systemic racism , ’ by Matthew Wright and Nikki Schwab , Daily Mail , May 23 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groveled , vowing that “ I ’ ve never , ever taken the African American community for granted ” [ Joe Biden Regrets ‘ You Ain ’ t Black Comment : ‘ I Shouldn ’ t Have Been Such A Wise Guy , by Joshua Caplan , Breitbart , May 22 , 2020 ] .
But he has and he can .
Thus Symone Sanders , running interference for the former VP , tweeted that his comments were “ in jest ” and that he could put “ his record with the African @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any day , ” steamrolled Chuck Todd ’ s attempt to question her about it on Meet The Press [ Symone Sanders vs. Chuck Todd on Biden ’ s “ You Ain ’ t Black ” Comment ; “ I ’ m Not Going To Do This , by Ian Schwartz , RealClearPolitics , May 23 , 2020 ] .
Former president Barack Obama is preparing to campaign for Biden to drive up black turnout [ Barack Obama poised to add his star appeal to Joe Biden campaign , by Daniel Strauss , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
And fears that blacks might stay home if they feel Biden hasn ’ t done enough for them lately can be countered if necessary by choosing a black woman female VP candidate , like Florida Congresswoman Val Demings [ Val Demings rips Trump for having the `` gall '' to use Biden remarks in campaign , Axios , May 24 , 2020 ] or Georgia ’ s Stacey Abrams .
Biden ’ s weakness is his strength .
Like Virginia ’ s Northam , he can ’ t rule his party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the National Northam , by Gregory Hood , American Renaissance , March 6 , 2020 ] .
But that means black Democrats like Clyburn will support him because Biden must deliver .
Blacks vote as a bloc and win concessions as a bloc .
Consider what Biden has already done before this .
He began his campaign running on the Charlottesville hoax that alleges far-right protesters attacked the city and President Trump praised them .
Biden has said abandoning Anglo-American legal culture and its presumption of innocence has “ got to go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white man ’ s culture.
” He ’ s more recently said Ahmaud Arbery was “ killed in cold blood.
” Biden is going to give blacks everything he thinks they want as long as he gets to be president .
President Trump was absolutely right when he defined Biden as an empty shell , a “ non-factor , ” and said that his real opponent was the radical Left and its Main Stream Media allies [ Trump dismisses Biden : ‘ Not even a factor , ’ by Tal Axelrod , The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Still , why don ’ t the Democrats have a black person at the top of the Democratic ticket ?
Because Joe Biden provides a way to soothe the moral panic tat older liberal whites are undergoing .
It ’ s not surprising he leads in critical suburban communities [ Where Biden , Trump stand in key swing states , by Jonathan Easley , The Hill , May 23 , 2020 ] .
Biden ’ s own personal failings , including plagiarism , allegations of corruption , and , most recently , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without the MSM covering them aggressively .
Thus The Nation ’ s Katha Pollitt openly states she ’ d vote for Biden even if “ he boiled babies and ate them ” or if Tara Reade ’ s account of sexual harassment was true [ We Should Take Women ’ s Accusations Seriously .
But Tara Reade ’ s Fall Short .
May 20 , 2020 ] .
Feminists had no problem voting for Bill Clinton or his enabler Hillary ; why would they object to Biden ?
If anything , Biden ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall buffoonery are endearing to white liberal voters who want to go back to the “ normality ” of the Obama years when the president was just another celebrity .
I suspect Biden was picked by Obama because he ’ s an oaf , the dumb white sitcom dad we ’ ve seen on television a million times .
He ’ s got a certain charm , but no one respects or fears him .
There is no white “ community ” in American politics conscious of itself as a group possessing collective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Goldberg has found that white liberals actually possess an “ out-group bias ” —meaning that they dislike their own ethnic group more than any other .
In academia , journalism and increasingly , “ white ” is an all-purpose insult .
