We had almost no racial issues in the 1980s to the early 2000s, at least in a broad-based way. Yes, Ferguson was a racial issue, but only because the race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton leveraged it for their personal gain. George Floyd was another opportunity to make coin on ginned up hatred. Who started the race baiting on a broad basis? I would say it was Barack Obama. He used every single police incident where it was a minority committing the crime and a white cop who busted the crime, perhaps too forcefully, and amplified THAT into race crime. Obama ignored the massive amount of black on black crime in all the big cities. Obama's political doctrine is "divide and conquer". He created from whole cloth ID groups like the trans-gender group and amped up the divisions in America for his political gain. He drove the splits wider and wider fueling hatred between groups. The Biden reign was an extension of Obama's ugly racial and gender division. You pour gas on a fire you get an out of control inferno. This is why Barack Obama today is called "The Great Divider". It is how historians will remember him. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/barack-obama-the-great-divider-17791
A very well articulated portrait of our most divisive president. Obama took the issue of race and used it to settle scores, demonize alternative opinions, and demean America. He put national race relations back into the 1950s.
Consequentially, I would rank Obama as our nation's worst president.
My soul shivered when I heard him say that!! And... when an acquaintance asked me why I was taking my anti-Obama bumper stickers off my car, I said..."I don't want to stand out in the midst of a Communist Revolution!"
Same. It’s part of why the tea party was formed. People were scared because he was/is a Marxist, nothing to do with skin color. Older folks wouldn’t even sign the sign-in sheet out of fear of retribution from the government.
Thank you. I watched that speech. It sent shivers up my spine in a very bad way. Nobody wants to fundamentally transform something or someone they love. And nobody ever seemed to listen to what he said. They were just enthralled by his reading skills. They tied that man to a teleprompter for good reason. They learned after the Joe the Plumber exchange. I watched him closely. His speeches to different groups like ACORN and the unions were horrifying. I had obamamares for nearly a decade of my life. 🙁
Agreed.... Obama used his oratorial skills, gleaned from studying the cadence of Martin Luther King, like many black speakers today, to wow people with words without even thinking through the consequences of those words. I consider Obama a truly evil man, whether or not he was aware of what he was doing.
Yes. I voted Obama x 2 & Trump x 3. I will be the first person to say that Obama fundamentally changed this country, as he promised, but in the worst possible way. He was the cause of social unrest. The cause of horrible race relations. The cause of racism. He instigated. He poured money into it. Funded organizations to increase racism to increase power for himself. He did many extremely shady things, like pretending to be Israel's ally, while secretly going behind everyone's back to fund Nuclear weapons for Iran, to destabilize the Middle East.
Yes Sally Sue, yes! Perhaps I’m older or more cynical, but I knew Obama was a bullshit artist from the get-go and was not even remotely surprised at what he did. My only surprise was that normal liberals continued with his bullshit through the Biden administration and continued to believe that he was a good Democrat instead of a communist.
He had help! Obama "Wing Man" AG Eric Holder. One of the most egregious was awarding fines/penalties imposed on companies/individuals by federal govt , to left "leaning" NGO's . This practice was stopped in Trump's first term . Restarted by Biden ("Obama 3rd term") now stopped by Trump in second term.
Obama/Holder used funds procured by OUR GOV'T for their own left causes instead of those funds going into our treasury to be use to fund debt payments. ( or anything that benefits all Americans)
These are by no means all the info available, but it may show how the Obama/Biden/ Democrat cabal operates and how Trump stopped the corrupt practice, both times.
But those issues were localized, which is my point, they were not national. There will always be racial conflict in pockets. It is just human, even animal instinct to be tribal / territorial. So, as long as there are racially stratified pockets in NYC, like Harlem, there will be tension. But we don't need politicians throwing gas on the embers. I live in the Phoenix area. We have a lot of Hispanics, naturally. There is virtually zero racial tension between whites and Hispanics. The violence is between Hispanic gangs on one side of town and a lot of that tension is imported from Mexico where gangs / cartels proliferate
My husband is from Yuma. He says all the time that Hispanics and whites got along well there. I'm from New Jersey and my high school was nearly half black and we got along most of the time.
I think the racial conflict is stoked by the far left who seek cleavages by which they can divide the country. The conflict did not start with Obama. What I saw in New York was a template that was applied elsewhere. Obama just helped spread it from a few urban areas to the rest of the country.
Someone else on the thread mentioned a post on Coffee and Covid. He wrote:
"George Floyd’s... kicked off the 2020 Summer of Protest, ....
"In 2020, something, or someone, ensured the nation would focus on that particular case — and the result was cities burned.
"...this kind of operation is part of the classic deep-state regime-change playbook, and the tactic of using race to create political change has a long pedigree. ...when the first Soviet spy arrived here in 1916— communists repeatedly and often expressed a desire to gin up a race war to help overthrow America’s capitalist government. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union and its proxies openly funded and trained members of the Black Panther Party and other radical race groups."
So, while I do place a lot of blame on Obama, I think it's important to understand this as part of a much larger effort from the left to destroy our form of government.
I agree with all of that. As I wrote above, Obama was just someone who wanted power, and probably the wealth that goes with it, and leveraged his speaking skill to divide and conquer America. He is a smart guy. He knows that was a Roman philosophy in battle and he used it. He, personally, had no reason to stoke racial hate. He was not the recipient of racism or a racist past. His father was an Elite Kenyan. His mother was a white Kansas City liberal. He grew up Hawaii and Indonesia. He, nor anyone in his family, did not live the southern, black, post-plantation experience. But he sure pretended he had. That goes to his inauthenticity.
Easy answer...he claims victim every day of his life.
He's half black which makes him half white. Did he ever play the 'white male' victim card? Of course not. He always claims his black half because then he can play the victim card.
There were localized race issues (Crown Heights in New York comes to mind). Then there were issues that the civil rights business (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al) would bring forward and try to nationalize. Tawana Brawley (if you don't know that case, you should look it up. How Al Sharpton sleeps at night is beyond me), the LA Riots, OJ Simpson...
I read His(Obama) books. I tried to share with anyone who would listen how dangerous he is/was. I believe many see it now, but unfortunately there are still members of the cult of Democrats who will not believe. I hope someone in the next 3-4yrs investigate and share ALL the evidence that Obama knew very early (June 2016) Trump/Russia hoax was started by Clinton and Democrats and allow our country to be torn apart. That division continues and has gotten worse to this very day.
