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One thing I have always admired about the British is that they know when to quit. Just think of all the legendary British bands that broke up at the height of their popularity: The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Police, The Smiths. I’ll even throw in Led Zeppelin. They could have easily replaced John Bonham with any drummer in the world they wanted and kept going. They had won the rock and roll lottery, selling records like hot cakes and with no signs of slowing down.
Or take Doctor Who. I would think that being cast as Doctor freakin’ Who would be a dream job for a British actor. The Doctor is sort of the beta male James Bond. James Bond is the holy grail of acting roles, but you have to be a Chad to land James Bond. For non-Chads, I would think the being cast as The Doctor, an iconic and quintessentially British hero, would be the pinnacle. Yet, British actors will get cast as Doctor freakin’ Who, do it for a few years, and then say, “Well, that was fun. But now I would like to go back to the theater.”
This sort of thing blows the American mind. Americans believe that you don’t walk away from a sure thing unless you know it’s to something better. Americans will look at The Beatles’ breakup and think, “Oh, so John and Paul didn’t like each other anymore. Do you think I like the people I work with? No, but I put up with it. If I can do it for 0.1% of the money, you can do it for however many millions, plus all the fame and groupies. No one wants to hear your stupid solo album!”
But as I get older, I see more wisdom in the British approach. All those British bands I mentioned walked away at the top with their legacies intact and are still revered today as legends. Conversely, I have seen so many American bands who made enormous contributions to music and were cultural titans of their day who then utterly destroyed their legacies by not knowing when to quit.
Imagine how much more revered Van Halen would be today if they had broken up in 1985, after David Lee Roth left. They reinvented rock and roll and had released six pretty good albums that revolutionized the way people play guitar forever. But Van Halen kept going and putting out increasingly embarrassing dad-rock albums until eventually you couldn’t hear their name without wincing. By the time Eddie Van Halen died, I was more relieved than sad, because I no longer had to worry about Eddie doing any more to tarnish his own legacy.
Then there’s Dave Chappelle. He walked away from a $50 million contract with Comedy Central for his own show in 2005 because he was displeased with the creative direction it was going in. He refused to take $50 million to be an Uncle Tom. Dave Chappelle has become a kind of legendary figure for this.
Dave Chappelle is someone I have a hard time having strong negative feelings about. He doesn’t seem like all that bad of a guy. He says a lot of things I don’t like — he did an entire special about the death of George Floyd, for example — but he doesn’t strike me as particularly malicious.
The worst thing you can say about Dave Chappelle is that he is overrated. He is not Socrates, nor is he the funniest man to ever live, and no one would be claiming that he is if he were not black. Nevertheless, for a celebrity, he is refreshingly authentic.
Chappelle comes from a long line of talented 10ths — both of his parents were university professors. He’s been married to the same woman for the last 20 years, a black one who he’s been with since before he was famous, which would suggest that he has some integrity. Is Dave Chappelle anti-white? Yes, but probably not any more than the average black person.
Most people are unaware that Chappelle’s Show, the program that launched Dave Chappelle into mega-stardom, was actually a collaboration between Chappelle and a white guy, an Irish Catholic kid from Philly named Neal Brennan. Brennan’s influence on the show has been the subject of a lot of speculation, as Brennan and Chapelle have a gentleman’s agreement not to reveal who wrote which sketches. If you ask me, it would seem that such an arrangement would be to Chappelle’s advantage. It would look bad if it were revealed that Chapelle’s white writing partner was better at writing black comedy than him.
It’s also worth noting that 16 years after the end of Chapelle’s Show, Dave Chapelle is still primarily known as “the guy from Chappelle’s Show.” That’s the crazy part. He followed up creating a landmark show by taking a decade-long creative hiatus during the prime of his life. I can understand not wanting to work with the corporate media, but there were a million different indie routes he could have taken. Instead, he did nothing.
