A typical structure in Tullahassee, Oklahoma, a historically all-black town that is now seeking reparations for slavery despite the fact that it was founded by an Indian tribe that had brought their slaves with them.
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Emmett Till’s Revenge: Federal Lynching Law Makes It Official that Black Lives Matter More than White Lives
Although it’s a statistical fact that when it comes to things such as rape, murder, and all other forms of violent crime, blacks are far more dangerous to both blacks and whites than whites are to blacks, on Tuesday our sclerotic, cadaverous, drooling, diaper-soiling President signed into law a bill that pretends the complete opposite is true. In enshrines in federal law the concept that black lives matter far more than white lives do.
The Emmett Till Antilynching [sic] Act — we’ve sacrificed so much as a nation to avoid upsetting black people that members of Congress can’t even SPELL the names of the laws they sponsor — reads in part:
Whoever conspires to commit a hate crime offense that results in death or serious bodily injury or that includes kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill shall, if death or serious bodily injury results from the offense, be imprisoned for not more than 30 years, fined in accordance with this title, or both.
Determining whether “hate” motivated a murder seems to be a fool’s errand. I’m reasonably certain that every murder is motivated by hate. But since black-on-white violence far outpaces the inverse while white-on-black “hate crimes” somehow magically outpace the inverse, any white act of violence against a black, even in self-defense, is assumed to be motivated by racial hatred, whereas the inverse is deemed to be impossible since, you know, racism is strictly a white thing.
If white people weren’t already terrified enough of defending themselves against blacks, this new law will convince them that, if attacked, the moral thing to do is to curl up in a ball and hope that their murder is quick and relatively painless.
Former Black Panther and long-running member of Congress from Illinois Bobby Rush sponsored the bill and told a reporter: “Emmett Till would’ve been 80 years old. I’m 75, and I just imagine the kinds of contributions he would have made to our society.”
Yeah, I’m imagining it, too. Since it’s an established fact that blacks are a net drain on public revenue — every year, black Americans bleed around $660 billion more from the public till than they contribute in taxes — I imagine that Emmett Till would be making net withdrawals from our society rather than “contributions.”
Rush also says that this new law would have been useful in helping deter James Fields from panicking after Dwayne Dixon pointed a rifle at him in Charlottesville in August 2017, driving into a crowd of rioters, and causing an obese white woman named Heather Heyer to suffer a heart attack. I’m not sure how “conspiring” and “hate crime” factor into that incident, but then again, I didn’t write the law, nor did I misspell its name.
Mind you, there were already laws on the books that led to Fields receiving two life sentences plus 419 years, but maybe he would have thought twice about spontaneously panicking if he knew he’d be facing an additional 10-30 years.
Others lamented that the lynching law wasn’t in effect in early 2020, when three white Georgians chased Ahmaud Arbery after he trespassed into a local house, with one of them killing him after Arbery tried to grab his shotgun, because obviously the three life sentences they already received, as well as the convictions for hate crimes for which they’ve yet to be sentenced, were not enough of a deterrent.
Morbidly obese black lawyer Damon Hewitt said, “This legislation sends a signal that, yes, the lives of Ahmaud Arbery and others lynched do matter, that the people who commit violence against them will be prosecuted under the full extent of the law.”
Clearly, if those three white Georgians knew they faced a potential 30 years in addition to their life sentences, they would have thought twice.
Emmett Till was killed in 1955. Ahmaud Arbery lost the ability to be a lifelong thug and welfare case two years ago.
Barely over a week ago, a 15-year-old white boy named Sean Toomey from Northeast Philly — which used to be known as the “Great White Northeast” — was reportedly shot dead by a trio of unidentified black males who only moments earlier had attempted to rob one woman and carjack another. According to his father, Sean had merely popped outside to grab a bottle of water from dad’s car:
I heard the two pops and I thought it was firecrackers. But it only takes a second to grab some water and get in the house and he wasn’t coming back in. So, I got curious, I put my sweatshirt on, and I went outside, and I saw him lying on my neighbor’s lawn. . . . He liked his computer. He liked watching the Eagles. He knew a lot about sports. He was a quiet, nice kid. I’m probably going to move out of here. You know, I was born and raised in this neighborhood. Now, kids are getting shot on the streets.
But again, that was two weeks ago. Old news, even though it never really became much of a news story outside of Philly.
Last Monday in New Orleans, a 73-year-old white woman named Linda Frickey was pulled out of her car by four teens that surveillance video shows to be black, but Frickey accidentally got stuck in the wheel well and was dragged for about a block, where she wound up naked, bleeding, and missing one arm. She died within minutes. According to eyewitness Mark Mascar:
I was telling her to hang in there because every time I heard a siren, I was hoping and praying it was the ambulance. I kept telling her to hang in there, breathing, her eyes were moving. I’ve never seen something so horrific.