For this reason alone(there are many) the Democrats must not win ANY elections until they acknowledge and repent of these acts.
As befits a disciple of Saul Alinsky, after all there is no room for a would be tyrant to gain power if you don’t intentionally generate friction between groups.
The George Floyd saga was started by the outrage of Floyd's death being a public event with witnesses standing around yelling at Chauvin to get OFF his neck because he was NOT moving while taking VIDEOS right on the heels of the well-publicized deaths of Breonna Taylor (shot by police) and Ahmaud Arbery (shot by white supremacists, but then an attempt was made by police to cover it up).
Obama gave blacks an opportunity to speak out about issues which affect their lives which the right can't tolerate.
I am from Minneapolis and so know this story, very well, am even past personal friends with the judge who tried the case. The story makes my point: that was a localized situation between two people, Chauvin and Floyd, who knew each other from previous encounters, including off-duty security run-ins. Floyd was a well-known small time criminal / drug offender. Chauvin had a long history of being much too aggressive as a cop and had been written up several times and then protected by the police union from firing. His offenses were not always inter-racial. He could be an a-hole to white people as much as black. Ultimately, though, as rough and inappropriate as Chauvin was, the county coroner determined Floyd's death was a drug OD, including Fentanyl in his system. The murder rap is bogus and Chauvin will beat it on appeal and probably be released for time served.
Black people had a voice / agency long before Obama. That is a false premise. Black people control many major cities at the mayoral and police chief levels and the Police Chief in Minneapolis was a black woman at the time of the Floyd incident (Chauvin reported to her). Cops should be held accountable, I am all for that. But we don't need to pump up white on black situations for political gain, as Obama did repeatedly, and as President, gave the greenlight to other politicians to do the same. (Senator Kamala Harris famously sponsored a fund for defending / releasing criminals charged with the Minneapolis riots)
You have only read right wing reports of Floyd's autopsy report. On June 3, 2020, the 20-page autopsy report was publicly released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office in full. While the page says he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, and did not have “life-threatening injuries,” the full report concludes Floyd died from “cardiopulmonary arrest,” NOT an overdose (Floyd was an addict and would have tolerance to drug levels that would kill other people.). But the image being shared online simply shows the second page of the autopsy report released earlier by Hennepin County. It does not prove anything new about Floyd’s death, and ignores that the prior page concludes that it was a HOMICIDE due to “cardiopulmonary arrest” from “law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
Dr. Andrew Baker, chief medical examiner for Hennepin County, testified the way police held Floyd down and compressed his neck "was just more than Mr. Floyd could take," given the condition of his heart.
When questioned about his finding that police "subdual, restraint and neck compression" led to Floyd’s death, Baker said Floyd had severe underlying heart disease and an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal to function, as well as narrowing of two heart arteries. "And in my opinion, the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take by virtue of that, those heart conditions."
Harris’s past support for the Minnesota Freedom Fund – one of many charitable bail organizations in this country that seek to reduce the harms caused by our nation’s reliance on the cash bail system- She did tweet: “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground." The Minnesota Freedom Fund has denied that Harris has donated any money herself.
"Cardiopulmonary arrest" simply means his heart and lungs stopped. High tolerance to any drugs does not mean that there is no damage being done to the body. High tolerance in an individual means they need more to feel the effect. It does not mean they are immune from the damage done to the body by the drugs themselves.
That was my perception. There certainly was no political war underway. The Dems and GOP got along quite well from 1980 to 2008, starting with Ronald Reagan (a former Democrat) working with Tip O'Neill quite well. In the 1990s, the GOP in Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, got along well with Bill Clinton, whose policies were very moderate. I barely can recall a political discussion with friends during that time and certainly no animosity if we did get into something political. I lost zero friends in that 28 year period, over politics, or anything else for that matter. We all just got along. But that was not good enough for Barack Obama.
Although Dems made more progress towards their socialist agenda over those almost 30 years. Republicans gave in too many times (Reagan/Congress' amnesty comes to mind, with Reagan being PROMISED that the border would be secure and e-verify would be immediately implemented - HA!. Dems continued to block funding for these, over the decades). Dems fought like they meant it.
I remember Reagan telling O'Neill - "Tip, we had a nice lunch today and then you got back to Congress and called me all kinds of names on the floor", to which Tip said "It's just politics".....and Dems play for keeps and often "bare knuckle it" and "get their hands dirty", which Reps were not into doing (don't ask me why - I think at the time, more of them actually were college educated, unlike today when it's just the opposite). WE needed Trump to come along and speak the truth and bring out the Republican's fighting spirit before our country was completely socialist and our border gone.
Obama’s first term was perceived as a great racial healing. But Americans wanted the racial healing and not the Communism. So he started using divisive techniques to increase the racial strife leading up to his second term. That’s what I remember, I voted for him first time, I didn’t know he was a red diaper baby, I learned to read politicians book before voting for them after that.
I will try one more time. Cardiopulmonary is a medical term that describes a medical emergency. It can result in death. Or not. If a person holds another person's head underwater and it results in death of that person (ie cardiopulmonary arrest) than that person commits murder. Unless it was in defense of themself or another.
There are always extenuating circumstances. Like I shared before, you believe what you believe. I am not trying to change your mind. I tried to help you understand the definition of a medical term, cardiopulmonary arrest. (Which you can survive with medical intervention)
LOL. OJ was black and killed two white people. Was that racism? It was jealousy. With Rodney King, again, it is white people who suffered. Yes, there is anti-white racism all over the country. I will concede that
Its primal and devoid of humanity. Recent work in Italy has shown those with more than 2 jabs have destroyed their Pineal glands , long seen as the connection to spirit / humanity gland. Also affects cognitive dissonance (older protestors who dont know why they are there?)Think of that when you see mindless violence and out of normal aggressive behaviour
Sasha, you are still ascribing to the left's theology when you state that because Shiloh uttered an ethnic slur while being subject to a theft, particularly against the most sacred ethnicity in America, that means she's a "racist", the most horrible thing someone can be, short of being a murderer. Neither you nor I know her or have a clue about what she thinks about black people in general. Let's not jump to conclusions.
The R-bomb has been so overused it's become meaningless, and more and more people are sick and tired of it and just don't care, especially amidst the never-ending black dysfunction and criminality.
