Lives in a Shoe

For Hallie

For Hallie:  Black/Latino strife.

It has gotten worse lately.

If I Wake Up Just Five Black People...

 

 

Candice Owens, who vlogs on YouTube, pushed back on the media narrative about the deadly violence that claimed the life of a young female counter-protester in Charlottesville VA on Saturday. “Let me invite you over for a cup of hot steaming facts,” who goes by the moniker “Red Pill Black.” She said on a video, “White supremacy and the KKK. Really? That’s what you guys want me to be concerned about this week?” Owens added, “Do I look like an idiot?”

“If you are a black person and you expressed some irrational fears this week over the rise of the Klansmen and neo-Nazis, let me invite you over for a cup of hot, steaming facts,” Owens offered. She also cited statistics that counter the narrative of white on black violence. She said that the numbers show that “approximately 93 percent of black homicides were committed by other black people.” She said that 2012 figures showed 84 percent of white homicides were committed by white people. “Go figure! It’s like we’re all racist towards our own selves,” she concluded.

“I mean there are around 6,000 Klansmen left in our nation. You want me to seriously process that every day when I wake up?” Owens said. Noted that it is “absolutely crazy” that Americans have not seen that establishment media are behind the entire narrative, and not President Trump. “Why did we not hear a single thing about David Duke, white supremacy and the KKK the entire time Obama was in office?” Owens asked. “Do you think they were all hiding underground, waiting for the next white president? Meeting by the light of the moon? Do you really actually mean they weren’t still meeting, holding protests and having rallies and marches?”

“Maybe the media wasn’t covering it,” Owens said.  “Use your brain.” Owens said that the media are “simulating a reality” and wondered if she is living “in a bubble where black people and white people get along everyday.”

“You’ll have to forgive me for not realizing that the figurative racial sky was burning and it was up to me to choose a side,” she said. “Honestly, everybody involved in this fake racial war is a loser.”

As for the violent rally in Charlottesville, Owen said she was “not too disturbed” by it. “I think the president was absolutely right to call it what it is, which is two groups of extremists,” Owens said. “Nobody showed up looking to give hugs.”

Echoing what famed basketball standout Charles Barkley said this week, Owens said that there are more important things for African-Americans to consider, such as education and prisons that “systematically oppress and disadvantage African-Americans.” She concluded, “But you won’t hear the media talking about any of that.”

https://youtu.be/4S2TZOdXAtQ

 

Walked in the Classroom, Cool and Slow...

The chief writing instructor at the University of Washington, Tacoma, is trying to dismantle the rules of grammar because he believes they are racist—and the college has given its endorsement to his campaign.

Posters that appeared this week in the college’s writing center are part of a new effort to teach students that the conventional rules on how to structure sentences and form ideas in written language are perpetuating inequality and “white supremacy.”

Grammar, according to the posters in the writing center, can “justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.”

Professor Inoue also holds seminars on how to identify and correct “white supremacy” in grading writing assignments; self-help workshops for actual (yet self-identified) grammar Nazis.

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Sorry, Huskies.  Will take a while to live this down. 

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Boom

It’s finally happened. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has smacked a Twitter troll into last week.  William Smith, who was chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee for more than a decade and now serves as chief of staff for Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.), was in the hearing room for the second day of Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general along with Senator Scott.

Well played, Senator Scott.  Well played indeed.

Scott, the only black Republican member of the Senate — previously, one of just two black Republicans in the House — said that he had removed Twitter from his phone years ago but sometimes felt the need to respond to critics.

“I have three or four pages of that kind of crap because of the Sessions nomination,” he said. “There were so many n-words and racially insensitive words coming at me over the Budget Control Act in 2011 that my employees were crying. Unfortunately, people feel like they have a license to say stupid stuff, and too often it comes from liberals. So I thought it was a good time to tell people what I thought.”

All Together on One Stage With Two Bands

And Johnny Carson sings -- quite well, too.  Many thanks to Donna for posting this on Facebook so I could snitch it to put here.  Here's to you, Donna -- clink!

Frank Sinatra, ‎Dean Martin, ‎Sammy Davis Jr, Johnny Carson, ‎Quincy Jones, ‎Count Basie -- 

It's somehow a bit sad to watch Sammy Davis Jr. being too ingratiating and doing the racial clowning stuff.  But it was 1965 and Frank and the boys meant well. No way to incorporate him into their acts without that price of admission. 

It Was All Made Up

A&E Cancels KKK “Documentary” Because Much of It Was Staged.

[T]he production team even paid for the construction of wooden crosses and Nazi swastikas.

‘It was all made up—pretty much everything we said and did was fake and because that is what the film people told us to do and say.’

The show followed three high-ranking Klan members and their families in Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee, and had originally been titled, ‘Generation KKK’.

In the interview with Variety, Nichols said that he was being filmed and used the word ‘blacks’, but then ‘the producer interrupted me and said ‘No, no, no. We want him to use the word ‘n****r!”

 

Police Shootings and Race

This study found race matters in police shootings, but the results may surprise you.  “The Reverse Racism Effect,” to be published in the journal Criminology & Public Policy, WSU researchers share findings.  

The conventional thinking about police-involved shootings, and some scientific research, has been that black suspects are more likely to be shot than white suspects because of an implicit racial bias among police officers. But now a new study has found exactly the opposite: even with white officers who do have racial biases, officers are three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects than unarmed white suspects.

Does She Deserve a Place on Our Money? Hell Yeah.

National Review:  What They Didn't Teach You in School About Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman was a black, Republican, gun-toting, veterans’ activist, with ninja-like spy skills and strong Christian beliefs. She probably wouldn’t have an ounce of patience for the obtuse posturing of some of the tenured radicals hanging around Ivy League faculty lounges.

 

 

 

 

IN LIGHT OF THE HARRIET TUBMAN NEWS, they’ve put this story by Charles C.W. Cooke on blacks and the Second Amendment outside the paywall. Read the whole thing.

 

"Pandering at Its Finest" *

Hillary: White People 'Need to Recognize Our Privilege'.  Met with the Reverend Al, gave speech, kissed his, um, ring.

 

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Guns, Discussion

A few words with Charles Cobb, author of "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement". NPR, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. 

Cobb says guns were kept on farms for hunting, for pest-control and to repel white vigilantes. Even non-violent participants in the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King for a time, kept guns at home to protect their families. In the mid-'60s, Malcolm X responded to a rumor that the Nation of Islam was urging blacks to buy guns by reminding the press they were legally entitled to do that.