He’s clearly never seen the postmortem pictures of Emmett Till.
According to the victim’s sister, Linda Frickey was a kind woman who would have surrendered the car to the quartet of black assailants if they’d only asked her nicely: “If they would have given her time, she would have walked away. She would have called the insurance company and the police, but she wouldn’t have fought for the car.”
It doesn’t sound like she fought, anyway. What’s the point of fighting if you’re going to spend the last 30 years of your life in prison for it?
Another Round of Reparations Won’t Fix What’s Irreparable
Eight years ago I wrote “A Reparations Plan That Makes Sense,” which noted that the term “reparations” is rooted in the word “repair,” which means “to return things to the state in which they existed before the ‘damage’ was done.” Since blacks live far longer and enjoy a much higher standard of living in America than they would if they’d never been snatched from their ancestral shitholes, to literally make reparations would require severely slashing black Americans’ longevity and personal income.
Sadly, no one took me up on my plan.
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.
As is the case with Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan is a gay white journalist with extremely high editorial standards who realizes that while the concept of “social justice” at least appears to have started out with noble intentions, it has become everything it once purported to hate. Sullivan writes about how he was recently contacted by a booking agent for comedian Jon Stewart (born Jon Stewart Leibowitz), asking if he’d be available to do a remote interview for The Daily Show’s former host. Sullivan says he was promised that it’d be a one-on-one interview and that he’d be treated with respect.
But when Sullivan logged in remotely, he was shocked to discover that the interview was in front of a live audience and the episode was called “The Problem with White People.” Stewart — along with two self-flagellating white guests who were in the studio with him — stubbornly claimed that from 1619 until the day George Floyd farted his last fart, white people have done absolutely nothing to atone for their endless abuse and torture of blacks. There are several golden passages in Sullivan’s article about his appearance, but regarding reparations, Sullivan argues that they’ve essentially already been made:
Stewart’s claim that whites never tried to ameliorate black suffering until now requires him to dismiss over $19 trillion of public funds spent in the long War on Poverty, focused especially on black Americans. That’s the equivalent of more than 140 Marshall Plans. As Samuel Kronen has shown, it requires the erasure from history of “the Food Stamp Act of 1964, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, the Social Security Amendments of 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the Social Security Amendments of 1962, and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and on and on.” . . . I’m just saying any explanation for racial disparities today is much more complex than simply intoning “white supremacy,” and implicitly dismissing any notion of other factors, or any black agency at all.
“Black agency.” That’s a phrase you don’t hear very often. It only yields 197,000 Google hits, whereas “white supremacy” produces over 11 million results.
The official cultural Gospel is that nothing bad that happens to black people is ever their fault.
And yet the idea of reparations refuses to die, because without a thousand additional Racial Marshall Plans, blacks might finally have to start blaming themselves for at least some of their problems.
More than 200 members of Congress have reportedly agreed to vote “yes” on H.R. 40, which would create a commission to research how best to financially compensate black people for the fact that they can’t seem to get their shit together no matter how much money we throw at them, how egregiously we worship them, or how much physical and verbal abuse we endure from them in the vain hope that one day they’ll feel that “justice” has finally been achieved.
But before the federal government passes a reparations law, the scam is being tried in American states and cities.
A “reparations task force” in the State of California — which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state — has recently voted in favor of providing reparations for those among the state’s 2.6 million black residents who can prove they have an ancestor who was “a chattel enslaved person or the descendant of a free Black [sic] person living in the US prior to the end of the 19th century.”
Okay, I’ll try to do the math here. The median age for American blacks is 32. Take an average black today living in California. Let’s assume that, due to their fecundity, a typical black “generation” is 18 years rather than 25 (it’s probably even less than that). That means about 126 people would have been needed to finally produce that average black (two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, 32 great-great-great grandparents, and 64 unreasonably tremendous grandparents) just to take them back one day before the cutoff line of the year 1900. That’s 126 ancestors simply to produce that average modern black, who only needs to prove that one of those 126 progenitors — the law only specifies a “person” — was black and alive somewhere in America on December 31, 1899 to qualify for reparations.
Mind you, that average 32-year-old California black could play for the Los Angeles Lakers and make $10 million dollars a year. The proposal does not require him to prove that he has actually been hobbled by slavery and white supremacy; it assumes he is merely by dint of an extremely fortuitous accident of birth.
