The substance of your article was strong, yet within it you maintain that same white guilt and sense of inferiority to black folk. Why else consistently within the article capitalize Black people but use lower case when describing white folk. That usage itself minimizes and devalues white folk, and elevates Black folk. It would appear obvious to you if you consistently reference White folk, capitalizing White, and in the same sentence referenced black folk, using lower case. If I were to write that White folk should fear black folk, one would say that was racist. If I were to write that White folk should not fear black folk, one would still say that was racist, because I capitalized White and not black. Either use capitals to describe White and Black folk, or use lower case to describe white and black folk. The subtle use of grammatical conventions says alot.
In one of life’s rich ironies, “anti-racists” use the same “one drop“ standard as the racists used in the 19th and 20th centuries. So my niece is “black” even though 23andme says she is less than 50% black.
The Woke left started doing that after George Floyd died of a heart attack and fentanyl overdose which they blamed on white racism since the cop involved was white. The capital letter “B” in black is meant to show respect for blacks whereas the lower case “w” in white is meant to show that whites are undeserving of respect due to their racism.
The Woke white left endlessly wallows in white guilt which has rotted their brains and driven them insane. It has motivated them to wage war on meritocracy which is being replaced with equity aka race based equal outcomes. This is why they have no problem with things like CRT and the 1619 Project being promoted in our public schools. They want to instill white guilt in white children so that they’ll support things like reparations, open borders (borders are racist) and the dumbing down of standards for the sake of equity. They are quite insane. How can we possibly ever recover from the damage they’ve done which they are quite determined to continue doing?
Bill Maher on Kamala Harris and Chicago public schools.
“Chicago Teachers Union: Tests are racist.” (2 min)
Ferguson O'Beezey in the Oval Office kicked off this "campaign" in 2014, and then doubled down when the Dallas police officers were assassinated in cold blood, as far as my timeline goes. That's when I saw Obama for the first time.
The Kenyan Messiah began his contrived race war early in his first term with the Robert Louis Gates affair ("That policeman acted stupidly"), then came the Trayvon Martin hoax ("If I had a son..."), Eric Garner, ("I can't breathe...but I can speak"), and the grand finale in Ferguson ("Hands up, don't shoot").
Hollywood couldn't have written a better script, while America bought into every single lie.
Black people, or black leaders, have demanded capitalization. Major media outlets do this. A few years ago you had to say African American. The correct terms keep changing. Maybe it is time to stop being cowed by these demands and just refuse to capitalize. I used to think of it as being polite, speaking of people the way they wanted. But I'm over it.
Yep. And good analysis by S.Stone here. The liberal media and Democrats have essentially killed, harmed, and raped many women in America by promoting the lie that black men are harmless victims of society and should be trusted no matter what.
While many America-raised girls are wise enuff NOT to have sat in front of a hoodie-thug, poor Iryna naively BOUGHT the lies fed to her, the Geo Floyd lies, the BLM lies.
Sadly, she's not the first victim and won't be the last.
(and BTW, what about the blacks sitting across the aisle from this creep -- did he ever consider murdering them......?)
Oh, if it's a matter of scale, then black-on-white crime only occurs on one planet in our whole solar system. Doesn't sound like a big problem to me. 🙄
Great catch there. Shows that it’s not easy for Libs to detox from the woke mind virus! That being said, Sasha’s doing much better than 99% of the weak minded lefties, that are still captured by the never ending propaganda!
Maybe, you should just listen to Sasha narrate her story. Very pleasing voice, and no capitalization/punctuation will come through to distract you from her story? The story is an important one and Sasha is informing us (from her quite liberal past, point of view) of how our culture has drifted (forced off course?) away from the American ideal of living our lives as we wish without fear of being harmed. We used to live within a social contract of mutual respect for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with out fear of being harmed. Now, the miscreants are being coddled, attempted rehabilitated and allowed to run rampant. They actually refuse to rehab and continue on their path of destruction, to themselves as well as the public around them. When some non-feminized male steps up to contain a deranged soul, he is then brutalized by lawfare bowing down at the alter of racism - as is the case of Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely in NYC. But good men will still rise....
It is possible that this is being auto-corrected or changed by an editor. In most publications, eveything that's written has to be in accord with a style guide.
I wrote for a newspaper in a medium size city. The Black/white thing hadn't arrived yet, but I could not get a sentence through if I teamed a singular noun with "they," or "their." As in "A student has to have THEIR homework checked by the teacher," when correct English has long taughter that it's "HIS homework." So I would write my sentences to avoid that, such as, "All students must have their homework," etc."
Someone may have just "fixed" Sasha's small "b" for him.
It is possible that this is being auto-corrected or changed by an editor. In most publications, eveything that's written has to be in accord with a style guide.
I wrote for a newspaper in a medium size city. The Black/white thing hadn't arrived yet, but I could not get a sentence through if I teamed a singular noun with "they," or "their." As in "A student has to have THEIR homework checked by the teacher," when correct English has long taughter that it's "HIS homework." So I would write my sentences to avoid that, such as, "All students must have their homework," etc."
Someone may have just "fixed" Sasha's small "b" for him.
Sasha wrote a follow up post. It wasn’t an editorial update. It was Sasha fear of the Leftist mob.
She was already previously cancelled by that mob for posting in X ‘White Power!’ to poke fun at the ‘White Dudes for Harris’ meeting during the last presidential campaign. Below is the Hollywood Reporter story on it. Sasha felt direct economic loss as a result, as Hollywood Studios pulled ad funding from Sasha’s ‘Award Daily’ website. Writers to her Awards Daily site also left after Sasha was labeled ‘toxic’. She was blackballed by the Left and it left an injury mark. How couldn’t it? Sasha is an extremely brave woman and I have tons of respect for her.
Gut instinct is the last vestiges of our animal survival instincts. I have sometimes ignored it, always to my detriment. When something inside is telling you you are not safe, pay attention. You can call it your guardian angel, God or whatever, but if you are in touch with yourself, sometimes your body will tell you what your brain doesn't recognize as danger. We have told kids, especially girls, that they have to be friends with everyone. No. No adult is "friends with everyone" because some people are toxic and others are simply dangerous. Case in point, while in Vegas some drunk started bullying me to get up from my seat at a table. My first instinct was to get into an argument, but my husband pulled me aside and said, "we need to leave." He spotted the guy had a knife, and my husband said he didn't want to end up in jail or the hospital that night. Gut instincts for the win.
