vdare--2020-09-01--From Kyle Rittenhouse To Michael Flynn, We’re In Third World Post-America. And There’s No Rule Of La

From Kyle Rittenhouse To Michael Flynn, We’re In Third World Post-America. And There’s No Rule Of Law

Earlier , by John Derbyshire : From Wisconsin To Washington D.C.— '' Our Culture And Way Of Life '' Under Attack As President Trump tours riot damage in Wisconsin [ Amid tensions in Kenosha , Trump tours damaged businesses , meets with law enforcement , by Jordyn Phelps , ABC News , September 1 , 2020 ] , patriots are coming to a grim realization : In the U.S. today , there is no Rule Of Law , justice is arbitrary , and even if the truth is caught on video , the Main Stream Media can still shout it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only gasp in astonishment as the MSM , Leftist politicians and the Biden campaign ( all essentially one entity ) have gone from pretending Black Lives matter riots didn ’ t exist to blaming Trump for them .
The MSM is now shocked !
SHOCKED !
that Trump suggested Kyle Rittenhouse may have acted in self-defense .
The massive black riots , shakedowns , and various killings and attacks on whites simply don ’ t register .
Trump is also being forced into a box over General Michael Flynn , who was selectively @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a black federal judge .
And former Rep. Steve Stockman , also rotting in prison in extremely dangerous conditions , was another selective prosecution for unknown ends .
Meanwhile , Antifa rioters , like clockwork , riot day after day in cities around the country without any consequence at all .
“ The Rule Of Law ” is gone in the United States–perhaps the inevitable consequence of tolerating lawlessness in the form of mass illegal immigration .
Of course , despite the Ruling Class ’ s ongoing attempt to replace the American people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still remain the critical voting bloc in the 2020 election , especially in the Midwest .
The presidential race has tightened significantly in the Midwest , including in Minnesota [ An unlikely state tightens up , by David Siders , Politico , September 1 , 2020 ] .
Obviously , Wisconsin is now the battleground ( figuratively and , alas , literally ) , and there support for Black Lives Matter has collapsed [ Support for Black Lives Matter Dropped 13 Points in Wisconsin in One Poll–Before Shooting of Jacob Blake and Riots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ August 27 , 2020 ] .
For what it ’ s worth , there ’ s also some evidence Trump is gaining with black voters nationwide [ Poll : Trump approval rises among black , Hispanic voters amid convention , The Hill , August 28 , 2020 ] .
If President Trump can win over white swing voters in the Midwest and make even a small gain in black and Hispanic support , Joe Biden ’ s chances suddenly evaporate ( unless he can take Florida ) .
In response to falling poll @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with thinly veiled threats .
Biden suggested Trump himself is fomenting violence and is “ part of the problem , ” even having the gall to cite the rising murder rates [ Biden tries to blame Trump for Democrat-run cities ’ unrest , by Michael Goodwin , New York Post , August 31 , 2020 ] .
“ Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected ?
” Biden asked in Pennsylvania [ Biden comes to Pa. and asks : ‘ Does anyone believe there will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
By Jonathan Tamari , The Philadelphia Inquirer , August 31 , 2020 ] .
On cue , journalists , activists , and Democratic politicians ( again , the same thing ) are making wildly irresponsible claims about a future “ race war ” [ Democrats , Journalists , Celebs Push Talking Point About Fearing ‘ Race War , ’ by Joshua Caplan , Breitbart , September 1 , 2020 ] .
This is simply a threat : vote Biden , or the riots will continue until you reverse your decision .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with some of the funding likely coming from the same sources .
This is particularly brazen because Democratic governors and mayors have rebuffed offers of federal law enforcement assistance .
And we ’ ve also seen Baghdad Bob-type television segments about “ mostly peaceful protests ” as flames soar in the background .
Until Monday , most reporters didn ’ t even want to admit the riots existed .
Nonetheless , Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler claims that somehow Trump has created the problem [ Portland mayor excoriates Trump : ‘ It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ’ by Paul LeBlanc , CNN , August 30 , 2020 ] .
Blaming a reaction that the Dark Lord Trump has mysteriously evoked allows Mayor Wheeler to avoid doing something about the actual people trashing his own building and city .
Still , there is a Narrative emerging .
Joe Biden condemned President Trump ’ s supposed call for his supporters to be an “ armed militia ” [ Biden Calls Trump ‘ Weak ’ For Refusing To Condemn Armed Militia At Protests , by Jack Brewster , Forbes , August @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , the reason people with guns are popping up to defend their property is because the police won ’ t .
There have also been large armed demonstrations by the black militia “ Not F***ing Around Coalition , ” explicitly challenging a military showdown [ Black militia called ‘ Not F–ing Around Coalition ’ demonstrates in GA ; angered at Black Panther comparison , Law Enforcement Today , July 6 , 2020 ] .
Black Lives Matter protesters have also threatened businesses [ Shakedown : BLM Demands Cut of Louisville Business Profits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Breitbart , August 2 , 2020 ] Nonetheless , this isn ’ t what Biden is interested in .
He said Trump was too “ weak ” and “ scared ” to “ repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder ” [ Statement By Vice President Joe Biden On President Trump ’ s Press Conference , JoeBiden.com , August 31 , 2020 ] .
He meant Kyle Rittenhouse .
But unless there is new evidence none of us has seen , Kyle Rittenhouse appears to have acted purely in self-defense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ videos .
Even The New York Times painstakingly broke down the videos .
The evidence right now seems to support Rittenhouse ’ s claim of self-defense [ Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings , by Haley Willis et al.
, August 27 , 2020 ] The MSM is in hysterics [ The Horror of Trump ’ s Support for Kyle Rittenhouse , by Dahlia Lithwick , Slate , September 1 , 2020 ] .
But , much to the frustration of prosecutors , Rittenhouse is not backing down .
And he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Trump supporter and Patriot Prayer affiliate Aaron Danielson AKA Jay Bishop was killed , possibly in retaliation for Rittenhouse ’ s actions .
Michael Forest Reinoehl , a white man with a “ black power ” tattoo on his neck who claimed to be “ 100 % antifa ” is being investigated .
But note that , incredibly , The Guardian was still outraged by President Trump ’ s mild condolences for the targeted murder of one of his own supporters , calling it a way of “ inflaming hatreds and fears @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ : sympathy for the far right foretells Trump ’ s election strategy , by Tom McCarthy , August 31 , 2020 ] .
I hope everyone has it straight–if you defend yourself , you ’ re the bad guy .
If you are murdered , you are still the bad guy .
But if you are Antifa , journos defend you like Spartans at the Hot Gates .
President Trump ’ s own inner circle has also been targeted by selective prosecution and crazed media coverage .
The most spectacular case : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Justice investigation revealed federal law enforcement used phony accusations to force Flynn into a guilty plea .
Once this became clear , the DOJ attempted to dismiss all charges .
But , unprecedentedly , the D.C .
Circuit Court of Appeals refused , instead kicking the case back to the hostile judge who has accused Flynn of “ treason ” from the bench [ Greg Jarrett : In Flynn case , DC circuit court plays a silly game of legal dodgeball , Fox News , September 1 , 2020 ] .
Additionally , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the American Right who have been railroaded by the justice system : the Rise Above Movement ; the Proud Boys ; some of those caught up in the riot unleashed by Charlottesville authorities in 2017 ; and even former Congressman Steve Stockman .
Tellingly , while Trump ’ s turncoat lawyer Michael Cohen was set free because of alleged concerns over coronavirus to sell his book , Steve Stockman , who is even more at risk for COVID-19 because of pre-existing conditions , rots in prison in Beaumont , Texas on questionable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports that there are orders “ straight from the top ” that he won ’ t be released [ Op-Ed : Ex-Congressman , 63 , Who Exposed Obama , Clintons ‘ Sentenced to Death ’ in COVID-Infested Prison , The Western Journal , July 21 , 2020 ] .
From whom at “ the top ” ?
Does President Trump know ?
Does the Attorney General ?
Arguably , the arbitrary and random nature of the American legal system has been presaged by decades of non-enforcement of immigration laws .
President Barack Obama @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( DACA ) took this to the next level , essentially declaring an entire class of people legally untouchable for favored crimes .
And according to the “ conservative ” Supreme Court ’ s ruling on DACA , a president can ’ t simply undo the Executive Order of a prior president .
Thus , presidents , governors , and bureaucrats at all levels have ample rationale to simply declare blanket Amnesties for groups they like and selectively prosecute those they don ’ t .
It ’ s Anarcho-Tyranny .
And it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We aren ’ t in a free society .
We ’ re in Third World Post-America .
President Trump , timid as he is , still is too independent for those who decide what laws do and do not apply .
These unelected rulers include judges , bureaucrats—and , perhaps most important , the media .
It ’ s hard to disagree with President Trump on the riots : And the media knows exactly what it is doing .
James Kirkpatrick [ Email him |Tweet him @ VDAREJamesK ] is a Beltway veteran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ latest book is Conservatism Inc. : The Battle for the American Right .
Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow 's Preface here .