This too works to Chappelle’s advantage, however, because it makes people see his more recent work as something distinct from, rather than a continuation of Chappelle’s Show, in the way you might think of George Foreman’s early and late boxing career as distinct sagas.
So why is a guy whose reputation stems largely from 28 half-hour episodes of television he created in the mid-Bush years still commanding so much attention?
I think a lot of Chappelle’s appeal comes from the fact that he is a reminder of happier times in race relations. The period between the O. J. Simpson verdict and the Obama administration was probably the high-water mark of American race relations. For a good ten years, there were no Rodney King or Trayvon Martin controversies. That was no BLM. Chapelle’s Show was the last of its kind: a show where whites and blacks could laugh at our differences together, and it was all in good fun. These days, you are not allowed to laugh with white people.
Chappelle spent the entire Obama presidency and the 2016 election in retirement. Not only is he an avatar of that bygone era, but he is not associated in anyone’s mind with what has happened since. When he began his comedy comeback in 2017, he was like an old friend from the Bush era coming out of cryogenic freeze, untarnished by all the woke wars that had been fought since then.
When Chappelle announced his comeback, people had high hopes that having this legendary too-big-to-cancel comedian from the pre-woke era back on the scene might mean that he would slap the SJWs around a bit and do something to help stem the woke tide. And indeed, Chappelle survived an attempted cancelation by the trans community after his last special. And in his most recent special, Closer, Chappelle caused controversy by poking fun at Jews.
In Closer, Chappelle is talking about how he got an idea for a movie after watching UFO videos online:
In my movie idea, we find out that these aliens are originally from earth — that they’re from an ancient civilization that achieved interstellar travel and left the Earth thousands of years ago. Some other planet they go to, and things go terrible for them on the other planet, so they come back to Earth, [and] decide that they want to claim the Earth for their very own. It’s a pretty good plotline, huh? I call it Space Jews.
Controversy ensued. The Jerusalem Post, the Times of Israel, and NPR all called the joke ant-Semitic.
For context, Chappelle is a Muslim. He converted in 1991 while living in New York, during the Public Enemy-inspired Farrakhan chic fad that swept black youth. He has probably dabbled in the Nation of Islam. I’m guessing Dave knows about the Jews and if anything is hiding his power level.
First, it is interesting that as draconian as censorship has gotten, criticism of Israel is the only one of our talking points that has been gaining a lot of momentum in the mainstream. During the recent Israel-Palestine conflict, a lot of A-list celebrities and comedians came out in support of the Palestinians.
I know the Dirtbag Left have a lot of ties to the comedy community. Part of how Chapo Trap House got its rep was by being the podcast that all the big Lefty comedians listen to (David Cross and Janeane Marie Garofalo were early guests). So it appears that some entertainment Lefties have been red-pilled on Israel from the Leftist perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkQ4HZAepYc
Chappelle is not breaking new ground here. In fact, on his HBO show last summer, John Oliver did a segment where he accused Israel of war crimes. At least one other famous comedian had gone full pro-Palestine and pulled it off, so Chappelle wasn’t taking that much more of a risk than if he had made the joke a year ago. However, Chappelle did go a step further than Oliver by calling the culprits “Jews” rather than “Zionists” or “Israelis,” and he questioned the legitimacy of the Jewish state itself.
So it seems criticizing Israel is now “safe.” Edgy, maybe, but not particularly risky.
The whole anti-Israel chic thing is something that I did not anticipate. It’s a welcome surprise, even if it’s mostly Leftists who hate Israel for entirely different reasons than I do. I think a lot of Lefties believe that Evangelicals are the driving force behind America’s Middle East policy and that Israel is a sacred cow of the Evangelicals. Thus, in their minds, by ripping on Israel, they are sticking it to the Evangelicals. That said, Jews and Antifa are so paranoid that they see anti-Zionism as a gateway to anti-Semitism, if not anti-Semitism masquerading as anti-colonialism — and here’s hoping that they are right.