MAGA is racist, because Democrats say it is. When Trump was elected in 2016, my acupuncturist said Trump didn't like brown people. I rolled my eyes. You can't reason with the brainwashed.
I used to believe that. I worked as a social worker in the poorest neighborhoods for 20 years. My experience was that racism in both sides was mostly kept alive in those neighborhoods due to competition for the "green" and I had great relationships with my clients and co-workers. But then the OJ trial showed me how much black people hated white people. My neighbor flooded my apartment while I was at work. My co-workers did heinously wicked things. These were middle or upper middle class people. It seemed to reignite some dormant hostility. Ironically, I had plenty of poor clients who were kind and rejected that, but it opened my eyes to the fact that healing is a choice. As a nation, we had come far, but lasting grudges are perpetually stoked by political parties to keep the power by keeping people angry at each other. I don't believe we can overcome that, not as long as one side cares more about elections than their nation, or living in a peaceful society, and the other side is willing to be played.
For the record, I'm sorry you endured this. The social workers I met as a cop in the 80's (and I met a LOT) were fundamentally good people. Now, those w/10+ years, just like cops, were fried from the misery they dealt w/ every day. In fact, them & teachers had it worse than cops, TBH. Yeah, yeah, I had all the lights/sirens/ and Hollywood shit, fur shure, BUT...
I didn't roll in it for 8 hrs/day. The incidents happened, and you better be ready for them etc etc...but they were NOT my full workday. Social Workers and Teachers rolled in it ALL DAY LONG. My heart goes out to you.
Good point, Ripple. Yes, we are, arguably, in "post-racist America," not that racism has completely gone away, but that the charge of "racism" has become so overused, so politicized, as to become completely meaningless. At this point, we need an entirely new way of thinking/talking about race, because the old terms and categories no longer apply to our current reality.
“Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists”
They also need voters. If you divide by identity and appear to cater to a particular identity you can count on all their voters. That’s the primary reason race wars were stoked again. It’s always about money and power (votes). Period.
It’s what made me love all the blacks and Latinos that voted for Trump, seeing they had so many thoughtful, intelligent, and independent people saying, “oh hell no - we are done with this”. Their votes brought the race cards to a screeching halt. I will forever admire and love them for embracing goodness and truth and not being easy to be led around by propaganda - and taking a stand for our nation.
Sadly the new identity of insufferable affluent white liberal women are now letting themselves be bamboozled. Hopefully both the blacks and Latinos can help us slap some sense into them, and soon.
Actually, what we need is an even older way of thinking and talking about race, which before the left and their race communism took over was well understood. Race is a biological reality, not a social construct, much more than skin color, and there are observable group differences. Everyone knew this before our "betters" decided that noticing was rayciss,
I think we don’t know what kind of bullshit she’s had to put up with where she lives with the black racists in Mn. Appearance wise she’s very white and she may be receiving a lot of hostility from them. And then loses it when a kid steals from her and no adult steps in to stop or admonish the child and instead videos. There’s a point as a human being where you lose it. I personally don’t think I could use the “N Word” but I sure could drop a load of F bombs and “you little shit” if I caught a kid stealing from me.
Great distinction between an ethnic slur and being a racist. I mean the kid stole from her and the man who videoed and published her response didn’t help her!!!
I think you are being too hard on yourself. I understood exactly what you were saying, and I did NOT think you were implying that being a racist was worse than being a murderer.
As someone who has worked as an editor all of his life, I often go back and re-edit things in my mind. I know that you wish you had been a little bit clearer, but most reasonable people -- your target audience I would think -- read it the way you meant it.
My real concern is that you write and publish just about every day. I'm worried about you burning yourself out ...
I think the problem arises when the two situations are even discussed in the same article, implying there is any comparison between the two situations. What Karmelo Anthony did by showing up to a track meet obviously looking for a fight and stabbing a boy in the heart, is not only NOT in the same ballpark, it is not even in the same universe as Shiloh Hendrix saying a WORD that people have decided shall not be said. Oh wait, that is unless your skin is the right color, in which case you can use it endlessly and affectionately when greeting your bros, not to mention in countless rap lyrics. There is another N-word (Nazi) that should be seen as equally bad, but the left flings that word around if you look at them the wrong way.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating for throwing racial epithets or any other vulgar, cruel words around,, but that in no way should result in someone having their and/or their child’s life threatened and turned upside down. These online word and thought police need to be stopped and maybe making their targets millionaires may provide some deterrence.
Is she actually a racist? I don’t know and neither does anyone else, although it’s been reported she, at one point, had a black boyfriend so who’s to say. As Matt Walsh said, that little boy probably hears that word multiple times a day, used in a way that does not conjure negative emotions, it’s just the fact that, in this case, the person saying it had the wrong skin color. The person that should be on the receiving end of the outrage is the purported child molester who filmed the video in the playground!
It's an imperfect vehicle for a conversation that needs to happen. About double standards. Black people never were questioned about supporting OJ simply based on skin color. Apply the same standards across the board or this will happen and keep happening.
I think there’s a country song in here. “I have been called a “white supremacist,” a “racist,” a “homophobe,” a “bigot,” and a “TERF.” I’ve been called stupid, ugly, old, fat…a day doesn’t go by that someone from somewhere writes to tell me how terrible I am. “ thank God I’m a free thinking woman. Yee Ha.
Hate has no home here. Anybody that calls you those things clearly doesn’t know you. 🙏
As Trump steers the country away from tolerance for bad parenting and criminal acts by minorities, which is what this is about, you straddled the fence and found that to be a very vulnerable position.
When I was young, and my ancestry in America traces back to before the Revolutionary War, that kid in the playground would have been quickly disciplined. Instead, a criminal decides to target a mother, and this criminal should not be anywhere near a playground based on what surfaced about the guy who baited the mother.
Because of Obama and Biden, the US has a third-world society. Instead of reading about it, you are living in it.
On the bright side, I just proved that Barron v City of Baltimore (1833) endogenized rights, but rights are exogenous, endowed by laws of nature and nature's God. Barron was the horrid case that gutted the Bill of Rights, resulted in Dred Scott v Sandford (1857). resulted in the Civil War, resulted in the 14th Amendment, which was then gutted by several rulings until SCOTUS allowed Jim Crow laws.
Don't expect SCOTUS to announce my proof (they wouldn't understand the math), or to read about it in Yale Law Journal or Harvard Law Review.