Earlier, by John Derbyshire: From Wisconsin To Washington D.C.—"Our Culture And Way Of Life" Under Attack
As President Trump tours riot damage in Wisconsin [Amid tensions in Kenosha, Trump tours damaged businesses, meets with law enforcement, by Jordyn Phelps, ABC News, September 1, 2020], patriots are coming to a grim realization: In the U.S. today, there is no Rule Of Law, justice is arbitrary, and even if the truth is caught on video, the Main Stream Media can still shout it down.
Even the most cynical can only gasp in astonishment as the MSM, Leftist politicians and the Biden campaign (all essentially one entity) have gone from pretending Black Lives matter riots didn’t exist to blaming Trump for them. The MSM is now shocked! SHOCKED! that Trump suggested Kyle Rittenhouse may have acted in self-defense. The massive black riots, shakedowns, and various killings and attacks on whites simply don’t register.
Trump is also being forced into a box over General Michael Flynn, who was selectively prosecuted and is still being persecuted by a black federal judge. And former Rep. Steve Stockman, also rotting in prison in extremely dangerous conditions, was another selective prosecution for unknown ends.
Meanwhile, Antifa rioters, like clockwork, riot day after day in cities around the country without any consequence at all.
“The Rule Of Law” is gone in the United States–perhaps the inevitable consequence of tolerating lawlessness in the form of mass illegal immigration.
Of course, despite the Ruling Class’s ongoing attempt to replace the American people through mass immigration, white voters will still remain the critical voting bloc in the 2020 election, especially in the Midwest. The presidential race has tightened significantly in the Midwest, including in Minnesota [An unlikely state tightens up, by David Siders, Politico, September 1, 2020]. Obviously, Wisconsin is now the battleground (figuratively and, alas, literally), and there support for Black Lives Matter has collapsed [Support for Black Lives Matter Dropped 13 Points in Wisconsin in One Poll–Before Shooting of Jacob Blake and Riots, by Rudy Takala, Mediaite, August 27, 2020]. For what it’s worth, there’s also some evidence Trump is gaining with black voters nationwide [Poll: Trump approval rises among black, Hispanic voters amid convention, The Hill, August 28, 2020]. If President Trump can win over white swing voters in the Midwest and make even a small gain in black and Hispanic support, Joe Biden’s chances suddenly evaporate (unless he can take Florida).
In response to falling poll numbers, the Biden campaign is responding with thinly veiled threats. Biden suggested Trump himself is fomenting violence and is “part of the problem,” even having the gall to cite the rising murder rates [Biden tries to blame Trump for Democrat-run cities’ unrest, by Michael Goodwin, New York Post, August 31, 2020].
“Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?” Biden asked in Pennsylvania [Biden comes to Pa. and asks: ‘Does anyone believe there will be less violence’ if Trump wins? by Jonathan Tamari, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 31, 2020]. On cue, journalists, activists, and Democratic politicians (again, the same thing) are making wildly irresponsible claims about a future “race war” [Democrats, Journalists, Celebs Push Talking Point About Fearing ‘Race War,’ by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, September 1, 2020].
This is simply a threat: Vote Biden, or the riots will continue until you reverse your decision. It’s a Color Revolution, American-style, with some of the funding likely coming from the same sources.
This is particularly brazen because Democratic governors and mayors have rebuffed offers of federal law enforcement assistance. And we’ve also seen Baghdad Bob-type television segments about “mostly peaceful protests” as flames soar in the background. Until Monday, most reporters didn’t even want to admit the riots existed.
Nonetheless, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler claims that somehow Trump has created the problem [Portland mayor excoriates Trump: ‘It’s you who have created the hate,’ by Paul LeBlanc, CNN, August 30, 2020]. Blaming a reaction that the Dark Lord Trump has mysteriously evoked allows Mayor Wheeler to avoid doing something about the actual people trashing his own building and city.
Still, there is a Narrative emerging.
Joe Biden condemned President Trump’s supposed call for his supporters to be an “armed militia” [Biden Calls Trump ‘Weak’ For Refusing To Condemn Armed Militia At Protests, by Jack Brewster, Forbes, August 31, 2020]. But of course, the reason people with guns are popping up to defend their property is because the police won’t.
There have also been large armed demonstrations by the black militia “Not F***ing Around Coalition,” explicitly challenging a military showdown [Black militia called ‘Not F–ing Around Coalition’ demonstrates in GA; angered at Black Panther comparison, Law Enforcement Today, July 6, 2020]. Black Lives Matter protesters have also threatened businesses [Shakedown: BLM Demands Cut of Louisville Business Profits for Protection, by Robert Kraychik, Breitbart, August 2, 2020]
Nonetheless, this isn’t what Biden is interested in. He said Trump was too “weak” and “scared” to “repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder” [Statement By Vice President Joe Biden On President Trump’s Press Conference, JoeBiden.com, August 31, 2020]. He meant Kyle Rittenhouse.
But unless there is new evidence none of us has seen, Kyle Rittenhouse appears to have acted purely in self-defense. President Trump clearly has seen the videos. Even The New York Times painstakingly broke down the videos. The evidence right now seems to support Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense [Tracking the Suspect in the Fatal Kenosha Shootings, by Haley Willis et al., August 27, 2020].
The MSM is in hysterics [The Horror of Trump’s Support for Kyle Rittenhouse, by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, September 1, 2020]. But, much to the frustration of prosecutors, Rittenhouse is not backing down. And he has effective legal representation
On August 29, Trump supporter and Patriot Prayer affiliate Aaron Danielson AKA Jay Bishop was killed, possibly in retaliation for Rittenhouse’s actions. Michael Forest Reinoehl, a white man with a “black power” tattoo on his neck, who claimed to be “100% antifa,” is being investigated.
But note that, incredibly, The Guardian was still outraged by President Trump’s mild condolences for the targeted murder of one of his own supporters, calling it a way of “inflaming hatreds and fears” [‘Rest in peace Jay’: sympathy for the far right foretells Trump’s election strategy, by Tom McCarthy, August 31, 2020].
I hope everyone has it straight–if you defend yourself, you’re the bad guy. If you are murdered, you are still the bad guy.
But if you are Antifa, journos defend you like Spartans at the Hot Gates.
President Trump’s own inner circle has also been targeted by selective prosecution and crazed media coverage. The most spectacular case: General Michael Flynn. A Department of Justice investigation revealed federal law enforcement used phony accusations to force Flynn into a guilty plea. Once this became clear, the DOJ attempted to dismiss all charges. But, unprecedentedly, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused, instead kicking the case back to the hostile judge who has accused Flynn of “treason” from the bench [Greg Jarrett: In Flynn case, DC circuit court plays a silly game of legal dodgeball, Fox News, September 1, 2020].
Additionally, of course, are also countless defendants on the American Right who have been railroaded by the justice system: the Rise Above Movement; the Proud Boys; some of those caught up in the riot unleashed by Charlottesville authorities in 2017; and even former Congressman Steve Stockman.
Tellingly, while Trump’s turncoat lawyer Michael Cohen was set free because of alleged concerns over coronavirus to sell his book, Steve Stockman, who is even more at risk for COVID-19 because of pre-existing conditions, rots in prison in Beaumont, Texas on questionable charges. Conservative Movement veteran Richard Viguerie reports that there are orders “straight from the top” that he won’t be released [Op-Ed: Ex-Congressman, 63, Who Exposed Obama, Clintons ‘Sentenced to Death’ in COVID-Infested Prison, The Western Journal, July 21, 2020].
From whom at “the top”? Does President Trump know? Does the Attorney General?
Arguably, the arbitrary and random nature of the American legal system has been presaged by decades of non-enforcement of immigration laws. President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) took this to the next level, essentially declaring an entire class of people legally untouchable for favored crimes. And according to the “conservative” Supreme Court’s ruling on DACA, a president can’t simply undo the Executive Order of a prior president.
Thus, presidents, governors, and bureaucrats at all levels have ample rationale to simply declare blanket Amnesties for groups they like and selectively prosecute those they don’t. It’s Anarcho-Tyranny. And it’s incompatible with a free society.
We aren’t in a free society. We’re in Third World Post-America. President Trump, timid as he is, still is too independent for those who decide what laws do and do not apply. These unelected rulers include judges, bureaucrats—and, perhaps most important, the media.
It’s hard to disagree with President Trump on the riots:
The press is actually, the media, is what’s fueling this, more so than even Biden, because Biden doesn’t know he’s alive
And the media knows exactly what it is doing.
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--2020-09-02--Why Campaign Staffers Get Paid the Big Bucks: Apparently, Brussel Sprouts Aren't the Only Thing Jaco

Why Campaign Staffers Get Paid the Big Bucks: Apparently, Brussel Sprouts Aren't the Only Thing Jacob Blake Sr. Hates

Biden to meet with family of Jacob Blake in Kenosha BY JOHN BOWDEN – 09/02/20 06:20 PM EDT Joe Biden will meet with the father of Jacob Blake , the Black man shot by police multiple times in Kenosha , Wis. , late last month , when the former vice president travels to the city on Thursday .
Biden ’ s campaign announced the visit in a press release on Wednesday .
A campaign spokesman later confirmed to The Hill that the Democratic nominee would meet with Jacob Blake Sr. during his trip .
The meeting comes after President Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Blake family during a trip earlier this week due to their request that a family attorney be present for the conversation .
Jacob Blake Sr. is the colorful anti-Brussels sprouts individual who stumped poor Anderson Cooper on live national TV recently .
According to the website Reagan Battalion , Blake Sr. also has some colorful views on subjects besides vegetables : First , I am not aware of proof that these are authentic posts by Jacob Blake Sr. Second , they are not posts by the shooting victim Jacob Blake Jr .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , heavyset Blake Sr. rather than of Blake Jr .
Presumably , Biden ’ s staff will overnight cancel the meeting with Blake Sr. and try to find some decorous substitute .
It ’ s too bad this news broke the day before because comedy lovers were sure looking forward to Joe and the anti-Sproutite going one-on-one on live TV .

From The Hill:
Biden to meet with family of Jacob Blake in Kenosha
BY JOHN BOWDEN – 09/02/20 06:20 PM EDT Joe Biden will meet with the father of Jacob Blake, the Black man shot by police multiple times in Kenosha, Wis., late last month, when the former vice president travels to the city on Thursday. Biden’s campaign announced the visit in a press release on Wednesday. A campaign spokesman later confirmed to The Hill that the Democratic nominee would meet with Jacob Blake Sr. during his trip. The meeting comes after President Trump said he refused to meet with the Blake family during a trip earlier this week due to their request that a family attorney be present for the conversation.
Jacob Blake Sr. is the colorful anti-Brussels sprouts individual who stumped poor Anderson Cooper on live national TV recently.
According to the website Reagan Battalion, Blake Sr. also has some colorful views on subjects besides vegetables:
A couple of warnings:
First, I am not aware of proof that these are authentic posts by Jacob Blake Sr.
Second, they are not posts by the shooting victim Jacob Blake Jr. The icon photos are clearly of the older, heavyset Blake Sr. rather than of Blake Jr.
Presumably, Biden’s staff will overnight cancel the meeting with Blake Sr. and try to find some decorous substitute.
It’s too bad this news broke the day before because comedy lovers were sure looking forward to Joe and the anti-Sproutite going one-on-one on live TV.


vdare--2020-09-02--Ann Coulter: Where’s ‘The Talk’ When We Need It?

