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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Reggie Jackson’s Tortured Negro Soul,” on the fact that although he’s widely considered a baseball legend in America, slugger Reggie Jackson still can’t get over the racism he allegedly encountered in his youth. (more…)
Reggie Jackson (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
Reggie Jackson (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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On Thursday, June 20, Major League Baseball sponsored an event called “A Tribute to the Negro Leagues” at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, where Negro players used to vie against other Negro players back before the brave and holy Negro Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. (more…)
Phil Lynott. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Phil Lynott. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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My father is Italian. He was born in London in the 1960s. At no point was he ever under the impression that he was English. I assume that no one else, certainly not his Italian parents, considered him to be English either, regardless of his birthplace. Nor did his parents, my grandparents, believe that by moving to London their ethnicity had magically changed and that they were now English too. In fact, judging by conversations I’ve had with my Italian grandmother and my uncle, living in England only served to put the differences between Anglo and Italic in starker contrast. (more…)
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
Is police brutality really about race?
I’ll give the chapter’s title a short answer. Of course police brutality is about race. After all, remember the Prime Directive! “It is about race if a person of color thinks it is about race.” Multitudes of them believe that police brutality is about race, and that makes it true; modus ponens, QED. (more…)
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Ijeoma Oluo has been an up and coming commentator since her breakout moment during the Rachel Dolezal brouhaha. Among a number of topics in her journalistic career, her major specialty is writing about being black. (Of course, right?) Her first book, published in 2018, is So You Want to Talk About Race.
Her brother Ahamefule provided some biographical details in an article with the evocative title “My Father Is an African Immigrant and My Mother Is a White Girl from Kansas and I Am Not the President of the United States.” (more…)
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You might not have heard, but Spain is currently undergoing its own version of a George Floyd moment. Scaled down, of course — nothing can really match American production value — but nonetheless, there is a storm brewing, one resembling what much of American sociopolitics has been reduced to: racism and victimhood grifting.
A storm — although in actual fact, it’s more like a tempest in a teacup, as is often the case with these sort of black grievances. It all started last weekend when the Real Madrid Football Club went to Valencia to play that city’s main football (or soccer, if you prefer) team. (more…)
Thomas Mann: breakthrough Black [sic] author?
Thomas Mann: breakthrough Black [sic] author?
Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
Translated and with an introduction by Damion Searls
New York: Liveright, 2023
“It is really curious that a life of playing games and dreaming can — if only you go on with it long enough — lead to your being treated like royalty.” — Thomas Mann, author of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
“What a royal gift the imagination is, and what pleasure it affords us!” — Felix Krull, confidence man (more…)
SPLC lawyer Thomas Webb Jurgens, whose job description apparently includes supporting protesters while they throw Molotov cocktails at police.
SPLC lawyer Thomas Webb Jurgens, whose job description apparently includes supporting protesters while they throw Molotov cocktails at police.
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As someone who’s lived in Georgia since early 2007, one thing I can tell you is that it has a lot of trees. You might be shocked to learn that it has twice as many trees as it does black people. Georgia suffers no lack of trees or black people. If you’re looking for a state that’s chock-full of blacks and trees, come on down to Georgia. (more…)
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First the good news: 2022 is over. Now the bad news: 2023 is just beginning.
I am an incurably irascible person who wrote roughly 100 articles for Counter-Currents last year. (more…)
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Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker is so stupid, it’s fair to call him a genius at being stupid. The existence of Herschel Walker as a legitimate senatorial candidate is a testament to the absolute state of American democracy. It’s also evidence that Donald Trump selected some Grade-A morons to back this time around. Their only requirement to get Trump’s backing seems to consist of speaking well of Donald Trump, even if they are incapable of speaking well in any context. (more…)
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Not long ago I was chatting with some people I’d just met, and TV programs came up for discussion. I had nothing to add because I don’t own a television. They were wondering why, and I said that I don’t need all that propaganda. There were understanding nods all around the table. It’s very well known that the mainstream media is a gigantic lie factory. (more…)
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Editor’s Note: Dominic Kennedy, who is Investigations Editor at The Times of London, spent well over a year trying to dox an obscure British nationalist YouTuber who goes by “The Ayatollah” (his recent appearance on Counter-Currents Radio is here). When he learned The Ayatollah’s identity, he sent him 63 questions, which he answers below.
Why do you run a racist YouTube channel? (more…)