The only qualification : many of these white liberals don ’ t identify with whites anyway , either because they are part of an ethnic group that considers itself distinct from whites ( like many Jews ) ; an oppressed group ( like some sexual minorities ) ; or are genuinely post-national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the world ) .
Notwithstanding the constant denunciations of President Trump as a white nationalist , the fact is he never speaks explicitly in defense of his white supporters .
He ’ ll occasionally send out what appears to be a dog whistle , as when he cryptically referenced the savage beating of a helpless elderly white man by a younger black man in a nursing home in Michigan .
But his supporters are learning that there will be no political consequences from this dog whistle .
There ’ s no push @ @ @ @ @ @ @ English .
Even Trump ’ s recent boast that he was going to remedy the “ illegal ” bias and deplatforming of patriots on social media is apparently just means a “ commission ” —which is still being “ considered ” [ Trump Considers Forming Panel to Review Complaints of Online Bias , by John McKinnon and Alex Leary , The Wall Street Journal , May 23 , 2020 ] .
Arguably , the GOP could move to the left and propose a civic nationalist program that might well win a few more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now : a universal basic income , an immigration moratorium , Official English and replacing Affirmative Action with a system that gives advantages to those from a lower economic class In other words , challenge the Democrats for black voters by offering them something real .
But we know the GOP won ’ t do that—not least because Conservatism Inc. ideologues would fight it every step of the way .
Better to lose and have some other black conservative we ’ ve never heard of lecture us on “ Republican outreach ” again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide blacks with concrete advantages like set-asides , special programs , ethnic narcissism , and cultural victories .
Why would blacks give that up ?
Once in a while , they might throw a minor tantrum to win more subsidies , but it ’ s not like a party that wants “ limited government ” can offer anything to people that rely on government being big .
Let the Kushner campaign sell its shirt .
It won ’ t make a difference .
Blacks will vote for Biden this fall by the usual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last time .
Joe Biden has already shown he ’ s willing to degrade himself as much as he has to in order to be president .
Kissing up to “ Charlamagne da God ” is just business as usual .

See, earlier: Forget THE APPRENTICE, Trump—Blacks Will Never Vote For You Enough To Make A Difference
Joe Biden’s recent gaffe about blacks isn’t going to cost him black support. It may even strengthen him because, far from being offended, black political consultants, activists, and journalists just see more dollar signs. Whereas First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner reportedly wants to cut out the word "freedom" out of the GOP platform because “polling showed it doesn't appeal to African Americans” [Scoop: Inside the secret talks to overhaul the GOP platform, by Jonathan Swan, Axios, May 24, 2020], the Biden-black relationship is solidly based not on illusory symbols but on venal material interests. The GOP can’t compete, nor should it.
Biden won the Democrat Presidential nomination because he was endorsed by South Carolina’s Jim Clyburn and bought off black politicos like Symone Sanders, right, the former Bernie Sanders supporter. Black Democrats support Biden because they knew he would provide specific benefits for their “community,” in contrast to the more class-based, universal policies offered by Leftists such as Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang. Like Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Biden’s silly persona lets him be the hapless white frontman for racial socialist redistribution programs. And now, like Northam after the blackface brouhaha, Biden will have to offer blacks even more concrete benefits to ensure their turnout.
The celebrated gaffe: In an interview with radio host Lenard McKelvey, aka “Charlamagne tha God,” Biden said if blacks have a problem figuring out whether to support him or President Trump, “you ain’t black” [Joe Biden: ‘You Ain’t Black If You Don’t Back Me Over Trump,' by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22, 2020]. Adding to the fun: Biden’s bizarre comment that “everyone in jail… can’t read,” amusing since the “tha God” spent time in jail after various crimes when he was a teenager [Five Things You Didn’t Know About Charlamagne tha God, by Aiden Mason, TVOM, 2018].
The Kushner campaign has pounced on Biden with the usual DR3 (Dems R the Real Racists) tactic, and is now selling extremely cringe T-shirts, below.