Earlier , by John Derbyshire : The Talk : Nonblack Version ( which got him fired from National Review ) For many years now , we ’ ve gotten mountains of press about “ The Talk , ” the rite of passage lecture that black parents feel obliged to give their sons so that they won ’ t end up getting shot by the police .
Apparently , unlike white people who are always fighting with cops and resisting arrest , young black men must be purer than Caesar ’ s wife .
The main points of “ The Talk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the following : • Pulling over your vehicle right away • Keeping hands visible on the steering wheel and not making sudden moves • Not reaching for items in your wallet or glove compartment without informing the law enforcement officer first • Being as polite as possible , using “ Yes sir , officer ” • Not arguing , even if you are right Having seen video footage of the arrests of George Floyd ( fighting with cops ) , Rayshard Brooks ( fighting with cops ) and Jacob Blake ( fighting with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least some black men in America could use a refresher course on “ The Talk.
” What we need is a BLM-administered version of “ The Talk , ” requiring a notarized certificate of completion , acknowledging that the participants : 1 ) took the course , 2 ) understood it and 3 ) pledge to act in accordance with it .
True , it ’ s unfair that white people are allowed free rein to curse cops , lunge at them with knives and reach into a car as the police are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ White people get to play fun “ Surprise !
” games with the police : I could be reaching for a Glock—or it could be a strawberry push-pop !
You ’ ll just have to wait and see , officer .
A Slate article about “ The Talk ” complained that white people protesting Michigan ’ s lockdown “ could arrive , armed and screaming , in government buildings and be afforded unending patience by law enforcement.
” Of course , it ’ s generally not against the law ( in an open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or to scream .
Some Black Lives Matter protesters have even been known to scream .
This is despite the media ’ s firm conviction that any armed white man is , ipso facto , a marauding racist .
Reporting on an anti-Obamacare rally in Phoenix , Arizona , in 2009 , MSNBC zoomed in on guns slung on a man ’ s body , as Contessa Brewer ominously warned : “ A man at a pro-health care reform rally … wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether this has racial overtones … white people showing up with guns.
” There was a reason MSNBC never showed the man ’ s face : He was African American .
And yet , he wasn ’ t arrested or harassed—other than by MSNBC .
The only places where white privilege is truly on display are lily-white , left-wing redoubts like Seattle , Kenosha , Wisconsin , and Portland , Oregon .
The latter was recently described by the New York Times as “ one of the whitest big cities in America.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are permitted to commit arson , vandalism , assault and even murder with abandon .
Why no antifa activity in mostly black cities , like Baltimore , Ferguson , Missouri , or Chicago ?
Evidently , these bad-ass antifa are too afraid to riot in any majority black cities .
They claim to be destroying public and private property on behalf of their black brethren , but are terrified of being around actual black people .
White antifa have been rioting in Portland ( super white ! )
for more than three months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they get arrested , they ’ re immediately released , often bailed out with funds provided by white celebrities like Seth Rogen , Abbi Jacobson and Steve Carell .
It ’ s such a wonderful , cost-free way to serve black people .
Leftists won ’ t work to end the mass immigration that drives down black wages or to abandon trade deals that send their jobs out of the country .
But they ’ ll fly the BLM flag and fight with police in overwhelmingly white cities .
Antifa is following the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part of a Nike sneaker is made in a third-world country .
It ’ s as if the top minds in the nation got together to solve the problem “ How can we ensure that no American jobs are created to manufacture this shoe ?
” Corporate titans would love to do something to help African Americans ( like employ them , maybe ? )
, but then they remember , WAIT !
I HAVE MUTUAL FUNDS !
So instead they smugly proclaim “ Black Lives Matter , ” run a commercial with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done .
Antifa cretins are spoiling for a fight with police—but not near any large groups of black people .
They could get hurt !
There ’ s been an all-out war on Kyle Rittenhouse , the 17-year-old who shot three antifa in Kenosha in what seems clearly to be self-defense , based on The New York Times ’ reconstruction of events .
Rittenhouse was in Kenosha to protect people and property from violence ; he rendered first aid to the protesters ; later ended up being chased by antifa goons , heard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his head beat in with a skateboard and was threatened with a gun .
The people he killed were : a convicted child molester and a convicted domestic violence repeat offender , both of whom had served time in prison .
( It takes a lot to get prison time in America—especially if you ’ re white , right BLM ? )
The guy Rittenhouse shot in the arm had a firearms conviction and was coming at him with a gun .
But this was an all-white affair , so liberals had to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ status .
Not irrelevant factors , like self-defense , reasonable fear or possibility of escape , but relevant factors like : Who was antifa and who was a Trump supporter ?
Rittenhouse : GUILTY !
With the verdict in , liberals have lost their minds about Rittenhouse .
They tell outrageous lies about him , lionize the ex-cons he shot and aggressively censor anyone who takes his side .
Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sen. Chris Murphy called Rittenhouse a “ white supremacist ” and “ white nationalist , ” respectively ( in non-congressionally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might be interested ) .
Meanwhile , for suggesting that Rittenhouse may be innocent , both Rittenhouse ’ s attorney and I have been suspended from Twitter .
Oh by the way , over the weekend , an hour away in Chicago , 54 people were shot ; 10 are dead .
Woke media : Everyone involved was black , right ?
No big deal .
Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To Turn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hole , was released on June 1 , 2015 .
Her latest book , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind , was released on August 21 , 2018 .

Earlier, by John Derbyshire: The Talk: Nonblack Version (which got him fired from National Review)
For many years now, we’ve gotten mountains of press about “The Talk,” the rite of passage lecture that black parents feel obliged to give their sons so that they won’t end up getting shot by the police. Apparently, unlike white people who are always fighting with cops and resisting arrest, young black men must be purer than Caesar’s wife.
The main points of “The Talk,” according to Wikipedia, are the following:
Pulling over your vehicle right away
Keeping hands visible on the steering wheel and not making sudden moves
Not reaching for items in your wallet or glove compartment without informing the law enforcement officer first
Being as polite as possible, using “Yes sir, officer”
Not arguing, even if you are right
Having seen video footage of the arrests of George Floyd (fighting with cops), Rayshard Brooks (fighting with cops) and Jacob Blake (fighting with cops), it looks like at least some black men in America could use a refresher course on “The Talk.”
What we need is a BLM-administered version of “The Talk,” requiring a notarized certificate of completion, acknowledging that the participants: 1) took the course, 2) understood it and 3) pledge to act in accordance with it.
True, it’s unfair that white people are allowed free rein to curse cops, lunge at them with knives and reach into a car as the police are yelling at them not to move. White people get to play fun “Surprise!” games with the police: I could be reaching for a Glock—or it could be a strawberry push-pop! You’ll just have to wait and see, officer.
A Slate article about “The Talk” complained that white people protesting Michigan’s lockdown “could arrive, armed and screaming, in government buildings and be afforded unending patience by law enforcement.”
Of course, it’s generally not against the law (in an open carry state) either to be armed or to scream. Some Black Lives Matter protesters have even been known to scream.
This is despite the media’s firm conviction that any armed white man is, ipso facto, a marauding racist. Reporting on an anti-Obamacare rally in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2009, MSNBC zoomed in on guns slung on a man’s body, as Contessa Brewer ominously warned: “A man at a pro-health care reform rally … wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip … there are questions about whether this has racial overtones … white people showing up with guns.”
There was a reason MSNBC never showed the man’s face: He was African American. And yet, he wasn’t arrested or harassed—other than by MSNBC.
The only places where white privilege is truly on display are lily-white, left-wing redoubts like Seattle, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon. The latter was recently described by the New York Times as “one of the whitest big cities in America.” In these pale cities, white anarchists are permitted to commit arson, vandalism, assault and even murder with abandon.
Why no antifa activity in mostly black cities, like Baltimore, Ferguson, Missouri, or Chicago?
Evidently, these bad-ass antifa are too afraid to riot in any majority black cities. They claim to be destroying public and private property on behalf of their black brethren, but are terrified of being around actual black people.
White antifa have been rioting in Portland (super white!) for more than three months now. On the rare occasion when they get arrested, they’re immediately released, often bailed out with funds provided by white celebrities like Seth Rogen, Abbi Jacobson and Steve Carell.
Now that’s “white privilege.”
It’s such a wonderful, cost-free way to serve black people. Leftists won’t work to end the mass immigration that drives down black wages or to abandon trade deals that send their jobs out of the country. But they’ll fly the BLM flag and fight with police in overwhelmingly white cities.
Antifa is following the lead of their corporate allies. Every part of a Nike sneaker is made in a third-world country. It’s as if the top minds in the nation got together to solve the problem “How can we ensure that no American jobs are created to manufacture this shoe?”
Corporate titans would love to do something to help African Americans (like employ them, maybe?), but then they remember, WAIT! I HAVE MUTUAL FUNDS! So instead they smugly proclaim “Black Lives Matter,” run a commercial with Colin Kaepernick, and they’re done.
Antifa cretins are spoiling for a fight with police—but not near any large groups of black people. They could get hurt!
There’s been an all-out war on Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot three antifa in Kenosha in what seems clearly to be self-defense, based on the New York Times’ reconstruction of events. Rittenhouse was in Kenosha to protect people and property from violence; he rendered first aid to the protesters; later ended up being chased by antifa goons, heard a gunshot behind him, nearly had his head beat in with a skateboard and was threatened with a gun.
The people he killed were: a convicted child molester and a convicted domestic violence repeat offender, both of whom had served time in prison. (It takes a lot to get prison time in America—especially if you’re white, right BLM?) The guy Rittenhouse shot in the arm had a firearms conviction and was coming at him with a gun.
But this was an all-white affair, so liberals had to look at other facts to assign blame/heroic status. Not irrelevant factors, like self-defense, reasonable fear or possibility of escape, but relevant factors like: Who was antifa and who was a Trump supporter? Rittenhouse: GUILTY!
With the verdict in, liberals have lost their minds about Rittenhouse. They tell outrageous lies about him, lionize the ex-cons he shot and aggressively censor anyone who takes his side. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sen. Chris Murphy called Rittenhouse a “white supremacist” and “white nationalist,” respectively (in non-congressionally immunized tweets, for any lawyers who might be interested). Meanwhile, for suggesting that Rittenhouse may be innocent, both Rittenhouse’s attorney and I have been suspended from Twitter.
Oh by the way, over the weekend, an hour away in Chicago, 54 people were shot; 10 are dead. Woke media: Everyone involved was black, right? No big deal.
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vdare--2020-09-02--How Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians Voted in the 2016 US Presidential Election

