Oprah Winfrey Executive-Produced the Ava DuVernay film When They See Us, and it's been cited as a reason people want to riot - it's also available, free, on Netflix for your "education".
That's a lot of powerful forces at work - to spread a lie - in a sea of voices, claiming they're actively looking for anyone involved in misinformation now.
It's so lame, that after 400 years, most Americans can't see this on their own - but have to be told - it's, somehow, personally embarrassing, AS AN AMERICAN, to repeat it:
And only a few generations from slavery. Sigh. I warned you: Those, "colorblind," but totally racial, post-Reconstruction-type evasion schemes would be discovered eventually,...
As it does today, early police work maintained "Law and Order," for whites
"Dr. King didn’t spend that much time condemning riots–he spent far more of his time condemning people who spent all of their time condemning riots,...King understood that trying to solve the problem of “riots” instead of trying to solve the problem of oppression is like feeding painkillers to a patient with a gushing open wound,...
...When your sons and daughters are shot dead in the street and the state refuses to so much as apologize, someone, somewhere is going to pick up a brick. When a people go unheard for generations, someone is going to scream. When you take your foot off a man’s neck, he’s going to knock your block off. To expect otherwise is to expect oppressed people to be inhuman,..."
- Arthur Chu, on what white America's been looking for, in us
She redefines "smug" AND America's history of racial justice
Getting race wrong (has she ever gotten it right?) is, now, such a daily operation for Ann Althouse, I can fully see what worth the University of Madison finds in her (employing a law professor who can't grasp what few options blacks have is "win-win") when - decades after MLK - we still live in a nation with unjust laws:
He redefines "smug" AND America's history of racial justice, too
But then, it's her example that also makes it possible for me to see what worth CNN finds in employing Donald Dilworth Lemon (a reporter who also can't grasp what few options blacks have) when - decades after MLK - we still live in a nation with unjust laws:
To accuse Jackson of continuing MLK's "race hustle" - without mentioning whites illegally jailed and harassed MLK - works just as Ann's ignorant posts do
Whites said blacks should emulate "America's Dad" - blacks smelt a rat and said "no"
You see - considering America IS a racist place with unjust laws - the worth of these two's "respectable" racial cluelessness is obvious:
"Waiting for whites to grow up" is a better name for this place than the United States
They (and Cosby) can buy time for whites - to "make progress" - which means, of course, black lives can further rot,...until whites learn to process more complex ideas about blacks than currently possible.
Whites will keep saying their racism ended, whenever they say it did, in the meantime
Oh well:
At least we blacks can be "happy" because - between these two multi-racial mental giants - we're now part of our nation's racist's education.
Cliven Bundy isn't the only one who "wonders" things in America
Of all the douchebags who appear in ”The Whiteness Project,” my favorite gets to tell the world, “A lot of white boys aren’t going to be pushed around," before we learn this about America and Social Security - and exactly what he means:
Who America considers a problem is always dangerously entertaining
This is the same formally-all-white government that can't see itself paying blacks for slavery, Jim Crow, and all the rest. The same government that allows black's lives, even today, to be Hell:
"A pivotal requirement of my childhood education was to learn the language of racism, rendered explicit through the signs posted above water fountains, on toilets, inside buses, on dressing rooms. Learning to read and write thus involved the acquisition of an extensive familiarity with the protocols of racism during the pre–civil rights era. This was, in part, enabled by the fact that my elementary and high schools were a part of what was called the Negro School System. The home my parents purchased was located on the border of a neighborhood zoned for black people. Local laws prohibited us from crossing the street in front of our house, for we might be legally charged with trespassing into the white zone."
Not a protest for anything
BTW - a bunch of crazed, drunken, and totally-not-oppressed white boys rioted this weekend, terrifying the locals in the white zone of New Hampshire.
“They started yelling directly at my daughter, and when they saw she was crying, they started to do it more,” [Stephanie] Konopka said. “They put their faces in the window and made these horrible faces and screamed these terrible things at her. And I was helpless, I couldn’t get to her. I was just trapped in the car. I couldn’t open the door, I couldn’t move the car. And then they started taking off their shirts and pushing themselves into the windows. At that point she was just beyond consoling.”
