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MAY 27,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

ANOTHER GREAT MOMENT IN EDUCATION – FROM FOX:  Brandeis University assistant dean Kate Slater says that "all White people are racist" and has declared that she hates "whiteness."  "Yes, all White people are racist in that all White people have been conditioned in a society where one's racial identity determines life experiences/outcomes and Whiteness is the norm and the default. That includes me!" read an all-caps Instagram post from Slater, who serves as assistant dean of student affairs.  She added in Saturday's post that while she doesn't "hate White people," she does hate "Whiteness."  Her comments touched on a raging debate over critical race theory and how public institutions discussed racism in the fallout of George Floyd's death.   I wonder how Brandeis parents will feel about this the next time they have to write a tuition check.

WOKENESS HAS COME TO THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   Two men were escorted out of Yankee Stadium Thursday – one of them apparently in cuffs – after they hung a large pro-Trump banner from the second deck.  Video and photos show two men unveiling a “Trump Won Save America” flag on the first-base side of the stadium which prompted a Bronx cheer of boos from many in the crowd.  The two men appear to be struggling over the flag with a security guard in pictures taken by a photographer from the Post.  The men were escorted out of the stadium with one man in handcuffs.  I'm sure New York's woke crowd will regard the banner as a capital offense, worthy of the death penalty.  What would Babe think?

May 27, 2021       Permalink

MARXIST IDEOLOGIST COMMITS CAPITALISM – OVERNIGHT:  One of the Marxist founders of Black Lives Matter has resigned.  Aren't you upset?  From Fox:

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is stepping down from her role as executive director of the activist group’s central foundation amid questions about her finances.

Cullors, 37, told the Associated Press on Thursday that she was leaving the position to focus on other projects, including the release of her second book and a television deal with Warner Bros. She held the top post at Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for more than five years.

The activist said she had created "the necessary bones and foundation" at the organization and felt the "time is right" to leave. She asserted that her exit was planned for more than a year and was unrelated to scrutiny regarding her personal finances.

"Those were right-wing attacks that tried to discredit my character, and I don’t operate off of what the right thinks of me," Cullors said.

Cullors' finances drew attention in April after the New York Post reported she had purchased four homes for $3.2 million. The report prompted Hawk Newsome, the head of Black Lives Matter Greater New York City, to call for an "independent investigation" into the foundation’s finances. The two organizations are not affiliated.

At the time, Cullors said allegations that she enriched herself through donations meant for Black Lives Matter were ‘categorically untrue." She denied that she received a salary from the foundation, asserting that her income came from other sources, such as proceeds from book sales and a YouTube deal.

"I think I will probably be less visible, because I won’t be at the helm of one of the largest, most controversial organizations right now in the history of our movement," Cullors said regarding her impending exit from the foundation.

COMMENT:  I guess the $3.2-mil came from babysitting.  You know, if you save it up in a jar, you always know you have it.

I have no doubt that Cullors will do well.  She has the touch.  And she knows Karl Marx personally.

May 27, 2021       Permalink 

MAY 26,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

ABOUT TIME – FROM FOX:   A signature-gathering effort to force a recall vote on Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón officially launched this week – only a few months after he took office, according to reports.  The leaders and supporters of "Recall George Gascón" held a news conference Wednesday, criticizing the progressive policies that buoyed Gascón into office over incumbent Jackie Lacey, FOX 11 in Los Angeles reported.  Speakers at the news conference included those affected by crimes in the county.  "The sad truth … is that he has revictimized me and my family," Desiree Andrade, whose 20-year-old son was beaten and stabbed and thrown off a cliff to his death, said. "He has total, utter disregard for us victims. You, George Gascón, have put criminals before victims."  Prosecutors removed the special circumstances charges of a deadly weapon, kidnapping and robbery for her son's alleged murder, meaning the suspects won’t face the possibility of life without parole. Gascón has sought to remove special circumstances that could lengthen murder sentences in all cases.  Several prosecutors with the DA's office have also spoken out against Gascón removing special circumstances in especially violent murder cases.  Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has publicly supported the recall and signed the petition at the news conference, according to FOX 11.  This guy is a product of the George Soros ultra-left organization.  He is clearly unfit for his position.