More than 80% of voters in the wonderful lakeside city of Detroit — which was known as “The Paris of the West” before Henry Ford decided to drag in countless black scab laborers from the South to bust white unions — recently approved a “reparations commission” to research how they can strangle every remaining bit of life that they haven’t already killed in that once-great city. Apparently, some techno-prankster disrupted a reparations meeting last week:
The virtual meeting was hacked several times with displays of explicit content, including images of pornography, a video of an organ being eaten from a body and vulgarity. Dozens of residents and elected officials who spoke did so while being interrupted by the distractions.
St. Louis, Missouri — another once-great American town that is now 43.9% black and routinely tops lists of America’s most dangerous cities — passed a law last week “that creates a path for reparations to be paid to Blacks [sic] for America’s role in slavery.”
Even the tiny dilapidated town of Tullahassee, Oklahoma — current population 83 — is seeking financial reparations for the fact that its almost entirely black population allowed the burg to devolve into a horrid mess of tangled weeds, abandoned houses, and roaming dogs. White supremacy is blamed for Tullahassee’s implosion, despite the fact that the town was founded by an Indian tribe who brought their black slaves with them when they were driven out of the South along the Trail of Tears.
It’s almost impossible to deny that when one considers everything except basketball and rape, blacks tend to perform worse than all other groups.
The reason given for this, without exception, is always “white racism.”
The reason is never — not once — “black people,” although it seems more reasonable.
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Regarding reparation : everybody can apply, i.e. every White, too, because there is no such thing as black. Or, if refused, we then have a definition of what is a black person and what is a White person.
No reparations without repatriation.
“Determining whether “hate” motivated a murder seems to be a fool’s errand. I’m reasonably certain that every murder is motivated by hate. ”
You would think that the occasional murder without hate — “cold-blooded” sociopaths, like Leopold and Loeb, would elicit greater horror than ordinary hate-motivated murder, and so extra punishment, but no. The reason is that the “hate” part is an end run around the First Amendment, aka “freedom of speech” or “freedom of thought.” Sure, post whatever you want online, but if you should fall afoul of the law (and everyone does, at some point) those posting will be used to justify extra punishment. Murder with “bad thoughts” in your head is worse than murder with a blank mind.
Hate has, as they say, been weaponised against us. The exploits of our Islamic guests, be they blowing up buildings or pimping out schoolgirls, are never held to be actually hateful. Unless they stray into antisemitism, which is hatred by definition — indeed the oldest.
If I might issue a correction, my glorious hometown was, according to the Wall St. Journal, the Paris of the Midwest, not the West. Oddly enough, the idea goes back to its founder, Antoine Laumet dit de Lamothe Cadillac, (patron saint of upwardly mobile blacks), who said he intended it to be “the Paris of New France.” Even more oddly, the idea continued to snowball; after the Great Fire of 1805, the city was rebuilt using Judge Woodward’s plan for a modern city of broad streets and public spaces, some 50 years before the redesign of Paris. Yes, Paris copied Detroit, with Woodward Avenue becoming the Champs-Élysées, etc. Even more subsequently, as the city prospered, new buildings went up in the then-current Beaux Artes and later Art Deco styles, giving the city an “after they’ve seen Paree” look. Of course, most of this is in ruins now.
You may be right about H. Ford and da bleks, but well into the 60s-70s Detroit was the best place in the world for a working class White guy and his family. A guy could own his own home, a couple cars, a cabin “up North” for summertime vacations, a color TV, etc. all on one 40 hour a week salary; teenagers could get such jobs and make enough cash to live on (or spend on drugs and LPs). In my writings here I’ve identified 1972 as the year it began to collapse, for entirely personal reasons, but I’m pleased to see the occasional charts in the media showing that America in general started going down the tubes in that year and never recovered.
This is from Public Radio so it must be true:
https://wdet.org/2017/09/13/CuriosiD-Why-Is-Detroit-Sometimes-Called-The-Paris-of-the-Midwest/
Detroit: “The Paris of the West”
https://www.michiganradio.org/families-community/2014-09-17/architect-louis-kamper-made-detroit-the-paris-of-the-west
http://www.dejohnsonauthor.com/blog/the-paris-of-the-west
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit
Nicknames: The Motor City, Motown, Renaissance City, Techno City, City of the Straits, The D, D-Town, Hockeytown, The Automotive Capital of the World, Rock City, The 313, The Arsenal of Democracy, The Town That Put The World on Wheels, Tigertown, Détroit, Paris of the West
Google:
detroit “Paris of the West” 762,000 results
detroit “Paris of the Midwest” 50,900 results
I dispute the Hockeytown nickname; that should go to Montreal.
Those google results are skewed by algorithms financed by Big West. They’re still upset about my suggestion that the USA return to its 1830 borders, kicking everything west of the Mississippi back to Mexico (except northern Washington, which the UK or Canada gets, whoever wants it).