Why? After the math of social science permeates the legal field, law school graduates can't expect even $100,000 in starting salary. And John Roberts is all about money, as he complained a few years ago that justices aren't getting paid enough. What a whiner!!
40belowzero's comment is why I voted for Trump (Michigan voter.) I just love to see people lose their minds over Trump's comments - including his obvious trolling. Trump 2028 - we're going to make it happen!
Thanks for taking the time to clarify your thoughts on this. You have always made your it clear that you despise mobs attacking people for what they say. But reading the Civil War piece, it seemed like you were attaching an asterisk to the concept- ** except if they say something really bad.
The news here was never that a random woman in a park used the n word. Not acceptable, but there’s no reason why anybody should know or care about it outside her own circle of friends and family. She’s not a public figure in any way.
The news was the person filming the incident immediately threatened “we’ll see what the internet has to say about that”. As long as the left has that kind of bloodthirsty mentality, they will always be looking for and finding more meat for their insatiable grinder.
To me, that was the aspect of this situation that needed emphasis. All the rest was the unfortunate consequence of granting the premise that it was OK to submit the incident to the internet mob to chew up and spit out.
I like Sasha's sentiments but I liked Matt Walsh's take on the whole incident in terms of society. Personally, I believe the following:
1 - Oprah (who I disagree with 99% of the time) was right when she said to Jay-Z that there's no reclaiming that word. No one should use it - no one. That word was sometimes the last word a person heard before being murdered. You can reclaim that word about as much as you could reclaim Auschwitz and use it for farming - too terrible to think about.
2 - If someone looks down on any race - that person is a racist. One of my employees marveled at how white people would talk down about other white people and he said to me "I wonder what they say about people like me when I'm not around." BTW, that Tik-tok lady - HR would have a field day with just the ageism alone.
I am a Jewish woman. Once, not considered " white" now I am a Zionist and white and find myself in a situation that shocks me to my core. I thought all this race hustling was over until obama decided to pull us apart. After October 7th I feel like a hunted animal. The way the left has changed the narrative of just and moral behavior is abhorrent.
Yesterday at lunch with friends this topic came up. I disagreed openly with a dear friend who views (and sympathizes with Shiloh) as a kind of “I’m not going to take it anymore moment.” That’s fine and there is some truth to her sentiment. Where we part ways is when people are so quickly lumped together explicitly for immutable characteristics, like skin color, for instance. Can being tested be the point? We are tested all the time and in this case it’s a test of everyone’s refusal to extend good faith to another person. She missed a teaching moment. Her child was there to see her in action. The man who chose to catch her on camera instead of teaching the child who was wrongly in someone else’s things missed a moment, too. Anyway. This isn’t about racism at all, as much as some people want us to believe.
I doubt very much that Shiloh (whom I don't know) would "quickly [lump people] together explicitly for immutable characteristics." She likely wouldn't have called Prince, Michael Jackson, Thomas Sowell, or Ben Carson the N-word. She used the word to describe a very specific type of black person -- a type we see videos of all the time fighting in groups, trashing restaurants, hating on whitey, screaming their heads off in fast food workers' faces, twerking on cop cars, etc. Whether you think that's a good idea or not, it's not a statement about black people as a group or about every individual black person.
Me, I don't use that word, and don't like that it was used for a child (even if the kid in question isn't a 5-year old autist). But if it had, instead, been used for a 30-year old? Matt Walsh is absolutely right about the word being used as a cudgel in the opposite direction. It's been invested with magical properties, and treated as more serious than BLASPHEMY. I mean, think about that! It's fine to blaspheme Christ, His holy angels, His blessed mother, etc. -- but use "the N-word" and it's over for you. It's insane, a double standard (given that black people use the word all the time), and it has to stop. We need to demystify the damn thing, destroy the incentive to keep it mystified, get honest for once about that sub-set of American black culture, get rid of the DEI nonsense and double standards, promote meritocracy, and love one another.
Thank you, Sasha, for your daily effort to shine light on what is true, good, and worthy of our attention.
There is a line in Psalm 16 that I revisit often these days:
“As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.” (Psalm 16:3)
When I read this line, these days, I give thanks for the persons who have had the courage to stand up to the mob and say what is true, even when this means they will be attacked, reviled, and derided.
You are one of those. Stand firm. Strength and courage to you.
Yesterday I heard that Biden spent a trillion dollars on DEI programs during his presidency...which, I can only imagine goes a long way in stretching this 'racial divide' to its current breaking point.
A fundraiser does not show that MAGA is full of racists, Sasha. It shows that MAGA is full of compassionate people who are tired of seeing people crucified for momentary lapses of judgment in the heat of righteous anger, in this case from being robbed and then berated on video by a sex pervert
We had almost no racial issues in the 1980s to the early 2000s, at least in a broad-based way. Yes, Ferguson was a racial issue, but only because the race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton leveraged it for their personal gain. George Floyd was another opportunity to make coin on ginned up hatred. Who started the race baiting on a broad basis? I would say it was Barack Obama. He used every single police incident where it was a minority committing the crime and a white cop who busted the crime, perhaps too forcefully, and amplified THAT into race crime. Obama ignored the massive amount of black on black crime in all the big cities. Obama's political doctrine is "divide and conquer". He created from whole cloth ID groups like the trans-gender group and amped up the divisions in America for his political gain. He drove the splits wider and wider fueling hatred between groups. The Biden reign was an extension of Obama's ugly racial and gender division. You pour gas on a fire you get an out of control inferno. This is why Barack Obama today is called "The Great Divider". It is how historians will remember him. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/barack-obama-the-great-divider-17791
A very well articulated portrait of our most divisive president. Obama took the issue of race and used it to settle scores, demonize alternative opinions, and demean America. He put national race relations back into the 1950s.
Consequentially, I would rank Obama as our nation's worst president.
Biden beats him out for worst. Going to take much to repair all the damage; including time.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”. And all the seals clapped, hooted and hollered.
My soul shivered when I heard him say that!! And... when an acquaintance asked me why I was taking my anti-Obama bumper stickers off my car, I said..."I don't want to stand out in the midst of a Communist Revolution!"
Same. It’s part of why the tea party was formed. People were scared because he was/is a Marxist, nothing to do with skin color. Older folks wouldn’t even sign the sign-in sheet out of fear of retribution from the government.