The downside of anti-Israel chic is that I have seen a ton of Jews pointing to it as slam-dunk evidence that Jews do not control the media. To be fair, it does raise some legitimate questions. If the media is indeed controlled by Jews, then why would it be allowing so much criticism of Israel to be heard at the highest levels? This seems to run counter to our narratives.
Jews have proven that they can suppress stories and people if they so desire. There are examples of Jews forcing gangsta rappers into issuing formal apologies for their lyrics. If something is being discussed in the mainstream, it’s because Jewish gatekeepers are allowing it to be discussed. So why are they tolerating this?
There are several possible explanations, but the idea that the Jews don’t run the media is not one of them.
It could be that Jews are allowing some anti-Israel dialogue for the specific purpose of drawing away suspicion of the fact that Jews do in fact run the media. The problem with this idea is that th anti-Zionist wave doesn’t look to be astroturfed. It may be only a passing fad, but it looks organic to me.
Alternatively, I could see diaspora Jews throwing Israel under the bus to save themselves — but only if they were desperate. Jewish control of the media Is something that is only discussed on the outer fringes of the internet, so I don’t think they are there yet.
Another possibility is that while Jews may run the media, they are not all-powerful. There will always be people like Dave Chappelle who are so bankable and have so much clout that they can negotiate total creative control into their contracts. If you don’t hire him, someone else will, and perhaps the Jews accept that.
Affirmative action can’t be helping, either. A browner work force will naturally become more pro-Palestine, as the POCs look more like Palestinians than Jews. They can’t be guilt-tripped about the Holocaust, because they didn’t do it, and half the whites are communist Bernie Bros. So it’s just a matter of Jewish media outlets being increasingly staffed by people who haven’t got the memo. You have black female affirmative action human resources managers who are hiring creative directors who approve some anti-Israel stuff just because they don’t know that you’re not supposed to.
My own belief is that Jews in the media have decided to just ride this out. Suppressing pro-Palestinian sentiment would be too obvious, and would play into the hands of anti-Semites. A propaganda campaign wouldn’t work, either, because there isn’t a “woke” argument for Zionism. They could claim that Israel is more pro-gay than Palestine — but Palestinians are brown, and brown beats gay.
Besides which, deplatforming high-profile Hollywood celebrities and Instagram models or launching some counter-propaganda campaign would draw more attention to the issue. I think Jews are fine with people just ignoring Israel. They already have the politicians to do their bidding, so in a way, public support isn’t that important.
And yet they can’t suppress all the news from Israel because Jews in America want to know what is going on there, and in turn there will always be some blowback to that news. I therefore think that the Jews have simply made the cost/benefit decision to ride this out. The public has a short attention span. If things stay quiet in Israel for long enough, most people will move on to the next trendy political cause. Remember the Free Tibet movement? And isn’t it interesting that the abortion issue has suddenly been thrown back into play?
You’ll also notice that the kind of anti-Zionism the media is letting through is of the most tepid kind: the woke anti-nationalist Lefty kind that is rooted in anti-racism, not the USS Liberty/dancing Israelis kind.
Chappelle naming the Jew raised a lot of eyebrows, especially on the Right. Given his earlier statements about trans people as well, it might look like he is a useful tool against the woke mob. However, if you watch the entire special, halfway through he says that the only group he really has a problem with is white people. Apparently, he sees the LGBT movement and the trans scene as extensions of bourgeois white culture.