Is it true that Dan Gilbert of Quicken Loans fame bought up most of the lots in Detroit for roughly $100 per?
Who needs wrecking balls when your city is filled with negros?
I believe he did pickup and renew a good sized swath of downtown and created a bit of a tech hub that drew in many young and well paid whites. Clearly this upset the blacks that had no skills to be employed there. Those living there certainly are risking life and limb.
“We’ve sacrificed so much as a nation to avoid upsetting black people that members of Congress can’t even SPELL the names of the laws they sponsor”
That made my day, Jim Goad. Thank you.
Correct spelling is White privilege.
Serious question. In the horrifying and tragic case of that poor 15-year-old who was murdered, where has it actually been stated anywhere it was blacks who did it?
Jon Stewart is a nut. He used to be funnyish on The Daily Show, before that whole ‘piss on the other political side’ schtick they helped popularise calcified into national discourse (a nice earner for people like Stewart and his smug, smarmy asswipe, one-time co-host cohort Stephen Colbert), but somewhere along the way it seems like he either had a nervous breakdown or drank or drugged too much. Genuinely curious to know what happened to him, cos the halfwit we see that show is far from the man he used to be.
“where has it actually been stated anywhere it was blacks who did it?”
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/his-name-is-sean-toomey-while-grabbing-a-bottle-of-water-from-his-dads-car-in-philadelphia-15-year-old-white-male-murdered-by-group-of-black-criminals/
Obviously I saw that. But it’s just some random site, and the story is written by some guy calling himself after Charles Bronson’s character in Death Wish. Where did ‘he’ get the color detail from, or did he just assume?
The MSN story does not mention the color of the murderous scum, though they mention it could be tied to another crime. Maybe the assailant colors in the other crime were mentioned. It’s probably legit, and I am not doubting it, but it’s just such a vile case I wanted to be sure, is all.
My article: “Barely over a week ago, a 15-year-old white boy named Sean Toomey from Northeast Philly — which used to be known as the “Great White Northeast” — was reportedly~”
Your first post: “where has it actually been stated anywhere it was blacks who did it?”
Your second post: “Obviously I saw that”
If you obviously “saw that,” why did you express skepticism about whether it had “actually been stated anywhere“?
I didn’t state as fact that he was killed by three blacks. I said it had been reported—on some “random site” curated by the former Republican nominee for California governor, a site that happens to get 1.7 million visits monthly by a pseudonymous reporter who covers black crime extensively and whom I’ve never known to make a mistake in the ten years I’ve been aware of his writing.
The Philadelphia Chief of Police is a black woman named Danielle Outlaw. When the dead body is a white male teen, I doubt they’re going to be reporting that the suspects are black until they’re forced to admit it. Nor are many of the major news outlets going to run with that story, either.
I guess I should have said I wondered if it had been said anywhere apart from a site that seemed, to me, to be shady because of the use of Bronson vigilante pseudonyms in their writers. I’m in the wrong, fair enough, ho-hum.
Now off to listen to some dead rapper embalming music.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/05/rapper-goonews-embalmed-corpse-stood-on-stage-at-nightclub-funeral-16407712/?ico=related-posts
I suspect that many demanding reparations don’t fully expect them to happen, but it becomes a negotiation tactic for more demands for affirmative action, equity, left wing policies. The amount of public spending spent on the Blacks is not spoken about nearly enough in this context. Kudos for keeping the discussion going here and in some prior articles. I hope it will be reintroduced more regularly as these are numbers everyone should know the next never ending accusation that we never did anything to help.
The males in da Emmett Till fambly have shortened life spans. His father underwent severe neck stretching, at age 23, after being found guilty of the rape or 2 women and murder of a third in Italy while serving there during WWII
Reparations for Blacks will go on and on once instigated, like the same for Jewish ‘survivors of the Holocaust’. In 1987, I worked with a man of Jewish descent who told me he was still receiving his father’s reparations after his father had died a couple years earlier, and the father was the son of the Holocaust survivor since 1947. This gentleman I worked with owned his own home, had two lodgers who paid rent to him, and, as a Ph.D. graduate in Physics, was pulling down $70,000+ at the company where we both worked. Reparations are the biggest swindle I’ve ever heard of. The only consolation is that it keeps trillions of dollars awash in the economy. Blacks probably spend their checks within hours of opening the envelope, and Jews deposit them into their investment accounts, which keeps the stock market running nicely. And I took my lesson from the Jewish man and now have a few bucks in the market which allow me to send a few bucks to CC from time to time. Around and around it goes.
If they ever get ‘reparations’ make sure to buy lots of shares in Cadillac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZN7IzvCVs
A purple Cadillac with leopard-skin seats. Really fly, you dig?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9GppbuStzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXRT6kC8u4c
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