I wonder how many thought more political rhetoric? Thing is He Really Meant It? And credit where its due, he has been pretty successful.
I deleted my comment. I did not know the origin of the quote. That is a little too subtle
Thank you. I watched that speech. It sent shivers up my spine in a very bad way. Nobody wants to fundamentally transform something or someone they love. And nobody ever seemed to listen to what he said. They were just enthralled by his reading skills. They tied that man to a teleprompter for good reason. They learned after the Joe the Plumber exchange. I watched him closely. His speeches to different groups like ACORN and the unions were horrifying. I had obamamares for nearly a decade of my life. 🙁
Agreed.... Obama used his oratorial skills, gleaned from studying the cadence of Martin Luther King, like many black speakers today, to wow people with words without even thinking through the consequences of those words. I consider Obama a truly evil man, whether or not he was aware of what he was doing.
Yes. I voted Obama x 2 & Trump x 3. I will be the first person to say that Obama fundamentally changed this country, as he promised, but in the worst possible way. He was the cause of social unrest. The cause of horrible race relations. The cause of racism. He instigated. He poured money into it. Funded organizations to increase racism to increase power for himself. He did many extremely shady things, like pretending to be Israel's ally, while secretly going behind everyone's back to fund Nuclear weapons for Iran, to destabilize the Middle East.
Yes Sally Sue, yes! Perhaps I’m older or more cynical, but I knew Obama was a bullshit artist from the get-go and was not even remotely surprised at what he did. My only surprise was that normal liberals continued with his bullshit through the Biden administration and continued to believe that he was a good Democrat instead of a communist.
He had help! Obama "Wing Man" AG Eric Holder. One of the most egregious was awarding fines/penalties imposed on companies/individuals by federal govt , to left "leaning" NGO's . This practice was stopped in Trump's first term . Restarted by Biden ("Obama 3rd term") now stopped by Trump in second term.
Obama/Holder used funds procured by OUR GOV'T for their own left causes instead of those funds going into our treasury to be use to fund debt payments. ( or anything that benefits all Americans)
Wow. Had no idea. Thats really bad!
Links to further info:
Obama/Holder
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/holders-bank-of-america-settlement-includes-payoffs-to-democrat-groups/
Biden(Obama)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1613741/biden-epa-taxpayer-settlement-payouts-quietly-soar-to-left-wing-climate-activists/
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2024/06/05/mccaughey-taxpayer-money-goes-to-boost-left-wing-voter-engagement/73956810007/
Trump ending practice
https://cei.org/blog/justice-department-ends-diversion-of-federal-settlements-to-left-wing-groups/
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-settlements-doj-20170606-story.html
These are by no means all the info available, but it may show how the Obama/Biden/ Democrat cabal operates and how Trump stopped the corrupt practice, both times.
I don't disagree with you about Obama, but I lived in New York in the 1980s and there were racial issues.
But those issues were localized, which is my point, they were not national. There will always be racial conflict in pockets. It is just human, even animal instinct to be tribal / territorial. So, as long as there are racially stratified pockets in NYC, like Harlem, there will be tension. But we don't need politicians throwing gas on the embers. I live in the Phoenix area. We have a lot of Hispanics, naturally. There is virtually zero racial tension between whites and Hispanics. The violence is between Hispanic gangs on one side of town and a lot of that tension is imported from Mexico where gangs / cartels proliferate
My husband is from Yuma. He says all the time that Hispanics and whites got along well there. I'm from New Jersey and my high school was nearly half black and we got along most of the time.
I think the racial conflict is stoked by the far left who seek cleavages by which they can divide the country. The conflict did not start with Obama. What I saw in New York was a template that was applied elsewhere. Obama just helped spread it from a few urban areas to the rest of the country.
Someone else on the thread mentioned a post on Coffee and Covid. He wrote:
"George Floyd’s... kicked off the 2020 Summer of Protest, ....
"In 2020, something, or someone, ensured the nation would focus on that particular case — and the result was cities burned.
"...this kind of operation is part of the classic deep-state regime-change playbook, and the tactic of using race to create political change has a long pedigree. ...when the first Soviet spy arrived here in 1916— communists repeatedly and often expressed a desire to gin up a race war to help overthrow America’s capitalist government. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union and its proxies openly funded and trained members of the Black Panther Party and other radical race groups."
So, while I do place a lot of blame on Obama, I think it's important to understand this as part of a much larger effort from the left to destroy our form of government.
I agree with all of that. As I wrote above, Obama was just someone who wanted power, and probably the wealth that goes with it, and leveraged his speaking skill to divide and conquer America. He is a smart guy. He knows that was a Roman philosophy in battle and he used it. He, personally, had no reason to stoke racial hate. He was not the recipient of racism or a racist past. His father was an Elite Kenyan. His mother was a white Kansas City liberal. He grew up Hawaii and Indonesia. He, nor anyone in his family, did not live the southern, black, post-plantation experience. But he sure pretended he had. That goes to his inauthenticity.
An example of Obama claiming he was a victim?
Easy answer...he claims victim every day of his life.
He's half black which makes him half white. Did he ever play the 'white male' victim card? Of course not. He always claims his black half because then he can play the victim card.
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There were localized race issues (Crown Heights in New York comes to mind). Then there were issues that the civil rights business (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al) would bring forward and try to nationalize. Tawana Brawley (if you don't know that case, you should look it up. How Al Sharpton sleeps at night is beyond me), the LA Riots, OJ Simpson...
Thanks for the heads up. I was not aware. Do you think it may be partly because crime was so bad in the late 70's and early to mid 80's in New York?
That's an interesting question. I'll have to think about it because I don't know.
Unfortunately we will always have racists in any/all societies. It is to what extent.
That wasn't what I was saying. We had race hustlers. We had communists who were trying to stir up problems.
I read His(Obama) books. I tried to share with anyone who would listen how dangerous he is/was. I believe many see it now, but unfortunately there are still members of the cult of Democrats who will not believe. I hope someone in the next 3-4yrs investigate and share ALL the evidence that Obama knew very early (June 2016) Trump/Russia hoax was started by Clinton and Democrats and allow our country to be torn apart. That division continues and has gotten worse to this very day.
For this reason alone(there are many) the Democrats must not win ANY elections until they acknowledge and repent of these acts.