Official Trump Campaign T-Shirt
But of course this overlooks the fact that McKelvey wasn’t offended on behalf of black Republicans. “It don’t have nothing to do with Trump, it has to do with the fact—I want something for my community,” he responded to Biden.
In other words, there’s no chance most blacks will consider voting for Trump. But they do want more handouts for their group.
McKelvey, excuse me, “tha God,” pressed Biden on “what have you done for me [blacks] lately” and condemned him for the 1994 crime bill [Charlamagne tha God slams Joe Biden’s record with African Americans after the Democrat’s ‘ain’t black’ gaffe and says his 1994 crime bill was a ‘very intricate’ part of ‘systemic racism,’ by Matthew Wright and Nikki Schwab, Daily Mail, May 23, 2020]. Joe Biden promptly groveled, vowing that “I’ve never, ever taken the African American community for granted” [Joe Biden Regrets ‘You Ain’t Black Comment: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Been Such A Wise Guy,' by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22, 2020].
But he has and he can. Thus Symone Sanders, running interference for the former VP, tweeted that his comments were “in jest” and that he could put “his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day,” steamrolled Chuck Todd’s attempt to question her about it on Meet The Press [Symone Sanders vs. Chuck Todd on Biden’s “You Ain’t Black” Comment; “I’m Not Going To Do This," by Ian Schwartz, RealClearPolitics, May 23, 2020].
Former president Barack Obama is preparing to campaign for Biden to drive up black turnout [Barack Obama poised to add his star appeal to Joe Biden campaign, by Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, May 23, 2020]. And fears that blacks might stay home if they feel Biden hasn’t done enough for them lately can be countered if necessary by choosing a black woman female VP candidate, like Florida Congresswoman Val Demings [Val Demings rips Trump for having the "gall" to use Biden remarks in campaign, Axios, May 24, 2020] or Georgia’s Stacey Abrams.
Biden’s weakness is his strength. Like Virginia’s Northam, he can’t rule his party without monolithic black support [Joe Biden, the National Northam, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, March 6, 2020]. But that means black Democrats like Clyburn will support him because Biden must deliver. Blacks vote as a bloc and win concessions as a bloc.
Consider what Biden has already done before this. He began his campaign running on the Charlottesville hoax that alleges far-right protesters attacked the city and President Trump praised them. Biden has said abandoning Anglo-American legal culture and its presumption of innocence has “got to go” because it’s a “white man’s culture.” He’s more recently said Ahmaud Arbery was “killed in cold blood.”
Biden is going to give blacks everything he thinks they want as long as he gets to be president. President Trump was absolutely right when he defined Biden as an empty shell, a “non-factor,” and said that his real opponent was the radical Left and its Main Stream Media allies [Trump dismisses Biden: ‘Not even a factor,’ by Tal Axelrod, The Hill, May 16, 2020].
Still, why don’t the Democrats have a black person at the top of the Democratic ticket? Because Joe Biden provides a way to soothe the moral panic that older liberal whites are undergoing. It’s not surprising he leads in critical suburban communities [Where Biden, Trump stand in key swing states, by Jonathan Easley, The Hill, May 23, 2020]. Biden’s own personal failings, including plagiarism, allegations of corruption, and, most recently, sexual assault, don’t matter without the MSM covering them aggressively. Thus The Nation’s Katha Pollitt openly states she’d vote for Biden even if “he boiled babies and ate them” or if Tara Reade’s account of sexual harassment was true [We Should Take Women’s Accusations Seriously. But Tara Reade’s Fall Short, May 20, 2020]. Feminists had no problem voting for Bill Clinton or his enabler Hillary; why would they object to Biden?
If anything, Biden’s creeping senility, bumbling, and overall buffoonery are endearing to white liberal voters who want to go back to the “normality” of the Obama years when the president was just another celebrity. I suspect Biden was picked by Obama because he’s an oaf, the dumb white sitcom dad we’ve seen on television a million times. He’s got a certain charm, but no one respects or fears him.