I think I wouldn't be alive if I hadn't listened to my angel who was shouting DANGER DANGER in my head. In this case it was 2 white guys. We have to pay attention!
The point is well taken, but I can't believe that this is seen as your sole "take away" that merits comment, from all that there is to consider here.
Personally, I will throw in caps for emphasis at times. If you see "elevation" in that selection by Ms Stone, I get it, but does its context really convey the same for you?
It is possible that this is being auto-corrected or changed by an editor. In most publications, eveything that's written has to be in accord with a style guide.
I wrote for a newspaper in a medium size city. The Black/white thing hadn't arrived yet, but I could not get a sentence through if I teamed a singular noun with "they," or "their." As in "A student has to have THEIR homework checked by the teacher," when correct English has long taughter that it's "HIS homework." So I would write my sentences to avoid that, such as, "All students must have their homework," etc."
Someone may have just "fixed" Sasha's small "b" for him.
Sasha is a she. Maybe this algorithm which changes capitalizations for "style" to mask a change it substance, also changed your original "she" to a "him."
I see these deranged people every day on the streets on NYC. These menacing black men walk up talking mid conversation. Just keep walking. Don’t engage.
I was on grand jury duty for a week a couple years ago. We had 21 cases, 19 of which involved video of black men committing violence from assault to murder. No other race. I was totally shocked and spoke with the prosecutors afterward. They said that’s the way it always is. This was no aberration.
We have a huge crime problem and are not beginning to face it. Instead they tried to jail Danniel Penny. I gotta get out of this city.
I remember a year or so back when a woman was brutally attacked in NYC as she tried to enter the subway on her way to work. This unfortunate victim was blinded in one eye by her attacker. How many of these crimes do we as a society have to endure until this issue is fully addressed and those committing them are incarcerated in prison or a mental institution?
What poor Iryna suffered actually began in LBJs admin, 1960s, with welfare that killed-off the black family...have babies, get more money. The black father felt unnecessary and left. That cancer has been growing for 6 decades now, fatherless homes, and along with lefist media/Democrat lies that disarm naive white folks while keeping violent blacks on the streets, well we have a HUGE problem.
Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a large portion of American life centers around avoiding its consequences. Where we live, where our children go to school, where we shop, where we go for entertainment, all are the result of minimizing contact with a culture that glorifies aggression, rejects discipline, ridicules order, and places little value on education.
Good points Gusdad, and liberal/leftist/do-gooder intentions do nothing to hold black men accountable, nothing to educate them or raise their lot in life. SMH.
The CRA was different from the "Great Society" welfare state which came a year later. The CRA finally gave blacks the same rights as whites, as should have been guaranteed under the 14th Amendment had Democrats not found ways around it for a century.
Since the CRA elevated blacks, Democrats sought a new way to stomp them back down. This was where the welfare state and lifetime dependency came into play.
As an added bonus, LBJ's FBI assassinated the only true leader black America ever had. They are still leaderless to this day.
Yet blacks have been blindly loyal to the Democrat party ever since, forgetting which party broke their chains.
Remember LBJ's famous non-public quote at the time? "We'll have those ni**ers voting Democrat for the next hundred years!".
Sixty years on, it would appear that he was quite prescient.
This was the beginning of the Democrat Plantation. Keep the black man down not by chaining him (as Democrats did a century earlier), instead lock him into a lifetime of dependency on government handouts. Which only the Democrat party will provide.
Yep, we give them a chance at success by not coddling them, by not lying to them, by not pretending they are entitled to success because they are black.
THE LIBERAL TEACHING TO BLACKS THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS BEING HELD BACK BY DISCRIMINATION, THAT is so DAMN DAMAGING TO THEIR PSYCHE, .....they walk around every day thinking there is a DISCRIMINATION link to every bad thing that happens to them.
RIght minded conservatives dont play that GAME with them. Leftist liberals have BADLY damaged the black community...and it continues.
Get out, don’t think about it. With the incoming communist Mayor soon to flip all remaining switches it will ( hard to believe) only get worse. Get out.
“The story here isn’t to fear Black men or that Black men are more dangerous.”
Sasha, you could not possibly really believe that at your age and with awareness of real life. Except for 4 years in the Marines, ‘68 to ‘72, I’ve lived in Chicago all my life and all my life I’ve seen that blacks in general are bad news. After the Marines I started working (CNC machinery) in Chicago factories. More and more of the people were immigrants from all over the world. Excellent people with traditional values. All of them were appalled by black behavior and felt it was blacks, not whites, who very much needed to change. Never will you read about that in our Woke leftist msm.
Anyone who doubts that blacks in Chicago are the overwhelming perpetrators of the out of control crime here should follow the Chicago crime blog CWBChicago and look at the daily pictures of those committing the crime.
An anthropologist friend of mine has told me that multiple studies have shown that the urban black community is overwhelmingly the most violent group in America dating back to the Johnson so-called War on Poverty which tied black families to dependency on the federal government and broke up families by “eliminating” fathers.
Don't forget the degradation of the education system. My father was in high school during WWII. All students were required to take algebra, calculus, chemistry, physics, French, and Latin. I had some university students that could not write a coherent paragraph. Also, during Covid, we were told we could not fail the minority students. So they pass on to the next level and fail out in two or three semester, now $10,000 or more in debt. The system keeps taking advantage of people.
I worked for the federal government. I had a very nice black co-worker who was a graduate of the D.C. public school system ask me if Philadelphia was near Pennsylvania.
To me, something began to change for the worst after the release of the movie "Colors", when the entertainment industry seemed to realize how much money could be made from the glorification of violent urban culture. "Boyz in the 'Hood" in 1991 locked in that niche, and it'$ been EZ money ever since.
Certainly not in the manner of, say, a Dr Dre or Ice Cube music video of the era, but the audience reactions to the "action scenes", whether intended to be solely part of a cautionary tale, did not "hit" in the culture as such.
One of the problems I see is that much of the judicial services are peopled by blacks who are brain washed by the notion of racial self-protection; “these are my people, they have been oppressed, and I will not further their burden with a punishment.”
I would love to see some research into how many actual black criminals exist. What percentage of the people are repeatedly committing the crimes.
Read commentary from Heather Mac Donald. She's been exploring the shocking messaging on George Floyd, BLM, "defund the police", systemic racism and black/white crime statistics for quite while a now. The "inconvenient truth" on crime that has been denied by Ds for the last twenty years is coming home to roost.
