Tag: Blacks in America

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When I was younger — and what a great, sweet, innocent, unrealistically wonderful time it was — nostalgia was often seen as a crutch for people who can’t enjoy the modern world. But since there’s nothing to enjoy about the modern world, nostalgia now seems like the wiser option.

I was born, weaned, whelped, and reared — though not necessarily in that order — in the greater Philadelphia area, and I will never apologize for this, despite the fact that it would be the prudent thing to do. (more…)

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Black Writer Says All White People are “Complicit” in Buffalo Massacre

Whether or not you can find it in your heart to forgive George Yancy for being black, can we at least all agree that wearing a baseball cap with a business shirt and tie is unforgivable?

Like so many black writers — all of them, actually — Yancy’s bailiwick is his blackness. (more…)

Junior

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My dog Junior is a 35-pound Boston Terrier/Boxer mix with the most consistently sweet disposition of any animal I’ve ever owned. He’s a great little guy, and except for his occasional bouts of gassiness, I can’t think of a bad thing to say about him. Yesterday morning while taking him for a walk through my slowly decaying lakeside Georgia community, I was suddenly forced to risk my life in an attempt to save his.

I wouldn’t do such a thing for many people besides my wife and son. (more…)

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Talk about bad timing.

As springtime blooms and summer looms, as everyone tries to keep their brains from overheating after two-plus years of COVID theatrics, race riots, alleged insurrections, an emergent Third World War, and hundred-dollar hamburgers, the last thing we needed was another one of those once-in-a-blue-moon white-supremacist racial massacres. (more…)

Hinton Rowan Helper

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Hinton Rowan Helper was a curious and fascinating figure from nineteenth-century American history. Although mostly forgotten today, he was one of the most important and discussed men in the nation during the lead-up to the Civil War. As an unswerving race realist and white patriot at a time when whites were by far the dominant racial group in North America, he was (and probably still is) ahead of his time. (more…)

Chet Hanks, the white savior we need.

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Black Jokes Matter: Another Black Man Attacks Another Black Comedian Onstage

Black-on-black violence is a serious problem that desperately needs to be swept under the rug.

If the American public were to ever be truly informed of how violent black people really are, especially to other black people, the embarrassing revelation may upset black people to the point where they get even more violent and kill even more black people. (more…)

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On Monday, Politico published a leaked draft majority opinion from the United States Supreme Court that would overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision as well as 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed the right to abortion. According to Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority: (more…)

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Colleen Doody
Detroit’s Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2013

In 1945, with the exception of the United States, Canada, and a few other places, the civilized world was in ruins. While the industrial centers of the United States were not burned-out husks pocked with bomb craters, the economy was not well-functioning. There was inflation and a shortage of consumer goods. (more…)

Nice Tennessee State Senator Frank Niceley advised the homeless to model themselves after Adolf Hitler.

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Just in Time for Riot Season, Another Black Criminal Suspect Dies after Vibrantly Resisting Arrest

As the days grow longer and the calla lilies are in bloom again and a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, a restless American nation-within-a-nation of 47 million perpetually disgruntled ex-Africans yearns for an excuse to burn down cities until winter comes again and even the glowing embers of once-great metropolises make it too damned cold to comfortably riot. (more…)

A photo of the alleged perpetrator of an attack on elderly Sikhs in Queens which strangely escaped the attention of the mainstream media coverage.

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An article emerged on April 14, “Man, 20, charged with hate crimes in attack on 2 Sikh men in NYC,” by Marlene Lenthang and Sakshi Venkatraman. This was picked up by MSN, Yahoo! News, and some other outlets. It begins describing an attack on two victims, ages 76 and 64:

A man has been charged with hate crimes after two Sikh men were assaulted, robbed and had their turbans ripped off in Queens, New York, this week. (more…)

Frank R. James

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Early Wednesday afternoon — nearly 30 hours after he allegedly detonated a pair of smoke bombs on a Manhattan-bound Brooklyn subway car before blindly firing an estimated 33 rounds from a Glock pistol at passengers, hitting ten but killing no one — a fat little frog-faced black man named Frank R. James was finally taken into custody. (more…)

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Let’s talk ice cream machines. They’re a minor aspect of your daily life that you might not even notice much. Chick-fil-a, Shake Shack, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, In-N-Out, Steak ‘n Shake, Dairy Queen, Rally’s — they all have them. Your local family-owned and regional chain restaurants have them as well. They are everywhere, and I contend we can look at the ice cream machine as a miniature social-capital and livability data-outpost because of their ubiquity. We can get to know a particular store or area of town by its ice cream machine functionality level. (more…)