Cubans and Filipinos , among Hispanics and Asians respectively , are generally considered to be the most assimilated into the @ @ @ @ @ so they , like white Americans , exhibit a great deal of political diversity among @ @ @ @ @ Filipinos are considerably more likely to be Christian than Asians of other ancestries living in @ @ @ @ @ not be Republican , but his votaries tend to be .
It was this fool @ @ @ @ @ halcyon days of 2016 that an America First populism could go some way in uniting @ @ @ @ @ and black–in a political coalition putting the interests of American citizens ahead of non-citizens .
@ @ @ @ @ been open to the idea , but black Americans were not .

From the large 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study:
Cubans and Filipinos, among Hispanics and Asians respectively, are generally considered to be the most assimilated into the American way of life and so they, like white Americans, exhibit a great deal of political diversity among their ranks. Koreans and Filipinos are considerably more likely to be Christian than Asians of other ancestries living in the US. God may not be Republican, but his votaries tend to be.
It was this fool’s hope in the halcyon days of 2016 that an America First populism could go some way in uniting Old Americans–red, white, and black–in a political coalition putting the interests of American citizens ahead of non-citizens. Many American Indians may have been open to the idea, but black Americans were not.
CCES variables used: CC18_317(1-2), MULTRACE_5, CC18_354a_(series), CC18_354b_(series)
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vdare--2020-09-02--How Jews Voted in the 2016 US Presidential Election

Total fertility rates of non-Orthodox Jews are below replacement .
TFRs for the Orthodox are hard to pin down , @ @ @ @ @ replacement , with estimates ranging from anywhere between 3-8 children per woman .
By the @ @ @ @ @ Orthodox Jewish grandchildren are his age , Jews will have become a Republican voting bloc @ @ @ @ @ that because of his rhetorical gestures toward American nationalism and more absurdly his putative vassal @ @ @ @ @ more absurdly still his alleged “ white nationalism ” or “ white supremacy ” , @ @ @ @ @ suspect , though , that in 2020 he will improve on his Jewish numbers in @ @ @ @ @ demographic shifts in the composition of the American Jewish population .
Outmarriage rates for non-Orthodox @ @ @ @ @ fertility is low ; outmarriage rates for Orthodox Jews are low ( Jared Kushner notwithstanding @ @ @ @ @ high .

From the large 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study:
Total fertility rates of non-Orthodox Jews are below replacement. TFRs for the Orthodox are hard to pin down, but they are well above replacement, with estimates ranging from anywhere between 3-8 children per woman. By the time Donald Trump’s Orthodox Jewish grandchildren are his age, Jews will have become a Republican voting bloc!
The conventional take is that because of his rhetorical gestures toward American nationalism and more absurdly his putative vassal status to Vladimir Putin and more absurdly still his alleged “white nationalism” or “white supremacy,” Jews hate Trump. I suspect, though, that in 2020 he will improve on his Jewish numbers in no small part due to demographic shifts in the composition of the American Jewish population. Outmarriage rates for non-Orthodox Jews are high and their fertility is low; outmarriage rates for Orthodox Jews are low (Jared Kushner notwithstanding) and their fertility is high.
CCES variables used: CC18_317(1-2), RELIGPEW_JEWISH
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vdare--2020-09-01--NYT: Time to Converge the Marines

NYT: Time to Converge the Marines

From the New York Times : The Few , the Proud , the White : The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color A respected , combat-tested Black colonel has been passed over three times for promotion to brigadier general .
What does his fate say about the Corps ?
Blacks who want to make a career in the military generally focus on working in , say , logistics rather than in combat arms .
See sociologists Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler ’ s book All That We Can Be from the 1990s .
But if you want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you need to be a fighting man .
Moskos & Butler ’ s book on blacks in the Army 25+ years ago pointed out that black career soldiers tend to have sensible career plans focusing on getting organizational jobs that will get them post-Army government jobs and eventually collect 2 pensions .
In contrast , a lot of the white recruits wanted to “ play Rambo for four years , then go to college.
” Note , for example , the legendary picture of Tiger Woods and the Navy SEALs .
The Army @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blacks tend to be more prudent and career-minded and the whites more death or glory .
Moskos & Butler said that by 1990 many black enlistees in the Army were 2nd or 3rd generation .
Serving in supply in the Army was becoming a bit of a hereditary career for a part of the black lower middle class , with a lot of career guidance from elders on what jobs to go into .
It ’ s pretty sensible but means black careers top out ~2 stars .
Way back in 1990 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already black .
But the 1980s Cold War Army didn ’ t fight much , but sat waiting in the Fulda Gap .
This , I would imagine , benefited the careers of blacks in logistics .
Since then , we ’ ve had lots of small wars , which helped combat arms officers , who tend to be white .
My impression is that the Marines are more favored by Latino than black enlistees .
For example , in 2016 , 20.5 % of enlisted Marines were Hispanic vs. 11.5 % black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were drawn to the Army ( but of course that meant that the other branches were being chided for not having as many blacks as the Army , so they had to lure black recruits away from the Army ) .
So , 8.5 % of the generals in an institution that isn ’ t particularly of interest to blacks .
In 2016 only 4.8 % the Marine officers at the low level 01-03 ranks were black , so it looks like black officers do pretty well promotion-wise , but there just aren @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marines .
It ’ s almost as if the famously distinctive culture of the Marines appeals more to some people than to other people , and the Marines don ’ t appeal that much to ambitious middle class blacks .
Which seems fine to me .
But to the New York Times it ’ s Cause for Concern .
The Marines are so racist that even their coffee mugs are white !
Here ’ s a US Army official history of African-American soldiering that confirms my impressions : The 1991 Kuwait War was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prestige .
The Gulf War was fought with the big Fulda Gap Era army built to fight the Soviets ’ 53,000 tanks , but it had been freed up by the fall of the Berlin Wall .
The next year Defense Secretary Dick Cheney cut the Army back sharply , but 1991 was definitely the wrong year for Saddam Hussein to fight the U.S. Army .
The Army was heavily black in the Gulf War and performed well .
This was at a time when blacks back home were suffering big problems with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was heartening .
Although the percentage of African Americans in the Army has remained disproportionate to their numbers in American society , the percentage has dropped since the early 1980s .
In 2002 , blacks comprised 25.1 percent of the active Army ; in 2001 , they comprised 15.6 percent of the Army National Guard and 25.8 percent of the Army Reserve .
Research suggested several reasons for these changes .
First , the percentage of other minorities , especially Hispanics , had increased .
Second , high pay and generous educational benefits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1980 had helped to maintain a larger flow of high-quality white recruits .
Finally , high-quality black youths now had more opportunities in civilian society than ever before .
The distribution of African Americans in the service by 2003 had developed in several unexpected ways .
While the company grade officer percentage had risen to roughly a proportionate level , the percentage of field grade and general officers remained much lower .
More surprisingly , the proportion of black soldiers in combat specialties had declined significantly by 2003 .
This was in part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ women who had entered the service , and who were barred from holding such specialties .
Other factors that have been suggested for this trend include higher black unemployment rates that motivate black males to select specialties that have skills easily transferable to civilian jobs , and family traditions of service in such specialties .
Another suggested cause of this disparity is that a sizeable number of white males join not for a career or to obtain a marketable skill , but rather for the adventure and challenge provided by enlistment in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ civilian education and careers .
Since 2003 widespread opposition among African Americans to the Iraq War has led to a further decline in blacks joining the Army .
Black recruits dropped to thirteen percent of the Army ’ s total enlistments in 2006 from twenty-three percent in 2001 , and the total number of African Americans in the active Army declined to twenty-one percent .