“Figures from President Biden on down are telling blacks, nonstop, that they are under lethal threat from whites, and that it is white supremacists, not black criminals, who pose the greatest threat to their safety. “Buffalo attack ignites safety worries for Black Angelenos,” reads a headline in the May 22 Los Angeles Times. New York representative Jerrold Nadler, a sponsor of the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, says, “Democrats are taking the fight straight to the . . . violent extremists that are terrorizing minority institutions.” A Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that 75 percent of black Americans were very or somewhat worried that they or someone they love will be attacked because of their race. A respondent interviewed by the Post says that he is “apprehensive at stoplights, imagining a White man getting out and shooting him in his car.”
“Using Tragedy for Racial Propaganda.”
After the horror in Buffalo, President Biden and others peddle an entirely false charge: that whites are the biggest source of hate crime and interracial violence in the US.
Not 'blacks' in the judiciary and prosecutors' offices, but 'progressives'. Some happen to be black, many are white. Liberal YTs started this crap, and lovingly maintain it, after all.
I saw a post on X that said why can a bartender get arrested as accessory to murder for letting a drunk drive home who then gets into an accident and kills someone, but not a judge or prosecutor who release a violent 13 time felon who is mentally ill who then goes on to kill someone.
Bottom line, there was no way in this day and age that this killer was going to be in jail. The mayor appears to not even want him incarcerated now! The Dem party uses “the narrative” of oppression and racism for their own power (and in some cases like Kendi, enrichment). To admit the truth is to risk giving up power and they will not do that. Besides, sure some Ukrainian girl dies, but it wasn’t the mayor’s kid, nor one of her donor’s kids, nor one of the judges who kept letting this guy out.
White or black or purple or green, violent mentally ill homeless criminals should be kept away from us, and treated or incarcerated or both. Unfortunately the people in charge of dark blue cities and states will never allow that for what they perceive is “oppressed classes” (black, Latino, trans…) no matter who it hurts. Power.
Just wait to see what happens when Mamdani takes over NYC …
Ironically, Brandon Johnson's highest vote margins were in the wards with the worst crime problems. Either that was a plea for help or an endorsement of more crime.
I'm wondering why that story didn't get more attention in connection with this one. The details are just as appalling but I guess it wasn't caught on video.
What pisses me off is that NOBODY curb stomped that motherfucker while blood was still dripping!
My powerlifter son was 'knockout gamed' in Fargo three years ago by a black vagrant with 22 priors... His name was Reginald Cooper. 22 prior assaults and felonies, one with a gun which should have meant serious jailtime.
Not including you, Sasha - YOU LEFTIES OWN THIS for decriminalizing these assholes.
The problem with your solution is the "Daniel Penney" situation - look at what Mr. Penney faced when he did act, which contributed mightily to what by-standers did - if they'd tried to stop this perp would the Charlotte authorities have charged them with some crime for "harming" this perp? The system is stacked against the (white) Good Samaritans these days with the trial lawyers and the Dem Party officials in government, e.g., judges, AGs, mayors, city council officials, etc., going after those who try to help, particularly if they are a different ethnic group, etc.
The criminal justice system has failed miserably. The guy had more than a dozen priors, his own family wanted him put away. Cashless bail, DEI magistrate, media that condemns protecting yourself, Joyless Reid and others that espouse white hate. Look at the Daniel Penny case. In Canada the police chief when referencing a home invasion says to comply with the criminals. My God, things are fucked up beyond belief. If you don’t protect yourself and your loved ones no one will.
A citizen with a pistol might have mattered in that scenario though you never know whether, as an intervenor, you'll find yourself in the dock bankrupted by legal defense costs for an heroic act.
“The story here isn’t to fear Black men or that Black men are more dangerous.”
Why isn't it? When is statistically proven observable reality going to overcome the fantasy of cultural equivalence, and how many more victims have to pay the price of this protracted game of pretend?
I remember watching the bit of hype that was "Asian hate" up until videos of black men attacking Asian women on the street debunked the intended message of "white men are evil, racist murderers". And just like that, no more "Asian hate".
Raise the alarm, preventable murders, and a memorial to someone we never meet yet still an important message, do not drawn into the illusion that the world is safe or that it is peaceful. It is not there are all manner of monsters and horrors in this world most stand in political office and those that don't run the streets!
Maybe this one, is the one that creates the will to put away 'political correctness' get back to a civil society. Otherwise, we just continue to devolve into dystopia. Animals like the guy that did this need to be separated from the rest of us that are trying to preserve a lawful civilization. Plain and simple. He gave up his rights to be among us. 13 priors was a little clue, eh?
So how can all this be allowed? Who has infiltrated our society and how and who funds it? Follow the money, as it always leads to the answer. It is not organic--it is money-driven. Just like these 'protesters'...
Ignoring the truth has to stop. If the truth can't be acknowledged, the actual causes of these horrific outcomes can't be addressed. 1) The Soros DA's are intent on destabilizing the country by allowing criminals to run free and cause havoc. 2) Allowing, and in many cases encouraging rampant drug use, destroys countless lives (read Alex Barenson's thoughts on marijuana). 3) Not addressing mental illness through institutional means is a huge problem (ironically, it was Reagan who made the huge mistake to close down all of the state run mental health facilities in the 80's). 4) The destruction of the nuclear family through social assistance programs has led to fatherless boys without a moral compass running wild. 5) The democrat, formerly white liberal, now often black liberal run cities who have now controlled the workings of government in ALL of our major cities for decades, have destroyed education, police departments, budgets, general services and have created "Escape from New York/LA" hellscapes for residents and visitors. 6) Mail in voting and non-paper/electronic only voting processes are meant to enable election theft, and have accomplished theft over and over again.
The left WANTS all of this to happen... they want to delegitimize our constitutional republic and replace it with another socialist/communist hell hole. We are in the middle of a civil war that the left has sought and brought about... it's well past time for everyone on the right to understand that fact and to fight the war through the communication of facts and support of policies that address these purposefully destructive actions by the left. THE TWO THINGS EACH OF US CAN DO TO MAKE THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE AT THE MOMENT ARE 1) TO BE WILLING TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PROBLEMS, AND 2) MAKE SURE VOTING PROCESSES DON'T ALLOW FOR CHEATING.