There is no white “community” in American politics conscious of itself as a group possessing collective interests and identity. The pollster Zach Goldberg has found that white liberals actually possess an “out-group bias”—meaning that they dislike their own ethnic group more than any other. In academia, journalism and increasingly, “white” is an all-purpose insult. The only qualification: Many of these white liberals don’t identify with whites anyway, either because they are part of an ethnic group that considers itself distinct from whites (like many Jews); an oppressed group (like some sexual minorities); or are genuinely post-national (and think they’re citizens/consumers of the world).
Notwithstanding the constant denunciations of President Trump as a white nationalist, the fact is he never speaks explicitly in defense of his white supporters. He’ll occasionally send out what appears to be a dog whistle, as when he cryptically referenced the savage beating of a helpless elderly white man by a younger black man in a nursing home in Michigan. But his supporters are learning that there will be no political consequences from this dog whistle. There’s no push to eliminate Affirmative Action or establish Official English. Even Trump’s recent boast that he was going to remedy the “illegal” bias and deplatforming of patriots on social media is apparently just means is a “commission”—which is still being “considered” [Trump Considers Forming Panel to Review Complaints of Online Bias, by John McKinnon and Alex Leary, Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2020].
Arguably, the GOP could move to the left and propose a civic nationalist program that might well win a few more black votes than the GOP is getting now: a universal basic income, an immigration moratorium, Official English and replacing Affirmative Action with a system that gives advantages to those from a lower economic class
In other words, challenge the Democrats for black voters by offering them something real.
But we know the GOP won’t do that—not least because Conservatism Inc. ideologues would fight it every step of the way. Better to lose and have some other black conservative we’ve never heard of lecture us on “Republican outreach” again next CPAC.
In contrast, Democrats provide blacks with concrete advantages like set-asides, special programs, ethnic narcissism, and cultural victories. Why would blacks give that up? Once in a while, they might throw a minor tantrum to win more subsidies, but it’s not like a party that wants “limited government” can offer anything to people that rely on government being big.
Let the Kushner campaign sell its shirt. It won’t make a difference. Blacks will vote for Biden this fall by the usual margins, if not greater ones than last time.
Joe Biden has already shown he’s willing to degrade himself as much as he has to in order to be president. Kissing up to “Charlamagne da God” is just business as usual.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.


vdare--2020-05-24--"Ferociously Hostile To Whites"—Contra SPLC, "The Talk" Vindicated AGAIN By Nursing Home Video

Earlier : The Future for White Boomers : Black Man Beats Elderly White Nursing Home Patients and Posts Video on Social Media Every once in a while—quite a long while ; I need to be in a certain mood—I go to the Southern Poverty Law Center website and read their entry on me .
This is not from vanity , although I 'll admit to being a little flattered at having been noticed by the anti-white witch-hunters of Montgomery .
No ; it 's more to remind myself of the depth of denial and delusion that prevails among Goodwhites .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ lower-echelon flunky got assigned to composing my page was to find the most damning possible quote from my writing : something so snarlingly , frothingly hate-filled , so preposterously , inconceivably unreasonable as to put me for ever beyond the bounds of civilized discourse .
So what did they come up with ?
I 'll quote you the relevant paragraph from the SPLC web page .
The first thing to note is that they have edited my words so that the second of those two sentences makes no sense .
In what I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in between those two that the SPLC-bot omitted , whether from lazy incompetence or from malice , I do n't know .
There is plenty of both at the SPLC website .
Here is what I actually wrote , with the omitted sentence included .
Quote : So that pronoun `` they '' starting off the third sentence refers not to the five percent , as the SPLC mis-quote implies , but to the fifty percent identified in my second sentence—the sentence they left out .
That 's by the by .
My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I get satisfaction from re-reading my words , even in the mangled form presented on the SPLC page , is the perfectly obvious truth of what I expressed in that first sentence .