Amen! A modern day Rasputin
As befits a disciple of Saul Alinsky, after all there is no room for a would be tyrant to gain power if you don’t intentionally generate friction between groups.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102748.Rules_for_Radicals
The George Floyd saga was started by the outrage of Floyd's death being a public event with witnesses standing around yelling at Chauvin to get OFF his neck because he was NOT moving while taking VIDEOS right on the heels of the well-publicized deaths of Breonna Taylor (shot by police) and Ahmaud Arbery (shot by white supremacists, but then an attempt was made by police to cover it up).
Obama gave blacks an opportunity to speak out about issues which affect their lives which the right can't tolerate.
I am from Minneapolis and so know this story, very well, am even past personal friends with the judge who tried the case. The story makes my point: that was a localized situation between two people, Chauvin and Floyd, who knew each other from previous encounters, including off-duty security run-ins. Floyd was a well-known small time criminal / drug offender. Chauvin had a long history of being much too aggressive as a cop and had been written up several times and then protected by the police union from firing. His offenses were not always inter-racial. He could be an a-hole to white people as much as black. Ultimately, though, as rough and inappropriate as Chauvin was, the county coroner determined Floyd's death was a drug OD, including Fentanyl in his system. The murder rap is bogus and Chauvin will beat it on appeal and probably be released for time served.
Black people had a voice / agency long before Obama. That is a false premise. Black people control many major cities at the mayoral and police chief levels and the Police Chief in Minneapolis was a black woman at the time of the Floyd incident (Chauvin reported to her). Cops should be held accountable, I am all for that. But we don't need to pump up white on black situations for political gain, as Obama did repeatedly, and as President, gave the greenlight to other politicians to do the same. (Senator Kamala Harris famously sponsored a fund for defending / releasing criminals charged with the Minneapolis riots)
You have only read right wing reports of Floyd's autopsy report. On June 3, 2020, the 20-page autopsy report was publicly released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office in full. While the page says he had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, and did not have “life-threatening injuries,” the full report concludes Floyd died from “cardiopulmonary arrest,” NOT an overdose (Floyd was an addict and would have tolerance to drug levels that would kill other people.). But the image being shared online simply shows the second page of the autopsy report released earlier by Hennepin County. It does not prove anything new about Floyd’s death, and ignores that the prior page concludes that it was a HOMICIDE due to “cardiopulmonary arrest” from “law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
Dr. Andrew Baker, chief medical examiner for Hennepin County, testified the way police held Floyd down and compressed his neck "was just more than Mr. Floyd could take," given the condition of his heart.
When questioned about his finding that police "subdual, restraint and neck compression" led to Floyd’s death, Baker said Floyd had severe underlying heart disease and an enlarged heart that needed more oxygen than normal to function, as well as narrowing of two heart arteries. "And in my opinion, the law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take by virtue of that, those heart conditions."
Harris’s past support for the Minnesota Freedom Fund – one of many charitable bail organizations in this country that seek to reduce the harms caused by our nation’s reliance on the cash bail system- She did tweet: “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground." The Minnesota Freedom Fund has denied that Harris has donated any money herself.
You have a cardiac arrest from drug overdose. You made my point. Thank you. BTW.... I read the report myself. I do not rely on heresy for anything
https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MNHENNE/2020/06/01/file_attachments/1464238/2020-3700%20Floyd,%20George%20Perry%20Update%206.1.2020.pdf
Cause of death: Cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual,
restraint, and neck compression
Manner of death: Homicide
How injury occurred: Decedent experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest while
being restrained by law enforcement officer(s)
"Cardiopulmonary arrest" simply means his heart and lungs stopped. High tolerance to any drugs does not mean that there is no damage being done to the body. High tolerance in an individual means they need more to feel the effect. It does not mean they are immune from the damage done to the body by the drugs themselves.
Hope this helps in your quest for the truth.
And, wasn’t the US said to be politically more purple than simple red or blue around the time Obama was elected?
That was my perception. There certainly was no political war underway. The Dems and GOP got along quite well from 1980 to 2008, starting with Ronald Reagan (a former Democrat) working with Tip O'Neill quite well. In the 1990s, the GOP in Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, got along well with Bill Clinton, whose policies were very moderate. I barely can recall a political discussion with friends during that time and certainly no animosity if we did get into something political. I lost zero friends in that 28 year period, over politics, or anything else for that matter. We all just got along. But that was not good enough for Barack Obama.
Although Dems made more progress towards their socialist agenda over those almost 30 years. Republicans gave in too many times (Reagan/Congress' amnesty comes to mind, with Reagan being PROMISED that the border would be secure and e-verify would be immediately implemented - HA!. Dems continued to block funding for these, over the decades). Dems fought like they meant it.
I remember Reagan telling O'Neill - "Tip, we had a nice lunch today and then you got back to Congress and called me all kinds of names on the floor", to which Tip said "It's just politics".....and Dems play for keeps and often "bare knuckle it" and "get their hands dirty", which Reps were not into doing (don't ask me why - I think at the time, more of them actually were college educated, unlike today when it's just the opposite). WE needed Trump to come along and speak the truth and bring out the Republican's fighting spirit before our country was completely socialist and our border gone.
Obama’s first term was perceived as a great racial healing. But Americans wanted the racial healing and not the Communism. So he started using divisive techniques to increase the racial strife leading up to his second term. That’s what I remember, I voted for him first time, I didn’t know he was a red diaper baby, I learned to read politicians book before voting for them after that.
I will try one more time. Cardiopulmonary is a medical term that describes a medical emergency. It can result in death. Or not. If a person holds another person's head underwater and it results in death of that person (ie cardiopulmonary arrest) than that person commits murder. Unless it was in defense of themself or another.
There are always extenuating circumstances. Like I shared before, you believe what you believe. I am not trying to change your mind. I tried to help you understand the definition of a medical term, cardiopulmonary arrest. (Which you can survive with medical intervention)
You do you.
You are forgetting about Rodney King and OJ Simpson
LOL. OJ was black and killed two white people. Was that racism? It was jealousy. With Rodney King, again, it is white people who suffered. Yes, there is anti-white racism all over the country. I will concede that
Thank you for being true and sticking to your beliefs. The left feels demonic to me.