You always skip over why we hate you. You gave us plenty of reasons, and we gave you plenty of chances. You and your fellow travelers have worn out your welcome in every space from comment boards to communities.
There's a better "other side" to be had after we drive him and everyone like him into the political wilderness. He's taking up real estate that could be put to better uses anywhere he happens to be standing.
Sasha, here’s some advice you should give your daughter to help her navigate life in our fallen world which is permeated with evil although also permeated with beautiful things so it’s not like it’s all bad. Tell her all things in life are a matter of odds and her odds of staying safe will be significantly better if she avoids blacks. That’s not being fair to decent blacks who are good people but the reality is that our fallen world is far from fair. Better to put Truth, objective reality, ahead of Goodness, feeling that we should always be fair. If the young Ukrainian woman had been guided by Truth rather than Goodness she’d still be alive.
It is easy enough to second guess her or any other victim. There is always some other step that in hindsight could have kept her safe and people do need to consider how to keep themselves safe. But the truth is that it is a system failure that lets monsters roam the streets and covers it up when they act like monsters. This story somehow escaped the conspiracy of silence, probably because of the video. Others have commented about the ubiquity of surveillance cameras. I am often creeped out and they are often abused but they can be a tool for protection as well. Badge cams are a survival tool for police officers somewhere between radios and guns in importance. Every story that the media tries to get off the ground gets squashed by the video. Beware of selective editing.
"The story here isn’t to fear Black men or that Black men are more dangerous."
Sasha. You are wrong. Your statement is true in a simplistic, contrite, and very naive, "narrative" sort of way that you actively condemn in your article.
The narrative that has been suppressed and repackaged is at the core of the white guilt, race hustle, SJW premise. The basis of the theory of "we can't arrest ourselves out of this problem" as the mayor of Charlotte stated to excuse the fact that the murderer had been arrested 13 times prior. Because if she did, she would have a much higher percentage of black men (mostly, as black women have their own proclivities) in prison, and that is anathema to progressive politicians.
The truth, as opposed to the narrative is that 13% of the population commits ~60% of all violent crime. And that truth will not be admitted because it will open a can of worms that the left will not discuss. Instead, the left will go back to "black lives matter," "systemic racism," excusing bad behavior and encouraging victimhood on steroids. That can of worms goes back 60 years to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The promoting of single mothers, multiple baby daddies, the destruction of the black, Christian family unit that was thriving up until the 60's when the race hustle really began. Without that hustle, scum Al Sharpton wouldn't have a job. Nor, most Democrat politicians.
That, unfortunately is the hard truth "narrative" that needs to be force fed to the masses. Otherwise, nothing will change. And along with that, the truth that most of the violence caused by blacks is inflicted on blacks. There are many law abiding, hard working, frustrated blacks who see this (God bless them), but are generally decried as Uncle Toms, or now more fashionably, MAGAs.
Notice that the Democrat governor, who was the attorney general, has a response. He urges taxpayers and his political buddies to "pass his budget" which gives more money to the problems. Problems that will never be fixed because the real goal is to have problems so taxpayers will keep being fleeced for more money. If you solve problems these politicians can't demand more money. This goes for everything right down to potholes in the road. If the roads were fixed, how do you extort the public for more money?
Lee is correct. The Democrat Governor was in the "let's hope no one noticed" camp. Only when X broke the story were the Mayor & Governor forced (shamed) to address the issue. Democrats "cancel" anyone who is harmed by their policies. In this case "catch & release" criminals. The Mayor begged news organizations to not report it.
It worked for two weeks. I Ashevilke BC they have a guy with 18 arrests out on the streets, he stabbed someone with a needle last week. That is reported on X by Matt Van Swol who was a Dem but left the "cult" of Dem wokism.
Our politicians and leaders have been selling us out for a long time. Time for voters to get them the hell out of office. Stop voting for these losers. If we don’t get results, they need to be held accountable.
The substance of your article was strong, yet within it you maintain that same white guilt and sense of inferiority to black folk. Why else consistently within the article capitalize Black people but use lower case when describing white folk. That usage itself minimizes and devalues white folk, and elevates Black folk. It would appear obvious to you if you consistently reference White folk, capitalizing White, and in the same sentence referenced black folk, using lower case. If I were to write that White folk should fear black folk, one would say that was racist. If I were to write that White folk should not fear black folk, one would still say that was racist, because I capitalized White and not black. Either use capitals to describe White and Black folk, or use lower case to describe white and black folk. The subtle use of grammatical conventions says alot.
It’s a valid point out, Steve, I agree. Capitalize both or capitalize neither.
Neither. Its a color. That's all. And what if someone has a black and a white parent.
That would be a gray area.
In one of life’s rich ironies, “anti-racists” use the same “one drop“ standard as the racists used in the 19th and 20th centuries. So my niece is “black” even though 23andme says she is less than 50% black.
It’s hypocrisy all the way down.
The Woke left started doing that after George Floyd died of a heart attack and fentanyl overdose which they blamed on white racism since the cop involved was white. The capital letter “B” in black is meant to show respect for blacks whereas the lower case “w” in white is meant to show that whites are undeserving of respect due to their racism.
The Woke white left endlessly wallows in white guilt which has rotted their brains and driven them insane. It has motivated them to wage war on meritocracy which is being replaced with equity aka race based equal outcomes. This is why they have no problem with things like CRT and the 1619 Project being promoted in our public schools. They want to instill white guilt in white children so that they’ll support things like reparations, open borders (borders are racist) and the dumbing down of standards for the sake of equity. They are quite insane. How can we possibly ever recover from the damage they’ve done which they are quite determined to continue doing?
Bill Maher on Kamala Harris and Chicago public schools.
“Chicago Teachers Union: Tests are racist.” (2 min)
Illinois Policy. Oct 28, 2024
https://youtu.be/xp1DsUDCj1Q?si=cNST9rE_WvM_5qRw
Ferguson O'Beezey in the Oval Office kicked off this "campaign" in 2014, and then doubled down when the Dallas police officers were assassinated in cold blood, as far as my timeline goes. That's when I saw Obama for the first time.
The Kenyan Messiah began his contrived race war early in his first term with the Robert Louis Gates affair ("That policeman acted stupidly"), then came the Trayvon Martin hoax ("If I had a son..."), Eric Garner, ("I can't breathe...but I can speak"), and the grand finale in Ferguson ("Hands up, don't shoot").