Later in the same special, Chappelle tells another Space Jews joke:
There was a black man who was in South Carolina during slavery who somehow got granted his freedom by his so-called master. And when his master granted him his freedom, he also gave him a plot of land. Now, it turns out this brother was brilliant. He had a good eye, good knack for farming. And he farmed this plot of land very successfully and made a lot of money. And this is where the story gets crazy. When he got all that money . . . this nigga bought some slaves. Have you ever heard this before? This is a true story. Not only was he a slave owner, he became a slave breeder, and employed tactics that were so cruel, even white slave owners were like, “Yo, my man!” He was a wild dude, but he did it just because that’s what successful people did at the time, and he just wanted to be down. What a fucking tragedy. How can a person that went through slavery perpetuate the same evil on a person that looks just like him? It’s mind blowing. And, shockingly, they’re making a movie about him. Ironically, it’s called Space Jews.
Note that he says, “he did it just because that’s what successful people did at the time.” If we assume that “successful people” is a code word for whites, the underlying message is that whatever misdeeds Jews commit happen because they are trying to emulate whites.
This is the sad truth about the Nation of Islam types. Most of the things that Louis Farrakhan says are perfectly sensible, and we share a lot of the same enemies — the Zionists, the media, the FBI – but at the end of the day, white people are still their number one enemy.
There was one other curveball in Closer. Chappelle does a bit about watching videos of black people beating up Asians and says the videos are like a metaphor for what his immune system did to COVID (he had an asymptomatic case). I was disappointed that he did not delve deeper into black-on-Asian violence, I was but surprised that he mentioned it at all given that the media has been trying to cover it up altogether.
Dave Chappelle opens Closer with a warning to the audience that it would be his last comedy special for a while. Something about this warning sounded ominous. Is he sick? Big #MeToo scandal about to drop? His statement suggests that he will return someday, and yet the name of the special, Closer, is a comedy term for the last joke of a show — which may suggest that he actually does intend for this one to be his last.
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Dave Chappelle is pretty smart and it’s hard for me to believe he didn’t catch on to who runs the entertainment industry racket. One conspiracy theory I remember from 2016 (and I kind of think it’s true) is that to be a big name in Hollywood you have to record yourself doing very immoral and illegal sex stuff (think Epstein) and that Dave walked away from the 50 million dollars because he wasn’t willing to sell his soul (at least not back then). That would explain why he made comments about Hollywood being sick and why he had a mental breakdown–no other explanation I have heard ever made sense to me (I doubt Chapelle freaked out because he started to believe the Chappell show perpetuated racism).
I always wondered why Jews get mad when honest leftists embrace anti Zionism. I mean the same premises Jewish Hollywood moguls and professors have preached since the second world war to deconstruct colonialism and attack whites naturally lead to anti Zionism. But then again logical consistency doesn’t really seem to matter to most people and so far they have gotten away with it so…
The ostensible cognitive dissonance of Jews to be nationalists when it comes to Israel but open borders liberal Democrats when it comes to their host diaspora countries is on its surface cognitive dissonance but if you dig deeper it makes sense. These liberal policies often serve Jewish interests in the diaspora the same way nationalists policies serve Jewish interests in Israel. Credit where credit is due, the ones who are leftist across the board in that they also don’t like Zionism are at least being consistent.
I said before on here, that I think Zionism and the dissident right are mirror images of each other. I think the dissident right’s disdain for Zionism is a sort of projection for their dislike of Jews and is also a sort of counter-signaling/counter-plugging.
I do think that the golem in the form of radical left-wing politics and blanket support for minorities could end up turning on the Jews. It’s going to be interesting to see how Jews are going to defend their modern conquest of the levant as not colonialism.
I suspect another reason why the Jews who control the mainstream media aren’t cracking down hard on anti-Israel chic is because it would force them into a row with political fellow travelers, which would be counter productive and embarrassing. This would be a left vs left dispute that would be more damaging than the anti-Israel rumblings you get from the occasional woke celebrity.
Chappell is actually married to a Filipina, so that complicates talking about the black vs. Asian thing.
“He’s been married to the same woman for the last 20 years, a black one who he’s been with since before he was famous, which would suggest that he has some integrity.”
Pretty sure he is married to a Filipina. He spoke about it on Howard Stern in the early 2000s.