Proud and fierce in their identity, the Marines have a singular race problem that critics say is rooted in decades of resistance to change. A handful of white men rule over 185,000 white, African-American, Hispanic and Asian men and women. https://t.co/C3YvLQMr41 — NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 1, 2020
From the New York Times:
The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color A respected, combat-tested Black colonel has been passed over three times for promotion to brigadier general. What does his fate say about the Corps? By Helene Cooper
Aug. 31, 2020
Blacks who want to make a career in the military generally focus on working in, say, logistics rather than in combat arms. See sociologists Charles Moskos and John Sibley Butler’s book All That We Can Be from the 1990s.
But if you want to be a Marine 4-star general, you need to be a fighting man.
That’s how the Marines work.
Moskos & Butler’s book on blacks in the Army 25+ years ago pointed out that black career soldiers tend to have sensible career plans focusing on getting organizational jobs that will get them post-Army government jobs and eventually collect two pensions.
In contrast, a lot of the white recruits wanted to “play Rambo for four years, then go to college.” Note, for example, the legendary picture of Tiger Woods and the Navy SEALs.
The Army is an interesting counter-stereotype situation where the blacks tend to be more prudent and career-minded and the whites more death or glory.
Moskos & Butler said that by 1990 many black enlistees in the Army were 2nd or 3rd generation. Serving in supply in the Army was becoming a bit of a hereditary career for a part of the black lower middle class, with a lot of career guidance from elders on what jobs to go into.
It’s pretty sensible but means black careers top out ~2 stars.
Way back in 1990, 7% of US Army generals were already black. The 1980s Cold War Army didn’t fight much, but sat waiting in the Fulda Gap. This, I would imagine, benefited the careers of blacks in logistics. Since then, we’ve had lots of small wars, which helped combat arms officers, who tend to be white.
The NYT writes:
Since the Marines first admitted African-American troops in 1942, the last military service to do so, only 25 have obtained the rank of general in any form.
My impression is that the Marines are more favored by Latino than black enlistees. For example, in 2016, 20.5% of enlisted Marines were Hispanic vs. 11.5% black. Blacks in the later 20th Century were drawn to the Army (but of course that meant that the other branches were being chided for not having as many blacks as the Army, so they had to lure black recruits away from the Army).
Not one has made it to the top four-star rank, an honor the Marines have bestowed on 72 white men. Six African-Americans reached lieutenant general, or three stars. The rest have received one or two stars, the majority in areas like logistics, aviation and transport, areas from which the Marine Corps does not choose its senior leadership. Out of 82 Marine generals overall today, there are six African-American brigadier generals and one African-American major general.
So, 8.5% of the generals in an institution that isn’t particularly of interest to blacks. In 2016 only 4.8% the Marine officers at the low level 01-03 ranks were black, so it looks like black officers do pretty well promotion-wise, but there just aren’t many black officers in the Marines. It’s almost as if the famously distinctive culture of the Marines appeals more to some people than to other people, and the Marines don’t appeal that much to ambitious middle class blacks.
Which seems fine to me. But to the New York Times it’s Cause for Concern.
The Marines have the worst diversity representation in their top ranks. In 2013, the branch released a photo of its six four-star generals, all gathered in desert camouflage at the commandant’s home at the Marine Barracks in Washington: John F. Kelly, Jim Mattis, Joseph F. Dunford Jr., James F. Amos, John R. Allen and John M. Paxton. The men are smiling as they hold their white Marine Corps coffee mugs.
The Marines are so racist that even their coffee mugs are white!
All six have garnered respect across the political spectrum. But to Black Marines, the photo evokes a place where they do not belong.
Here’s a US Army official history of African-American soldiering that confirms my impressions:
When the Army deployed for the Persian Gulf War in 1990, African Americans constituted 29.06 percent of the active force. As part of its efforts to rebuild after Vietnam, the service had made a strong commitment to equal opportunity. Much of the Army’s success during the war was the result of this commitment, the recruitment of high-quality personnel, better training methods, and a renewed emphasis on the importance and prestige of the noncommissioned officer corps. Leading the military during this war was the Army’s second African American four-star officer and the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin L. Powell. …
The 1991 Kuwait War was the peak of the Army’s prestige. The Gulf War was fought with the big Fulda Gap Era army built to fight the Soviets’ 53,000 tanks, but it had been freed up by the fall of the Berlin Wall. The next year Defense Secretary Dick Cheney cut the Army back sharply, but 1991 was definitely the wrong year for Saddam Hussein to fight the U.S. Army.
The Army was heavily black in the Gulf War and performed well. This was at a time when blacks back home were suffering big problems with crack and shootings, so the contrast was heartening.
Although the percentage of African Americans in the Army has remained disproportionate to their numbers in American society, the percentage has dropped since the early 1980s. In 2002, blacks comprised 25.1 percent of the active Army; in 2001, they comprised 15.6 percent of the Army National Guard and 25.8 percent of the Army Reserve. Research suggested several reasons for these changes. First, the percentage of other minorities, especially Hispanics, had increased. Second, high pay and generous educational benefits, together with several economic downturns since 1980 had helped to maintain a larger flow of high-quality white recruits. Finally, high-quality black youths now had more opportunities in civilian society than ever before. The distribution of African Americans in the service by 2003 had developed in several unexpected ways. While the company grade officer percentage had risen to roughly a proportionate level, the percentage of field grade and general officers remained much lower. More surprisingly, the proportion of black soldiers in combat specialties had declined significantly by 2003. This was in part due to the large numbers of black women who had entered the service, and who were barred from holding such specialties. Other factors that have been suggested for this trend include higher black unemployment rates that motivate black males to select specialties that have skills easily transferable to civilian jobs, and family traditions of service in such specialties. Another suggested cause of this disparity is that a sizeable number of white males join not for a career or to obtain a marketable skill, but rather for the adventure and challenge provided by enlistment in the combat arms before continuing on with their civilian education and careers. Since 2003 widespread opposition among African Americans to the Iraq War has led to a further decline in blacks joining the Army. Black recruits dropped to thirteen percent of the Army’s total enlistments in 2006 from twenty-three percent in 2001, and the total number of African Americans in the active Army declined to twenty-one percent.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-09-02--Why America Has Gone Mad