Nazi countries pay Nazi's benefits
Sounds a lot like the Nazis were allowed to come here and spread their seed - and produced some Hitler Youth - to me,...
This week [California Governor Jerry Brown] has been using Civil War metaphors at his public events to describe the deep divisions in California, and the entire country for that matter, preaching with the passion of a born-again that the country is dangerously polarized.
“We are at a point of civil discord, and I would not minimize the risk to our country and to our state. It is not trivial. I’ve been around a long time, I’m a student of history, I’m a student of contemporary politics. We are facing what I would call a ‘regime crisis.’ The legitimacy of our very democratic institutions are in question,” he said.
Only a fool would think that the sick out that closed down Madison schools for five days in February was anything but an illegal, union-coordinated, illegal strike.
But there are a lot of fools in Madison, aren’t there?
Now there is proof that the sickout was a premeditated, union-authorized job action -- a phone tree of teachers calling other teachers to close down the schools. This kind of activity is prohibited by the union’s own contract and illegal in WI Statute Chapter 111.84(2)(e)
Everything liberals do is a confused act to control something - and they'll stop at nothing - here's Glenn Reynolds:
More and more, it seems like parental malpractice to let your kids go to public schools, where they seem to be viewed as state property, and guinea pigs for social experimentation.
And it ain't conservatives doing it, that's for sure.
Yesterday I asked what will happen when California goes under - and said I don't know - but one guy has been thinking about what will happen if the nation goes under, and it ain't pretty, kids:
3) Your life could be in danger. If the government goes bankrupt, you’ll have an extremely angry, confused, and frustrated populace that has little faith in its leaders — combined with a horrific economy and a reduced ability of the government to keep order. Under those circumstances, widespread rioting and violent crime seem entirely plausible.
The fact Americans are even thinking this way means we'd better get this country in order or else. And we're certainly not going to get there listening to liberals, that's for sure. Here's another Lesson For The Day:
When you find yourself in trouble and you're stuck in a situation...
Not everyone who shows up is there to help you!!!!
Yes, they were Dixiecrats, and now - like Global Warming became Climate Change - they've taken off the hoods and claim to be "progressive" (which, as we were reminded, is another word for Communist) but the old habits never die and, when faced with anyone they don't like, the words "Send him back to the fields" and "String him up!" ring loudly, and proudly, just like in the old days - and weren't those the days? To their credit, it seems Democrats will defend any race - whether it's whites or blacks - but they've got to have one so, by sight, they can know who else they'll be eliminating.
And the cry of "Revolution now - just like in Egypt!" makes a very nice bookend for Francis Fox Piven's supposedly-non-violent claim we should have “strikes and riots” in our streets - just like in Greece. Of course, between those bookends is a weird mixture of Communism, Naziism, and our old friend NewAge because, let's face it, all these folks are just being "nice".
At least that's their story, and they're stickin' to it.
And, let's not forget, "Crazy Rosie" ranted against us blacks who supported Proposition 8 in California - like we care - and she called for riots during the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
"Odd to see anarchists trying to burn and loot while some are text messaging and cell-phoning in the news clips—as if such ignoramuses can’t grasp that nihilism and anti-capitalist angst lose their authenticity when they depend on the trademarks of the global corporate world. Spoiled Westerners tried to riot on TV before texting each other to meet for latte (no doubt at Starbucks),..."
-- Victor Davis Hanson, displaying a bit of TMR ("ignoramuses"?) which is why we love him, even as he writes for Pajamas Media.
NEW YORK — Three people were arrested and six others hurt Saturday after bedlam broke out while hundreds waited to audition for "America's Next Top Model," police said.
Police didn't know what prompted the chaos involving hundreds of people outside the Park Central New York hotel in Manhattan. The panic left the street outside the hotel littered with shoes and clothing, according to news reports.