I don’t really get it. He hates you and everyone who reads this site. What is the point?
I was thinking the same thing. Chappelle gets way too much attention and ball-fanning in DR circles these days. And why? Because once in a blue moon he might say something most of us agree with. Are we that desperate for celebrity validation?
Framing it as “desperation for celebrity validation” is cheap psychologizing and misses the real significance. We are scanning political discourse and popular culture looking for signs that the Zeitgeist is moving in our direction. This is one hopeful sign.
Chappelle can get away with it a little bit because he is one of the system’s colored pets. This is not indicative of any change of zeitgeist.
If any anti-Israel or anti-jewish sentiment gets more mainstream it will be of a distinctively nonwhite and leftists flavor and it will not benefit whites much as it will be linked to anti-whiteness and anti-“colonialism”.
Jews will be slightly marginalized and the power of browns, blacks and asians will increase instead.
Right. But isn’t it interesting to see cracks in the enemy coalition?
Cynicism is the pose or pretence that you can see through everything to its true emptiness and meaninglessness. It is an easy game to play. All you need are some unrealistically stringent standards. “You say the new Bond film is not woke? Then why do women in the film have jobs?” Just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should, nor does it mean you are clever or deep. It makes us come off like petulant children.
Not 100% true. Spike Lee was knocked down several pegs early 90s for his depiction of Jewish movers and shakers in the music biz in the movie Mo’ Better Blues. He had to apologize bigly, and then directed his career to be exclusively hate-whitey.
This caught my eye yesterday.
… “SOUTHLAKE, Texas – A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an “opposing” perspective, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News”. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/10/15/southlake-school-leader-tells-teachers-to-balance-holocaust-books-with-opposing-views/
Of course the Holocaust Museum Houston went full retard in their tweets. Perhaps evidence for a shifting Zeitgeist ? …
I hope so.
In a way it is inevitable. Too many people flocking to the West now don’t care about the Holocaust. It will embolden whites to push back on this subject.
Anytime anyone goes on about the Holocaust, the first thought that pops into my head is, 65 million European whites dead.
That was the real tragedy of WWII.
You could be right but this article doesn’t feel that much different than “Shaq loves cops” on Breitbart. It’s decorated nicely with intellectual trappings but the overall feel is similar.
Yet another anti-White parasite who hates his betters but can’t stay away from them and their creations.Funny thing he considers the rainbow mafia a White thing when it was created by Jews and it is being pushed by them.
I hope he gets canceled,no mercy for scum like him.
Leftism in Europe has been remarkably pro-Palestine and anti-Israeli since at least the turn of the century. Right-wing Populism, being anti-Muslim, has become dangerously pro-Zionist as a result. The only true third position is that neither are important to the West’s destiny and both are enemies.
I wish I saw this viewpoint out there more often. It’s the only one that makes any sense to me, and I can’t help but think we benefit from them fighting. They consider each other a big problem and the second one side wins the Victor’s full attention will finally turn toward us
Both are enemies.
Neal Brennan’s brother Kevin is a comedian like his brother — though much lower on the totem pole — and he barely does a show these days without complaining about the Jewish role in entertainment. I don’t mean euphemisms either he just flat out says he’s really annoyed at Jewish people.
Dave clearly picked the wrong Irish brother to collaborate with.
In my view, the Arabs (Palestinians) and Jews (Israelis) are just two of myriads of desert tribal wanderers on the Arabian Peninsula who have been warring among themselves for 5000-10000 years, i.e., forever, and we just need to write them both off and stay out of their way and their interminable battles, both physical and verbal. The only big difference between them is their rabid religions. I could care less about either. Unfortunately, they have insinuated us, both Americans and Europeans, into their tribal nonsense, mainly over oil and other necessities, and we can’t or won’t make massive attempts to extricate ourselves. It’s like a bad case of the fleas.
Sorry. There is one big difference. IQ. Jews are much smarter than Arabs.