Hollywood couldn't have written a better script, while America bought into every single lie.
Black people, or black leaders, have demanded capitalization. Major media outlets do this. A few years ago you had to say African American. The correct terms keep changing. Maybe it is time to stop being cowed by these demands and just refuse to capitalize. I used to think of it as being polite, speaking of people the way they wanted. But I'm over it.
Yep. And good analysis by S.Stone here. The liberal media and Democrats have essentially killed, harmed, and raped many women in America by promoting the lie that black men are harmless victims of society and should be trusted no matter what.
While many America-raised girls are wise enuff NOT to have sat in front of a hoodie-thug, poor Iryna naively BOUGHT the lies fed to her, the Geo Floyd lies, the BLM lies.
Sadly, she's not the first victim and won't be the last.
(and BTW, what about the blacks sitting across the aisle from this creep -- did he ever consider murdering them......?)
Just read an acct of the racist thugs' commentary, post murder:
"I got that white girl. I got that white girl."
Racism is alive and well in America, its just NOT coming from who you've been told.
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Now, go find a pic of the so-called Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who let this scum out of jail. You won't be surprised.
Interracial crime is relatively uncommon but, statistically, blacks commit 85% of interracial crime in the U.S.
"Relatively uncommon"--try telling that to anyone who lives in a big city...
Yes, but on a national basis it is relatively rare.
Nobody lives on "a national basis." We live locally. And in many locales, black on white crime is accepted as a fact of life. Stop minimizing it.
Oh, if it's a matter of scale, then black-on-white crime only occurs on one planet in our whole solar system. Doesn't sound like a big problem to me. 🙄
Great catch there. Shows that it’s not easy for Libs to detox from the woke mind virus! That being said, Sasha’s doing much better than 99% of the weak minded lefties, that are still captured by the never ending propaganda!
She still has a dog in the fight. You can smell her sadness . She wants to remain a good Democrat, but the cognitive dissonance is wearing her down.
💯 Well put!!!
Yes. Extremely irritating. Just pointed out the same thing to another commenter yesterday.
Maybe, you should just listen to Sasha narrate her story. Very pleasing voice, and no capitalization/punctuation will come through to distract you from her story? The story is an important one and Sasha is informing us (from her quite liberal past, point of view) of how our culture has drifted (forced off course?) away from the American ideal of living our lives as we wish without fear of being harmed. We used to live within a social contract of mutual respect for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with out fear of being harmed. Now, the miscreants are being coddled, attempted rehabilitated and allowed to run rampant. They actually refuse to rehab and continue on their path of destruction, to themselves as well as the public around them. When some non-feminized male steps up to contain a deranged soul, he is then brutalized by lawfare bowing down at the alter of racism - as is the case of Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely in NYC. But good men will still rise....
Agree, nice voice and strong message.
It is possible that this is being auto-corrected or changed by an editor. In most publications, eveything that's written has to be in accord with a style guide.
I wrote for a newspaper in a medium size city. The Black/white thing hadn't arrived yet, but I could not get a sentence through if I teamed a singular noun with "they," or "their." As in "A student has to have THEIR homework checked by the teacher," when correct English has long taughter that it's "HIS homework." So I would write my sentences to avoid that, such as, "All students must have their homework," etc."
Someone may have just "fixed" Sasha's small "b" for him.
It is possible that this is being auto-corrected or changed by an editor. In most publications, eveything that's written has to be in accord with a style guide.
I wrote for a newspaper in a medium size city. The Black/white thing hadn't arrived yet, but I could not get a sentence through if I teamed a singular noun with "they," or "their." As in "A student has to have THEIR homework checked by the teacher," when correct English has long taughter that it's "HIS homework." So I would write my sentences to avoid that, such as, "All students must have their homework," etc."
Someone may have just "fixed" Sasha's small "b" for him.
Sasha wrote a follow up post. It wasn’t an editorial update. It was Sasha fear of the Leftist mob.
She was already previously cancelled by that mob for posting in X ‘White Power!’ to poke fun at the ‘White Dudes for Harris’ meeting during the last presidential campaign. Below is the Hollywood Reporter story on it. Sasha felt direct economic loss as a result, as Hollywood Studios pulled ad funding from Sasha’s ‘Award Daily’ website. Writers to her Awards Daily site also left after Sasha was labeled ‘toxic’. She was blackballed by the Left and it left an injury mark. How couldn’t it? Sasha is an extremely brave woman and I have tons of respect for her.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sasha-stone-politics-white-power-1235973173/
Wow. I'm guessing you're on the HOA.
lol
Fair observation.
Perhaps it was transcription of her voice that made the caps. As someone who listened - that distinction was not there.
Gut instinct is the last vestiges of our animal survival instincts. I have sometimes ignored it, always to my detriment. When something inside is telling you you are not safe, pay attention. You can call it your guardian angel, God or whatever, but if you are in touch with yourself, sometimes your body will tell you what your brain doesn't recognize as danger. We have told kids, especially girls, that they have to be friends with everyone. No. No adult is "friends with everyone" because some people are toxic and others are simply dangerous. Case in point, while in Vegas some drunk started bullying me to get up from my seat at a table. My first instinct was to get into an argument, but my husband pulled me aside and said, "we need to leave." He spotted the guy had a knife, and my husband said he didn't want to end up in jail or the hospital that night. Gut instincts for the win.
I think I wouldn't be alive if I hadn't listened to my angel who was shouting DANGER DANGER in my head. In this case it was 2 white guys. We have to pay attention!
The point is well taken, but I can't believe that this is seen as your sole "take away" that merits comment, from all that there is to consider here.
Personally, I will throw in caps for emphasis at times. If you see "elevation" in that selection by Ms Stone, I get it, but does its context really convey the same for you?
To each his own, I guess.
It is possible that this is being auto-corrected or changed by an editor. In most publications, eveything that's written has to be in accord with a style guide.
I wrote for a newspaper in a medium size city. The Black/white thing hadn't arrived yet, but I could not get a sentence through if I teamed a singular noun with "they," or "their." As in "A student has to have THEIR homework checked by the teacher," when correct English has long taughter that it's "HIS homework." So I would write my sentences to avoid that, such as, "All students must have their homework," etc."
Someone may have just "fixed" Sasha's small "b" for him.
Sasha is a she. Maybe this algorithm which changes capitalizations for "style" to mask a change it substance, also changed your original "she" to a "him."