Its primal and devoid of humanity. Recent work in Italy has shown those with more than 2 jabs have destroyed their Pineal glands , long seen as the connection to spirit / humanity gland. Also affects cognitive dissonance (older protestors who dont know why they are there?)Think of that when you see mindless violence and out of normal aggressive behaviour
Sasha, you are still ascribing to the left's theology when you state that because Shiloh uttered an ethnic slur while being subject to a theft, particularly against the most sacred ethnicity in America, that means she's a "racist", the most horrible thing someone can be, short of being a murderer. Neither you nor I know her or have a clue about what she thinks about black people in general. Let's not jump to conclusions.
The R-bomb has been so overused it's become meaningless, and more and more people are sick and tired of it and just don't care, especially amidst the never-ending black dysfunction and criminality.
MAGA is racist, because Democrats say it is. When Trump was elected in 2016, my acupuncturist said Trump didn't like brown people. I rolled my eyes. You can't reason with the brainwashed.
I used to believe that. I worked as a social worker in the poorest neighborhoods for 20 years. My experience was that racism in both sides was mostly kept alive in those neighborhoods due to competition for the "green" and I had great relationships with my clients and co-workers. But then the OJ trial showed me how much black people hated white people. My neighbor flooded my apartment while I was at work. My co-workers did heinously wicked things. These were middle or upper middle class people. It seemed to reignite some dormant hostility. Ironically, I had plenty of poor clients who were kind and rejected that, but it opened my eyes to the fact that healing is a choice. As a nation, we had come far, but lasting grudges are perpetually stoked by political parties to keep the power by keeping people angry at each other. I don't believe we can overcome that, not as long as one side cares more about elections than their nation, or living in a peaceful society, and the other side is willing to be played.
For the record, I'm sorry you endured this. The social workers I met as a cop in the 80's (and I met a LOT) were fundamentally good people. Now, those w/10+ years, just like cops, were fried from the misery they dealt w/ every day. In fact, them & teachers had it worse than cops, TBH. Yeah, yeah, I had all the lights/sirens/ and Hollywood shit, fur shure, BUT...
I didn't roll in it for 8 hrs/day. The incidents happened, and you better be ready for them etc etc...but they were NOT my full workday. Social Workers and Teachers rolled in it ALL DAY LONG. My heart goes out to you.
Good point, Ripple. Yes, we are, arguably, in "post-racist America," not that racism has completely gone away, but that the charge of "racism" has become so overused, so politicized, as to become completely meaningless. At this point, we need an entirely new way of thinking/talking about race, because the old terms and categories no longer apply to our current reality.
“Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists”
― Thomas Sowell
...race hustlers, communists, and people who.....
They also need voters. If you divide by identity and appear to cater to a particular identity you can count on all their voters. That’s the primary reason race wars were stoked again. It’s always about money and power (votes). Period.
It’s what made me love all the blacks and Latinos that voted for Trump, seeing they had so many thoughtful, intelligent, and independent people saying, “oh hell no - we are done with this”. Their votes brought the race cards to a screeching halt. I will forever admire and love them for embracing goodness and truth and not being easy to be led around by propaganda - and taking a stand for our nation.
Sadly the new identity of insufferable affluent white liberal women are now letting themselves be bamboozled. Hopefully both the blacks and Latinos can help us slap some sense into them, and soon.
Actually, what we need is an even older way of thinking and talking about race, which before the left and their race communism took over was well understood. Race is a biological reality, not a social construct, much more than skin color, and there are observable group differences. Everyone knew this before our "betters" decided that noticing was rayciss,
This!
I think we don’t know what kind of bullshit she’s had to put up with where she lives with the black racists in Mn. Appearance wise she’s very white and she may be receiving a lot of hostility from them. And then loses it when a kid steals from her and no adult steps in to stop or admonish the child and instead videos. There’s a point as a human being where you lose it. I personally don’t think I could use the “N Word” but I sure could drop a load of F bombs and “you little shit” if I caught a kid stealing from me.
Great distinction between an ethnic slur and being a racist. I mean the kid stole from her and the man who videoed and published her response didn’t help her!!!
And just WHY was this accused sex offender in that park?
I think you are being too hard on yourself. I understood exactly what you were saying, and I did NOT think you were implying that being a racist was worse than being a murderer.
As someone who has worked as an editor all of his life, I often go back and re-edit things in my mind. I know that you wish you had been a little bit clearer, but most reasonable people -- your target audience I would think -- read it the way you meant it.
My real concern is that you write and publish just about every day. I'm worried about you burning yourself out ...
I think the problem arises when the two situations are even discussed in the same article, implying there is any comparison between the two situations. What Karmelo Anthony did by showing up to a track meet obviously looking for a fight and stabbing a boy in the heart, is not only NOT in the same ballpark, it is not even in the same universe as Shiloh Hendrix saying a WORD that people have decided shall not be said. Oh wait, that is unless your skin is the right color, in which case you can use it endlessly and affectionately when greeting your bros, not to mention in countless rap lyrics. There is another N-word (Nazi) that should be seen as equally bad, but the left flings that word around if you look at them the wrong way.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating for throwing racial epithets or any other vulgar, cruel words around,, but that in no way should result in someone having their and/or their child’s life threatened and turned upside down. These online word and thought police need to be stopped and maybe making their targets millionaires may provide some deterrence.
Is she actually a racist? I don’t know and neither does anyone else, although it’s been reported she, at one point, had a black boyfriend so who’s to say. As Matt Walsh said, that little boy probably hears that word multiple times a day, used in a way that does not conjure negative emotions, it’s just the fact that, in this case, the person saying it had the wrong skin color. The person that should be on the receiving end of the outrage is the purported child molester who filmed the video in the playground!
It's an imperfect vehicle for a conversation that needs to happen. About double standards. Black people never were questioned about supporting OJ simply based on skin color. Apply the same standards across the board or this will happen and keep happening.
I'm still confused as to why the race of a person gives one the authority to use the N word, or not use it.
John Lennon used the N-word.
RedruM > rAcIsM
I think there’s a country song in here. “I have been called a “white supremacist,” a “racist,” a “homophobe,” a “bigot,” and a “TERF.” I’ve been called stupid, ugly, old, fat…a day doesn’t go by that someone from somewhere writes to tell me how terrible I am. “ thank God I’m a free thinking woman. Yee Ha.
Hate has no home here. Anybody that calls you those things clearly doesn’t know you. 🙏
Hate is a luxury I can't afford.
I really appreciate you for the writer you are. A courageous critical thinker!