Not by much.
I wish someone would write the definitive answer to the whole Jewish IQ thing. I’ve seen respectable discussions in educated platforms but no one really hitting the ball out of the park. Academics still tiptoe around the issue.
There’s this one, though it wasn’t received too well:
https://counter-currents.com/2021/07/ashkenazi-iq/
Beau, to continue a side note here: I read your CC article last summer while standing around a courthouse corridor waiting to be called for jury duty.
I read it while observing a liberal Jewish judge, an Orthodox Jewish lawyer for the defendant, a second generation Chinese prosecutor, and several Jewish potential jurors (10 out of 55) who, during the selection process, would not shut up about how smart and unbiased they are (and then answered the stupid questions consistently incoherently, demonstrating the truth). I was relieved to be dismissed for cause. What a crowd!
If I were sitting in the defendant’s chair, I would not want my life in the hands of any of these morons. Well educated they may be, and two of them obviously with above average intelligence, but all of them morons. (Define “morons”. I can’t. I know it when I see it.) I’ve been around educated and successful Jews and East Asains my whole adult life and I remain unimpressed. I’m not brilliant or highly credentialed myself, and I’m not envious of them.
Anyway, thanks for your article. I enjoyed it when I read it. Perfect timing last summer (for me).
Not by much.
I wish someone would write the definitive answer to the whole Jewish IQ thing. I’ve seen respectable discussions in educated platforms but no one really hitting the ball out of the park. Academics still tiptoe around the issue.
Oops.
The measured iq of jews in Israel is 95. The whole high iq thing is a lie.
That’s due to the Arabs and Mizrahi Jews dragging the average down. The Ashkenazic Jews are the smart ones (in addition to being wise, noble and witty) and the Sephardim fall somewhere in between.
No, that’s the measured iq of Jews inducted I to the Israeli army. Arabs need not apply. You’ve been fed a load of crap. Jews aren’t as smart as their propagandists claim.
“If the media is indeed controlled by Jews, then why would it be allowing so much criticism of Israel to be heard at the highest levels? This seems to run counter to our narratives.”
You answered your own question five paragraphs later: “Another possibility is that while Jews may run the media, they are not all-powerful.”
Indeed, while Jews dominate the West, they still don’t have 100% complete control over our institutions (at least not yet) and every so often Israel or even Jews themselves will be publicly criticized.
BTW one of the few good things about the Woke Left is that in recent years young progressive Americans have experienced a collapse in their support for The Jewish State. That’s one reason scumbags like John Oliver feel emboldened to attack Israel.
Attacks which I welcome.
Does Chappelle actually distinguish between jews and whites? That’s not a distinction I would expect him to be aware about.
“This is the sad truth about the Nation of Islam types. Most of the things that Louis Farrakhan says are perfectly sensible, and we share a lot of the same enemies — the Zionists, the media, the FBI – but at the end of the day, white people are still their number one enemy.”
It is foolish to chase alliances with nonwhites, let alone ones’ who’s ideologies are inherently as radically anti-white as the Nation of Islam.
I beg to differ on one point – at the time of John Bonham’s death, Led Zeppelin were still successful but they were showing plenty of signs of slowing down. For the previous half decade their albums has been less frequent and less inspired. They’d done it all and had reached the beginnings of thoughtful middle age. It was a good time to throw in the towel.
Agreed. Presence and In Through the Out Door were uninspired albums. Plant’s solo outings were much superior. Coda had some good tracks, though.
As a huge Led Zeppelin fan I have to agree with you and Mischa. Better to end it then then go the way of Aerosmith. One minor disagreement, In The Evening is one of my top 10 favorite Led Zeppelin songs so I can’t completely discard In Through The Out Door
I like those later albums because they are less played and hence fresher than the earlier stuff, even if objectively worse. I find they have an aching, melancholy strain to them, exemplified by In the Evening. Which are the best plant solo records?