I see these deranged people every day on the streets on NYC. These menacing black men walk up talking mid conversation. Just keep walking. Don’t engage.
I was on grand jury duty for a week a couple years ago. We had 21 cases, 19 of which involved video of black men committing violence from assault to murder. No other race. I was totally shocked and spoke with the prosecutors afterward. They said that’s the way it always is. This was no aberration.
We have a huge crime problem and are not beginning to face it. Instead they tried to jail Danniel Penny. I gotta get out of this city.
I remember a year or so back when a woman was brutally attacked in NYC as she tried to enter the subway on her way to work. This unfortunate victim was blinded in one eye by her attacker. How many of these crimes do we as a society have to endure until this issue is fully addressed and those committing them are incarcerated in prison or a mental institution?
What poor Iryna suffered actually began in LBJs admin, 1960s, with welfare that killed-off the black family...have babies, get more money. The black father felt unnecessary and left. That cancer has been growing for 6 decades now, fatherless homes, and along with lefist media/Democrat lies that disarm naive white folks while keeping violent blacks on the streets, well we have a HUGE problem.
Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a large portion of American life centers around avoiding its consequences. Where we live, where our children go to school, where we shop, where we go for entertainment, all are the result of minimizing contact with a culture that glorifies aggression, rejects discipline, ridicules order, and places little value on education.
Good points Gusdad, and liberal/leftist/do-gooder intentions do nothing to hold black men accountable, nothing to educate them or raise their lot in life. SMH.
The CRA was different from the "Great Society" welfare state which came a year later. The CRA finally gave blacks the same rights as whites, as should have been guaranteed under the 14th Amendment had Democrats not found ways around it for a century.
Since the CRA elevated blacks, Democrats sought a new way to stomp them back down. This was where the welfare state and lifetime dependency came into play.
As an added bonus, LBJ's FBI assassinated the only true leader black America ever had. They are still leaderless to this day.
Yet blacks have been blindly loyal to the Democrat party ever since, forgetting which party broke their chains.
Remember LBJ's famous non-public quote at the time? "We'll have those ni**ers voting Democrat for the next hundred years!".
Sixty years on, it would appear that he was quite prescient.
This was the beginning of the Democrat Plantation. Keep the black man down not by chaining him (as Democrats did a century earlier), instead lock him into a lifetime of dependency on government handouts. Which only the Democrat party will provide.
Game. Set. Match.
The women could not have a man in the house or lose the money. That was the caveat. That is what tore the black family apart.
So do right wingers do anything to educate them or raise their lot in life?
Yep, we give them a chance at success by not coddling them, by not lying to them, by not pretending they are entitled to success because they are black.
THE LIBERAL TEACHING TO BLACKS THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS BEING HELD BACK BY DISCRIMINATION, THAT is so DAMN DAMAGING TO THEIR PSYCHE, .....they walk around every day thinking there is a DISCRIMINATION link to every bad thing that happens to them.
RIght minded conservatives dont play that GAME with them. Leftist liberals have BADLY damaged the black community...and it continues.
No more than we do for anyone else. Why? Do they need more help than others for some reason?
how about the poor woman who was set on fire??
Forever, because those solutions are all eventually watered down by apologists or the resources to achieve them are overwhelmed.
Defend yourself with lethal force when you know you're in danger and take your chances with the justice system.
You could hardly do worse.
Get out, don’t think about it. With the incoming communist Mayor soon to flip all remaining switches it will ( hard to believe) only get worse. Get out.
More evidence for the idea that "America does not have a race problem--it has a problem race."
Well said, Kurt. Anyone who chooses to live in such conditions truly needs to have their head examined.
“The story here isn’t to fear Black men or that Black men are more dangerous.”
Sasha, you could not possibly really believe that at your age and with awareness of real life. Except for 4 years in the Marines, ‘68 to ‘72, I’ve lived in Chicago all my life and all my life I’ve seen that blacks in general are bad news. After the Marines I started working (CNC machinery) in Chicago factories. More and more of the people were immigrants from all over the world. Excellent people with traditional values. All of them were appalled by black behavior and felt it was blacks, not whites, who very much needed to change. Never will you read about that in our Woke leftist msm.
Anyone who doubts that blacks in Chicago are the overwhelming perpetrators of the out of control crime here should follow the Chicago crime blog CWBChicago and look at the daily pictures of those committing the crime.
CWBChicago
Sept 9, 2025
https://cwbchicago.com
An anthropologist friend of mine has told me that multiple studies have shown that the urban black community is overwhelmingly the most violent group in America dating back to the Johnson so-called War on Poverty which tied black families to dependency on the federal government and broke up families by “eliminating” fathers.
As boys grow too strong to be restrained by mothers, the socialization ends for many.
And sometimes the mothers are on drugs, with their boyfriends, or working. So absent during critical hours for these juveniles.
Don't forget the degradation of the education system. My father was in high school during WWII. All students were required to take algebra, calculus, chemistry, physics, French, and Latin. I had some university students that could not write a coherent paragraph. Also, during Covid, we were told we could not fail the minority students. So they pass on to the next level and fail out in two or three semester, now $10,000 or more in debt. The system keeps taking advantage of people.
I worked for the federal government. I had a very nice black co-worker who was a graduate of the D.C. public school system ask me if Philadelphia was near Pennsylvania.
To me, something began to change for the worst after the release of the movie "Colors", when the entertainment industry seemed to realize how much money could be made from the glorification of violent urban culture. "Boyz in the 'Hood" in 1991 locked in that niche, and it'$ been EZ money ever since.
I saw "Boyz in the 'Hood" a long time ago and thought it was pretty good. It didn't strike me as glorifying violent urban culture.
Certainly not in the manner of, say, a Dr Dre or Ice Cube music video of the era, but the audience reactions to the "action scenes", whether intended to be solely part of a cautionary tale, did not "hit" in the culture as such.
One of the problems I see is that much of the judicial services are peopled by blacks who are brain washed by the notion of racial self-protection; “these are my people, they have been oppressed, and I will not further their burden with a punishment.”
I would love to see some research into how many actual black criminals exist. What percentage of the people are repeatedly committing the crimes.
The stigma for the black innocents is immense.
Read commentary from Heather Mac Donald. She's been exploring the shocking messaging on George Floyd, BLM, "defund the police", systemic racism and black/white crime statistics for quite while a now. The "inconvenient truth" on crime that has been denied by Ds for the last twenty years is coming home to roost.
