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"The Gipper" by The Crack Emcee

Incredible. This Althouse blurb might inspire a new feature on TMR - Jobs White People Get:

"The comics artist Lynda Barry joins the University of Wisconsin faculty as an assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity."

Or should it be called "Jobs White People Are Given"? 

I'm not sure:

 I just know they're never around when I'm looking,...

 

Black News: Keeping Whites Up On What's Going Down

“He’s engaged to be married, he has a dog and a cat, he was driving a Toyota Camry, he survived an accident, had 3.7 GPA, a chemistry major. This is not someone who posed a threat to the officers or anyone else, this is an everyday American.”

The buying power of African-Americans continues to grow, but advertisers are missing the mark by passing over black-oriented media. That is the conclusion of a Nielsen report, which shows that of the $75 billion spent last year in the U.S. on television, magazines, Internet and radio advertising, less than 3 percent went to media focused on black audiences.

Like much of the history of South Carolina's black community, stories of the 1st S.C. Volunteers -- the first official black regiment of the Union Army -- have been largely by word of mouth.

It is with extreme sadness that I inform The Chess Drum readership of the death of FM Ronald Simpson. He succumbed to Stage Four cancer on Thursday, September 19th. Simpson was an active member of the North Carolina community after being a legendary figure in New York’s “Black Bear School of Chess” for many years. Ron’s last USCF rating was 2338 and last tournament was the Asheboro Open in July…which he won. 

Even if they come from affluent families or attend highly rated schools, black students in Ohio continue to lag far behind their white peers in school, according to a Dispatch analysis of data from state standardized exams. On more than two dozen state tests given to students in kindergarten through high school last year, the average passage rate among black students was 64 percent. On average, 87 percent of white students passed. Disparities between races have existed across the country since schools were physically divided by race, researchers say, but many now view those gaps largely as a product of high poverty among minorities.

U of Alabama ends 'whites only' sororities

On Education and Corporate Culture…

Bill Siegel,...skillfully directs “The Trials of Muhammad Ali.” In terms of archival footage Siegel has an embarrassment of reel riches to choose from. The director, a researcher for the 1994 Oscar-nominated doc “Hoop Dreams,” selects wisely and edits a knockout.

Highlights include the doc’s opening, with a black and white clip of talk show host David Susskind, the archetypal liberal, delivering an excoriating televised verbal assault on Ali during his draft trials and tribulations that is even more vituperative than segregationist Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox’s later remarks. On the other hand, there is a color clip of neocon George W. Bush awarding the athlete the Medal of Freedom in a 2005 White House ceremony. There is much footage of Malcolm X -- before and after his split from the NOI. In other shots, Ali the separatist hugs Martin Luther King and calls the integrationist “brother;” in another clip Dr. King calls on all young men to do as Ali did by filing for C.O. status and lauding his “courage” for refusing to fight in Vietnam. A laughing Coretta Scott King later tells Ali he is “our champion in boxing and in justice.”

We also hear from Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown along with famous African American sports figures. Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain and John Carlos, who made a gloved Black power salute during the 1968 Olympics awards ceremony in Mexico, support Ali, while ex-heavyweight champ Joe Louis and baseball’s racial trendsetter Jackie Robinson (who similarly betrayed Paul Robeson in the 1950s) oppose him. Meanwhile, the recently deceased talk show great David Frost takes the blustery Ali to task for calling all white people “devils.”

REW-FFWD by Denis Villeneuve, National Film Board of Canada

The 30 minutes of REW-FFWD are introduced as the content of a “black box,” the video record of a nameless photojournalist’s trip to Jamaica,....

The journalist is sent to Trench Town, Kingston by an ignorant and somewhat racist editor who wants a “Heart of Darkness” story on what he assumes is a violent, barbaric island nation. When the journalist finally arrives, his car breaks down and he is forced to stay with the actually warm and helpful locals until the local mechanic can fix it.

When you get a good look at it, that “Heart of Darkness” is pretty amazing:

The black man occupies a unique space in American culture. He is an aggressive and inherently violent threat to society. Both insatiable and lazy, he is creator of chaos and maker of his own inevitable demise; he is forever guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. He does not feel pain, or remorse, or empathy. As angry and volatile as their female counterparts, black men, by their very presence, give society reason to assume the defensive. He is simultaneously invisible and ever present in the minds and lives of white America. A non-citizen, he holds no right to self-defense.

     Debased, filthy and unworthy, black men, we are told, are sexual deviants incapable of either desiring or maintaining healthy, meaningful relationships. 

In fact, at a recent fellowship dinner at Columbia Law School, a wealthy, white businessman told me that the biggest business problem occurring in America is the inability of black women to find [black] husbands. He declared that this travesty is rooted in the black man’s inability to commit, not just to a woman, but also to a job. Upon picking my jaw off the floor, I concluded three important things: (1) my supposedly personal decisions regarding who I choose to fuck or date or marry are very much political, (2) so long as I date black men, I will carry their burden, and (3) while my decision to primarily date black men is a conscious one, it is not necessarily simple.