As Trump steers the country away from tolerance for bad parenting and criminal acts by minorities, which is what this is about, you straddled the fence and found that to be a very vulnerable position.
When I was young, and my ancestry in America traces back to before the Revolutionary War, that kid in the playground would have been quickly disciplined. Instead, a criminal decides to target a mother, and this criminal should not be anywhere near a playground based on what surfaced about the guy who baited the mother.
Because of Obama and Biden, the US has a third-world society. Instead of reading about it, you are living in it.
On the bright side, I just proved that Barron v City of Baltimore (1833) endogenized rights, but rights are exogenous, endowed by laws of nature and nature's God. Barron was the horrid case that gutted the Bill of Rights, resulted in Dred Scott v Sandford (1857). resulted in the Civil War, resulted in the 14th Amendment, which was then gutted by several rulings until SCOTUS allowed Jim Crow laws.
Don't expect SCOTUS to announce my proof (they wouldn't understand the math), or to read about it in Yale Law Journal or Harvard Law Review.
Why? After the math of social science permeates the legal field, law school graduates can't expect even $100,000 in starting salary. And John Roberts is all about money, as he complained a few years ago that justices aren't getting paid enough. What a whiner!!
Trump is steering the country away from bad parenting??
He really is a diety to you freaks! Holy orange Jesus.
Is he going to get everyone to make their beds, floss, and put their shopping carts back too?
Is there anything Magical Trump can't do for his worshippers?
40belowzero's comment is why I voted for Trump (Michigan voter.) I just love to see people lose their minds over Trump's comments - including his obvious trolling. Trump 2028 - we're going to make it happen!
I voted for the leader of the free world because he trolls people I don't like!
Derp. You're an absolute retard.
Liberals hate shit, so I love shit!!!
You're dumb and you should feel dumb.
God damn, Trump supporters are truly stupid organisms.
This is great! Your insanity made my day. Your BP must be through the roof. Also, try not to play with anything sharp
Keep sucking the orange creamsicle.
Thanks for taking the time to clarify your thoughts on this. You have always made your it clear that you despise mobs attacking people for what they say. But reading the Civil War piece, it seemed like you were attaching an asterisk to the concept- ** except if they say something really bad.
The news here was never that a random woman in a park used the n word. Not acceptable, but there’s no reason why anybody should know or care about it outside her own circle of friends and family. She’s not a public figure in any way.
The news was the person filming the incident immediately threatened “we’ll see what the internet has to say about that”. As long as the left has that kind of bloodthirsty mentality, they will always be looking for and finding more meat for their insatiable grinder.
To me, that was the aspect of this situation that needed emphasis. All the rest was the unfortunate consequence of granting the premise that it was OK to submit the incident to the internet mob to chew up and spit out.
I like Sasha's sentiments but I liked Matt Walsh's take on the whole incident in terms of society. Personally, I believe the following:
1 - Oprah (who I disagree with 99% of the time) was right when she said to Jay-Z that there's no reclaiming that word. No one should use it - no one. That word was sometimes the last word a person heard before being murdered. You can reclaim that word about as much as you could reclaim Auschwitz and use it for farming - too terrible to think about.
2 - If someone looks down on any race - that person is a racist. One of my employees marveled at how white people would talk down about other white people and he said to me "I wonder what they say about people like me when I'm not around." BTW, that Tik-tok lady - HR would have a field day with just the ageism alone.
I am a Jewish woman. Once, not considered " white" now I am a Zionist and white and find myself in a situation that shocks me to my core. I thought all this race hustling was over until obama decided to pull us apart. After October 7th I feel like a hunted animal. The way the left has changed the narrative of just and moral behavior is abhorrent.
Yesterday at lunch with friends this topic came up. I disagreed openly with a dear friend who views (and sympathizes with Shiloh) as a kind of “I’m not going to take it anymore moment.” That’s fine and there is some truth to her sentiment. Where we part ways is when people are so quickly lumped together explicitly for immutable characteristics, like skin color, for instance. Can being tested be the point? We are tested all the time and in this case it’s a test of everyone’s refusal to extend good faith to another person. She missed a teaching moment. Her child was there to see her in action. The man who chose to catch her on camera instead of teaching the child who was wrongly in someone else’s things missed a moment, too. Anyway. This isn’t about racism at all, as much as some people want us to believe.
I doubt very much that Shiloh (whom I don't know) would "quickly [lump people] together explicitly for immutable characteristics." She likely wouldn't have called Prince, Michael Jackson, Thomas Sowell, or Ben Carson the N-word. She used the word to describe a very specific type of black person -- a type we see videos of all the time fighting in groups, trashing restaurants, hating on whitey, screaming their heads off in fast food workers' faces, twerking on cop cars, etc. Whether you think that's a good idea or not, it's not a statement about black people as a group or about every individual black person.
Me, I don't use that word, and don't like that it was used for a child (even if the kid in question isn't a 5-year old autist). But if it had, instead, been used for a 30-year old? Matt Walsh is absolutely right about the word being used as a cudgel in the opposite direction. It's been invested with magical properties, and treated as more serious than BLASPHEMY. I mean, think about that! It's fine to blaspheme Christ, His holy angels, His blessed mother, etc. -- but use "the N-word" and it's over for you. It's insane, a double standard (given that black people use the word all the time), and it has to stop. We need to demystify the damn thing, destroy the incentive to keep it mystified, get honest for once about that sub-set of American black culture, get rid of the DEI nonsense and double standards, promote meritocracy, and love one another.
This. You expressed perfectly everything I was wanting to say.
Thank you, Sasha, for your daily effort to shine light on what is true, good, and worthy of our attention.
There is a line in Psalm 16 that I revisit often these days:
“As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.” (Psalm 16:3)
When I read this line, these days, I give thanks for the persons who have had the courage to stand up to the mob and say what is true, even when this means they will be attacked, reviled, and derided.
You are one of those. Stand firm. Strength and courage to you.
Yesterday I heard that Biden spent a trillion dollars on DEI programs during his presidency...which, I can only imagine goes a long way in stretching this 'racial divide' to its current breaking point.
A fundraiser does not show that MAGA is full of racists, Sasha. It shows that MAGA is full of compassionate people who are tired of seeing people crucified for momentary lapses of judgment in the heat of righteous anger, in this case from being robbed and then berated on video by a sex pervert