"It was pretty scary," Jessica Paravati told WNYW-TV. She said she was caught up in a stampede after waiting on line overnight, hoping for a shot at stardom on the reality show.FOX News
In what scientists call “The Klum Effect”, organizers were trying in vain to get the brainy, aspiring models into some sort of organized line, which was beyond the comprehension and skill level of the average wannabe, when a nearby car overheated.
At that point, one of the Klumers decided the steam from the car was a bomb meant for the models, and set off the “Running of the Labia” on a scale even Pamplona, Spain has never seen.
I'm doing this Reading Between The Lines differently than previous ones - meaning, I'm going to show what The New York Times says and, then, tell you my perspective - because I lived in France, I'm a black American, and I hate the spin the Times always puts on these things:
"PARIS — When Youssoupha, a black rapper here, was asked the other day what was on his mind, a grin spread across his face. 'Barack Obama,' he said. 'Obama tells us everything is possible.'"
This tough-appearing french guy is too naive to be believed. He reminds me of all those french girls who will lay you if you say you like Michael Jackson. The french have an image of America that's just unreal - which is why they immediately switch up and hate us if we don't try to live up to it - like we're the lap dogs of their dreams. The idea that America is a separate country - or that Americans are actual human beings - with failings, problems, and complexities, that can go far beyond their limited imaginations, doesn't even occur to them. This guy is going to be greatly disappointed because he's, obviously, not setting his hopes on something he can achieve in his own life but on what some sweet-talking con man is trying to do to us.
"A new black consciousness is emerging in France, lately hastened by, of all things, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States. An article in Le Monde a few days ago described how Mr. Obama is “stirring up high hopes” among blacks here. Even seeing the word 'noir' ('black') in a French newspaper was an occasion for surprise until recently."
Yep: it's amazing to me the extent of french racism - and a basic close-mindedness - isn't accurately reported in the American media. (I mean look at that: they don't even print the word "black." How sick is that shit?) The American media makes France out to be this sophisticated cosmopolitan paradise, when, in truth, it's about as backwards as the stereotypes Americans on the coasts hold about the southern part of our country - I'd say it's even worse, actually. I've been attacked by Nazis in France; deliberately offered "niggerhead" candy, and found myself marginalized (regularly - even by my own wife, once she got back there) because of, both, my race and nationality. "Oh, he's an American," they'd say, if I'd offer a solution to some stupid problem they had, "they think they know everything." In the end, I'd just let them suffer with whatever dilemma they had, because they'd proven themselves to pig-headed to accept help when it was offered. The french are idiots.
"Meanwhile, this past weekend, 60 cars were burned and some 50 young people scuffled with police and firemen, injuring several of them, in a poor minority suburb of Vitry-le-François, in the Marne region of northeast France."
That's the typical form of protest in France: they go to a parking garage or something and set all the cars on fire. It's stupid, and pointless, just like all those strikes we read about. I remember one time, taking a cross-country trip on the train to see a friend, only to have it interrupted by a strike. That added hours to the trip (and massive confusion for everyone) and on that particular night, we were in a blinding rain. It turned out that my friend was roommates with the strike's organizer, so, once we got there and got dried off, I asked him what the strike gained. "Nothing!" was his reply, "But now the owners know!" "Yea," I thought, "They know your punk asses are going to be back at work tomorrow."
"Americans, who have debated race relations since the dawn of the Republic, may find it hard to grasp the degree to which race, like religion, remains a taboo topic in France. While Mr. Obama talks about running a campaign transcending race, an increasing number of French blacks are pushing for, in effect, the reverse."
This is a point I've made many times on this blog: the french do everything - not in reverse - but upside-down. Whenever I hear the phrase, "France does not agree!" (like about the war) that means America's doing the right thing. The example, above, is a perfect illustration of this: the french blacks don't want to get the whites to see them as human beings, they want to rub their race - their blackness - in the faces of the whites. Anybody who thinks that's helpful is an idiot, if you ask me. The whites already see their race - it's almost all they see - so this approach (which an Obama candidacy will only accelerate) will end up being totally counter-productive, and harmful, to the very people it's supposed to help. But, like I said, you can't tell them anything.