I DIDN'T KNOW THIS – FROM DAILY CALLER:   A Chinese Communist Party-controlled news outlet paid major newspapers and magazines over $1.95 million between November and April to run advertisements stylized as news stories, according to a Justice Department disclosure filed Monday.  Time Magazine received $700,000 from the outlet, China Daily, for “advertisement expenses” during the six-month time period, the filing revealed. The Chinese propaganda outlet also paid a combined $1.26 million for advertisements in The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, The Globe and Mail and the Financial Times during the timeframe, according to the filing.  China Daily spent an additional $883,000 with newspapers across the U.S. for printing expenses, the filing shows.  The filing reveals that China Daily has increased its advertising spending substantially over the past six months. The propaganda outlet had previously reported to the Justice Department spending $881,000 for advertising campaigns in western newspapers and magazines between May 2020 and October 2020, and another $759,000 for ads between November 2019 and April 2020.
The Monday filing was first reported by The Washington Free Beacon.  The revelation that China Daily boosted its advertising spending in western newspapers and magazines comes weeks after the International Federation of Journalists warned that China is using its vast media influence to spread narratives portraying China in the best possible light.   Let's see if American "journalism" even cares about this story.  So far the threat of China doesn't seem to bother the press guardians of America.  Choke.

May 26, 2021       Permalink

THIS IS TERRIFIC – SPEAKING TRUTH TO DOPES – OVERNIGHT:    If America is so racist, how come so many thousands of people of color come to America each year, and with enthusiasm?  The great Deroy Murdock answers the question, and gives racial extremism the punch in the nose that it deserves.  From Fox:

If AmeriKKKa is so bigoted, why do Africans and Caribbeans leave Black-run, predominantly Black nations and come to the United States of America, which the Democratic-left condemns as Earth’s headwaters of "systemic racism" and white supremacy?

According to the most recent Department of Homeland Security data, 548,891 African immigrants became permanent U.S. residents between 2015 and 2019. In 2020, these were the top-10 African sources for such new green-card holders — plus each nation’s Black-population percentage, courtesy of the CIA World Fact Book.

*Nigeria: 12,247 individuals from a 99 percent Black country
*Democratic Republic of Congo: 11,752; 100 percent Black
*Ethiopia: 5,461; 87.4 percent
*Ghana: 4,532; 98.5 percent
*Kenya: 3,063; 91.8 percent
*Eritrea: 2,845; 95 percent
*Cameroon: 2,747; 95.5 percent
*Somalia: 2,636; 85 percent
*South Africa: 2,372; 79.2 percent
*Sudan: 2,017; 70 percent

Total: 49,672 permanent residents from 10 nations that are 90.1 percent Black, on average. By contrast, America’s population is 13.4 percent Black.

Each of these African nations yielded more permanent residents to America in 2020 than did the 944 from Sweden. Largely blond, blue-eyed Sweden is 82.3 percent white. Swedes, at least ethnically, are precisely the type whom a "systemically racist," white-supremacist nation would greet with pom-poms aflutter. And yet Swedish green-card recipients totaled fewer than half of those from Sudan...

...So, if America is so irretrievably racist, why does it keep granting green cards to these Africans and Caribbeans? Coping with native-born Black Americans should keep "systemic racism" plenty busy.

Why would it allow even more Blacks to immigrate to our shores?

Put another way: If you had three kids and decided that you really didn’t like children, would you go out and adopt two more babies?

It should be incredibly easy for "systemic racism" to deny these people visas, long before green cards enter the picture. Every application from a Kenyan or Haitian who wanted in could be nixed by a systemically racist consular officer at the corresponding U.S. embassy. Surely, the State Department is "systemically racist." And yet, these visas for Black foreigners keep getting approved.

Is "systemic racism" on the fritz?

And...

Such influential Caribbeans as Jamaican-born basketball legend Patrick Ewing and Trinidad-born Howard University president Wayne A.I. Frederick must be equally baffled.

Black immigrants like these treasure America’s abundant freedom and ample opportunity, never mind the "systemic racism" Big Lie relentlessly chanted by the America-hating Democratic-left.

COMMENT:  I have never seen new African immigrants interviewed by any major news organizations.  Maybe they're afraid of the answers they might get – pro-American answers.  I have no doubt that the woke left will demand that the Statue of Liberty be torn down once they see an African immigrant salute her.

May 26, 2021       Permalink