“Figures from President Biden on down are telling blacks, nonstop, that they are under lethal threat from whites, and that it is white supremacists, not black criminals, who pose the greatest threat to their safety. “Buffalo attack ignites safety worries for Black Angelenos,” reads a headline in the May 22 Los Angeles Times. New York representative Jerrold Nadler, a sponsor of the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, says, “Democrats are taking the fight straight to the . . . violent extremists that are terrorizing minority institutions.” A Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that 75 percent of black Americans were very or somewhat worried that they or someone they love will be attacked because of their race. A respondent interviewed by the Post says that he is “apprehensive at stoplights, imagining a White man getting out and shooting him in his car.”
“Using Tragedy for Racial Propaganda.”
After the horror in Buffalo, President Biden and others peddle an entirely false charge: that whites are the biggest source of hate crime and interracial violence in the US.
City Journal. Heather MacDonald. May 23, 2022
https://www.city-journal.org/using-the-buffalo-tragedy-for-racial-propaganda
Not 'blacks' in the judiciary and prosecutors' offices, but 'progressives'. Some happen to be black, many are white. Liberal YTs started this crap, and lovingly maintain it, after all.
Woman speaks after being shot, wounded in Chicago this past weekend. (3 min)
CBS Chicago. Jun 11, 2024
https://youtu.be/gpGXZ1rmUek?si=P6P0tbHHgujdV9cL
And it's the same perps over and over. Heyjackass.com is another source that compiles statistics on violent crime. Both are sobering.
I saw a post on X that said why can a bartender get arrested as accessory to murder for letting a drunk drive home who then gets into an accident and kills someone, but not a judge or prosecutor who release a violent 13 time felon who is mentally ill who then goes on to kill someone.
Bottom line, there was no way in this day and age that this killer was going to be in jail. The mayor appears to not even want him incarcerated now! The Dem party uses “the narrative” of oppression and racism for their own power (and in some cases like Kendi, enrichment). To admit the truth is to risk giving up power and they will not do that. Besides, sure some Ukrainian girl dies, but it wasn’t the mayor’s kid, nor one of her donor’s kids, nor one of the judges who kept letting this guy out.
White or black or purple or green, violent mentally ill homeless criminals should be kept away from us, and treated or incarcerated or both. Unfortunately the people in charge of dark blue cities and states will never allow that for what they perceive is “oppressed classes” (black, Latino, trans…) no matter who it hurts. Power.
Just wait to see what happens when Mamdani takes over NYC …
Black leadership condones violence. How did we get to the point where most of our large cities with the most violence have black mayors?
White flight.
Ironically, Brandon Johnson's highest vote margins were in the wards with the worst crime problems. Either that was a plea for help or an endorsement of more crime.
Blind racial solidarity is a hallmark of black culture in America.
Maybe. And idiot leftists
And did anyone catch the story out of Alabama? Retired professor of veterinary medicine walking her dog murdered in the park. Usual suspect.
I'm wondering why that story didn't get more attention in connection with this one. The details are just as appalling but I guess it wasn't caught on video.
I read about both stories in MSM so I don't know why everyone is claiming they weren't covered
didn't hear a word
How sad -- only in the US for a year or two yet she was already parroting that "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe" nonsense.
Try wearing an "All Lives Matter" t-shirt, around a "No Kings Protests". That energy would be a factor in climate change.
What pisses me off is that NOBODY curb stomped that motherfucker while blood was still dripping!
My powerlifter son was 'knockout gamed' in Fargo three years ago by a black vagrant with 22 priors... His name was Reginald Cooper. 22 prior assaults and felonies, one with a gun which should have meant serious jailtime.
Not including you, Sasha - YOU LEFTIES OWN THIS for decriminalizing these assholes.
The problem with your solution is the "Daniel Penney" situation - look at what Mr. Penney faced when he did act, which contributed mightily to what by-standers did - if they'd tried to stop this perp would the Charlotte authorities have charged them with some crime for "harming" this perp? The system is stacked against the (white) Good Samaritans these days with the trial lawyers and the Dem Party officials in government, e.g., judges, AGs, mayors, city council officials, etc., going after those who try to help, particularly if they are a different ethnic group, etc.
Yes, there is indeed "systemic racism" in the criminal justice system--but what they don't tell you is that this racism is aimed at white people.
I hear ya, but we are past that time now. Lawfare be damned; I will not waste a minute to save an innocent life.
The criminal justice system has failed miserably. The guy had more than a dozen priors, his own family wanted him put away. Cashless bail, DEI magistrate, media that condemns protecting yourself, Joyless Reid and others that espouse white hate. Look at the Daniel Penny case. In Canada the police chief when referencing a home invasion says to comply with the criminals. My God, things are fucked up beyond belief. If you don’t protect yourself and your loved ones no one will.
A citizen with a pistol might have mattered in that scenario though you never know whether, as an intervenor, you'll find yourself in the dock bankrupted by legal defense costs for an heroic act.
Yeah, where is Paul Kersey when you need him...
Yep, but I don't care anymore.
Easy to say...
“The story here isn’t to fear Black men or that Black men are more dangerous.”
Why isn't it? When is statistically proven observable reality going to overcome the fantasy of cultural equivalence, and how many more victims have to pay the price of this protracted game of pretend?
I remember watching the bit of hype that was "Asian hate" up until videos of black men attacking Asian women on the street debunked the intended message of "white men are evil, racist murderers". And just like that, no more "Asian hate".
Raise the alarm, preventable murders, and a memorial to someone we never meet yet still an important message, do not drawn into the illusion that the world is safe or that it is peaceful. It is not there are all manner of monsters and horrors in this world most stand in political office and those that don't run the streets!
Thankyou for this piece!
The "better woke than safe" belief will destroy our country. Liberalism costs lives.
Maybe this one, is the one that creates the will to put away 'political correctness' get back to a civil society. Otherwise, we just continue to devolve into dystopia. Animals like the guy that did this need to be separated from the rest of us that are trying to preserve a lawful civilization. Plain and simple. He gave up his rights to be among us. 13 priors was a little clue, eh?
So how can all this be allowed? Who has infiltrated our society and how and who funds it? Follow the money, as it always leads to the answer. It is not organic--it is money-driven. Just like these 'protesters'...
Defend yourself with lethal force at the first sign of danger and take your chances with the justice system.