Re-quote : Is there really anyone who does not know this ?
Really ?
Are there really such dark depths of Goodwhite denial ?
You might , of course , argue with my estimate of five percent .
When that column was first published I got a great many emails from people who did so argue .
`` Five percent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kidding , Derb ? ''
Then the emailer would proceed to offer his estimate , which was always higher , often much higher , than five percent .
All that came to mind yesterday when I saw that video clip of a black orderly beating up a frail old man in a Michigan care facility .
The clip is available below , for now , though Twitter and the other social media censors—BitChute so far an honorable exception—are deleting it as fast as they can .
Tucker Carlson reported on it here : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through , and still tell me that the thing I 'm quoted as saying in the SPLC web page on me is untrue ; well , then , you are a very good person indeed , a paragon of race denial .

Earlier: The Future for White Boomers: Black Man Beats Elderly White Nursing Home Patients and Posts Video on Social Media
Every once in a while—quite a long while; I need to be in a certain mood—I go to the Southern Poverty Law Center website and read their entry on me.
This is not from vanity, although I'll admit to being a little flattered at having been noticed by the anti-white witch-hunters of Montgomery. No; it's more to remind myself of the depth of denial and delusion that prevails among Goodwhites.
The task they set for whichever SPLC lower-echelon flunky got assigned to composing my page was to find the most damning possible quote from my writing: something so snarlingly, frothingly hate-filled, so preposterously, inconceivably unreasonable as to put me forever beyond the bounds of civilized discourse. So what did they come up with?
I'll quote you the relevant paragraph from the SPLC web page.
Quote:
“A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us,” Derbyshire wrote. “They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.”
Prominent White Nationalists Fired from National Review August 16, 2012
The first thing to note is that they have edited my words so that the second of those two sentences makes no sense. In what I actually wrote, there is a sentence in between those two that the SPLC-bot omitted, whether from lazy incompetence or from malice, I don't know. There is plenty of both at the SPLC website.
Here is what I actually wrote, with the omitted sentence included. Quote:
A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
So that pronoun "they" starting off the third sentence refers not to the five percent, as the SPLC mis-quote implies, but to the fifty percent identified in my second sentence—the sentence they left out.
That's by the by. My main point here, and the reason I get satisfaction from re-reading my words, even in the mangled form presented on the SPLC page, is the perfectly obvious truth of what I expressed in that first sentence. Re-quote:
A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. [Links in my original 2012 column.]
Is there really anyone who does not know this? Really? Are there really such dark depths of Goodwhite denial?
You might, of course, argue with my estimate of five percent. When that column was first published I got a great many emails from people who did so argue. "Five percent?" they scoffed. "You kidding, Derb?" Then the emailer would proceed to offer his estimate, which was always higher, often much higher, than five percent.
(And to be perfectly truthful I dialed down my estimate to five percent from somewhat higher in hopes of making allowance for my implicit bias. I was trying hard to be nice. See where it gets you!)
All that came to mind yesterday when I saw that video clip of a black orderly beating up a frail old man in a Michigan care facility. The clip is available below, for now, though Twitter and the other social media censors—BitChute so far an honorable exception—are deleting it as fast as they can.
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Tucker Carlson reported on it here:
Good on Tucker Carlson for reporting on the disturbing abuse in nursing homes pic.twitter.com/5hep3Tfor4 — 🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴 (@JoshLekach) May 23, 2020
If you watch it all the way through, and still tell me that the thing I'm quoted as saying in the SPLC web page on me is untrue; well, then, you are a very good person indeed, a paragon of race denial.


vdare--2020-05-25--Sailer: If Kamala Gets to be VP Nominee, I Get to Use Old Willie Brown Stories

Here ’ s an interesting story from the San Francisco Chronicle on the day after 9/11/2001 : Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel Phillip Matier , Andrew Ross Published 4:00 am PDT , Wednesday , September 12 , 2001 For Mayor Willie Brown , the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security – – a full eight hours before yesterday ’ s string of terrorist attacks — advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel .
The mayor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York yesterday morning from San Francisco International Airport , said the call “ didn ’ t come in any alarming fashion , which is why I ’ m hesitant to make an alarming statement.
” In fact , at the time , he didn ’ t pay it much mind .
“ It was not an abnormal call .
I ’ m always concerned if my flight is going to be on time , and they always alert me when I ought to be careful.
” Exactly where the call came from is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mayor would say only that it came from “ my security people at the airport.
” Mike McCarron , assistant deputy director at SFO , said the Federal Aviation Administration “ routinely ” issues security notices about possible threats .
He said two or three such notices have been received in the past couple of months , but none in recent days .
Whatever the case , Brown didn ’ t think about it again until he was up , dressed and waiting for his ride to the airport for an 8 a.m. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was to attend a state retirement board meeting .
That was when he turned on the TV , and like millions of other Americans , saw the twin towers of the World Trade Center crumble and the Pentagon go up in smoke .
Nothing much has emerged since on this story .
It could be Willie just made the story up to have something to say , but it doesn ’ t strike me as implausible .
Or it could be some unrelated chatter that Mayor Willie ’ s boys were hearing about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be surprised if people involved in airport security were noticing hints here and there that something was up by late 9/10 .
We know , for example , that just several hours after this phone call , an airport counter clerk checking in Mohammed Atta in Portland , Maine noticed that Atta looked more in looks and demeanour like an Arab terrorist than anybody he ’ d ever seen in his life , but then gave himself “ a political correct slap ” and decided not to notify security about it .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ memoryholed was that the Bush Administration , under transportation secretary Norman Mineta , was crusading against security profiling potential terrorists for “ flying while Arab.
” George W. Bush had introduced into his second presidential debate with Al Gore on 10/11/2000 that his administration would go to war against ethnic profiling of Arabs at airports .
Bush said in front of a huge national audience : Secondly , there is other forms of racial profiling that goes on in America .
Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what is called secret evidence .
People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do something about that .
My friend , Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan , is pushing a law to make sure that Arab-Americans are treated with respect .
So racial profiling isn ’ t just an issue at local police forces .
It ’ s an issue throughout our society .
And as we become a diverse society , we ’ re going to have to deal with it more and more .
I believe , though — I believe , as sure as I ’ m sitting here , that most Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people .
They ’ re good , tolerant people .
It ’ s the very few that create most of the crises , and we just have to find them and deal with them .
See 47:08 in this C-SPAN video of the debate .
And Bush transportation secretary had therefore launched a campaign to crack down on being suspicious of people like Mohammed Atta earlier in 2001 .
So the possibility that people in air security hear and there around the country had noticed bits and pieces of evidence that ought to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 9/10 , just passing them around to trusted colleagues , but were keeping them on the QT to avoid setting off the Transportation Department ’ s jihad against profiling Arabs would not be implausible .
What ’ s particularly striking is that the Bush Administration ’ s public campaign against the profiling Arab terrorists has utterly vanished from virtually all consciousness .

Here’s an interesting story from the San Francisco Chronicle on the day after 9/11/2001:
Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel
Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross Published 4:00 am PDT, Wednesday, September 12, 2001 For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security – – a full eight hours before yesterday’s string of terrorist attacks — advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel. The mayor, who was booked to fly to New York yesterday morning from San Francisco International Airport, said the call “didn’t come in any alarming fashion, which is why I’m hesitant to make an alarming statement.” In fact, at the time, he didn’t pay it much mind. “It was not an abnormal call. I’m always concerned if my flight is going to be on time, and they always alert me when I ought to be careful.” Exactly where the call came from is a bit of a mystery. The mayor would say only that it came from “my security people at the airport.” Mike McCarron, assistant deputy director at SFO, said the Federal Aviation Administration “routinely” issues security notices about possible threats. He said two or three such notices have been received in the past couple of months, but none in recent days. Whatever the case, Brown didn’t think about it again until he was up, dressed and waiting for his ride to the airport for an 8 a.m. flight to New York, where he was to attend a state retirement board meeting. That was when he turned on the TV, and like millions of other Americans, saw the twin towers of the World Trade Center crumble and the Pentagon go up in smoke.