My favorite Plant solo record is The Principle of Moments.
Based on reviews I just downloaded that one! It has the most memorable singles.
Not sure if I have a favorite Plant solo album, but it’s hard to beat the mellow tranquility of Ship of Fools, off of the Now and Zen record. I believe it even cracked the Billboard charts, back when five-piece bands of actual musicians could still do that.
Re Zeppelin, I agree that ITTOD was not terribly strong, but Presence deserves accolades for Nobody’s Fault But Mine alone.
The Principle of Moments and Shaken n Stirred.
The Honeydrippers was a nice side project.
Early Zep is classic Zep. (I am a fountain of profundity and brevity this morning.)
Chapelle is playin’. To me he is just another black who sees Jews, and still hates whites. It will be interesting to see the nonwhites in the West begin to launch poisoned arrows at one another in the years to come. But they will always resent whites.
Criticism of Israel in the media is nothing too new. There were more serious critics of Israel, if not more popular than chapelle, in earlier decades, such as that pro Palestinian Iranian anchor woman. PBS and npr used to be critical of Zionism too. I think the right answer is that Zionism is more a hard power issue than a soft power one. It’s about controlling Congress, not the media. We sometimes assume Jews are a monolithic force, but there are factions among Jews. The leftist jews who are influential in the media just may not feel too strongly in favor of Zionism. I would say they mainly avoid the topic. Zionism is important to right wing and religious jews like Sheldon adelson.
I believe the black slaveowner DC was talking about was Anthony Johnson, who was one of the original black slaves imported into Virginia in 1618. Later he became a slaveowner himself and was once of the very first slaveowners to insist that blacks (or at least *his* blacks) serve as *perpetual* slaves. Prior to that, they were indentured servants, just the like the white slaves.
Interesting.
In my many years in Los Angeles, I heard two blacks on two separate occasions openly say in front of other blacks that there are many of them who should be slaves right now, forced to work for room and board, not free to roam and procreate. And who am I to argue with truth.
In Louisiana it seems to have been rather common for blacks and mixed race people to own slaves. Julia street in the French quarter is named after a free woman of color who owned slaves, and San Francisco plantation was owned for a while by two brothers of color who owned many slaves. They had a business buying and flipping plantations. George Washington cable even tells the story of a white woman who was a slave!
“… the LGBT movement and the trans scene as extensions of bourgeois white culture”
Unfortunately it’s true!
Looks like he stole that joke from a Jew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo
Jews are not unanimous in their support of Israel or equally motivated in it. Almost half of all Jews marry out these days, and kids from previous such marriages view themselves as more leftist than Jewish. Zionist Jews bat above their level in influencing politics to an amazing degree, but moderate left Jews, who are the largest faction, seem to want more of a nuanced approach to Israel, with room for mild criticism. Machiavellians always allow small outlets for their opponents to express themselves in or back out of total condemnation, and leftist Jews intuitively do this. NPR entertains some room for criticism of Israel and probably reflects the beliefs of moderate left Jews. I remember someone saying they think of Israel as like a crazy or mentally challenged relative or something. Still their kin but a bit embarrassing. Nevertheless, they make excuses for the double standard for Israel versus, say, apartheid. They don’t like when the criticism gets too strong or especially comparing Israelis to white Indian fighters. They criticize but ultimately excuse the actions of their demented Israeli relatives.
Most African Americans view Jews as just another type of white people. It’s understandable. African immigrants are quite different from African Americans in not being so mean and criminally disposed, but few white people know that and lump them together. If whites do that, then I can see how African Americans would see Jews as the same as whites. Both a Jew and a white person are likely to be richer than and/or in charge of a negro. They occupy a similar role relative to him. Despite this, many blacks know Jews frequent the professions at greater rates and have a lot of control in the media and real estate–just like many whites know about the difference between African Americans and African immigrants.
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