Why America Has Gone Mad

George Floyd died in police custody on May 25 .
Since then , there have been demonstrations in his name in more than 2,000 American cities .
There has been so much rioting and looting that at least 200 cities imposed curfews , and 31 states and the District of Columbia called in the National Guard .
It would be tempting to think this is just one more chapter in our dreary record of race riots ; it isn ’ t .
This is different .
Whites are important participants and even instigators .
For the first time in American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aggrieved blacks .
This is because millions of ordinary whites have crossed the color line and adopted the prevailing black view that whites are exclusively and personally responsible for the failures of blacks ; that every white is implicated in a supremacist system that exploits blacks .
For centuries , whites believed that inherent limitations prevented blacks from succeeding as whites do .
WEB Du Bois ( 1868 – 1963 ) played a key role in overthrowing that view , arguing that white achievement was “ built on black and brown and yellow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he wrote : “ I hate them , Oh !
/I hate them well , /I hate them , Christ !
/As I hate hell.
” In Du Bois we therefore find the two central ideas of the broad movement that comes under the name of Black Lives Matter : Whites became rich through exploitation , and whites deserve our contempt .
As whites adopted these views , they started thinking and acting like blacks .
Since the Civil Rights era , race rioters have been almost exclusively black .
In the 1992 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the looting , but whites did not .
A few whites were on the fringes in Ferguson in 2014 and Baltimore in 2015 , but since George Floyd , some of the worst , most persistent rioting has been in majority-white cities : Minneapolis ( 64 percent white ) , Seattle ( 66 percent ) , Portland ( 77 percent ) , and most recently Kenosha , Wisconsin ( 67 percent ) .
Blacks are certainly taking part in large numbers and are often the first through a broken store window , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have seen no violence at all—without berserker whites .
White anarchists and “ antifa ” often spark the violence , but their role is like that of the Weather Underground in the 1960s and ’ 70s : They are a violent fringe that gets attention but that has hardly any effect on broader currents of opinion .
The larger shift in white thinking and behavior has created a bitter cleavage in American society that has taken on a religious intensity .
It is leading towards antagonism and violence on a scale not seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seen nothing like it in 30 years of carefully observing American race relations .
The change in white thinking is an intellectual revolution brought by ideas that had been quarantined in universities but spread to the whole country .
The most important one sounds innocuous—a new definition of “ racism ” —but it is turning the country inside out .
Americans used to think racism meant deliberate acts of hostility to others because of race , and that once Americans stopped doing those things , there would be justice and harmony .
Not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s hottest anti-racist guru , scoffs at what she calls , “ The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people.
” Whites may have no animus towards non-whites but “ the ubiquitous socializing power of white supremacy can not be avoided .
The messages circulate 24-7.
” Thus , even the best intentioned whites uphold white supremacy whether they want to or not : “ White progressives do indeed uphold and perpetrate racism.
” Sociologist Emily Walton , who teaches college courses in white privilege , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ students to “ understand that being a good person does not make them innocent.
” They and their ancestors built oppression of “ people of color ” and especially of blacks into every American institution , so whites must dedicate themselves to rooting it out .
But no matter how hard they try to fight racism , they can never be cured of it .
As author and activist Tema Okum explains : “ From white racist to white anti-racist is a lifelong journey.
” This is what gives rise to such “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is violence.
” Unless they are actively dismantling white supremacy , they are committing acts of violence against non-whites—by saying and doing nothing .
Whites make life miserable for black people without even trying , even when they are doing their best to be kind to them .
Phrases such as “ institutional racism , ” “ systemic racism , ” “ unconscious bias , ” and “ color-blind racism ” are part of this new definition of racism that no longer requires conscious acts or bad people .
All whites unwittingly support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oppresses “ people of color ; ” they can ’ t help it .
We would therefore have a viciously racist society even if not one white person were “ racist ” by the old definition .
The only moral course for whites is to renounce “ white privilege ” and to fight “ systemic racism ” as one of the central purposes of their lives .
Many whites believe this is the greatest moral challenge of our time—but how do we fight racism perpetrated by a “ system ” and not by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Museum of African American History points the way .
It listed undesirable traits of “ whiteness ” that oppress blacks : linear thinking , rugged individualism , self-reliance , the intact nuclear family , a strong work ethic and delayed gratification , respect for authority , punctuality , planning for the future , English common-law justice , property rights , and good manners .
This list came in for criticism , and the museum , which is part of the Smithsonian system—took it down but did not disavow it .
Why should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entire texture of American life must be renegotiated to suit blacks , but is this any different from what Joe Biden meant—if he meant anything at all—when he promised on the Fourth of July to “ rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country ” ?
How else would you do that ?
This zeal for ripping out the roots has spread into every corner of life .
Realtors have banned the term “ master bedroom ” because “ master ” evokes slavery .
An American bird known for 169 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a new name because John McCown , who discovered it , later fought for the Confederacy .
NASA has promised to find new names for the Eskimo Nebula and the Siamese Twin Galaxy “ as part of its commitment to diversity , equity , and inclusion.
” The 242 KIPP Academies—the country ’ s biggest network of charter schools—retired their motto , “ Work hard .
Be nice , ” because it “ supports the illusion of meritocracy ” and “ diminishes the significant effort to dismantle systemic racism.
” If “ Work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white supremacy , everything does .
All major institutions in American society—but especially the media—support Black Lives Matter to the point that they are sympathetic to violence and rioting , so long as it is said to be in the name of racial justice .
They are more likely to denounce police efforts to keep the peace than to condemn looting .
On August 27 , National Public Radio sympathetically interviewed Vicky Osterweil , author of In Defense of Looting .
NPR began by explaining that Miss Osterweil calls looting “ a powerful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law and order , ’ and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.
” Miss Osterweil then explains that when you loot you : There have always been whites who excused black rioters , but not in such sweeping terms .
And mob violence has crossed a fateful line : instead of wrecking only their own neighborhoods , looters are sacking top retailers in the whitest parts of Manhattan , Beverly Hills , and Chicago .
Astonishingly , the victims then promote the very ideas that inspire the violence .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Looters—most of them black—struck six of its stores : Oakland , Atlanta , Chicago , Philadelphia , and Minneapolis .
One industry insider estimated that the inventory losses , physical damage , and shut-down costs were in the hundreds of millions of dollars .
Target ’ s response ?
Pledge $ 10 million to black organizations , and 10,000 free hours of consulting for “ people of color ” who own small businesses .
One researcher compiled a list of 174 major corporations that pledged money to Black Lives Matter and allied organizations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 1.5 billion in corporate pledges to BLM , and probably missed millions more .
Many of these companies suffered terrible losses on Fifth Avenue , Rodeo Drive , or Michigan Avenue , but are penitently pouring money into the movement in whose name the looters acted .
The rioting shakes our culture and politics .
Blacks say they are offended by Confederate monuments , so across the South , mobs tried to tear them down .
When statues refused to fall , the authorities pulled them down .
Wikipedia has a list @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroyed or taken down since Floyd ’ s death .
It also lists 36 statues or monuments to Christopher Columbus , and 55 to others , including the Virgin Mary , Thomas Jefferson , Theodore Roosevelt , Ulysses S. Grant , George Washington , The Pioneer Mother , Avery Brundage , Kit Carson , and St. Junipero Serra .
That is a total of 215 statues and monuments .
Like paying millions to groups that inspire rioters , this is completely new .
Only a lunatic would have said we had to tear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rioted in the ’ 60s in Watts or Detroit or Newark .
Mass repudiation of a nation ’ s heritage usually follows only after revolution or occupation by an invader .
Are we witnessing one or the other ?
Both ?
There has unquestionably been a revolution in racial thinking , and it leaves some whites feeling so guilty they abase themselves in shocking ways .
At the height of the George Floyd riots , blacks accosted whites on the sidewalk and got them to go down on their knees in sorrow for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the boots of blacks .
( A number of humiliation scenes have been removed from YouTube , but a few clips are in the first few minutes of this video . )
I don ’ t think there has ever before been a time in the history of the world when blacks could persuade passing whites to stop and kiss their boots .
Ca n't load tweet https : //twitter.com/ZoomerClips/status/1267657673845075968 : Sorry , that page does not exist Another trait of the revolution is a shocking level of bullying .
Roving bands of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raise their fists in solidarity .
In both these clips , mobs—mostly white—scream ferociously at the few white diners who refuse .
Here , a crowd barges into a Kenosha grocery store and harangues white patrons with a bullhorn .
In this video , another mostly white crowd parades through a peaceful white neighborhood , swearing and shouting obscenities in the fight against “ racism.
” In Portland , BLM marched in a white neighborhood late at night , leaning on car horns shouting “ Wake up , motherfu**er.
” Cultural-Revolution-style hectoring will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” but is typical of revolutionary zealots convinced that only they can be right and that anyone who is not an ally is an enemy .
That was the message on a billboard that went up in Boise , Idaho in August : “ Black & brown folks built this country .
Join us or get out of the way !
” The image is a stylized skyline of the city , held up by black and brown hands , even though Boise is only 2 percent black and 8 percent Hispanic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar .
The burning police car shows what will happen to anyone who does not get out of the way .
The idea that blacks , especially , built the wealth of America is an accepted part of revolutionary thinking .
As blue-check Twitter user Solomon Georgia explains , “ Black people have every right to burn down a country they built for free.
” This got 174,000 retweets and comments , and 702,000 likes .
Here , on a building in Madison , Wisconsin , is a slightly less dramatic version of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old idea .
In the 1960s , Amiri Baraka , who was later named Poet Laureate of New Jersey , wrote : “ You can ’ t steal nothin from a white man , he ’ s already stole it , he owes you anything you want , even his life.
” Baraka ’ s thinking has caught on more than he could have ever imagined .
“ Systemic racism ” does not require old-fashion racists , but the revolution has unmasked a whole class of them : the police .
All police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the slogan , “ All cops are bastards ” ( ACAB ) .
This thinking ignores the serious studies that search for race-based police mistreatment and find very little .
The media find police “ racism ” everywhere , and sometimes slant their reporting shamelessly , [ i ] but in even in the most celebrated cases of “ black lives matter ” martyrdom—Trayvon Martin , Michael Brown , Freddie Gray , Philando Castile , Eric Garner—there was never the slightest evidence that racist intent led to their deaths .
Furthermore , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or Justice Department investigation found that the killing was justified ; a white who behaved as those black men did would most likely have got exactly the same treatment .
In the Garner case , Officer Daniel Pantaleo , who brought the 395-pound Eric Garner to the ground , was fired from the New York City Police Department for an improper choke hold , not racism .
He says his dismissal was “ arbitrary and capricious ” and filed suit to get his job back .
The ACLU explains that American police departments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and that “ much of the work police do is merely engage in the daily harassment of Black communities , ” with some arrests “ made for doing nothing at all beyond being Black.
” The solution is to defund the police and “ reinvest those funds in communities of color.
” This will “ address social problems at their root instead of investing in an institution that further oppresses and terrorizes communities.
” Jayvon Hatchett , age 19 , got the ACLU ’ s message .
On August 26 , he walked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ employee seven times .
He said he decided to kill a white man after watching videos of police officers .
This is what comes of constantly beating the drum of “ police racism , ” but will the media wonder if they should change their emphasis ?
Five days after the incident , not one national news organ had reported the stabbing—though the British tabloid Daily Mail ran a substantial story .
Any ambiguous death of a black in police custody could have touched off the George Floyd riots , but as in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police racism , ” there is no evidence of racial bias .
Floyd was resisting arrest , and Officer Derek Chauvin ’ s knee to the neck was an accepted Minneapolis PD restraint technique .
The original coroner ’ s report found high , potentially lethal levels of illegal drugs in Floyd ’ s body , but the media brushed it aside and highlighted the neck restraint .
But even more damaging to the “ racist murder ” story that swept the nation , is a document that surfaced three months after the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 , Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker told prosecutors that the combination of drugs in Floyd ’ s body was so dangerous that if Floyd had been found dead in his home , an autopsy would have concluded that he died from a drug overdose .
His lungs were so full of fluid that they weighed two to three times the normal weight .
That is surely why Floyd was complaining that he couldn ’ t breathe , even before Officer Chauvin knelt on his neck .
Why didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s because our legal procedures were set up on the now mistaken assumption that Americans are patient and fair-minded .
When someone commits what may be a crime , prosecutors present the evidence to a grand jury , which decides whether to indict .
The proceedings are secret so that if a charge is not brought , an innocent man ’ s reputation will not be damaged .
If there is an indictment , all relevant evidence comes out publicly at trial , presented in context and in an orderly way .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ procedure is designed to prevent so as not to mislead the public and prejudice potential jurors .
In “ institutionally racist , ” hair-trigger America , this procedure fails .
If a white cop kills a black , it ’ s off to the barricades on what may be completely false information .
It is possible that the officers in the Floyd case will be acquitted .
Will rioters and looters apologize ?
No .
They will riot even harder , because all cops are bastards and because Big Media and everyone on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Democrat candidate for vice president say he was murdered .
The revolution requires that Derek Chauvin be a murderer .
The justice system can still work—but only when there are white victims .
In 2017 in Minneapolis—George Floyd ’ s town—a black policeman named Mohamed Noor shot an unarmed white woman in her pajamas who posed no threat .
Unlike in the Floyd case , in which the officers were immediately indicted for murder , Mr. Noor was charged after an eight-month investigation .
Some whites wondered what took so long , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There was a trial , the facts were presented according to the rules of evidence , Mr. Noor was found guilty , and was sentenced to prison for 12-1/2 years .
That ’ s how the system is supposed to work .
However , if Minneapolis and the country had waited patiently for an investigation of Officer Chauvin , there would not have been a billion dollars for Black Lives Matter , videos of boot-kissing , and mass destruction of European heritage .
The lesson is simple : Rioting works .
Would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ broke its rules and rushed all the evidence into print ?
Probably not .
On August 26 , a black man cornered by the police shot himself .
Blacks spread the word that cops shot him .
The city rushed surveillance video onto the airways that showed what happened .
( Procedures—yes , procedures—forbade releasing body-cam footage . )
Blacks rampaged through Minneapolis anyway , smashing or looting bars , restaurants , chain stores , and a mall , and damaging 40 buildings .
Police arrested 132 people .
The facts didn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case for years .
Even after exhaustive investigations and jury-trial acquittals , BLM crowds still chant “ hands up , don ’ t shoot ” and believe a white man shot down Trayvon Martin in cold blood .
Anti-racism has become a religion .
Even “ progressive ” whites act as if they were possessed by demons , oppressing blacks despite every effort not to .
Even “ good ” whites constantly sin by propping up white supremacy .
The police are racist , murderous bastards despite overwhelming evidence they are not .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ root out white supremacy ” and to turn the country upside-down to do it .
Although every institution in America at least pays lip service to the new religion , a great many people refuse to convert .
They keep quiet to avoid being treated like heretics , but many whites and even a few blacks think the country has gone mad .
And now—ominously—both sides of the divide are opposing each other with guns .
On August 15 , pro- and anti-Confederate groups armed with rifles got into a punch up at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no one opened fire .
At a similar stand-off on July 25 in Louisville , Kentucky , nearly 100 black riflemen from the Not Fucking Around Coalition faced opposing groups , and one NFAC member accidentally shot three comrades .
On August 30 , when a group of Trump supporters drove a convoy into Portland , an anti-police demonstrator shot and killed one of them .
On the third night of rioting in Kenosha , Wisconsin , 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse brought a rifle to help protect property from vandals .
In what appears @ @ @ @ @ @ @ men , killing two .
The police should never have let rioting get to the point that a teenager felt compelled to restore order .
And yet , all across the country , the police have been ordered back while mobs loot stores and burn patrol cars .
Property rights and the rule of law are suspended during celebrations of the new religion .
Ordinary Americans like Mr. Rittenhouse are outraged by this , and many will try to restore order themselves .
This horrible chapter in our history has one cause .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ’ 60s , Americans are divided because of race .
There will be more deaths .
The rioting will subside as weather gets colder , but this searing national divide will not go away no matter who is in the White House .
Will anyone be surprised if we are on the verge of another “ Bleeding Kansas ” ?
Ever since Jamestown , we have groped for a solution to the terrible problem of trying to build a nation of different races .
Could it not be clearer that the attempt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June 3 , the New York Times published a long article with this headline : “ Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites.
” This sounds like horrible police bias , and might well have been if it were true that any time officers arrested a black person they were seven times more likely to use force than when they arrested a white .
That is what the article wanted readers to think , but that is not at all what the data say .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rates .
For the period 2009 to 2014 , blacks were 12 times more likely than whites to be suspects in violent crimes and 9.5 times more likely to be arrested for them .
Police almost never use force unless they are making an arrest .
So it may be true that the average black living in Minneapolis is seven times more likely than the average white to be manhandled or shot by the police , but to leave out the fact that the average black is also 9.5 times more likely than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a violent crime is either incompetence or deceit .
The police are much more likely to use force on the average Minneapolis man than the average Minneapolis woman .
Is that because they persecute men—as the Times would have wanted readers to believe if it had written a similar article about sex differences ?
No ; it ’ s because men are a lot more likely than women to be criminals and therefore a lot more likely to be arrested .
Jared Taylor [ Email him ] is the editor of American Renaissance @