"Having always thought it was more racially enlightened than strife-torn America, France finds itself facing the prospect that it has actually fallen behind on that score. Incidents like the ones over the weekend bring to mind the rioting that exploded across France three years ago. Since it abolished slavery 160 years ago, the country has officially declared itself to be colorblind — but seeing Mr. Obama, a new generation of French blacks is arguing that it’s high time here for precisely the sort of frank discussions that in America have preceded the nomination of a major black candidate."
France thinks it's more enlightened about everything. Yet they've, also, fallen behind on everything. They're the most arrogant people in the world - with no reason for such arrogance: their music sucks (their entertainment, altogether, sucks) they're a third-rate power internationally, their economy sucks, they're racist, sexist, xenophobic, they're technologically behind - why, I could go on forever. I can say from experience that about the only area the french truly excel in is the speed with which their women will deliver a blow job. And - before anyone gets mad about that statement - I can assure you, I'm not the first person to admit it.
"This black consciousness is reflected not just in daily conversation, but also in a dawning culture of books and music by young French blacks like Youssoupha, a cheerful, toothy 28-year-old, who was sent here from Congo by his parents to get an education at 10, raised by an aunt who worked in a school cafeteria in a poor suburb, and told by guidance counselors that he shouldn’t be too ambitious. Instead, he earned a master’s degree from the Sorbonne."
The last time I was in France, I was introduced to an African guy - a really nice, sweet, guy - who had been trying to become a citizen of France for years. They just wouldn't let him pass the test, much like they kept blacks, here, from voting by making new questions. The African guy's wife had been trying to get a driver's license for 5 years. That's the kind of shit the American media should be reporting about. Instead we get tales about wine, baguettes, and "sophistication." (God, I hate that word now that I know what it's supposed to represent. The "sophisticated" french make me want to puke.)
"Then, like many well-educated blacks in this country, he hit a brick wall. 'I found myself working in fast-food places with people who had the equivalent of a 15-year-old’s level of education,' he recalled."
See, what did I tell you? (I'm reading this, for the first time, as I go along, so I'm getting it as you do:) The french can be total bastards.
"So he turned to rap, out of frustration as much as anything, finding inspiration in 'négritude,' an ideology of black pride conceived in Paris during the 1920s and 30s by Aimé Césaire (above) the French poet and politician from Martinique, and Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet who became Senegal’s first president. Its philosophy, as Sartre once put it, was a kind of 'antiracist racism,' a celebration of shared black heritage."
That's another thing to hate about France - it's a nation trapped in ideologies. They can't just "think" - everything has to broken down into a system - and those systems never work because we're human beings, not systems of thought. "Antiracist racism" - sure, that'll work. That's where they end up gloating about being black (they're french, remember) making everyone want to oppress them more.
"Négritude and Césaire are back. When Césaire died in April, at 94, his funeral in Fort-de-France, Martinique, was broadcast live on French television. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his rival Ségolène Royal both attended. Just three years ago, Mr. Sarkozy, as head of a center-right party and not yet president, supported a law (repealed after much protest) that compelled French schools to teach the 'positive' aspects of colonialism. The next year, Césaire refused to meet with him. Now here was Mr. Sarkozy flying to the former French colony (today one of the country’s overseas departments, meaning he could troll for votes) to pay tribute to the poet laureate of négritude."
You try to make sense of that shit because I can't.
"That said, as a country France definitely sends out mixed messages. 'Négritude is a concept they just don’t want to hear about,' Youssoupha raps in 'Render Unto Césaire' on his latest album, 'À Chaque Frère' ('To Each Brother'). A regular short feature on French public television, 'Citoyens Visibles,' hosted by a young actress, Hafsia Herzi, celebrates French artists with foreign origins."
Like I said,...
"At the same time, it’s against the rules for the government to conduct official surveys according to race. Consequently, nobody even knows for certain how many black citizens there are. Estimates vary between 3 million and 5 million out of a population of more than 61 million."
