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Elliot Williams
Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ‘80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial that Divided the Nation
New York: Penguin Press, 2026
“Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride
Heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets
AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores
China’s under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars
I can’t take it anymore” (more…)
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While speaking on MSNBC last week, Washington Post columnist and desiccated lump of uncooked bagel dough Jennifer Rubin bemoaned the unbearable whiteness of Donald Trump’s nominees and appointees so far. “First, I have to comment, when you put up all of those faces it was a thousand shades of white. Have you noticed that?” (more…)
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What happened was, I came to the Yankee Capital from where I growed up in East Needle, Tennessee that’s so far back in the mountains that the Sun don’t hardly shine and we don’t get too much news about what they do in the flatlands. Mostly people in East Needle just stays where they are. But I weren’t too normal, or anyways that’s what Miss Maisie Stovelid, the teacher lady in the county school, said. (more…)
UFC champ Sean Strickland, whose life story shows how whites can turn away from race realism
UFC champ Sean Strickland, whose life story shows how whites can turn away from race realism
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Years ago, back when he was still relevant, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore had this to say about our favorite race of people:
White people scare the crap out of me . . . I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord . . . (more…)
Carlton Gilford
Carlton Gilford
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Stop the presses, batten down the hatches, and hold the fort: Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma — which is one of the bleakest, grimiest, and nastiest towns I’ve ever whisked through — are charging a homeless black man with Oklahoma’s equivalent of a “hate crime” in connection with a pair of shootings on April 18 in which he walked up behind two separate white men and shot them dead with bullets to the head. (more…)