Earlier: Police Racism: A Manufactured Crisis
George Floyd died in police custody on May 25. Since then, there have been demonstrations in his name in more than 2,000 American cities. There has been so much rioting and looting that at least 200 cities imposed curfews, and 31 states and the District of Columbia called in the National Guard. It would be tempting to think this is just one more chapter in our dreary record of race riots; it isn’t. This is different. Whites are important participants and even instigators. For the first time in American history, many whites are thinking—and acting—like aggrieved blacks.
This is because millions of ordinary whites have crossed the color line and adopted the prevailing black view that whites are exclusively and personally responsible for the failures of blacks; that every white is implicated in a supremacist system that exploits blacks.
For centuries, whites believed that inherent limitations prevented blacks from succeeding as whites do. WEB Du Bois (1868 – 1963) played a key role in overthrowing that view, arguing that white achievement was “built on black and brown and yellow suffering.” As for whites themselves, he wrote: “I hate them, Oh!/I hate them well,/I hate them, Christ!/As I hate hell.” In Du Bois we therefore find the two central ideas of the broad movement that comes under the name of Black Lives Matter: Whites became rich through exploitation, and whites deserve our contempt. As whites adopted these views, they started thinking and acting like blacks.
WEB DuBois
Since the Civil Rights era, race rioters have been almost exclusively black. In the 1992 Rodney King riots, Hispanics joined in the looting, but whites did not. A few whites were on the fringes in Ferguson in 2014 and Baltimore in 2015, but since George Floyd, some of the worst, most persistent rioting has been in majority-white cities: Minneapolis (64 percent white), Seattle (66 percent), Portland (77 percent), and most recently Kenosha, Wisconsin (67 percent). Blacks are certainly taking part in large numbers and are often the first through a broken store window, but these cities would be much calmer—some might have seen no violence at all—without berserker whites. White anarchists and “antifa” often spark the violence, but their role is like that of the Weather Underground in the 1960s and ’70s: They are a violent fringe that gets attention but that has hardly any effect on broader currents of opinion.
The larger shift in white thinking and behavior has created a bitter cleavage in American society that has taken on a religious intensity. It is leading towards antagonism and violence on a scale not seen since the Civil War. I have seen nothing like it in 30 years of carefully observing American race relations.
The change in white thinking is an intellectual revolution brought by ideas that had been quarantined in universities but spread to the whole country. The most important one sounds innocuous—a new definition of “racism”—but it is turning the country inside out.
Americans used to think racism meant deliberate acts of hostility to others because of race, and that once Americans stopped doing those things, there would be justice and harmony. Not anymore. Robin DiAngelo, today’s hottest anti-racist guru, scoffs at what she calls, “The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people.” Whites may have no animus towards non-whites but “the ubiquitous socializing power of white supremacy cannot be avoided. The messages circulate 24-7.” Thus, even the best intentioned whites uphold white supremacy whether they want to or not: “White progressives do indeed uphold and perpetrate racism.”
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Sociologist Emily Walton, who teaches college courses in white privilege, explains that her goal is for white students to “understand that being a good person does not make them innocent.” They and their ancestors built oppression of “people of color” and especially of blacks into every American institution, so whites must dedicate themselves to rooting it out. But no matter how hard they try to fight racism, they can never be cured of it. As author and activist Tema Okum explains: “From white racist to white anti-racist is a lifelong journey.”
This is what gives rise to such “anti-racist” slogans as “White silence is violence.” Unless they are actively dismantling white supremacy, they are committing acts of violence against non-whites—by saying and doing nothing. Whites make life miserable for black people without even trying, even when they are doing their best to be kind to them.
Phrases such as “institutional racism,” “systemic racism,” “unconscious bias,” and “color-blind racism” are part of this new definition of racism that no longer requires conscious acts or bad people. All whites unwittingly support an evil system rooted in slavery that oppresses “people of color”; they can’t help it. We would therefore have a viciously racist society even if not one white person were “racist” by the old definition. The only moral course for whites is to renounce “white privilege” and to fight “systemic racism” as one of the central purposes of their lives.
Many whites believe this is the greatest moral challenge of our time—but how do we fight racism perpetrated by a “system” and not by people? A recent statement by the National Museum of African American History points the way. It listed undesirable traits of “whiteness” that oppress blacks: linear thinking, rugged individualism, self-reliance, the intact nuclear family, a strong work ethic and delayed gratification, respect for authority, punctuality, planning for the future, English common-law justice, property rights, and good manners.
This list came in for criticism, and the museum, which is part of the Smithsonian system—took it down but did not disavow it. Why should it? It was certainly saying that the entire texture of American life must be renegotiated to suit blacks, but is this any different from what Joe Biden meant—if he meant anything at all—when he promised on the Fourth of July to “rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country”? How else would you do that?
This zeal for ripping out the roots has spread into every corner of life. Realtors have banned the term “master bedroom” because “master” evokes slavery. An American bird known for 169 years as McCown’s Larkspur got a new name because John McCown, who discovered it, later fought for the Confederacy. NASA has promised to find new names for the Eskimo Nebula and the Siamese Twin Galaxy “as part of its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” The 242 KIPP Academies—the country’s biggest network of charter schools—retired their motto, “Work hard. Be nice,” because it “supports the illusion of meritocracy” and “diminishes the significant effort to dismantle systemic racism.” If “Work Hard. Be nice” props up white supremacy, everything does.
All major institutions in American society—but especially the media—support Black Lives Matter to the point that they are sympathetic to violence and rioting, so long as it is said to be in the name of racial justice. They are more likely to denounce police efforts to keep the peace than to condemn looting. On August 27, National Public Radio sympathetically interviewed Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting. NPR began by explaining that Miss Osterweil calls looting “a powerful tactic that questions the justice of ‘law and order,’ and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.” Miss Osterweil then explains that when you loot you:
demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free . . . . [I]t also attacks the history of whiteness and white supremacy. The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression . . . . Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police.
There have always been whites who excused black rioters, but not in such sweeping terms. And mob violence has crossed a fateful line: Instead of wrecking only their own neighborhoods, looters are sacking top retailers in the whitest parts of Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and Chicago. Astonishingly, the victims then promote the very ideas that inspire the violence. Target Corporation is a good example. Looters—most of them black—struck six of its stores: Oakland, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis. One industry insider estimated that the inventory losses, physical damage, and shut-down costs were in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Target’s response? Pledge $10 million to black organizations, and 10,000 free hours of consulting for “people of color” who own small businesses.
One researcher compiled a list of 174 major corporations that pledged money to Black Lives Matter and allied organizations. Black Enterprise magazine counted more than $1.5 billion in corporate pledges to BLM, and probably missed millions more. Many of these companies suffered terrible losses on Fifth Avenue, Rodeo Drive, or Michigan Avenue, but are penitently pouring money into the movement in whose name the looters acted.
The rioting shakes our culture and politics. Blacks say they are offended by Confederate monuments, so across the South, mobs tried to tear them down. When statues refused to fall, the authorities pulled them down. Wikipedia has a list of no fewer than 124 Confederate monuments destroyed or taken down since Floyd’s death. It also lists 36 statues or monuments to Christopher Columbus, and 55 to others, including the Virgin Mary, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, The Pioneer Mother, Avery Brundage, Kit Carson, and St. Junipero Serra. That is a total of 215 statues and monuments.
Like paying millions to groups that inspire rioters, this is completely new. Only a lunatic would have said we had to tear down statues of Columbus because blacks had rioted in the ’60s in Watts or Detroit or Newark. Mass repudiation of a nation’s heritage usually follows only after revolution or occupation by an invader. Are we witnessing one or the other? Both?
There has unquestionably been a revolution in racial thinking, and it leaves some whites feeling so guilty they abase themselves in shocking ways. At the height of the George Floyd riots, blacks accosted whites on the sidewalk and got them to go down on their knees in sorrow for racism. Some whites even publicly kissed the boots of blacks. (A number of humiliation scenes have been removed from YouTube, but a few clips are in the first few minutes of this video.) I don’t think there has ever before been a time in the history of the world when blacks could persuade passing whites to stop and kiss their boots.
Another trait of the revolution is a shocking level of bullying. Roving bands of BLM swarm restaurants and demand that patrons raise their fists in solidarity. In both these clips, mobs—mostly white—scream ferociously at the few white diners who refuse. Here, a crowd barges into a Kenosha grocery store and harangues white patrons with a bullhorn. In this video, another mostly white crowd parades through a peaceful white neighborhood, swearing and shouting obscenities in the fight against “racism.” In Portland, BLM marched in a white neighborhood late at night, leaning on car horns shouting “Wake up, motherfu**er.” Cultural-Revolution-style hectoring will not heal a “deeply racist society,” but is typical of revolutionary zealots convinced that only they can be right and that anyone who is not an ally is an enemy.