All I know is a trip through the Paris subway makes you think you're in Harlem. And in every major french city, if you go two blocks from the tourist area, you'll wind up in a ghetto. It's that bad.
"'Can you imagine if French officials said, ‘Well, we’re not sure, the population of France may be 65 million, or maybe it’s 30 million’?' declared a somewhat exasperated Patrick Lozès (above) founder of Cran, a black organization devised not long ago partly to gather statistics the government won’t."
The whole place is in denial - about everything.
"When he sat down to talk the other morning, the first two words out of his mouth were Barack Obama. 'The idea behind not categorizing people by race is obviously good; we want to believe in the republican ideal,' he said. 'But in reality we’re blind in France, not colorblind but information blind, and just saying people are equal doesn’t make them equal.'"
I like that: "information blind." Like thinking water is medicine (homeopathy). That can only be as popular as it is in France. They're a bunch of kooks.
"He ticked off some obvious numbers: one black member representing continental France in the National Assembly among 555 members; no continental French senators out of some 300; only a handful of mayors out of some 36,000, and none from the poor Paris suburbs."
Oh, but they're so much more "enlightened" than we are. Liars. And the media is a bunch of liars, too, for not putting that true image out there more clearly, for the American people to judge these particular allies by, when they criticize us.
"To this may be added Cran’s findings that the percentage of blacks in France who hold university degrees is 55, compared with 37 percent for the general population. But the number of blacks who get stuck in the working class is 45 percent, compared with 34 percent for the national average."
Yea, when I was there, even my (now ex) wife was trying to get my pay lowered (imagine that shit!) saying it was "tradition." God, when I think of the shit I put up with, with her, it can make my blood boil. The french are sick, I tell you. My ex, Karine Anne Brunck, and her family once left me, in a totally-locked house - where I couldn't even go from room-to-room or to get something to eat, for 11 hours, while they went out drinking and skiing. Why? They just forgot to return. I drank an entire gallon jug of whiskey I had and, when they got back, I was so enraged I left for the States that same night. That's french hospitality for you if you're black.
“'There’s total hypocrisy here,' Léonora Miano said. She’s a black author, 37, originally from Cameroon, whose recent novel 'Tels des Astres Éteints' ('Like Extinguished Stars') is about race relations as seen through the eyes of three black immigrants."
Total hypocrisy. That's France. Go on: support it by planning your next vacation, to Paris, soon.
“'For me it was really strange when I arrived 17 years ago to find people here never used the word race,' Ms. Miano said over coffee one afternoon at Café Beaubourg. Outside, African immigrants hawked sunglasses to tourists. 'French universalism, the whole French republican ideal, proposes that if you embrace French values, the French language, French culture, then race doesn’t exist and it won’t matter if you’re black. But of course it does. So we need to have a conversation, and slowly it is coming: not a conversation about guilt or history, but about now.'”
Keep dreaming, Sister. Sarkozy is one of a few people in France (that I know of) who is willing to listen to anyone but himself. Don't get me wrong: there are some very nice, open, and intelligent, people in France but, culturally and generally, the people just are just too fucking arrogant to think anyone knows anything but them. Pretty-much like Liberals in America: they just don't want to know any other way - or that anyone else wants another way - than how they see it. Go Green!
"'The Black Condition: An Essay on a French Minority' by Pap N’Diaye, a 42-year-old historian at the School for Advanced Study of the Social Sciences, is another much-talked-about new book here. 'We are witnessing a renaissance of the négritude movement,' Mr. N’Diaye declared the other day."
And that's another step in the wrong direction.
"The surge in popularity of Mr. Obama among French blacks partly stems from the hope that his rise 'will highlight our lack of diversity and put pressure on French politicians who say they favor him to open politics up more to minorities,' Mr. N’Diaye said. 'We in France are, in terms of race, where we were in terms of gender 40 years ago.'"