You can hardly do worse.
i just read how wikipedia id trying desperately to memory hole or change the context of this horrific story
Ignoring the truth has to stop. If the truth can't be acknowledged, the actual causes of these horrific outcomes can't be addressed. 1) The Soros DA's are intent on destabilizing the country by allowing criminals to run free and cause havoc. 2) Allowing, and in many cases encouraging rampant drug use, destroys countless lives (read Alex Barenson's thoughts on marijuana). 3) Not addressing mental illness through institutional means is a huge problem (ironically, it was Reagan who made the huge mistake to close down all of the state run mental health facilities in the 80's). 4) The destruction of the nuclear family through social assistance programs has led to fatherless boys without a moral compass running wild. 5) The democrat, formerly white liberal, now often black liberal run cities who have now controlled the workings of government in ALL of our major cities for decades, have destroyed education, police departments, budgets, general services and have created "Escape from New York/LA" hellscapes for residents and visitors. 6) Mail in voting and non-paper/electronic only voting processes are meant to enable election theft, and have accomplished theft over and over again.
The left WANTS all of this to happen... they want to delegitimize our constitutional republic and replace it with another socialist/communist hell hole. We are in the middle of a civil war that the left has sought and brought about... it's well past time for everyone on the right to understand that fact and to fight the war through the communication of facts and support of policies that address these purposefully destructive actions by the left. THE TWO THINGS EACH OF US CAN DO TO MAKE THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE AT THE MOMENT ARE 1) TO BE WILLING TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PROBLEMS, AND 2) MAKE SURE VOTING PROCESSES DON'T ALLOW FOR CHEATING.
Uh, actually, deinstitutionalization of the severely mentally ill began during the JFK administration.
Great post, 'cept I would put your second point first... Stop the steal, if we don't do that, all else is meaningless.
You post ignoring the truth has to stop yet the rest of the post isnt truth just political hate.
Your comments prove KW's point - thanks for validating them.
Proved what? This is an echo-chamber similar to MSM. Both are not proving anything besides how loyal they are to hating the other side.
You always skip over why we hate you. You gave us plenty of reasons, and we gave you plenty of chances. You and your fellow travelers have worn out your welcome in every space from comment boards to communities.
Don't be so hard on HL3, Matt, he is exactly the sort of Leftist loon we need to validate our points. He is "the other side"...
How am I a leftist loon or is that what you describe every voting democrat these days?
There's a better "other side" to be had after we drive him and everyone like him into the political wilderness. He's taking up real estate that could be put to better uses anywhere he happens to be standing.
You give no chances besides join us or I hate you.
Sasha, here’s some advice you should give your daughter to help her navigate life in our fallen world which is permeated with evil although also permeated with beautiful things so it’s not like it’s all bad. Tell her all things in life are a matter of odds and her odds of staying safe will be significantly better if she avoids blacks. That’s not being fair to decent blacks who are good people but the reality is that our fallen world is far from fair. Better to put Truth, objective reality, ahead of Goodness, feeling that we should always be fair. If the young Ukrainian woman had been guided by Truth rather than Goodness she’d still be alive.
You are a special guy, Seva. Wish we lived somewhere near each other so I could meet you in person.
It is easy enough to second guess her or any other victim. There is always some other step that in hindsight could have kept her safe and people do need to consider how to keep themselves safe. But the truth is that it is a system failure that lets monsters roam the streets and covers it up when they act like monsters. This story somehow escaped the conspiracy of silence, probably because of the video. Others have commented about the ubiquity of surveillance cameras. I am often creeped out and they are often abused but they can be a tool for protection as well. Badge cams are a survival tool for police officers somewhere between radios and guns in importance. Every story that the media tries to get off the ground gets squashed by the video. Beware of selective editing.
"The story here isn’t to fear Black men or that Black men are more dangerous."
Sasha. You are wrong. Your statement is true in a simplistic, contrite, and very naive, "narrative" sort of way that you actively condemn in your article.
The narrative that has been suppressed and repackaged is at the core of the white guilt, race hustle, SJW premise. The basis of the theory of "we can't arrest ourselves out of this problem" as the mayor of Charlotte stated to excuse the fact that the murderer had been arrested 13 times prior. Because if she did, she would have a much higher percentage of black men (mostly, as black women have their own proclivities) in prison, and that is anathema to progressive politicians.
The truth, as opposed to the narrative is that 13% of the population commits ~60% of all violent crime. And that truth will not be admitted because it will open a can of worms that the left will not discuss. Instead, the left will go back to "black lives matter," "systemic racism," excusing bad behavior and encouraging victimhood on steroids. That can of worms goes back 60 years to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The promoting of single mothers, multiple baby daddies, the destruction of the black, Christian family unit that was thriving up until the 60's when the race hustle really began. Without that hustle, scum Al Sharpton wouldn't have a job. Nor, most Democrat politicians.
That, unfortunately is the hard truth "narrative" that needs to be force fed to the masses. Otherwise, nothing will change. And along with that, the truth that most of the violence caused by blacks is inflicted on blacks. There are many law abiding, hard working, frustrated blacks who see this (God bless them), but are generally decried as Uncle Toms, or now more fashionably, MAGAs.
Notice that the Democrat governor, who was the attorney general, has a response. He urges taxpayers and his political buddies to "pass his budget" which gives more money to the problems. Problems that will never be fixed because the real goal is to have problems so taxpayers will keep being fleeced for more money. If you solve problems these politicians can't demand more money. This goes for everything right down to potholes in the road. If the roads were fixed, how do you extort the public for more money?
That governor took TWO WEEKS to say anything. He’s a democrat
Apparently he was basically shamed into making a response - his weekend article showed him walking his dog!
Lee is correct. The Democrat Governor was in the "let's hope no one noticed" camp. Only when X broke the story were the Mayor & Governor forced (shamed) to address the issue. Democrats "cancel" anyone who is harmed by their policies. In this case "catch & release" criminals. The Mayor begged news organizations to not report it.
It worked for two weeks. I Ashevilke BC they have a guy with 18 arrests out on the streets, he stabbed someone with a needle last week. That is reported on X by Matt Van Swol who was a Dem but left the "cult" of Dem wokism.
Our politicians and leaders have been selling us out for a long time. Time for voters to get them the hell out of office. Stop voting for these losers. If we don’t get results, they need to be held accountable.
Or change the laws so the politicians are held accountable for their actions. No immunity.