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That was the message on a billboard that went up in Boise, Idaho in August: “Black & brown folks built this country. Join us or get out of the way!” The image is a stylized skyline of the city, held up by black and brown hands, even though Boise is only 2 percent black and 8 percent Hispanic and the figures for the state are similar. The burning police car shows what will happen to anyone who does not get out of the way.
The idea that blacks, especially, built the wealth of America is an accepted part of revolutionary thinking. As blue-check Twitter user Solomon Georgia explains, “Black people have every right to burn down a country they built for free.” This got 174,000 retweets and comments, and 702,000 likes. Here, on a building in Madison, Wisconsin, is a slightly less dramatic version of the same message.
This is an old idea. In the 1960s, Amiri Baraka, who was later named Poet Laureate of New Jersey, wrote: “You can’t steal nothin from a white man, he’s already stole it, he owes you anything you want, even his life.” Baraka’s thinking has caught on more than he could have ever imagined.
“Systemic racism” does not require old-fashion racists, but the revolution has unmasked a whole class of them: the police. All police departments are hives of racism; thus the slogan, “All cops are bastards” (ACAB). This thinking ignores the serious studies that search for race-based police mistreatment and find very little.
The media find police “racism” everywhere, and sometimes slant their reporting shamelessly,[i] but in even in the most celebrated cases of “black lives matter” martyrdom—Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Eric Garner—there was never the slightest evidence that racist intent led to their deaths. Furthermore, in all but one, a criminal trial or Justice Department investigation found that the killing was justified; a white who behaved as those black men did would most likely have got exactly the same treatment. In the Garner case, Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who brought the 395-pound Eric Garner to the ground, was fired from the New York City Police Department for an improper choke hold, not racism. He says his dismissal was “arbitrary and capricious” and filed suit to get his job back.
The ACLU explains that American police departments have their roots in slave patrols, and that “much of the work police do is merely engage in the daily harassment of Black communities,” with some arrests “made for doing nothing at all beyond being Black.” The solution is to defund the police and “reinvest those funds in communities of color.” This will “address social problems at their root instead of investing in an institution that further oppresses and terrorizes communities.”
Jayvon Hatchett, age 19, got the ACLU’s message. On August 26, he walked into an AutoZone store and stabbed an employee seven times. He said he decided to kill a white man after watching videos of police officers. This is what comes of constantly beating the drum of “police racism,” but will the media wonder if they should change their emphasis? Five days after the incident, not one national news organ had reported the stabbing—though the British tabloid Daily Mail ran a substantial story.
Any ambiguous death of a black in police custody could have touched off the George Floyd riots, but as in all the other famous cases of “police racism,” there is no evidence of racial bias. Floyd was resisting arrest, and Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee to the neck was an accepted Minneapolis PD restraint technique. The original coroner’s report found high, potentially lethal levels of illegal drugs in Floyd’s body, but the media brushed it aside and highlighted the neck restraint. But even more damaging to the “racist murder” story that swept the nation, is a document that surfaced three months after the incident.
In a conversation on June 1, Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker told prosecutors that the combination of drugs in Floyd’s body was so dangerous that if Floyd had been found dead in his home, an autopsy would have concluded that he died from a drug overdose. His lungs were so full of fluid that they weighed two to three times the normal weight. That is surely why Floyd was complaining that he couldn’t breathe, even before Officer Chauvin knelt on his neck.
Why didn’t Hennepin County release this immediately? It’s because our legal procedures were set up on the now mistaken assumption that Americans are patient and fair-minded. When someone commits what may be a crime, prosecutors present the evidence to a grand jury, which decides whether to indict. The proceedings are secret so that if a charge is not brought, an innocent man’s reputation will not be damaged. If there is an indictment, all relevant evidence comes out publicly at trial, presented in context and in an orderly way.
Provocative, piecemeal leaks are what this procedure is designed to prevent so as not to mislead the public and prejudice potential jurors. In “institutionally racist,” hair-trigger America, this procedure fails. If a white cop kills a black, it’s off to the barricades on what may be completely false information. It is possible that the officers in the Floyd case will be acquitted. Will rioters and looters apologize? No. They will riot even harder, because all cops are bastards and because Big Media and everyone on down from the former prosecutor who is the Democrat candidate for vice president say he was murdered. The revolution requires that Derek Chauvin be a murderer.
Portland, Oregon, June 2020 (Credit Image: Another Believer / Wikimedia)
The justice system can still work—but only when there are white victims. In 2017 in Minneapolis—George Floyd’s town—a black policeman named Mohamed Noor shot an unarmed white woman in her pajamas who posed no threat. Unlike in the Floyd case, in which the officers were immediately indicted for murder, Mr. Noor was charged after an eight-month investigation. Some whites wondered what took so long, but none rioted. No one demonstrated. There was a trial, the facts were presented according to the rules of evidence, Mr. Noor was found guilty, and was sentenced to prison for 12-1/2 years. That’s how the system is supposed to work.
However, if Minneapolis and the country had waited patiently for an investigation of Officer Chauvin, there would not have been a billion dollars for Black Lives Matter, videos of boot-kissing, and mass destruction of European heritage. The lesson is simple: Rioting works.
Would the riots have been milder if Minneapolis broke its rules and rushed all the evidence into print? Probably not. On August 26, a black man cornered by the police shot himself. Blacks spread the word that cops shot him. The city rushed surveillance video onto the airways that showed what happened. (Procedures—yes, procedures—forbade releasing body-cam footage.) Blacks rampaged through Minneapolis anyway, smashing or looting bars, restaurants, chain stores, and a mall, and damaging 40 buildings. Police arrested 132 people. The facts didn’t matter—but that’s been the case for years. Even after exhaustive investigations and jury-trial acquittals, BLM crowds still chant “hands up, don’t shoot” and believe a white man shot down Trayvon Martin in cold blood.
Anti-racism has become a religion. Even “progressive” whites act as if they were possessed by demons, oppressing blacks despite every effort not to. Even “good” whites constantly sin by propping up white supremacy. The police are racist, murderous bastards despite overwhelming evidence they are not. This fuels the revolutionary commitment to “root out white supremacy” and to turn the country upside-down to do it.
Although every institution in America at least pays lip service to the new religion, a great many people refuse to convert. They keep quiet to avoid being treated like heretics, but many whites and even a few blacks think the country has gone mad. And now—ominously—both sides of the divide are opposing each other with guns. On August 15, pro- and anti-Confederate groups armed with rifles got into a punch up at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Luckily, no one opened fire. At a similar stand-off on July 25 in Louisville, Kentucky, nearly 100 black riflemen from the Not Fucking Around Coalition faced opposing groups, and one NFAC member accidentally shot three comrades. On August 30, when a group of Trump supporters drove a convoy into Portland, an anti-police demonstrator shot and killed one of them.
On the third night of rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse brought a rifle to help protect property from vandals. In what appears to be self-defense, he shot three men, killing two. The police should never have let rioting get to the point that a teenager felt compelled to restore order. And yet, all across the country, the police have been ordered back while mobs loot stores and burn patrol cars. Property rights and the rule of law are suspended during celebrations of the new religion. Ordinary Americans like Mr. Rittenhouse are outraged by this, and many will try to restore order themselves.
This horrible chapter in our history has one cause. Just as they were in the 1850s and ’60s, Americans are divided because of race. There will be more deaths. The rioting will subside as weather gets colder, but this searing national divide will not go away no matter who is in the White House. Will anyone be surprised if we are on the verge of another “Bleeding Kansas”? Ever since Jamestown, we have groped for a solution to the terrible problem of trying to build a nation of different races. Could it not be clearer that the attempt has failed?
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[i] On June 3, the New York Times published a long article with this headline: “Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites.” This sounds like horrible police bias, and might well have been if it were true that any time officers arrested a black person they were seven times more likely to use force than when they arrested a white. That is what the article wanted readers to think, but that is not at all what the data say.
The article left out race differences in arrest rates. For the period 2009 to 2014, blacks were 12 times more likely than whites to be suspects in violent crimes and 9.5 times more likely to be arrested for them. Police almost never use force unless they are making an arrest. So it may be true that the average black living in Minneapolis is seven times more likely than the average white to be manhandled or shot by the police, but to leave out the fact that the average black is also 9.5 times more likely than the average white to be arrested for a violent crime is either incompetence or deceit.
The police are much more likely to use force on the average Minneapolis man than the average Minneapolis woman. Is that because they persecute men—as the Times would have wanted readers to believe if it had written a similar article about sex differences? No; it’s because men are a lot more likely than women to be criminals and therefore a lot more likely to be arrested.
Jared Taylor [Email him] is the editor of American Renaissance. You can follow him on Parler and Gab.
[Crossposted from American Renaissance.]