Nothing much has emerged since on this story.
It could be Willie just made the story up to have something to say, but it doesn’t strike me as implausible. Or it could be some unrelated chatter that Mayor Willie’s boys were hearing about.
But … I wouldn’t be surprised if people involved in airport security were noticing hints here and there that something was up by late 9/10. We know, for example, that just several hours after this phone call, an airport counter clerk checking in Mohammed Atta in Portland, Maine noticed that Atta looked more in looks and demeanor like an Arab terrorist than anybody he’d ever seen in his life, but then gave himself “a political correct slap” and decided not to notify security about it.
A big aspect to 9/11 that has been memoryholed was that the Bush Administration, under transportation secretary Norman Mineta, was crusading against security profiling potential terrorists for “flying while Arab.” George W. Bush had introduced into his second presidential debate with Al Gore on 10/11/2000 that his administration would go to war against ethnic profiling of Arabs at airports. Bush said in front of a huge national audience:
Secondly, there is other forms of racial profiling that goes on in America. Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what is called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we have to do something about that. My friend, Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan, is pushing a law to make sure that Arab-Americans are treated with respect. So racial profiling isn’t just an issue at local police forces. It’s an issue throughout our society. And as we become a diverse society, we’re going to have to deal with it more and more. I believe, though — I believe, as sure as I’m sitting here, that most Americans really care. They’re tolerant people. They’re good, tolerant people. It’s the very few that create most of the crises, and we just have to find them and deal with them.
See 47:08 in this C-SPAN video of the debate.
And Bush's transportation secretary had therefore launched a campaign to crack down on being suspicious of people like Mohammed Atta earlier in 2001.
So the possibility that people in air security here and there around the country had noticed bits and pieces of evidence that ought to have alarmed them by the evening before 9/10, just passing them around to trusted colleagues, but were keeping them on the QT to avoid setting off the Transportation Department’s jihad against profiling Arabs would not be implausible.
What’s particularly striking is that the Bush Administration’s public campaign against the profiling Arab terrorists has utterly vanished from virtually all consciousness.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-05-25--National News vs. Non-News: "Blocked" Black Deliveryman Vs. Murdered White Marinos

Earlier : John Derbyshire : Why Hasn ’ t The NEW YORK TIMES Reported The Murder Of Paul And Lidia @ @ @ @ @ York Times news section , an example of massively important National News : In contrast @ @ @ @ @ has never once published the names of the two white octogenarians visiting their son ’ @ @ @ @ @ down by a black man on May 8 , the day after the first ( @ @ @ @ @ in the Ahmaud Arbery story promoted so extravagantly by the NYT .
Two and a @ @ @ @ @ police have yet to venture to suggest a motive , Some news is not fit @ @ @

Earlier: John Derbyshire: Why Hasn’t the NEW YORK TIMES Reported The Murder Of Paul And Lidia Marino?
From the New York Times news section, an example of massively important National News:
Black Deliveryman Says He Was Blocked and Interrogated by White Driver Travis Miller Sr. said he was trying to leave a gated neighborhood in Oklahoma after a delivery when a vehicle blocked his path. By Mariel Padilla, May 17, 2020
In contrast, the New York Times has never once published the names of the two white octogenarians visiting their son’s grave who were gunned down by a black man on May 8, the day after the first (of now 3) arrests in the Ahmaud Arbery story promoted so extravagantly by the NYT. Two and a half weeks later, the police have yet to venture to suggest a motive.
Some news is not fit to print.
[Comment at Unz.com]