And Obama's fall will mean what? Do you see the problem of this kind of thinking? Obama means nothing. Anyone that votes for him because he's black is a racist who cares nothing about the country because he's totally, and uniquely, unqualified. Something the New York Times hasn't said because it just ain't a good story, as they see it, when - in truth - that's the beginning of the best story this country ever wrote: how cultism almost made America go mad.
"He laid out some history: French decolonization during the 1960s pretty much pushed the original négritude movement to the back burner, at the same time that it inspired a wave of immigrants from the Caribbean to come here and fill low-ranking civil service jobs. From sub-Saharan Africa, another wave of laborers gravitated to private industry. The two populations didn’t communicate much."
Ah, yes, french colonialism. Aren't they a wonderful people? Now their former slaves mostly sell trinkets on street corners, being abused by the locals for being a pest, as the whites eat their dinner of Duck L'Orange. You just gotta love 'em!
"But their children, raised here, have grown up together. 'Mutually discovered discrimination,' as Mr. N’Diaye put it, has forged a bond out of which négritude is being revived."
And the American media told us all about it, right? Nope. They were too busy praising what? The "sophistication" of the french. Man, was I in for a surprise when I got there.
"The watershed event was the rioting in poor French suburbs three years ago. Among its cultural consequences: Aimé Césaire 'started to be rediscovered by young people who found in his work things germane to the current situation,' Mr. N’Diaye said."
Oh boy.
"Youssoupha is one of those people. He was nursing a Coke recently at Top Kafé, a Lubavitch Tex-Mex restaurant in Créteil, just outside Paris, where he lives. Nearby, two waiters in yarmulkes sat watching Rafael Nadal play tennis on television beneath dusty framed pictures of Las Vegas and Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. A clutch of Arab teenagers smoked outside. In modest neighborhoods like this, France can look remarkably harmonious."
This is true. A lot of France's appearance is deceptive. If you're not careful, you can find yourself in the Middle East.
“'Césaire is in my lyrics, and I was upset when people misinterpreted what I wrote as anti-white because négritude is the affirmation of our common black roots,' Youssoupha said."
But that's exactly the point I made about the reaction it would engender: you can't defeat racism by emphasizing race. Just ask Jeremiah Wright.
"Ms. Miano, the novelist, made a similar point. 'There is no such thing as a black ‘community’ in France — yet — partly because we have such different histories,' she said. 'An immigrant woman from Mali and another from Cameroon view the world in completely different ways. You also shouldn’t think there isn’t racism among blacks in France, between West Indians and Africans. There is. But ultimately we’re all black in the face of discrimination.'"
Sigh.
"Then she smiled: 'Too bad I forgot to wear my Obama T-shirt.'”
I've mentioned this before, but these leftist fools still won't stop talking about civil war:
No word from Moonbeam on who's pushing us there, though I have my suspicions:
Yesterday I asked what will happen when California goes under - and said I don't know - but one guy has been thinking about what will happen if the nation goes under, and it ain't pretty, kids:
When you find yourself in trouble and you're stuck in a situation...
Not everyone who shows up is there to help you!!!! 
We're starting to think these kids might be on to something:
We, too, always wanted to see those shitty little cars being treated this way.
"Odd to see anarchists trying to burn and loot while some are text messaging and cell-phoning in the news clips—as if such ignoramuses can’t grasp that nihilism and anti-capitalist angst lose their authenticity when they depend on the trademarks of the global corporate world. Spoiled Westerners tried to riot on TV before texting each other to meet for latte (no doubt at Starbucks),..."
NEW YORK — Three people were arrested and six others hurt Saturday after bedlam broke out while hundreds waited to audition for "America's Next Top Model," police said.
I'm doing this Reading Between The Lines differently than previous ones - meaning, I'm going to show what The New York Times says and, then, tell you my perspective - because I lived in France, I'm a black American, and I hate the spin the Times always puts on these things:
"'The Black Condition: An Essay on a French Minority' by Pap N’Diaye, a 42-year-old historian at the School for Advanced Study of the Social Sciences, is another much-talked-about new book here. 'We are witnessing a renaissance of the négritude movement,' Mr. N’Diaye declared the other day."