  As a racially ambiguous woman, I have the privilege of changing the way society receives me at my discretion. Sometimes I am black, other times I am Indian or Latina, or I may be French, or just a white girl who tans a bit too much. Sometimes I am intimidating or a race-baiting Angry Black Woman, but I can just as easily morph into innocent and approachable.  Over time I’ve found that the easiest way to change my ethnicity – change the way people treat me – is to change my company.  And the company that most defines us is, in fact, our choice in a mate. When I choose to date a black man, I inevitably send a message to society about who I am and what I represent. When I choose to date a black man, I choose to be ignored at bars, barred from clubs, humiliated by groups of drunken white men, or passed over by taxis. I choose to internalize their experiences of undervaluation, passed over promotions and emasculation. I choose to carry the burden of [dating] black men, and I choose it often; 90% of the men I’ve dated are black.

Surprised? The Cop that Shot Jonathan Ferrell Dead Like a Rabid Dog 

Used to Work as an "Animal Control" Officer

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School named after KKK leader 

asked to change its name

ECHR turns down Church of Scientology’s claim 

against Belgium

Hazel Dell woman files child sex abuse suit 

against Jehovah's Witnesses

Nigerian troops kill 150 

Islamist insurgents

Neo-Nazi party 

must take down election posters

My Dinner: An Expired Can Of Soup - Eaten In Freedom

Today I was told I'm becoming the thing I hate. I don't know if that's better than becoming the thing he hates:

“To all the folks living in poverty and drug and crime-infested communities, that was me as well, so I have lived all the lives of the people who come before me.  I can relate to them. I can speak their language.

You know we talk about the criminal justice system and in many ways I think it is criminal in and of itself. Being from the inside and the outside, I have the observation that the justice system, throughout our journey, has been used as a tool of oppression.

We find that we have a system where we fail to educate African-American men and we remove the jobs from their community and replace the jobs with guns and drugs and a failed education system and what we’re seeing now is the majority of our prison population is made up of African-American men.”

- TV's Judge Mathis

So - I can be trapped in a system of racial oppression - or, somewhat out of it, but still talking about a system of racial oppression. Hmmm:

I don't think my accuser's crazy about either option,...

 

Everything That They Don't Know Is Equal - To What I Do Know - And Even I Know I Need Help In Knowing Things

I've never heard of Karl Kraus, but he sounds, as the saying goes, like "a kindred spirit":

He wasn't in the business of denigrating the masses or lowbrow culture; the calculated difficulty of his writing wasn't a barricade against the barbarians. It was aimed, instead, at bright and well-educated cultural authorities who embraced a phony kind of individuality – people Kraus believed ought to have known better.

You can guess who all they'd be, today, I'm sure.

The political results - with blacks and the poor clamoring to join their cause - speak for themselves.

And, if not, here's a "ought to have known better" hint.

ADDED:

Can you imagine what things would look like, if Putin had written his Op-Ed, but started referencing the "teachings" of Joseph Smith?

We'd be far beyond just "embarrassed" on the world stage,...

 

Make Money From Feminism & Gay Pride Hosting Those Who Scream "Race Hustler" And Attacking A Black Guy

 

"Most of the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior."  

"The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years,...Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards,...exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."

"People with greater math and numerical reasoning skills actually skewed their results more than those with lesser abilities depending on what they felt the fake study was assessing. Being smarter about something made it more likely that you would allow your political beliefs to harm your objective reasoning skills." 

 

"None of this is good — because it means that objective sets of facts, science and evidence are becoming increasingly less relevant in today's society, while the 'tribes' you belong to and their leaders may be vastly more important to what you think and how you act."

 

"Where it can become dangerous is when the leaders that you trust for road maps simply lie or deceive for their own purposes, because more and more, this research implies, there is a tendency to simply ignore an objective set of facts if it goes against your beliefs and what people you trust are telling you." 

 

This sort of 'cultural cognition' model has profound implications for all sorts of things. In the Syrian situation, for instance, it may not matter whether Syria used chemical weapons against its own people. What may matter more to you is whether you believe Barack Obama when he presents that objective set of facts. Facts don't matter. Who describes them to you does."

The Crack Emcee: 

"All [Ann Althouse] has to do, for me, is show the balls I used to give her credit for and openly and honestly engage her critics. Say sorry sometimes. I made a mistake. Whatever. It ain't asking for much."

Meade Lawrence ["Second" husband to Ann Althouse]: 

"What makes you the high judge of who is sufficiently open and honest and who is not?"

If Glenn Reynolds Cared Enough, About The Truth, He'd Actually Spell It Out Every Once In A While On Althouse

As usual, I never should've glanced at Glenn Reynolds, because his hypocrisy drives me up a wall:

  "You backed (Obama) and looked down on those who saw through him from the beginning."

That's Glenn talking to the WSJ's Peggy Noonan - not his feminist pal, Ann Althouse - though Ann voted the same way, behaved even worse, and still gets Glenn's support without a word of admonishment or ridicule. Like nobody will notice. I swear, the safety of that well-padded conservative caccoon must be nice, because I guarantee you:

If TMR had Instapundit's visibility, as wrong as he is, as often as he is - or after exposing what the whole law professor/Althouse connection, alone, means - Glenn Reynolds would be revealed:

As a sucker, a race-baiter, and a horse's ass,...

When Asked "What's Normal?" I Rethink U.F.O. Theory

Teachers Rally 

Behind Child Molester Colleague

Delusional Thinking 

in the Age of the Single Superpower

6 Ridiculous Myths You Believe 

About Stuff You Use Every Day

Facts You Didn't Know 

About Cheating

Canada Is Still Racist